Chapter 398: Breakthrough to the Supernatural State (1/2)
Chapter 398: Breakthrough to the Supernatural State
Translator: Sparrow TranslationsEditor: Sparrow Translations
”Crush!” The blade was driven into Fang Zhengzhi's chest. It was a fine blade, but it was extremely sharp and clean from the washing it got from the rain.
This blade was named Spectre.
Si Ponan had no energy to raise the blade. It wasn't Si Ponan who drove the blade into Fang Zhengzhi, it was Yun Qingwu.
Blood rushed out from the wound and onto the blade. It was washed to the ground by the rain, staining the ground red.
Si Ponan was stunned and surprised to see this. He knew that Yun Qingwu would attack, but he didn't expect Yun Qingwu to be so decisive.
The reason wasn't very obvious.
As the young master of the demons, Yun Qingwu would never show a human talent mercy.
But...
Si Ponan kept thinking about what Yun Qingwu had said, ”Why did you have to stop?” He heard this clearly.
Even though he had no idea why Yun Qingwu would ask a question like that, it did not matter. Yun Qingwu had attacked.
Silence.
Other than the sound of rain, the entire arena was quiet. No one spoke, their breathing light.
”Fang Zhengzhi... failed?!”
”Yun Qingwu actually managed to stab Fang Zhengzhi!”
”How did this happen?”
All of the candidates and soldiers could not find an answer to that question. No one could believe their eyes.
Bai Xing unclenched his fists. He had no idea what just happened, but he was glad that Yun Qingwu decided to kill Fang Zhengzhi.
That meant that...
Fang Zhengzhi would not survive.
”Stab!” The sound pierced through the rain.
This was not the sound of the Spectre blade being removed from Fang Zhengzhi's body. This was the sound of Traceless falling to the ground.
It stabbed the ground like a knife through butter.
The strange purple light shot to the sky like a pillar, intertwining with the purple lightning in the sky.
Yun Qingwu gripped the hilt of Spectre tightly. She stared at Fang Zhengzhi, watching those eyes that were filled with killing intent.
Then, the spinning swords in his eyes slowed down.
To be more precise...
They were disappearing, almost like a cloud of smoke. They cleared from his eyes, together with that strange shade of purple...
...
The lake was filled with clear water.
Fang Zhengzhi was confused when he saw the lady in the white dress and the lake. Why would he appear in the World of the Sage?
This...
Where was this?
Was he even in a dream?
All of these questions flew past in his mind, but there was no one to answer him. The only moving person was the lady in the white dress.
”Why don't I capture and interrogate her?” Fang Zhengzhi smirked with lust momentarily.
But it did not last very long.
He remembered that he had the same thought before. However, when he jumped into the water, he could not find the lady in the white dress.
He had already been fooled once.
He was not going to be fooled again.
So...
If he could not get close and interrogate her, how was he going to find out the true identity of the lady? How was he going to escape this place?
Fang Zhengzhi began to think about the scene back at the Divine Constabulary's Heavenly Treasure Hall.
He remembered that when he last saw this lady in the white dress, he had understood the essence of the Heavenly Reflection State.
But this time...
He did not feel anything.
Hang on, he was feeling something. Fang Zhengzhi turned to look at his surroundings. There were trees, grass, and a lake.
This was a world without any wind. There were no ripples on the surface of the lake. The surface was so calm it was almost like a mirror.
It was very clean.
Clean?
”It's calm!” Fang Zhengzhi's eyes brightened. At that moment, he knew what the feeling was. It was calmness.
Even though the lady in white was constantly moving, dancing on the surface of the water...
It was precisely this movement that allowed Fang Zhengzhi to realize the calmness in this world.
The surface of the water was calm, the surrounding woods were calm, the grass was calm, even he was calm.
Seeing something move allows one to understand calm?
Fang Zhengzhi never really tried to understand these theories. However, he recalled the incident back at the Heaven Dao Sage Tablet.
He did not know why he managed to escape.
But...
Now, he understood.
He had moved!
He had disturbed the calm!
That time, Fang Zhengzhi had thought that he had disturbed the cleanliness by bathing in the lake. In actual fact, he had disturbed the calm!
By disturbing an otherwise calm world, he had broken the rules of the world. Without rules, the world would implode.
To be more accurate...
The world would reject Fang Zhengzhi and expel him from it. Fang Zhengzhi had broken the calm, so he was kicked out.
”Heaven Dao Sage Tablet... was I expelled by the Heaven Dao Sage Tablet? Then... why am I back?” Fang Zhengzhi remembered that Chi Guyan and Ping Yang had told him something...
Each Heaven Dao Sage Tablet embodied an extremely powerful Dao.
Anyone who could understand it would become a Sage.
Since he managed to figure out why he was expelled from this place before, he could guess that this Heaven Dao Sage Tablet had something to do with ”calm”.
Calm?
Was it to do with the heart?
Or was it that he had to be as calm as the water?!
If that was the case, the water and the lake in front of him could be explained. However, the trees and the grass...
What could explain those?
That was not it. If the Heaven Dao Sage Tablet represented a powerful Dao, the Dao could not be this simple. However, what could calm represent?
Calm...
If it was not as calm as water, what other calm could there be?