968 From This Day Onward, I Am The Blade! (1/2)

”It seems that your track records are exceptionally excellent. If that is the case, why do all of you think that you're merely whetstones? Are you acknowledging your identities as whetstones just because your opponents have thought of you as such?”

Yun Yang was smiling.

”From what I see, instead of saying that those disciples trained using you fellows as their whetstones, it's a bunch of whetstones colliding… That's all.”

Tie Qingcang spoke up, ”A bunch of whetstones? Do you mean to say that not only are we whetstones, but our opponents are also the same as well?”

”Can't I assume so? As those people take all of you as their whetstones, aren't they becoming your whetstones too? Doesn't it make sense when I say that you are each other's whetstones then?” questioned Yun Yang.

All ten of them were silent. Finally, they nodded their assent that Yun Yang's words were unmistakably reasonable.

”Since there are whetstones, then what would be the stone? What is the blade?”

”All of you take each other as whetstones, so that would result in a collision among stones,” said Yun Yang, ”Where's the actual blade then? Are they the blade? Or are you?”

The ten men were fell silent once again.

”No way. Are you losing confidence again? Looks like all of you are deeply affected by the mention of the word whetstones! From what I see, at least from the current stage, no one from either side is qualified to call themselves the blade. Up to now, you fellows only seem to be the tougher stone. How are you as sharp as the blade? Or as pointed?”

Yun Yang continued mercilessly. ”They've set their standpoint earlier, taking you fellows as the whetstones. The mindset was already an early loss, the first to restrict itself. However, you fellows chose to bemoan your fate, actually treating yourselves as whetstones. How could you not lose when this is already your attitude?”

Yun Yang wore an amicable face but his words were deep, it's meaning worthy to ponder.

Lan Ruojun was contemplative for some time before he respectfully asked, ”I'd like to ask boss what should we do then?”

”Firstly, of course, is to face your heart rightfully, to correct your position from the roots before you fight. Only when you possess the heart of being the best, knowing why you fight, will the right path to cultivation appear,” said Yun Yang.

”Understand? What all of you need to do the most now is to reconstruct your frame of mind during this period of time and sort through your advantages and weaknesses, assess the cons of your cultivation method and the shortcoming of your techniques. The sect has a wide collection of cultivation books that you can refer to for countermeasures. Your cultivation journey isn't hopeless after this. This is number one.”

”Number two, the task is to mature into an incomparably sharp blade from a piece of whetstone in the following hellish training sessions. Only when you want to stand as a blade will you have the right to find your piece of whetstone.”

”Even if you couldn't progress into a divine weapon in the end, even if you've only developed into a hard workpiece in progress, you have hope to be sharpened and shine. At least you're no longer a whetstone, isn't it?”

Yun Yang paused and said, ”What I hope to see is… From today on, all the Celestial Luck practitioners in this martial world are all whetstones in your eyes – they are advanced forces that support all of you by sharpening your edges!”

Yun Yang's tone was unruffled as usual, as was his gaze, calm like the lake. ”If you still see yourselves as whetstones and come into the Residence of Nine Supremes only for protection, a safety ground, that'd be disappointing… whether to me or to yourselves. Because, under my leadership, the Residence of Nine Supremes will only head a team of divine weapons to create a history of their own, to weave glory. It's not a nest for a bunch of whetstones, to share the light with the dust.”

He stood up lightly. ”I'm heading back to rest. Think about it. Whatever is right or wrong will be up to you.”

Yun Yang turned and left soundlessly.

After a long time, the rest of the men were still silent. What Yun Yang had said just now was harshly pounded into all ten men's hearts from another angle. All of them felt their nerves tingle.

'That's right. Why am I destined to be a whetstone? Why aren't others my whetstone?'