Chapter 723 — The Most Charismatic
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"He also, in a muddle, created the Eighteen Sword Forms, pushing swordsmanship forward by a great leap at once. His understanding of dao-arts and divine powers seems never to be bound by rules. What others cannot imagine, he often can. What others think impossible, he somehow accomplishes. The Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge that links two worlds, for instance, was something this boy made by accident, and it solved the problem of the world barrier."
"And he is never stingy. Whatever he learns, whatever he comprehends, he always spreads throughout the whole nation and hides nothing. The Throne Techniques are very rare, aren't they? The Outer Heaven Court went to enormous pains to collect Throne Techniques, and he obtained three of them, and just passed them on like that."
"Even outright enemies are won over by him and become his friends, while friends are provoked by him till their teeth itch and they wish they could lay him over their knee and give his bottom a good spanking!"
The Woodcutter Sage sighed. "Just when I was almost ready to think him a perfect man, I found all sorts of small flaws in him. One is that he never focuses. He is always curiously studying this and that. He creates the Primordial Spirit Guiding Art, then runs off to do something else. He creates the Eighteen Sword Forms, then drops it and will not strike while the iron is hot to research the Nineteenth Sword Form. It makes one want to hold a sword to his neck and force him to see one thing through."
"The second flaw is that he is bold, and boldness makes him a bit foolish. He will dare to do anything dangerous. This Li Zhou affair is plainly bait, and yet he came running like a fool."
"The third is arrogance. You think he is modest, but he is not modest at all. Inside he is brimming with pride. Heaven is first and I am second; Tu Bo is first and I am second; the emperor is first and I am second; the Heavenly Emperor is first and I am second..."
The Woodcutter's brows were knit with worry, and he sighed. "I cannot understand him. I truly, truly cannot understand him."
Di Yiyue looked at Shen Mu. He was refining pills for the dragon qilin, and after feeding the dragon qilin its fill, he ran off to look at windmills, discussing with the scholars of the countryside whether there were still ways to improve them.
"Truly an interesting creature."
Di Yiyue smiled. "He lives more freely and joyfully than anyone!"
"No!"
The Woodcutter Sage shook his head. "In truth the burden on his shoulders is too heavy. It is only that he is extremely optimistic, which makes people think he lives freely and joyfully, but the bitterness in his heart is known only to himself. He has simply chosen an optimistic, enterprising attitude with which to face life, and face peril."
"He cannot choose his birth, but he can choose the road he will walk hereafter, and the state of mind with which he walks it. He is the most charismatic person I have ever met."