Chapter 1032 — The Village Headman's Sword, the Lame Old Man's Leg
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"Shen'er's sword path is lofty indeed, but his nature is flighty, and he can hardly sit still to study the sword path; his sword heart is impure.
That sword-path master whose sword heart can match yours is Jingping's former Imperial Preceptor, Jiang Baigui of Jiangling. " Emperor Kai was moved.
"Might I ask where this Imperial Preceptor of Jingping may be found? " "Seized by the Heavenly Court and imprisoned.
He is locked in the great prison together with the Retired Emperor," the village headman said. "Jiang Baigui's sword heart is utterly pure. His sword path holds the wonder of the cosmos splitting open and ten thousand paths springing forth; he uses the sword path to evolve all paths, and his sword heart is limpid and lofty, the like of which I have seen nowhere else.
He is also the creator of Sword Fifteen, Sword Sixteen, and Sword Seventeen. If you were to meet him, you would surely talk with him long and joyfully.
" Emperor Kai pondered a moment and sighed. "A pity he is in the great prison, and who knows when we may meet again. I still must visit other academies and see something of Jingping's reforms; I have no leisure to seek him in the prison. If fate allows in the future, we shall meet again.
Farewell, and hold your step.
" The village headman watched him go into the distance, and for a long while did not return to the Grand Academy.
The Blind Elder and the Silent Craftsman came looking for him, and the Silent Craftsman's voice boomed like a great bell. "Headman, you have met that fellow called Ye Kai? A rare talent indeed! Such a man is just what Jingping needs. Why did you not keep him?
" The village headman shook his head. "Emperor Kai is a rare talent, of course. How could I keep him? " The Blind Elder and the Silent Craftsman started and looked at each other.
"He came to see me, and I did not look at him; I sensed him by his aura alone, and I felt a sword-path sovereign standing upon the thirty-fourth heaven.
Then I knew that the first man of the sword path had come," the village headman said mildly. "When a swordsman achieves something in the sword path, he feels before him a peak he can never climb or pass. That peak is Emperor Kai, forever standing in front of him.
This time he came to give Sword Twenty to Jingping.
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