Lin Yi walked over, and as the distance closed, the broken sword at his waist suddenly trembled slightly.
"How could this be?" Lin Yi was somewhat surprised and tried to channel his Star River True Qi into the broken sword to suppress it. Unexpectedly, after being stimulated by the True Qi, the broken sword flew out of his hand with a "hum" and stuck straight into the cypress tree in front of him.
The galaxy energy emanating from the broken sword shimmered with starlight, giving one a sense of fleeting time and eternal moments.
Just then, a pale golden light rose from the Xuanyuan Cypress, noble and solemn, exuding a holy aura that nourishes all things and blesses all living beings.
Golden light condensed and transformed into a long sword.
The front of this sword is engraved with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers. On the back of the sword, there are gods bowing their heads and demons crawling. On the hilt, there are inscriptions about farming, fishing, herding, and all aspects of human life.
This is a sword of humanity, a sword of the Holy Emperor.
Lin Yi stared in disbelief at the scene before him, which was shimmering with golden light. He seemed to see a middle-aged man wearing a bearskin and with a long sword at his waist planting a cypress tree.
Seemingly sensing Lin Yi's gaze, the middle-aged man suddenly turned his head. His gaze transcended the boundaries of time and space, blurring the past and the present.
A moment later, the middle-aged man finished planting the cypress tree and then blew on it.
The essence was infused into the cypress sapling and has been preserved to this day.
The longsword formed from golden light fell, transforming into streams of sword energy that merged into the broken sword stuck in Cypress Mountain.
After a while, all the strange phenomena disappeared.
Lin Yi stepped forward, observed briefly, then used his Seven Star Robe to protect himself before reaching out and drawing the broken sword.
The broken sword was drawn, and a dragon's roar was heard.
The Star River True Qi within Lin Yi's body continuously flowed into it.
On the front of the sword, the holy water ripples continuously;
On the back of the sword, the spark of humanity burns fiercely.
Subsequently, these two forces returned almost simultaneously.
Water and fire clashed, yin and yang alternated, purity and turbidity were indistinguishable, and all energies were in a state of primordial chaos.
After a long while, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and the situation finally stabilized.
The Holy Virtue Water Waves and Humanity Starfire originating from the Broken Sword, combined with the Three Lights Divine Water and Starry True Fire evolved by Lin Yi using the Star River True Qi, the four powers come together to form the Four Symbols.
Taiyin gives rise to Shaoyang, and Taiyang gives rise to Shaoyin. This forms a self-contained cycle, endlessly generating new life.
In terms of the circulation of true qi alone, Lin Yi has already reached the realm of "man and sword as one".
Unfortunately, Lin Yi lacked the sword heart to "prove the Dao with the sword and seek his true self," so the word "pseudo" needs to be added before it.
What is it like to be one with the sword?
Lin Yi tried to focus his mind on the broken sword in his hand.
Just as people breathe, swords also fluctuate.
Human hearts are hard to distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil, and gods and demons coexist, but the heart of a sword is pure.
The sword is the blade of the heart. Life and death, decision and control, are all within the grasp of a single thought.
Ultimately, the sword is a weapon of violence. From the moment it was created, it was designed for killing. Using a sword to kill is killing, but using a sword to protect others is using killing to stop killing.
Since it all boils down to killing, isn't the sword heart the heart of slaughter?
Lin Yi pondered this question for a while, then slowly shook his head and said, "Sword cultivators are sincere in their hearts and sincere in their swords. They seek the Dao with the sword, never regretting even the most desperate attempts. The Dao heart comes first, the killing heart comes second. The former is the foundation, the latter is the application."
"Where in the world is there a constant, unchanging, and ever-growing killing intent? Wouldn't that just be a demonic intent that exists solely for slaughter? That's the demonic path. The Asura Demonic Sect, one of the six demonic sects in the northern border of the Great Xia World, proves its path through killing—killing life, killing the earth, killing the heavens, killing myself, killing the Dao..."
"The theoretical basis of this school of thought is that chaos gave birth to heaven and earth, heaven and earth gave birth to the multitude of darkness, and by going against the flow and destroying the multitude of darkness and heaven and earth, the primordial beginning can be seen."
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Chapter Twelve: Guests from Three Mountains Share Spiritual Tea
Lin Yi stood silently beneath the Xuanyuan Cypress, holding the broken sword in his hand.
Human breath and the sword's energy flowed in harmony, perfectly unified. The spiritual senses, carried by the broken sword, spread in all directions.
The essence of the Seven Luminaries Star Pivot Sword Technique flowed through Lin Yi's mind: the sun, moon, and five planets in the sky interact with the yin and yang and the five elements in human beings.
Under the reflection of the sword heart, a dreamlike, ethereal, and uncertain Daoist charm appeared in Lin Yi's perception.
The distance between them was rapidly closing. Lin Yi took a half step back, cradling the broken sword, and leaned against the cypress tree behind him. He closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and waited quietly.
What attitude would the world's wise men have towards him, an "outsider" recognized by the Yellow Emperor?
Lin Yi had no idea, but that didn't stop him from making a choice to greet the guests who had come from afar in the best possible condition.
About half an incense stick's time later, an old man with white hair and a white beard, dressed in a blue Taoist robe, appeared outside the Xuanyuan Temple.
Inside the door, Lin Yi opened his eyes and stood up straight. A boundless and majestic sword intent, vast and unyielding, filled the heavens and earth, bursting forth and soaring into the sky.
"What excellent sword intent!" the old Taoist priest outside the door exclaimed, stepping over the threshold and entering the Xuanyuan Temple as he spoke.
Upon seeing Lin Yi's Taoist robe, the old Taoist bowed and said, "May the Heavenly Venerable grant you boundless blessings. Huashan Xuanyou greets fellow Taoist."
Lin Yi smiled slightly and said, "Daoist Xuanyou, you're too kind."
Xuanyou Daoist said, "In ancient times, Emperor Zhuanxu severed the connection between heaven and earth. After that, all celestial beings descended to earth after undergoing tribulations. However, in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Liu Bowen, Zhang Sanfeng, Tieguan Daoist and others to use their supreme magic to perform a ritual on Zijin Mountain in Jinling. They used Shen Wanshan's treasure basin to gather the fortune of the nine provinces and sever the spiritual bridge between heaven and earth, causing the celestial beings to be separated. After that, no more celestial beings descended to earth."
"After that, Zhu Hongwu used the dragon energy of humanity to confer deities and established the City God pantheon, intending to transform the Ming Dynasty's Dragon Court into the Heavenly Court. His ambition was unparalleled."