Sweeping both worlds: Starting from idealistic martial arts

Chapter 329 Killing Without Killing! [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

"The...Master!"

Looking at the figure blocking the way in front of him, Yang Xiao spoke up unexpectedly.

The old woman, who had been dazed and drooling before, was now sharp-witted and gazing intently at the young man before her.

Not only her expression, but the old woman's appearance had also become younger.

"Truly... truly a peerless master!"

The old woman's voice was somewhat stammering, seemingly due to years of silence.

She looked at Fang Can with sharp eyes and said, "I can sense that the opportunity to break through to the fifth level lies within you."

With the appearance of Dongfang Wuji, the atmosphere at the scene was instantly heightened again.

The previously somewhat disheartened demonic sect began to recall their half-mad leader, and it seemed that the leader's demeanor was no longer insane.

Looking at the cult leader's expression at this moment, Yang Xiao recalled how he found the other person in the secret passage.

……

Ninety-five years ago, atop the clouds, five-year-old Dongfang Wuji began learning martial arts.

The previous leader, who was also her own mother, asked her a question on the very first day she began learning martial arts.

"Wuji! Why do you want to learn martial arts? Or what is your goal in learning martial arts?"

After pondering for a while, Dongfang Wuji said, "I want to become the number one martial arts master in the world."

Her mother did not comment on her answer, but instead asked the Dharma King, the protector of the entire Holy Church, to teach her.

Her childhood was spent learning all kinds of weapons, including swords, spears, halberds, and even fist techniques, palm techniques, finger techniques, and body techniques.

At the same time, Dongfang Wuji also understood the responsibility of his surname: to restore the country!

On the day she broke through to the first level at the age of eighteen, the former leader approached her to test her martial arts skills.

When facing sparring matches with fellow disciples within the Holy Sect, no matter what weapon or technique the opponent used, she easily defeated them with the same martial arts.

Without a doubt, she is a martial arts prodigy!

Surrounded by her fallen fellow disciples, she looked at her mother expectantly and asked:
"Master, I have passed all the tests of my masters. Shouldn't I be able to graduate now?"

In response to the girl's question, the cult leader gently shook his head and said:

"That alone is far from enough. You are facing a tangible enemy. Be prepared. Anyone can defeat such an opponent."

"You can only be considered a master when you can still fight and defeat your enemy even when you have lost all five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch."

After returning home, she carefully considered the cult leader's words.

After one night, Dongfang Wuji covered his eyes and shut down his five senses, and began to practice martial arts in the mountains.

Just as the cult leader said, after losing the five senses, one could neither see nor hear.

Without the sense of touch, one cannot even be sure if there is a sword in their hand.

In this situation, the only thing she could rely on was her intuition, and she had to hone it to its peak.

After years of honing her skills, her intuition has become increasingly stronger.

From initially covering his eyes to barely parry and deflect thrown stones, to eventually being able to avoid arrows shot at supersonic speeds even when his five senses were lost, he could still rely on his senses to avoid them.

Several years later, she was completely no different from ordinary people!
She can distinguish the color of objects without sight, enjoy the pleasant sound of music without hearing, taste the deliciousness of food without taste, and distinguish the coldness and hardness of swords without touch...

She can now perceive a richer world than the average person, even with her five senses shut down!
Even in his sleep, he could instinctively draw his sword to block an enemy's sneak attack.

Whether it was poison or a trap, she could immediately discern the truth without even looking; relying solely on her sixth sense. That night, she shut down her five senses and went on a journey for several months. When she returned, she was covered in blood, carrying the head of the current abbot of Shaolin Temple.

That year, Dongfang Wuji was thirty years old and at the peak of the third stage of cultivation!

Upon hearing this, the sect leader approached Dongfang Wuji and said:

"You have officially graduated and possess the ability of a master to see without seeing and hear without hearing. Next, I will teach you the 'Great Shift of Heaven and Earth' so that you can become a tool without tools."

The so-called "tool without a tool" is the effect of the sixth level of the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth.

Even without a weapon in hand, one can still unleash the power of a divine weapon, after all, weapons are not such inconvenient things.
Thus, after acquiring the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth, the legend of Dongfang Wuji had become thoroughly known throughout the martial arts world.

After roaming the martial arts world for another thirty years, Dongfang Wuji had killed enough people to fill several courtyards, and the blood of his enemies could form a small stream.

Those who died at her hands included both righteous and demonic individuals; killing had become an integral part of her life.

Finally, on the day she turned sixty-two, after comprehending the true meaning of the weapon without a weapon, she broke through to the fourth level! She became the leader of the Demonic Sect!
But she felt no joy, for before her lay a vast abyss.

She has already learned all the techniques and moves of her predecessors.

She has mastered both Shaolin and Wudang martial arts techniques.

There's no way forward!
Just like those who paved the way, she is the one who will pave the way for the future.

In response, she asked her mother, who was already 100 years old, what should be done next.

The previous leader of the Demonic Sect told her on his deathbed that the undeveloped seventh level of the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth was called the Killing Without Killing.

And so, another twenty years passed, and she, now in her eighties, began to understand.

In order to comprehend this so-called killing without killing, she has killed her way across the entire world, leaving countless heads in her wake. There is no one in the world she cannot kill!

Finally, the court, having reached its limit of tolerance, devised a plan to trap her in a valley and send a massive cavalry charge at her.

That battle was the one in which she came closest to death.

Although it was arduous, pushing her limits time and time again led her to sudden enlightenment.

When she was rescued by her subordinates and brought back to the Holy Church while she was critically injured and on the verge of death, she immediately announced that she would go into seclusion to seize that last glimmer of hope between life and death.

Subsequently, nineteen years passed in the forbidden area.

Once the battle between the Holy Church and the Righteous Path began, the grandmasters, unable to contain themselves any longer, had no choice but to forcibly enter the forbidden area.

Inside the forbidden area, Dongfang Wuji had lost his former spirited demeanor and resembled a dull old man who had fallen into dementia.

After she emerged from seclusion, taking advantage of a brief moment of clarity, Yang Xiao reported to her on the current situation of the Holy Church.

On the way, Dongfang Wuji saw a man draped in a red gauze robe lying motionless on the ground.

This scene seemed very familiar to Dongfang Wuji.

It's as if I've seen it a million times before, but I can't remember it at all right now.

"Why is she lying here?" Dongfang Wuji asked, pointing at the man draped in red gauze.

Initially, Yang Xiao and several Dharma Kings looked puzzled when she asked them questions.

But as she pressed for answers, this confusion quickly turned into horror:
Yang Xiao asked in a trembling voice, "Master, your divine skills are unparalleled, and you have killed countless people. How come you can't even recognize a dead person now?"

Upon hearing Yang Xiao's words, Dongfang Wuji suddenly understood!

The man wasn't wearing a red gauze robe; his entire body was stained red with blood!

She had completely forgotten how to kill someone!
At this moment, I can't even remember what the dead look like!

(End of this chapter)