At the peak of the Sword Building.
The strange scene formed around the odd rock at the top of the Sword Building remained unchanged at first glance, but upon closer inspection, one could still notice some differences.
For example, a few more fish swam in the clear spring, and the trees were a bit more lush…
Li Mo had just finished copying the odd rock three times, as usual, it was slightly off.
So he stood at the top of the Sword Building, gazing into the distance, lost in thought.
“That’s the Sword Pool…”
As soon as Li Mo saw the circular, vast square, images of Bing being on a high platform, holding a ruler and pointing, flashed through his mind.
Bing always seemed to have a sense of possessing the truth.
Xiao Li could even imagine which part she was talking about.
Where she needed to demonstrate, how she looked at dull disciples…
“Hold on, why did last night’s scenes also come up.”
“No, why does she keep popping up.”
Li Mo couldn’t help but feel puzzled. He should be focusing his mind on copying the odd rock…
“What are you looking at?”
The speaker was Wei Zhaoliu.
She was still wearing the round crystal glasses made from the Northern Sea, her face was unclear, her hair was much shorter than before, and judging by her aura, she had just observed the odd rock again.
“I’m watching Miss Cold.”
Li Mo’s gaze was still fixed on the Sword Pool.
“Hmm? You can see her?”
Wei Zhaoliu’s eyes widened, and she nodded, truly impressed by this Young Hero Li’s sharp eyesight:
“Oh, you mean Ying Bing, her teachings have truly reached a level I can only admire. Laughable that I once wanted to compare myself with her…”
Li Mo asked, “Why is your hair so short?”
“Just, every time I hear her teachings, I feel like my swordsmanship has improved, then I come back to try to erase those hammer marks.”
“And then?”
“Every time I fail, so to remember the lesson, I cut off a lock of hair as a vow.”
“… It really seems like you’ve gotten stronger.”
A sudden sense of guilt welled up in Li Mo.
But half of this guilt should be shared by Bing, if not for her, Wei Zhaoliu wouldn’t often feel that she was making progress.
It’s best to finish copying the odd rock as soon as possible.
That way, he wouldn’t see the day when Wei Zhaoliu loses all her hair.
“Why does he keep drawing the odd rock?”
Wei Zhaoliu was puzzled. Could this be a form of cultivation?
Creating Guan Shen diagrams?
There were also predecessors from the Sword City who had considered this idea, but it always ended up going nowhere. The odd rock itself seemed useless for observation, but the sword marks on it could be.
However, very few people were qualified to bear the divine intent of those sword marks…
Li Mo sat down in front of the odd rock.
He took out his brush, ink, paper, and inkstone. The ink was ground by Bing while she was drinking tea in the morning.
The green vein jade paper he had left in the inventory was now down to five sheets.
Xiao Li gathered his spirit, the Sword City allowed him to contemplate the odd rock, but he couldn’t take it away.
Before leaving Yunzhou, he had to draw it…
“This stone shouldn’t just be a stone.”
Xiao Li muttered to himself.
…
Sword Pool.
In the past, when strong swordsmen came to Yunzhou to teach, there was no break time. Since Ying Bing arrived, this rule changed.
What she taught was mostly simple yet profound, requiring time to understand and ponder.
Otherwise, they might end up not understanding each other.
A break of half an hour wasn’t long nor short.
Ying Bing held Tian Shuang, standing on the high platform of the Sword Pool, she simply brewed a pot of clear tea and closed her eyes to rest.
When one is quiet, they tend to think more.
That’s why she closed her eyes, and her thoughts drifted back to last night, the hazy moonlight, the flickering candlelight in the room… that feeling was hard to forget, the more she tried to forget, the more real it became.
Even the warmth of his palm seemed to linger…
Some of the smarter disciples below had a glimmer of wisdom in their eyes.
“Is Miss Ying again having some enlightenment?”
“Sss… she mastered the advanced sword techniques in a blink! It’s very likely!”
…
“Not sure what profound sword techniques she is contemplating…”
The disciples exchanged glances, but dared not speak too loudly.
They feared disturbing Ying Bing’s ‘contemplation’.
Ying Bing: “…..”
No, she couldn’t think anymore.
She took out the tea set to brew some tea to distract herself, but her gaze suddenly paused.
Was this her tea table?
The tea set on the table was recently given by Li Mo, plain-looking but of high quality, unfortunately, there was only one cup.
This morning’s only cup was taken by him.
The tea leaves were given by him, the tea table was hammered by him, the snacks during tea were made by him.
Other than that…
Gurgle… the water used to rinse the tea poured onto the big-headed doll next to it.
Hmm…
Since this miniature world was sturdy, it became her tea pet.
Even the tea pet was a Q-version of Li Mo’s big-headed doll!
“When did he leave his mark everywhere in her life?”
“It’s really…”
Ying Bing pursed her lips and gently poked the forehead of the big-headed doll.
Then her gaze shifted, picking up a tea leaf and sticking it on the Q-version Li Mo’s philtrum.
Last time, he put a note on his philtrum, he seemed quite upset…
“Miss Ying…”
“Miss Ying?”
The person called her twice before she turned around.
“It’s almost time for the lecture.”
Elder Zeng came to remind her, he looked at the doll, raised his eyebrows slightly, and leaned back.
“Alright…”
Ying Bing stood up and packed away the tea set.
Previously, she never felt that the break time was so short…
“What were you looking at just now?”
“Looking…”
Ying Bing twisted the big-headed doll’s head back, lowered her eyes and thought for a moment.
“Wangqi Douluo?”
“??”
……
“Just painting isn’t enough.”
“One must experience it firsthand…”
After wasting another sheet of green vein jade paper, Li Mo stood up.
Approaching the odd rock, he slowly extended his hand to touch its surface.
Strangely enough.
At the moment of contact with the odd rock, the seven dark orbs within his body faintly flickered.
Following the laws of the universe, these orbs began to rotate faster, even starting to tremble slightly, causing larger movements.
Boom—
Li Mo felt something inexplicable.
This inexplicable connection was not because of the dark orbs themselves, but because they were all stars within his inner world.
Like attracts like, they seemed to recognize something similar.
“Huh…”
Li Mo suddenly realized that he seemed able to understand the true secrets of the odd rock through its surface.
This was something he had never experienced before while studying martial arts on the odd rock.
“What’s wrong with him?”
Not far away.
In Wei Zhaoliu’s eyes, Li Mo was just staring blankly.
There was nothing particularly unusual, except that she was surprised. This odd rock was not easy to touch; if one’s qualifications were insufficient, they might be overwhelmed by its endless mysteries in an instant…
The next moment.
The green vein jade paper suddenly floated up.
Li Mo lifted his brush, writing swiftly and gracefully. This time, he didn’t hold back, but rather wrote with a sense of ease and grace.
