#263 - There is always someone better than you.
“ Rumble! ”
The muffled thunder squeezed into the room along the crack of the secret door, lingering endlessly.
A black longsword was inserted vertically in front of him, with the tip of the sword three inches into the ground.
The essence blood that the thin man had spewed on it earlier had all slid down the sword, forming a small pool of blood on the ground, occasionally rippling with the vibration of the Xuantian Sword.
“You said.”
The voice of the remnant soul instantly lowered a tone: “You are Wei Changtian?”
“Senior.”
Wei Changtian sneered: “Do I need to lie to you?”
“...”
The remnant soul paused for a moment, his tone even more gloomy.
“So Xiao Feng is dead?”
“Of course.”
“Humph! Boy! Do you think I am so easily fooled? You must know that I was...”
“Found five second-grade masters to help Xiao Feng?”
Wei Changtian narrowed his eyes and interrupted: “Senior, I’m sorry, those five people are already dead.”
“What?!”
The Xuantian Sword suddenly burst into a great black light, and the old voice was full of shock: “Dead?! This is impossible!!”
“Could it be that you don’t even understand this principle?”
“Bah! Don’t even think about trying to deceive me!”
The remnant soul cursed and wanted to argue, but suddenly stopped in the next moment.
“Wait a minute! How did you know my surname is Ji?!”
“Senior Ji, I not only know your surname...”
Wei Changtian leaned forward, stretched out his hand to pick up a finger of blood.
“I also know that you have been trapped in this Xuantian Sword for more than 1,500 years, and I also know that you once created Kuilong with one hand.”
“You know Kuilong?!”
This time, the remnant soul could no longer remain calm, and his tone suddenly became extremely astonished.
“Who told you?!”
“We’ll talk about who told me later.”
Wei Changtian smiled, and internal force penetrated his body, blasting the blood on his fingertips into a small cloud of blood mist.
Behind the scarlet mist, the slightly raised corner of his mouth still hung that faint smile from beginning to end.
“Senior Ji, I want to make a deal with you.”
“Squeak~”
Half an hour later, Wei Changtian pushed the door and walked out of the secret room.
“Young master.”
Chu Xianping, who had been waiting outside the door, immediately took two steps closer and waved his hand to signal the others to retreat.
“An hour ago, the Tongzhou Association sent information that Yuanzhou is at war.”
“Is that so... I know.”
Wei Changtian’s reaction was quite calm, and there was almost no change in his eyes.
“Brother Chu, send someone to clean up the corpses in the house, and then you can go back first.”
“I want to think about something alone.”
“...Yes.”
Chu Xianping turned his head to look at the dead bodies slumped in the house and nodded.
He was just about to leave to arrange this matter, but he was suddenly stopped by Wei Changtian after only taking one step.
“Brother Chu, if I told you that there are already first-grade masters outside of Da Ning, and even more than one... what would you think?”
“...”
Chu Xianping suddenly stopped and looked back at Wei Changtian, who looked serious.
In his previous understanding, the first grade has always been just a “desirable but unattainable” realm.
It’s like the moon in the water and the flower in the mirror. You know it exists, but you can never touch it.
So if there really is a living first-grade master...
“Young master.”
Chu Xianping said calmly: “I opened my meridians at the age of five, and sixty-one of the sixty-four meridians were opened. I felt that my talent was extraordinary, and I would definitely become a top master in the world in the future.”
“Two years later, I went up the mountain to learn cultivation. My fellow disciples in the sect were not as good as me, but my master said that there are countless people in this world who are more talented than me.”
“I was not convinced back then, thinking that my master was lying to me, trying to encourage me to practice hard through this method.”
“But when I was ten years old, my master brought back a junior brother from the mountain and asked me to fight him.”
“I tried my best to attack this person, but he just flicked his arm and threw me three feet away.”
“Only then did I believe that there really are people in this world who have all sixty-four meridians open, and only then did I really understand the truth that there are people beyond people and there is heaven beyond heaven.”
“Therefore, even if there are first-grade masters in foreign lands, it is not a big deal.”
“...”
In just a few words, he told a very ordinary story, but also very clearly expressed Chu Xianping’s attitude towards the world.
Objectively speaking, for the “natives” who live in such a closed world with extremely slow information dissemination speed without news, television, and the Internet, it is already commendable to have this kind of vision.
However, Wei Changtian’s eyes did not show appreciation when he looked at Chu Xianping. After pondering for a moment, he just said softly with a rather complicated tone:
“Brother Chu, what if I told you that in addition to first-grade masters, there are also...”
“Rumble!”
The thunder outside the house was still rumbling, suddenly surging and surging, like waves startling at night.
After another roar, Wei Changtian did not continue to speak.
“Forget it, it’s meaningless.”
“...”
These words seemed to be said to Chu Xianping, but also to himself.
Wei Changtian reached out and patted Chu Xianping on the shoulder, shook his head and turned to leave, leaving the latter standing there alone.
So... what else is there in this world?
Chu Xianping kept repeating the last unfinished words of Wei Changtian in his mind.
But he couldn’t think of the answer.
Kyoto, Da Ning Imperial Palace, Shiqu Pavilion.
What Wei Changtian talked about with the remnant soul in the Xuantian Sword and what deal he made is still unknown.
But since it’s “meaningless”, it means that this matter is still far away from him for the time being.
Although it is said that people should have foresight and not be short-sighted.
But in fact, the reason why many people are mediocre is not because their vision is not long enough, but precisely because their vision is always in the distance.
People always have to solve the current problems first, and then they are qualified to think about more long-term plans.
Wei Changtian thought so, and Ning Yongnian also thought so.
“...”
“Gentlemen, the reason why I summoned you into the palace tonight is because I have something I want to hear your opinions on.”
Behind the desk, Ning Yongnian looked at the eight important ministers standing in front of him, his expression extremely serious.
“This matter is of great importance, concerning the fate of my Da Ning, and also concerning the lives of tens of thousands of people.”
“Therefore, I only want to hear the truth.”
“Do you understand?”
“...”
“Your Majesty, we understand!”
The unanimous response immediately sounded, but everyone’s voice contained the same doubts.
They are all well-known “neutral factions” in the court, and they have never engaged in forming cliques for personal gain, whether it was during the “three-legged” era of Liu Wei Xu before, or when Da Ning was in chaos inside and outside now.
At least, they have never done it openly.
As for the meaning of doubt in the tone just now...
There are eight people in total, and three of them really don’t know why Ning Yongnian called them over in the middle of the night.
But the remaining five people all know it well.
“Your Majesty...”
Li Kan, who was standing on the left, arched his hands at Ning Yongnian and asked tentatively: “I wonder what is so important?”
“Aiqing Li.”
Ning Yongnian pushed a stack of letters on the desk forward and replied softly.
“You will know when you read this.”
