Chapter Seventy-Two: The Sword of Killing
Kill one person and save tens of thousands, kill or not kill. Such a question was very strange, and Bai Nian looked at the witch, trying to see something on her face.
But the witch was the same as before, she was expressionless, just looked at Bai Nian very calmly, as if waiting for an answer.
"This person is very close to you, and thousands of people are strangers to you, will you kill or not?" the witch asked again.
Who is this close person? Figures appeared in his mind, his parents, Lin Qingyue, Bai Fan, and even Lu Zhanxian, Phantom Banshee, Hua Wuxian, and Ram Shepherd. These people are very important, how could Bai Nian possibly do it to them.
"Don't kill!" Bai Nian said after pondering for a while.
Kill someone close to you to save thousands of people. Bai Nian is not a compassionate person, he also has selfish intentions. What about thousands of people, why should he save him if he is unfamiliar with him?
"Then I'll ask you again, kill thousands of people and save one, kill or not!" Although the witch asked a question, her voice could not hear any interrogative tone. The voice was very cold, without a trace of emotion, but it seemed very solemn and solemn, which made Bai Nian feel very unnatural.
"These tens of millions of people are also strangers to you, and if you don't kill them, you can't save the person who is close to you. Or don't kill!"
Thousands of strangers have no grudges against them, but if you want to save those close to you, you must kill them. So ruthless, so cruel.
If you choose to kill, then the lives of thousands of people will end in your own hands. Tens of millions of people, they also have families, they also have their own circles.
If anyone dies, there will be people in this world who will be sad, right? If 10 million people are killed, how many people will shed tears?
But if you don't kill them, the people close to you, your parents, your wife, your friends, whoever you are, will die and disappear into your own world.
This is a very perplexing question, and there is no solution to it after going around and around.
"Don't kill!" In the end, Bai Nian shook his head slightly and chose not to kill.
"It's not killing again... If you don't kill a single person, you won't be able to save anyone..."The witch's expression finally showed a hint of sadness, and she moved her arm to brush away the hair that fell on her cheeks, and a peerless face was completely revealed.
"If there are tens of thousands of people and one person, you must kill one, who are you killing?" the witch raised her eyebrows and looked directly into Bai Nian's eyes.
Killing one person and saving tens of thousands of people, or killing tens of millions of people and saving one person, although they all seem to be the same problem, the essence is completely different.
For some reason, Bai Nian felt a little flustered, as if the witch was not asking a question, but a real choice in front of him.
"Kill... Alone!" Bai Nian spit out these words with difficulty, and he breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.
After listening to Bai Nian's words, the witch showed a complicated expression, hesitation, pity, and sadness......
"Your talent in kendo is extremely strong, you are simply a natural kendo demon, even if I was inferior to you back then. ”
The witch finally said a word of praise for Bai Nian, but before Bai Nian could steal the fun, the witch sighed softly again.
"I didn't want you to go to kendo, but if you do, you'll be disappointed. ”
"A man is like a sword. Kendo is destined to be lonely all the way, and your fate will be full of ups and downs, and your life will be uneasy. Even so, would you still like to learn a sword?"
Bai Nian nodded. He felt extremely confused, how could his martial arts still be linked to fate? But even if the road was bumpy and bumpy, the witch world had gone through calamities, what was his fear.
"In that case... I'll pass you on the sword technique of scarring!" said the witch with difficulty, as if she had made up her mind.
"Killing Sword Technique?" Bai Nian repeated in a low voice.
The red mist converged, and the witch stroked her chin and said to herself: "The sword technique Ganges is more than ten million. But from ancient times to the present, no matter how the way of the sword changes, the strongest way of the sword is none other than the sword master!"
Sword Saint Bai Nian had never heard of it, but he didn't say anything, and listened quietly to the witch's next words.
"The Sword Master only produces one sword in one life, and only produces the sword of the common people in the prosperous world. The sword master of the common people cares about the world, takes the common people as his own responsibility, eradicates the evil demons in the world, and stabilizes the balance of forces of all parties. ”
"And if it's troubled times...... The Sword Master will come out of the first door, and this person is the Killing Sword Master... Kill the sword with one hand, stop killing with killing, break the balance of all parties, and kill all those who are not convinced. If one person is not satisfied, he will kill another, and if he is not satisfied, he will kill tens of millions of people!"
The witch's momentum gradually became fierce as the words came out of her mouth, and a sense of solemnity arose.
"As you guessed, I'm the Sword Master of the last life... The two questions I asked you just now are also a test for you, if you choose to kill tens of millions of people and save one person, then I will pass on your sword, if you choose to kill one person and save thousands of people, I will pass you the sword of killing!"
"But... I'm saving tens of millions of people! Shouldn't I pass on my Cangsheng Sword?" Bai Nian asked puzzled. He chose to kill one person and save tens of millions of people, obviously focusing on the common people, and for this reason, he could even give up his loved ones.
"That's why I passed you the Killing Sword, and why... You'll find out years later. ”
The witch looked like she could see through Bai Nian's future fate, which made Bai Nian very inexplicable.
"But didn't the Killing Sword come out in troubled times?" Bai Nian still didn't understand.
"Heh! Now that the era of the end of the law is already in turmoil, your Nether Heaven is quite peaceful, and there is not much turmoil. But the Upper Realm Heaven ......" The witch shook her head and said in a deep voice: "The Upper Realm Heaven must have been in chaos!"
"Then how to cultivate this killing sword?" Bai Nian skimmed many doubts in his heart, what is the upper realm, what is the heaven of the world, what is one person and tens of millions of people, what is the troubled era and prosperity are too far, the most important thing now is to improve the strength.
"First of all, you have to have a sword as your killing sword..."The witch glanced around and said, "There are a lot of swords in this sword mound, but they are all infected with too many causes and effects... If you choose a sword here, you will inevitably be involved in many accidents in the future..."
"You have a sword on you, and that sword is perfect for you. ”
Bai Nian understood that the sword that the witch was talking about should be Lin Qingyue's, and with a shake in his hand, a three-foot green sword appeared in his hand.
"Are you talking about Qingyue?But this sword is just a Saint-level spirit sword! How can there be a fairy sword, when my strength comes up in the future, won't this sword be useless?"
"The immortal sword in this sword mound has already been shaped, and the sword spirit sword intent sword technique has been invisibly influenced by the previous master, and it is not suitable for killing sword technique. And... The most important point of the sword of the killing sword technique is to shape, the sword grows with the master, and when your sword comes up, the sword will naturally advance to the next stage. ”
The witch took the Qingyue Long Sword in Bai Nian's hand, felt it and said, "This sword is cold in nature, and it is extremely suitable for the killing sword's Xiao Se killing intent. ”
After the spirit weapon is generally forged, it cannot be advanced, but the witch actually said that she can grow with her master, and the witch's explanation is obviously not the concept of the Heavenly Spirit Continent in the world. But thinking about the concept of the witch must be correct, her kind of realm and vision can throw out those refiners a few streets.
Bai Nian nodded, even if he accepted Qingyue as a sword, then this lying sword mound would be considered for nothing. Because the sword here seems to have a causal connection, taking away a sword will have to be related to some events in the future.
Bai Nian had also heard of cause and effect, which was a kind of avenue in Buddhism. A spiritual pill monk like him may not be involved, but the more advanced the realm, the more he believes in the theory of cause and effect.
Soon, Bai Nian knew why the witch didn't stop him from entering this sword shrine. Because the environment here is extremely suitable for sword training...
There was a wasteland in the sword mound, and she couldn't recognize the terrain at all, but the witch took Bai Nian to a place that didn't look out of the ordinary as if she knew the direction.
According to the witch, this place turned out to be the place of the sword furnace of the sword shrine.
"The sword furnace is a terrain naturally formed by heaven and earth, and the spiritual power of heaven and earth here is extremely suitable for casting sword weapons. ”
And Bai Nian was sitting here cross-legged at the moment, the three-foot blue moon was hanging above his head, and wisps of spiritual power like fire and thunder within a radius of 100 meters were frantically surging towards here. He is refining Qingyue and smelting the sword spirit!
"Whoever kills the sword, three points of the soul turns into a sword spirit!" said the witch, "A person's soul can be divided into thousands of thoughts. ...... sin and evil, greed and lust, anger and anger, resentment and hatred, madness and madness in your soul."
"Separate all the negative emotions from your soul, and forge them into sword spirits......" the witch said slowly.
The reason why the Killing Sword is the strongest sword in the world is because its sword spirit is forged by all the evil thoughts of the sword master. With the mood swings of the sword master, the more evil the sword master, the more fierce the sword!
Invisible soul thoughts floated out from Bai Nian's soul sea, and all the evil thoughts were separated into wisps, and these soul thoughts slowly floated in the air.
The witch didn't stop for a moment, she conjured up thousands of strands of red mist as thin as hair to wrap around those soul thoughts, and slowly combined Bai Nian's soul thoughts with the Sword Master's unique method of melting sword spirits.
"There are two sides to every human being, good and negative, good and evil. There are no absolute good people and no absolute bad people, if you peel off those layers of cocoons wrapped around the soul, you will find that there is nothing in the depths of the soul. The witch muttered under her breath.
After the soul thought separated the soul sea, Bai Nian's feeling was very wonderful. It was as if the restraints on his body had been lifted off a lot, and he only felt his mind lightened. All sin, resentment, and madness are gone, and only optimism and beauty remain......
It was like being full of mud and dirt one moment, and the next second it was wiped clean by a drizzle.
"Steady!" the witch snorted, pulling Bai Nian back from her wonderful state of mind.
"Blood!" I saw the witch shake her finger and directly slash Bai Nian's two wrists, and blood gushed out wildly.
The blood drifted out and turned into a blood mist mixed with the witch's red mist, the two were so similar that if you didn't probe carefully, you wouldn't be able to detect the difference between the two. The witch's red mist should be a pure blood spirit, and Bai Nian's blood mist mixed with blood has a strong bloody aura.
After the soul thoughts were stained with Bai Nian's blood, they became visible, and those soul thoughts were all wrapped together, and finally a figure actually condensed. This figure is completely another copy of Bai Nian, and the appearance is exactly the same. The only difference is that the expression on the face of the figure is extremely terrifying, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sometimes crazy......
This should be the sword spirit, but why does this sword spirit feel so awkward?
"Into the sword!" the witch shouted.
The words were as they were, and the moment the sword spirit was born, he was extremely violent, and he almost broke free from Bai Nian's control, but the witch's shout made the sword spirit directly collapse into wisps of soul thoughts. Those soul thoughts slowly swirled around the Qingyue Long Sword, and finally all of them were smelted into the sword.
"It's finally good!" Bai Nian said relaxedly, wiping the sweat from his forehead.