1897: Reminisce this way

Lu Buyi shouted like a thunderclap. “I intend to handle this how? I want for you to repay this blood debt in blood!”

Song Poxiao laughed coldly. “Repay blood with blood? Hei hei… just relying on you, Lu Buyi, you still don’t have the qualifications to say these words!”

Lu Buyi angrily jeered. With two eyes like copper bells, he said, “Song Poxiao, whether or not I have the qualifications to say these words, I would ask Fourth Old Song to come personally consider!”

As he said up until here, his hands suddenly spread open. With a “ka cha” sound, two thunderclaps echoed in the air. Lu Buyi’s pupils had an electric light explode inside them and shoot out, and with an absolute shout, he said, “Sword come!”

The middle of the sky suddenly surged with wind and clouds. Along with a light echoing clang of metal, a coldly long sword appeared suddenly. Sword qi spread out and crisscrossed the whole sky. It was a sword appearing with one grasp, and without a person operating it, the spontaneous and splendid sword qi had already scattered the clouds to the four directions, clearing the sky.

That Lu Buyi reached out a hand, and that sword that had suddenly appeared dropped peacefully into his hand. He waved the sword effortlessly. “Song Poxiao! Allow me to come forward and receive your death!”

Song Poxiao laughed loudly. “Lu Buyi, don’t think that just because us brothers are giving you face, you can subst.i.tute a big clove of garlic in! Come come come, I will let you experience for yourself what is known as the Seven Golden Lotuses!”

With one brush of his sleeve, not even revealing any weaponry, he rushed out empty handed without consulting anyone.

Sword light met fist strength in a thunderous explosion. The two people’s figures were instantly wrapped in a ball of thunder and lightning. Light rays lingered around the middle, making it unclear to see who was who.

Everyone’s dispositions were all of a spicy quality and extremely irritable. After no more than a few words, they furiously came into direct contact, raising hand against one another.

This outcome caused the always old and wise Qin Menghun as well as Yun Duanlu and the rest to mutually look at each other and force a bitter laugh as they watched, speechless.

Fighting hand to hand for no more than a short moment, there suddenly came a sound ringing and exploding through the air. Song Poxiao’s long laugh echoed through the air. “Lu Buyi, if you dare to speak rudely again, we’ll seriously exterminate you!”

Song Poxiao’s figure was astonis.h.i.+ngly revealed. It seemed as if he was a bit beat up and in a somewhat difficult situation. One arm was directly exposed to the outside. That sleeve was clearly torn and smashed to bits by his counterpart’s sword qi. However, his whole person was still calm and composed, and he hadn’t suffered serious damage.

Following a precise flash of sword light, Lu Buyi’s figure also subsequently appeared. His face had a few traces of dark red flecked across it. The long sword in his hand had already disappeared. His sight looked deep and imposing as he watched Song Poxiao. With a cold snort, he said, “It really isn’t you?”

“No kidding!” Song Poxiao was furious. “You knew it wasn’t our doing from the beginning! Being here now has as much meaning as a fart that doesn’t smell!”

Lu Buyi snorted and said, “You all fend for yourselves! If we see each other on the battlefield in the coming days, it’s not your death, it’s just my life!”

His speech finished, he unexpectedly didn’t wait to hear whatever replies the Seven Golden Lotuses had. Without even one wave of his hand, he turned around to go.

He actually didn’t turn his head.

Even those ten experts that he brought with him were baffled. They couldn’t figure out what their big commander had even come for in the end. He just turned around and left, just like that. This was too much a case of a tiger’s head and a snake’s tail…

(TN: a strong start and a weak finish)

But, their commander in chief had already left. They weren’t able to say anything, so under this situation and having no alternatives, their only option was to bafflingly follow him.

“This b.a.s.t.a.r.d clearly knew it wasn’t our doing,” Song Poxiao angrily muttered, scolding him. “Unfortunately he still wanted to stubbornly come over and seek a scolding!”

“This behavior was nothing more than him seeking an excuse to come over and meet us, that’s all.” Guan Shanyao sighed. “Right now this side has already appeared. The next time we meet, our genuine positions will be vastly different. That one sentence of you die and I live will be the true next chapter. Old Four, if you come into contact with him again, you can’t just rashly match his sword with your fist. Your friends.h.i.+p won’t be there again, and precisely will be a genuine sword without eyes.”

Song Poxiao spouted drivel, saying, “I know that this is serious. This time was no more than having my air be stuffy inside. It’s just enough that this old b.a.s.t.a.r.d’s heart also had stuffy air, and everyone seized the opportunity to give vent to one’s feelings for a time. It was at least mutually beneficial…”

The few brothers laughed loudly together in chorus.

…

“Big Commander, those few old fogies already personally admitted it, why didn’t you command us to take action?” As Lu Buyi returned on the road, an accompanying expert asked bewilderedly.

“What did they admit? They also took what action?” Lu Buyi grunted. “If we truly wanted to take action as you said, I’m afraid that perhaps the eleven of us would never return again…”

“That…”

“The barracks being seized clearly wasn’t the doing of the Seven Golden Lotuses.” Lu Buyi’s vision was deep and abstruse. “The Seven Golden Lotuses still wouldn’t come out with this kind of shady business… In fact, the Heavenly Emperor and that side also clearly knows that the matter beforehand wasn’t the doing of the Seven Golden Lotuses, merely…”

Lu Buyi’s sentence would not come out, and it turned into a long sigh.

But the Heavenly Emperor from beginning to end only required one excuse to send the troops towards Heaven’s Leaf…

Big Mister Ye had retreated from the human realm, and the five Sky Kings were free to do as they pleased. Even though he reappeared, it had seemed that their influence would be limited to the Limitless Ocean region. The five Sky Kings were more or less indifferent, so much so that if Big Mister Ye had the intention and desire to be promoted as the sixth Sky King, the five Sky Kings wouldn’t have that big of a reaction. However, Big Mister Ye’s sword was pointed at the whole world. He wanted to rule over the human realm, having only him as the sole supremacy. That was a completely different concept!

The Five Sky Kings certainly wanted to thoroughly strangle this possibility, and naturally the earlier they did this the better. What was hard to come by right now was an opportunity and an excuse, so why wouldn’t they do it!

“Then, that we came this time…” The accompanying deputy general was gaping and speechless.

“This time was only me coming by myself to reminisce some, that’s all. You all were considered to be attendants…” Lu Buyi made himself clear with a glance. He said, “Are you all finished asking these trivial questions? You still aren’t going back to reorganize the camp, isn’t being foolish a crime!?”

Ten people had the corners of their mouth pulled and twitched.

Reminisce?

This is coming to reminisce?

You can still reminisce this way?

We almost all believed you when you were talking about taking action at risk to your life, with you dying and I living…

It seems if Big Commander hadn’t already secretly pa.s.sed on news that we couldn’t move, we’re afraid that perhaps we would have already swarmed them early on…

Lu Buyi gave a long sigh, and his face had limitless melancholy flow upon it.

“In one place a beacon fire rises, ten thousand years of friends.h.i.+p long; each by their lord dies…”

Lu Buyi unhurriedly floated forward, his mouth seemingly having a sigh, seemingly being distracted, and also seemingly full of regret he came out with his final sentence: “… you are hurt I am also hurt…”

Voice unhurried, everything drifted into the clouds and mist…

(TN: This is a poem that Lu Buyi is reciting here, so I might not have the words exactly right, poetry is hard!)

………

“Merely, if it seriously wasn’t the Seven Golden Lotuses who took action to strike, in the end, who was it that took action like that?” Lu Buyi was continuously frowning inside the center army tent, pondering.

“Either way, it’s precisely yet another influence who is inciting trouble. If it’s like this, then that influence is also extremely important. To dare to play with both Heaven’s Leaf and the Five Sky Kings with this kind of lending a knife to kill a person att.i.tude, this terrible game of urging the tiger to swallow the wolf, is absolutely unlikely! Or… it’s precisely someone among those other few Sky Kings, Their Majesties, who can’t wait, and didn’t regret extinguis.h.i.+ng a large amount of their own personnel to create a façade, attracting the moves of this big battle and causing the Sky Kings to unite to annihilate the hidden danger of Heaven’s Leaf… Otherwise, it would be difficult to have this kind of strange situation.”

“However, no matter what kind of situation it is, this world’s disorderly style already can’t be prevented, and people are in a terrible situation…” Lu Buyi deeply sighed.

…

“Actually, this world still isn’t actually disorderly, at least, so far we still haven’t had genuine disorder come up.” In the Monarch’s Hall, Ye Xiao stated in the time period that everyone was sighing, “This so-called chaos is only in people’s hearts. The more you have capable people, have powerful people, then hearts are also just the more sensitive, and it is relatively easier to fall into chaos. The bigger this so-called capability is, the bigger the responsibility is, but at this time, the bigger the responsibility is, the more hearts will be chaotic. It’s precisely because they have these capable people that the responsible people’s hearts take the lead in being disorderly. This ability causes the whole world to subsequently fall into disorder.”

“But our hearts cannot be disorderly!” Ye Xiao vehemently said in a righteous and correct statement.

Everyone nodded their heads one after another.

It was clear this time that their superior’s wish right now was to take up the responsibility of rescuing this chaotic world. It fell on the Monarch’s Hall to have this glory, and the achievements were for the capable person’s subordinates!

Unexpectedly Ye Xiao continued, stating, “Because in our hearts, we just always don’t have tranquility!”

“…”

Everyone was speechless for a spell.

As it turns out, everyone just now had made a mistake, because this seat clearly wasn’t the most ambitious.

This is wanting to take advantage in the middle of disorder, seizing the opportunity to do so?!