Book 54 Chapter 7 – The Only Flaw (1/2)
Book 54 Chapter 7 – The Only Flaw
Translator: Foxs' Wuxia
“What I said was either the truth or a lie”
Facing the exuan’s words echoed continuously in Xu Ziling’s heart
The little house was still the sarooone forever The sound of the ainst his clothes beca him by his side, he was overco with shi+ Qingxuan, the casual longing that he seized with both hands, the happy life bri with love between a le that he fought with all his xuan has become a sad memory, the rest of his life could only be spent in solitary loneliness
What’s so joyful about life anyway? What’s to fear about death anyway? Fervent hope only brought bitter disappoint his last effort to look through theinto the house to search for shi+ Qingxuan’s beautiful shadow – spoke in a nearly whi voice, “She practically has never been here at all, I wonder if she is still in the little valley in Bashu?”
Xu Ziling sat down dejectedly on one of the flat and square rocks outside the door Shaking his head, he said, “She iht; I could sense her deterer”
Hou Xibai sat on the other square rock, grabbing Xu Ziling’s hands inside his palms, he spoke in daze, “What do we do now?”
Xu Ziling spoke indifferently, “You should io to see Lei Jiuzhi, think of a way to help Han Zenan and his wife and child to settle down This is i Fauilty about it for the rest of our lives”
Hou Xibai looked up, he spoke in shock, “If I a away, how could you stay here alone?”
Xu Ziling smiled and said, “Why not? I will stay here to treat xuan’s flute, I will try to forget the injury that , please hurry back here, and then ill go together toOther than this, do you have a better idea?”
The newcohan, whom he wished to Heaven for, acco coether, there were four thousand men, plus a hundred and thirty carts, of which twenty carts were loaded with life-saving firearms Of the four thousand men, three thousand were carefully-selected elite cavalrymen, while the other thousand were the supply personnel with co poere the new recruits of the Shao Shuai Ar the troops was Bai Wenyuan, as quite faions His foreh Zhu Can had become the chrysanthe of the past], but Bai Wenyuan’s familiarity with the mountains and rivers and ays of this area proved to be very useful, so that the reinforcehosts did not perceive – evading the Tang Arhan led a unit of a hundred warriors as the pioneer Meeting Kou Zhong on the forest path, they were all overco busily issued his orders; he ordered the troops following Ba Fenghan’s troops to go into hiding, to pitch camp and rest, so that the ene dust
After encouraging his troops, Kou Zhong took Bai Wenyuan and Ba Fenghan to the top of a hill nearby to observe the situation and discuss their grand plan He even dispatched Wu Ba Fenghan’s ti’sthe situation, he su’s attention is focused on Zhongli, his defense strategy is uys co’s disposition of troops, we could seize this e-scale construction, before their formation has not steadied yet, to use the firearth, and then launch pincer attack frouarantee that we can beat his Niang’s until they are in a sorry state; isn’t that a joy?”
Ba Fenghan said, “This batch of fireare is e ah not as formidable as could cause people to be poisoned to death, it could sting people’s eyes, so that teardrops will flow steadily, breathing will be difficult, the skin turns red and swollen, and will only recover within half a day, hence it will greatly weaken their fighting prowess”
Astonished, Kou Zhong asked, “Have you tested it on anyone? How else do you know it so well?”
Bai Wenyuan said “We caught a wild dog for testing After the test, ere thinking of slaughtering it to eat, but were afraid its ’s life”
Kou Zhong sighed and said, “Poor doggy; luckily you did not harm its life” And then he asked, “Such a poisonous smoke, how many arrows do we have?”
Bai Wenyuan replied, “Altogether we have 2,500 arrows; if we release all, it could shroud a wide area of three to four li square, the bloind cannot disperse it Able to make such a formidable firearm, those people’s brains are really not sihan said, “When two arainst each other, this kind of poisonous s into the ene with concentrated eneinally, orried about how to use this thing to defend our stronghold, but luckily Li shi+ive us the opportunity to use it, naturally it’s another matter”
Bai Wenyuan said, “In addition to the 2,500 poisonous smoke arrows, there are still 500 kerosene bonite it and threw it out by hand; along with the explosion, the kerosene will splatter everywhere, it can quickly put a large area of forest wilderness into a sea of fire With the latter, we place it on the ground in advance, when the enemy steps on it, it will immediately spout poisonous smoke, so its power is purely based on the poisonous smoke; it could even have more formidable power than poisonous srenade (or Molotov cocktail, to be precise), and landare the literal translation of the original Chinese text]
Speechless, Kou Zhong said, “We really block a calamity for Li Yuan, because he was supposed to personally be at the receiving end of this batch of fireare of the ti has not chopped the trees around the caive us trouble; otherwise, the kerosene bo proo to the cao to explore the route This ht will be the best fortunate ti for our operation”
Bai Wenyuan received the order and left
“Is there any news about Ziling?” Ba Fenghan asked
Shaking his head, Kou Zhong spoke in distress, “I hope Heaven helps the worthy, that he will have great luck, great profit!”
Xu Ziling sat in et his serious internal injury, because that was so that followed hiet rid of, that enabled him not to feel weak all the time and the unbearable pain that came from thefreely was the heavier load for him, which made him feel vexed and tired
The more concentrated his spirit, the clearer he felt the injury, so that he was unable to enter the real self The ‘he’ at the present moment could only bear this wretched state in silence
He entered the house and looked at the lady’s chaxuan left her beautiful i with tenderness, which stirred hismoment where he met her by chance Any little resentxuan i sive thought to her, and respect any decision she ains and losses? When he gave up the world of the living, life would pass in the blink of an eye
His heart and spirit could not help reveling in the situation where he caught the first sight of shi+ Qingxuan; one scene after another, past events were reappearing in the lake of his heart, both the reality and the nothingness Apart from shi+ Feixuan, he had never tried so hard to think of a person If life and everything else becaxuan become a part of the past
Unconsciously, he found hi out of the house and then sat down on the square rock by thebehind the mountain, all around him, the crickets and all kinds of insect in the thicket see hard to play the last movement of the life’s symphony, interwoven with the rich layers of the sound of the vast body of water
Intoxicated in the world that he norlected, he fell into the forgetting-self cavity And finally, froxuan, he threw hi, in which the cavity switched from one to the other naturally, without any trace
Inside the world of forgetting e self, he succeeded in freeing himself of the hundred-and-one-way anxiety, as well as the disturbing injury in his heart, his spirit ed with the nature’s cruel autumn’s last trace of vitality into one; he was even oblivious that heat and cold were rushi+ng out of the yongquan acupoints on his feet, the innate qi pierced his acupoint and entered in Froh hisall the acupoints in his body
In his pri speed By the ti fro in the cave of the heaven and earth – and opened his eyes, the waning ht sky, like an expanse of black velvet felt [fabric] – was embedded with stars
To which star was actually the one where shi+ Qingxuan returned after her death? Could it be that the place where he returned after his death would be another star closest to hers? Then he would forever acco-cherished wish that was unfulfilled during his life in this mortal world
Was life influenced by the cause and effect [karma] of the past [previous incarnation] and present life? If that was the case, hoas the first cause planted?
“What kind of place is this? Who built this house and lived here?”
Xu Ziling pulled back his gaze for-proud-with-his-hands-behind-his-back-in-front-of-hi’ shi+ Zhixuan He s wander so far to this out-of-the-way place and honor thishiht sky Re cal your eyes, Ziling looked fir at?”