Chapter 266 - Tianming Chihiro (1/2)

Shushan, Hall of San Qing.

Sect Leader sat with various elders in the hall with solemn expressions written over their faces. As they entered deep thought on their seats, they examined Feng Tianming sitting below.

“Tianming, do you know what you did?” An elder asked.

“I brought an outsider into Shushan, someone not from Hua Xia.” Feng Tianming explained slowly.

“You know what kind of punishment you will receive after breaking these two rules?” Another elder asked.

“I will have to reflect on my actions alone for three years for breaking the first rule. For the second rule, the punishments range from physical torture for 10 years at Regret Sword Cliff to being expelled from the sect after removing my cultivation.” Lowering his head, Feng Tianming replied.

“You broke the rules purposely!” Another elder chided him.

“I have spent a long time helping to cultivate you so as to elevate the status of Shushan. What exactly have you done!”

The second elder of Shushan asked. He was naturally the most disappointed as he had the most expectation of him.

“Tianming, please explain why you broke the rules.”

At this time, Sect Leader Mu Wujian asked him to state his reasons.

After thinking for a while, Feng Tianming placed his palm on his fist as an act of respect. “Sect Leader, I owed many favors to this girl. When I was in the west, Brother Wang Bugui made me collaborate with her in our elimination of evil.”

“In numerous dangerous battles, she had saved me countless times, risking her own life. I can be honest in saying that she was more injured because of me than all the injuries I had had in my life!”

“Master and leaders here had taught me since young that I must return my favors with gratitude. How else can I repay her act of saving my life?”

“This…”

His words made the elders speechless. They never expected the Japanese girl to be saving his life countless times.

Seeing the expressions of the elders, Feng Tianming continued, “I already have an idea in my heart. I shall accompany her who saved my life with my entire life.”

“Thus, anywhere I go, I will bring her. I am worried about her, worried that she might get lost, worried that she will be hungry, worried that she might be injured.”

Then, he looked at Mu Wujian and asked, “Master, what happened to me? Once I think of her, I cannot calm myself down.”

“You love her.” Mu Wujian explained.

“What?!”

“How can he love someone from another race?!”

“No, no! If he loves someone now, his route of cultivation will be more difficult!”

Instantly, those elders were disturbed by his words. The way of the Shushan is that of the immortal sword art. Love at a young age is a great hindrance to cultivation.

Feng Tianming was a rare and strongest genius they had seen over the past 1,000 years. If this resulted in the impediment of his future and that of Shushan, it would be unacceptable to them.

“Love…”

Feng Tianming wasn’t concerned about those. His mind wondered about remembering the moments he had spent with Misawa Chihiro. Laughter, sadness, enthusiasm or sacrifice.

He was amazed to find out that he had locked every single memory about Chihiro deeply in his mind sea. Half of his memories were retained by her.

He asked himself when exactly did he slowly start changing his focus on the sceneries of the world to Misawa Chihiro.

When did his life become about her?

“Tianming, Tianming!”

“Wake up, Tianming!”

Suddenly, calls pulled him back from his memory. When he woke up, he was already sweaty, looking at the elders with blurry eyes.

“Looks like the girl had a very important position in his heart. He seemed to be engrossed in it.” The third elder of Shushan shook his head and sighed.

“Tianming, you should never love that foreign girl! You cannot tell what someone from a foreign race may be plotting!” The fourth elder of Shushan tried convincing him.

“That’s right, you are still growing now and shall not love anyone. Furthermore, that girl is Japanese and can harm you.” The second elder agreed as well.

“Brothers, enough!”

At this time, Mu Wujian stopped the heated discussions in the hall and faced Feng Tianming, announcing, “This is the private matter of Tianming, and we have no rights to interfere.”

“But, brother, he…” The third elder argued.

However, he was stopped by Mu Wujian’s hand gesture as he continued, “Our sect had stopped the rule of restricting love. All the powerful legends in the history of our sect had all loved before.”

“They all loved the mortal world. The mortal world is a world of love. Only someone with love can truly understand the meaning of swordsmanship.”

Hearing that, fourth elder frowned and explained, “However, that woman is from another race! Brother, did you forget what those bandits did to Hua Xia?”

Mu Wujian nodded and said, “I will never forget that. However, we cannot be racist because of that. The fault of war laid in those powerful and ambitious men, not in any ordinary citizen.”