Late autumn.

The setting sun ancient road.

"Where is this place?"

Chi Tong stood there, looking at Fang Zheng beside him. Just now, after Fang Zheng finished speaking, he waved his hand, and then Chi Tong and Fang Zheng appeared here.

“It’s a memory.”

Fang Zheng stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the ancient road in the setting sun ahead and the man standing there.

"He is Yan Shisan."

"……he?"

Looking at the man not far away, Chi Tong frowned. She was about to walk over, but Fang Zheng stopped her.

"This is a memory. You and I can only watch it. After you finish watching it, we can decide whether you want to learn the Thirteen Deadly Swords."

“…”

Chi Tong did not speak, but just stood quietly beside Fang Zheng, watching a man in strange and gorgeous clothes walk over and come to Yan Shisan. He stared at Yan Shisan and then smiled coldly.

"Yan Shisan?"

"Yes."

Yan Shisan nodded slightly, and the person opposite continued to ask.

"Are your Thirteen Deadly Swords really invincible?"

"not necessarily."

Yan Shisan's expression didn't change at all. Chi Tong had already noticed that he had no expression until now. However, it was not like her who had difficulty expressing emotions, but a feeling like a dead person... She didn't know how to describe it, but in Chi Tong's eyes, Yan Shisan in front of her was like a walking, living corpse, which made people feel weird.

At this moment, the voices of the two people were heard again from afar.

"I am Gao Tong, the one who pierces the heart with a sword."

"…Are they going to duel? Why?"

Chi Tong stood by and listened for a long time, and finally realized that this man named Gao Tong was here to kill Yan Shisan, while Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders.

"You'll find out if you listen."

Soon, when Chi Tong turned to the front again, Yan Shisan spoke.

"You're not the only one who wants to kill me."

Qualcomm also nodded and sneered.

"Because you are so famous, if I kill you, I will become famous immediately. It is not easy to become famous in the martial arts world, only this method is easier."

“…Just for this?”

Hearing this, Chi Tong's eyes widened in surprise, and her usually expressionless face showed a little more doubt. It's not that she has never killed people, but the people Chi Tong killed were all people who deserved it. She never thought that someone would kill someone just because he was famous. In Chi Tong's opinion, this is completely illogical.

"People live for fame or profit, and isn't it the same for your night raid? You are well-known in the imperial capital. Anyone who can kill any of the assassins in the night raid will be immediately valued by the royal family, and will be given a high position, rich salary, and endless wealth. If the people you killed in the night raid were just some petty thieves, how could you be wanted?"

“…”

Hearing this, Chi Tong frowned slightly. In the past, she killed people only for missions and had never thought about this possibility.

"What you said seems to make sense."

"Maybe there is, maybe not, it doesn't matter, okay, let's get started."

Before Fang Zheng finished his words, Chi Tong saw the man named Gao Tong draw his sword and stab it into Yan Shisan's chest.

But Yan Shisan's sword was faster.

As soon as Gao Tong's sword was thrust out, Yan Shisan's sword had already pierced his throat.

“…”

At this moment, Chi Tong couldn't help but hold her breath.

Yan Shisan's sword was very fast, but the scene just now was not just about speed. Chi Tong was also a swordsman, and she could feel that this was not a question of speed. Speed ​​was no longer a problem in their eyes. This was not a 100-meter race, a question of who was faster or who could reach the finish line earlier.

Because for some people, the end is right at their feet.

He doesn't need to warm up, doesn't need to prepare, and doesn't even need to start running. With just one step, he can reach the finish line that ordinary people have to try their best to reach.

Chi Tong watched there, watching Yan Shisan kill the first person who came to challenge him, the second person, the third person, and then spared the life of the fourth person and left with the fifth person. That person was called Crow, he also came to kill Yan Shisan, but he did not do it, he just followed Yan Shisan, because Yan Shisan had a date, and he wanted to watch this date.

"Is he going to duel?"

"That's right."

Hearing Chi Tong's question, Fang Zheng nodded.

"That man called Third Young Master is very strong?"

"Very strong. He is known as the best swordsman in the world, which means that among those who use swords in this world, he is the strongest."

"So Yan Shisan wants to challenge him? Do you want to become stronger?"

"hehe……"

Fang Zheng smiled slightly.

"The fact that you asked this question shows that you are not strong enough."

"……?"

Chi Tong looked at Fang Zheng in confusion, not understanding what he meant.

"Every swordsman has his own way of survival. They firmly believe in their own will, their own beliefs, and everything they do is right. This is also the reason why they are invincible, so to confirm this, you must keep going. The same goes for you, Akame. Sooner or later, you may have this idea, but now... it's too far away for you."

They continued forward and met a woman who had a grudge against the Third Young Master. The woman entrusted Yan Shisan with one thing, which was to kill the Third Young Master because he had cheated on her more than once.

"I hate that guy."

Chi Tong spoke silently, although she didn't say who it was, Fang Zheng understood what she meant.

"Indeed, if a man can't even please a woman, he is a failure. Frankly speaking, Li Xunhuan and Xie Xiaofeng are both scumbags in this regard. I admire Lang Fanyun more."

At this point, Fang Zheng also shook his head. He didn't think much of those so-called "romantic and unrestrained" knights. Their romanticism was fake, they only cared about their own happiness and let women cry bitterly. It was as if all the peerless knights were treacherous, heartless, and idiots with zero emotional intelligence.

Lang Fanyun did a good job in this regard, and Fang Zheng also admired his philosophy that only when one is extremely passionate can one be extremely skilled in swordsmanship. He also had someone he loved deeply, and the person he loved deeply left her early, but Lang Fanyun did not become decadent because of this, but loved life and enjoyed it. He was not as hypocritical as Li Xunhuan, who was so hypocritical that he even abused himself in the end, which was simply speechless.

From this point of view, the same goes for Xie Xiaofeng. No matter how great his achievements in martial arts are, in terms of gender, he is a failure and cannot fail any further.

Or it should be said that all the male protagonists in Gu Long's works are like this.

The woman demonstrated a sword technique to Yan Shisan, and Yan Shisan understood it, but Chi Tong did not. In her opinion, the woman was just holding a withered branch and slowly extending it forward. It seemed that there was neither strength nor skill, and it seemed to be just an ordinary move, but Yan Shisan's expression changed immediately.

The man who had remained calm when faced with so many people wanting to kill him, completely changed his expression at this moment.

Chi Tong felt that she couldn't understand anything at all. The man's understanding of swordsmanship seemed to be on completely different levels from hers. She was very sure that the man named Yan Shisan was a very powerful being, so she had been observing him in this memory, wanting to see what kind of person he was.

But what puzzled Chi Tong was that Yan Shisan was not only not diligent in his training, but also had no self-discipline at all. He drank heavily, ate meat with big bowls, and laughed with his woman in his arms. At this moment, Chi Tong could not tell that this unruly man was the swordsman who killed people before. He just felt that he seemed no different from those corrupt officials in the imperial capital that he had seen before.

At this moment, Yan Shisan was drinking wine, eating meat, hugging a woman, and chatting with Crow. He was also talking about a famous saying that was circulated among swordsmen.

The first requirement to become an excellent swordsman is to be ruthless. Especially before a decisive battle, you must not let anything affect your emotions - even if your wife is sleeping with another man next to you, you have to pretend not to see it.

Hearing this, Chi Tong nodded silently. Instead, Fang Zheng coughed and lowered his body to Chi Tong's ear.

"Uh...just pretend you didn't hear that."

"?"

Chi Tong looked at Fang Zheng in confusion, while Fang Zheng just smiled awkwardly.

"Because I was the one who spread this sentence, but I made it up..."

"?"

Facing Chi Tong's question, Fang Zheng just laughed and did not answer. He certainly would not tell Chi Tong that the reason he spread this message was just to make himself feel better.

After all, it is better to have time to put on clothes when being discovered than to run around naked and be chased. Besides, those so-called chivalrous knights roamed the world, doing justice but never returned home, not even caring about their own young and beautiful wives. In order to prevent these women from going astray because of love and hatred, Fang Zheng came to comfort their lonely bodies and souls.

So those so-called Jianghu heroes are all crazy. As the saying goes, if you can't clean up your own house, how can you clean up the world? You can't even take care of your own wife, but you still want to be the leader of the martial arts world, or have a martial arts family. Isn't that nonsense? Fang Zheng takes good care of his little girls, loves and takes care of them, and takes them out for dates and shopping when he has nothing to do. After all, he is the Time Dragon, and time is worthless to him.

After all, saving the world and having a harem don't conflict with each other, right?

Of course, Fang Zheng also knew that the heroes would not listen to these principles.

So he was always being chased around.

Fortunately, after he spread this message, fewer people chased him around, and more people challenged him to a duel, which made Fang Zheng feel relieved.

At least a duel would make sure people were dressed properly.

After this, this memory continued. Chi Tong watched Yan Shisan make up his mind to die. He came to the Divine Sword Villa, walked into the villa, and saw the sword he was going to challenge.

But he didn't see the man he was going to challenge.

Because that person is dead.

Even Chi Tong had not thought of this. Along the way, she had been looking at Yan Shisan's memories, watching him go through everything and come here. She also expected to see how powerful the man known as the number one swordsman in the world was, and how terrifying his swordsmanship was to make Yan Shisan, a swordsman who was almost invincible in Chi Tong's eyes, tremble and fear.

But now, it's all over.

Because the person Yan Shisan wanted to challenge was dead.