283: Chapter 143 Sword Sect Discusses Dao_4 283: Chapter 143 Sword Sect Discusses Dao_4 “It’s given,” Cao Zhen sighed softly and said in a low voice, “I know what you’re thinking, and I also know what my disciples are thinking.
I’m not foolish; I’m aware you all think he’s not my friend.
However, I once lost part of my memory due to cultivation, and the me who lost his memory even felt that I was no longer myself from before, that I had no connection to who I used to be, that I was a completely new and independent person.
It was as if I had seized another’s body and taken it for myself.
If I’ve occupied someone else’s body, then I must take responsibility for them.
I am obliged to take responsibility for many things concerning the original owner of this body.
In the memories I still retain, Chen Shizhi was my friend, so I will still help him.”
Li Ke looked at Cao Zhen with satisfaction and a hint of surprise, murmuring, “Interesting.”
As she spoke, her expression suddenly changed, and she said solemnly, “When did you lose your memory?”
She thought of Long Aotian.
Cao Zhen had also received Long Aotian’s legacy; if it was after he inherited it that he lost his memory, then could it be said that…
“It was quite some time ago.” Cao Zhen, seeing the change in Li Ke’s expression, immediately guessed what she was thinking and hurriedly made up an answer, “It was after I lost my memory, I even quietly descended the mountain once, trying to find my past memories in the outside world, but I couldn’t find my previous memories.
Instead, I received the legacy of Elder Long Aotian.”
“That’s also a blessing in disguise,” Li Ke’s expression softened.
It was better that he had not lost his memory after receiving Long Aotian’s legacy.
Yet everyone had spent the entire day reveling on Four Treasures Peak.
It was only on the next day that everyone parted ways.
With their level of cultivation, going without sleep for a night was of little consequence.
“Alright, today the disciples of the Sword Sect will come to discuss Dao.
As one of the peaks of Hundred Peaks, we should also contribute.
Let’s go and challenge Wu Jianzi to a Dao discussion.”
Last night, many people had been competing in drinking.
Elder Copper Plate and Deng Qixing drank against each other, Chao Zi Zai and the Five Evils of Hundred Peaks had their contest, and even Li Ke quietly returned to Vermilion Bird Peak, brought back more wine, and engaged her two female disciples and Li Lingwei in drinking competitions.
He spent the whole night pondering how to discuss Dao with the disciples of the Sword Sect.
Discussing Dao with Sword Sect disciples naturally meant a discussion through swordplay.
“Swordplay?
Forget it, let those from Flying Sword Peak handle it.
I’m heading back first.”
Li Ke directly shook her head.
Although she used a sword, her strength did not lie in swordsmanship, but in various fire technique divine skills.
She could use a sword to kill, but for discussing the Sword Dao, it was better to leave it to someone else.
She had no intention of making an appearance today and went straight back.
The Five Evils of Hundred Peaks also didn’t excel in swordsmanship, so they all left as well.
Cao Zhen then looked toward his own few disciples, thought for a moment, and said, “Forget it, none of you are skilled with the sword either; I’ll go by myself first.”
In fact, Yan Yourong used to wield a sword, but ever since she received the Grieving Anger Dragon Blade and he taught her the Ghost-Cutting technique, she had been focusing solely on sword technique, abandoning her swordsmanship.
“Master, are you going to discuss swordsmanship?” Bei Yan hurriedly said, “Even though we don’t practice the Sword Dao, we still want to see it.”
“Very well.”
Cao Zhen glanced at his disciples, then led them down from Four Treasures Peak and boarded the Immortal Cloud Carriage to rush towards the main gate of the Hundred Peaks Sect.
As he got closer to the sect’s main gate, he increasingly felt something strange.
Wasn’t it said that Wu Jianzi would arrive at Hundred Peaks Sect today?
Hundred Peaks Sect should have some preparations, at the very least sending someone here to welcome him as a courtesy.
Why are there only a few gatekeepers here at the sect’s gate?
Full of confusion, he turned to a disciple responsible for guarding the gate and asked, “Didn’t they say Wu Jianzi would be coming today?
Why don’t I see someone waiting here?
Is he not coming today?”
The disciple guarding the gate glanced at the peak master’s attire on the person asking the question and quickly answered, “Peak Master, Wu Jianzi has already arrived.
He came to our Hundred Peaks Sect last night ahead of schedule and has already begun discussing Dao.”
“What?
He came last night?
Drinking indeed causes trouble,” Cao Zhen slapped his head with regret and hurriedly went back into the sect to find Wu Jianzi.
He didn’t know which Sword Peak Wu Jianzi had gone to, so he could only go searching one Sword Peak after another.
Though Hundred Peaks Sect was a mixed sect, there were also quite a few Sword Peaks that primarily practiced the Sword Dao.
Inside Hundred Peaks Sect, each Sword Peak already had a Dao discussion platform set up at their base.
On his way to the scene, Cao Zhen was surprised to find that around each discussion platform of the Sword Peaks, there were only disciples with expressions of defeat, and some peaks had even begun dismantling their discussion platforms.
“What are you doing, taking down the discussion platforms?”
Cao Zhen looked at the Enlightenment Sword Peak disciples who were dismantling the platform in front of him, asking with incomprehension.
Hearing the question, a few disciples looked up, and upon seeing Cao Zhen, they became annoyed and responded curtly, “Having lost the sword discussion, of course we must take down the platform.”
Cao Zhen was astounded, “Lost?
So soon?” He had not delayed on his way here, and each time he reached the base of a Sword Peak, he directly inquired about where Wu Jianzi had gone.
After getting directions, he immediately rushed there, but along the way, he had yet to catch up.
When the Enlightenment Sword Peak disciples heard this, their faces suddenly turned ashen, taking Cao Zhen’s words as mocking.
Was he here to ridicule them for their incompetence?
Seeing the displeased expressions on their faces, Cao Zhen realized they were probably in a bad mood from losing the sword discussion, so he didn’t press for details.
Instead, he asked, “Never mind the specifics, could you just tell me where Wu Jianzi has gone now?”