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♫ Gazing homewards, my tears fall and I break up inside ♫

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♫ Dust seals the past and carves past wounds in my memory ♫

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♫ The sky is dark and the night never ends, searching for a ray of light ♫

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♫ I craft a medallion and shine a light on the way ahead ♫

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♫ Flying against the wind, my ruthlessness grows wild ♫

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♫ I will protect my beliefs ♫

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♫ Listen

The past fades like smoke ♫

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♫ Past wrongs have not been resolved ♫

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♫ Once my sword leaves its scabbard, the earth will move and the mountains quake ♫

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♫ The flame of rage burns, the spirit roars ♫

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♫ I will return to glory and rise above the clouds ♫

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[Sword Dynasty]

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Starting from today, you are a disciple of White Goat Cave.

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[Sword Dynasty]

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[Episode 4]

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Say, do you think this will really work?

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This test is different from the rest.

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-

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Nangong Caishu, Green Vine Sword Academy.

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Sun Xing, White Goat Cave.

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I know this youth is a little extraordinary.

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But I didn't know that he is so extraordinary.

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This person has attained attained certain level of cultivation?

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- I spent several hours with him.

[Xue Wangxu, Master of White Goat Cave.]

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If even I did not detect any abnormality about his body,

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then, he must be a Grandmaster, in the same way Zhao Si and Bai Shanshui are.

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But there is indeed something very wrong about his body.

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What problem?

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The Irreversible Fiery Yang.

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His five energies are too strong.

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Then, arrange for Jiang Li and Sun Xing

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to practice cultivation with him using the Spirit Vein.

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Senior Brother, are you not afraid that

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we are paying too high a price which might all go to waste?

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For someone with such competency, even if he suffers the Irreversible Fiery Yang,

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it is not impossible to be healed in the future.

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At least it is far better than having the Spirit Vein fall into the hands of the Empress.

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That's right.

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This child is unlucky.

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It is also fate that led him to meet us at this time

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If we could provide for him, we should be more generous.

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It is ultimately better than making things too easy for that woman.

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Fellow brothers and sisters,

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can you bring me now to meet and pay my respect to the teachers?

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Little Junior Brother, please.

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Why are you all still hanging around here?

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Junior Uncle.

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Jiang Li, you have even forgotten the matter which Cave Master entrusted to you?

[Li Daoji, White Goat Cave]

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I've overlooked it.

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I have really overlooked it.

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Today, I've been instructed to bring all of you, Junior Brothers and Sisters,

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to study in the Ancient Scrolls Cave of Withe Goat Cave.

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We have received His Majesty's decree.

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White Goat Cave has been placed under the command of Green Vine Sword Academy.

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So from today onwards, the disciples of Green Vine Sword Academy

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will be qualified to study in the Ancient Scrolls Cave of White Goat Cave.

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Cave Master has instructed that

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Ding Ning, like the rest of you, can enter into the Ancient Scrolls Cave,

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and he may choose to research and study from tomes and classics, not being limited inside or outside.

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Why exactly is this so?

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All the mental cultivation methods and mnemonic chants of White Goat Cave are kept inside the Ancient Scrolls Cave.

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Even if it is a disciple of this sect, he is required to study and practice for at least half a year

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before he is given the opportunity to enter the cave for the first time to study.

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This is a special case that is handled in a special way.

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Yes, Junior Uncle.

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Junior Brother Ding Ning, this way please.

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Please.

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This way.

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Food and drinks are strictly not allowed in the Ancient Scrolls Cave.

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When it is mealtime, someone will bring the lunch boxes and place them outside the Ancient Scroll Cave.

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Teacher has instructed that for every batch of disciples from the Green Vine Sword Academy, they have the time limit of one day to enter the cave to research and study each time.

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But as for you, Junior Brother Ding Ning,

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you have unlimited time.

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- Senior Brother, I—

- In addition,

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at the place where the ropeway ahead of us is,

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we would required special permission before we could go in there.

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First Senior Brother!

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Junior Brother, speak.

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Since I am a special case that is handled in a special way,

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then, I would like to return to Wutong Fall Tavern every now and then.

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This is because my Young Aunt is the only person in Wutong Fall Tavern now, and it is a little cold and cheerless.

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I can help out if I go back.

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If it is someone else, then he definitely can't go back.

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Junior Brother, it's just that

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I might still have to find someone to go ask Teacher, or Junior Uncle, about it before any decision can be made.

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Come, this way please

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[Ancient Scrolls Cave]

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- Junior Uncle.

- Junior Uncle.

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You all are allowed to choose any ancient book or record in the Ancient Scrolls Cave

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to study and research on.

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As for the practice of cultivation from now on,

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and the dwelling place for each one of you, Cave Master will observe your performance in these coming days

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and make the necessary adjustment and arrangement.

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- Yes.

- Yes.

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Go.

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Then, Junior Uncle,

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may I return to Wutong Fall

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after I have practiced cultivation each day?

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Only you...

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Cave Master has said that only you will be treated specially because you are a special case.

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But we still need to observe the realm of your cultivation.

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We want to see if you indeed have this qualification.

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Junior Uncle, do you mean that

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if I could be sufficiently fast in practicing my cultivation, I'll be allowed to return to Wutong Fall?

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Thank you, Junior Uncle!

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Little Junior Brother.

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Senior Brother.

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Did I not tell you just now that

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I would have to ask Teacher about it first before we discuss further?

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But it is all right.

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You have already mentioned it to Junior Uncle yourself.

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Oh right, Junior Brother.

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The Ancient Scrolls Cave contains many books on genuine and profound formulas.

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Many of these profound formulas are very powerful.

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But at the root of all these, you still need to assess whether they are suited to you individually.

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Therefore, Little Junior Brother, you must be cautious, and consider everything carefully.

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Thank you, Senior Brother, for pointing this out to me.

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You're welcome.

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Please.

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Who exactly is this fellow Ding Ning?

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How is it possible that he is allowed to challenge the rules of White Goat Cave time and again?

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When you were began the test with the rolling stones plate,

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Getting one pearl wrong out of the five

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was it intentional?

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I didn't want to waste too much time.

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So from the start, you already knew you would pass?

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Also, Cave Master Xue even made such an exception for you.

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He let you enter the Ancient Scroll Cave to choose scrolls without any constraint.

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Are you perhaps Master Xue's illegitimate son?

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Young Mistress Nangong,

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isn't your mind too creative in associating thoughts?

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Someone like you,

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you are most suited to enter the Department of Investigations to check on cases.

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So you really only depended on natural talent?

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But with your talent,

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you could enter an even better sect.

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She may not be the only with such doubts.

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I must eliminate all these doubts.

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Cultivation is not for anyone.

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At first, I wasn't sure

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that I had the quality to become a cultivator,

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because my body has a big problem.

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Until one day, Wang Taixu told me

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that if I could enter Minshan Sword Sect,

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I can cultivate the kind of method that will solve the problem in my body.

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What problem does your body have?

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My body will exhaust early due to an overly high level of the five energies.

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If there isn't a special situation, once I start cultivation,

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I would die quickly.

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Die?

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How fast?

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Maybe, possibly,

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I wouldn't live past thirty.

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You're still so young,

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Then Cave Master Xue...

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I already told you. I'm not Cave Master Xue's illegitimate son.

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He gave me an exception

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probably because he feels that

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there isn't any help regardless of how I cultivate.

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There's another possibility.

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Maybe he wants to examine my judgement,

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because cultivation is something very personal.

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Perhaps I can find a way that suits myself, then

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I could live a few more years.

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Some people cultivate to obtain more vanities.

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Others cultivate

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because cultivate is their life.

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What cultivation method will Ding Ning eventually choose?

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Masqueraded as an ordinary cultivation book, this is

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How has it been hiding among White Goat Cave's ancient scrolls?

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But this school of cultivation method is very powerful.

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It should be fast to cultivate it.

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I'm also sure that

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there isn't a more powerful method in this entire Ancient Scroll Cave.

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Wildfire Sword Book

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So you've been looking around and finally choose this kind of scrolls?

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Are you really choosing these two scrolls?

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That's right.

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How much do you really understand about cultivation?

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Do you have any questions?

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Do I have questions?

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You have no idea about these scrolls.

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Do you know that "Explaining the Way to Spiritual Source"

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is only a rudimentary method of primary source cultivation.

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It has nothing very special.

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Also, the method comes from the land of Lie Kingdom.

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As a Heng person who cultivates this method,

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not only won't you obtain any beneficial advantages,

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you would also lead many elites to dislike you.

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As for this Wildfire Sword Book, It's power isn't very strong

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but the sword formulas are particularly complicated. Not only is the swordplay difficult to learn,

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the coordination with the primary energy is also complicated.

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We also have this sword method at Blue Vine Sword Academy,

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but none of my senior brothers and sisters

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would ever choose this style of swordplay to study.

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You mean the cultivation method that I chose

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and this sword style, when coordinated together,

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will have poor outcomes?

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Not poor outcomes,

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it's outcomes that couldn't be worse.

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Since you're different from us,

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you have no time limits to study here,

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why don't you spend more time to take a good look at the content of the books?

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You should know that not every White Goat Cave's disciple

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has the opportunity to enter the Ancient Scroll Cave to choose the books right from the beginning.

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Your starting point is higher than theirs. Why don't you cherish it?

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But, how I choose a scroll,

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what does it have to do with you?

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It's true that it doesn't involve me.

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I followed you to see which scrolls you'd choose out of curiosity.

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I was angry this afternoon, because I wanted to see a fantastic show

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but I ended up seeing a substandard perform. I am very disappointed.

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How I should cultivate

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is something that I'm clear in my mind.

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I also know that you have good intent toward me.

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However, different scrolls have different uses and effects for different people.

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I'm very certain,

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that these two are very suitable.

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You're certain? I'm certain.

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You should hurry and find what you need.

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Don't waste your precious time on me.

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That youngster has selected the cultivation scroll and swordplay book.

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What did he pick?

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"Explaining the Way to Spiritual Source" and "Wildfire Sword Book."

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This is so incompatible.

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I agree.

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- Awesome.

- Awesome.

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This is the Vipassana mediation. (伿念内观)

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Sensing the five energies. Opening the Sea of Qi.

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Senior Brother.

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Senior Brother, Ding Ning has opened the Sea of Qi.

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He has entered the First Realm's Tongxuan level.

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Half a day to Tongxuan?

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What an oddity.

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Excuse me.

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Little Junior Brother, you have really opened up your Qihai acupuncture point.

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This is impossible that he has understood these profound mysteries within half a day.

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According to legend, from the first year of Yuanwu up to now,

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only that two strange fellows, An Baoshi of Empty Spirit Sword Academy and Jing Liuli of Minshan Sword School, had done it before.

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Even sword maniac Fang Xiumu spent more then ten days before he could understand these profound mysteries.

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The fastest person among us used up the entire seven months!

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From selecting the ancient books to the beginning of comprehending them,

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and to when you were able to open up your Qihai acupuncture point, Little Junior Brother, you had only used half a day's time!

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It's already been half a day?

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How did he do it so quickly?

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I must return to Wutong Fall.

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Little Junior Brother!

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If you have really understood these profound mysteries, and have open up your Qihai acupuncture point,

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do you have any idea how long it would take an ordinary cultivation to reach this level?

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My lifespan is shorter than that of an ordinary person in the first place.

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So I must be faster.

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That is why you chose the cultivation technique of the "True Explanation of the Great Path of Origin of the Spirit?"

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Because this cultivation technique is the easiest for you to understand,

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and allowed you to progress very quickly to the level where you could break through the realm?

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You are indeed the same as those people from the Minshan Sword School and Empty Spirit Sword Academy!

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You are a real freak!

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Sorry, I'm a bit hungry.

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I'm going to go eat.

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I shouldn't have doubted you from the start.

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Sorry.

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Have you encountered certain problems during your cultivation?

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Do you want to help me?

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Everybody's cultivation is different.

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I can only offer you my perspective.

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Who knows if it will help you?

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I have problems with my ability to perceive and understand.

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Are you having problems with perceiving and understanding the vitality of Heaven and Earth?

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You absolutely can't feel the presence of Heaven and Earth's vitality,

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or you can't feel the difference between the vitality of Heaven and that of Earth? It's all in a chaotic mess?

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I can feel the presence of the vitality of Heaven and Earth.

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I can also feel the difference between every stream of vital energy.

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But in my awareness,

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I feel as if every stream of vital energy

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is resisting me greatly.

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I feel that all of these streams of vital energy are not close to me at all.

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Recorded in these two notebooks are some unique viewpoints.

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Look through them carefully, they may help you.

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Thank you- No need.

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Junior Uncle!

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Come with me.

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I haven't eaten yet.

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There are things more important than eating.

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What is this about, Junior Uncle?

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This is the place where you will practice your cultivation

in the future.

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You don't have to be like other students, taking classes every day.

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Should you encounter any doubts or questions during your cultivation,

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you can come directly to look for me, or Jiang Li.

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Junior Uncle.

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Let's go in before talking.

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This is the legendary Spirit Vein.

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The spiritual energy that flows out from the Spirit Vein

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can accompany the breath of the cultivator and enter into his body.

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It is greatly beneficial, and can also greatly increase the progress of the cultivation.

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This is the Spirit Vein?

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But the Spirit Vein is different from the one in the legend.

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Why is it so small?

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Junior Uncle?

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The reason White Goat Cave is subsumed under the command of Green Vine Sword Academy

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is because we had offended the Empress.

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How was he offended?

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The Empress had wanted to use our Spirit Vein

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to plant a Spiritual Lotus,

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and to use it to concoct a medicinal pill which can help to breakthrough the realms.

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It's just that Cave Master was unwilling to grant her request.

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The reason is that this type of Spiritual Lotus will absorb vast amount of spiritual energy from the Spirit Vein,

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resulting in the Spirit Vein to eventually dry up.

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So, when he became aware of her intention,

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Teacher separated the Spirit Vein into three small parts.

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This is a self-destructive act. That way, each individual part of the Spirit Vein

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will be unable to sustain the growth of the Spiritual Lotus.

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You're correct. But I must tell you,

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we, the disciples of White Goat Cave, will only do things which we consider as right and just.

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Although this Spirit Vein is small, at least it can

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still be used by our disciples.

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Junior Uncle, I want to go home.

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I know your cultivation is progressing very quickly.

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But do you really think that being in a place like Wutong Fall

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is better than sitting on the Spirit Vein to practice your cultivation?

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I do understand, but I can practice my cultivation here in the day.

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I sleep better at night only if I am back home.

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Senior Uncle! Senior Uncle!

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You did not object, which means you have tacitly consented.

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The master of these two essays had adopted a very humble attitude in his treatment of the vital energy of Heaven and Earth.

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The vital energy of Heaven and Earth, the boundless clouds and rain, reaching to as high as the ninth sphere of the Heaven,

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falling continuously to the ground, gathering to form rivers, and finally flowing through this place.

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The shallow pool of water in the pond

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is not drawn from the well,

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but is bestowed by Heaven and Earth.

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I can now actually accommodate the vital energy of Heaven and Earth!

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How did Ding Ning know that those two books could help me achieve a breakthrough in my True Vital Energy Realm?

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What kind of person is he really?

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[Green Vine Sword Academy]

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[Di Qingmei, Blue Vine Sword Academy]

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Now that White Goat Cave is under Blue Vine Sword Academy,

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it's within our rights that our disciples enter their Ancient Scroll Cave to read and study.

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That old fox Xue Wangxu actually says, since both sects are combined into one, their disciples

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should also participate in our Sword Worship Challenge.

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The reason why Xue Wangxi raised this request

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must be because he is eyeing the reward for the Sword Worship Challenge this time.

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The Qing Zhi Jade. Master, will you agree to his request?

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Of course I agree. If I didn't,

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how could I covet his Spirit Vein?

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Spirit Vein?

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Go to Xue Wangxue with my reply.

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Tell him that I've agreed to his request.

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But, the three streams of Spirit Vein at White Goat Cove

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should be shared by both Blue Vein and White Goat.

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Only the qualified ones can use. When the time comes,

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use it as the reward for Sword Worship Challenge,

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to be given to the winner of the Challenge.

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At White Goat Cave, currently only Jiang Li and Sun Xing are worthy.

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Their age and their time at the sect

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meet the qualification for the Sword Worship Challenge.

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Since we are concerned that our own disciples may not counter them,

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let's think of a way to turn them into our people

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I understand.

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Senior Brother, I have no opinion about you being qualified to enter the thatched hut of White Goat Cave to practice cultivation.

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But Ding Ning has entered our sect for only one day.

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We have no idea what his temperament

and character are like at all.

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That's true.

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Are we not acting too carelessly this way?

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Teacher has already decided about this matter.

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Junior Brother, Teacher has placed you in the midst of three persons.

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That means you have already gained the qualification to practice cultivation with the Spirit Vein.

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Why would you mind the other people who are chosen?

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- Senior Brother is right.

- After all, you could only practice cultivation through

one Spirit Vein.

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Right?

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This is not a question of using how many Spirit Veins to practice cultivation.

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You should probably know that using a Spirit Vein to practice cultivation

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is the highest form of reward of our White Goat Cave.

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If it is so causally bestowed to a disciple who had only just entered the sect,

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and if he should harbor evil intentions in his heart in the future, and chose to be a traitor,

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would it not cause all of us to be bitterly disappointed, then?

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Second Senior Brother is right.

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It is meaningless at this point to discuss who should be bestowed the Spirit Vein.

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- Junior Uncle.

- Junior Uncle.

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Dean Di of the Green Vine Sword Academy has already made the following decision.

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Disciples of the White Goat Cave

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are also allowed to participate in the trials of the sword sacrifice.

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The winner will be bestowed the Green Fat Jade Amber.

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But in the same way, the three Spirit Veins of the White Goat Cave

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will also be the reward for the final winner.

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Cave Master has already decided on this.

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If anyone of you still harbor any resentment in your heart,

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or perhaps, do not wish White Goat Cave to suffer any loss,

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then, using the sword in your hand,

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take all these back!

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Enough. Everyone stop arguing.

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Let's not waste any more time and go practice cultivation now.

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The weather is dry and things are parched. Be careful with flames and candles!

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The weather is dry and things are parched. Be careful with flames and candles!

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Young Aunt, I'm back!

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Why are you back?

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Because I missed you.

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White Goat Cave is such a big sect, and

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you don't even have enough to eat?

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I came back specifically to see you. I didn't even eat on the way here.

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This is the first day you entered the sect. How could they have allowed you to come back?

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I already solved it.

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The Cave Master of White Goat Cave has agreed to let me come back anytime I wish to.

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Look at you.

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Junior Uncle, are...you joking?

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You had told me only yesterday that I could use that Spirit Vein in the practice of my cultivation.

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It's only been one night,

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and now, you are telling me this Spirit Vein belongs to the winner of the sword sacrifice trials.

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You changed your mind too quickly.

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There is still at least a period of time before the trials for the sword sacrifice starts.

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This Spirit Vein still belongs to you.

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If you dislike the fact that the change has occurred too fast,

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you should have listened to me yesterday,

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and make good use of all the time you have to use the Spirit Vein in the practice of your cultivation,

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instead of wasting your precious time on your journey!

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Actually, I did not idle along my journey.

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I did study the Wildfire Sword Scripture.

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In such little time,

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you could understand the contents of the Wildfire Sword Scripture?

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That's right.

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Okay. If so,

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then show me.

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Okay.

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It looks like

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I have no choice but to acknowledge your cultivation method.

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But starting today,

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if you want to leave this place,

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I will provide even faster transportation.

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Thank you, Junior Uncle!

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There is hope at last for my White Goat Cave!

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Ding Ning, you are so extraordinarily gifted, and worked so hard.

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I have decided to gift you with the Last Flower Remnant Sword that belong to the close friend of that person.

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This sword is very compatible with you.

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I hope you will practice with much diligence in the future,

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and become the pride of White Goat Cave one day soon.

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A sword works the same way as the cultivation methods.

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The most important thing is that it should be suited to you.

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Since you are already studying the Wildfire Sword Scripture, then,

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You will need this sword.

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Of course, if you find it unsuitable,

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you don't have to use it.

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Thank you, Junior Uncle.

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Cave Master is the person who gifted this sword to you.

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if you want to thank someone, thank him.

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This sword is named "Last Flower".

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Every time it is wielded, it would appear that it is the last time the sword will be used.

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Each time it is wielded, it is as if it has come to the end of its road for the final time.

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Every foil made by the sword is like a flower that will not live to see the next day.

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It is really so similar to who I am now.

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"We like to learn how to wield a sword.

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I have lived for ten years on the ice cold lake.

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One day, I beheaded the scaly dragon.

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The blue water turned red for three months.

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A sword was forged when I perfected my skill.

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But a thousand carriages were hard to stop.

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I escaped and changed my name.

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And feasted on the wind and dew of the mountains."

[Bai Shanshui, Seventh Realm,

Cloud Water Palace of Qian Kingdom]

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- You are here.

- Someone wants to purchase that secret of yours.

[First Miss, Shang family]

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Please name a price.

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All right. I know the rules of this fish market.

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But this time, I'll have to make an exception.

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I need to know who the buyer is.

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Zhao Si.

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Lie Kingdom has been destroyed for ten years.

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With just these few remnant sowrds,

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what kind of storm is she even thinking of stirring up?

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You don't mind this anyway, so, why not give her what she wants?

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After all, according to legends, hidden in the Lone Mountain Sword Trove

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are the divine soldiers that are capable of destroying a kingdom.

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Even the Emperor of Heng Kingdom is searching for it.

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Did you know, if this news spread

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how many kingdoms would be wiped out because of this?

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I am just a middle-man trying to broker a business deal.

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I do not wish to question the matters of the martial arts world.

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You can take your time deciding.

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♫ The wind silently looks back ♫

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♫ The hero's sword enters the throat ♫

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♫ Viewing the world with arrogance ♫

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♫ Striding across the seasons ♫

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♫ A cup of hero's wine ♫

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♫ Living one life time ♫

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♫ With no debts or regrets ♫

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♫ Those who have gone before can't come again ♫

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♫ Looking back at the martial world ♫

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♫ My hair has turned white ♫

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♫ I won't ask to do it over again ♫

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♫ One song, two tracks of tears ♫

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♫ Wave the sword and raise a glass ♫

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♫ The past has turned to ash ♫

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♫ A hero's destiny cannot be defied ♫

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♫ I've traveled through Spring and Autumn ♫

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♫ A smitten heart flows to the east ♫

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♫ Love, hate, dust and dirt ♫

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♫ Laugh as we talk about joys and sorrows ♫