45: With such low sword intent, he's not even worthy of carrying Lord Shen's shoes!

"Although the method was a bit extreme, the idea wasn't wrong. It's just that you, brat, were too blunt. The Dao cannot be taught directly; who are you to him? Why should he teach you?"

Murong Chen, seeing that Luo Zheng didn't speak, added, his tone then shifting to one of seriousness: "However, what my brother-in-law said is truly excellent. The Dao is something you walk yourself. Tsk, tsk, tsk, such a perspective; one day, he will surely accomplish great things!"

"Shut up!"

"Can you have some shame!"

"Since when did he become your brother-in-law?!" Liu Huihui, sitting at the head, frowned and said coldly. She then looked at Luo Zheng and thought for a moment: "It really isn't appropriate, but I feel that Fellow Daoist Shen's words were not false. You cannot learn his Dao..."

Just a moment ago, after Luo Zheng knelt, Shen Nian had been silent for a while before saying.

"My Dao... those who learn from me will die, those who imitate me will also die."

And what Shen Nian said was actually not wrong. Do you have a cheat? You want to learn from me?

His Physical Body, tempered over hundreds of years, is something you could never compare to!

After saying this, he ate for a little while longer before rising to leave.

At this moment, Luo Zheng didn't speak, sitting quietly to the side, not eating either.

After witnessing the other party's terrifying talent for the sword, he had already concluded that the strength of his Physical Body was most likely real.

After all, there was no need for the other party to put on an act. With that terrifying talent for the sword, he didn't need a strong Physical Body to set anything off.

That was why, disregarding his dignity, he knelt and begged Shen Nian to teach him the method for his Physical Body, wondering how he could achieve a Physical Body comparable to a High Realm Hunyuan Grandmaster at this age.

He wanted to know too much, and he wanted to become stronger too much!!

For this reason, after hearing Shen Nian's reply, he still wouldn't give up. Even if he couldn't impart the Dao, he still hoped that Shen Nian could give him some advice. After all, his Revered Master had become a Soul Transformation Cultivator by gathering the strengths of a hundred schools.

However, Shen Nian's words had left him deep in thought until now, and he was extremely suspicious of whether he had been wrong.

"The path of cultivation actually doesn't require too much advice. Your talent is actually not bad. In seeking the Great Dao, why do you need others to help you make choices? And you, you have abandoned your own choices and your own Dao. In that case, the heights reached by others will limit your vision. If this happens, other people's Dao will build high walls, and in your entire life, you will struggle to cross them. I want to say, the Dao is something you walk yourself..."

At the time, seeing the other person kneel, and having had a bit of wine, Shen Nian had answered casually, but it caused everyone present to fall into deep thought, and even Guo Dewu couldn't help but praise, saying it was well said.

And it was these words that changed Luo Zheng's life. In the future, on the day the Heavenly Demon Realm launched an all-out invasion, a glaring Vajra guarded the Great Xia, hard-resisting three Void Return Great Demons, eventually slaying one before falling. His Physical Body did not perish, standing tall above Yunzhou City, striking fear into the demons.

"The grace of imparting the Dao will never be forgotten in this life..." Luo Zheng thought to himself, and his whole being began to undergo a subtle change.

In his view, this was, in fact, imparting the Dao...

Just at this moment.

A figure stepped into the restaurant.

"According to the Sect Master, the aura was emitted from here. Is this the aura of the Sword Dao..." Leng Lingshuang stood in the center of the hall, carefully sensing that lingering wisp of Sword Intent aura. Her expression was moved, a thick look of fanaticism flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she clenched her jade fist.

One day, I too will step into the Void Returning Realm and seek the origin of the Sword Dao!

Half an hour ago, she had just returned to the Sect and, before she could rest, heard the Sect Master's voice transmission.

"You must go to Yunzhou immediately. A Void Returning Sword Dao expert has appeared. You must invite him to be a guest at the Heavenly Sword Sect. Even if he doesn't come, with your talent for the Sword Dao, you might arouse his appreciation for talent. Getting a pointer or two from him might allow you to understand the origin of Sword Intent and reach a higher level. I, as Sect Master, do not cultivate the Sword Dao and cannot guide you, so this is an opportunity..."

"By the way, try to be as gentle as possible. Don't always pull such a long face; you aren't ugly, so why can't you smile more..."

"Perhaps it could bring our Heavenly Sword Sect a great blessing..."

Upon hearing the news, Leng Lingshuang went down the mountain without hesitation. If it had been any other matter, she might not have been so concerned, but for someone as extremely tsundere as her, she had immense curiosity and admiration for Sword Dao experts.

Her appearance immediately drew the attention of the Cultivators remaining in the restaurant drinking and eating.

"Hiss, this woman's attitude, so arrogant..."

"What is she doing, standing there motionless? Did she come here by following the scent?"

The next second.

Leng Lingshuang was seen slightly cupping her hands in a salute, her voice spreading throughout the restaurant, her tone respectful.

"Leng Lingshuang, Chief of the First Mountain of the Heavenly Sword Sect, has come specifically to pay respects to the Senior!"

"I ask the Senior to grant me an audience!"

Once these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone in the restaurant changed immediately.

"Damn!"

"It's her!!"

"The number one person of the younger generation of the Heavenly Sword Sect!"

"One of the Three Prodigies of Great Xia, the Azure Water Sword, Leng Lingshuang!!"

"Why is she here? Senior? What Senior? Where is there a Senior?"

After a moment, still no one appeared. A look of disappointment flashed in Leng Lingshuang's eyes, and she slowly lowered her hands.

"Are you unwilling to see me..."

"Or have you already left..."

At the same time, Liu Huihui and the others also walked out, looking down from the second floor.

"What is this crazy woman doing running here?" Murong Chen rubbed his chin, curling his lip as he looked at Leng Lingshuang, a trace of displeasure in his pupils.

This woman is always icy cold. I remember back then, I just made a casual joke, and she really attacked!

A blast of Sword Qi shook him so badly he couldn't get out of bed for three days!

Liu Huihui, however, softly spoke up to greet her: "Fellow Daoist Leng, would you like to come up and join us?"

Leng Lingshuang moved, appearing directly on the second floor; she had noticed the presence of the three of them long ago.

"Why are you here?" Leng Lingshuang said coldly, her eyes sweeping over the three of them, filled with disdain.

Murong Chen's mouth twitched, he didn't speak, but he was cursing inwardly.

"Woman, you had better stay like this forever; let's see who will marry you!!"

Luo Zheng stood at the back with a calm expression.

Liu Huihui smiled slightly as if she had expected it: "It's because your Heavenly Sword Sect produced an incredible Prodigy, so we came to see him. But speaking of which, who is the Senior Fellow Daoist Leng is looking for?"

She and Leng Lingshuang were old acquaintances and had even killed demons together, so she was accustomed to the other party's perpetually haughty personality.

"Prodigy?" Leng Lingshuang raised an eyebrow slightly, remembering some rumors she had just heard.

"Shen Nian?"

Liu Huihui was stunned for a moment and said: "Fellow Daoist Leng, could it be you don't know?"

Seeing her look of surprise, she was somewhat shocked.

With talent like Shen Nian's, even the Revered Master of the Second Mountain was willing to follow by his side. Shouldn't a figure like this be known to everyone in the Heavenly Sword Sect?

She had previously thought that the Heavenly Sword Sect had intentionally hidden it from the other two Sects and had not exposed Shen Nian's talent, so it would be normal for them not to know, but it was a bit strange that Leng Lingshuang didn't know.

"I know him. His personality is cold and arrogant, his cultivation talent is passable, his Sword Dao talent is average, but he is high-minded and arrogant, looking down on others; he still needs to be polished."

"I saw him once when I returned to the Sect a month ago. He seemed to have reached the Peak of Foundation Establishment, but he didn't dare to see me."

"Perhaps it's because he was knocked unconscious by a casual sword strike from me during last year's Nine Mountain Martial Arts Tournament and lay there for three days. With that fragile Physical Body, if you say he is a High Realm Hunyuan Grandmaster..."

"I cannot believe it at all..."

Leng Lingshuang said with a calm expression.

"Ah???"

"A month ago, he was still at the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment?!?" Murong Chen shouted, losing his composure.

"What, is there a problem?" Leng Lingshuang raised an eyebrow.

Liu Huihui gasped and asked: "Could it be that he intentionally hid his strength?"

"What do you mean?"

"Fellow Daoist Shen just left, and if I'm not mistaken, he should be at the Late Golden Core Stage. Also... you say his Sword Dao talent is average, are you serious?" Liu Huihui couldn't help but say in shock.

The next second.

Leng Lingshuang's body radiated the Sword Intent of the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Profound Sword Art, and she said displeased: "What, compared to me, doesn't he count as average?"

Luo Zheng, who had been silent behind them, sneered.

"Heh, with just this level of Sword Intent strength?"

"You aren't even fit to tie Lord Shen's shoes!"