Xingtie: After my death, Liuying will understand love.

Chapter 465 Bamboo Sword

"Are you leaving?"

"Ah."

"Where are we going? Is it somewhere very far away? Is it farther away than the place where the gods fell?"

"do not know."

Under the maple tree, An Ming and Mei sat side by side. This was the back mountain of the Raiden family's territory. Sitting here, they could overlook the scenery of the Land of the Fallen Gods.

Mei pursed her lips and did not try to persuade him to stay. Instead, she asked sadly, "Can we meet again?"

"do not know."

"Wow...An Ming, you idiot!" Mei suddenly burst into tears and punched An Ming's back with her two little fists. "You don't know anything, do you hate me so much?"

"I don't hate Mei."

An Ming was a little flustered when he saw Mei crying, and he quickly explained: "It's just that I don't want to make a promise that I can't keep."

"Then you have to promise me... uh, come back to find me," Mei sniffed her cute little nose, "no matter how long it takes, I will wait for you here."

"Then I'll take your bamboo sword."

An Ming reached out his hand to wipe away the tears from Mei Yi's eyes and whispered, "When I come back, if you can defeat me, I will never leave again."

"Keep your word," Mei pulled Anming's little finger, "Pink!"

"Those who break the contract have to dance in little skirts."

"it is good."

An Ming agreed decisively, and Mei Yi finally burst into laughter. She held An Ming's small hand and whispered, "Don't forget me either."

"Mei is an important person, I won't forget her."

"I won't forget An Ming either!"

The two people under the maple tree stopped talking and just enjoyed their last moment together.

An Ming didn't hate Mei, but he felt a sense of emptiness every time he saw the girl's smiling face. He was smarter than other children of the same age since he was young, and he naturally knew that the Raiden family was never his home.

He didn't lie to Mei either. If everyone is born with meaning, then what was the purpose of his coming to this world?

a few days later.

"who are you?"

An uninvited guest appeared in Mei's boudoir. Sakura's elusiveness made it difficult for people to muster the heart to resist. In addition, she had heard her father mention the imperial swordsman who personally vouched for Anming.

"My name doesn't matter."

She stared at Mei, some unspeakable emotions flashing in her eyes, "I only have one thing to tell you."

Ying rarely says so many words at once, which can only mean that this passage is important enough.

"Don't fall in love with him."

"Eh?"

"Unless you can cut off the cycle of reincarnation."

Sakura said before disappearing into Mei's room. This was the last thing she could do.

On Edo Planet, she understood a simple truth: if she cannot break free from the cycle of reincarnation, she will never be able to obtain true happiness.

Rather than living a false life, it is better to stop loving from the very beginning.

Freeze each other at the beginning of their meeting and stop at the very beginning of the cycle.

Mei looked at the window where Sakura disappeared in confusion. There was a slightly bitter smell in the wind, but she still couldn't understand its meaning.

But she was not yet old enough to understand love, so she was destined to not understand Sakura's words.

Xiao Mei just didn't want An Ming to leave. He was her most important playmate in her childhood. He was not a relative but was better than a relative.

All Mei wanted was to see him again.

After saying goodbye to An Ming a few days ago, Mei stayed in the dojo to practice even longer, and was so stubborn that even Raiden Ryoma couldn't pull her back home.

Mei didn't want to use the bamboo sword in her hand to keep Anming by her side, she just didn't want to be unable to change anything.

At this time, at the outskirts of the Raiden family, passing through layers of torii gates, what comes into view is the place where Izumo first fell into the divine realm.

Despite having gone through dozens of Amber Ages, one can still see the traces left by the eight million gods pouring in like a torrential darkness.

It looks like a ravine, and also like an abyss.

An Ming stretched out his hand and touched those ancient traces, as if he had returned to the sky on the day when Takama-ga-hara fell.

Ying appeared behind him at some point, with the distinctive sword and knife still hanging on her waist. Her cold brows only melted slightly when she looked at An Ming.

She knew she was not very clear-headed, but she never knew how to start.

Sakura's swordsmanship has improved a lot in the years since she came to Izumo, but her personality is still a little weird, making it impossible for outsiders to guess her thoughts.

“Why is this place so desolate?”

"Several dozen amber epochs ago, eight million gods fell here, and Izumo has been shrouded in the shadow of the sun ever since," Sakura's voice was cold and clear, like the water of a frozen spring.

"People called this place a taboo. From that day on, the central area of ​​Izumo began to move northward and evolved into the place controlled by the Minamoto family today."

Sakura looked at the scattered farmhouses not far away. If the ancestor of the Raiden family had not vowed to forge a blade sharp enough to cut through Takama-ga-hara here, the Land of the Fallen God would have become even more desolate.

"Sister Ying, why aren't you afraid?"

Hearing the familiar name, Ying was silent for a moment, and then said softly: "How do you know my fear?"

Ying touched An Ming's head, staring at the figure that was no different from the one in her memory, and the emotions in her heart became increasingly difficult to discern.

Sometimes she felt that the An Ming she knew had died on Edo Planet.

Sakura didn't know how to look at the boy in front of her.

An Ming just continued to move forward with a calm expression, "I want to find my own fear, maybe that is the meaning of existence," he raised his head and looked at the sky.

There is not only the sun there, but also the sky above the sun. He fell from the sky, but one day he will return to the sky.

Lei Dian Lingyi did not hide anything about him. When he was three years old, he told him everything about that day and the fact that Ying named him.

"Someone told me that Izumo is a suitable planet for practicing swordsmanship," Sakura smiled and murmured, "but I ended up becoming a royal swordsman."

Maybe, she thought, this was also a fraud.

"How can you know the ending if you haven't reached the end?" An Ming said with a smile: "When one road reaches its limit, perhaps you need inspiration from another road."

Swords and swords have the same origin, and Sakura must have gained a new understanding from this.

[When you were six years old, you and Ying embarked on a journey to the Zhaodao Palace. Five years, this is the time Yuan Yuesheng left for you. When you are ten years old, you will go to the Zhaodao Palace to be judged.]

[For the first three months, you stayed in the Land of the Fallen Gods, feeling everything with your own eyes]

[The people of Izumo call it the forbidden land of the gods. There are golden wheat fields everywhere. Smoke rises from the direction of the few farmhouses. Guards from the Raiden family can often be seen patrolling.]

"What is an evil beast?"

That was the day when they arrived at the border of the Land of the Fallen Gods. An Ming handed Ying the sweet spring water and raised the questions in his heart.

Ying originally thought that An Ming would keep it to himself, but before seeing the evil beast with her own eyes, it was indeed difficult to imagine what kind of creature it was.

"People believe that it is the opposite of God, an evil spirit that originated from the sun and was corrupted into a beast."

Some scattered images flashed through Ying's mind, and she finally whispered, "The Zhaodao is the power of God, and the evil beast is the incarnation of the devil."

"The material of the Zhaodao comes from evil beasts, but people regard it as the power of God?"

The words that came out of An Ming's mouth often made Ying think that he was not a six-year-old child, but a wise fraudster.

An Ming carried the luggage and Mei's bamboo sword. If he wanted, he could accept the fine steel long sword prepared by Lei Dian Lingyi.

But whether it is a bamboo sword or an imperial sword, there is no difference to An Ming.

Since the imperial sword is not worthy of him, why not use a bamboo sword?

"Sister Ying, do you see the shadow of the sun?" An Ming suddenly raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky.

In people's vision, the sky is always blue, except when the evil beast comes, the ink-like black drops into the blue, and the penetrating veins turn into roots that hang down.

And at this moment, when the shadow spread, the evil beast arrived as expected.

When the sky was covered with a hazy dark color, the guards of the Lei Dian family immediately took alert.

There was a flash of surprise in Ying's eyes. Even she couldn't sense the arrival of the evil beast in advance, but An Ming in front of her seemed to know everything in advance.

What is the connection between the baby who fell from Takamagahara and the empty land?

An Ming skillfully drew out the bamboo sword from his waist and said, "At the beginning, I fell into Izumo with the evil beast." He had been waiting for this moment for too long.

Several Amber Periods ago, evil beasts overran Izumo, and people could only cling to their only remaining homes.

It was not until the Imperial Sword appeared that Izumo, under the leadership of the Imperial Sword User, began the long process of recovering lost territory, during which time he drove out all the evil beasts without leaving a single one.

The evil beasts are not endless. As time went by, all the evil beasts in Izumo were wiped out, and the evil beasts that fell in Takama-ga-hara could no longer form an effective offensive.

The kingdom of the gods in the sky that was once out of reach now seems like a treasure that is within reach. The war to hunt evil beasts seems to be over, and Izumo's future is bound to be full of hope.

Therefore, since An Ming fell, this is the only opportunity to observe him closely in the past six years.

Perhaps it is because of this that the people of Izumo gradually forget the danger above Takama-ga-hara, and the people's hearts are divided within the six major families.

Among them, the ancestors of the Raiden family could not stand this kind of atmosphere, so they took the initiative to move the family base to the forbidden place of God's Falling, and the inheritance of sword forging was still remembered from generation to generation.

The goal is to one day forge the ultimate sword that can cut through the shadows.

For thousands of years, the Raiden family has been on the front line of the fall of Takamagahara. After the evil beast appeared, they immediately organized an effective counterattack. The violent burst of fire submerged the roots of the sky, but the effect of thermal weapons on the evil beast was extremely limited.

After decades of exploration in the Amber Age, the Izumo people knew that the best way to kill the evil beast was to cut off its head completely with a sword.

But ordinary swords are far from being sharp enough to cut through the bodies of evil beasts, which is why only the Imperial Sword Master can end a disaster.

Sakura's eyes drooped slightly, and a trace of white frost appeared on the right hand holding Frost. Using the imperial sword is never without cost.

The life of an imperial sword user is extremely short, like the morning dew or the fleeting morning light. From the moment he holds the imperial sword, his life begins to count down.

People only saw the power of the imperial sword, but never saw the dead soul under the hilt.

Sometimes she would wonder, is it the Imperial Sword User who is using the Imperial Sword, or is it the Imperial Sword that is using the Imperial Sword User?

Sakura is a special existence. Apart from Shin, she is the only one who has spent a long time and witnessed the changes in Izumo over the past several decades of Amber Era.

At the end of Edo Planet, the fate of the Trickster was laid, and Sakura's life has stopped flowing since then.

The future that the fraudster talks about will surely become reality.

So she still stood here, waiting for a new reincarnation, and met An Ming again.

[Frost] was unsheathed quickly and cleanly, bringing with it extremely cold frost that froze the ground.

Ying did not forget her swordsmanship, the Thousand Sakura sword was still hanging on her waist, but it had not been unsheathed for a long time.

An Ming watched Ying's disappearing back. The girl was like the cherry blossoms drifting in the sky. Rather than strangling the evil beast, it was more like a solo dance.

He knew that Ying seldom spoke, and even when she did, she spoke very sparingly, but that was not the case with him.

Sakura always looked at him silently, but it was not him reflected in her eyes.

An Ming doesn't understand Sakura's thoughts, just like he cannot predict which sea the cherry blossoms floating in the stream will eventually end up in. He doesn't even know the meaning of his own existence, so how can he understand Sakura's heart?

He couldn't even give Mei a definite promise, so how could he dare to say that he would take on all of Sakura's past.

Sometimes An Ming also felt very strange. He was just a six-year-old child. Why did he have to think so much?

But for some reason, ever since he learned about his life experience, An Ming wanted to find the meaning of his existence. Since he was not a citizen of Izumo, why did he come here?

So he raised the bamboo sword in his hand and walked towards the sky where the evil beast was falling.

People in the houses prayed to the sky, praying that the brave warriors would return victoriously.

There seems to be no fear here, only a desire for the future.

From the roots that drooped to the ground, there emerged wriggling evil beasts. They looked like blurry human figures emerging from the black mud, and they combined into twisted beasts amid unclear roars.

The evil beast's pitch-black back kept bulging out the outline of a human hand, and the outlines of its facial features could be vaguely seen, but in the end they all returned to pitch-black shadows.

It was the first time that An Ming faced the evil beast in Takamagahara, but he did not feel any fear in his heart, only an inexplicable sadness.

Wherever the evil beast passed, muddy black liquid flowed. It roared and swung out its pitch-black sharp claws, but the next moment it was steadily stopped in mid-air by the bamboo sword.

The impact of this scene was undoubtedly huge. Not to mention that the bamboo sword could actually resist the sharp claws, just An Ming, who was just a small person standing there, easily stopped the evil beast that was several times larger than him.

"North Star One Sword Style."

The unique skill passed down from generation to generation in the Raiden family is as fast as a star. It focuses all the strength in the body on one point and unleashes a powerful blow.

He integrated the moves into the bamboo sword without thinking, and slashed out with the textbook Beichen Ittoryu like flowing water in the mountains, pushing the beast in front of him back several meters.

An Ming stared into the pair of dark pupils, and there was only a sad emptiness there.

It was a sorrow that swallowed up everything.

No one dies well in the shadow of the sun.

Gods or beasts, they are but shadows beneath the waves of the sun, and will vanish with the slightest touch.