Published: March 8, 2025
The night was deep.
Chu Yang was still quietly sitting by the lake, deep in thought.
His posture seemed unchanged, but in front of him, there was a sword sticking straight into the water.
It was inserted directly into the water, with the sword hilt submerged.
Chu Yang sat quietly, gazing at the sword in the water.
Since the sword body was in the water, at a glance, it seemed as if the long sword was somewhat bent. The lights from Water Moon Pavilion flickered, and the surroundings were lit intermittently, and with each flicker, the long sword in the water seemed to change its form.
Chu Yang continued to contemplate quietly.
The sword body looked smooth, composed of many facets, and each facet could refract different lights. The same light striking one of these faces would produce one color, but when hitting another side, it would refract into another color. When illuminated from several sides at once, a beam of white light could transform into a rainbow!
It turned out this kind of phenomenon existed.
With the change of light, the sword's refraction varied immensely. But what if… the light remained constant, and only the sword's position was adjusted to continuously match the light's refraction? What would that be like?
How could sword energy create such a hazy rainbow??
Chu Yang pondered deeply, gently moving his hand across the water's surface, causing the sword light to refract even more ethereally and become even more chaotic…
Wu Qianqian stood behind a tree, watching Chu Yang. She didn’t know what he was doing, but she sensed that he seemed to be immersed in a wonderful realm…
For now, all she could do was silently guard him…
In the distance, two dark shadows flashed across the vast sky, rapidly approaching this direction, darting through the air, leaving behind a trail of afterimages…
Suddenly, Chu Yang thought of something. He slapped his thigh and murmured, “The sword itself cannot move. My thinking is just superficial; I can’t see the essence. But where is the essence? It’s in my wrist! Only when my wrist is flexible, continuously adjusting to the light for refraction, can I slowly achieve my goal step by step.”
At the moment he slapped his thigh, a tremendous rumble erupted from a distant place outside the city!
Boom!
Rumble!
At this instant, the entire Heaven's Secret City shook violently, and the Water Moon Pavilion in the lake swayed back and forth like a weeble several times, causing a chaotic uproar.
The calm surface of Lake Shuiyue suddenly erupted with towering waves, violently rolling towards the clear sky.
Caught off guard, Chu Yang was knocked back and sat down on the ground, murmuring, “Did I really create such momentum just by slapping my thigh…”
Behind the tree, Wu Qianqian was also dazed and nearly cried out. Even though her feelings were already quite complex, hearing Chu Yang’s words at this moment made her nearly laugh out loud.
After a long while, the water surface gradually calmed.
Chu Yang stood up, stretched, feeling a creak in his waist, realizing that he had unknowingly sat for most of the night.
“Time flies so fast,” Chu Yang sighed bitterly. Just as he was about to bend down to retrieve the long sword from the water, a sudden jolt in his heart triggered an extreme sense of danger, and his body flashed, already standing on the water's surface.
High in the sky, two men in black rushed like lightning, their sword lights resembling a stunning rainbow, directed at Chu Yang with a decisive kill.
Chu Yang let out a long howl, his black clothes fluttering, as he leaped lightly across the waves, his body moving like a dream as he repeatedly flashed, shouting, “Who are you?!”
Another slender black figure soared into the air, wielding a sword like thunder, aiming directly at the two men in black. At the same time, she lowly exclaimed, “Who are you?!”
The two men chuckled sinisterly: “Who we are, you aren't worthy to know. Today, we’ll let you two adulterers die here! Let’s be a pair of doomed lovers!”