The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

"Alright, thank you for your trouble, Lord Jiang."

Chu Xiu nodded and thanked Jiang Wan'er.

Jiang Wan'er rolled her eyes at Chu Xiu, not at all annoyed that he was being so polite to her, and took light steps toward the fourth floor.

Upon entering the fourth floor, Chu Xiu saw an old man in a gray robe, barefoot, with gray hair like withered grass, sweeping the floor with a bamboo broom.

Jiang Wan'er opened her mouth, wanting to call out to the gray-robed old man.

Chu Xiu suddenly grabbed Jiang Wan'er's shoulder and shook his head at her.

Jiang Wan'er was taken aback for a moment, then she understood.

Chu Xiu watched the gray-robed old man sweep the floor. From the sweeping, he sensed a sword intent, a terrifying sword intent.

After a while, the old man in the gray robe turned and left, as if he hadn't seen Chu Xiu at all, and was just focused on sweeping the floor.

Jiang Wan'er didn't see anything special about it from beginning to end, nor did she sense the sword intent contained in the old man in gray sweeping the floor.

"The sword is heaven and earth, and heaven and earth are the sword. There are no moves or styles, only the mind and the will!"

Chu Xiu's face showed amazement. He clasped his hands in a fist salute to the gray-robed old man's back and said with gratitude, "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Liu."

"The sword is heaven and earth, and heaven and earth are the sword; there are no moves or styles, only the mind and the will?"

"Senior Liu?"

Jiang Wan'er was stunned for a moment. You see, she also followed the path of the sword, and she considered herself to have an extraordinary talent for it.

This was approved by teacher Qi Tianchen.

result……

She didn't sense any sword intent from the old man in the gray robe sweeping the floor.

Chu Xiu saw all of this, which made her feel extremely hurt.

Could it be that my talent and aptitude are so far inferior to Chu Xiu's?

Or is it that the difference in their comprehension is so great?

and……

Senior Liu...

Surname Liu...

Could the gray-robed old man be Liu Feibai, the master of the Immortal Martial Pavilion?

Although Jiang Wan'er was the chief female official of the Directorate of Ceremonial Affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty, she was one of the closest people to Empress Murong Si.

However, she had never met Liu Feibai, the master of the Immortal Martial Pavilion.

In fact, not to mention her, Murong Si had never even met Liu Feibai.

Liu Feibai has always been incredibly mysterious.

Among all the people in the Great Zhou Dynasty who truly knew Liu Feibai's identity, there were probably only Nangong Yijian, the head of the Imperial Palace, and Murong Nantian, the deputy head of the Imperial Palace, who was known as the Sword Emperor!

Now you're telling me that this old man sweeping the floor at the Immortal Martial Pavilion, whom I've seen many times, is actually Liu Feibai, the Pavilion Master of the Immortal Martial Pavilion?

On the surface, the old man sweeping the floor didn't look like a martial arts practitioner at all. His eyes were cloudy, and he was extremely weak. He looked more like an ordinary old man.

however!

That's right, how could an ordinary old man have been sweeping the floors of the Immortal Martial Pavilion for so many years!

"I never expected that the Marquis would recognize my identity and even obtain the true teachings of the Formless Sword Manual from my sweeping."

Liu Feibai stopped and said with a sigh.

"Senior Liu swept the floor in front of me, revealing the true meaning of the Formless Sword Scripture. If I couldn't see it at all, I would have no face to show my face to anyone."

Chu Xiu smiled gently and said.

Upon hearing Chu Xiu's words, Jiang Wan'er's pretty face turned bright red. Chu Xiu had grasped the true meaning of the Wuxiang Sword Scripture the first time he saw Liu Feibai sweeping the floor, while she herself had read it countless times but had not comprehended even the slightest bit.

She wanted to crawl into a hole and disappear.

"This isn't the first time I've swept the floor in front of outsiders."

"In fact, many people have seen me sweeping the floor."

"However, you are the first person to be able to discern the true meaning of the Wuxiang Sword Scripture from my sweeping."

Liu Feibai turned around, holding a broom, and said calmly.

"Even the Palace Master and the Imperial Advisor can't see it?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu's face showed surprise, and he looked at Liu Feibai with a puzzled expression.

Jiang Wan'er felt a great weight lifted from her heart and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It turned out that she wasn't the only one who couldn't see it; even her teacher and the Palace Master Nangong probably couldn't tell either.

It would be very abnormal if she couldn't see it.

She immediately felt no longer ashamed!

"can not tell."

"Although Old Man Nangong and Xiao Qi's swordsmanship talent is astonishing, they can't see it either."

"Even my disciples haven't cultivated the Formless Sword Scripture."

"The Formless Sword Scripture, what is formlessness?"

"Formless and without appearance, without beginning or end, the sword is the way of heaven, and the way of heaven is formless."

Liu Feibai gave Chu Xiu a deep look and said calmly.

"I understand what Senior Liu means. Although the Wuxiang Sword Manual does have sword moves, it does not emphasize sword moves."

"The true essence of the Wuxiang Sword Sutra lies in its intent."

"The meaning of formlessness".

"If one cannot comprehend its true meaning, one will be unable to master Senior Liu's Formless Sword Scripture."

"That's why even the Xuanyuan Pavilion Master couldn't cultivate the Formless Sword Scripture, because it is formless, without beginning or end."

"Even if Pavilion Master Xuanyuan wanted to cultivate the Formless Sword Scripture, he couldn't do it."

"That's why Senior Liu sweeps the floor in front of so many people. He's actually trying to see if anyone can comprehend the Formless Sword Scripture from Senior Liu's sweeping."

“For martial arts like the Formless Sword Manual, the ability to cultivate them may not just be a matter of comprehension, but also of fate.”

"Those who are destined can comprehend it, while those who are not destined, even if they obtain the secret manual of the Formless Sword Scripture and study it for a hundred or a thousand years, will still be unable to cultivate it."

Chu Xiu's face showed a look of sudden realization, and he said thoughtfully.

"Your Excellency is right, it is fate."

"No wonder the Marquis was able to discern the true meaning of the Formless Sword Manual from my sweeping."

"The Marquis is the successor I have been waiting for."

"And just now, the Marquis happened to choose between my Wuxiang Sword Manual and Old Man Nangong's Jiuxiao Sword Technique.

"Perhaps it was from this moment that I became destined to be with you, my Lord, and my Wuxiang Sword Manual became destined to be with you."

A smile appeared on Liu Feibai's face as he said with a sense of satisfaction, "Now that my Wuxiang Sword Scripture has a successor, I can die willingly."

"Senior Liu cannot die! You are the pillar of our Great Zhou Dynasty. Our Great Zhou Dynasty still needs you to stand firm and stabilize the world!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu's expression turned solemn, and he spoke earnestly.

In fact, there are two reasons why he was able to discover Liu Feibai's identity. One is that Liu Feibai's sword intent gave him a sense of being formless and shapeless, which is very similar to the Formless Sword Scripture that Jiang Wan'er just introduced.

The other is Liu Feibai's cultivation level. He has reached the Xuanxian realm and even reached the peak of the first level of the Xuanxian realm.

At the peak of the first level of the Profound Immortal Realm, in the entire imperial palace, apart from Nangong Yijian, the master of the Imperial Offering Hall, only Liu Feibai, the master of the Immortal Martial Pavilion, could achieve this.

He didn't believe that an ordinary old man sweeping the floor at the Immortal Martial Pavilion could have reached this level.

However, if he didn't have the ability to observe qi, he really wouldn't be able to tell Liu Feibai's cultivation level.

Because Jiang Wan'er and the others were unaware of Liu Feibai's identity as the old sweeper of the Immortal Martial Pavilion, they thought he was just an ordinary old man because his physical body was incredibly weak, as if he had already abandoned his own physical form.