Chapter 462 Broken Jade

Chapter 462 Broken Jade

Chapter 462 Broken Jade
Just one day before Chen Chuan set out to return to the central city, that is, on the 25th, under pressure from the Ferris Wheel Company, Gao Tianjiao obediently handed over the only remaining Gao Tian Jade containing a jade core, and delivered the item to Jian Chengsheng.

"Gao Tianyu."

Makoto Masaaki stared at the thing.

This is a pure white jade stone, about the size of a pigeon egg. It is now placed upright, with a blue halo on the outer edge. When you stare at it, it's like gazing at the endless clear sky.

When he said that he needed something that could not be cut, he was just following his instinct to ask for it. He didn't know what the Ferris Wheel Company would bring back.

But the moment he saw this thing, he knew that this was exactly what he needed.

All of this is exactly the essence of the swordsmanship that Feng Heshou taught him: "Wherever my heart points, God knows, but I do not." With one slash of the sword, he can find what he wants and where the enemy is weak, without having to look for it deliberately or observe it deliberately.

This is not a matter of taking a chance. It requires long and arduous training, meditation day and night, continuous use of special medicines to nourish the alienated tissues, and repeated life and death battles to achieve a spiritual resonance between the self and the alienated tissues in the body.

But this kind of resonance needs to be found between life and death, and it is not always available to him, unless he reaches the next stage of "knowing as God does". At that time, if all external conditions are met, he can begin to try to break the boundaries.

He looked at Gao Tianyu, reached out his hand to touch him, and felt a hard and cold touch between his fingers.

It was heard that when the first owner of Langtao Pavilion, Zendao, came from the east, he said that anything in the world could be cut, so Gaotianjiao sent a piece of hard jade, hoping to make him retreat. However, Zendao was learning martial arts, so he drew his sword and cut the jade in half. As a result, he was granted land by the Gong family and established Langtao Pavilion on Erwen Island.

And now he also has to face this piece of solid jade.

Isn't this some kind of metaphor?

After staring at the object for a moment, he suddenly drew his sword and slashed forward, but when he was just a finger's distance away from the object, he suddenly stopped.

Just like facing that phantom, even if the blade didn't really cut down, he knew he couldn't cut it open, because his heart had already told him the result.

The more the heart cannot let go, the more the knife cannot let go.

Undeterred, he took a few steps back, sat down on the floor of the gym, and began to meditate deeply.

While he was meditating, news from outside was being transmitted back and forth and quickly converged on the ship.

"According to the intelligence analysis we sent back, the two targets we want to eliminate are likely to return to Central City together."

All the people who participated in the planning frowned when they heard the news.

It seemed that it would be more convenient for them to start with two goals at the same time, but they actually didn't want that.

This is because both goals are difficult to deal with, which together increases the complexity of the matter, especially when certain government forces get involved, which adds a lot of variables.

The person in charge asked, “When will they leave?”

The person who passed on the information said, "It will most likely be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and no later than the day after tomorrow."

The person in charge asked the manager at the side: "How is the preparation going with Makoto Masaru?"

The manager immediately replied: "He just got the Gaotian Jade and is now alone in the training hall, probably preparing something."

The analyst on the other side looked at the person in charge and reminded him, "Team leader, there are only one to two days left. If he doesn't come out by then, then the original plan will have to be changed. Should we..."

The person in charge said, “Wait.”

He looked at everyone, "We need a sharp, usable knife, not a blunt knife handed out in a hurry, which is useless and wastes our previous arrangements."

A day passed quickly and there was no response in the practice room.

And the new information was passed on to the conference room.

"Reporting to the team leader, according to the information sent back by the radio, the two targets have already set out from the peripheral city half an hour ago and are now returning to the central city."

The analyst took the report, looked at it, handed it to the team leader, and said, "It will take them about six to seven hours to reach the central city. Even if we set out now, land and intercept them, even if we omit the arrangements that need to be made in advance, it will still take at least four hours.

So we only have about two hours left. If we miss it, they will enter the central city." He looked up and said, "Team Leader, there has been no movement from Mr. Jian Cheng for a day. Should we go ask him?"

Everyone in the meeting room looked at the person in charge, waiting for him to make a decision.

The person in charge raised his hand, looked at everyone, and said firmly: "Wait."

In the practice room, after each meditation, Jian Chengsheng would stand up and try to cut the Gaotian Jade with a knife, but every time, the blade would stop in front of the jade.

He was not impatient. If he failed, he would sit back and meditate again, and then prepare for the next time.

This was not a useless attempt, but a way to sharpen his spirit and get in tune with the alienated organization. So after each swing of the knife, his condition would improve. But the previous attempts were not good enough. Later, he found that he was still a little short of it. Not only could he not improve it, but there were even signs of a decline.

He knew that this was like rowing against the current, if he didn't move forward he would fall behind.

If I fail this time, it is very likely that a shadow will fall on my heart, and I will never be able to achieve what I want.

Thinking of this, he held the blade horizontally, placed it on his thumb and slowly lifted it in front of him. After staring for a moment, he sprayed a mouthful of stored blood onto the blade.

The long sword slowly absorbed the essence and blood, and after ten breaths or so, it became as smooth as new again, but there was a faint throbbing coming from it.

Jian Chengsheng let out a long breath. He did not wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. Instead, he suddenly stood up, grasped the hilt of the knife, and slashed forward.

This time the knife moved smoothly, drawing a half arc in the air. He maintained the knife-drawing posture, and after a while, the upper part of the jade stone fell to one side and landed on the table with a click.

Hearing this sound, he couldn't help but relax all over and felt mentally tired.

But his eyes were very bright because he had grasped the essence of this knife.

From a material perspective, it is impossible to cut through this so-called hardest thing, but Gao Tianyu is something with the existence of "spirit", so he does not need to cut through the shape of the jade, but to cut through that ray of spirit.

When the spirit is broken, the form cannot survive.

This is what the first master, Zen Dao, said: "Cut the mind, not the form."

However, he did not think that he had reached the level of the first master, because he could only swing his sword after a long period of accumulation. Perhaps only when one reaches the level of "knowing as if I were a god" can one swing his sword like this.

At this moment, he discovered that there was a flash of light where the jade was broken.

That was not light, but what appeared inside after the jade body was broken.

He stood up and walked towards the desk, and as he got closer, his exhausted spirit seemed to be slowly recovering as if it had been nourished by something.

He knew that this was the jade core of Gao Tianyu, which was where the "god" was. If this thing was broken, the entire Gao Tianyu would be broken as well.

This thing itself has the effect of uplifting the spirit, especially after being worn out, using this to make up for it can help him stabilize his state of mind.

After feeling it quietly for a moment, he put a few tiny pieces of jade core gravel into his palm, turned the blade over, removed the pin on the handle, put the tiny gravel back in, and then held it up again.

After slightly turning the blade, he adapted to the subtle changes in the weight of the knife. Then he turned around and faced backward, and the shadow that looked like Chen Chuan appeared there again.

He stared for a moment, let out a "Hey!", took a step forward, swung his sword quickly, and rushed past the shadow a few steps, then his figure paused.

After a while, the shadow behind him shook and then disappeared.

He swung the knife, then turned it back inside and slowly put it back into the sheath.

At this moment, he felt that his current condition was the best he could be, and the fragments of the jade core stored in the sword could allow him to maintain this condition.

He stepped forward with his knife in hand, came to the side of the training hall and pushed open the door.

You can see that there are raindrops falling outside at this moment. Under the gloomy sky, the waves in the distance are rising and falling, which seems to foreshadow that a rainstorm is coming.

There were several people waiting at the door, including the manager. When he saw him come out, the manager hurried over and bowed to him, "Mr. Jian Cheng, you are out." He looked up again and said, "Mr. Jian Cheng, we don't have much time."

Makoto Masaaki asked, "How much time do we have left?"

"Five hours at most." The manager said in a deep voice, "We only have five hours left."

Jian Chengsheng bowed to him and said, "Sorry for the wait. I'm ready."

The manager was delighted and immediately used his ID to contact the person in charge. Then he said solemnly, "Mr. Jian Cheng, time is running out. If it's convenient for you, we'll set off now."

On the other side, at almost the same time, Chen Chuan's car had just driven out of Yangzhi City, and in the sky behind him, Chao Ming was flying in the sky, following his car.

His car stopped at the last checkpoint and he looked at his watch.

After waiting for less than ten minutes, a chirp sound was heard in the sky. After a while, I saw through the rearview mirror that a convoy was driving towards this side from behind.

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(End of this chapter)