Chapter 458 - 317: In the Twilight Years, Drawing the Sword to Sever the Heavens and Attain the Holy Dao Divine Sword (2)

[Let me help you...]

[Luo Yi looked down at his small hands. When he looked up, it turned out to be a nightmare. His parents did not die in that accident, his sister gradually grew up, often arguing with him, and suddenly he felt his sister wasn’t cute at all.]

[Years later, his elder brother got married and had children, while Luo Yi didn’t grip a sword but instead became an apprentice at a tailor shop. One time, a noble girl with beautiful blue eyes came to order a gown.]

[Luo Yi had never seen such a beautiful girl, and in serving her, he developed feelings for her.]

[Three months later, Luo Yi gathered the courage to express his feelings. The girl accepted with a smile; she detested her mother’s hypocrisy.]

[Upon learning of this, the girl’s parents were very dissatisfied. How could a mere tailor be worthy of their precious jewel?]

[That day, the cold sneers of the girl’s parents burned on Luo Yi’s face like an iron. His clenched fists relaxed and tightened again, ultimately squeezing out the words "I will prove it to you," then plunged into the howling north wind.]

[In those wandering years, he worked as a merchant, rail worker, circus actor... Finally, he resolutely joined the army.]

[At the age of thirty-six, the imperial edict of defeat and the announcement of freeing the slaves simultaneously reached the barracks. He held his retirement order and stood in the rain all night—no military honors, no prospects, only scars and an empty bundle.]

[Life cannot always go as planned, and effort does not guarantee results.]

[Luo Yi squatted on the bluestone slab at the entrance of his hometown’s alley, not daring to go home. A steaming wheat bread suddenly entered his view.]

[Luo Yi looked up—the woman’s apron was stained with powdered sugar, a few strands of silver were hidden between her hair, and when she smiled, the lines at the corner of her eyes were deeper than before, reaching out her flour-covered hand to him.]

[Only later did he learn that the day after he left home in anger, she moved out of the castle and set up a stall across the tailor shop, later becoming a store always filled with the aroma of milk.]

[As the springs passed and autumns came, the person she waited for never appeared at the street corner.]

[She chose love over bread.]

[Her face was dusted with flour, she extended her hand and said with a smile, "Since love needs bread, let’s open a bakery."]

[Luo Yi suddenly realized the sweetness within the bread was more genuine than fame and fortune.]

[Fifty years passed, and he closed his eyes with the love in his arms.]

[This is the will of fate, not altering Luo Yi’s life trajectory, an imperfect yet complete life, an ending without Celestial Destiny God, without war, without fog monsters...]

[Only the ordinary people and ordinary events in Luo Yi’s life led him to age ordinarily, a life that ordinary people yearn for but cannot obtain.]

[A life of peace and joy.]

["This is what hope is."]

[After experiencing a complete lifetime, Luo Yi opened his eyes again, seeming lost.]

["Hope..."]

[An elder’s cracked fingers on his shoulder, a child’s tender palm on his sword hilt, and many more visions of broken weapons—the shadow of a broken spear, a fractured shield, a chipped axe—all overlapped on the trajectory of swinging his sword.]

[Luo Yi’s sword edge was lit with firewood.]

["—Raising Troops!!!"]

[With a conviction of "though thousands may stand against me, I shall go forth alone," Luo Yi took one step onto Second Heaven, his heart merged with the world, becoming the "True Martial Lord," forging a sword engraved with heaven, river, mountain, and fire.]

[Unparalleled Spiritual Weapon—Firewood Sword!]

[With the "Firewood Sword," Luo Yi slew the corpse of the Celestial Destiny God, reforged the Celestial Punishment Blade, and then cleared the fog within a thousand miles, integrating nearby Spirit Veins to explore a Great Spirit Realm.]

[His samurai thoroughly excavated the ancient relics of the Black-eyed Race, and though the Human Race was defeated, that leader embedded a billion human thoughts into Returning Void Heaven looking to perish together.]

[Returning Void Heaven resisted clearing human consciousness, before falling asleep it changed the fundamental rule, henceforth humans couldn’t break technological limits, only use primitive methods, reducing an era to 130,000 years, and once the human number reaches the critical point, a Celestial Destiny God will be born to cleanse major Spirit Realms, preventing resilient bugs from emerging again.]

[Receiving this information, Luo Yi fell into silence.]

[Now approaching the end of the 130,000-year era, the Human Race facing destruction in Returning Void Wilderness.]

[However—Luo Yi’s Firewood Sword would not allow such a thing to happen!]

[Civil war broke out in Zhao Country, Moon Worshiping Demon People established the "Red Flame Holy Sect" and wreaked havoc in Zhao Country.]

[Red Flame Celestial Mandate was furious, attacking from east to west, annihilating the Mist Hundred Races, until "Red Flame Celestial Mandate" reverse-slew the rampant Fox Race Demon God, alien races scattered, main forces could not resist the Human Race’s advance.]

[The world is on the verge of unification.]

[Celestial Mandate is about to descend.]

[Master Gu wielding a Black Sword returned alone to Black Cloud City, crossed Sunset Mountain Range, came to White Rainbow City to reminisce with Luo Yi.]

[They are short-lived kinds, with most of their exciting hundred years behind them.]

[Elder Sword Leader in Martial Arts Hall quietly passed away last month, and Master Gu now is the contemporary Sword Leader in Martial Arts Hall, soon to die, thus handing this duty over to Luo Yi.]

[Having forged the "Firewood Sword," Luo Yi already understood his duty, looking down at his offspring, solemnly agreed.]

[Under a collapsed nest, how can the eggs be intact?]

[Master Gu seemed relieved, stood up to bid farewell.]

[This is the last time Luo Yi saw Master Gu.]

[Three months later, Luo Yi received news that Master Gu failed to slay the Celestial Mandate, Divine Martial Celestial Mandate shattered, Red Flame Celestial Mandate transformed into Tongtian Mountain and fell asleep.]

["Thirteenth Month · Moon of Eternal Daylight" manifested.]

[Exotic Beasts in Sunset Mountain Range mutated one after another, with prominent ones evolving into Fierce Beasts after devouring massive amounts of Human Spirit Seeds, giving rise to ten Fierce Beasts in Great Wilderness, countless Spirit Realms vanished.]