Chapter 553 The Fifth Match

Li Mu was immersed in the sea of Sword Intent contained in the Ode to the Gallant in the small world inside the Green Lotus Pool.

As the greatest romantic poet in ancient China, Li Bais whole life was admired and worshiped by countless people. His poems were full of magnificent imaginary elements, as if he was an immortal living in heaven. Although there were thousands of poets who made their names in history, Li Bai was the only one who produced poems with such ease and a sense of liberty.

The Ode to the Gallant was Li Bais masterpiece.

It depicted a hero who gallantly battled and got over the violence unafraid.

The poem carried sharp Sword Qi and Li Bais characteristic extreme romanticism.

The essence of the Sword Intent of the Gallant was concealed right in the poem.

In order to master the Sword Intent, one must comprehend the poem first.

All the words of the Ode to the Gallant were flying about Li Mu. The silver characters swirled like figures in the Divine Way. Each stroke of the words held the intendment of swordsmanship.

Li Mu, however, had been practicing Broadsword-using methods.

He was zealous about broadswords since childhood.

As an old Chinese saying went, the sword was a gentleman out of all weapons, and the broadsword was a lord instead.

Li Mu never considered himself a gentleman. He preferred being a domineering lord. Broadsword-using methods were the most straightforward, for the moves were either slice or hack.

Nevertheless, all martial methods reached the same goal. Swordsmanship and broadswordsmanship indeed had something in common in terms of martial arts practice.

Li Bai himself had said that he hoped Li Mu to absorb the essence of the Sword Intent in the Ode to the Gallant and integrate it with his Broadsword-using method. Thus, there was not a second that Li Mu considered quit practicing broadswordsmanship. Instead, he had been trying to grasp what the two arts had in common.

Time ticked by.

Li Mu was still absorbed in the sea of Sword Intent.

The Ode to the Gallant consisted of 24 paragraphs, 120 characters in total. Now, each of the characters had turned into an absurd Sword Intent figure that held the intendment of swordsmanship. Li Mu opened his Third Eye. His tentacle-like spiritual force spread out to catch the Sword Intent figures, feeling them and grasping the meaning they carried.

Time flew by.