One half was the pure, flawless Heartless Sword Dao she had clung to for over twenty years.
The other half was the Path of the Red Dust, full of worldly mortal life, which she had just glimpsed.
But she could not yet grasp the true meaning of "laying down the sword."
She instinctively saw the emotions of mortals as a burden to her cultivation, as impurities upon her Sword Heart.
Caught between her extreme dedication to her own Sword Dao and her instinctual rejection of the "mundane,"
she fell into an unprecedented struggle, a deep contradiction.
Cracks appeared in her Sword Heart.
In the end, she went against the True Intent left behind by True Master Bai Yi.
BUZZ—
The marketplace scene before her shattered inch by inch, like a broken mirror.
Gu Qingxuan's figure, enveloped in a white light, was teleported outside the cavern.
...
Outside the cavern, around the great pit.
Just as the shock of Qin Wuya's elimination had yet to fully subside,
