The Unparalleled Sword Emperor

Chapter 2832 - 2807: Dugu Bai’s Past

Lin Bai researched the "Unbeatable Sword Skill" and "Tongtian Sword Skill" for several days, but ultimately couldn’t comprehend where a variable arose within these two sets of sword skills.Helplessly, Lin Bai could only temporarily set them aside.

"For me, the ’Unbeatable Sword Skill’ is now undoubtedly the biggest killer in hand!" Lin Bai chuckled, "Well, for someone like me who is enemies with the entire Under Heaven, this mutual destruction sword skill isn’t bad!"

"Let’s keep it for now, just in case I might need it someday!"

"As for regular times, I shouldn’t easily showcase sword skills above the Fourth Floor of the ’Unbeatable Sword Skill’."

Lin Bai shook his head and said.

In the following days, Lin Bai stood by the small stream in front of the Wooden House. Sometimes, Lin Bai stood by the stream for several hours, sometimes even a whole day!

But Lin Bai wasn’t standing idly.

Standing by the stream, the scene of the mud figure executing the sword in Samuel Edsun’s Cave Mansion continually resurfaced in Lin Bai’s mind, being constantly simulated, constantly reconstructed in his mind.

...

On this day, Lin Bai took Lin Ye and left the Flying Dragon Forest, heading to the Ed Clan.

After finding Dugu Fei and explaining his intentions, Dugu Fei took Lin Bai to Edsword Tower.

After arriving at the Sword Tower, Dugu Fei left.

Lin Bai walked into the Sword Tower, where, apart from shelves stacked full of ancient books, there were no other warriors.

And here are stored the life deeds of Dugu Bai, Dugu Yunhe, and Dugu Qing of the Ed Clan.

Every Ed Clan warrior, basically at enlightenment, would come to the Sword Tower to read the life deeds of these three Sword Gods, so they came when they were young and seldom afterwards.

Entering inside, Lin Bai directly walked up to the second floor.

On the second floor of the Sword Tower, there were a dozen shelves, all filled with the life deeds of Dugu Bai.

Lin Bai walked over, took an ancient book from a shelf, and began to slowly browse it.

Carefully reading one by one.

Meanwhile, Lin Ye followed behind Lin Bai; although he was uninterested in these books, he remained silent and merely followed quietly.

On the bookshelves, Lin Bai browsed over thousands of books.

He also learned about Dugu Bai’s life.

However, there were still some gaps, not fully recording Dugu Bai’s life.

Fortunately, Lin Bai still found some messages among these snippets.

In one ancient book, Lin Bai saw that once, during Dugu Bai’s destitute youth, he loved a woman.

The woman didn’t mind Dugu Bai’s impoverishment, stayed devoted to him, but as Dugu Bai later gained power and his sword skill cultivation grew strong, his killing intent intensified, gradually becoming extreme.

When that woman saw Dugu Bai was no longer the man she once loved, she left tearfully.

The woman’s departure didn’t stop Dugu Bai, for at that time Dugu Bai only saw his sword and the enemies before him.

Years later, Dugu Bai, now the Sword God, invincible, suppressing the Five Continents, thought about finding that woman, but searched all over the Barbaric Ancient Continent without any news.

Until the moment before Dugu Bai’s death, he still carried a sense of regret.

Lin Bai frowned slightly at the book’s account.

Lin Bai’s intuition told him that Dugu Bai wanted Lin Bai to tell that person "he was wrong back then", this sentence was meant for that woman.

But what Lin Bai didn’t understand was why let Lin Bai be the one to tell her?

While Lin Bai was thoroughly reading the classics in the Sword Tower, suddenly a voice came from behind Lin Bai: "Ancestor Dugu Bai indeed once loved a woman!"

Upon hearing the voice, Lin Bai turned and looked, seeing Edsword Lord unknowingly appearing in the Sword Tower.

"Greetings, Sword Venerable." Lin Bai cupped his fists and said.

Edsword Lord took the classics from Lin Bai’s hand, smiled, and said: "Once, Ancestor Dugu Bai went through a very destitute time, during which he faced the disdain and discrimination of lower martial artists under Heaven!"

"Ancestor Dugu Bai swore, when he gains power, he will kill all under Heaven!"

"Later, Ancestor Dugu Bai somehow obtained the ’Unbeatable Sword Skill’, defied the heavens, slew gods, one person with one sword, making the Barbarian Ancient Continent’s deities retreat!"

"And that woman, too, tearfully left after Ancestor Dugu Bai’s disposition changed drastically!"

"Later, the two never met again, until Ancestor Dugu Bai became the Sword God, suppressed the Five Continents, stood at the pinnacle of the Barbaric Ancient Continent, that’s when Ancestor Dugu Bai finally realized!"

"He wanted to find that woman, but searched every inch of the Barbaric Ancient Continent without meeting her again!"

"Ancestor Dugu Bai’s former name was... Dugu Invincible!"

"And after Ancestor Dugu Bai searched the Barbaric Ancient Continent without finding the woman, upon returning to the Sword God Family, as Ancestor Dugu Bai was about to fall, he told the Sword God Family... he is called Dugu Bai!"

"Henceforth, in the Sword God Family, we just call Ancestor Dugu Bai Dugu Bai, not Dugu Invincible!"

"Later, warriors of the Sword God Family speculated, Ancestor Dugu Bai’s name change at his end may be out of debt to that woman!"

"And what exactly happened between Ancestor Dugu Bai and that woman during that destitute time, nobody knows!"

"Even today, it’s a mystery within the Sword God Family!"

"Even many warriors speculate that Ancestor Dugu Bai’s ability to create the ’Unbeatable Sword Skill’ might be related to that woman!"

"So much so that Ancestor Dugu Bai once left a sentence before transforming: Won the Under Heaven, lost her!"

Edsword Lord smiled while looking at the classics and said to Lin Bai.

Lin Bai realized and said: "So that’s how it is."

Edsword Lord laughed again: "By the way, when Ancestor Dugu Bai was destitute, he once went to the East Continent, and according to our Sword God Family’s years of investigation, that woman and Ancestor Dugu Bai should have met in the East Continent!"

"East Continent?" Lin Bai’s eyes gleamed, looking at Edsword Lord.

Edsword Lord laughed: "Correct, Saint Lin Bai, you’re an East Continent warrior and also the Saint of the East Continent Academy; your strength and ability in the East Continent surpass the Sword God Family!"

"If one day you have news of that woman’s descendants, please, in consideration of the sword skills Ancestor Dugu Bai imparted to you, notify our Sword God Family!"

Edsword Lord said.

Lin Bai nodded: "That’s certain, but now with time having passed, even if the woman’s descendants survive in the East Continent, investigating matters from Ancestor Dugu Bai’s era might be extremely difficult to unearth!"

Edsword Lord also knew the difficulty of this matter, thus didn’t force Lin Bai.

Lin Bai whispered in his heart: "Dugu Bai met the woman in the East Continent, could it be related to the Heaven-reaching Sword Sect?"

"In this way, it explains why ’Tongtian Sword Skill’ and ’Unbeatable Sword Skill’ look exactly the same, yet are worlds apart!"

Lin Bai, continually pondering in his heart, quietly resolved to find the time to visit the Heaven-reaching Sword Sect after returning from the North State!

Edsword Lord said: "Lin Bai, today I came to find you, to inform you that three days from now is the opening of the Ten-year Sword God Path!"

"Three days later?" Lin Bai heard this, raised his head excitedly and said.