Chapter 1026: Chapter 584: When the Sky Falls, Tall Ones Hold It Up (Double-Length)_2

She glanced back and forth at both of them, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered, "You two should talk nicely... don’t argue, okay? If you’re really angry... I can help you calm down."

Chen Yi helplessly pinched her flushed cheeks and patted her bottom, causing the little fox to scamper away.

Chen Yi turned back to face Zhou Yitang, pondered for a moment, and said, "I remember when I was still in the Capital City, you mentioned those memories... I couldn’t bear it, and you could only show me a glimpse. Are these memories also part of it?"

"Yes." She didn’t deny it.

Chen Yi took a deep breath, feeling the air stir inside his chest, and asked once more, "So... you were supposed to go for the Heavenly Repair originally..."

"It’s always been me."

Upon receiving this answer, Chen Yi didn’t know what to say. At this moment, his heart was in chaos, filled with endless questions he could not resolve, and he could only sift through past memories for clues...

Previously, he was repairing the heavens for her, with those memories consisting only of flashes of scenes and sparse words, knowing the what but not the why.

He knew he went for Heavenly Repair because of her, but he didn’t know why he went because of her. Was it just due to some pillow talk and a moment of impulsiveness? Thinking about it, Chen Yi glanced at her again, suddenly realizing...

Could a Sword Armor who has severed the Three Corpses and forgotten about the world and oneself be more suitable to become a Heavenly Repair Stone than someone obsessed with love and desire like himself?

Zhou Yitang picked up a white piece, gazed at the board unwaveringly, "My Taoist name is Tongxuan. When I crowned, my grandmaster inscribed ’Sword True Mysterious, Great Perfection as if Deficient’ for the Ruoque Sword. True Mysterious, True Mysterious, what is True Mysterious? It is the gods of heaven who are truly mysterious.

I once ascended to White Jade City and saw the gods of heaven, with my Sword Dao nearing Great Perfection."

Chen Yi knew she couldn’t directly tell him a lot of information and tried to say what he could understand, but even so, he was still somewhat dazed and confused.

"Seeing immortals is nothing rare. I’ve met quite a few and even killed some."

"What about the Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Lords?"

Chen Yi’s pupils shrank, and for a moment, the bamboo pavilion was silent. He held onto the chess piece, unable to place it down for a long time.

The Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Lords are the highest deities in the Taoist belief, the Three Pure Ones go without saying, and the Four Imperial Lords are Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole, Emperor of Longevity of the South Pole, Emperor of the Upper Palace of Gouchen, and the Heavenly Earth God...

An inexplicable pressure weighed on Chen Yi’s heart, leaving him somewhat breathless.

After a while, he asked, "Was it the Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Lords who commanded you to go for Heavenly Repair?"

"To repair the heavens with one’s body, rectify the world, alleviate suffering and save lives, the true secret of the Living Sword lies in this. The existence of Sword Armor throughout generations in Yin Sword Mountain is also for this day. Otherwise, why would the Female Evil-slaying Sword—Tai Sha Sword, granted by Supreme Elder and used by Emperor Zhenwu, be held by Yin Sword Mountain..."

"Bang!" She hadn’t finished speaking when Chen Yi heavily placed down a piece.

"Was it the Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Lords who commanded you to go for Heavenly Repair?" He asked again.

Zhou Yitang pondered for a moment and then said, "You could interpret it that way."

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, his face showing no joy or sorrow, making it hard for anyone to know what he was thinking.

Many doubts were answered, but he didn’t feel relieved, only because the matters of the past life were clear to the point of being frightening. Zhou Yitang was the one originally meant to repair the heavens, but he broke her sword, ruined her Sword Dao, and being entangled in love, went to repair the heavens in her place.

Perhaps the Heavenly Repair was not perfect enough, so all time reversed, everything repeated itself, becoming fragmented memories of the past life.

And in this life, Zhou Yitang is to repair the heavens herself. This was a decision by her master’s master, and no one could stop her, not even himself, often leaving him powerless, hoping she would give up on her own.

The silver lining is,

he, Chen Yi, is also just so.

The one-armed woman gazed at the chessboard, picked up a piece and placed it, Chen Yi followed suit, observing the entire game, his placements seemed nonsensical, while she slightly narrowed her eyes, surrounding and blocking the black chess stance.

With a sound of "pop," the black piece was placed. Chen Yi sipped his tea lightly and then joked, "In Tang Dynasty, people called ’Laozi’ ’Xu Xuan’, ’Zhuangzi’ ’Tan Xuan’, and ’Yi’ ’True Mysterious... Sword True Mysterious, it’s not communicating heaven’s gods but communicating with myself."

Zhou Yitang didn’t look up, speaking plainly, "You said that in your past life too."

Chen Yi paused, squinting his eyes, obviously not expecting that he had said such a sarcastic line in his past life. There were too many things he couldn’t remember, many details were either buried deep or eradicated by time, but she remembered.

He said coldly, "I don’t care, it’s communicating with myself anyway."

The one-armed woman remained silent, not correcting his twisted logic.

"Why don’t you consider, you’ve been to White Jade City, met the Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Lords, yet you still only have one hand. This isn’t Great Perfection as if Deficient, it’s Minor Perfection Truly Deficient. I’ve always wanted your arm to grow back, so you wouldn’t have to suffer the misery of propping up a bedstead with one hand, that’s what Great Perfection as if Deficient truly is." Chen Yi stubbornly pursued, making such shameless jokes.

"Speaking of which," he asked again, "Hou Kang Sword, this sword... what does it signify?"

The one-armed woman hesitated, seeming to have many words she couldn’t straight-up say, after brewing for a while, she replied, "It is forged from Shoushan Copper."

Chen Yi silently noted the clue she threw out and smiled at her.

Zhou Yitang cast him a sidelong glance, returned her gaze to the chessboard, there was no need for excessive words, the two guessed each other’s thoughts and knew each other’s stubbornness, so they tacitly kept quiet.

Since this is the case, there is no need for the previous tension.

The chess game gradually became intense.

After Chen Yi placed a piece, he changed the subject, speaking slowly, "That Fox Immortal told me, Dragon and Tiger Mountain wanted Tai Sha Sword to return to the Sword Array, not just to counter the White Lotus Sect, but also to slay the heavenly immortals. So at the time I was doubtful, didn’t return Tai Sha Sword, do you... know some things?"

"I know more," Zhou Yitang paused, "and more that cannot be said."

"Then speak of what can be said, say a bit more," Chen Yi smiled, "I want to hear you say more."

"There are immortals in heaven who are sick, mad, and Dragon and Tiger Mountain is ordered to eliminate them. You surely wonder why other immortals don’t personally take action, because they are now also overburdened and... afraid to add another portion of heavenly karma."

"Are they afraid of retribution?"

"Almost, heavenly karma retribution is far beyond earthly comparison, heaven evolves forty-nine, humans follow its one, the less power the less responsibility, when a human kills an immortal, the greatest karma retribution will not transcend this ’one’."

Zhou Yitang leaked the heavenly secrets she could, Chen Yi easily understood her words, this is Heavenly Dao’s protection towards mortals, it could be said to be the Unfinished Immortal Protection Law.

"Where does the root of madness lie?"

"Beyond the realm." She uttered two words.

With these two words, Chen Yi extrapolated some situations, celestial immortals got a madness from some external mutation, influencing a chaos under heaven, simultaneously immortals feared further heavenly karma... Meaning the heaven couldn’t withstand the compression of karma any longer, being in jeopardy...

Chen Yi gathered his sight, suddenly recalling, in Sword Pool, he saw Taowu, had it not been for Tushan reappearing in Heart Lake, he would have died then and there.

Uncertain what connection Taowu had with the heavenly situation.

Chen Yi looked at Zhou Yitang, mouthed the word "Taowu", the one-arm woman shook her head, "I knew you’d ask, that time... I avoided you."

Chen Yi instantly remembered, at the time he wanted to settle accounts with Zhou Yitang, Zhou Yitang wasn’t inside Min Ning’s body anymore.

Speaking which, maybe because of Min Ning’s jealousy, she was somewhat strangely cute then.

Connecting several pieces of chess, Chen Yi said, "Nothing left to say to me?"

Zhou Yitang slowly shook her head.

Chen Yi bent his head to survey the chess game, complex and detailed, black and white pieces fiercely battling, neither side yielding, but no matter how Zhou Yitang surrounded and blocked, inadvertently, he still found life within death, breaking through a bloody road.

Only one step more.

"Alright."

As his voice dropped, Chen Yi placed the final piece.

He coldly said, "Five-star conjunction, I won."

"....."

Zhou Yitang was silent for a while, tapping his forehead lightly,

"I’m playing Go with you."

He dodged, nonchalantly, rose to leave,

"I don’t care what board, what rules, even if heavens come, I’ll only play Gomoku."