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Chapter 1240: A swordsman holds a blade meant for killing
A fine, misty rain fell.
It was raining in Youdu.
A swordsman wearing a bamboo hat and holding his sword stepped out of the city gates.
In his eyes, the world was obscured by thick fog, and the path ahead was invisible.
Yet he still chose to leave Youdu, heading for the Central Plains to protect someone.
To protect someone he had promised to keep safe, but whose trust he had broken.
"What a pity it isn't old me going."
Behind the swordsman, Xie Bi'an stood under a black-robed umbrella, his face cold.
Bound by the rules of Youdu, many things were beyond his reach.
Entering and leaving Youdu was governed by strict laws.
He wanted to walk out of Youdu and kill Yue Bufan with his own hands, but the Ghost Emperor would not allow it.
Yet the swordsman before him was able to leave Youdu by imperial decree—a fact that filled him with both lingering emotion and a sense of helplessness.
"Catch!" Xie Bi'an threw his own sidearm toward the swordsman, a long, narrow saber with a ghost-head hilt.
The swordsman caught the heavy blade with his left hand, bound it alongside the sword on his back, and said indifferently,
"I don't use a knife."
He did not use a knife, but just to be safe, he would take along this treasured weapon that Xie Bi'an held so dear.
Wearing straw sandals, the swordsman stepped into the misty, unknown rain.
He knew not where the road led, only that it was the Centr…
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