Chapter 1260: Breakthrough
One-armed Buddha was the one-armed arhat who transformed the river water into a lotus platform.
One-armed Buddha hailed from the Buddhist Sect of Killing. He practiced a martial art called the “Boundless Killing”[1].
“Boundless Killing” was a dark art through and through, but it required its practitioner to possess a pure, innocent heart, and deep Buddhist nature. It spoke of killing for good and becoming a Buddha through killing.
To put it in simpler terms, the practitioner must possess a pure heart, and they must firmly believe from the bottom of their hearts that their killings were done solely for accumulating good karma and boundless beneficence. Only then could they even begin to practice this art.
The more the practitioner killed, the faster “Boundless Killing” progressed. Because of this, One-armed Buddha was also known as “Killer For Good” in the jianghu.
One Sword was the man who split open Ye Qing’s forehead using his sword pellet. Originally an average killer of Westwind Inn, accidentally stumbled upon the inheritance of an ancient sword celestial and learned the way to temper a sword pellet. As the saying went, “A sword pellet in my stomach, and my sword is unparalleled and unmatched.” Since then, One Sword rose to the heavens and became one of the most famous killers in Westwind Inn.
Although One Sword wasn’t the most powerful Shopkeeper in terms of cultivation level, he was absolutely among the best. Once he unleashed his sword pellet, he did not need a second strike to end his target’s life. That was why people called him “One Sword”.
Finally, Thousand Change was the person who saved Shadow right before Ye Qing’s light would do permanent damage.
As their name implied, Thousand Change could look like anyone. The most mysterious killer of the thirty-six Shopkeepers bar none, they could take on any appearance and act out any personality perfectly. Male, female, old, young; beautiful, ugly, good, evil—they could do it all. No one except the Boss of Westwind Inn knew about their true identity. Hence, the people called them Thousand Change.
Besides boasting a “thousand changes”, Thousand Change was also a master of an art called “Catoptric Teleportation”. He owned a mirror that could turn everything within tens of kilometers into a mirror and allow someone to pass through it and appear elsewhere. That was how he saved Shadow earlier.
Because of this art, Thousand Change’s assassinations were unpredictable and indefensible. Thousand Change had accepted 1,231 assassination missions since joining Westwind Inn, and he had never failed.