Chapter 533: Southern Radiance Grand Tai Chi (4)
The soft rustle of crushed grass echoed faintly.
Rustle.
A wild-haired old man wandered the blue foothills of the mountain. Once hailed as a transcendent immortal, now called Hyun Gong by Wudang Mountain—he was the Sect Leader of Wudang.
And yet, in this moment, he roamed aimlessly across the unmarked terrain, and every time he drew near, the branches and brush seemed to bend themselves away from his path.
The man he was today was no longer a Wudang Taoist.
He had long since set aside the Dao of wu wei ziran—effortless naturalness.
He was simply an absolute being, wielding the qi of nature like a heavenly deity. And even Hyun Gong himself vaguely realized he was still shackled by human emotion.
And so, like a lunatic beggar, he rambled incoherently, wandering the vast slopes of Wudang Mountain alone.
“Disciple... Hyun Ryeo, Hyun Ryeo... Yes, damn it, Jade Sword, why didn’t you listen to the last of the Sword of Wisdom mantra? I told you I’d change the sect’s rules if I had to. You should’ve listened. What’s so important about that hollow dignity of the Sect Leader that you felt it needed protecting...?”
A disciple who had fled to the far skies to escape a troublesome elder brother.
“Did your master ever teach you that? That your roots mattered more than yourself...? Sure, the harsh northern rivers must have had another Dream Demon Physique lying in wait. But what does that matter now? You were already one of Wudang’s pine needles.”
A disciple still alive somewhere on the mountain, yet never to return to the past.