At that moment, I should have returned to my tent to quietly await the outcome.

But seeing Lao Liu and Lin Xian getting beaten up, I… I was so happy!

I smoked three cigarettes in a row before Wang Butcher and the others were tired of hitting them. They dragged Lao Liu and Lin Xian back to Jun Jixue's tent like dead dogs. "Yun Chang, heal them. Heal them, and then we'll hit them again!"

Lin Zhao gritted his teeth and said, "Forget about Lin Xian. He won't die. Save Lao Liu first."

Lao Liu was in a terrible state! His mouth was swollen. It looked like it would take a while for the swelling to go down. I looked at Jun Jixue and said, "Brother, thank you!"

As I spoke, I drew my dagger from my body, held it in my hands, and handed it to Jun Jixue.

Jun Jixue took my black iron dagger and solemnly fastened it to his waist, then handed his own dagger to me.

Jun Jixue's dagger was impressive. It had a gold scabbard, an ivory handle, and five gemstones of various colors were inlaid on the scabbard alone, not to mention the circle of real diamonds on the handle.

If I were to sell it, it would definitely be enough for me to live in the presidential suite of a five-star hotel for a year and a half.

However, I had to hold back. I coughed dryly, took the dagger, and fastened it to my waist, deliberately placing it a little further away from Ye Yang, lest it be stolen by Leng Gou.

As soon as I put away the dagger, I felt a chill down my back!

Damn it! Those girls were eyeing my dagger!

Women are like the dragons in Western legends, with a crazy obsession with jewelry and beautiful men!

How embarrassing!

Couldn't they stop staring at my dagger?

This was a knife exchange, you know?

An exchange of weapons between friends represents a promise.

If the other party is in trouble, even if you rush to their aid through the starry night, traveling thousands of miles, you must stand by their side and share life and death with them.

Those who exchange weapons are not necessarily brothers, but it represents an agreement between Jianghu people!

I coughed lightly twice, masking the embarrassment on my face: "Brother Jun, by helping me this time, you won't escape the eyes of the civil officials. Those bastards specialize in playing with people. If they cause you trouble, notify me immediately, and I'll ask my Ancestral Master for help."

"Haha..." Jun Jixue laughed, "I have the confidence not to listen to their orders, and they have reasons why they can't touch me. The relationship between me and the civil officials is only cooperation, not a relationship of superiors and subordinates."

Jun Jixue paused for a moment and said, "I have a request. I want your saber technique manual—Guo Qu (Past)."

I couldn't help but frown slightly. Guo Qu was a saber technique created by my master, which also represented a part of his past.

He once told me: One day in the future, if someone can understand "Guo Qu", you can pass this set of saber techniques to him, you are not suitable to use Guo Qu.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Jun Jixue said lightly, "If it's difficult, just pretend I didn't say anything!"

"That's not it!" I asked, "Can you understand Guo Qu?"

Jun Jixue said in a deep voice: "Jun mai quan xia ni xiao gu, wo ji ren jian xue man tou (Though Jun is buried beneath the spring, his bones rot into dust, I remain in the world, my head covered in snow). This is Jun Jixue."

Jun mai quan xia ni xiao gu, wo ji ren jian xue man tou.

Jun Jixue's voice carried infinite melancholy, endless longing, but also the desolation of never being able to return to the past.

It was hard for me to imagine that a person whose saber strikes were like a ruler descending upon the world would have such a poignant feeling.

I asked, "Isn't Brother Jun cultivating the way of dominance?"

Jun Jixue said, "The sword is the weapon of a gentleman. The saber is the weapon of a hegemon."

"Only by severing the affections of men and women can one use the saber to the most domineering and frenzied realm."

"Sometimes, the saber also represents severance."

"You also use a saber, so you must understand the deep meaning of the saber, right?"

I drew my twin sabers and placed them on the table: "I have a master named Dao Hun (Saber Soul)."

"He told me that the world has always admired the way of the sword and disliked the use of the saber."

"Because the sword is more in line with the Confucian way."

"The sword is an ancient sacred object, supreme and noble, revered by gods and men. It is easy to carry, elegant to wear, quick to use, can establish oneself and the country, and can practice benevolence and justice."

"What about the saber? At most, it's just four words: 'fierce as a tiger'."

"In the eyes of those scholar-officials, the saber is just a weapon used by inferior soldiers, lacking in change and not showing elegance. Saber users only have brute strength and are crude and lowly. Therefore, the sword can be deified, but the saber is not mainstream."

"Am I right?"

Seeing Jun Jixue nod, I continued: "However, there is also a saying: 'Raise sabers and spears to drive away jackals and wolves.' Those who protect our mountains and rivers and defend our homes are all 'brutes' who hold sabers and raise spears, unafraid of life and death!"

I stood up and pointed outside the tent: "Look at this vast snowfield, how many loyal souls and iron bones have been buried here? Back then, those people who couldn't even write their own names held broadswords made of raw iron and charged towards the well-equipped and well-trained enemy. Didn't they know that their blood would stain this beautiful land?"

"No, they knew that they would surely die, but they also knew that if they didn't raise their sabers to kill the enemy, the enemy's iron hooves would trample their homes."

"For this land where they were born and will be buried, they must hold their saber tightly and build our Great Wall with their flesh and blood!"

"Their saber techniques only have a move or two, and cannot even be called saber techniques. However, that is the strongest and most domineering saber technique in the world."

"Because the saber represents the guardian in their hearts. The saber is the disregard for life and death, and that is the ultimate in saber techniques."

I gently picked up my twin sabers: "This is Dao Hun's way of using the saber!"