Chapter 816: Do Not Say There Are No Confidants on the Road Ahead, Who in the World Doesn't Know You!

There were not only accounts of experiences, funny gaming stories, and embarrassing moments, but also some people who, in their very hearts, truly held memories engraved deep into their bones.

"Speaking of the most deeply etched memory..."

"What I want to say perhaps doesn't have that much to do with games, but it is something that must be said today."

If before there was joy, then as Ning Bi read this passage, the atmosphere below gradually fell into silence.

"This should be our final memory, and also the one with the highest popularity," Ning Bi spoke aloud.

"What is a martial artist... and how do we interpret the martial dao we have always pursued?"

"We spent our entire lives searching for it, yet found no answer."

"Not until I saw that old man named the Sword Saint, and that swordsman named Wuming."

"Not until I witnessed that match of peerless elegance at the peak of the Forbidden City on the night of the full moon."

"Did I suddenly come to a realization."

"This is a spine that would rather break than bend!"

"This is a grandeur that merges heaven and earth into one breath, broad enough to contain all things."

"This is a willpower of ceaseless self-improvement, of constantly transcending oneself."

"This, is the martial dao we seek to pursue."

"Today I have nothing to say but thanks, thank you for teaching us this; sheer martial might represents nothing, but with willpower and a spine, we are true martial artists, and only then can the martial dao be passed down forever."

The signatures read: Nalan Hongwu, Zong Wu, Liang Heihu... and all other martial artists.

At this moment, everyone fell silent.

...

"Why did I come to cultivate the immortal path?" Ning Bi still did not stop.

"Immortality? Perhaps. But even the Patriarch could not attain immortality, let alone us? In truth, from the very beginning, I felt that this was merely a laughable means for cultivators to deceive themselves and others."

"I only knew... in this dog-eat-dog world, if you do not cultivate immortality to trample others beneath your feet, then one day, others will trample you beneath theirs."

"And I, just so happened to possess the aptitude."

"Ask me what I pursue in cultivating immortality? It is just to trample more people beneath my feet one day."

"Until I saw those cultivators flying on swords like immortals."

"Until I heard that roar of 'My fate is determined by me, not by heaven'."

"Only then did I know that our mission is truly to seek transcendence... this is the Dao our Patriarch once spoke of."

"Only at this moment do I truly feel that I am alive, not struggling under the coercion of others; my life belongs to myself, and I am a cultivator!"

All the cultivators present suddenly stared in silence.

Inside their hearts, a voice also seemed to begin roaring.

"Unyielding to heaven, unsubmissive to fate, we... are such cultivators!"

The Nanhua Sect, Nanhua Square.

The Grand Jin Kingdom, the Imperial Courtyard.

...

One prosperous place after another in the mortal realm was broadcasting this live scene.

Recalling all the events of the past, flying on swords... Sword Twenty-Three...

"Perhaps there will be a time when martial arts are submerged in the torrent of the era, but the spirit saturated within the hearts of the masters who created these martial arts will never lose its color to the erosion of time."

At this moment, perhaps we... can proudly point at this heaven and earth, shouting: "We, are cultivators!"

"That is an integrity and grandeur that exists within our chests!"

...

"I am an assassin."

"I once lived a life of hiding my head and showing my tail, like a rat crossing the street."

"Hiding in the filthiest places, handling the filthiest matters."

"I was once lost, and we too once came from a kingdom filled with sunshine."

"We wanted to stand beneath the sunshine once more, but always... things went against our wishes."

"I didn't even dare to openly disclose my profession before others; I considered it a disgrace."

"But now, every time I stand upon a high place, looking down at the earth like an eagle, I even want to proudly rush down and tell everyone, I am an assassin!"

"Here, I pay tribute once again to all the master assassins; furthermore, we really love Talon's Assassin's Creed skin!"

"Allow me to ask once more, all you assassins, are you still lost now? What is your creed and belief!?" Ning Bi read out this passage almost in a shout.

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted!"

"Fight for freedom!"

A deafening roar instantly erupted from beneath the stage!

...

Only after a long time did it gradually quiet down.

And at this moment...

"I used to think that only when power reached the point of transcending mortality and entering sainthood would one be worthy of being crowned 'Saint', but when I reached this realm, I found it to be nothing special."

"Now, my view has changed; I believe that sheer power may not be enough to merit the word Saint, but a certain class of people, they are the true incarnations of light, and they are surely worthy of this word!"

"Humility, honor, sacrifice, valor... only when I truly witnessed the existence of such beings did I understand what true honor is."

"If anyone asks me what a miracle is, and whether I have seen one, I can proudly tell him, I really have! It is a thread of light, a glimmer of brightness in the darkness."

"I can tell him with ultimate pride, this, is a miracle!"

"If there truly is a deity in this world that can command our reverence."

"It is right here!"

At this moment, even across the Western Continent and the Immortal Ruins Continent, in all the spell projections and major crowded squares, this very scene was being broadcasted in the projections.

"Believe in the Holy Light!"

Instantly, as if a burst of thunder rolled across heaven and earth, the sounds of roaring and shouting almost drowned out everything!

And right at this time...

"With so much gratitude expressed, I think..." Fairy Qingyun spoke up, "The person we ought to thank the most is one more individual; it is he who brought us all of this, and today is an extraordinary day, for it is this person's birthday."

"Let us all offer our congratulations to him, shall we!"

"Happy Birthday—!"

"Ah—! Today is the Boss's birthday?!" A group of elves, knights of the Golden Gryphon Knight Order... and so on, all suddenly came to the realization.

Then they cried out in surprise: "Happy Birthday!"

Xiaoyue nearly leapt from her seat: "Ah! Why didn't anyone tell me! You all... are infuriating this princess to death!"

Regardless of everything else she dashed straight toward the Jiuhua City shop.

It was not merely upon and beneath the stage, nor was it just within the various shop fronts.

Even before the live broadcasts and projection screens, people numbering in the millions and tens of millions shouted like mountain torrents and ocean tsunamis.

Needless to say for the Cultivation Relic Continent, even in the Western Continent, across nations great and small, a vast multitude of people sat before the projections at this moment, watching this scene.

At this very instant... witnessing those heartfelt blessings uttered one after another.

There was even a colossal cake that had appeared within the shop by some unknown means...

Fang Qi suddenly felt that, having come to this alien world, he truly was not alone.

"Here, we also have a phrase to give to Boss Fang," Ning Bi and Fairy Qing Yun spoke in unison, "Do not say there are no confidants on the road ahead, for who under heaven does not know you!"

Fang Qi stared blankly at the spectacle before his eyes, staring blankly at these people.

All along, it had always been he who brought endless shock and pleasant surprises to them.

But at this moment, his heart, for the very first time, was truly and deeply shaken.

For the first time, he did not know what was best to say.

After a long while, he finally uttered a sentence, somewhat unable to contain himself: "Thank you all for liking them, thank you."

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