Absolute Choice
chapter-446

Everyone immediately felt perplexed, but they felt that Speechless was not a person who would lie. Mu Yuesheng was the first to speak. "Why do you say so? With the current situation, isn't Shi Xiaobai holding the advantage? They should be well-matched in strength at the very least, right? To end the battle in an instant is too..."

When Mu Yuesheng said to that point, she felt that Speechless's point of view was pushing it too far. That was because she absolutely refused to believe that Shi Xiaobai could be one-shot.

"Stupid!"

Speechless grunted and said, "Don't any of you realize that...the Hero King has yet to use her power of Sword Truth? She has been using Sword Intent to match Shi Xiaobai's Sword Truth! Now it seems like they are equally matched to the point of Shi Xiaobai taking a slight advantage, but what if the Hero King suddenly activates the power of Sword Truth? Do you understand? The Hero King has enough chips in hand that she can instantly tip the balance!"

Speechless' words immediately jolted everyone awake. They turned and realized that the pathetically retreating Hero King had not used her power of Sword Truth. In contrast, Shi Xiaobai had activated the power of his Sword Truth from the very beginning. And he had not deactivated it at all!

The power of Sword Truth was to convert mental energies and willpower into physical and substantial strength to augment oneself. The cost of activating it was extremely draining on one's mental energies!

How long has Shi Xiaobai had it activated? After having his Sword Truth mode activated for so long, it was likely that his mental energies were already completely drained!

As for the Hero King, she was in a completely different situation. She had yet to activate the power of her Sword Truth from the moment she began fighting Shi Xiaobai. Once she activated it, or if Shi Xiaobai finally could not continue having his Sword Truth activated, or if both things happened simultaneously, the scales of victory will tip to one side!

Mu Yuesheng anxiously asked, "Why, why hasn't the Hero King activated her power of Sword Truth? Going easy? Battle strategy? Or is it...because the Hero King has used the power of Sword Soul not long ago, so her mental energies are already drained?"

Speechless shook his head and said, "Not at all. It is indeed very draining to activate the power of Sword Soul, so there is no way to use it consecutively in a short period of time. However, it is not sufficient to completely drain the Hero King of her mental energy. And with the Hero King's endurance technique, her mental energies must be constantly recovering. Now, she is probably quickly recovering to the point where she can use the power of Sword Soul again. She can definitely afford the expenditure of the power of Sword Truth, but she did not choose to do so. It's not because she's going easy on Shi Xiaobai or because it's a battle strategy. Instead, it's because her Sword Truth is—Massacre!"

When Sunless heard that, her pupils constricted slightly as a hint of worry flashed in her eyes.

Mu Yuesheng did not know much about Sword Truths so she immediately asked puzzledly, "What does that mean?"

Speechless considered his words before saying, "If it's said that Sword Intent is an intent a swordsman imbues his sword techniques with, then Sword Truth is a swordsman's...obsession! A particular obsession will be the so-called Sword Truth. For example, Miss Sunless Ye, everyone knows she's a famous sword fanatic. She is deeply engrossed when it comes to swords, so when she comprehended her Sword Truth, Fanaticism is her obsession! The deeper her fanaticism is, the deeper her obsession is, which would make the power of her Sword Truth even more powerful! Everyone's obsession is different, so the Sword Truth one comprehends would always be different. And the Hero King's obsession is...massacring!"

Mu Yuesheng said in shock, "Why would the Hero King's obsession be massacring!?"

When Liu Yu heard that, he interrupted, "This Penniless Priest once saw a book of the savage history of the Hero King. In it, it tells of a story that is still fresh on This Penniless Priest's mind. That history book said that...at the age of three, the Hero King was thrown into an uninhabited island filled with wild beasts. She survived there alone for three years before being brought back to the Li family. Only then did she have a normal childhood."

"This Penniless Priest thought that it was just idle rumors and that it was some history that was cooked up. Even if one can survive alone in an uninhabited island filled with beasts for three years, sickness and loneliness can mentally torture that person till she collapses mentally, much less a three-year-old child. Even a thirty-year-old adult might not be able to tolerate it. However, it was exactly at the age of six when the Hero King showcased her strength to the public. At six years old, she was the champion of China's Child Tournament. At the age of eight, she became champion of China's Youth Tournament and at ten, she won the World Youth Tournament. Furthermore, she won it for four consecutive years. The life of the Hero King after she was six was basically that of the academic route. Furthermore, she participated in various competitions to train herself. Those competitions had very formal rules, so would her obsession be massacring like a mass-murderer? If her obsession is really massacring, the only explanation that would work boils down to what happened before the age of six. In addition to that piece of history, could it be...?"

Speechless sighed and said with a heavy look, "That piece of history should be true. The Hero King had generated an obsession with massacring from the tragic memories of when she was age three to six. Her character during her childhood and teenage life was labeled as an 'emotionless machine'. It is probably because of those memories that she sealed her emotions. When the Hero King matured, she seldom used her sword techniques. And for some reason, her personality changed, causing her to be unwilling to use the Sword Truth of Massacre. To go from a killing machine to a Hero that saved the world, it's unknown what she had experienced. It still remains a mystery of the person or matter that changed her."

The topic of discussion suddenly turned heavy as everyone's heart sank.

Liu Yu glanced at Speechless in an undetected manner. He realized a matter, but he did not know how to ask it. Since the Hero King's Sword Truth was massacring, as a youth who had always been imitating the Hero King, to the point of showing an identical Sword Truth as the Hero King, wouldn't his Sword Truth also be massacring?

What happened to that youth?

The Hero King had an obsession with massacring because of a tragic encounter in her childhood. But what about Speechless?

In order to imitate the Hero King, what did he experience? What could have forced him to generate an obsession with massacring?

That was probably a secret he did not wish to reveal.

Speechless Li was indeed not simple.

With this thought in mind, Liu Yu said, "It seems like the topic has gone astray. The Hero King's Sword Truth and obsession is massacring, but what does that have to do with activating her Sword Truth?"

That was the essential question. Liu Yu steered the off-topic discussion back.

Speechless gave Liu Yu an appreciative look and said, "The Hero King isn't activating her Sword Truth not because she doesn't want to activate it, but because she can't do it. Although it's unknown what the reason is, she very clearly can't bring the herself to kill Shi Xiaobai. Without any killing intent, she naturally can't produce an obsession with massacring. Thus, her Sword Truth can't be activated. I believe she is currently in a dilemma. She is hesitating if she should kill Shi Xiaobai or not. Therefore, once she is no longer in a dilemma..."

When Speechless said that, his expression turned slightly uglier. He looked at Shi Xiaobai, who was engaging in an intense battle, before turning his head and looked at the rest with a serious expression. He said solemnly, "Once the Hero King is no longer in a dilemma, or once she affirms her killing intent and activates her Sword Truth, the balance will immediately be broken. Furthermore, under her obsession with massacring, the Hero King will not hold back. It would be a definite deathblow. That is to say, once the Hero King affirms her desire to kill Shi Xiaobai, Shi Xiaobai will be killed at the moment the balance is broken!" IChooseDogLeading (我选择狗带) when read in Chinese sounds like I Choose Go Die. It was a meme that resulted from a former member of famous Korean boygroup, EXO, TAO (Huang Zitao). At a concert, there was a part in a rap that where he said "", but due to a mispronunciation, it sounded like he will not easily choose to be led by dogs. This phrase now means 'I'd rather die/I choose death'.