The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Yichen slowly woke up.

I found myself lying on the sixth floor of the Tower of Babel.

There was no one else in the building except him, and there were no illusions.

He slowly got up from the floor, stretched his body, and sat in meditation to regulate his breathing.

It circulates the body's true energy, unblocks blocked meridians, and relieves body fatigue and hard injuries from the inside out.

During the recovery process, his mind gradually became clearer, and Jiang Yichen could only describe himself as "fortunate" for his first return to the Tongtian Challenge.

Just like the trial in Dragon and Tiger Lane, the injuries and pains in the illusion are all real.

Although the Tianji Sect's creation of the illusion in the tower is ingenious, and the illusion can cut off the connection between the two parties according to the challenger's physical and mental condition, and promptly throw out the trial warriors who are seriously injured or unconscious and have completely lost the ability to move and challenge, it is inevitable that some trial warriors have not completely left the illusion, and because of continuous injury, fatal blows or excessive blood loss, they are not discovered and sent out by the tower guards in time, and thus lose their lives or suffer permanent injuries that are difficult to cure.

There are only one or two such examples in a hundred, but as the years go by, the number becomes quite large.

Yes, the Tower of Babel trial is also a life-and-death combat exercise.

Among the rules of the Tower of Babel trial summarized by the trial warriors, there is one: those who are not brave enough to show off their strength do not have to enter, and those who are too brave are not allowed to enter.

Firstly, without the desire to surpass oneself and become stronger through battles, one will never be able to gain anything or make any progress in actual combat.

Secondly, he has no self-awareness and just pretends to be brave and capable, which is tantamount to seeking death.

In the first trial, Jiang Yichen did not try to be too brave, but he was a little careless due to the smooth passage of the first few levels.

Fortunately, after being knocked unconscious by "Ma Lou"'s stick, he was "blasted out" to challenge the illusion. If he had been beaten severely in the vital parts while unconscious, the consequences would be unimaginable.

About an incense stick later, Jiang Yichen tilted his neck, stood up, and walked downstairs with a beat of luck and fear in his heart.

At the entrance of the first floor, Leng Mei was also sitting cross-legged and regulating his breathing. His bloodstained shoulders made his shirt look darker, and his face was pale.

Jiang Yichen came to Leng Mei's side like a gentle breeze to check on her injuries.

Only after confirming that the wounds on his shoulder blades were only as deep as a fingernail did I feel relieved.

Leng Mei, who had already noticed Jiang Yichen approaching, opened her eyes and glimpsed a narrow bruise on his right cheek. She chuckled and whispered, "You were knocked unconscious by a stick, right?"

Jiang Yichen was embarrassed and puzzled and asked: "You too?"

Leng Mei shook her head and said, "I surrendered on my own accord. Senior Brother Xuan Xiao was too difficult to deal with. This injury was caused by him."

Jiang Yichen immediately asked: "Do you have...?"

"No." Leng Mei replied even faster, while holding up Jiang Yichen's face and rubbing it gently, "It mainly depends on the brain."

Jiang Yichen was naturally not upset because Leng Mei reached the eighth floor while he was defeated on the sixth floor. He just thought that if Leng Mei could perform "Jinghong Jie Gap" at the critical moment, passing through the Tower of Babel would be a piece of cake for her.

Hearing Leng Mei admit that she did not cheat, Jiang Yichen believed it without a doubt but also felt ashamed.

The tower was not an absolutely quiet place, so the two of them said nothing more and walked out of the tower together.

We entered the tower early in the morning and came out in the afternoon.

In addition to the aches and pains in their bodies, the two also heard empty sounds coming from their internal organs.

After the two returned the Tongtian Order to the tower keeper and completed the registration for leaving the tower, the next thing they had to do was to solve the problem of lunch.

Just at this stage of registration to leave the tower, a strange thing happened.

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The front of the palm-sized Tongtian Order is engraved with two Zhongzhou characters "Tongtian".

On the back is a relief of a miniature version of the outline of the Tower of Babel.

There are ten stepped positive patterns on the center line of the miniature Tower of Babel.

Every time a trial warrior completes a level, these positive patterns will react with the illusion magnetic field from bottom to top according to the number of levels cleared to complete the color coating.

Passing the battlefield trial mode will be coated with ink, while passing the heavenly trial mode will be coated with gold.

The tower keeper records the trial results for the trial warriors based on the changes in the color of the yang patterns. Many trial warriors who have not yet made achievements on the battlefield can exchange their excellent results for special supplies, while the tower keeper needs to recover the Tongtian Order to demagnetize and restore the color of the yang patterns.

However, when the old tower keeper registered the two people, he reported the scores of "third floor" and "fifth floor" respectively.

The old man deducted two levels from Leng and Jiang's clearance levels.

The two did not care too much about the opportunity to exchange good grades for supplies, but were extremely surprised by the old man's strange behavior.

The old man spoke to them in the Oirat language rather than the Central Plains dialect.

After reporting the two people's scores, the old man did not immediately take notes.

Leng and Jiang also saw doubt and suspicion in each other's eyes.

Seeing that the two men still had doubts in their hearts but did not speak to defend themselves or correct themselves, the old man guarding the tower slowly and slightly bent his body to record the two results in the Wala language.

Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen watched the old man finish writing silently, waiting for a certain action or a certain sentence that would surely come. "Will you two enter the tower for the trial at this time in three days?"

One sentence contains two time information.

First, it is certain that Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen can still win the next round of Tongtianling Challenge.

The second thing was to confirm with Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen whether they would enter the tower in the early morning three days later.

The old man guarding the tower still spoke in Wala language.

Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen looked at each other and replied in the same Wala language: "Yes."

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Leng and Jiang kept their promise and recovered from their injuries. Three days later, they handed over the newly acquired Tongtian Order to the old man guarding the tower and started a new challenge to pass the level.

With Leng Mei's personal instructions, Jiang Yichen felt more confident when facing Ma Lou again.

Ma Lou had a dark complexion, a thin face, a pointed mouth and sunken cheeks, and thick hair and beard. In addition, he was good at wielding a long stick, so he was known as "Little Wukong" in the martial arts world fifty years ago.

It is a pity that the martial arts of such a talented person could not be fully inherited. For example, what Li Zixuan and his master learned were just the "scraps" of the Malou stick skills.

Jiang Yichen was glad that such unique stick skills could be recorded and preserved in this form, but he also regretted that he could only see it in the Tower of Babel.

Ma Lou's stick technique is both offensive and defensive.

The main movements of the chopping stick include leaping and chopping, and other swift chopping movements.

It has strong impact force, fierce lethality, and is also maneuverable and capable of maneuvering, making it the main means of attack.

The opponent's hands are often numb and weak from being hit by Ma Lou's powerful sticks one after another.

  If the enemy has strong resistance and counterattacks fiercely, Ma Lou can expand his range of movement by raising his stick, dodge attacks, avoid killing moves, and create a little space in the desperate situation where there is no escape or avoidance, and in turn he can launch a large-scale counterattack!

The stick can shake out gun flowers like a spear to give the enemy continuous and intensive blows, eventually making the enemy lose sight of the big picture and unable to defend.

If Ma Lou were to be reborn, Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen would never be able to defeat their opponent without risking their lives.

But in the illusion of the Tower of Babel, as long as the mobility of "Ma Lou" can be restricted, outstanding killers like Leng and Jiang can find the opportunity to kill with one blow.

Leng Mei's trick is to set up a formation.

Use the Jing Gate in the Eight Gates Formation to continuously speed up yourself.

Then set up a series of interconnected injury and death gates around Ma Lou and in the direction of movement.

The opponent in the illusion who is "deeply determined to kill" will attack the challenger without hesitation no matter what kind of swords and fire are ahead.

Even if Ma Lou can avoid 98% or 99% of the forty or fifty traps, as long as he fails to avoid the 91%, he will surely hit 92%. There is no need for 93. Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen can already complete the kill!

Came to the seventh floor.

Although Jiang Yichen did not bring the shining Iron Flower Sword to Wala to show off, before accepting the generous gift from Gu Xinhun, he learned from the other party about the origin of the sword and the small troubles that would be caused.

This little trouble is the possibility of facing Zhang Baoyan's pursuit.

Jiang Yichen has not yet encountered Zhang Baoyan himself, but he has the opportunity to fight with his illusion in advance.

Zhang Baoyan's strange temper could not be displayed in the Tower of Babel, but his abilities and shortcomings were inherited as is.

——Helpless against fast-moving opponents, and unable to cope with quick moves with high explosive power.

So, Jiang Yichen mobilized the "Formless Sitting and Forgetting Mental Method" to bring his lightness skills to the extreme, and used the whisk sword to dissolve the "Zhang Baoyan"'s determined slashing blows in the wind time and time again, like a fly that could not be caught or hit, making the illusion Zhang Baoyan exhausted to deal with it.

Then, through the breathing method "Purple Qi Coming from the East" learned in "Purple Cloud Divine Art", he quickly collected the spiritual energy around his body and transformed it into the body's meridians. He borrowed the power of heaven and earth to speed up the flow of the true Qi in his body like the water of the Yangtze River, completing thirty-six circles of more than a hundred feet in three breaths.

  Even though he has not yet achieved the instantaneous skill of Luo Piaoling teaching and learning at the source of Biluo Lake in Jiangning County, he has finally "bred" the "Hidden Dragon in the Abyss"!

When practicing "Zixia Divine Art", Jiang Yichen had made many attempts, and the fastest one would take at least five or six breaths to complete thirty-six rounds of true energy circulation.

Now that he is in actual combat, the effect exerted by Fu Zhi Xin Ling is outstanding.

He could even feel the Dark Sword in his hand was unusually excited!

It was not dumb, but a sound like a dragon's roar surrounded the ears!

  As Jiang Yichen pointed his sword, sword energy gushed out in an instant, breaking through the air like a whistle!

The phantom Zhang Baoyan was struck by such a thundering blow, his one eye widened, his pupil shrank suddenly, and he looked at his pierced chest in an anthropomorphic way, then looked at his opponent in disbelief, and fell backwards while standing on one leg, disappearing into thin air!

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Jiang Yichen still remembers that Xuan Xiao was trapped in the Wudang secret cave without seeing the sun for thirteen years.

Judging from the time, it seems that at that time, the people of Tianji Sect had just heard about Xuan Xiao's experience of being stripped of his cultivation and forced to reflect on his mistakes. While sighing with regret, they used the illusion of the Tower of Babel to record Xuan Xiao's amazing talent.

They didn't expect that Wudang Xuan Xiao would make a comeback.

I didn't expect that this "Xuan Xiao" would become a difficult obstacle for Jiang Yichen and Leng Mei to overcome. (End of this chapter)