Zhu Tian: Becoming a Sword Master from Martial Arts

Chapter 4: Dragon Pond Sword Enlightenment
The Lin clan's family meeting, under the watchful eyes of the public, was interrupted in a rather comical way and postponed for a day.

The next day, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the clan meeting, Lin Xuan did not show up again. As expected, Lin Langtian won the championship of this clan meeting in the presence of countless people.

However, the value of this championship remains to be considered. Of course, it is definitely more valuable than the runner-up or third place.

For a time, as the news of the Lin clan meeting spread, the name Lin Xuan also attracted the attention of many top forces in the entire Great Yan Dynasty.

The gifted Lin Langtian has already made many forces begin to feel wary of the Lin clan. And now, there is another Lin Xuan who is younger than Lin Langtian but even more wicked. Naturally, other forces are also paying more attention to the Lin clan.

However, this kind of attention soon faded away, because, ever since he had taken action at the clan meeting, Lin Xuan had resumed his life of hard practice.

Of course, he is still practicing hard, but Lin Xuan's status in the Lin clan is completely different.

In the eyes of other members of the Lin clan, Lin Xuan is no longer the adopted son of the former clan leader Lin Fan, but the first genius of the Lin clan and the young clan leader of the Lin clan!
Originally, the voice of the young clan leader was only a small part. After all, that day, at the clan meeting, Lin Langtian also showed his amazing shaping ability, which was only half a step away from Lin Xuan's shaping realm.

However, Lin Langtian was hesitant to take this half step, which also caused Lin Xuan's status in the Lin clan to increase sharply. Except for a few elders who put everything on Lin Langtian, almost all the elders and clan members supported Lin Xuan.

And after three years, when Lin Langtian finally broke through the Formation Realm, the position of the young clan leader was completely owned by Lin Xuan, even though he himself had never cared about it.

Of course, this was only within the Lin clan. In the outside world, because Lin Xuan had been practicing hard, he quickly faded out of the public's sight. However, Lin Langtian had an impressive record. Gradually, the title of the Lin clan's first genius once again returned to Lin Langtian.

After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Lin Xuan, this genius who suddenly appeared and quickly disappeared, was most likely just something the Lin clan boasted about.

But for Lin Xuan, neither the support within the clan nor the reputation outside the clan had the slightest effect. Compared with these so-called reputations, what troubled Lin Xuan more was entering the Tao.

kendo!

What is kendo? Or, what is the purpose of holding a sword?
It has been six years. Lin Xuan has been thinking about this question since the clan meeting ended. After six years, Lin Xuan still feels very confused.

Dayan County, outside Lincheng City, there is the Falling Dragon Pond.

It is said that this deep pool was a huge pit left behind after a real dragon from the dragon clan fell in ancient times, which eventually formed this huge deep pool.

Because there is a very faint trace of dragon energy in the pool water, this place has always been loved by various dragon-blooded monsters. There are many powerful monsters hiding in this deep pool, including some monsters in the realm of creation. It has always been a taboo place for humans.

But today, there was a human figure on this vast expanse of water.

The man was wearing a gray and white coarse cloth robe. He did not have any special aura and looked like an ordinary young man. His untied black hair was slowly flying in the breeze above the lake.

But if there really was someone here and saw the man with his own eyes, he would never regard him as an ordinary young man, because an ordinary young man would never be like that man, standing calmly on the water with his eyes closed, without any fluctuations in his energy or mental power.

It was as if the man had merged with the pool of water under his feet. He was part of the water, or rather, this huge pool of water was part of him. The man's eyes were tightly closed, and his face, which did not look particularly stunning at first glance, was just like the abnormally calm surface of the water today.

In front of the man, two feet above the water, there was a sword strangely floating, a sword that looked equally ordinary.

But the two human figures and sword shadows that seemed to be looking at each other from a distance were so similar and harmonious, as if they were one and the same.

Lin Xuan closed his eyes tightly, sensing the sword in front of him. At the same time, he was constantly exploring in his heart what his swordsmanship should be like.

In Lin Xuan's mind, countless sword masters kept flashing. Through the sword heart in his body, he had also carefully comprehended the swordsmanship of many sword masters with the help of the system, such as Dugu Qiubai, Ye Gucheng, Ximen Chuxue...

In order to be able to understand their swordsmanship more truly, Lin Xuan even reproduced their swordsmanship in this world.

Lin Xuan has practiced the Sword Demon's Dugu Nine Swords, the Sword God's Wanmei Sword Technique, and the Sword Immortal's Tianwai Feixian by Ye Gucheng, the Lord of Baiyun City.

The Sword Demon's strategy of striking back after being attacked, everything can be turned into a sword, Lin Xuan had already mastered it, this is the sword heart, with a sword in the heart, everything in the world can be turned into a sword.

Compared to the Sword Demon, Lin Xuan felt a stronger sword aura from Ximen Chuxue and Ye Gucheng.

But Lin Xuan felt that Ximen Chuxue's sword was too cold. If a person wielded a sword for the purpose of killing, or if he felt that killing was an art, then this sword would be too ruthless.

The sword is the king of all weapons. It is both the sword of the gentleman and the sword of the king!

A gentleman is as gentle as jade, a modest gentleman should have a benevolent heart. A king should have great power over the world and be invincible, and he should have an invincible spirit of moving forward.

Just like the double edges of a sword, one edge is for the enemy, the other is for oneself, one is for destruction, the other is for protection. Destruction is for the sake of protection, and because of the need for protection, there is this sword of destruction!

Compared to Ximen Chuxue's ruthlessness, the sword is loyal to the man, Lin Xuan is more inclined to Ye Gucheng's statement, be loyal to the sword, be loyal to the heart!
Of course, the sword of sincerity is not the sword in the hand, but the sword in the heart, the sword art that one has practiced!

Just as Ye Gucheng thought, with sincerity and upright intentions, man and sword are one, heart and Tao are one, without any flaw or stain, this is what it means to be clear and bright!
"The double blades of the sword, defend against the enemy and protect the heart!"

Suddenly, the figure in the coarse cloth stained with blood flashed through Lin Xuan's mind, and he felt suddenly enlightened!
“So, the sword in your hand should be wielded to pursue your own sword path and uphold your own sword heart!”

Juggernaut!

So, this is his swordsmanship!

(End of this chapter)