Daqin Zhentiansi

Chapter 265: Eastern Wei Qingxiao Sword Palace, Sword Twenty
The martial arts of the world come from Daqin, and the swordsmanship of the world comes from the East.

The eastern border is both the Eastern Wei and the nine counties of the eastern border of the Qin Dynasty.

It is said that there are countless swordsmen competing in the East.

In the Eastern Frontier Army and in the Jianghu, countless sword masters from the two countries clashed.

In such a brilliant place of swordsmanship, Cao Qingquan's strength can be imagined as he is ranked 23rd in the swordsmanship of Wei State.

That's why when Cao Qingquan took action, the entire hall was filled with exclamations.

Xiao Lou frowned and was about to stand up when Han Xiao beside him raised his hand and grabbed his arm.

Han Xiao shook his head slightly towards Xiao Lou and whispered, "Zhang Yuan will handle it himself."

Xiao Lou narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Yuan who was standing still.

Since Zhang Yuan accepted the challenge, he has been ruthless and has killed two masters from Qi State in a row.

At this time, Cao Qingquan attacked in anger. If Zhang Yuan was defeated, his life would be in danger.

"Mr. Cao is a senior swordsman, and I have heard of his great name for a long time." Xiao Lou looked at Cao Qingquan heading towards Zhang Yuan and said loudly, "It's just that the Marquis of Zhenxi has just made an agreement not to use swords."

No use of force.

A sword is, of course, also a weapon.

A swordsman who can't use a sword?

Cao Qingquan laughed heartily, walked forward, put one hand behind his back, and pointed the other hand towards Zhang Yuan's eyebrows.

"Who says swordsmen like me must have a sword in their hands?"

He took a step forward, and the sword energy outside his body condensed into substance. In the entire hall, the swords in the scabbards of all the people wearing swords vibrated, and seemed to be about to fly out uncontrollably.

The sword intent is surging.

The sword is full of energy.

Such a scene is so magnificent.

This is the method of a great swordsman, whose mind can be directed outside of his body.

"There is no sword in the hand, but there is a sword in the heart!"

"Cao Twenty-Three Swords can already use his soul as a sword!"

Those in the hall who were familiar with the Eastern Wei swordsmanship opened their eyes wide and exclaimed in surprise.

Using the soul as a sword, you can wield it at will and cut off other people's souls in an instant!

"Such a miraculous skill can only be ranked 23rd on the Eastern Wei Sword Dao Ranking. The Eastern Wei Sword Dao is truly terrifying..."

Among the Taoists from the Qingtian Domain who were sitting nearby, a middle-aged Taoist with a peach wood sword on his back whispered, his words full of emotion.

Incredible skills.

In everyone's eyes, Cao Qingquan used his finger as a sword, moved ten feet in front of Zhang Yuan, and then stood still.

A gust of wind swept towards Zhang Yuan, and all the strength was concentrated in one finger, rushing towards Zhang Yuan's eyebrows.

This power seems invisible, yet tangible.

It can roll up the wind and clouds and transform into a sword.

This power seems tangible, but it is actually invisible.

The wind rushed to Zhang Yuan's eyebrows and dissipated in an instant, turning into a swirling sword light that wrapped around Zhang Yuan and Cao Qingquan's bodies.

"This is to directly transform the mind into a sword, and every move is a battle of souls." Looking at the illusion in the swirling sword light, the short-bearded old man who came from Pingchong Domain whispered.

"Cao Twenty-Three Swords used the means of swordsmanship to condense this sword. The sword intent is contained in his soul. Not to mention the young man from Qin State, even a martial arts master of the same level would have no power to fight back." Another old man with a short beard and wearing a hemp robe shook his head slightly.

"Hmph, who told this guy to be so ruthless?" The short-bearded old man who spoke earlier sneered.

"The battle between the souls is extremely dangerous. It's either death or injury..." Ouyang Ming, who was sitting below Ouyang Xu, spoke. It was unclear whether his words were a sigh of emotion or gloating.

Everyone looked at the two people standing opposite each other in the swirling sword light.

Any guesses as to the result?

Sun Jia smiled slightly and looked at Xiao Lou, who was sitting upright with his back tensed.

If this Qin expert died on the spot, would it greatly undermine the Qin's arrogance?
On the other side, Zhu Xitang clenched his hands slightly.

He didn't know if Zhang Yuan was Wang Mengxi's reincarnation. But even if he was, he probably wouldn't be able to stop Cao Qingquan's soul sword.

At the head of the hall, Ouyang Shucai's eyes flashed with brilliance as he stared straight ahead.

Among the people present, he was the only one who could sense the current situation of the battle between souls and spirits through the swirling sword light.

It was because he could sense it that he felt surprised.

The message conveyed by the sword light was that they were evenly matched!

A powerful swordsman from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, a master who can condense his soul into a sword, is actually evenly matched with the captain of the border county military guards of the Great Qin Dynasty in a battle of soul and sword?

In fact, the scene in the place where the souls were fighting, which Ouyang Shu could not see, was not evenly matched at all.

When Cao Qingquan's sword of the soul pierced Zhang Yuan's eyebrows and went straight into his mind, the sword light was shattered by a flying sword in Zhang Yuan's mind.

"The art of flying swords—"

Cao Qingquan's soul stood with a sword in hand, staring at the sword light that was about to chop him down with his eyes wide open.

The flying sword spun and pierced his soul in a flash.

Cao Qingquan tried to block with the sword in his hand, but it was completely useless.

The flying sword is originally controlled by the soul and true essence. At this moment, the flying sword in the soul's mind is extremely fast, piercing Cao Qingquan's soul into pieces.

Just when his soul was about to collapse, the mountain collapsed in the illusion in front of him.

For a moment, Cao Qingquan seemed to have returned to his childhood.

At that time, he was not yet Cao Twenty-Three Swords.

Qingxiao Sword Palace of Eastern Wei.

Three hundred beginner disciples practiced swordsmanship together.

Cao Qingquan stood out among his peers, and then entered the inner sect and became a disciple of Liu Yichen, one of the three masters of the Sword Mansion.

Liu Yichen was originally a master of swordsmanship, but because he was injured in the battle with the master of Daqin, his cultivation could not improve at all, and he could only accumulate attainments in swordsmanship.

Similarly, Liu Yichen extended the swordsmanship he had practiced to the Eighteen Postures.

Among Liu Yichen's disciples, the eldest disciple Cheng Shouzheng comprehended the Sixteen Postures. With these Sixteen Postures Sword Techniques, he dominated the Qingxiao Sword Palace and became the number one swordsman of the younger generation in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Liu Yichen's legacy was originally intended to be passed on to Cheng Shouzheng.

But no one expected that Cao Qingquan would come from behind and in five years not only learned all of Liu Yichen's Eighteen Sword Techniques, but also derived Nineteen Sword Techniques.

Later, Liu Yichen died due to the backlash of his sword power, his tendons and veins were broken, and his disciples fought to compete for his orthodox identity.

In fact, it was a confrontation between Cao Qingquan's faction and Cheng Shouzheng's faction.

After three years, Cheng Shouzheng finally died. Cao Qingquan took over the Liu Yichen lineage, carried it forward, and cultivated the twentieth sword.

It was also with this sword that Cao Qingquan became the third master of Qingxiao Sword Palace.

But what outsiders don’t know is that the twentieth sword that Cao Qingquan practiced was not derived by him at all, but by Cheng Shouzheng.

Cheng Shouzheng had actually already mastered the twentieth sword, but in order not to overshadow his master's reputation, he deliberately only revealed the sixteenth sword.

Later, Liu Yichen died. Cheng Shouzheng and Cao Qingquan discussed that the two of them would attract attention from all parties in the name of competing for the orthodox inheritance, and also dig out those potential forces that were hostile to their lineage.

For three years, the two men, under the pretext of fighting, joined forces to kill all the forces that instigated and plotted against them.

Cheng Shouzheng also taught Cao Qingquan the twenty sword techniques he had learned, and told Cao Qingquan that after the matter of Qingxiao Sword Mansion was settled, he, Cheng Shouzheng, would leave Dongwei to pursue the sword technique.

Cheng Shouzheng never thought about controlling the inheritance.

But the more this happened, the more jealous Cao Qingquan became.

Why does the senior brother Cheng Shouzheng have a talent in swordsmanship that surpasses his?
Why can Cheng Shouzheng cultivate twenty swords?

Jealousy sprouted in my heart.

This hatred finally erupted until they joined forces to kill a sword master, and Cheng Shouzheng was seriously injured despite trying his best.

Zhang Yuan looked at the figure in his mind, in the ink painting, who was pierced through the chest by Cao Qingquan's sword and then fell off the cliff, with a gleam in his eyes.

As his mind was in turmoil, the face of the figure that fell in turned into him.

All of Cao Qingquan’s memories began to be reshaped!
(End of this chapter)