Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 231 All Laws as the Eye
After crossing an invisible boundary, the restlessness in the air, as if a storm was about to break out at any moment, instantly subsided.

The quiet forest air made me feel a little out of sorts for a moment.

On the second level, in the Hidden Edge Plain, reside the heroic spirits of those sword-wielding warriors. No matter how rampant the sword energy is, it will be subdued by them.

However, the absence of those sword energies and gales does not mean that the second level is easier. Within the faint white mist flowing before our eyes, there are always some denser clusters of energy gathering together, vaguely revealing human-shaped forms in their illusions.

Those are the heroic spirits of sword energy lingering in this place, but they will not actively seek trouble in the forest until they are disturbed.

But if you go further into the woods, they won't be so polite.

Coincidentally, the forest doesn't treat them any better either.

As one strides into the forest, the spirits of swordsmen emerge from the mist.

They were crystal clear like glass, and their bodies were enveloped in a sharp sword intent.

However, even when four or five heroic spirits appeared at the same time, these heroic spirits, who adhered to the basic swordsmanship of their lives, did not choose to rush forward.

However, the attack was launched solely by a sword-wielding hero closest to the forest.

This is a heroic spirit that wields two swords.

Without a word when they met in the forest, they crossed their swords and unleashed a cross of cold light.

He raised his sword to defend himself in the forest, the sound of the blades clashing like a dragon's roar.

Then the sword spirit spun and soared into the air, feinting with its left sword while raising its right sword from below.

With a "rip" sound, the fabric at Lin Jian's chest was torn open, revealing a body with a faint golden hue underneath.

He unleashed his inner energy in the forest and slashed his opponent away with a single sword strike.

His body was circulating internal energy, and a sword strike that pierced through the sky was brewing.

Unexpectedly, the hero's eyes lit up with a blinding white light, and his sword energy surged around him, almost transforming into a giant physical sword. With his two swords combined, he unleashed a powerful cleaving motion, and a sword beam nearly a hundred feet long slashed down into the forest.

Caught off guard, Lin Jian had no time to continue gathering power for his killing move and had to retreat hastily, but he still couldn't dodge the completely solidified giant sword energy.

Fortunately, the Golden Spirit Body was powerful enough to withstand the attack, but its entire body was sent flying to a great distance.

This attack actually drove them back to the outermost Lifeng Valley.

Seeing that the intruder in the forest had been driven back to the outermost Lifeng Valley, the sword spirit that was the opponent did not chase after him to kill him, but instead sat in meditation in the void with the air of a master.

It did not continue to turn into mist, nor did it wander off to other places.

Although the pair of eyes that were flashing white light were closed, Lin Jian could still sense a faint connection of energy that had been established between them.

This connection will not be severed until he completely leaves this Sword Ruins Secret Realm.

Only when Lin Jian is completely driven away, or when the spirit of this hero is completely captured by Lin Jian, can this connection be severed.

Lin Jian did not rush to retaliate, but instead sat cross-legged on the spot and began to introspect.

The good news is that, after being struck by the opponent, Jin Ling Shen immediately recorded some secrets about the opponent's moves, and a trace of the true energy in his Qi Sea quietly transformed into a purer Tai Bai Xuan Gang.

In this space filled with sharp sword intent, any tempering and challenges will become nourishment for Lin Jian to rush towards the Golden Core stage.

The bad news is that the opponent's moves are quite troublesome.

These sword spirits possess unpredictable and varied sword techniques, each with its own unique style.

To become the core obsession of these heroic souls, the swordsmanship they are currently using is all the swordsmanship they were most proficient in and deeply understood during their lifetimes.

Although he himself had some understanding of the most basic Lingying Fenguang Sword of the Zhengyang Sect, his less than ten years of hard training might not be as good as others' lifelong understanding.

Faced with these sword-wielding heroes, one can either crush them with sheer strength based on cultivation level, or dismantle their moves with swordsmanship to defeat them.

In this place that restricts the strength of Golden Core cultivators, the raw power of these sword qi heroes is generally not enough to be easily defeated by intruding cultivators based on their cultivation level. Therefore, for a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the forest, it is almost impossible to achieve a miracle through brute force.

He had to break through the opponent's attack with swordsmanship, and in a way that was far more ingenious than that of those Golden Core cultivators.

With his eyes closed in meditation, Lin Jian began to recall all the moves that the sword spirit he had just witnessed.

The white light transformed into countless images in my mind, and in an instant, it even began to multiply, attempting to completely suppress and strangle me on the spot.

Lin Jian's eyes darted around rapidly under his closed gaze, and several possible solutions quickly came to mind.

However, not all of these methods are necessarily effective.

Should we continue to struggle through countless trials and errors to find the only chance of winning?

That would be too much of a drain on oneself.

To force my way into this secret realm, which is generally only accessible to those at the Golden Core stage, with my Foundation Establishment cultivation level, I must consume far less energy than those others in order to obtain as much feedback as possible.

Recklessly forcing your way through time and time again is not a good strategy.

Fortunately, he also had a magical artifact called the Gilded Exquisite Pagoda.

Its third feature, Phantom Slaughter, allows him to simulate battle scenarios with all the opponents he has encountered in the forest within the tower, enabling him to counter their moves without restriction.

Lin Jian stretched out his palm, and a small tower appeared out of thin air in his palm. It then slowly rose into the air and hovered above his head, casting a faint golden light on Lin Jian's body.

In a blur of consciousness, Lin Jian found himself in a hazy, virtual space.

On the ground, where wisps of white smoke billowed, the crystal-clear spirit of the twin swordsman reappeared before them.

The familiar tactics were used to launch another attack, but Lin Jian responded with his own devised variations.

However, faced with the Lin Jian's unusual moves, the twin sword spirits responded with different variations.

Those were the changes in the heroic spirit's moves observed in the forest and the direct perception of the golden spirit body. Even though they had deviated from the previous development path, this sword qi heroic spirit could still counter and break each other's moves with the forest.

However, as the two sword styles changed several more times, until the sword qi spirit's moves began to be used repeatedly and no longer had any effect on the forest, the virtual sword qi spirit inside the gilded exquisite tower instantly turned into a patch of light and dissipated.

The observations in the forest ended there. Once the previous observation progress was exceeded, the spirits that continued to entangle themselves no longer had any significance in tempering the forest.

The mind is ever-changing, all happening in the blink of an eye.

As his consciousness returned to the forest behind his body, he slowly opened his eyes. The sword energy and gale that had been so close to his body had barely blown away.

However, it is insignificant compared to the protective screen of the gilded pagoda.

Lin Jian reached out and summoned the pagoda back, then strode forward again.

...The heroic spirit erupted once more, and with a swing of his twin swords, the sword energy instantly transformed into thousands of light blades shooting in all directions.

Then, they all arrived at the same destination, tracing arcs from countless angles as they pursued the main body in the forest.

The same radiance reappeared in a virtual space filled with wisps of white smoke, but Lin Jian escaped from it by a hair's breadth.

The sword, its aura piercing the chest of the sword spirit, transformed into a longsword, causing the spirit's crystal-like body to collapse and dissipate completely after a brief moment of stillness.

A light mist blended into the space and disappeared into the white fog, while the remaining core radiance transformed into a stream of light that entered the forest between the eyebrows.

A fragment of a technique called "Double Sword Brilliant Slash" faintly appeared in Lin Jian's mind. Having defeated his opponent, Lin Jian instantly gained the essence of the swordsmanship that his opponent had poured his life's blood into. It was not a complete swordsmanship, nor did it have any accompanying techniques or mental cultivation methods.

Yes, only a few core moves and a thorough understanding of a certain sword intent.

Of course, the most important thing was the sudden surge of a small mass of Taibai Xuan Gang within the Qi Sea.

Using war to sustain war, the newly generated Taibai Xuan Gang quickly filled the slightly languid atmosphere in the forest.

Lin Jian picked up his flying sword and took another step forward.

Then another sword-wielding hero appeared, blocking his path.

This heroic spirit is carrying a giant sword.

As dark golden patterns appeared on the right arm of the hero wielding the sword, the surging power in the air instantly shattered the sword energy scattered in the forest into a shower of crystal fragments.

Meanwhile, it also underwent a sudden transformation, swinging its giant sword and turning into a shower of stars that fell from the sky.

Dozens of thoughts flashed through Lin Jian's mind in an instant; they were subconscious intuitions that arose from his growing knowledge and experience.

This is the significance of Cangfeng Plain.

The more you see, the broader your thinking will be when facing the enemy.

Once he has seen enough, there will be no sword technique in the world that can restrain him.

Only then will one have reached the pinnacle of skill.

At this moment, among these dozens of sudden thoughts, Lin Jian's subconscious led him to choose the option that was most likely to succeed.

But instead of avoiding the falling starlight, he advanced, and at the same time, he pushed his Golden Spirit Body to its limit.

He was like a ferocious being cast in pure gold, crashing into the rain of swords.

The clanging of metal echoed loudly as a sharp sword aura pierced his left shoulder.

At the same time, Lin Jian himself tightly gripped the wrist of the sword-wielding hero, seven golden threads as thin as hair bursting from his fingertips—

Thousand Blade Finger.

This is a sword of a thousand golden rays compressed from the true energy of Taibai Xuan Gang.

The sword spirit's glowing arm, which had been subjected to this attack, was almost instantly shattered by the Thousand Blade Finger. The remaining sword energy surged through the opponent's body and invaded the entire sword spirit's body.

However, the disintegrating glass body was almost instantly filled by the white mist surging from all parts of the secret realm, while the forest blade that had been injected into his left shoulder by the sword energy was instantly blown out by the opponent's recoil.

While the body was still flying backward, the golden spirit body that had been enveloping the forest suddenly disintegrated on its own.

Thousands of golden particles surged forth like a swarm of bees, enveloping the body of the sword-wielding hero from all directions.

Each photon is like a small sword, launching a fierce attack simultaneously from every corner of its body.

The sword-wielding hero roared to the sky, his throat gleaming with white light as he spewed out blinding white light.

That was a surge of sword energy condensed to its extreme, which almost instantly propelled the body, which was still flying backwards in the forest, back to the distant outermost Lifeng Valley.

Just before its body was about to shatter after repelling the sword energy, it was once again filled with the mist surging from all directions of the secret realm, transforming back into a flawless, radiant glass body.

Since it did not "recognize" that the forest had passed its test, all the damage the forest had previously caused it was naturally nullified.

After being blasted away by the surge of condensed sword energy, he landed on one knee and knelt down. As his true energy surged, it condensed again into a golden spirit body to protect his body.

As he summoned the small tower in his palm, his consciousness detached from his body and entered the tower's virtual space...

Although the practitioners all had excellent mental qualities, they still felt tired after looking at the natural scenery that remained unchanged for one or two hours at a time.

"Why hasn't anyone come out yet? Where exactly are they fighting?"

"Who said before that we should bet on that Foundation Establishment stage kid not lasting an hour? It's been over two hours now, and we still haven't seen him come out."

"How is that possible? Last time I went in, I only lasted two hours. That kid is only at the Foundation Establishment stage. How could he possibly last this long?"

"Could he already be dead? With that kid's cultivation level, he might be able to hold on by hiding on the outermost layer, but once the first day is over, those sword qi spirits will start to actively attack and drive them away, and that kid will have no room to hide anymore."

"Perhaps he didn't even have a chance to activate the crystal and escape when faced with the attacks of those sword-wielding heroes? It's a pity that such a fine alchemist died in the sword cultivator's secret realm..."

Hearing the rumors circulating among the disciples, the transmission of skills and the storage of scriptures were visibly panicked.

Yes.

The highest cultivation level in the Sword Ruins Secret Realm is the Golden Core stage, so based on the principle of making the best use of resources, their minimum selection standard is also the Golden Core stage.

No matter how powerful Lin Jian is, he's still only at the Foundation Establishment stage.

If you were to wander into a secret realm that only Golden Core cultivators could venture into, you might not even have a chance to struggle or escape before being crushed into dust.

The cultivators' powerful mental strength had already begun to conjure up various mini-plots in their minds—

As he turned to flee through the woods, he was caught off guard by a flash of sword energy from behind, causing his fleeing figure to pause abruptly.

After a long period of mental blankness, I looked down and found that my chest was completely empty.

His upper body flew several steps, while his lower body remained behind him.

They died a horrible death...

His eyes reddened instantly, and his voice was tinged with sorrow, "Jian'er..."

"Shu~"

Just as it was collapsing, a stream of light suddenly shot out from the light curtain.

As the light faded, a humanoid figure suddenly appeared in the scene of the Water Mirror.

The moment he saw a figure appear, Chuan Gong's face lit up with joy.

"In the woods!"

no……

The figure that suddenly appeared was deathly pale, and his aura was extremely weak.

However, his eyes were incredibly bright, clearly indicating that he had gained a great deal in the secret realm.

As the person's face became clearly visible in the misty mirror, the entire training ground murmured the same name—

"Senior Brother Chen..."

"Isn't that the new eldest disciple of the Burning Heaven Sword Clan? He's already out?"

"Not in the woods?!"

(End of this chapter)