Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 258 Three Mysteries
"Master Liu is well prepared. No matter what means you use, we will fight today. Only one of us can walk out of the desert alive!" Guo Jinglong said calmly, standing with a sword in his hand.

Although his tone was calm, the fighting spirit was boiling in his heart.

As the head of the Hanshan Sword Sect for twenty years, he had not experienced such a life-and-death battle in at least ten years. The previous fight made him feel the long-lost pressure and even made him angry.

Since ancient times, good and evil cannot coexist. He and Liu Zhenwei naturally stand on opposite sides. If the other party is aggressive and speaks wildly, then they will fight to the end!

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhenwei laughed and said, "Master Guo is straightforward. This is what I want. Otherwise, it would be meaningless to just decide the winner. It's worth it that I have prepared for this battle for a long time."

"No need to say more, please go ahead," Guo Jinglong pointed his sword at Liu Zhenwei and said. He had also been actively preparing for the battle since he received the challenge. Both his condition and mood had reached their peak.

After many years of practicing Xiantian, he is nearly seventy years old and his body is declining. It is difficult for him to improve his Xiantian Qi. In another ten years, it will even slowly decline.

Everyone has to accept aging. The Hanqing Jin he practiced did not become more powerful as he got older. It was not like the Buddhist and Taoist skills that could be accumulated over time. Once the peak was passed, if he did not break through the current realm, he could only accept the decline of life.

Only by breaking through the current realm and stepping into the realm of the Grandmaster, the innate true qi can be transformed into a higher level of martial arts true essence, and the aging body can be baptized by the true essence to reproduce the glory of a century!

The Grandmaster realm is considered to be the pinnacle of martial arts, admired by thousands of people, and even the king of a country must treat him with courtesy.

The acupoints in his body were almost completely opened, and his true energy was strong and solid. He had thought about breaking through to the Grandmaster level and had even tried many times, but failed every time.

At that level, unless one is gifted and blessed by heaven, with no bottlenecks in cultivation, how can one break through just by wanting to? Otherwise, there would have been many masters everywhere, and there wouldn't be only a handful of people in the entire Jing Kingdom who can reach that level now.

To reach the Grandmaster realm, it is not a matter of how much true Qi one has to break through, but rather one needs spiritual sublimation, an understanding of one's own martial arts will, combining the true Qi with resonance of the acupoints throughout the body, thus transforming it into a higher level of true essence.

At that time, his true energy carried the true meaning of his own martial arts. He could control and release the energy at will. When he performed martial arts, it was as if he injected his soul into it. When he fought against the enemy, he dealt a double blow to his body and mind.

When facing a powerful Grandmaster, you are not at that level, and your mental will is not strong enough. You won't even have the courage to attack him when he looks at you. Moreover, when a Grandmaster has cultivated to a certain level, he can really kill people with his eyes!

If one follows the footsteps of his predecessors and cultivates the skills to that level, he is called a minor master. If one can create his own school and make breakthroughs, he is called a grand master, leading the trend of the time.

It can be said that the Grandmaster realm is a process of constantly polishing and improving spiritual will. The stronger the spiritual will, the more powerful it is.

When the spiritual will becomes strong enough, one can try to 'break the void'. The spiritual will is no longer bound by the body, thus attracting the blessing of the natural forces of heaven and earth. That is the true transcendence, which has transcended many physical laws. Flying into the sky and hiding in the ground are just a piece of cake.

Of course, at that level, the power of nature is so mysterious and vast, how can it be so easily called upon? If you are not careful, you will be backfired, which is the so-called calamity.

Even if you survive the backlash of the power of heaven and earth, there is still the earthly calamity waiting for you.

The so-called earth calamity may be a natural disaster, or it may be because one has become stronger and has higher aspirations, so he goes to some dangerous places.

Even if you have overcome the tribulations of heaven and earth, there are still tribulations of man. Anyway, as you understand the nature of heaven and earth more, you will feel more and more insignificant, and thus lose yourself, and your will will sink in the vastness of heaven and earth.

When the consciousness falls into chaos and the spirit dissipates, there is no point in talking about cultivation. No matter how powerful you were before, a child with a knife can stab you to death.

At that time, the mind is ignorant and the original intention is not there. Everything is done based on instinct and obsession. A small conflict, or jealousy over a woman, or even a minor illness, may cost one's life and lead to death. This is the so-called human calamity. When one falls into calamity, he is a calamity to himself and to others as well.

Unless one awakens from the vastness of the universe, seeks one's true self, and further elevates one's spiritual will, then, with a powerful spiritual will, one can return to the peak in an instant and take a step closer to the legendary realm of human immortality...

Anyway, Guo Jinglong was stuck at the level of his spiritual realm, unable to find his own way and never reaching the Grandmaster level.

In fact, many innate masters in the world are stuck at this step. Even if they have the guidance of the secret techniques and experience left by their predecessors, there is nothing they can do if they cannot comprehend it themselves.

Liu Zhenwei's situation is similar to his.

At their level, their strength can actually be improved, but no matter how much they improve, there is a limit. After all, it is only at the innate level. What they are pursuing now is a breakthrough in realm. Once a breakthrough is made, whether it is strength, influence or even status in the world, the gap will be like heaven and earth.

Liu Zhenwei is younger than Guo Jinglong and is at the peak of his career. He is ambitious and has high aspirations. He knows that the chances of making a breakthrough relying on his own talent are slim, so he creates pressure on himself and seeks a breakthrough through life and death.

Perhaps he would have a chance to break through on his own in the future, but what if he couldn't break through? Wouldn't that be a waste of time? The martial arts he practiced were violent and overbearing. Once his peak period was over, he would decline even faster. In a place like Chongyan Sect where there wasn't much humanity, one could imagine what would happen without his strength.

That's why he was so eager to succeed. As the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought in danger, but they are also lost in danger. If you want to gain, you must be prepared to lose. So he had pushed himself to the brink of failure, and if he didn't succeed, he would die.

He had absolute confidence in himself and never considered the possibility of failure. He fought to the last moment just to break through.

If he still cannot break through after killing Guo Jinglong, then he will continue to challenge the next one with the power of victory until he succeeds, or dies on the way!
As for the fact that no one dared to challenge Guo Jinglong after him, that was beyond anyone else's control...

His robe fluttering, Liu Zhenwei said loudly, "I've witnessed the power of the Condensed Frost Sword. It's rude not to reciprocate. Then, Sect Leader Guo, please try the power of my Three Mysterious Blades. I spent ten years collecting the materials, and then three years having thousands of skilled craftsmen working day and night to forge them. Today, I will unseal you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he struck out with his palm through the air, and the throne he was originally sitting on exploded a hundred meters away. He stretched out his hand and a crescent-shaped sharp blade flew towards him.

The blade was dark gold in color, covered with red flame patterns, like a moon, with a sharp edge but no handle, and a diameter of nearly ten feet. It gave people a sense of endless ferocity, especially the dark red blade, which seemed to contain endless blood and wronged souls.

When the extremely ferocious Three Mysterious Blades flew towards Liu Zhenwei, Guo Jinglong drew his sword without hesitation. His figure flashed and rushed out like a phantom. He swung his sword through the air, and an ice-blue dragon-shaped sword energy came out across the sky. The dragon roared to the sky, and ice mist and frost flowers flew wherever it passed.

He could naturally see the ferocity and tyranny of the Three Mysterious Blades. If they fell into Liu Zhenwei's hands, they would definitely make him even more powerful. Especially since they were such strange weapons, Liu Zhenwei relied on them, so they must have extraordinary features, so he could not be allowed to succeed.

"Master Guo, are you so impatient?" Liu Zhenwei sneered. Without waiting for the Three Profound Blades to be acquired, he dodged and rushed towards the weapon, one to get the weapon, the other to avoid Guo Jinglong's sword.

Having witnessed the power of Guo Jinglong's Wandering Dragon Sword Technique with the Ningshuang Sword, how could he be so foolish as to continue to resist?

But how could Guo Jinglong let him succeed at this time? He swung his sword again to cut the path that was bound to be taken by him.

He didn't even carry his weapon with him during the competition. I don't know whether Liu Zhenwei was arrogant or careless. Maybe the weapon was too big and inconvenient to carry.

"Humph!"

Liu Zhenwei, who understood Guo Jinglong's intention, snorted coldly, and his true energy surged as he performed a body protection technique. His whole body turned dark gold, and his body was still emitting dark golden light. He punched out, and a huge fiery red fist mark hit the dragon-shaped sword energy.

His fiery red fist print was crushed by the dragon-shaped sword energy in the blink of an eye, but it also greatly slowed down the power of the dragon-shaped sword energy that was blocking his way. Then he used his body protection skills to withstand the sword. The sword energy exploded, and the icy edge shot into his body, adding countless tiny wounds.

At the cost of some minor injuries, he finally reunited with his Three Mysterious Blades.

He slapped the Three Mysterious Blades with one palm, and the dark golden, moon-shaped weapon burst into a dazzling red light with a buzzing sound. The whole body was red like a scorching sun, and it slashed towards the attacking Guo Jinglong with an unpredictable trajectory.

With a fixed gaze, Guo Jinglong did not dare to be careless. It was no use trying to stop him, so he could only swing his sword to block.

The Wandering Dragon Sword Technique was used to perform a self-defense move. The sword light flashed and a dragon roared, transforming into a giant ice-blue dragon that surrounded him.

However, in front of the three mysterious blades that were spinning as fast as the scorching sun, the dragon-shaped protective sword energy was crushed in just a breath.

Dang~!

The three mysterious blades slashed at the Ningshuang Sword, and the strong impact made a loud noise like thunder. Guo Jinglong's figure exploded backward in the flying sand and rocks, his face pale and the hand holding the sword was shaking.

He even smelled the taste of death.

After the strike, the Three Mysterious Blades dimmed and spun back. Liu Zhenwei climbed atop them and laughed, "Master Guo, I hope my Three Mysterious Blades didn't disappoint you. Thousands of craftsmen were exhausted and killed in the rush to finish them. They are covered in their lives and blood!"

As he spoke, Sanxuan Blade had already come to his side. He drew his true energy around him, and once again, it hummed and burst out with brilliant red light, pursuing Guo Jinglong and killing him.

With weapons in hand, his power reaches a new level.

"Were you responsible for the large number of blacksmiths disappearing half a year ago? You killed them to make weapons, and you will be retaliated against!" Guo Jinglong said coldly, and the sword light flickered as he attacked head-on.

Liu Zhenwei seemed to be attacking with the might of the scorching sun, and said arrogantly: "I don't know whether it will backfire or not, but today the Three Mysterious Blades will definitely drink your blood!"

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(End of this chapter)