Chapter Fifty: Swan
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无罪 update:2022-07-21 15:26
When Baili Suxue looked away from Changling, his body gave off a thread of lifebond energy.
This lifebond energy was very condensed. It was fundamentally different from the vital energy flowing into the ice path below his feet. It had a special presence, like a part of his life and cultivation was gathered into his lifebond energy.
This condensed lifebond energy flowed along the ice path, from the pure colorlessness at the start and turning into an indigo flow like it was infected by the colors in the path. It then seemed to draw out some of the power in the path’s formation, and then flowed like water into an ice room below the ice path.
The door to this ice room was covered in spider web cracks. In the next instant, this ice door cracked into sharp pieces that sprayed out.
Inside the ice room was Xie Rou cultivating in seclusion. She had originally been wrapped up by glowing ice like she was asleep, but at this time, she opened her eyes.
Shadow and light flashed in her energy sea. In her senses, it was like she suddenly reached the sea, and saw a giant mirage. But she could not see clearly. In the next moment, she seemed to see a sword shadow, but she could not touch it.
She was very shocked. She could not understand the profound changes in this, but she was certain that something stunning had happened.
“Do you know why among all these students, in the end, I only chose you and Jing Liuli as my own?”
Baili Suxue stood at the end of the ice path and looked at her, like he was standing in the clouds, among the winds, his figure enormous.
“I do not know,” Xie Rou said nervously. The answer that first appeared in her mind was because she was the eldest daughter of the Guanzhong Xie Family, and the Xie Family was richer than a country. But her subconscious told her that this was not the right answer.
“Jing Liuli undoubtedly possesses the best talent among the youngest cultivators of Changling, but from a certain viewpoint, your personality is more like mine.” Baili Suxue looked at Xie Rou who did not dare to stand up and said simply. “So she can receive Min Mountain Sword Sect’s inheritance, but you can receive mine.”
Xie Rou was very frightened, and instinctively said, “Do you not represent Min Mountain Sword Sect?”
Baili Suxue said matter-of-factly, “Of course I can represent the Min Mountain Sword Sect, but Min Mountain Sword Sect cannot represent me.”
Xie Rou looked at his cold and proud face under the light, and finally understood his meaning.
People like him possessed some special things long ago to have been able to become the master of Min Mountain Sword Sect. Some things that Min Mountain Sword Sect could not teach him. For a sect, this was a true grandmaster.
“I have taught you all I should.”
Baili Suxue glanced at her and then turned around, not looking at her. “But before you truly understand, do not let other people learn your identity.”
Xie Rou was stunned. She did not understand these words.
What about her identity?
Baili Suxue’s lips curved up proudly. He did not explain because he knew that after today, she would naturally understand.
“Go out the gates, someone will take you away.” He brushed his sleeve, and an indigo light flashed.
Indigo light appeared in front of Xie Rou’s eyes. In the next moment, the scenery in front of her had completely changed. She was no longer on the mountain peak, but in a valley without Baili Suxue in sight.
There was a sea of brambles here, one of the obstacles from the Min Mountain Sword Trials.
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The ice room where she had been cultivating disappeared in that indigo light, the ice turned to powder and was blown away by the wind, without a trace in the world.
Baili Suxue stood at the end of the ice path with his hands behind his back, the empty space in front of him.
The cliff returned to quiet once again. After a long time, there was some commotion coming from different parts of Min Mountain Sword Sect, and then quickly, quiet was restored.
Suddenly, on the indigo jade path to the peak, a bright ball of red appeared near the middle. It was like in a cramped world, many blooming bright flowers were suddenly shoved in.
Baili Suxue seemed to not sense it at all, and just stood there silently.
After a long time, there were clear footsteps coming from below the ice path, and then the white ice and snow slowly turned red.
A general dressed in bright red armor and carrying many swords on his back squeezed into this unmoving world and appeared on this mountain peak.
This was a very handsome middle-aged man, thin, and his face was slightly pale. Numerous swords of different colors were on his back like the spread tail of a peacock, grander than any cape.
“I did not think coming up here would be so easy.”
“Baili Suxue, you are too proud.”
This middle-aged man looked at Baili Suxue’s bright and blurry figure into the light. His words were very simple, but to people like him and Baili Suxue, they contained many strong emotions and intentions.
Baili Suxue still did not look back at him and said coolly, “Then do you dare to attack me?”
This middle-aged man suddenly stopped breathing, an unnatural redness appearing on his pale face. In the next moment, his breathing grew heavy.
He had purposefully provoked Baili Suxue, but he received the other’s direct dismissal. Of course, he was furious. But he could not act.
Baili Suxue was just standing there motionlessly with his hands behind his back, but he could not catch the other’s presence. The other seemed to have merged into one with this mountain and this world. He could exist everywhere. Even though he could use many swords instantly, he could not lock on onto the other’s presence, and his sword could not truly make contact with Baili Suxue.
Everyone knew that Baili Suxue was very proud. But just by standing there, he could make a Qin marquis furious but unable to attack. This was enough for him to be proud.
Furious but the inability to act led to helplessness and discouragement. The bright light on the middle-aged man’s armor and swords faded, like a blooming flower withering.
His pale face grew dark. He understood why the mistress of the imperial palace did not want him to come here from the start, and wanted him and Marquis Li to stay below the mountain together.
Not letting him onto the mountain was not just because she did not want him to get more of the benefits, but because she was certain from the start he was too far from Baili Suxue, and could not force him to fight.
At this time, the mountain wind at the peak seemed to be suddenly drawn away, and the sounds of the wind abruptly disappeared.
Even the flowing clouds above his head seemed to have been cut off. An unusual light fell, landing on him, and illuminating his gray face.
Volume 4 50 - Realm Five Defeat
Above realm seven meant a grandmaster. The reason that Changling was the center of changes in the world was because it had the most cultivation places. Yet there were differences among realm seven. While Changling had many realm sevens, there were not many that could rival great rebels such as Zhao Sword Furnace’s Zhao Si and Bai Shanshui of Cloud Water Palace.
As for Ye Celeng, who had been summoned back to kill Zhao Zhan for the stability of Deer Mountain Conference, she had to prepare in advance to kill these great rebels. In the setups that Zheng Xiu made in the past, Shen Xuan had been one of those who could match the great rebels.
This rider knew the Qin Dynasty would not let this youth who won the Min Mountain Sword Trials die so easily. Yet he did not know that Ding Ning had the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art that Zheng Xiu desired. So, he could not have expected her to send someone like Shen Xuan.
He wanted to try killing this youth. And now the youth had used a tactic of coming to his own death to defeat this situation and make him fall into a mortal situation.
This rider could sense hot blood flowing from his neck, a bitterness emerged at the corners of his mouth.
Dozens of cavalry flew into the sky, their bodies torn to pieces, yet the other Wuzhi riders behind them shouted fearlessly in more anger. The largest Wuzhi commander’s entire body expanded violently as he shouted wildly. His power poured into the long blade he held with both hands. He slashed forward, and forcibly split the incoming grey energy. Multiple Wuzhi cultivators followed behind him and charged into the bisected grey ball of energy.
But in this moment, this largest Wuzhi cultivator and the cultivators behind him became uncontrollably stiff and cold. Their pupils contracted.
In front of the tip of his blade, there stood a one-armed man in a grey robe. The tip of the blade he wielded was falling down, almost against the nose of the one-armed man.
This one-armed man stretched out his arm and patted the long blade. The movement was very gentle and slow. Yet he could not dodge. He seemed to feel an unimaginably large and heavy ocean of blood fall onto his blade.
The thick blade cracked yet the Wuzhi cultivator did not sense his blade cracking because at the same moment, his body started to split apart.
The pieces of the blade and flesh blew onto the cultivators behind with the wind. These numerous cultivators were frozen still in this strong wind like strange stones.
Then, Shen Xuan walked through among them.
When his figure appeared in the sight of the rider, the frozen Wuzhi cultivators gave off muffled explosions that sounded like they were crushed by something heavy and enormous. Their bodies shortened, and collapsed onto the ground.
The wildly charging cavalry suddenly stopped. This was one of the most elite Wuzhi cavalry, yet at this time, there was the sound of multiple horses crashing with each other.
Only now, when they saw this one-armed man coming out of the sea of blood did these strong Wuzhi cultivators finally have terror in their eyes. They finally realized the terrifying aspect of the Qin Dynasty.
One powerful cultivator could match an army, and even massacre a city. This was no legend. In these years, even Lin Zhujiu and Ding Ning had never underestimated Shen Xuan.
That rider, so different from these Wuzhi soldiers, stopped completely. Two items slid from the depths of his left and right sleeve into his palms. Then his vital energy surged through the item in his left palm first.
His fingers were shocked away from the item, and his fingernails bled. An impact wave visible to the naked eye charged out of his palm and spread out.
When the impact spread to his body, he grunted and was thrown backwards. He spat out blood, and his black face cloth was torn to pieces.
A world seemed to form. Even he, who released such power, could not contend with it.
Shen Xuan’s composed eyes finally showed a hint of shock. He looked up. In his perception, there were countless flying seal lines in the quickly expanding impact wave. They whipped towards the air in all directions towards the distance.
“Heaven Sealing Seal!” He immediately realized what this was in the next moment and said with true shock.
The nearest dozen Wuzhi soldiers to the rider and their horses flew in all directions. No one had time to see the true face of the rider before a glowing layer of light appeared in front of Shen Xuan.
Dozens of soldiers were right where the layer of light formed, and their bodies were cleaved in two. Blood from both sides splashed on this layer of light making it appear extraordinarily thin.
Underneath the shattered black cloth was the face of a young and delicate-looking man. His face was a standard seed shape, his chin was thinner than many women. While his face was covered in blood, he still appeared eerily beautiful.
He did not look at Shen Xuan behind the layer of light, but the youth who was dozens of feet away from him. He felt indescribable emotions.
In his view, Ding Ning could not have sensed the great power of that seal. The power was enough to obstruct Shen Xuan for a long time. Yet Ding Ning still had a calm expression and looked at him like he was just looking at a landscape.
He could understand Ding Ning’s intentions. But he could not understand how the other did not change expression when he went from “going to die” to truly “dying”.
But this did not mean his movements would slow. Without any hesitation, his vital energy surged into the item in his right hand just like how it previously activated the strongest seal of Celestial Seal Sect. The flesh of his right fingers quickly withered and fell to the ground as black sand. A blade mark started to appear in the air and on the ground in front of him and stretched towards Ding Ning.
As his fingers turned to sand, Ding Ning grunted. He could not withstand the vibration and density of the primal energies of the universe in front of him. He bled from his nose and mouth. But he did not move at all. He unconcernedly looked at Shen Xuan behind the layer of light.
He and Shen Xuan gazed at each other from a distance. Shen Xuan’s eyes were burning madly in anger.
Shen Xuan’s grey robe suddenly turned red, his robe soaked in blood.
The cultivator’s breathing suddenly stopped. He could not sense how Shen Xuan managed to expel the enormous vital energy and primal energies of the universe inside his body out. The process seemed to have been omitted. Right now, a spinning red cloud appeared around Shen Xuan.
The red clouds were like red silks folded together and sprayed outwards like a fountain. Blinding lights shone high in the sky. Those lines of light did not shoot outwards in straight directions, but wound and twisted like seal scripts.
A red pillar of light appeared in front of Ding Ning and faced that blade mark.
The sharp-chinned cultivator’s fingers were cut off from his hand, and a brown metal piece, that looked like a snapped blade edge, fell from his hand to the ground. The cultivator pressed his lips together tightly but the blood still rushed out of his mouth like hot porridge.
The layer of light in front of Shen Xuan gradually disappeared. All the Wuzhi cavalry unconsciously retreated in fright. Other than his blood-soaked grey robe, Shen Xuan did not appear to have changed.
But then Shen Xuan looked at Ding Ning and said harshly, “If I die, can you live?”
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