Chapter Seventy-Two: Heir
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This sword was so casual, and the kill so quick that everyone in the military that witnessed this move had no time to feel terror. They just unconsciously understood the other was so strong they could not be stopped from coming into the camp. Then another wild gust of cold wind blew in the camp.
The cold wind made it impossible for the soldiers standing near the gates to stand still, and even the tents secured to the ground with metal rods flew away.
The woman who held a lifebond sword that could even freeze people’s swords had advanced hundreds of feet in this breath!
The military armament and seal weapons falling towards her fell behind her. The soldiers closest to her and to her sides still had outstretched hands, but were covered in frost just like the armament and seal weapons, frozen to the ground.
The cold wind blew forward, the sword essence targeted at the main tent where Mo Ying was in. On the way there, not many could stand still, but there were some who could.
A dozen or so cultivators appeared from different corners of the camp and stood in the cold wind ahead of her. These cultivators seemed to stand in a seemingly scattered manner, but the power coming off them seemed to cut through the surrounding primal energies of the universe and form a special formation.
Some armies and sects had formations that cultivators could work together to perform, merging in the power of lower ranking cultivators in order to fend off more powerful cultivators. These dozen cultivators who formed the formation were not weak. even more importantly, in an army like this, they just had to trap the other in an area, and the military would have more killing moves waiting for the cultivators who came in.
These cultivators came mostly from different sects. Looking at the sword whose color was so deep it was unimaginable, they knew that this was the legendary Eldest Miss Gongsun, and this sword was the famous Nine Hell King Sword, infamous for being the most violent sword in the world. So they channeled all of their vital energy.
Even Zhangsun Qianxue felt the power of this formation. She paused in her footsteps, and the road ahead seemed to grow long.
One cultivator was not among these dozen cultivators. He stood behind a seal weapon, and his perception locked onto Zhangsun Qianxue who had slowed down. The seal weapon in front of him was the height of two men added together, and had a base inscribed with many profound seal scripts. This was a standing metal doll. The metal person stretched out the right finger, pointing forward like it was pointing the way.
“Do not move.”
Just as his vital energy started to surge to activate this large seap weapon, he heard this sincere voice.
The cultivator who had walked in with Eldest Miss Gongsun into the camp had appeared behind him at some unknown time. This young cultivator in black robes was naturally Ding Ning.
Hearing this voice, the military cultivator turned slightly. Ding Ning shook his head again and said softly, “Do not move.”
This military cultivator’s body was slightly stiff. He clearly knew that the other said to not move and activate this military seal weapon. He also sensed the strong warning in the other’s words. But he did not want to give up on this chance. After hesitating a moment, his wild vital energy flowed out of his right sleeve, not into the seal weapon’s base, but into a flying sword inside his sleeve.
With a bang, the sleeve of this military cultivator shattered to pieces. A grey sword shot out of the flying cloth towards Ding Ning’s chest.
Ding Ning frowned slightly. He lifted his right arm, and pointed at the moving sword.
There was another shrill howl among the deafening roars. A sword essence came out of his fingertip, passing through the compressed layers of air, and accurately hit the other flying sword.
This was only just a sword energy with some lifebond presence. More accurately, it was just a sword energy from the lifebond sword.
The military cultivator’s tense face seemed to blacken. Because he was connected to his sword, his skin rippled, and folds seemed to spread on his face. His pupils contracted, filled with disbelief.
Just a sword essence from the other’s lifebond sword, but the moment the energy appeared, his body instinctively shuddered. This had nothing to do with cultivation, but the instant perception of the other’s flying sword.
In the next moment, more shock came as he could not control his sword! The sword energy came from an unimaginably powerful sword, but in terms of its own strength, it could not suppress his flying sword completely. Yet, his flying sword was sent flying by that sword essence and as it trembled violently, it could not be controlled.
Ding Ning’s body was slightly bowed as he avoided the three arrows coming at him from the rear. He left behind afterimages as he passed through the cold wind in front of the military cultivator.
This cultivator stopped breathing for a moment, and with a grunt, a flower-like sword energy came from the fingers of his right hand heading towards Ding Ning’s feet.
Ding Ning was still frowning but looked very calm. He did not even blink as he flicked with his right hand, and a sword energy shot through the flower. The petals flew, and the sword energies seemed to crack like porcelain, streams of white energy flying by Ding Ning’s face.
The sword energy that Ding Ning had flicked stabbed into this military cultivator’s chest. The cultivator seemed to be struck by a heavy wood post, and flew backwards. A bloody spray erupted from his chest. But when he hit the ground hard and felt the power flowing out of him, the military cultivator found he was still alive.
He was just injured heavily, but not dead.
**
Mo Ying’s gaze fell onto this seriously injured but alive cultivator.
Compared to the battle of Zhangsun Qianxue against the dozen cultivators, this battle seemed insignificant, but when Ding Ning knocked away the military cultivator’s flying sword with a sword energy, his attention focused on this battle.
Only a cultivator of his level could sense what had happened in that short moment. What decided the fate of this battle was in defeating the moves. The young cultivator dressed in Changling’s most ordinary black robes had defeated the other’s flying sword with one move, and then also the other’s flower with another. Both swords seemed to have found the other’s sword form’s weakness. With all sword forms mastered, no move was undefeatable. Such a cultivator had only ever been just one person many years ago in Ba Mountain Sword Field.
Now, he saw the shadow of that person on this young person in black. So this young person who easily defeated the other, seriously wounding but not killing, should be that person’s heir.
The heir to the Nine Death Silkworm had finally appeared.
“So it is true.”
He smiled with slight bitterness and stood up, picking up the sword on the table in front of him. He gazed at Ding Ning in the distance and said to himself, “What has to come will come after all.”
Volume 4 72 - Tactics
Shen Xuan followed Ding Ning. Even before he saw the faces of the trio, just sensing the presence of Gu Huai and Zhan Moke, he smiled scornfully and said coldly to Ding Ning’s back, “How are you going to kill them?”
“This still is a chance.” Ding Ning calmly whispered.
“I can believe you and continue our agreement.” Shen Xuan was silent for a breath and for the first time, some heat appeared in his cold eyes. This heat was like his soul started to burn. “But if I risk my life, I may die …… I need you to answer my previous question.”
Everything in the ancestral lands was too mysterious and strong. From the outside path to here, it was like many years had passed that Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing could notremember what Shen Xuan was asking about.
But Ding Ning was clear. He turned around to look seriously at Shen Xuan, and said, “In reality, not only was the Shang Family forgotten in the Qin Dynasty but also the Li Family. You should know that the Shang and Li families are the true reason that the Qin Dynasty grew strong.”
Shen Xuan took a deep breath, he did not speak but his vital energy started to shake.
Ding Ning looked at him and said, “I can let you do what the Li Family did, and I will not let you die in vain.”
“What is the Li Family?” Hu Jingjing could not help but ask. She knew of the Shang Family but had never heard of the Li Family.
“Li Shi?” Li Xixing looked at Ding Ning and asked.
Hu Jingjing was stunned. “Li Si?”
“It could be said to be that Li Family—” Ding Ning looked at her and whispered. “Minister Li’s Si means thought while the Shi means teacher. Li Shi was a servant of the Li Family. That Li Family is gone now.”
“Minister Li was only a servant of the Li Family?” Hu Jingjing could not believe her ears.
“The Shang Family reformed the law while the Li Family changed the law. They imposed heavy punishments like a thief having their nose and ears cut off. This strengthened the country but there were great grievances so they ended up the same as the Shang Family.” Li Xixing looked at her and explained. “Before the Shang Family, the Li Family was a sacrifice to quell the anger and grievances.”
These matters had gradually started to be forgotten since the first year of Yuanwu. After more than a decade, a young woman like Hu Jingjing could not understand why Ding Ning said that Shen Xuan and the Li Family had any connection. But Shen Xuan inexplicably laughed. “Is there something like the You Dynasty’s death-exemption plate?”
“Yes, but the law is greater than a death-exemption plate,” Ding Ning did not hesitate and said.
Shen Xuan looked at Ding Ning’s calm eyes and smiled. His smile was extremely odd but he said nothing else, just looked up at the three figures growing clearer.
Ding Ning also stopped looking at him and gazed at Gu Huai and the others walking to the bottom of the valley. His gaze was unusually calm but just like how many people did not like him, Gu Huai frowned and felt an unreasonable dislike.
However, he was not the first to speak but the shaman who possessed great status in Wuzhi but betrayed them.
“How lucky, many thanks!” Zhan Moke bowed seriously towards Ding Ning and thanked him.
Ding Ning nodded in return but did not speak to him. He turned to Gu Huai who was frowning slightly and asked seriously, “Must I die here?”
Gu Huai stilled and suddenly felt some sympathy which soon turned to slight scorn. He looked at Ding Ning and said mockingly, “You are too smart, even I had not thought that you could take them here. You even managed to survive that sword essence that even I may not be able to block. Compared to your display, the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art and some of her feelings are not so important.”
Ding Ning’s expression changed slightly, not in fear, but in scorn as well. “Back then you all tried to kill that person, was it also like this? Not because of power but because he was too good and powerful, so powerful you all felt threatened, that you could not surpass him?”
Gu Huai’s face turned slightly frosty but he did not hide. He said coolly, “Just like how many dragons die naturally, the world will not allow something which can consume everything and has no natural enemies.”
“Just because of this?” Ding Ning laughed. “So there is no need to care about friendship or brotherhood?”
Gu Huai sneered and did not respond. For him, with Ding Ning’s present status and situation, he did not need to answer these questions and disdained to.
“Shameless!” Hu Jingjing trembled all over in anger.
She started to understand. This powerful Wuzhi cultivator, or rather this man related to Tianliang, had been in cahoots with Zheng Xiu and used this war to open this ancestral land. But only now did she finally understand why Ding Ning had asked Gu Huai that question at the start. Because of wariness and jealousy, Gu Huai would not allow Ding Ning to leave here alive. In her view, this was shameless.
“Official Shen?” Gu Huai did not look at Ding Ning, in his view, he did not have to waste energy on weak cultivators like Hu Jingjing so he only looked at Shen Xuan next to Ding Ning.
Shen Xuan did not move. He just stood there coldly without a sound. But the lack of action and words represented his attitude.
The scorn on Gu Huai’s lips grew stronger. “Do you feel that you can still keep him alive, obtain the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art from him and return to Changling in glory?” He looked at Shen Xuan and said, “Even if that is possible, do you think that you can do it in this situation?”
“Jealous of talent, borrow another’s power, shameless.” Li Xixing’s voice sounded. “The master of Spirit Void Sword Sect is just like this, even I feel ashamed.”
When it accumulated, the attitudes of these people suddenly made Gu Huai furious.
At this time, Ding Ning’s calm voice sounded again. “In this case, you will be the first to die today.”
Everyone’s gaze gathered on Ding Ning.
Gu Huai laughed. He raised his head slightly like he had heard the best joke in the world and repeated Ding Ning’s words. “I will be the first to die today?”
“Three Prison”
“Mo Defense”
“Luminous Light.”
Ding Ning lifted his head slightly. He did not respond as he shouted the names of three sword moves and pointed three times at Gu Huai with his left hand.
He, Shen Xuan, Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing were all on the other side of the purple jade tree, separated from Gu Huai. While they could see the other clearly by shifting slightly when talking, the sword essences seemed to be directed at the giant tree and felt like they would hit the tree first.
But just like in the previous battle, Shen Xuan, Li Xixing, and Hu Jingjing abandoned all doubts. Hearing the names of the three sword forms, none hesitated, and their sword essences followed Ding Ning’s aim.
More scorn appeared in Gu Huai’s eyes. For him, even if the trio’s sword forms could create a powerful and strange sword essence, the threesome was still too slow compared to his cultivation.
Before the three sword essences formed, his right hand slowly moved through the air. A round white sword light went around the giant purple tree and cut towards the trio. But in this moment, the scorn in his eyes turned to confusion and pain.
He looked in disbelief at his left shoulder. A sharp power had pierced through his left shoulder, creating a hole the size of a thumb. Fresh blood flowed out mixed with his great power like a river of blood.
This kind of wound naturally could not kill him, and would not even create a serious injury and affect his combat strength. Yet this blow to his mind was greater than any battle in the past, including his battle against the Blade Emperor Tang Xin on the plains.
When that round sword light was three feet from Ding Ning and the others, at the same moment the wound appeared on his shoulder, black lines appeared on the white sword light and then it suddenly dissipated.
The sword essence contained even turned into some of the sword essence that stabbed into his shoulder.
Gu Huai’s mind was shocked, and he felt even more incredulous. Not because his attack seemed to have been predicted and been used by the enemy against him. But because some of the sword essence that pierced his shoulder was the only weakness in his attack. Without this injury, he would not have realized that his attack had such a flaw. In that moment, he was unable to block the sword essence attacking that spot.
“The more like this, the more you must die.”
But he was the master of Spirit Void Sword Sect and in a brief moment, he understood how to defeat Ding Ning’s method of attack.
A lifebond presence came out of his hand and flashed violently. Fifteen sword energies appeared, one after another, to stab into the air above.
Ding Ning’s way of fighting by directing sword moves was illogical, yet this kind of method had a fundamental weakness …… If he was fast enough, Ding Ning and the others could not match a move for a move. Even if Ding Ning saw through every move and had a solution for each one.
Volume 5 72 - Abyss
He had considered before if the Heart Thought Sword could be defeated by such a move. But the reason the power was so destructive was that it was concentrated to one point.
When an ocean of primal energies of the universe flowed through the world, when they did not gather together, they were like a breeze. There were people who caught fish in the water and moved in the wind all the time. They would not be sliced apart by the water, or blown to pieces by the wind.
The larger the area the sword essence covered, the more scattered the power. This could usually only be used against ordinary armies and swordsmen.
Changling did not have any sword manual like the one Shen Xuan was using right now. The wind and rain were peerlessly sharp, and they covered an area that was enough to cut off the primal energies of the universe and star energy coming from the sky.
At this moment, the pale Zheng Bainiao completely understood. Shen Xuan always had the confidence he would kill him. The reason he spent so much effort to flee to the Wei River was not to escape through water, but to use the mist on the river along with the wind and rain to conceal himself!
A hint of great error appeared in Zheng Bainiao’s eyes. With a shout, his vital energy surged out madly. The thought swords formed much faster in the peerless wind and rain. At the same time, his body flew up to the sky like a falling star going backwards. If he could get out of the area concealed by the wind and rain, his Heart Thought Sword would recover its original power. In the air, other cultivators would see Shen Xuan’s attacks.
In his sight, the sky grew brighter. In one more breath, he would charge out of the range of this wind and rain.
But at this time, two dots of light appeared under him. The two lights were full of decisiveness and violence. They were not sword lights, but Shen Xuan’s eyes!
With a pop, like coming out of nothing, there was a thin sword made from water that pierced the bottom of Zheng Bainiao’s feet when Shen Xuan’s gaze fell on his feet. Two red lines appeared on Zheng Bainiao’s feet. His soles were cut by the sword!
“One Sky Water!”
A sharp scream came with great shock and disbelief from his lips.
This was Ye Celeng’s secret skill from her sect. Yet due to the past, Ye Celeng was undoubtedly the power most close to the Ba Mountain Sword Field of the Changling powers, but even if she was loyal to Yuanwu, she could not be close to the master of the Great Floating Water Prison, Shen Xuan. And yet, the pain reminded him this was the truth!
As he screamed, he swung his hands down. In this cramped space, two bursts of power came out of his palms, giving up the principles of the Heart Thought Sword. The two bursts merged with the primal energies of the universe to form two ice-like swords that stabbed towards Shen Xuan’s eyes.
The sharp sword essence pierced Shen Xuan’s eyes, but in this moment, Zheng Bainai, who knew Shen Xuan’s secret, did not think at all about killing the man on his own. He just wanted to flee out of the Wei River.
Because of the large blood loss, Shen Xuan’s expression was extremely pale. At the same time, his cold eyes showed determination. He advanced rather than retreating, his body twisting and going upwards slightly, the sleeve of his right hand slamming with water and wind against Zheng Bainiao’s sword attack. Then, with the tearing sound of cloth, he used his body to hit Zheng Bainiao’s other sword.
Zheng Bainiao’s eyes contracted sharply.
His sword was unable to pierce Shen Xuan’s body. In the violent collision, it shattered into pieces!
A cold energy with a metallic sheen appeared in his perception, carrying the sense of true death.
Shen Xuan’s right arm had been cut off in the battle of the Great Floating Water Prison. Yet no one thought that he hid a rod of iron in his empty sleeve. This iron was his right arm at this moment. He used his right arm to block Zheng Bainiao’s attack!
The great ripples caused Shen Xuan’s eyes to become bloodshot and bulge out. But his movements were extremely steady. His fingers pinched water, drawing it into thread, then a sword that stabbed into Zheng Bainiao’s energy sea.
Zheng Bainiao’s body exploded inside. This was an explosion like a sheepskin raft being filled with too much air and bursting. It was the first time Zheng Bainiao heard something like this. So the sound of an energy sea being pierced and bursting open was like this.
This thought flashed through his terrified mind.
Yet in the next moment, his body exploded outwards like a sheepskin raft. The flesh and blood was crushed into mist by the exploding vital energy. In this moment, there was no bloodiness, just energy flowing outwards.
Shen Xuan coughed violently. His body bowed. Like a convulsing shrimp, he fell down and into the Wei River below with a splash.
High up in the sky where people could not see, the stars just lit up quickly faded. In Changling, three people sensed the results of the battle first.
Empress Zheng Xiu slowly looked up. Her gaze passed through the light on the spirit spring in front of her. She seemed to see the stars go out, and then a small smile appeared.
There were many people in Changling who did not smile. Their smiles were rare; hers was rarer.
Not many in the world had seen her smile. The smile on that cruel and perfect face was like a flower blooming beautifully in blood, thrilling but eerie.
Two yellow-robed cultivators who had come from Jiaodong commandery along with Zheng Bainiao looked up at the same time. One of them had had an unpleasant talk with Zheng Xiu previously. He had just gotten into a carriage. Sensing Zheng Bainiao’s passing, he was in a great shock.
The other cultivator was not in Changling. He had a bamboo hat, and was standing at the bow of a small ship that was flowing down the river. There was another small ship ahead of his.
Targeted by his presence was the other arm of the empress, one of Zheng Xiu’s most trusted confidants, the master of Endless Palace, Pan Ruoye. He had followed her for many days. The reason he was not in a hurry to act was he wanted to wear down her spirits like taming an eagle, so it was easier to kill her.
In his view, Zheng Bainiao, and the other yellow-robed cultivator in Changling, Shen Xuan and Pan Ruoye were just prey, and they were the hunters with weapons.
But now, Zheng Bainiao, the hunter, had died. Zheng Bainiao’s death caused his confidence to shake slightly, and he had a bad feeling.
Translator Ramblings: I don’t know how old Zheng Xiu actually is, but I would guess at least her thirties. Considering how high-handed her uncle seems, no wonder she dislikes them
Volume 2 72 - A Matter Enough to Change The History Books
These eight sword moves were unusually refined and the sword essence flowed smoothly. They appeared that they were being made in person by swordsmen who had studied these moves for many years.
Yet unexpectedly, facing the attacks of these eight swords, Ding Ning did not draw his sword. He calmly and confidently advanced as though these eight green jade swords did not exist.
To everyone’s shock and bewilderment, even Zhang Yi, Xie Rou and the others did not draw their swords.
At this time, only He Zhaoxi, Shen Yi, and Nangong Caishu drew their swords.
Three swords lights leapt out to welcome the eight swords cutting towards them.
He Zhaoxi, Shen Yi, and Nangong Caishu were all very nervous. The trio was using the sword moves that they had just comprehended from the sword nucleus. So while the changes in these sword lights looked refined, they were in fact slow and unfamiliar.
How can three such sword strikes block the eight swords?
Yet in just an instant, multiple explosions occurred. The three sword lights still flashed in the air while there were multiple sounds in the air as though something had been pierced.
Ding Ning and the others were completely unharmed. The eight green jade swords scattered.
Some of the swords flew backwards as they spun while others just changed direction subtly brushing past Ding Ning and the others like dragonflies with a broken wing.
The primal energies of the universe in the air flew like smoke and snow.
Many students finally could no longer control their emotions, and exclaimed in shock.
"How is that possible!"
Xia Wan paled. Her eyes filled with shock and surprise.
Beside her, Xu Lianhua was also slightly speechless. He instinctively thought back to the minute changes of the three swords.
"Sword formation, it is a sword formation," Chen Liqiu said with unusual seriousness.
At this moment, he had no time to think carefully about the changes in the sword lights. But he was sure that this was the only possibility.
The moment that Chen Liqiu was speaking, eight other sword lights tore the air and reached Ding Ning and the others.
Ding Ning still did not draw his sword.
Beside him, Zhang Yi and the others still did not draw their swords. It was still He Zhaoxi, Shen Yi and Nangong Caishu.
This time, many popping sounds occurred in the air, and visible beads of energy scattered.
The result was the same. The eight green jade swords once again scattered.
"They are using sword moves from the same sword manual," Xu Lianhua finally remembered the general direction of the three swords and said gravely.
"Sword moves from the same sword manual?" Xia Wan’s right hand instinctively landed on her sword hilt and she gripped it tighter. She still could not understand.
Chen Liqiu breathed in deeply, and his brow furrowed.
"It really is possible!" Behind Ding Ning, Xie Rou looked at Ding Ning’s back, and she could not describe the emotions she felt.
She, Zhang Yi and the others, including the trio with their swords drawn, finally believed what Ding Ning had said before was true.
On the green jade mountain path, wind, snow, and lightning continued to appear. The green jade swords flew up and continued to attack Ding Ning and the others advancing up the mountain path.
The attacking swords were faster than the swords falling down. So there were always swords around Ding Ning and the others.
As Ding Ning and his group advanced, the number of swords seemed to increase in a stunning scene.
"It really is part of the same sword manual." Chen Liqiu turned to look at Xu Lianhua. "What part of the sword nucleus is this?"
Xu Lianhua narrowed his eyes and did not immediately respond.
It was difficult to see the figures of Ding Ning and the others surrounded by the dancing green jade swords. Yet as He Zhaoxi, Shen Yi, and Nangong Caishu became more practiced with their sword moves, multiple glowing ribbons of water appeared around them.
These water ribbons were truly flows of water. When a sword light fell onto them, a splash of water could be created.
"The seventh one on the sword nucleus. I read it, but did not study it," he responded after a long moment.
"How is that possible?" Xia Wan paled even more. Her gaze landed on Ding Ning’s blurry figure as she repeated in a trembling tone.
The dozens of sword manuals engraved on the sword nucleus had been profound and refined. For cultivators of ordinary talent, they likely had to study them for many years. and yet still be unable to master one of the sword moves. No one could comprehend all the sword manuals, even a genius like her, in such a short time. In the span of a night, she had merely comprehended the sword moves of two sword manuals.
From the moment he started to walk, Ding Ning did not attack. But from his confident attitude and the reactions of the people behind him, Xia Wan knew that what was occurring now was definitely because of Ding Ning. But she clearly remembered when she came here, Ding Ning was already cultivating with his eyes closed.
Her ranking was much higher than Ding Ning on the Book of Talents. She had never fought Ding Ning before. But when she looked at Ding Ning’s figure, she suddenly did not have any confidence and felt slightly chilled.
In the freezing places outside the forts, when the snowstorms suddenly descended, wild beasts that could not interact peacefully would squeeze together to fend off the cold and survive the storm. Humans would do the same when facing a strong enemy.
At this moment, Gu Xichun and Ye Haoran were standing closer.
"This is a sword manual focused on tight defense." Gu Xichun looked at the mountain path and said to Ye Haoran in a soft voice, "But it is too soft, too slow. It probably doesn’t have much use in ordinary times outside of Min Mountain Sword Sect. So I only scanned it and did not keep it on my mind."
Hearing Gu Xichun’s still proud words, Ye Haoran said coldly with slight mockery, "Doesn’t have much use in ordinary times? Too soft, too slow. That is only if we use it at our present strength level …… if someone can fight as fast as the three of them acting together, I fear this sword manual’s defensive ability makes it the strongest sword manual in the world."
Gu Xichun’s expression darkened but he didn’t argue with Ye Haoran. He slowly said, "It appears these people only focused on comprehending this sword manual."
As he said this, He Zhaoxi, Nangong Caishu, and Shen Yi stopped fighting with their swords. Facing the constant attacks of eight swords at full power would naturally take up much vital energy and endurance. So now it was Xie Changsheng, Xie Rou and Xu Heshan’s turn.
Xie Rou and the others used the same sword moves from the same sword manual.
The three’s sword moves created glowing flows of water. There seemed to be large gaps between them, but inexplicably, their defense was flawless and fended off every sword that came near them.
The distance between the second sword nucleus and the third was not large. Ding Ning and the others had walked over half the way. Everyone was sure that these people would pass without any danger, and at a low price.
In the tents that Min Mountain Sword Sect had set up, multiple middle-aged cultivators were standing shoulder-to-shoulder, their deep eyes filled with incredulity.
"This is the Water Crystal Sword Manual of the Cloud Water Palace."
They were all outstanding teachers of famed cultivation places and their knowledge was much better than those students. One of them sighed softly, "But even in the Cloud Water Palace, this sword manual was one of the more obscure ones. Bai Shanshui didn’t cultivate this. Who would have expected this sword manual to have such a transformation?"
"The power of the Water Crystal comes from those ribbons of water. These ribbons of water do not have much power, but they are quick to flow and surround the body. They all flow in different directions. With the sword in the middle, one can use the momentum of these flows of water to create a spinning sword essence that usual sword moves cannot create in a short amount of time."
Someone else shook their head slowly and said, "But one sword, no matter how fast, cannot hold against all the ground many feet away from it. With these three swords moving with different sword moves, it is like someone using these moves at manyfold speed…… If I am not seeing this with my own eyes, I would not believe one can use a set of sword moves to create a defensive sword formation."
"Does the White Goat Cave have sword manuals from Cloud Water Palace?" one person couldn’t help but whisper when he looked at Ding Ning’s figure.
"White Goat Cave cannot have a sword manual like this," someone said.
But these people could not hear this as the speaker was standing in a green jade hall.
This green jade hall was located on the edge of a cliff halfway up Skyscraper Peak in Min Mountain Sword Sect. This place was restricted for many of Min Mountain Sword Sect’s disciples.
The speaker was a young woman dressed in green jade robes.
She was Xie Rou’s age, and her features were young and her chest flat. She clearly was not yet fully grown. Yet when she stood, her hands hanging down, she had an indescribable presence.
Her eyes darkened slightly as she spoke to a young man dressed in the same green-colored robes like her. "The Water Crystal is a secret of the Cloud Water Palace. The jade artifact that recorded the Water Crystal was taken out of the secret hoard after Cloud Water Palace was destroyed. It was always stored in Min Mountain Sword Sect …… I personally picked this sword manual and engraved it. But even I did not know this sword manual could be like this. How could this have been leaked in in advance?"
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