I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 363 A New Way to Enlightenment (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Not long after Liu Taozhi passed the second level, another male sword cultivator emerged.

Upon seeing two people sleeping and one person meditating with their eyes closed at the entrance of the Ten Thousand Swords Stele Forest, he withdrew his foot, which was about to step into the Ten Thousand Swords Stele Forest.

Jiang Yi and the scholar Luo Qingsi were sleeping, while Liu Taozhi was meditating.

Jiang Yi and the other two came to participate in the trial together. Their distinctive features made them easy to recognize. The male sword cultivator remembered that they were the last to climb the stone beam and wondered how they had passed the second test so quickly.

Do they have some special method?

You've already reached the Golden Core stage, why do you still need to sleep?

Since we've already arrived at the entrance of the Ten Thousand Swords Stele Forest, why not just go in?
After a period of suspicion, doubt, and what he considered reasonable speculation, the male swordsman revealed an expression of sudden realization.

That's it!

Anyway, there's still plenty of time, so he might as well try sleeping with one; he won't lose anything.

Thinking this, the male swordsman found a comfortable spot by the woods, stuck his sword in the ground, and lay down on his side with his arm as a pillow.

The second trial, the illusionary realm, was too mentally taxing. Once he relaxed and allowed his body and soul to rest, the male swordsman soon began snoring loudly.

Immediately afterward, the second person walked past Jiang Yi and the others, and when they entered the Ten Thousand Swords Stele Forest, they suddenly stopped and realized something was wrong.

He came out again, looked left and right, and decided to take a nap.

The third one came out, paused for a moment, scratched his head, and then went to sleep.

The fourth and fifth ones came out together.

"What's going on here? Why are you all sleeping here?"

"do not know."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"They're all asleep, so I'll sleep too."

"........."

Then the sixth, the seventh, the eighth...

At that time, the three sword masters were at the foot of Sword Testing Peak, waiting for those sword cultivators who failed in the second trial, to give them a Forget-Me-Not Pill so that they could forget about the trial.

The second trial of mental fortitude is very cruel. If they are not allowed to forget their previous failure, it is indeed possible that they will stop people from building roads.

However, if they are informed of this remedial measure in advance, it is difficult to test their true nature.

That's why there's been a rumor going around that if you don't pass the second test, your path as a sword cultivator will be cut off.

Of course, some sword cultivators, after taking the Forget-Me-Not Pill, would return the following month as if it were their first time back.

As dawn broke, Lu Zhanqiu, his eyes bruised and his appearance disheveled, finally emerged from the Valley of No Return Sword and witnessed this scene.

In the grove outside the Forest of Ten Thousand Swords Stele, more than twenty cultivators were scattered around, all fast asleep, their snores filling the air.

Lu Zhanqiu was stunned. Was this some new way to pass the level?

Seeing Jiang Yi not far away, Lu Zhanqiu's eyes darkened, and he felt a pang of sadness. However, he hadn't failed the second trial for nothing, and his mindset was much more at peace by now.

He now strongly suspects that this sleeping habit was started by that lazy woman; it's practically toxic!
At this moment, the people who had slept well all night gradually woke up, yawning and stretching, smacking their lips and turning their heads to look around, scrutinizing what secrets the people around them had gleaned from their sleep, and why they had only dreamed of forging a sword all night but had nothing to show for it.
"what!"

With a scream, a young swordsman woke up and sat up with a pained cry.

Lu Zhanqiu and the others who had just woken up all looked towards the young sword cultivator.

The young swordsman, still shaken, gasped for breath, his chest heaving violently, his forehead covered in cold sweat, as if he had just struggled back from the brink of death.

But that look of terror lasted only a moment before it was replaced by an almost ecstatic excitement. "I...I understand!!"

He sprang up from the ground, his voice trembling and cracking with extreme excitement.

"Sword intent... I saw sword intent! So fast! So fierce! Like the collapse of the heavens, like an ancient giant wielding a sword... Just that one strike!!"

He gestured wildly in the air with his hands, eager to share with those around him.

"It was too fast... I didn't even have time to see it! I only felt a devastating, all-consuming force slashing straight at my soul! Whoosh—it knocked me out! It was too domineering! Too... too powerful!"

The young swordsman was incoherent, his face flushed with excitement, as if he had truly glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of the supreme sword path.

Lu Zhanqiu was full of doubt. This person had a good vocabulary and spoke as if it were true. Could one comprehend sword intent while sleeping?

With this feeling of disbelief, Lu Zhanqiu scanned his surroundings...

Are these people out of their minds? Do they really believe that?!

The cultivators around them, who had just woken up and were still a little confused and expectant, instantly fell silent.

One by one, they were shocked, jealous, confused, and then began to doubt themselves.

"It must be because I'm sleeping in the wrong position."

Even the monks who were preparing to enter the Stele Forest pretended to withdraw.

"I... I think I'm still a little sleepy. This isn't good for comprehending the sword intent on the stone tablet. You guys go first, I'll go back to sleep."

Crazy! All crazy!

Lu Zhanqiu felt contempt in his heart, but his body was honest. He pretended to be weak and tired and slid down to sit against a tree.

Jiang Yi woke up with a yawn and was stunned to see the forest full of sleeping cultivators.

No wonder she suddenly felt like she was surrounded by dream traces. She thought she had discovered some kind of lingering resentment in the Forest of Ten Thousand Swords, just like the lingering resentment of the old man in Xuandu Temple, which could be exploited.

Then, excitedly, she randomly picked one, but before she could even see it clearly, the owner of that dream mark slashed down with his sword.

Due to the information gap, Jiang Yi thought it was the lingering remnant of an ancient sword cultivator, and was so frightened that he quickly activated the Heavenly Gang Star Sword in his sea of ​​consciousness with all his might, unleashing a magnificent sword strike.

Then her dream shattered, she woke up, and the sword cultivators went mad.

"Hey, wake up, Yao Yao, wake up too."

Jiang Yi woke up both Luo Qingsi and Liu Taozhi. Luo Qingsi, still sleepy, said, "No wonder Senior Sister loves to sleep. Sleeping is so comfortable."

Jiang Yi chuckled inwardly. Of course it felt good. With Luo Qingsi sleeping close to her, her own laziness would have some effect on Luo Qingsi, making her sleep more soundly and relaxed, and nourishing her soul to a certain extent.

"Senior Sister, what... what are they all doing?" Liu Taozhi was also shocked. Could it be that Senior Sister's drowsiness was contagious?
"Hmph! What a copycat!" Luo Qingsi said.

Jiang Yi chuckled, "You're talking about others? If you hadn't copied my sleeping habits, things probably wouldn't have turned out this way."

People have a herd mentality; if more people sleep, then even more people will sleep.

"Let's go, ignore them, let's go into the Stele Forest."

"Great! Senior Sister, let's go dig for treasures in the Stele Forest!" Luo Qingsi jumped up excitedly, rubbing her hands together eagerly.

Jiang Yi sighed and put her arm around Luo Qingsi's shoulder. "Qingsi, there is a kind of treasure in this world called...intangible relics. It is very valuable, but it is not something that can be touched, nor can it be exchanged for spirit stones."

"The most valuable things in this Forest of Ten Thousand Swords are these intangible relics, namely the sword intent within each sword stele. These are far more valuable than spirit stones. If you want treasures, then try to comprehend as many sword intents as possible..."

Jiang Yi and his two companions entered the Forest of Ten Thousand Swords together, without even glancing at Lu Zhanqiu.

Lu Zhanqiu didn't want to argue with them anymore. He wanted to take a nap, not because he wanted to comprehend sword intent in his dreams, but simply because... he was tired!

　See you tomorrow~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)