Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 409 A Lifetime of Pursuit, Unwilling to Settle for Mediocrity
No one expected that Ye Ningzhen would take the initiative to strike first.

The change happened in an instant, and Ye Ningzhen only unleashed one sword strike.

At that moment, Liao Zhenfeng had just finished uttering his scathing words.

Ye Ningzhen's reply, "Come and fight," hadn't even finished being uttered.

She then drew her Wuzhen sword from behind her back.

This sword is named Wuzhen because its surface is formless and colorless.

To the average person, what Ye Ningzhen was holding in her hand didn't even seem like a sword, but rather a sharp wisp of air.

In reality, this was a spirit sword that Yu Hanhai, the head of the Shenji Sect, had painstakingly crafted for his eldest disciple.

The greatest advantage of this sword is that it can resonate with Ye Ningzhen's divine will and is perfectly compatible with her.

The moment the sword was drawn, it truly embodied the belief that Ye Ningzhen had held for thousands of days and nights since she began her cultivation, and that she had wielded the sword countless times.

When she was young, both her parents died and she lived with her uncle and aunt.

Her uncle and aunt's family were going to do everything they could to support her cousin's cultivation. Apart from giving her a proper meal so that she wouldn't starve, they couldn't provide her with any other cultivation resources.

She lived under someone else's roof and was very good at reading people's expressions.

From a young age, I did all the housework, from washing clothes and cooking to cleaning.

They were afraid that if they did not do enough, or ate even a single extra bite of rice, they would be met with cold looks from their uncles and aunts.

However, she was also unwilling to accept it.

Every time I feel hungry and have abdominal cramps;

Every time the cold wind bites and my hands and feet break out in sores;

Every morning when the rooster crows and we rise to dance, and every night when we are accompanied by the stars and moon...

She would repeatedly ask herself: Is this the life I want to live?

No, absolutely not!
If you were born only to waste your life on endless housework and endless cold stares.

For a few copper coins, they are busy and preoccupied;

To have a full meal, one must be extremely careful.

Then why did she give birth?

What good is such a life?
Ye Ning was truly unwilling; she was extremely unwilling.

Therefore, even if she had to learn by stealing, she still wanted to cultivate immortality.

The lack of resources and knowledge of the methods could not deter Ye Ningzhen's determination to cultivate.

She secretly saw her cousin practicing swordsmanship at home, so she quietly trimmed a branch from the woodpile in the kitchen.

He memorized a few moves every day, and within a month he had memorized his cousin's swordsmanship.

Sometimes, Ye Ningzhen even felt that her cousin was learning too slowly and seemed to be less intelligent than herself.

The swordsmanship she honed through countless nights and dawns, working tirelessly day and night, seemed to be even more fluid than her cousin's.

But so what if it's smoother?

She never had a teacher, and she wasn't even qualified to practice spiritual cultivation.

Therefore, disaster finally broke out one day.

The neighbor next door to my aunt and uncle's house reported that Ye Ningzhen had secretly learned the immortal sword technique.

That was the sword technique of the Foreign Affairs Hall of a certain seventh-rank sect in Canglan Immortal City.

Although it is only the basic Five Elements Sword Technique, no one who has not been recorded in the spiritual register of that sect can learn it.

If an outsider steals the technique, at best they will be bankrupted, at worst they will have their limbs broken, their tendons severed, or even die on the spot.

Ye Ningzhen has been reported.

She would never forget that day when two menacing cultivators stepped into the streets of Pingwu Village and kicked down the gate of her aunt and uncle's house.

Neighbors and villagers all came to watch.

A wooden sword was found in the small woodshed where she slept.

Her bones and tendons were examined, confirming that she had indeed practiced the Five Elements Sword Technique of the Five Elements Sect.

Two cultivators from the Five Elements Sect immediately demanded huge sums of compensation.

However, although the uncle and aunt had practiced Qi cultivation, they were only minor cultivators who had not even reached the third level of Qi cultivation.

How could they possibly afford to pay such a huge sum of money?
The uncle remained silent, while the aunt broke down in tears, pleading desperately:
"Ningzhen, why do you have to harm us like this?"
If you can't clean up the mess you've made, you're practically driving your uncle and aunt to their deaths!

What kind of enormous sum of money was that?

Ye Ningzhen clearly remembered that there were five Qi Hua Pills.

Do your uncle and aunt really not have any?
No, they actually do have the money. It's just that they are unwilling to pay this huge sum for Ye Ningzhen, no matter what.

Ye Ningzhen would always remember how she stood up, head held high, and said to the two disciples of the Five Elements Sect:
"It's my fault, and I stole the sword technique. Don't implicate anyone else, just break my bones!"
Even if I were killed, I would have no complaints.

Unexpectedly, the two disciples of the Five Elements Sect hesitated instead.

Ye Ningzhen then picked up the wooden sword from the ground with a speed that no one could have predicted.

She used all her strength to unleash her most powerful sword strike at that moment.

There are no tricks, no loops, only unwavering courage.

She shouted, "Kill me then!"

Come on—

The wooden sword thrust out, without any added true energy, yet it seemed to gather the starlight of heaven and earth.

That sword strike back then was just like this one.

So this was Ye Ningzhen's original intention.

He was courageous and fearless, never afraid of death.

I only pursue the great path in my heart, and I refuse to be mediocre in this life.

No one can make me submit!

Even myself—

war!
The sword intent surged and gushed, and the killing intent coalesced invisibly.

At that moment, all the disciples present in the Reception Hall felt as if the entire world before them had been plunged into a dark ocean of sword intent.

In the abyss-like darkness, only a glint of sword light pierced through the darkness.

The light came too fast.

It was so fast that almost no one's vision or senses could react in time.

Even Liao Zhenfeng, who was in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, was a beat slow to react.

As the sword flashed, Liao Zhenfeng was striding forward.

His expression changed drastically in an instant, and he exclaimed in surprise, "You..."

Before he could even finish uttering a word, the flash of sword light had already magnified.

Then, for a moment, Liao Zhenfeng felt as if his entire field of vision was bright white.

how so?

Because the sword light pierced his brow.

laugh!
The sharp sword intent, embodying the greatest belief of a sword cultivator throughout his life, pierced through his brow.

Even with Liao Zhenfeng's Golden Core stage cultivation, his protective true essence failed to withstand this attack.

His fiery red armor couldn't protect his head.

But he was, after all, only at the Golden Core stage.

The moment the sword light pierced through his brow, Liao Zhenfeng's golden core erupted from his dantian and surged upwards.

Liao Zhenfeng shouted, "Hmph!"

boom!
The immense true energy was reflected instantly.

Most of the people present did not see what happened.

All I saw was a flash of white light.

Then the two figures retreated one after the other.

Liao Zhenfeng staggered back five steps, each step landing on the lapis lazuli bricks of the Reception Hall, which were inscribed with array formations.

The floor tiles shimmered with a bluish light as they were stepped on, revealing numerous cracks on their surfaces.

There was a spot of blood between his eyebrows.

Ye Ningzhen was instantly sent flying by the backlash from the opponent's massive true energy.

Exclamations of surprise rang out from the audience: "Senior Sister!"

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

Chen Xu immediately stepped forward, intending to use his spirit control technique to catch Ye Ningzhen from a distance.

Just then, a sigh came from deep within the Hall of Reception: "Alas..."

(End of this chapter)