Borrowing a sword

Chapter 121 Chu Huaixu's Sword Intent
Sword intent represents a sword cultivator's understanding of the way of the sword, which has reached a certain level.

For these cultivation giants, it is not a rare thing for a disciple to comprehend sword intent.

To generate sword intent in the first stage is indeed extremely rare.

However, Taoism has a history of over a thousand years, and there are countless individuals with extraordinary talent; there are still some examples.

Han Shuangjiang, for example, comprehended a powerful Reincarnation Sword Intent through the secret realm.

The problem is that Chu Huaixu has already achieved a clear understanding of swordsmanship!
Sword Heart is an advanced product of Sword Intent.

Xiang Yan asked, "Seventh Junior Sister, are you sure? You mean that Chu Huaixu's sword heart is now clear, but he can still comprehend new sword intent?"

"Of course, of course." The slender Taoist nun remained as sparing with her words as ever.

Chu Yinyin's eyes lit up, and she burst into laughter: "Then he'll have two sword hearts in the future! Hahaha!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was deeply shaken.

Everyone can imagine how terrifying his combat power would be if he were to reach the level of a great cultivator one day!
Upon hearing this, Li Chunsong immediately began rubbing his hands together on the spot, and the more he rubbed them, the faster he did so.

When the gambling addiction kicks in, there's no way to stop it!
"Gentlemen!" he called out.

"In your opinion, who is stronger, Chu Huaixu after comprehending the sword intent or Xu Ziqing wielding the Dao Ancestor Sword?" He began to lay the groundwork.

"How about we make a bet during the Eastern Continent Grand Competition?" said the gambling addict.

Upon hearing this, everyone actually began to seriously analyze the problem.

"It should be Xu Ziqing," Zhao Shuqi analyzed.

With their level of attainment, they are naturally able to perceive things through divine sense.

Although only the first of the nine restrictions on the bronze sword has been lifted, the power it generates is absolutely overwhelming for a cultivator at the first level.

Even if Chu Huaixu comprehended the sword intent, he still couldn't bridge the gap.

I estimate they can fight back and forth, but I'll probably lose.

There's no way around it; this sword's rank is simply too high.

"And what about you?" Li Chunsong's face flushed, and his breathing became a little rapid.

Elder Lu Pan, the law enforcement elder, snorted coldly: "Sixth Junior Brother, isn't it too early?"

"Oh, senior brother, that's exactly how you place your bets early—that's what makes things unpredictable and interesting," the charitable gambling king said with a fawning smile.

Urged on by him, everyone placed their bets.

Aside from Li Chunsong, only Chu Yinyin blindly trusts Chu Huaixu, disregarding facts and evidence, and simply supports him!
The Taoist nun sitting on the boulder never participates in such matters.

After some thought, the philanthropic gambling tycoon still chose to go against the majority.

"Chu Huaixu has never let me lose in all these encounters!"

“I’m still betting on him!” he shouted.

The night is getting darker.

Xu Ziqing did not return to the bamboo house.

Chu Huaixu hung his dirty clothes outside Xiao Xu's door and then returned to his bedroom.

Although the black and gold robe didn't need washing, he wasn't so sexy as to wear only an outer robe.

Xiao Xu's functions have only been optimized in a small part; he still has to do the work.

After sitting down on the futon, Chu Huaixu first took out a batch of pills from the medicine cauldron.

He began to infuse his own spiritual power into [Dao Sheng Yi], feeding it to it.

The spirit was still crying out for food, but he simply ignored it.

"I can't feed them enough even after several feedings a day, there's nothing I can do," he said helplessly.

After placing ten Qi Gathering Pills into the medicine bottle, Chu Huaixu opened his character panel.

He's almost maxed out his proficiency in low-level alchemy.

Although they are all made by oneself using a medicine cauldron, one's proficiency will increase accordingly.

That's practically cheating too.

Of course, since the [Tao Begins One] is powerful enough, maxing out its proficiency is not very meaningful, since Chu Huaixu wouldn't do it himself anyway.

Its only purpose is that, when he occasionally needs to demonstrate his abilities to the outside world, he can refine elixirs without relying on the medicine cauldron, relying solely on his own true skills.

After closing the control panel, he opened the forum.

His forum function was still not working, and there was no large banner promoting the beta test on the homepage.

"It won't be long," he thought.

Three days passed by in a flash.

In these three days, Han Shuangjiang broke through another level.

At this rate, she could probably raise her cultivation level to the Great Perfection of the First Realm by the time of the Eastern Continent Grand Competition.

Xu Ziqing still hasn't gone home; he's probably still inside the inner gate.

"I need to go down the mountain tomorrow; I have some things to take care of," Chu Huaixu said to Big Ice Cube during the meal.

"Okay." Given her aloof nature, she wouldn't ask any more questions.

However, she was a little unaccustomed to suddenly being left alone at home.

The next day, Chu Huaixu, who had been tortured by his master all night, went down the mountain early.

Based on his memory, he arrived at the city closest to the Daoist sect, a city called Dao City.

It is obvious that the city got its name because the Taoist sect was right next to it.

"This is one of the locations in the closed beta test of 'Borrowing Swords'," he thought to himself.

Today is the day of the closed beta test.

Chu Huaixu entered the city and began to wander aimlessly.

Daocheng was incredibly bustling and prosperous, with many pedestrians on the streets.

"Silly players are easy to spot; they stand out in a crowd," he thought.

How outrageous can players get?

When it first launched, some players might take off their pants on the spot to test the game's level of explicitness.
Besides that, don't expect players to be able to walk normally.

Even if they don't know any movement techniques, they'll still run and jump around aimlessly.

Once you master the movement techniques, you'll be able to dart around freely.

This is similar to how, many years ago when everyone played online games, you would feel uncomfortable if you didn't press the jump button a few times.

However, Chu Huaixu wandered around Daocheng for a full hour and didn't see a single oddball!
He then encountered a pickpocket stealing his money bag, and deliberately walked over and bumped into him hard with his shoulder.

This left him with a somewhat strange feeling.

Although the previous signs had already given him a vague idea, he still couldn't help but wander around and take another look.

The Preface to the Book of Chu Huai needs an answer.

Even though he already knew the answer in his heart.

As the sun set, Chu Huaixu found a restaurant.

He sat by the window, watching the street scene under the setting sun.

Today, Dao City should have been plunged into minor chaos because of a group of strange individuals.

However, even now, it remains as peaceful and tranquil as ever. Chu Huaixu ate the famous dishes in the restaurant, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

In the end, all the unspoken words in my heart boiled down to one sentence: "It's still not as delicious as the big ice cubes."

He quickly finished the meal and then set off back to the Daoist sect.

As the sun set, his shadow stretched longer and longer.

He kept walking forward on his own in the crowd.

From this day forward, he becomes the only one in "Borrowing a Sword".

By the time Chu Huaixu returned to Yaoshan, it was already late at night.

Han Shuangjiang was already meditating and cultivating in her bedroom.

He went inside and found that Xiao Xu still hadn't come home.

"He can't still be unconscious, can he?" he thought.

His shoes were a little dirty because he was in a hurry.

Chu Huaixu then took them off and threw them at Xiao Xu's door.

After returning to the futon and sitting cross-legged, he fell into a long daze.

I can't quite describe how I feel.

He felt as if there was a sense of detachment.
Chu Huaixu kept getting distracted.

Until he briefly lost consciousness, he "woke up" to find himself back in that blank space.

A dense cloud suddenly appeared before him.

In the thick fog, he could vaguely see the woman holding the sword.

Her sword-wielding posture was beautiful, and Chu Huaixu, as usual, admired it for a while.

Of course, he still followed the proper procedure, bowing respectfully: "Master."

In the past, after bowing, he would stand there and do nothing, waiting to be "slaughtered" by the other party.

But today is different.

The 30-day countdown has come to an end.

Moreover, he was feeling a bit conflicted today.

At this moment, Chu Huaixu didn't think about anything else.

He suddenly said, "Master, although I know that my cultivation is insignificant in front of you, I would like to try my hand at sword today when you draw your sword."

The figure within the thick fog did not respond.

Chu Huaixu still doesn't understand whether the other party can sense what he says.

Or is it that the figure before me is actually devoid of any intelligence, merely an avatar of the Sword Domain?
But he couldn't care less about that now.

Today, he just wanted to try it out, he just wanted to wield the sword!
Even as a swordless individual, he didn't even have a sword in his hand.

Not long after, the woman in the thick fog moved.

Her movements weren't particularly fast because she would always get into position first.

Sometimes, it's a thorn.

Sometimes, it's about cutting.

Sometimes, it's about choosing.
She was only using the most basic moves.

Today, it seems we've returned to the initial thorns!
Chu Huaixu knew just how fast his opponent was, so he made the first move.

This was also the first time he had taken the initiative to attack within this sword domain!
He used his finger as a sword and thrust it forward as well.

A flash of sword light, and he was instantly engulfed within it, vanishing into nothingness.

And so, time and time again, his will quickly became muddled, and his brain was like a complete mess.

As always, Shen Man would kill him forty times in one night.

But for some reason today, during the last time, Chu Huaixu's consciousness began to quickly return to clarity.

The woman in the thick fog actually took a few steps forward.

As she moved, the thick fog also moved, enveloping her within it.

"Perhaps, the mist was originally part of her sword domain?" Chu Huaixu thought after regaining his senses.

Before long, the two were only about a meter apart.

The slender Taoist nun brandished her sword again.

But this time, the sword was moving very slowly, so slowly that Chu Huaixu seemed to be able to see every detail!
He felt as if time had suddenly slowed down!
However, the speed of the sword energy emanating from his fingertips was the same as always.

This woman named Shen Man is still shrouded in mist.

But for the first time, the sword in her hand came out of the fog!

Chu Huaixu watched as a sword emerged from the mist.

"This is actually a wooden sword!"

The sword energy at his fingertips clashed with the wooden sword.

Knowing full well that they were about to face that undeniably real death.

But Chu Huaixu felt inexplicably calm inside.

It's as if the body's instinctive fear has been eliminated during special training!
He wasn't afraid at all.

The next instant, the thick fog in front of us receded.

To be precise, everything he saw started playing in reverse?

Everything that happened over the past thirty days was playing in reverse, and at an increasingly faster pace!

"boom--!"

He felt like his head was about to explode.

Chu Huaixu suddenly opened his eyes, and a mysterious aura began to spread around him, soaring straight into the sky!
Inside the bamboo house next door, the Partridge Sky tea that Han Shuangjiang had placed on the table trembled violently at that moment!
System notifications began to ring in his ears.

"[Ding! Congratulations, you have completed the trial mission.]"

"【You have comprehended the essence of swordsmanship—fearlessness.】"

Chu Huaixu had been thinking for a while about what his own characteristics were and what kind of sword intent he would generate.
Now, he has the answer.

The Sword Refining Technique made him unafraid of pain.

The Daoist Canon made him unafraid of getting hurt.

The 30-day Sword Domain Trial made him fearless of death.

But today is special.

Chu Huaixu looked at the roof with a blank expression.

"Not afraid of pain, not afraid of injury, and not afraid of death—isn't that it?"

He paused for a moment, then uttered two words in his heart:

"Player!"

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