Sword Shatters Stars

Chapter 12 So this is the shortcut?
The golden knife and silver sword suddenly attacked the opponent!
The speed was so fast that Lin Xiufeng and Zhao Youyue couldn't even see it clearly.

Waves of Heavenly Martial Power swept over them continuously.

Each time it swept across, the Heavenly Martial Soul absorbed a great deal of Heavenly Martial Power.

Lin Xiufeng kept getting closer and closer, even closer and closer...

Zhao Youyue stayed close to him the whole time.

As the distance closes, the amount of Heavenly Martial Power absorbed is significantly greater when the energy wave sweeps across the body.

Lin Xiufeng's mood went from ecstasy to joy, and then to gradually getting used to it.

The Heavenly Martial Power he absorbed gathered in his body and flowed down, already reaching above his knees.

That's too fast, it's incredibly fast!

'Fate truly favors the North! To run into two such sycophants, they're actually fighting amongst themselves for a woman!'

'If they fight a little longer, will my entire body be filled with Heavenly Martial Power?'

Lin Xiufeng was secretly pleased, watching the two fight, and realized that their fighting styles were quite different.

The silver sword primarily employs stealthy thrusting attacks, rarely parrying or blocking, relying on evasion for defense; the gold knife, on the other hand, focuses on aggressive offense, rarely dodging, relying on parrying and blocking for defense.

The silver sword is longer, but if it is slightly deflected by a parry, the sword can only shatter the golden armor and cannot harm the body.

The shattered golden armor can be quickly repaired.

Lin Xiufeng wanted to learn some moves, but he couldn't see them very clearly; both of them were moving too fast.

Lin Xiufeng could only roughly remember and deduce based on the paths of the light flowing through the two people's bodies and their movements.

Suddenly, the golden knife and the silver sword clashed together.

Gold and silver, the two heavenly martial forces collided continuously!
Accompanying this was a continuous, radiating wave of Heavenly Martial Power energy.

Lin Xiufeng noticed that the energy waves from the direction where the two people's bodies were not shielded were significantly stronger, so he quickly moved to adjust his position.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Youyue looked over with a puzzled expression.

"What are you doing? Can't you see the energy waves are denser over here?" Lin Xiufeng didn't know what she was wondering.

"What energy wave?" Zhao Youyue asked in astonishment.

Now it was Lin Xiufeng's turn to smile.

"Great, you've learned to be funny."

Zhao Youyue walked over with a blank look on her face, then said with great surprise, "Really!"

"Keep pretending! Keep pretending!"

Lin Xiufeng thought to himself that his father couldn't fool him with such a little trick when he was two years old!

Thinking of his father, Lin Xiufeng felt a pang of sadness again...

Not thinking about it is painful; missing it brings just as much joy as it brings sorrow.

Lin Xiufeng took a deep breath, shifted his attention, and stared intently at the two people who were still exchanging weapons.

The golden knife seemed to have the upper hand, taking steps forward while the silver sword began to retreat.

"The outcome is decided, you should admit defeat!"

The golden knife continued to press forward, while the silver sword retreated as far as it could, resulting in a continuous series of circles.

However, the silver sword could never be separated from the golden knife.

The Heavenly Martial Power of the Golden Saber surged onto the Silver Sword's blade, abruptly halting the Silver Sword's retreat. It was forced to kneel on the ground by the Heavenly Martial Power of the Golden Saber, desperately resisting with its sword held horizontally.

"Let's play a little longer, let's play a little longer!"

Lin Xiufeng had absorbed more than his waist of Heavenly Martial Power, hoping it would fill his entire body.

The golden knife pressed down forcefully, its tone revealing anxiety and anger as it questioned:
"You still won't admit defeat! What do you mean by that?"

Silver Sword looked up at him, looking utterly disheartened.

"If I lose to her, nothing will matter. My Heavenly Martial Heart is in my right wrist. Don't waste your strength, shatter it, and in the future, use my power to protect her!"

"We agreed that the winner would stay with her, and the loser would leave!" Jin Dao roared angrily.

"That's the result of your defeat, not mine. Don't waste your energy, attack! I'm not doing this for you, but so you can better protect her in the future!"

Silver Sword's persistence finally made Golden Knife, who had been hesitant, make up his mind, muttering a curse under his breath:
"Damn it!" The golden knife in his hand changed from a downward slash to a horizontal slash, severing the silver sword's wrist in one blow.

As the wrist severed, the Heavenly Martial Heart, a ball of silver light within, split in two.

The burst of Heavenly Martial Power shot out wildly, and the vast majority of it was absorbed by the golden blade and surged toward his heart.

The remaining Heavenly Martial Power transformed into energy waves, sweeping in all directions.

The Heavenly Martial Power absorbed by Lin Xiufeng's body suddenly filled his brain.

'It's full! Is the Heavenly Martial Heart coming soon?!'

Lin Xiufeng was pleasantly surprised by her good luck.

He felt as if the energy in every cell of his body was being compressed and shrunk into an extremely small point in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the feeling of being filled with the power of Heavenly Martial Arts suddenly surged into all the empty cells in my body.

So his body was empty again, and there was only a tiny bit of Heavenly Martial Power in every cell of his body.

'It's evolved? Why can't I sense the Heavenly Martial Heart?'

Just as Lin Xiufeng was wondering what was going on, he felt the burst of Heavenly Martial Power energy wave being absorbed by his body.

His previously empty body quickly filled with power.

'The Heavenly Martial Power within my body seems to be compressed many times over, yet the amount of Heavenly Martial Power I'm absorbing is the same as before...'

'Could it be that previously only uncompressed Heavenly Martial Power could be absorbed, but now that the Heavenly Martial Power has undergone a qualitative change, allowing for the absorption of a higher concentration of power?'

'Won't it take several full absorptions to evolve the Heavenly Martial Heart?'

'Is this what my second brother meant by going through multiple qualitative changes?'

As Lin Xiufeng was pondering this, his empty body suddenly and once again absorbed a full amount of Heavenly Martial Power!
Then, the experience from moments before happened again.

The power in every part of his body was suddenly compressed into a single point, and the Heavenly Martial Power that filled his body surged into all his empty cells.

And his efficiency in absorbing the power of the Heavenly Martial Realm did not decrease at all!

However, the burst of Heavenly Martial Power energy wave failed to fill Lin Xiufeng's entire body for the third time.

Lin Xiufeng saw the severed hand of the silver sword disintegrate into scattered Heavenly Martial Power.

Inside the shattered Heavenly Martial Heart, there was a tiny silver bead. It twisted and turned amidst the exploding Heavenly Martial power, and then vanished into thin air.

Lin Xiufeng didn't know what it was either.

But then he saw Silver Sword's entire body, like a severed hand, turn into a mist of light—

Then, it exploded into Heavenly Martial Power energy that spread in all directions!

'The Heavenly Warrior is dead, is that so?'

Lin Xiufeng really thought that Yin Jian was incredibly stupid.

People can risk their lives for true love that is mutual, so how can they give up their lives for a woman who is fickle?

The surging power of the Heavenly Martial Force erupted like a whirlwind.

After a while, everything returned to calm.

Jin Dao remained silent for a moment, then suddenly stood up and walked away without looking back.

They completely ignored Lin Xiufeng and Zhao Youyue, as if they hadn't seen them at all.

"Let's go!" Zhao Youyue suggested.

Lin Xiufeng was about to leave when he saw the direction Jin Dao had gone, and there seemed to be something shaking in the woods further away.

'If it were to benefit from the power of the Heavenly Martial Arts, wouldn't one stand so far away? If one could easily benefit from it, why stand so far away? Could it be…'

Lin Xiufeng had an idea. He pretended to leave, then used the trees and bushes to circle around some of them before chasing after Jin Dao.

Zhao Youyue asked nervously, "What?"

I'll tell you in a bit. Keep quiet.

Lin Xiufeng was just guessing; anyway, there was no harm in trying, at worst he would gain nothing.

(End of this chapter)