Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

Xi Heng found it truly amazing and wanted to experience it again.

Without hesitation, she clicked to load the save file.

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Chapter 78, Severing the Soul from the Heart

In his thirty-sixth save, Xi Heng used his previous experience to safely navigate Fang Tiande's prime, ultimately striking him in the vitals with two deadly swords in an instant.

As always, they easily took Fang Tiande's life.

The simultaneous unleashing of two deadly swords from the left and right was clearly more powerful and impactful than a single sword piercing the heart.

After being struck by a fatal sword strike, Fang Tiande still had a chance to say his last words. If he had enough internal energy, he might even be able to launch a weaker counterattack.

But when one sword becomes two, the damage inflicted is inexplicably increased several times over.

The moment the attack struck, the light in the opponent's eyes vanished instantly. He could no longer even blink, let alone swing his axe in retaliation.

It's as if two swords hitting the target have an instant death effect; the blade pierces the flesh, and the enemy's mind is also injured, causing them to faint.

Fang Tiande lost consciousness, and the internal energy he had stored in his body could no longer be activated to maintain his physical body, which then rapidly collapsed.

As Xi Heng used this move, he once again experienced that fleeting, special sensation from before:

The instant the sword strike landed, she felt a strange change occur in the two longswords in her hands.

Although on the surface the sword's shape remained unchanged, in her mind's perception, the blade instantly transformed from a tangible object into something that should not exist in a physical form.

This 'thing that shouldn't be real' was held in her hand as a 'physical entity,' creating a strong sense of disorientation.

It was as if what she held in her hand was not a sword, but some other indescribable 'feeling,' like a sixth sense or some kind of premonition, which she grasped in her hand.

What she holds in her hand is 'a feeling expressed by the soul,' and this 'feeling' is her sword.

After the strange feeling subsided, Xi Heng ended the save/load as the negative effects of the Sword of Destruction wore off, and habitually kept the Blood Spirit Stone as a trophy...

After that, she looked down at her slender fingers and remained quietly in place.

The five fingers gripped and clenched, as if trying to retain the unique and strange sensation from just now.

But that feeling eventually faded away, leaving only faint, continuous memories.

"what is that?"

Xi Heng pinched his chin and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.

If I had to put it into words, it would be...

In the instant she swung her sword, the sword, which was a physical object, seemed to transform into a part of her mind.

'A part of the mind' is not something that can exist in a physical form.

But it is inexplicably intertwined with the concept of 'sword' and inseparable from it.

So much so that Xi Heng found it difficult to adapt the moment this feeling appeared.

How did the sword I was holding turn into my heart?

For a short time, she couldn't quite grasp the logic.

"How can the heart be a sword? How can a sword become the heart? It's such a contradiction."

Xi Heng tried to think rationally, but he just couldn't figure it out.

But just now, the heart and the sword did indeed coexist and were perfectly intertwined.

Following the principle of not dwelling on things he couldn't understand, Xi Heng casually found a reason to convince himself:

"Perhaps this is what they call 'unbelievable'..."

Language can only describe things that can be spoken, but it is powerless to describe things that cannot be spoken.

Xi Heng roughly sensed that this 'intertwining of sword and heart' seemed to be something indescribable.

"No..." She shook her head:

"Perhaps this is the next stage of sword intent. Since it is an experience related to the sword and the heart, let's call it 'Sword Heart'."

"I just wonder what kind of effect this sword intent will have in actual combat..."

She vaguely recalled that after Fang Tiande was hit, his mind seemed to be affected by the move and he fainted.

Is that influence related to 'Kenshin'?

One question after another popped into her mind.

After a moment, he shook his head and shook it off.

"But for now... let's slowly get a feel for Kenshin."

Xi Heng planned to leave these many questions until his sword intent was truly enhanced before exploring them.

Her 'sword heart' is currently only within the realm of a fleeting moment of inspiration—just like her initial 'still heart,' which she cannot freely control.

A calm mind can be maintained for a period of time, but a sword mind is fleeting and even more difficult to grasp and sense.

"continue!"

Her curiosity about Kenshin outweighed the boredom that inevitably arose from reloading save files.

With a flick of the finger, click to load the save file.

After the twisting and contorting sensation subsided, I opened my eyes to find myself back on that familiar battlefield.

Xi Heng casually pulled out two longswords and approached them with a rather natural step.

……

Fortieth save/load...Fiftieth...

After using the Sword of Destruction many times, Xi Heng's understanding of the 'Sword Heart' became clearer, and the awkwardness and discomfort he felt gradually disappeared.

She now feels that Kenshin is truly a wondrous, even beautiful thing.

Before one's sword intent reaches the 'sword heart' stage, the sword is ultimately just an external object. Even if one integrates sword techniques into the whole body and turns them into instincts, they are still just external objects.

But after reaching the level of 'Sword Heart', the blade formed a connection with her mind, becoming even closer to her than her arm.

The blade becomes something akin to an extension of the mind, naturally leading to a further improvement in control.

After acquiring the sword's heart, Xi Heng could easily sense the slightest tremors of the blade, the sharpness of its various parts, and even the marks on the sword, large and small.

With each save file she reloaded, she gradually grasped the essence of swordsmanship. In battle, she became increasingly divinely aided, each move flawless. As long as she thought of how to kill, the sword would obey her without hesitation.

Xi Heng even had the illusion that she had removed the intermediary of her arm and was wielding the sword directly with her mind.

Sixtieth save file loading.

"The sword severs the flesh, the heart severs the soul."

Xi Heng easily pierced Fang Tiande's heart with a single, deadly sword strike, muttering to himself:

"After roughly grasping the essence of swordsmanship, it seems my sword has also begun to inflict some damage on the mind..."

As long as it hits, even if the enemy uses their internal energy to block her sword, they cannot stop the sword's intent that points straight to the heart.

Coupled with the indestructible power of the Sword of Destruction, no matter how much internal energy Fang Tiande still possessed, or whether he was at his peak, as long as his weakness was struck, he could be immediately cut down by the sword.

Through dozens of save-loading attempts, Xi Heng had roughly grasped the essence of swordsmanship.

Although it is still difficult to use spontaneously, the duration of use is getting longer and longer.

Whenever I reload a save, when dealing with ordinary rebel generals, as long as I trigger their sword heart state, I can easily defeat them with a single strike even without using any health points.

Xi Heng even felt that in this state, he could easily kill enemies even with just a rough wooden sword.

"Wait, a wooden sword?"

She suddenly recalled the "River Luo Fish and Dragon Sword Technique" that she had memorized before, which seemed to contain some descriptions related to "sword heart".

The Azure Dragon chapter of that sword manual states that when a swordsman reaches the celestial realm of 'detachment from the mundane,' he can discard the heavy sword from the Black Tortoise chapter, take a random wooden branch to make a sword shape, and then use the wooden sword to fight, thus beginning a new chapter.

Presumably, the "realm of heaven and man" described in the book refers to this realm of sword heart.

While pondering, Xi Heng once again easily killed Fang Tiande, grabbed the Blood Spirit Stone, and waited to load the save file.

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Seventieth save file loading.

With each use of the sword that seals life, the swordsman's heart becomes more and more perfect.

What was originally just a fleeting inspiration for her sword spirit, she could now wield at will.

And because of her enhanced mental strength, her mental age has gradually increased to nearly forty.

With the blessing of the sword heart, Xi Heng was able to easily kill more than twenty rebel generals at the beginning of the save, even without using the Bloodline Forbidden Technique.

She could kill ordinary internal force practitioners with a sword strike using her sword heart technique. Only a few practitioners who had mastered internal force were worth using a few proper moves on.

However, although his sword intent has improved, Xi Heng's overall physical fitness has not improved significantly. To kill Fang Tiande, he still needs the Bloodline Forbidden Technique.

"As expected, the Bloodline Sword's path to mastery involves honing sword intent through killing techniques... and then using that sword intent to refine the techniques."

After killing Fang Tiande, Xi Heng returned to the save file space and muttered to himself.

Previously, in a state of perfect tranquility, she had crafted the swords 'Yueyin' and 'Duanming' for herself.

With each save file reload, the Sword of Destruction was improved, which in turn enhanced its sword intent, and thus it came into contact with the sword's heart.

Xi Heng had a premonition that as long as she used her sword heart as a foundation and built up enough moves to support her entire martial arts path, she would be able to step into the realm of Transformation.

The "Heluo Fish and Dragon Sword Technique" states: "Upon reaching the realm of Heaven and Man, and practicing the Azure Dragon chapter, one is only one step away from achieving the Transformation Realm."

"My sword intent is already sufficient to reach the Transformation Realm; what I lack is something external to the mind."

The external world is not only the physical body, but also the techniques that can fully express the intent of the sword.

"Movement..."

Xi Heng immediately remembered his sword of death.

After the improvements, she can now unleash the Deadly Sword twice in a row, which is already considered her strongest and best move to date.

With the immense explosive power and destructive force of the two life-severing swords, coupled with the assistance of the sword heart, as long as Xi Heng is willing to use up one of her lives, the vast majority of experts at the Transformation Realm will die under her sword.

"The Sword of Destruction may have even greater potential..." she murmured to herself.

If she hadn't mastered the sword's heart, then those two life-severing swords would have been very close to her limit.

But now, with his incredibly wondrous sword heart, Xi Heng's vision has broadened considerably, and several flashes of inspiration easily appeared in his mind as he continued to deduce the Sword of Destruction.

"How about combining the two swords into one? Now that I have the support of the Sword Heart, my control over the sword has increased even further. Perhaps it is possible."

Once Xi Heng had an idea, he immediately put it into action.

After briefly considering the situation in the gray area before loading the save file, I pressed the "Load Save" button.

The seventy-first save file loading.

Flags fluttered and flames roared and burned.

Xi Heng arrived at this extremely familiar battlefield, his hands, which had been gripping two swords, fell flat to his sides, his whole body relaxed, and he exhaled softly.

His thoughts echoed from when he had just loaded the save file, and he simultaneously activated both his sword spirit and his tranquil mind.

As the two longswords in his hands connected with his heart, Xi Heng began to ponder quietly.

What actions and techniques are needed to combine two deadly sword strikes into one?

With Kenshin's involvement, she seemed to suddenly receive an enlightenment, as if she had a sudden realization, and her mind was enlightened.

"The two techniques should not be combined into one; two swords should not be used."

She tossed the left sword back into her inventory and gripped the same sword with both hands.

Xi Heng closed his eyes slightly, ignoring the clamor from the outside world, and used his sword heart to observe his inner self, constructing his own body and unleashing various moves in his mind.

Gradually, as her sword heart was formed, her mind was detached from the real world, and her thoughts became clearer and clearer, even forming an illusion-like scene in her vision.

As Xi Heng took a step forward in her mind, she entered a hazy, white spiritual world.

The girl slowly opened her eyes, and in the distance, she could see the blurry figure of an enemy.

"Can a perfected sword heart really do something like this? It's as if one has actually entered an illusion..."

With a thought, the figure before her gradually solidified into another version of herself, exuding a murderous aura like a demonic Asura.