Volume One, Chapter 11: The Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring Shocks Everyone
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The moment Ye Wuchen heard this, he laughed aloud.
Smack!
Without the slightest courtesy, Ye Wuchen slapped Elder Ji viciously across the face. Elder Ji was sent flying on the spot and crashed into the side wall.
“I wanted to stamp that slap onto your forehead back in the Spirit-Hunting Mountains,” Ye Wuchen said coldly.
Everyone knew that when Yao Xi had been facing life and death, Elder Ji had never cared about her.
Instead, he had consistently taken Luo Qinghan’s and Xu Changsheng’s side.
Ye Wuchen could overlook the other young men and women. But with such a powerful expert present at the time, Elder Ji had not only refused to defend her—he had even kicked her while she was down.
Everyone: “...?”
“You worthless trash! You’re courting death!” Elder Ji’s face burned with humiliation.
“Trash? If you discover that even I am stronger than you, then what does that make you?”
“Arrogant!”
Elder Ji gave a cold snort, then laughed aloud. “I’m inferior to you? Ha! That is the funniest joke I have ever heard!”
“I have no interest in wasting words. Since the Sword Soul Sect can no longer tolerate me, I shall simply leave the mountain.”
With another cold snort, Ye Wuchen made no further delay. He swept out his immortal robe and rose from the ground.
With a single step, he flew out of the Law Enforcement Hall.
Not one disciple throughout the Sword Soul Sect dared to stop him.
“Wretched girl! Don’t you dare leave!”
Elder Ji followed him out, provoked by Ye Wuchen’s words.
To say that a dignified Sword Sect master was inferior to a piece of trash was something he could not endure.
“Unsharpened Heavy Sword! Dark Heaven Without Light!”
As his voice fell, a massive black sword appeared in Elder Ji’s hand. It flew free and slowly stood before him.
Under countless astonished gazes, he formed seals with both hands as spiritual power surged forth. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly began to tremble.
Rumble!
Above the boundless clear sky, muffled thunder suddenly rolled. Roiling black clouds swept over, blotting out the heavens and the sun.
The heavy sword hummed as though answering their call.
Its momentum stirred the celestial phenomena.
This was the might of a Sword Sect expert.
Facing the upheaval of heaven and earth, Ye Wuchen remained utterly calm in the air and said evenly, “Drawing upon the phenomena of heaven and earth—the might of a Sword Sect expert truly is terrifying.”
“Are you afraid now?”
Elder Ji sneered. “Unfortunately, it is already too late. You will pay the price for what you said. To die beneath my heavy sword is a fitting end for your life!”
He knew that even if he killed Yao Xi now, no one would say a word.
As his voice fell, Elder Ji swept one palm downward. The dark iron sword in the sky seemed to carry the force of heaven and earth as it shot toward Yao Xi’s chest.
There was not the slightest hesitation.
Facing the heavy sword that seemed capable of crushing the very space around them, Yao Xi merely sighed and said, “Senior, be careful!”
“What is there to fear?”
Ye Wuchen was without fear.
However, Yao Xi’s cultivation was still weak, and her qi and blood were insufficient. As a result, the grade of her sword spirit was not high. The mental strength, vital energy, and spiritual power he could currently draw upon could only reach the level of a peak Sword Master.
If he wanted a higher grade and abundant qi and blood, Yao Xi would first have to mature, devour spirit beasts, and absorb spirit bones.
Still, with the Sword Domain, he had nothing to fear even when facing a Sword Sect expert.
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As his voice fell, the dark heavy sword cleaved down from the sky.
Yet beneath countless stunned gazes, Ye Wuchen neither dodged nor counterattacked. A powerful mental force burst from his body, forming a purple barrier directly before him.
Layer upon layer of purple sword-intent light shielded his entire body. This was also the strongest state Yao Xi had possessed during her lifetime.
The heavy sword crashed down.
Sword intent shrieked.
No matter how imposing Elder Ji’s dark heavy sword was, it could not break through the purple defensive barrier. Ye Wuchen had actually taken the blow with his body!
“This is the Sword Domain!”
Elder Ji was both shocked and enraged. He could not believe what he was seeing.
With a furious roar, he gathered all the spiritual power in his body into the heavy sword. In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared across the sky.
The dark heavy sword blazed with black radiance.
Yet even so, it still failed to break through the purple sword-light barrier.
Then something that left everyone dumbfounded happened.
When the dark heavy sword pierced barely half an inch into the purple barrier, cracks began to spread across its entire body, radiating outward like a spiderweb.
The next moment—
Boom!
With a thunderous explosion, Elder Ji’s dark heavy sword shattered instantly. Countless fragments of iron flew in every direction, while the backlash sent his body tumbling through the air.
This... this was impossible!
At that moment, every watching disciple of the Sword Soul Sect fell silent, their eyes wide with shock.
“I told you. If I am trash, then all of you are even worse than trash!”
Buzz—
Suddenly, another powerful sword intent burst from Yao Xi’s body. A trace of divine aura began to drift around her.
Boundless sword intent revolved around her, as though the stars of the celestial heavens were being set into motion.
Sword intent!
That was sword intent!
Everyone was shaken.
Rumble...
“Who else wants to stop me? Come at me together.”
Within Yao Xi’s body, divine thunder seemed to roar. Golden spiritual power filled her from head to toe, and the sword spirit appeared in her hand as she pointed it toward the assembled disciples.
However, his aura had already begun to grow unstable. After all, Yao Xi’s mental strength could not yet be sustained for long. Against a Sword Sect expert, it could support him for no more than fifteen minutes.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, a grand sound erupted, shaking the entire Sword Execution Peak. The great hall trembled, the surrounding mountains resonated, and everything seemed as though the heavens had collapsed and the palace of the gods had fallen from the sky.
At the same time, sword light soared into the heavens, brilliant and dazzling. A sword aura shot upward, splitting apart the clouds above.
“This...”
The disciples were scared witless.
Even many of the elders’ expressions changed drastically, and some began to tremble.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The elders rose as one, staring at Yao Xi in disbelief.
“She actually comprehended sword intent and the Sword Domain at such a young age...”
Jian Wubei could no longer remain seated.
Even Leng Qiuyue widened her beautiful eyes, staring at Yao Xi in utter astonishment.
As they sensed that sword intent, their faces turned deathly pale, their eyes filled with overwhelming disbelief.
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A useless sword spirit?
How could this possibly be?
Was this an illusion?
But before they could react, the ordinary black sword in Ye Wuchen’s hand suddenly burst into dazzling treasure-light.
“A high-grade spirit weapon!”
“This... impossible!”
The disciples who had mocked Yao Xi only moments before were all stunned.
As soon as those words left his mouth, a halo quietly lit up and coiled around the tip of the sword.
Under the bewildered gazes of the crowd, the halo fully revealed itself.
Yet this time, no one was shocked.
Their faces were filled only with terror.
That halo completely overturned everything they knew, because it was red.
Silence.
A terrifying silence.
What kind of dreadful feeling was it when a crowd that had been noisy only moments earlier suddenly fell quiet?
After that brief stillness—
Another uproar erupted!
“A hundred-thousand-year spirit ring!”
Yet this time, there was no astonishment on their faces, only horror.
The final radiance completely overturned their understanding, because it was red!
Luo Qinghan’s lips trembled violently, and her voice came in broken fragments. “A hundred-thousand... a hundred-thousand-year... spirit ring? Yao Xi only awakened her sword spirit moments ago. How could she...?”
She used nearly all her strength just to utter those words. Her legs went weak, and she could no longer control her body. She collapsed onto the ground.
“How is this possible? How could this happen...?”
The elders of the Law Enforcement Hall desperately rubbed their eyes. They were already muttering incoherently. In their understanding, a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring was an existence akin to a god—and one now stood before them.
Throughout the entire Sword Spirit Continent, experts possessing hundred-thousand-year spirit rings were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. Anyone with a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring was a peerless prodigy who could shake the entire continent.
The moment a hundred-thousand-year halo appeared on Ye Wuchen’s sword, heaven and earth seemed to freeze in place. All living things fell silent, and even the drop of a needle could be heard.
It was as though only the drifting yellow leaves, the murmur of flowing springs, and the heavy breathing of the crowd remained. Everyone stood rooted to the spot, staring blankly at the girl in green.
They refused to believe that this was real. They rubbed their eyes desperately, yet the glaring red radiance still left them utterly stunned.
This was not a dream, nor was it an illusion.
It was real.
A genuine hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
A blood-red spirit ring rose simultaneously from beneath Yao Xi’s feet.
Suffocating.
An absolute sense of suffocation.
Impossible. Absolutely impossible!
Moreover, she appeared to be no more than sixteen years old. Looking across the entire history of the Sword Spirit Continent, such a thing had never existed before.
This girl...
She had defied the heavens!
Everyone’s worldview was shattered, their gazes exploding with disbelief.
Then one cry of alarm after another rang throughout the entire Sword Soul Sect.
Jian Wubei nearly stared his eyes out, shouting inwardly that this was impossible!
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