Volume One, Chapter Four: Facing Injustice, I Rekindle the Empress’s Resolve
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Everything felt like a dream, causing countless onlookers to rub their eyes in disbelief. When they looked again, all the sword aura around Yao Xi had vanished, and the purple sword in her hand had lost its luster, appearing utterly ordinary.
“Good thing.”
“I knew I must have been mistaken.”
“How could a useless sword spirit who just awakened possess such terrifying sword intent?”
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Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they had simply misread the situation. Otherwise, their worldview couldn’t accept what they had just witnessed.
“That sword spirit is way too fierce.”
Yao Xi collapsed onto the ground, sweat glistening on her jade-like forehead, gasping heavily. She stared coldly at the bloated carcass, split cleanly in two by her sword.
If the system had delayed even one more minute, she would have been devoured.
“What exactly happened?”
At that moment, a young man in purple robes floated over, his eyes scanning the severed body before he gasped sharply.
Upon seeing a radiant bone fragment with intricate patterns exposed where the beast’s bones were broken, he exclaimed, “A spirit bone, and a rare one at that!”
Spirit bones were invaluable treasures to sword spirit masters, capable of granting special attributes when absorbed.
Hearing this, the gathered youths turned their attention toward the scene, their previously anxious hearts now flickering with hope.
“Who killed this spirit beast just now?”
Though the young man in purple coveted the spirit bone, he glanced around helplessly, aware of the many eyes watching. It was impossible for these newly awakened sword spirits to have done it. Reluctantly, he fixed his gaze on the leading elder and asked, “Elder Ji, was it you?”
“Not me,” Elder Ji replied with a bitter smile, shaking his head.
It was rather embarrassing—faced with a three-thousand-year-old spirit beast, he hadn’t chosen to fight but had instead fled with the youths, even abandoning a little girl without a second thought.
“How strange,” Xu Changsheng murmured, his mind racing. “Could it really have been one of these junior disciples?”
At that moment, Yao Xi picked up her sword and stood up. “It was me…”
As the words left her lips—
Silence.
The entire forest fell into a hush. Many disciples of the Sword Soul Sect looked at Yao Xi in stunned disbelief.
“What?”
After a moment of surprise, their eyes fell on the decayed, worthless sword spirit in her hand, and they sneered.
“A mere useless sword spirit, and she dares claim to have slain a millennial spirit beast?”
After their brief shock, waves of ridicule erupted.
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Countless sarcastic remarks were directed at Yao Xi.
“Sword intent level one.”
“The lowest-grade sword spirit, yet claiming to have killed a three-thousand-year-old spirit beast.”
“Ha! Ridiculous.”
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“Heh, I think she’s just crazy about wanting that spirit bone,” Luo Qinghan sneered. “I was trying to stay low-key, but some people are just shameless.”
Boom!
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