Chapter 21: The Return of the Tiānxiāo Sword Sect (Part 1)

  Xuan Tian confirmed that the sword technique he used just now was indeed the Jue Ying Sword Method. Ling Xing Yue and Bai Ling's eyes widened in surprise.

  As for Deng Fei, he puckered his mouth and immediately put on a disdainful expression.

  Chu Feng was extremely calm, without any reaction at all. His eyes remained gloomy and disdainful towards Xuan Tian.

  "You actually truly grasped the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique? This profound-level sword technique, our sect has possessed for thirteen years already, including the Sect Master and the Supreme Elder, no one has been able to grasp it, create a suitable mental state for the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique. It was actually grasped by you, an outer sect disciple who hasn't even reached the Innate Boundary? This is... this is... simply preposterous."

  Bai Ling has invested a lot of heart and soul into the Jueying Swordsmanship, constantly contemplating and researching it for many years.

  And she is already a master of the Innate Realm Second Order, facing the attack of the giant bee, as a result, Xuan Tian understood it, but she didn't, which made her very frustrated.

  Xuantian Dao said, "I was attacked by six giant bee needles in front of me, and I couldn't block them. My life was hanging by a thread, but at the critical moment, I used the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique. Even I didn't understand how my sword stabbed out. White Shifu, you are stronger than me, so you haven't faced such danger. If you encountered the same situation as me, you would also be able to appreciate the thrill of using the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique."

  At the moment of Xuantian's life and death crisis, the white jade sword in his eyebrows was activated. At that time, his mind was clearer than ever before, and the first six moves of the Absolute Shadow Swordsmanship were all understood in his heart.

  Later he can display the Absolute Shadow Sword Art at any time and can also teach others, but this is his secret, naturally will not be told to anyone.

  Bai Ling wrinkled her nose and said, "You think you're so smart, but in a situation like that, where every second counts, if you can't figure it out, won't you end up getting stung by giant bees until you're full of holes? All your blood and flesh will be sucked dry! I'd rather not encounter a situation like that!"

  "What a pity!"

  Deng Fei smiled and said, "Under the threat of death, a martial skill that is not matched with a perfect mental method is just an epiphany, and can only be understood again in specific situations. Such a martial skill is unreliable even for oneself, let alone for others. What Huang Tian learned was not the complete Absolute Shadow Sword Technique. White Shifu, Huang Tian said it right, anyone who faces a life-or-death crisis will tap into their potential, and what he achieved is nothing but a flawed technique!"

  Chu Feng also struck back: "What's the big deal? It's just ordinary, and besides, martial arts rely on innate talent, aptitude, and comprehension. No matter how high your comprehension is, if your cultivation is low, you won't be able to bring it into play. Huang Tian, although you've grasped the incomplete Absolute Shadow Sword Technique, my cultivation far surpasses yours. With just one finger, I can crush you to death. Do you believe me?"

  "My god, Chu Feng is too arrogant, isn't he just a cultivator at the third level of the Innate Realm? Damn it, I'll surpass you one day and trample you under my feet."

  He was suddenly kicked again, Xuan Tian's anger was stifled, but Chu Feng and Deng Fei were among the top two inner disciples, they relied on their power to oppress others. As an outer disciple, Xuan Tian's status was a notch lower, the resentment in his heart wanted to erupt but couldn't, his face turned slightly pale.

  Xuan Tian's expression changed, and Ling Xingyue hastily mediated: "Huang Tian is still young, and no one can predict the future. Chu Shixiong, Deng Shixiong, my grandfather let us come out to gain experience, we must kill some third-level demon beasts, otherwise it won't meet his requirements. Let's focus on finding third-level demon beasts."

  Chu Feng and Deng Fei originally wanted to continue attacking Xuan Tian, but after hearing Ling Xiumei mention her grandfather, their expressions immediately became more subdued. Chu Feng said: "Ling Shixiong is right, we need to find the third-level demonic beast urgently. Huang Shidi, we will be heading deep into the mountains where the third-level demonic beasts are active, and it's possible that we'll even encounter fourth-level demonic beasts. You shouldn't follow us, it's too dangerous."

  "Let's go first, there are tens of thousands of giant needle bee corpses here, enough for Huang Shidi to clean up, but it's worth several tens of thousands of silver coins." Deng Fei looked at the giant needle bees on the ground and chuckled.

  Giant Needle Bee is a first-class demon beast, and first-class demon beasts are those without a demon core, which makes them very cheap. Especially the Giant Needle Bee, its entire body is worthless except for the giant needle on its tail, but even that's only worth two taels of silver. One hundred giant needles stacked together would be a huge pile, and if Xuan Tian were to collect them, he wouldn't be able to carry more than a few hundred.

  Deng Fei said that it was worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was the value of all the giant bee needles, but Xuan Tian couldn't take them away, with a tone full of sarcasm.

  "Huang Tian, we'll leave first. You're alone in the Yin Wind Mountains, be extra careful." Ling Xingyue saw that Chu Feng and Deng Fei had a deep grudge against Xuan Tian, and knew that the longer they stayed, the more Xuan Tian would suffer at their hands.

  "Junior Brother Huang Tian, I'll come find you when I'm free to study the Jueying Sword Technique." Bai Ling winked at Huang Tian, then left with Ling Xingyue, Chu Feng and Deng Fei towards the outside of the valley.

  "Senior brothers and sisters, slow down!" Xuan Tian said calmly.

  Looking at the backs of the four, Xuan Tian secretly said in his heart: "Chu Feng, Deng Fei, Bai Ling, today you underestimate me. It won't take long before I let you know what it means to be a rising sun, an unstoppable momentum, and a young man's rise to power."

  After the four people left their line of sight, Xuan Tian swallowed two elixirs and stepped like flying, immediately leaving the valley far away. Then, he traveled in hiding, shuttling through the mountains and forests for dozens of miles, returning to the tree cave in the dense forest.

  An hour later, Xuantian's spirit and internal energy had recovered to their optimal state.

  After the commotion just now, Xuan Tian no longer had the heart to continue killing the demon beasts. He packed up the demon core bundle that was placed in the tree hole and set off on his return journey to the Tian Jian Sect.

  Xuantian sprinted along the road, killing several demonic beasts along the way. Before nightfall, he returned to the tree cave where he had stayed overnight previously. After spending a night there, on the second day, Xuantian dug up all the demon cores that were buried nearby.

  Two bags of demon cores, Xuan Tian had already prepared the demon beast fur and wrapped them up, looking like a bundle of demon beast fur. Who would have thought that inside there were over 1,400 second-grade demon beast demon cores?

  Having done all this, Xuan Tian carried the demon beast's fur on his back and headed towards the nearest Qing Shui Town.

  Qingshui Town is the territory of the Fuwei Gang, but Xuantian can be 100% sure that the Fuwei Gang has absolutely disappeared and fled far away from their original territory. They ambushed a disciple of the Grand Sect, but did not kill him. The Fuwei Gang faces the disaster of being exterminated, it's impossible for them to be so stupid as to continue staying in the old place without escaping.

  Xuantian was right, on the day when San Dangjia escaped from Yinfeng Mountain Range, Fuwei Gang moved away and fled far away, and also changed their appearance, not daring to leave any clues.

  However, Xuan Tian obviously did not think that some lone wanderers in the jianghu would know how much willpower someone had if they knew that person was carrying a spiritual medicine.

  San Dangjia only mentioned that there was a young man in the seventh realm of martial arts, who had spiritual medicine on him, but didn't say that the young man was a disciple of the Tianjian Sect.

  So, a month ago, when the Three Masters released this news, nearly thousands of Jianghu people rushed to the nearby Qingyun Mountains in Qingshui Town, searching for Xuantian's whereabouts based on the description provided by the Three Masters.

  Among them, even the congenital boundary cultivation of the Jianghu great thief rushed over.

  However, everyone was disappointed and as time went on, they all dispersed gradually.

  Especially for the innate boundary cultivators, the great thieves of the rivers and lakes may have a feud with the major sects, or perhaps the enemy family asks the disciples of the major sects to hunt and kill them, and they do not dare to stay in one place for too long.

  It's been almost a month now, and the vast majority of the martial artists who came to take advantage of the situation have left. However, there are still a small number of patient and skilled martial artists remaining in this area, continuing to hunt down demonic beasts while searching for any clues about Xuan Tian's whereabouts.

  A single Zhu Ling Dan is worth at least tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of taels of silver. For a Xian Tian realm expert, this amount of wealth may not be significant, but for a Wu Dao realm warrior, it's a large sum of money.

  Especially in the general Jianghu Caomu, without family, without sects, on the path of martial arts, relying solely on oneself to fight, let alone treasures worth more than 100,000 taels of silver, even things worth more than 10,000 taels are likely to be fought over until heads crack and blood flows.

  Half a time, Xuan Tian encountered three obstructions. The first was two warriors at the eighth level of martial arts, the second was one warrior at the ninth level and another at the eighth level, and the third was a single warrior at the tenth level.

  The first and second times, the warriors who blocked Xuantian saw the 'Tianshen Sect' emblem on his chest and turned around to run without saying a word, only regretting that they didn't have two more legs.

  However, the name 'Tianjian Sect' was unable to scare off the third martial artist who blocked their way.

  This man is over thirty years old. At his age, without any extraordinary encounters or external forces, he will never be able to take another step forward in the martial way in this lifetime, and has no affinity with innate abilities.

  A single elixir might give him hope of entering the Pre-Heaven realm, enough for him to risk his life, even if it means offending the Tianjian Sect.

  Many notorious thieves have the blood of sect disciples on their hands. As long as they enter the Innate Realm, they will have the strength to deal with the major sects.

  This person is holding a sword in his hand and appears to be a skilled swordsman.

  His gaze moved away from the 'Tianjian Sect' emblem, and suddenly turned cold. His hand moved to the hilt of his sword, and inch by inch, he drew it out. A chill gleamed off its blade - this was a fine sword.

  The sword was drawn from its scabbard, and this man said in a cold voice: "You're dead if you run into me..."

  Whoosh!

  Xuantian moved, out of its scabbard, out of its sword, all only in an instant.

  Mystic Step Sword Technique - Absolute Shadow Sword Style: Waist Cutting Style.

  Before he could finish speaking, his waist suddenly felt cool and he felt his body plummeting downwards. In front of him stood two legs, with only half a torso on top, no body.

  "How is this possible?" His eyes gradually dimmed, and he never understood until his death how Xuan Tian had made his move.

  The sword returned to its scabbard, and Xuan Tian's gaze swept over the two corpses on the ground, his voice cold as he said, "Using the Absolute Shadow Sword Technique against you is like using an ox cleaver to kill a chicken."

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