Chapter 41: Innate Divine Ability: Sword Heart Clarity

In his past life, he was an ordinary person.

Li Boyang’s understanding of sword moves and sword styles came entirely from movies, television, and various martial arts novels.

These moves were often whimsical and unexpected, making them very difficult to apply in actual combat under normal circumstances.

However, the current Li Boyang was a spiritual body that feared no damage.

The Shenxiao Sword also came with the sword-wielding attributes that only a "Sword Immortal" would possess...

Therefore, those sword moves, and even sword-wielding techniques that were theoretically impossible to achieve, were successfully executed by Li Boyang.

It was also during this process that Li Boyang keenly sensed the uniqueness of his Primordial Spirit.

For ordinary combat moves, even the various fighting techniques Li Boyang had experienced and tested in real combat in his memories, he found it difficult to master them in a short period of time.

Li Boyang often needed to exchange a few moves with You Xiao and have his spiritual body scattered a few times before he could form the correct combat instincts.

Conversely, Li Boyang was able to learn and master those whimsical and unexpected sword moves instantly.

No matter how incredible those sword moves appeared to outsiders.

Li Boyang could learn them the moment he saw them and master them the moment he used them, as if he had been born knowing these sword moves.

[Could this be the legendary 'Sword Heart Clarity'?]

This thought flashed through his mind involuntarily.

Li Boyang felt that the [Sword Heart Clarity] from the xianxia novels of his past life was probably nothing more than this!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

While holding the Shenxiao Sword.

Li Boyang’s Primordial Spirit cast aside all distracting thoughts and truly reached the realm of unity between man and sword.

In this state, Li Boyang was not only able to use and supplement various sword styles and moves.

His sensory abilities, reaction speed, and attack precision were also greatly enhanced, allowing him to respond to the enemy's attacks with the fastest speed and most effective methods.

Clang!

After another exchange, Li Boyang finally seized the opportunity to retreat and break free.

Seeing this, although You Xiao was extremely furious, he was also shocked by Li Boyang’s rapid growth rate.

From a completely amateurish sword-holding technique to handling his attacks with ease...

You Xiao knew that the Shenxiao Sword could grant a sword soul the talent for swordsmanship—a combat instinct similar to "Mastery of Swordsmanship."

But he never expected that this talent would manifest so terrifyingly in an "Outer Realm Heavenly Demon."

"Is that all you can do, just hide!?"

Looking up at the sky with wide, angry eyes, You Xiao’s gaze was filled with viciousness.

Because Li Boyang had already fully adapted to his current power.

While retreating, that massive body, ten meters tall, had also miraculously flown into mid-air.

To be honest, even in this world with divine abilities and spells, the law of universal gravitation was a real physical rule.

This could be seen from the four-armed ghost god that You Xiao had transformed into—he did not have the ability to fly.

"Is that all you can do, just talk?"

Upon hearing this, Li Boyang looked down at You Xiao with disdain.

When it came to trash-talking, Li Boyang, who had learned from the masters of Zaun, would not let You Xiao off easy.

"Isn't the so-called battle just using one's own advantages to attack the enemy's weaknesses?"

"Are you stupid, or am I?"

"Why would I abandon my own advantages just to clash with someone else's strengths?"

Not giving You Xiao a chance to retort, Li Boyang pointed his sword at him again.

Hum!

This time, it was not the sound of metal clashing, but the sword hum of the Shenxiao Sword itself.

Accompanied by that sharp sword hum, the Shenxiao Sword in Li Boyang’s hand suddenly split into two, then four, then eight...

In less than a single breath, nearly a hundred flying swords had appeared behind Li Boyang.

Those flying swords were simulated by Li Boyang using his own baleful aura; they were one-time flying swords existing between the virtual and the real, the existent and the non-existent.

However, although they were one-time products simulated using baleful aura.

The lethality of these flying swords was not inferior to the main body of the Shenxiao Sword at all.

Those baleful auras simulated the hardness and sharpness of the Shenxiao Sword itself in a way that Li Boyang could not understand at all.

This was the so-called divine ability, a divine ability unique to Li Boyang.

There was no need to forcibly understand the principles behind it.

As long as he willed it, his Primordial Spirit and baleful aura would automatically help him achieve his goal, just like the destiny divine ability of the Huaijiang Witch.

—Extremely powerful, yet completely unreasonable; this was the essence of a natural divine ability.

"Taste the power of this 'Dividing Light and Transforming Shadows' move!"

With just a light shout, the flying swords around Li Boyang shot out instantly.

When those hundreds of flying swords tore through the sky and created sonic booms, even the four-armed ghost god with an indestructible body had to choose to dodge.

As for fleeing?

Not to mention whether he, controlled by resentment and anger, even had the concept of "fleeing."

Even if You Xiao really wanted to flee, he would have to ask Li Boyang if he agreed first.

Whoosh—Boom!

Thus, when the first sonic boom rang out, what followed was a series of cutting and slashing.

Rip...

Hundreds of flying swords crisscrossed and intertwined, forming a dense golden web.

At this moment, You Xiao fully experienced the pain of "a dull knife cutting flesh."

When the first piece of flesh was cut off, You Xiao could still rely on his recovery ability to forcibly restore it.

But when such cutting expanded to hundreds, or even thousands, the pain of being sliced a thousand times completely shattered You Xiao’s psychological bottom line.

"Ah!"

The miserable wails echoed continuously in the Black Cloud Marsh.

From skin to flesh, and then to bone, You Xiao rapidly turned into a tall, withered skeleton at a speed visible to the naked eye.

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At the same time, the Ghost King who was fighting Xi Luo also let out a scream simultaneously.

"Ah!"

Although she did not know what had happened.

The battle-hardened Xi Luo still seized the opportunity to set him on fire.

Whoosh!

In an instant, the raging flames burned the Ghost King to nothing.

Throughout the entire process, the Ghost King, who had previously appeared very powerful, had no strength left to resist.

The heart-piercing pain from his main body had already destroyed his mental defenses.

"..."

Until she witnessed the Ghost King being burned to nothing with her own eyes.

Only then did Xi Luo turn her head to look at the battlefield in the Black Cloud Marsh.

From Xi Luo’s perspective at this moment, the "golden threads" formed by the crisscrossing and intertwining of hundreds of flying swords were gradually disappearing.

As far as the eye could see, a grim skeleton stood on the earth, but there were no longer any signs of movement.

And opposite that skeleton, a man whose attire and appearance were out of place in this era looked cold and floated quietly in mid-air.

[Is he... that child?]

Because it was the first time she had seen Li Boyang’s appearance from his past life, Xi Luo could only identify his identity through the Shenxiao Sword in his hand.

[He looks quite delicate...]

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