Chapter 847: The First in the World, One Blade Becomes Emptiness

The Sword of Retrospection, derived from further deduction of the Fifteenth Change and Jian Twenty-Three, is a sword technique that can truly reverse life and death and trace back time. Such a sword technique is a truly world-shocking sword; looking across all the heavens and myriad worlds, it is also the most supreme of sword techniques.

And thrusting this sword, even for Yu Liancheng, entails no small amount of consumption.

But he replaces Heaven with himself, and can even achieve communion between Heavenly Human and Heaven at any time, borrowing the power of Heaven and Earth to restore his own vital energy; theoretically, he possesses inexhaustible power. Even if all his power were to be exhausted, he could replenish it in an instant. Therefore, even if he were to thrust thousands of the Swords of Retrospection in a short time, it would be of no consequence.

However, this kind of sword technique that reverses life and death involves the mysterious causality every time it is used, and he is unwilling to use it wantonly. Even this time, tracing back time only allowed Badao to turn from death to life, rather than rewinding the time of the entire Yunmiaoshan to the time node when Badao was killed.

Liusheng Piaoxu's beautiful eyes flickered, and the gaze she directed at Yu Liancheng had already changed. Before this guy left, he said his martial arts had reached a bottleneck and he wanted to go alone to perceive Heaven and Earth and entrust his feelings to the mountains and rivers. But he had only disappeared for a period that was not too long, and now he had still completed the chasm-like gap from human to God.

Previously, he had trapped the mechanical monster with a casual wave, and then brought her along on the journey; this whole way could be described as chasing light and pursuing electricity, incredibly fast.

A journey of thousands of miles was reached in the blink of an eye. And now, saving a dead person back to life is truly the means of an immortal.

"Ugh..." Badao, lying on the ground, groaned and slowly woke up from his coma. He propped up his body, touched his own neck, and his eyes carried a look of confusion. He vaguely remembered encountering a mysterious expert, and after a bitter battle, he was beheaded by a single blade. Recalling the intense pain in his neck before death now still gives him goosebumps, and even when his eyes were plunged into absolute Darkness, he could still vaguely see his own headless corpse with blood spraying from the neck.

He had indeed died.

Then is this the Yellow Springs of the underworld?

But why is the scenery so similar to Yunmiaoshan?

Then, after Badao saw Yu Liancheng and Liusheng Piaoxu, he was startled again.

Did these two guys die too?

Yu Liancheng opened his arms and smiled: "Welcome back to the human world."

Badao touched his neck, gradually coming to his senses, and the look of astonishment in his eyes grew stronger: "This, this is what is going on? Didn't I die?"

Yu Liancheng smiled: "For this, you have to thank me. I recently created a sword move called the 'Sword of Retrospection', which has the effect of reversing time. Earlier, I used this sword to save you."

"..." Badao was silent for a moment before saying: "This, this... Heavenly Venerable, please do not joke. How could there be such martial arts in the world."

Yu Liancheng shrugged and said: "I once met a high-level expert who gave me a pill that brings the dead back to life. After I reattached your head, I applied half to the wound and had you swallow the other half, and then you were alive."

Badao was silent for a long while again, not knowing what he was thinking. Suddenly, his figure shook, he made a long bow, and his tone was low: "The Heavenly Venerable has actually bestowed such a divine medicine upon me; from now on, I am willing to go up the mountain of blades and down into the sea of fire for the Heavenly Venerable, and I would not refuse even a hundred deaths."

Did he believe it? Could it be that the so-called pill that can bring the dead back to life is more credible than his Sword of Retrospection? Or perhaps, Badao does not believe either, and just wants to give himself a way out? Yu Liancheng shook his head, too lazy to think about this question, and looked at Badao again: "Tell me about the situation you encountered."

Badao nodded and recounted the process and details of the previous battle.

After listening, Yu Liancheng pondered for a moment and spoke again: "Good, tell me carefully about the final blade you comprehended."

Badao was stunned; no matter who has their own unique skills pried into, they would likely not be happy.

But Yu Liancheng is not only his direct superior, but also just truly saved his life, so he naturally could not refuse this request, and thus recounted the subtlety of the final blade.

"Interesting, interesting! At first, you practiced the Heartless Slash, cutting off all feelings and righteousness. And later, you went through precipitation, entrusting your feelings into the blade, using emotion to control the blade. Now you have actually comprehended 'When emotion reaches its peak, it turns into emptiness', but 'emptiness' is not heartlessness, but a realm that is omnipresent and contains everything. These three realms clearly prove that you are already a Grandmaster expert in blade technique."

Yu Liancheng clapped his hands: "However, you have not yet completely filled in the 'emptiness'; emptiness is just emptiness, in emptiness there is no color, in emptiness there is no emotion. I once created a technique called 'A Glance of Startling Emotion', which makes people's Xiqing Fanyong with a single look. If you integrate the seven emotions into the emptiness, your blade technique can be considered truly accomplished."

Badao's eyes lit up, and he cupped his fists: "Please, Heavenly Venerable, give me your instruction."

Yu Liancheng did not hide anything and told Badao about the self-created A Glance of Startling Emotion. Come to think of it, this A Glance of Startling Emotion was created under the influence of Badao in the past, which can be considered fulfilling the causality.

Badao did not care much at first, but when he tried to integrate the mental formula of A Glance of Startling Emotion into his blade technique, he felt it was extremely profound. If he completely integrated it into his own blade technique, he would certainly be able to push it to a higher realm.

Yu Liancheng said: "In two hours, can you merge the two martial arts into one blade technique, and cultivate this blade technique to a minor success?"

Badao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No, to merge them into one blade technique, it would take at least three years. If I were to refine it to minor success, it would take another one to three years."

Yu Liancheng said: "The young swordsman you fought has extraordinary blade technique and didn't use his full strength before. If you want to defeat him, you must at least bring that blade technique to minor success."

Badao sighed: "A gentleman taking revenge, ten years is not too late. Although I am not a gentleman, I can endure loneliness, and I can wait five or six years."

"You can wait, but I cannot." Yu Liancheng flicked his sleeves: "I have already merged those two martial arts into one furnace, and now I will pass it to you."

After speaking, a ripple appeared between his eyebrows, and a ray of spiritual light was cast into Badao's mind.

Since he descended into this world, he has always concealed his Qi. Even the previous "Sword of Retrospection" only affected Badao alone; one of the reasons was to try his best not to be discovered by the Main God, and he didn't even kill that cyborg.

As for the other descenders, for the sake of caution, he does not intend to do it himself.

Therefore, he intends to give Badao a push.

Let this blade truly bloom with world-shaking sharpness.

In an instant, a profound blade technique appeared in Badao's mind.

The blade is emptiness, and emptiness is emotion.

With one blade thrust out, infinite emotions are gestated within the blade technique, but the blade light has nowhere to be traced and cannot be prevented.

This blade technique is profound and obscure; wanting to figure it out and then practice it to minor success, even for a blade expert like Badao, would take at least one to three years.

But now, Badao only feels that he has practiced this blade technique thousands of times, wielding it freely and with pure perfection. This feeling is very strange, but it just happened to him.

"Try thrusting a blade." Yu Liancheng patted Badao on the shoulder.

Badao finally returned to his senses; he pondered for a moment, picked up the blade that had fallen to the ground, and suddenly thrust out a blade.

It was an ordinary blade, but ten steps away, in the void, a blood-red blade light appeared solemnly, slashing onto a tree, instantly cutting the tree in half at the waist.