Chapter 122: Wanting Swords and Also Wanting Face

"Want it to be more complex..."

"Want to have wild thoughts..."

The powerful 【Returning】 slashed down head-on, and Ji You's incomparably complex sword intent produced incomparably complex sword Qi, meeting it fiercely.

Amidst that strong slash, the iron sword was sparked and splashed, and the person holding the sword was fiercely slashed and flew out.

But just after landing, Ji You picked up his sword and met the next streak of 【Returning】 again.

"Not complex enough, want it to be even more complex."

"Dead brain, think fast."

Amidst the muttering, the second count of 【Returning】 was sharper and straighter, the whistling sword was like lightning tearing through the sky, not giving people any time to react at all.

This was the characteristic of the third sword of the guarding forest, the fast sword that was incomparably swift, the fastest sword in Elder Qi's sword Dao.

Ji You had already risen into the air, carrying the most complex sword, slashing down fiercely toward that streak of 【Returning】. At this moment, his sword heart was like a hundred grasses growing, wild and messy.

But without any accident, he was fiercely slashed by this 【Returning】 again, falling into the forest with a 'bang', and then picked up his sword and rose again.

"Complex enough..."

"Now want it to be simpler, the heart must be clear, must understand what should not exist, what should be left behind."

"Must be able to see, must only be able to see."

"If I only use one sword, then it is this straightest sword..."

With a 'bang', sword waves surged, whistling sword Qi pierced through the forest, the arrogant air waves constantly spraying, causing the forest to already have the momentum of mountain calls and sea roars.

Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi had already changed their faces at this time, looking at the figure whose sword momentum was decreasing but whose sword moves were becoming increasingly wild, their hearts constantly trembling, while Gongshu Chou had already couldn't help but retreat backward.

The only one left in the forefront was Yan Shujing, who had already broken through the third sword forest, but at this moment she was watching incomparably seriously.

Her sword was also a famous treasure sword in Lingzhou, originally stable in the scabbard, but couldn't help but tremble as this sword rose.

With a 'hum', the sword light opened, the sword was like overlapping waves, and the sword intent in front of everyone suddenly became a few points simpler.

It was as if many things had been stripped away, and it began to become transparent at this time.

Yan Ye furrowed her brows tightly: "It is Little Zhongshan..."

Yan Qingchi couldn't help but shake his head lightly: "It is not Little Zhongshan, but... somewhat similar, about four points similar."

"Four points of Little Zhongshan?"

"Not bad, Elder Qi's sword, I won't see it wrong."

Yan Ye couldn't help but open her mouth, looking at Ji You, her gaze changing again and again in an instant.

Sword Dao is like Immortal Dao, vast and boundless, profound and deep. Spirit Sword Mountain has studied sword Dao for a hundred years, and can be considered to have touched the tip of the iceberg.

But those who can see through sword Dao by watching swords are rare existences even in Spirit Sword Mountain.

So even if it was four points of Little Zhongshan, and he learned less than half, it was enough to make Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi feel shocked.

The sentence 'sword heart clear' often said by disciples on the mountain had always been treated as words to praise others for thousands of years, but as Elders, they knew that this was not just a sentence of praise, but that there were truly people in this world who were born with a clear sword heart.

Their Inspector was one of them, and Yan Shujing who was present at this moment was also one of them.

Yan Ye suddenly understood at this moment why Ji You used sixteen swords to pass 【Little Zhongshan】.

Because others took 【Little Zhongshan】, but he used sixteen swords to learn four points of 【Little Zhongshan】.

This... what kind of clear sword heart is this? Such talent is almost able to catch up with their Yan Shujing in front.

And at this time, Gongshu Chou couldn't help but turn his head, looking at Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi behind him, his expression carrying doubt and puzzlement.

With his realm of Merging with the Dao, he could actually understand the 'four points of Little Zhongshan' they said, but he felt that there seemed to be something wrong, because he didn't see 【Little Zhongshan】.

"It is not 【Little Zhongshan】."

"?"

"It is fundamentally not any 【Little Zhongshan】."

Yan Shujing suddenly retreated a step, then furrowed her brows and walked toward the outside of the forest, muttering to herself as she passed by Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi.

The two were slightly stunned, not yet fully understanding the words of this Profound Jianfeng direct disciple, and another streak of doubt had already risen from their hearts.

They knew Yan Shujing was a sword fanatic, and coming to the sword forest this time was also to grind her sword, but they didn't know why she suddenly turned around at this time and came to meet this sword that she had already met.

Yan Shujing naturally didn't solve the confusion for them, and walked into the second forest with an expressionless face.

However, she didn't stop in the second forest, continued to return to the first forest, finally stopped here, then her spiritual sense moved slightly, and re-triggered that streak of 【Little Zhongshan】.

Ding Yao and Huang Hui were waiting outside the first forest at this time, and beside them were Wen Zhengxin and Pei Ruyi.

Wen Zhengxin and Pei Ruyi came to find Ji You. In order not to attract attention, they bypassed through the corridor bridge and were much slower than Ding Yao.

They were still hesitating whether to break through the first sword forest to find the Junior Brother, when they saw Yan Shujing meeting that streak of 【Little Zhongshan】 at this moment.

At this moment, the four people were all bewildered.

They didn't know why this Profound Jianfeng direct disciple suddenly turned around at this time and came to meet this 【Little Zhongshan】 that she had already met.

"It is not 【Little Zhongshan】."

"Nor is it 【Willow Liu Liu Se Xin】."

Not only Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi were talking in the forest, in fact, Gongshu Chou also couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The sword hearts are different, so the sword Dao they see is different.

Yan Shujing had heard before that some people's eyes are different, and they have different feelings when facing the same color.

Putting the messy color blocks together, the patterns seen by different eyes are not the same.

Yan Ye and Gongshu Chou saw different swords, but she suddenly realized when watching the sword at that moment.

It is not 【Little Zhongshan】, 【Willow Liu Liu Se Xin】, 【Returning】, 【Thinking of Nothing Evil】.

It is Willow Liu Liu Se Xin on Little Zhongshan, Thinking of Nothing Evil between Returning.

That person is indeed constantly learning sword Dao, but while learning, he is also constantly throwing away.

He slashed away a streak of Willow Liu Liu Se Xin, and exchanged for half a streak of Returning, discarded a streak of Little Zhongshan, and added another half streak of Willow Liu Liu Se Xin.

Breaking through all the way like this, what he used in the third sword forest is no longer completely the sword he learned from Elder Qi, and it is mixed with his own sword Dao.

It is precisely because of this that different sword hearts see his sword as different swords.

Yan Shujing broke through the first three passes with her cultivation and extremely high sword Dao, but was trapped in the fourth level for a full sixteen days, and even almost had an arm slashed off once.

Thinking about it now, the reason why it was like this was because Elder Qi reduced the strength of the first three swords.

Many disciples can pass through as long as they have enough cultivation, but when they reach the fourth sword, relying on this kind of barbarism is no longer the solution.

If one hard-shakes it like this, one will definitely be slashed by the last sword.

Thus, Yan Shujing did this, breaking through from the first sword forest again, and slashed all the way back to the third sword forest.

At this time, Ji You had already held his sword and slashed toward the seventeenth 【Returning】, his whole body's sword intent boiling.

Old Cao often muttered a sentence in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, called 'ten thousand paths of Dao, only can be understood'.

It means that the Dao is formless, everyone's feelings are different, and it is very difficult to pass accurately between each other.

But he is able to see it.

From Yuyang County to the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, and then to Spirit Sword Mountain, he can see it every time.

Elder Qi's sword Dao has always been incomparably clear in his eyes.

At the same time, Yan Ye, Yan Qingchi, and Gongshu Chou had already stood stunned in place.

The three of them watched the complex sword Dao constantly becoming simple, constantly becoming clean, yet incomparably mysterious, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Sword Dao that turns complexity into simplicity, then enters complexity from simplicity, and finally becomes clean again.

They recalled the sentence Yan Shujing left behind in their minds, and at this time they had already pondered the true meaning within it.

That was originally Elder Qi's sword, but now it is his sword.

"Natural Spirit Sword Mountain disciple..."

"Why was he born in Fengzhou and taken in by that Heavenly Tian Shuyuan."

Yan Ye murmured, then heard a streak of strong sword hum rushing to the nine heavens, Ji You was suddenly fiercely slashed and flown away by 【Returning】, falling heavily to the ground.

And it was after this seventeenth sword that the sword did not rise again, but sat down on the ground, his whole body's blood and Qi surging, sweat steaming like vapor.

Seeing this scene, Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi relaxed at the same time, their expressions becoming much more relaxed.

Just as Yan Shujing said, even if the sword heart is not clear enough, Spirit Sword Mountain disciples can rely on their realm to hard-break here, but they ultimately cannot walk out of that last level.

But the reverse is also the same, without enough realm and power to support, just relying on talent, one will inevitably not walk very far.

Ji You is monstrous enough, hard-taking 【Returning】 that makes the Realm of Merging with the Dao incomparably headache-inducing with the Realm of Profound Understanding, which is enough to explain everything.

But he can only go to here.

This is not his fault, blame only that he was born at the wrong time, and born in the wrong place.

If he had been born a few years earlier, born in Lingzhou, and entered the Dao earlier...

Yan Ye murmured in her heart, but didn't know that someone in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan had said the same thing to him, which was Teacher Wang. When he bet that Chu He could enter the inner academy, he also sighed like this, saying that Ji You was born in the wrong era.

"It's a pity, there is no time."

"Can only see here..."

Ji You murmured, then furrowed his brows, only to find that there were four people around, just looking somewhat dull: "Elder Yan, long time no see."

Yan Ye looked at him, her expression complex: "Leave."

"?"

"You can only walk to here, right? And that direct disciple Senior Brother of yours is about to lose, your Heavenly Tian Shuyuan has been showing off under the name of Great Xia Sacred Sect for so many years, it is time to receive some lessons."

Ji You raised his eyes: "Actually, I can understand that Spirit Sword Mountain is unwilling to apologize, but the reasoning doesn't make sense."

Yan Ye sneered upon hearing this: "What reasoning doesn't make sense? Entering the ruins is originally for immortal fate, you fight for it, do you still have to hold back?"

"But my Ding Shijie didn't go to fight for immortal fate, and your Spirit Sword Mountain and Questioning Dao Sect besieging them together was not for immortal fate, but for the spirit stones on my Ding Shijie."

"This is already not important, the face of your Heavenly Tian Shuyuan has been lost."

Ji You sat cross-legged, then closed his eyes: "Not yet..."

Yan Ye couldn't help but let out a sneer: "Do you think You Buyu has a possibility of winning?"

"No, I knew early on that You Buyu would lose, so I calculated the time last night. My watching swords can indeed only watch to here, but I haven't tried hard-breaking yet. The remaining few swords, maybe I can exchange back a trace of face." 【

"No, I knew from the very beginning that You Buyu would lose, so I calculated the time last night. I can only observe the sword techniques up to this point, but I haven't tried forcing my way through yet. With the remaining few sword techniques, perhaps I can win back a shred of dignity."

"?"

The few people in the arena were stunned upon hearing this. Before they could understand what he meant, they suddenly felt the spiritual energy in the forest begin to surge desperately toward this location.

Vast amounts of spiritual energy began to pour into Ji You's entire body, dispersing into his limbs and bones along with the shattered spiritual essence.

With a sudden sound, a humming noise arose throughout the bamboo forest.

The spiritual energy within Ji You's body was ignited. The crowd standing around him instantly felt a powerful aura rise from his body, and at the same time, they heard a series of thumping sounds echoing continuously.

At this moment, Ji You opened his eyes. His physical body had reached its peak, and the scorching heat radiating from his body hit them directly in the face, which could only be described as explosive.

Afterward, he took a pile of medicine bottles from his Profound Jade Gourd, opened them one by one, and poured them into his mouth.

And once these elixirs entered his mouth, the spiritual energy surrounding Ji You instantly condensed into a milky layer, which then began to thicken continuously.

These medicines were originally bought to block the feet, but they were proving to be of greater use now.

That's right, the Sword Forest can not only be passed by comprehending the sword, but also by brute force.

At this moment, the four people standing around were all stunned in place. Even Yan Shujing had her red lips slightly parted, her eyes wide as she watched his suddenly towering aura.

Hum—

Amidst a sheet of profound light, Ji You stood up. As his powerful arms slowly stretched out in front of him, seven sharp swords whistled and clashed as they hovered before him, blooming with surging spiritual light.

Seeing this scene, Gong Shu Chou secretly said to himself, "As expected!"

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