Chapter 773: Comprehending the Sword in the Black Fog (1/2, please subscribe)

"Go ahead, go ahead…"

【Let me tell you, the sword radiance you're enduring right now, although it contains sword intent, the attainments in Sword Dao aren't that high. For ordinary people, it's almost lethal. But for you, with 【Breath of Night】 continuously recovering and suppressing the sword intent's damage, you just need a bit more time to recuperate and you'll recover. It's not a serious matter.】

【Of course, if you keep stubbornly tanking a few more strikes of sword radiance at this level, then most likely our fate ends here. On the day of your burial, the great and noble Lord Parchment, out of consideration for past affection, will come to pay you a visit.】

Only now did Fang Yue understand—the feeling from before wasn't an illusion.

Breath of Night was indeed working, restoring his wounds from start to finish.

It was just that the damage containing sword intent couldn't even be suppressed by Breath of Night, which created the illusion that Breath of Night wasn't working.

However, Fang Yue hadn't expected that sword intent could suppress 【Breath of Night】.

Looks like this thing still can't be underestimated.

Fang Yue收起 his contempt, 【Guilt Ring】 coiling around his body, forming 【Guilt Garment】.

The moment the sword radiance struck, it was immediately blocked by 【Guilt Garment】. With a humming sword chime, some black fragments splashed off Fang Yue's body—those were remnants of 【Guilt Garment】.

The power of the sword radiance had gradually climbed to this level.

Fang Yue's expression tightened slightly; he knew he couldn't let his greed continue.

His figure moved, charging straight toward the direction of the black cocoon.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz!

The sound of sword radiance immediately synchronized, becoming sharp and urgent.

As if trying to stop Fang Yue's advance, streaks of sword radiance appeared out of thin air, slashing toward him.

Previously, tanking sword radiance head-on was to elevate his sword intent. Now that the sword radiance's power had reached the point of threatening his own safety, he naturally couldn't let it run rampant any longer.

Dodging left and weaving right, Fang Yue's figure shifted erratically, evading most of the sword radiance attacks. Only a small portion landed on his body, slashing against the Guilt Garment, causing his figure to pause slightly—but that was all.

When Fang Yue charged up to the Faceless Man before the cocoon, the Ningtai Ring had already condensed into an Ice Blade.

With internal force channeled into it, the blade extended to a length of forty meters, raised high, and slashed down in one strike.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Dense sword radiance appeared abruptly, as if trying to block Fang Yue's attack, madly assaulting the forty-meter Ice Blade.

Clang clang clang clang clang clang… Boom!!

The Ice Blade, halfway through its slash, was actually shattered to pieces by the sword radiance's assault!

And what Fang Yue hadn't expected was that the moment the Ice Blade shattered, the Ningtai Ring actually followed with a crack, splitting open with a massive fissure, breaking into two halves, slipping off his finger, and falling down.

Those sword radiance strikes containing sword intent had actually穿透 the Ice Blade and damaged the Ningtai Ring's main body!

Fang Yue's heart skipped a beat. Without changing expression, he caught the fallen ring in his hand, tucked it away close to his body, then turned his gaze toward the Faceless Man.

The Ningtai Ring—ever since Ni Dongmei had handed it to him back in Mo Cun, he had been using it continuously.

Not to mention how powerful it was, but it really was very handy.

Unfortunately, before Fang Yue had even fully figured it out—how Lord Han could make the Ningtai Ring transform completely at will like that—the ring had already been damaged.

His expression slightly darkening, Fang Yue raised his right hand high.

From the corners of his pitch-black eyes, black blood flowed out.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

The black silk covering his body peeled away one by one, covering Fang Yue's right hand, condensing into the shape of a four-meter Tang saber.

Buzz buzz buzz!

The sound of sword chime exploded in his ears, but Fang Yue paid it no heed. The black saber formed of black silk slashed down!

Amid the violent collision of sword radiance and black saber, a black line slashed down rapidly from top to bottom.

When the black line fell, like a waterfall being split in two with a roar, the black cocoon along with the city wall ground beneath it was divided in two!

The black cocoon burst open like a water balloon with a splash, splattering the entire city wall with a ground full of pitch-black color.

Viewed from outside, the top portion of the city wall had been directly slashed with a saber mark taking up one-third of it, severely damaged.

And the Faceless Man, likewise slashed in two from head to toe—the left half holding a whetstone, the right half holding a needle sword—collapsed to the ground.

"This is… Tian Ruichi?"

Fang Yue was stunned for a moment.

Previously, the Faceless Man's limbs had been bound inside the black cocoon, so Fang Yue hadn't noticed at all what the Faceless Man was gripping in his hands.

Now that the Faceless Man had been slashed in two, the black cocoon seemed to have lost its power and released the Faceless Man, allowing Fang Yue to see what was in his hands.

Damn it, killing the Special Envoy—this is going to be a huge mess…

Just as Fang Yue was thinking about how to wrap things up, he heard a voice ring out.

"Brother Ye… save me…"

The voice came from the right half of the corpse holding the sword, a sound similar to some kind of air resonance—it was Tian Ruichi's voice.

Fang Yue was taken aback.

"Tian Ruichi? You're still alive?"

"More or less…"

Tian Ruichi's voice carried a hint of bitterness. He had never imagined that Fang Yue would be so formidable as to slash his 【Wood Soul Sword Guilt】 into this state.

Next time he wanted to recondense it, he didn't know how long it would take—it could be called a devastating blow.

But without Fang Yue's rescue, he would have likewise been devoured by the 【Wood Intent Sword Guilt】. Only waiting for his master to come save him would there be any possibility of escape.

So Tian Ruichi actually held no ill will toward Fang Yue, and was even somewhat grateful.

"Help me up, merge my two halves of body back into one."

Hearing this, Fang Yue didn't move. He merely walked over to Tian Ruichi's right half of body and asked, "Explain things clearly first, otherwise I won't help you with anything."

Earlier Fang Yue had been somewhat panicked, but now that he thought about it, the Special Envoy being killed by a Possession—no matter how you looked at it, it couldn't be blamed on him.

"…Understood. Brother Ye need not hold hostility toward me; I am not a Possession."

"Then about tonight's matter…"

Tian Ruichi cut off Fang Yue: "I wonder, Brother Ye, have you ever heard of… 【Wood Soul Sword Embryo】?"

"What is that?"

"A kind of… special sword embryo that can turn a person into a Sword Spirit!"

……

Two days ago.

After Fang Yue went offline, Tian Ruichi had gone several times, but was refused each time.

He didn't mind, but was very interested in this kind of existence called a Wanderer.

So he very much wanted to know what state a Wanderer was in during the Wandering Spirit state.

However, based on what he had heard, it seemed that when a Wanderer was in the Wandering Spirit state, they would be in an extremely fragile condition, losing all perception of the outside world, so they wouldn't let outsiders approach, and he could only give up.

The reason Tian Ruichi was interested in Wanderers in the Wandering Spirit state was, first, that the Wanderer as an entirely new species was extremely curious, novel, and interesting.

Second, it was because… when he failed in cultivating Sword Dao, he would be devoured by the 【Wood Soul Sword Embryo】 within his body, falling into a Wandering Spirit state similar to a Wanderer's, as if he could perceive nothing at all. Only at the moment of awakening would his consciousness return.

However, after all these years of cultivation, he had developed some resistance to the devouring of the 【Wood Soul Sword Embryo】, but if he could exchange experiences through the Wanderer's situation, there might be new progress.

As for the matter the Seventh Prince had instructed, it wasn't urgent.

(End of this chapter)