Chapter 127: Chapter 119: Chu Huaixu’s Sword Intent

Sword intent represents a sword cultivator’s comprehension of the Sword Dao, having reached a certain level.

For these cultivation giants, having disciples in the sect who comprehend sword intent is not particularly unusual.

But to produce sword intent in the First Realm is indeed rare in the world.

However, the Daoist Sect has a history spanning a thousand years, and talents that defy nature are as numerous as fish in the river, so there are cases.

For example, didn’t Han Shuangjiang comprehend a powerful Reincarnation Sword Intent through a secret realm?

But the problem is, Chu Huaixu has already attained Sword Heart Clarity!

The Sword Heart is an advanced outcome of sword intent.

Xiang Yan asked, “Seventh Junior Sister, are you sure? Do you mean that Chu Huaixu now has Sword Heart Clarity but can still comprehend new sword intents?”

“I… think so.” The slender Daoist Nun remained sparse with words.

Chu Yinyin’s eyes lit up, and she laughed heartily: “So, will he have two Sword Hearts in the future? Hahaha!”

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a shock in their hearts.

They could all imagine, if ever he enters the Realm of the Great Cultivator, how terrifying his combat power would be!

Upon hearing this, Li Chunsong immediately began rubbing his hands on the spot, faster and faster.

The urge to gamble was triggered and he couldn’t suppress it!

“Everyone!” he shouted.

“What do you think, between the Chu Huaixu who comprehended sword intent, and Xu Ziqing wielding the Dao Ancestor Sword, who is stronger?” He began to set the stage.

“During the East Continent competition, how about we… make a bet?” said the addicted gambler.

Upon hearing this, everyone seriously started analyzing the question.

“It should be Xu Ziqing,” analyzed Zhao Shuqi.

Given their realm, they could naturally rely on divine sense to perceive it.

Though the nine restrictions on the Bronze Sword were only broken through the first, the power it brings to a First Realm cultivator is absolutely unbeatable.

Even if Chu Huaixu comprehends sword intent, he still cannot bridge the gap.

He might hold his own in a fight, but he would likely lose.

After all, the prestige of that sword is simply too high.

“And what about you guys?” Li Chunsong, face flushed, asked breathlessly.

Law Enforcement Elder Lu Pan snorted coldly: “Sixth Junior Brother, isn’t it a bit early?”

“Oh dear Senior Brother, it’s precisely because of betting early that there are variables, making it interesting,” the Charitable Gambling King smiled flatteringly.

Under his urging, everyone placed their bets one by one.

Besides Li Chunsong, only Chu Yinyin blindly trusted Chu Huaixu, regardless of any factual basis, just pure support!

The Daoist Nun sitting on a huge rock never participated in such matters.

After some thought, the Charitable Gambling King still chose to go against the majority.

“So many times, Chu Huaixu never let me lose!”

“I still bet on him!” he bellowed.

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Night gradually deepened.

Xu Ziqing did not return to the bamboo house.

Chu Huaixu hung his dirty clothes outside Xiaoxu’s door and went back to his own room.

Though the Black Gold Robe didn’t need washing, he wasn’t sensual enough to wear only an outer robe.

Only a small part of Xiaoxu’s function was optimized; his duties still had to be done.

Sitting on the meditation mat, Chu Huaixu first took out a batch of elixirs from the medicine cauldron.

He began infusing his spiritual power into [Dao Generating One], feeding it.

The Artifact Spirit was still crying out in hunger, but he just ignored it.

“Feeding it several times a day can’t satisfy it, I really can’t help it,” he sighed helplessly.

After putting ten Qi Gathering Pills into the medicine bottle, Chu Huaixu opened his Character Panel.

Now his low-tier alchemy technique’s proficiency was almost maxed out.

Although it was all refined by the medicine cauldron itself, the proficiency still increased.

It was like having a cheat.

Of course, due to [Dao Generating One] being overwhelmingly powerful, maxing out proficiency didn’t have much significance since Chu Huaixu wouldn’t personally refine them.

The only use was that occasionally, when he needed to show off, he could produce a Spirit Pill on his own without relying on the medicine cauldron.

After closing the panel, he opened the forum.

His forum functionality was still inactive, and no large advertisement banner about the beta test appeared on the homepage.

“Just a few days left,” he thought to himself.

Three days flew by.

During these three days, Han Shuangjiang broke through another layer of heaven.

At this speed, it’s feared that during the East Continent competition, she could elevate her realm to Great Perfection of the First Realm.

Xu Ziqing still hadn’t returned home, presumably still in the Inner Sect.

“I need to go down the mountain tomorrow for some matters.” While eating, Chu Huaixu said to Big Ice Cube.

“Okay.” With her cold nature, she wouldn’t ask more questions.

Suddenly left alone at home, it might take some getting used to.

The next day, having been thrashed by the master all night, Chu Huaixu went down the mountain early.

Based on his memory, he arrived at a city closest to the Daoist Sect, named Dao City.

Clearly, this city was named as such because the Daoist Sect was nearby.

“This is one of the beta test locations for ’Borrowed Sword’,” he thought.

Today was the day of the beta test.

Chu Huaixu entered the city and started wandering around randomly.

Dao City was extremely lively and bustling, with numerous pedestrians on the streets.

“The goofy players are easy to spot, standing out in the crowd,” he thought.

How absurd can players be?

Upon arrival, some players might test the game’s limits by dropping their pants on the spot…

Besides that, don’t expect players to walk normally.

Now, even if they didn’t know any body techniques, they’d still run and jump around wildly.

Once they learn a body technique, they’ll dart all over the place.

It’s like many years ago when people played online games, and they’d feel uncomfortable if they didn’t hit the jump key a few times.

However, after wandering around Dao City for a whole hour, Chu Huaixu didn’t encounter a single odd person!

He did encounter a pickpocket, and then he deliberately walked over and bumped him hard with his shoulder.

This left him feeling a bit peculiar.

Although the previous signs had subtly hinted him to a realization, he couldn’t help but wander more, observe more.

Chu Huaixu needed to arrive at an answer.

Even if this answer, he actually already knew in his heart.

As the sun set, Chu Huaixu found a restaurant.

Sitting by the window, he gazed at the street view under the setting sun.

Today, Dao City should have fallen into small-scale chaos because of a group of strange individuals.

However, until now, it remained so peaceful and serene.

Eating the restaurant’s famous dishes, Chu Huaixu felt somewhat conflicted.

In the end, all his unspoken thoughts condensed into one inside his heart: “Yet it’s not better than Big Ice Cube’s cooking.”

He quickly finished his meal and then set off back to the Daoist Sect.

Under the setting sun, his shadow stretched longer and longer.

In the crowd, he always walked forward by himself.

From today onwards, he became the only one in “Borrowed Sword”.

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By the time Chu Huaixu returned to Medicine Mountain, it was already deep into the night.

Han Shuangjiang was meditating and cultivating in his room.

He walked into the house and found that Xiaoxu still hadn’t returned home.

“Could he still be unconscious?” he thought.

Due to the rush, his shoes were a bit dirty.

Chu Huaixu took them off and threw them outside Xiaoxu’s room door.

After sitting cross-legged on the mat, he fell into a long trance.

He couldn’t quite describe the feeling.

He simply felt there was a kind of… detachment?

Chu Huaixu remained in this daze.

Until he briefly lost consciousness, and when he “woke up”, he found himself in that blank space again.

In front of him, a rich fog suddenly appeared.

Amidst the thick fog, he could vaguely see the woman holding a sword.

Her sword-holding posture was beautiful, and Chu Huaixu admired it for a while as usual.

Of course, he went through the motions, respectfully saluting: “Master.”

In the past, after saluting, he would just stand there resigning to his fate, waiting to be “slaughtered” by the other.

But today was different.

The thirty-day countdown, it was already the last day.

Moreover, he felt a bit complicated today.

At this moment, Chu Huaixu wasn’t overthinking anything.

He suddenly said, “Master, although I know my cultivation is negligible in front of you, today when you draw your sword, I also want to try drawing mine.”

The silhouette within the thick fog did not respond.

Chu Huaixu was still unsure if the other could sense his words?

Or was it that this figure before him lacked any intelligence and was merely an avatar of the Sword Domain?

But he couldn’t care about that anymore.

Today, he just wanted to try, just wanted to wield a sword!

Even as a Swordless, without a sword in hand.

Soon, the woman in the fog moved.

Her movements weren’t particularly fast, as she always set up her stance first.

Sometimes, it’s a thrust.

Sometimes, it’s a slash.

Sometimes, it’s an upward flick…

She performed only the most basic moves.

Today, it seemed to return to the initial… thrust!

Chu Huaixu knew exactly how fast she was, so he took the initiative to strike first.

This was his first proactive attack in this Sword Domain!

He used his finger as a sword, thrusting forward as well.

A flash of sword light passed, and he was instantly engulfed, vanishing into dust.

Thus, again and again, his will quickly became muddled, his brain like porridge.

As always, Shen Man would kill him forty times in one night.

But today, for some unknown reason, during the last instance, Chu Huaixu’s consciousness began to clear rapidly.

The woman in the mist took a few steps forward.

As she moved, the mist moved with her, shrouding her within.

“Perhaps, the mist itself is part of her Sword Domain?” Chu Huaixu thought as his mind cleared.

Soon, they were only about a meter apart.

The slender Daoist Nun raised her sword again.

But this time, the sword moved very slowly, so slow that Chu Huaixu felt he could see every detail!

It was as if the flow of time had suddenly slowed down!

While the speed of his fingertip Sword Qi remained the same as usual.

This woman named Shen Man, though still shrouded in mist, for the first time her sword extended beyond the mist!

Chu Huaixu watched as a sword emerged from the mist.

“It’s actually a wooden sword!”

The Sword Qi at his fingertip struck against the wooden sword.

Knowing he’d soon face that intensely real death again.

But Chu Huaixu’s heart was unexpectedly calm.

As if during the special training, he had eradicated the body’s instinctive fear!

He wasn’t afraid at all.

In the next moment, the thick fog before him receded.

To be precise, everything he saw began… rewinding?

The entire thirty days was rewinding, and the speed was increasing!

“Boom——!”

He felt like his mind was about to explode.

Chu Huaixu suddenly opened his eyes, a mysterious aura began to spread around him, shooting straight into the skies!

In the bamboo house next door, the Zhegu Heaven on Han Shuangjiang’s table trembled fiercely at this moment!

A system prompt started ringing in his ear.

“[Ding! Congratulations, you have completed the trial task.]”

“[You have comprehended Sword Intent—Fearless.]”

Chu Huaixu had been thinking about what his trait was and what kind of Sword Intent it would produce?

Now, he got his answer.

The “Refining Sword Formulas” made him unafraid of pain.

The “Dao Scripture” made him unafraid of injury.

The thirty-day Sword Domain trial made him unafraid of death.

But today, after all, was special.

Chu Huaixu looked at the roof with a bewildered expression.

“Not afraid of pain, not afraid of injury, and not afraid of death, doesn’t this mean…”

He paused for a moment and said two words in his heart:

“Player!”

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