Hengyun Sword City.
“Didn’t Elder Zeng miss someone just now?”
“Perhaps the lass Ying Bing’s enlightenment from that martial art was too astonishing, so even Sword City had to keep it secret…”
“It could also be that a sudden attack by Misty Rain Tower’s assassins prevented the elders from asking questions?”
“If Young Hero Li wasn’t practicing sword arts on the building, those assassins wouldn’t have stood a chance. He took out eight hundred of them with just one sword.”
“Of course, contemplating the Sword Mark Stone is far more important!”
The crowd below was somewhat noisy.
After all, it was well-known that Li Jianxian was a gentleman, gentle as jade and ever willing to help others, whose golden quotes on the arena these past three days had dazzled everyone.
Take, for instance, ‘This sword strike will be very handsome,’ ‘If you want to learn, I’ll teach you,’ ‘May all swordsmen become sword immortals.’ All these have been collected into ‘The Records of Li Jianxian’ and spread by many storytellers.
These golden quotes, paired with memorable visuals, were widely spread and often repeated.
Numerous young swordsmen of Yunzhou now considered Li Jianxian their number one role model.
If he had discovered some martial art from the stone, with his nature, he might truly share it with everyone.
“Enlightenment? That mark on the stone? He drew it himself!”
“Absolutely. He might’ve had a new realization and left another mark on the stone!”
“Wait… haven’t you noticed something odd?”
“Hmm?”
“Good heavens, why can we see the stars so clearly, and the sky is getting… closer?”
Indeed.
As the peculiar stone rippled, everyone felt as if the heavens were pressing down upon them, creating a near illusion.
Each star was clearly visible, their starlight swirling as if pulling the heavens down.
The sky was collapsing.
Three figures stood on the high platform.
One was a handsome young man dressed in a water-cloud-patterned robe, looking barely over twenty but with a head of silver hair.
Another was a Crane-haired Young-looking Old Man. Though they seemed like grandfather and grandson, both were formidable physical cultivators.
The last person there was Yantian Sect’s ‘Walking’ envoy, her eyes filled with complicated lines that became increasingly cryptic, like the star chart in front of her.
At this moment, all three gazed at the heavens, their expressions grave.
“What is that kid comprehending?” the Crane-haired Old Man squinted.
They had only appeared because the sword marks were supposed to have vanished, for Ying Bing’s sake.
They hadn’t expected another unusual phenomenon after her.
The silver-haired young man shook his head:
“Don’t know… Definitely not sword techniques.”
Before they could say much more,
Suddenly, a light golden stream of bl**d was spit out, and a jade disc clanged to the ground, rolling a couple of times.
“Ah… bl**d spitting again.”
“Sometimes I really want to suggest the elders of Yantian Sect learn some bl**d-refining martial arts…”
The two physical cultivators weren’t surprised at this scene.
With a casual wave, they conjured a chair, gently supporting the woman’s collapsing body.
This random spitting of bl**d had been a longstanding Yantian Sect tradition.
BOOM!
Just then, after the sight of the star-bound skies subsided, the earth began shaking violently.
The two strong physical cultivators exchanged glances, both seeing horror in each other’s eyes.
Again?
We asked you to meditate on the stone, not to demolish our home!
With a sigh, one figure appeared high above the city, the other deep within the earth’s veins.
Both unleashed their physical forms, using the pocket realms within them to uphold the heavens and earth of Hengyun Sword City.
Immediately, the startled crowd settled down.
…
At the same moment.
In the spiritual realm where the consciousness soul was in contact with the peculiar stone,
The commotion within this vast domain was several times more intense than the outside!
“Heaven-Overturning Stance…”
In a stupor, Li Mo realized the fragmentary stance he had comprehended.
The posture was evidently incomplete.
Just then, his consciousness began showing signs of instability.
So, Ke Mo urgently visualized Bing’s immortal transformation diagram to support his spirit.
It worked marvelously.
Still, it only kept his spirit from collapsing; his head ached fiercely, as if pierced by countless needles.
If he wished to further contemplate, it would be extremely difficult.
“Good thing I saved some martial insights…”
Little Ke had a good habit of keeping dreams and reality separate.
He always reserved three hundred years of martial insights for emergencies.
This was the perfect moment to put them to use!
[One hundred years of martial insights successfully injected!]
BOOM!
The vast earth beneath the starry expanse trembled.
Deep within the earth, a giant heart seemed to pulsate, veins like countless earth veins contracting.
The vast earth cracked, volcanoes erupted, and all life perished.
Heaven and earth alike descended into chaos, as if a world was collapsing.
It was unbearable, even for the person creating it.
[One hundred years of martial insights consumed. You have comprehended the second stance.]
[Earth unleashes its d*ath aura, dragons and snakes rise on land!]
“Earth-Reversing Stance…”
After comprehending this thread of meaning, Ke Mo was somewhat disoriented.
A storm raged in his spiritual world.
The excitement of the Pan-Raider Meteor Hammer briefly energized him.
[Two hundred years of martial insight successfully injected!]
He wasn’t sure how much insight was needed, so he poured everything he had.
The instant the insight was injected,
Ke Mo felt the world’s colors fade, all sounds become silent.
A tiny figure suddenly appeared in the world on the brink of destruction.
His black hair danced wildly like a dragon, his normal-sized frame giving an illusion of a celestial pillar holding up the heavens.
His face remained blurry.
“Can’t see clearly… I really can’t see clearly…”
As Ke Mo’s thoughts blurred,
The figure lifted his hammer.
It crashed down with a thunderous sound!
Yin and yang energies surged and blended, returning momentarily to chaos before being shattered by that hammer strike.
This hammer opened the heavens and split the earth.
This hammer shattered the cosmos.
[When humans unleash their d*ath aura, the heavens turn upside down!]
[Martial insights consumed. You’ve fully comprehended the true meaning of this hammer technique, repairing its completeness.]
[Congratulations Host, you’ve comprehended the “Heaven-Overturning, Earth-Reversing, Man-Slaying Hammer”!]
“The ‘Heaven-Overturning, Earth-Reversing, Man-Slaying Hammer’!”
The moment this thought formed, his spirit, already fragile like a candle flame, shattered completely.
Ke Mo opened his eyes.
And there, all the elders of Hengyun Sword City surrounded him, staring at him like he was a ghost.
“What’s wrong?”
Ke Mo slowly came to his senses, glancing instinctively at the peculiar stone.
And he froze too.
Just recently, the stone, from which Ying Bing had erased the sword marks, returning it to its pristine state, now bore a new mark.
A hammer imprint, glaring in the center.
Its shape was unmistakably similar to a certain hammer treasure.
It carried the aura of splitting the heavens and opening the earth. Watching it felt like a spiritual thunderclap!
It was far more striking than the sword mark it once bore!
Ke Mo: “?!?”
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