NOVPUBThe scene was almost unforgettable for anyone who had witnessed that battle in their lifetime.
Mountains and rivers trembled, heaven and earth lost their color; even to say it shocked the world and made ghosts and gods weep would not be an exaggeration.
That sword dazzled the mundane world, and it also became the battle that made that person famous.
Latter on, for some reason, this secret technique appeared at the Swordless Sect and became their closely guarded secret.
The biggest drawback of the secret technique was that the Sword Intent it solidified was one-time use only.
In other words, no matter how long you had solidified your Sword Intent, once you released it, you could not use it a second time.
You had to solidify Sword Intent all over again in order to release it once more.
And solidifying Sword Intent again took time; it definitely couldn’t be used again shortly thereafter.
Like the Loose Cultivator before, after releasing three thousand years of Sword Intent, it meant that all his three thousand years of effort had vanished into smoke and clouds.
At this moment, Swordless was shrouded in Sword Intent; the Sword Intent he had solidified began to slowly release with him as the core.
"Brother Swordless has really brought out his trump card this time," Tian Yazi remarked with a sigh from the sidelines.
Swordless was the founder of the Swordless Sect, and it was said that since the Swordless Sect obtained this secret technique,
He was the first person to cultivate this secret technique.
And since he started cultivating it, he had never released this secret technique.
For the people of the Swordless Sect, this solidified Sword Intent was more like a life-saving move.
They wouldn’t allow all the years of Sword Intent they had solidified, all the effort they had put in, to go down the drain unless it was an absolute crisis.
"Brother Swordless must have solidified his Sword Intent for hundreds of years," Jian Yihai said with a smile.
"I wonder just how powerful it is. I never thought I’d get such an eye-opener today."
As the Sword Intent around Swordless grew denser, a wary expression began to appear in Jiang Dianfeng’s eyes.
The force of the Sword Intent became more ferocious, as if the oppressive feeling of dark clouds amassing, lightning flashing, thunder rumbling, and a furious storm was upon them.
The speed at which the Sword Intent dissipated grew faster, almost shrouding the entire firmament within it.
Swordless had no sword, but his entire being was a sword.
His own Sword Intent had reached a critical point, and the blood vessels on the surface of his skin began to show.
Cracks appeared on his skin, as if it could split open at any moment.
In this moment, the three men launched their attacks simultaneously.
Compared to Swordless’s attack, Tian Yazi and the other’s attacks seemed somewhat dim and faded.
This swing of his sword was the culmination of his efforts over hundreds of years.
It was the most brilliant moment of this move.
With one strike of his sword, the world turned upside down, the sun and the moon paled, and rivers flowed backward.
Up in the empty firmament, it was as if the sky had been split into endless shards.
The sun and the clouds were cleaved apart.
The space beneath their feet was completely destroyed amid deafening booming sounds.
Sword Casting Mountain below was split in two and ultimately collapsed amid the thunderous dust.
The prowess of this sword awed everyone.
However, what none of them expected was that the target of this sword strike was not Jiang Dianfeng.
It was Jian Yihai and Tian Yazi.
The two of them were the first to detect this development and tried to dodge, but sadly, the coverage of this sword was too wide.
The suppressive force was too strong, and with their abilities, they simply couldn’t escape.
"Swordless, have you gone mad?"
Tian Yazi shouted desperately, "We’re on the same side. Aren’t you afraid of Lord Ming’s punishment for betraying us?"
"You’ve truly gone mad."
Ignoring the shouts of the two men, Swordless looked determined and spoke with solemnity,
"I am not called Swordless. My real name is Chu Shanhe."
"What exactly do you want to do?" Jian Yihai shouted.
"We didn’t provoke you. Why would you do this?"
"I am tired of doing things against my will," Swordless said with an indiscernible emotion in his voice.
"I don’t want to be a pawn for the Form Blood Clan anymore."
With the descent of this sword, accompanied by the screams of Tian Yazi and the other that started and then stopped.
The horizon was condensed into a single point, and the endless Sword Intent seemed to refine the void itself.
The majestic sword momentum chopped down the firmament, subsequently annihilating the entire space within it.
That entire space had thoroughly fallen.
As the sword descended, a breeze gently blew by, lifting the long hair on his forehead.
The Sword Intent he had gathered for hundreds of years gradually vanished like smoke and clouds.
Swordless stood silently in the sky, staring blankly at the horizon.
...…
The day I was born, my father held me as he looked out the window towards the distant horizon.
He said, "The landscape is picturesque, and I will one day venture through this magnificent land."
So, he named me "Chu Shanhe."
My parents were frail and fell ill early on, leaving me while I was still young.
I grew up eating at a hundred different households.
I yearned for the martial artists who could fly and burrow, but alas, aside from a coach who knew some family-style moves, no one in my ordinary village knew about cultivation.
I heard that in the north, there was a Sword Domain where a single sword could sever the Nine States.
Common folks could even receive a sword for free in the Sword Domain and learn swordplay.
That year I was sixteen, with a spring breeze that was not harsh, sunlight that was just right, and the willows hanging down under the moonlight.
I packed my bag and began my own journey.
...…
Swordless recalled his past, alone in mid-air, lost in thought.
The scabbard on his back quivered.
It seemed to sense his mood, and was wailing in sorrow.
I entered the Sword Domain, ascended the Sword Tower, took a sword, and learned swordplay.
But later I realized that everything remained the same.
For a Loose Cultivator to make a name for himself was as difficult and fraught with peril as a commoner becoming a Prime Minister.
It was really too hard.
Amidst fleeting sword shadows and mutual deceit, I saw through this world.
I wanted to return to the village, the village where I ate a hundred families’ food, the village that birthed and raised me, to live my remaining years in peace, unconcerned with worldly affairs.
...…
After several years of adventuring, the young man in white once again returned to the village.
However, what greeted him was an empty and desolate ruin.
The village had been destroyed, and the inhabitants were nowhere to be seen.
He inquired far and wide, only to learn that it was the doing of disciples from a nearby Sect Gate who had descended from the mountain.
One of them had taken a fancy to a woman from the village and intended to abduct her, resulting in resistance from the entire village.
Those few disciples then slaughtered the entire village, burned the bodies to ashes, and demolished the village.
It was pouring rain that day as the young man in white sat on a stone amidst the village ruins.
He sat motionless for seven days and nights.
He wanted to seek revenge on the Sect Gate, but he knew his own cultivation was too weak to be of any significance.
"Do you want revenge?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded behind him.
He felt the hair on his body stand on end, frozen in place.
He slowly turned his head and saw the monster that had nearly changed his destiny for life.
...…
He took his revenge, annihilated the Sect Gate, and the corpses piled up as high as mountains.
But at the same time, he understood that the price of revenge was that his fate would no longer belong to himself.
He followed the monster and left, with no one to care about what had happened here.
Ten years later, the man known as Swordless founded the Swordless Sect.
And Chu Shanhe was no more in the world!
