The sword in the hand, the sword in the heart, when man and sword become one, the sword intent can be achieved naturally.
Chu Qi finally understood that the reason he never understood the meaning of sword until his death in his previous life was because he had no expectations in his heart.
Now, he wants to use this sword to cut off the illusions and all the mysteries surrounding him, so that his destiny can finally reach the ending he expects.
The Wuwang sword intent took shape, and the sword slashed down on the monster.
The golden sword energy was like a rainbow piercing the sun, tearing apart the illusory black shadow above the monster's head, causing the monster to let out a hissing sound.
As the black shadow dissipated, its ferocious and painful animal eyes revealed a bit of clarity, and its eyes were filled with humanistic spirit, as if it was shocked.
After being controlled by the evil spirit for countless years, it finally regained consciousness moments before the end of its life.
But it woke up too late. It was bewitched by evil spirits, committed many evil things, turned into a monster, and destroyed its own path.
Now it's time to pay it back.
There was no struggle at all.
The monster waited quietly for the sword intent above its head to fall.
The sword's will penetrated its bones, and then cut off its soul. All its cultivation was returned to the Heavenly Dao, and its huge body fell down, and its corpse emitted white fluorescence like smoke and finally dissipated into the air.
There was complete silence all around.
Just when everyone thought that the monster was reduced to ashes by this shocking sword.
Suddenly, a confused "hissing" sound came from the grass, and an ordinary little snake that had not yet developed intelligence opened its eyes in confusion. The scales and patterns on its body were similar to those of the previous monster, but the difference was that it had no cultivation at all at this moment, as if it had returned to the time when it broke out of its shell.
—The cause and effect caused by evil spirits in it was severed. After paying for its sins, it was like being reborn from the brink of death and returned to its original state.
"Wuwang, Wuwang... The way of the sword can cut off the cause and effect of the world..."
After an unknown amount of time of silence, someone uttered a low mutter.
There are four sword traditions in the world, which are divided into: Qiankun Sword, Xiaoyao Sword, Wuqing Sword, and Shafa Sword.
What is not included in the inheritance, but vaguely exists in various ancient scrolls and rumors, and the world can only get a glimpse of fragments, is the Wuwang Sword Art.
According to legend, the Wuwang sword technique can cut off the cause and effect of the world and transcend life and death.
Everyone was in great shock, unable to recover for a long time. Everyone thought it was just a rumor, but now they saw it with their own eyes.
Even the person who swung this sword was not an orthodox sword practitioner - he was a medical practitioner.
Under everyone's dazed gaze, Chu Qi lowered his eyes and put away the "Invisible Sword" in his hand. He turned around and gave orders to the twenty guards, "You must not reveal any news about what happened today. No matter who asks, you must not spread the news that I know the spirit sword. Do you understand?"
"I obey your command."
They had previously been able to refute on the grounds of protecting Chu Qi, but now, after witnessing the power of Chu Qi's sword, they no longer dared to have any disrespectful thoughts.
Chu Qi didn't know yet whether "he" would use the spirit sword before he entered the illusion. To be on the safe side, it would be better to keep it a secret. If Uncle Lin in the illusion thought he was possessing someone else's body, that would be bad. As for how much secrecy he could keep, he would take it one step at a time.
After slashing out with that sword, Chu Qi could clearly feel the huge changes taking place in his body.
His medical cultivation method and sword cultivation method were integrated into one, and above his natal spirit platform, there appeared the shadow of a spirit sword emitting golden light.
However, the connection between him and Yan Jiuge - the two-person mental skills that he inherited in the Tianxuan Sect's sword tomb - suddenly disappeared.
Chu Qi frowned slightly and searched carefully around his spiritual platform, but still could not find any trace of the double-person mind method.
Just when he was disappointed, his consciousness saw a ball of white "spiritual energy" under the spiritual platform. This ball of "spiritual energy" had never appeared before, and it was now wrapped around his heart.
Perhaps this is the evolution of the double mind method.
Chu Qi pondered, came out of his inner vision, and looked up to see Yan Jiuge's complicated expression. There was inquiry and confusion in his eyes.
"You—" Aren't you afraid that I will tell your secret
Yan Jiuge had just begun to ask when he suddenly paused and changed the subject abruptly, "I have something to give you."
Just having this thought made Yan Jiuge feel a little repulsive. His intuition told him that he would definitely keep Chu Qi's secret, so asking this question was unnecessary.
"what?"
This time it was Chu Qi's turn to be surprised.
Yan Jiuge took out a jade box from his Qiankun bag and handed it to him.
Chu Qi took it and opened the jade box. A thousand-year-old blood ganoderma lay quietly inside. This was exactly the purpose of Chu Qi and others entering the mountains.
"I found it on the top of the cliff. After I took it off, I heard some noises at the bottom of the cliff and found out that you had encountered a monster. Next time..."
Yan Jiuge paused.
say what
Next time, this place is too dangerous, don’t come here casually
The sword Chu Qi used just now was enough to prove his strength.
There are very few cultivators in the world who can practice both medicine and swordsmanship, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any. Chu Qi is one of them.
"Next time you want to find herbs, it will be much faster if you take me with you." Chu Qi took over his words and continued, "Thank you, Brother Daoist Yan, for finding the Thousand-Year-Old Blood Ganoderma Lucidum for me."
"You're welcome. You've helped me before."
This is a matter of reciprocity.
Yan Jiuge was thinking about it, and suddenly felt that something was wrong—just now, Chu Qi called him "Fellow Daoist Yan"
Obviously, it wasn't called this not long ago.
Thinking of that "Ah Yan", Yan Jiuge pursed his lips and asked, "But why did you come to help me before? It was clearly the first time we met, and we were not related..."
In front of him, the young man's eyebrows and eyes gradually softened, and he lost the sharpness when he held the sword, and his eyes were sincere and serious. Yan Jiuge felt an inexplicable trust and familiarity.
"I would like to make your acquaintance, are you willing?"
"Haven't we known each other for a long time?" After Yan Jiuge blurted out his words, he came back to his senses and added, "Just before, when you helped me."
At that moment just now, Yan Jiuge almost really believed that he and Chu Qi had known each other for a long time.
"Yeah." The young man in front of him responded softly, and gently reminded, "But becoming friends and meeting by chance are two different things."
"Friends?"
Yan Jiuge asked Chu Qi a question in return, his expression a little strange.
"Yes."
Chu Qi nodded straightforwardly. He didn't want to be coy anymore since the matter had come to this. Moreover, he and Yan Jiuge had been good friends for a long time. They had been close since childhood and no one could surpass them.
Now in the illusion, the relationship between him and Yan Jiuge became that of strangers who had just met. This made Chu Qi very uncomfortable.
Yan Jiuge: "...Okay."
Chu Qi raised his eyes, a little surprised, "Huh?"
"I said yes." Yan Jiuge repeated, answering unnaturally, "From now on, we are friends."
Chu Qi raised his eyebrows slightly, "Really? Are you willing to be my friend?"
Yan Jiuge said seriously, "Why would I lie to you?"
This sounded reasonable, and Chu Qi's expression brightened slightly. He asked tentatively, "Then can I call you A Yan?"
"?"
You already shouted!
Yan Jiuge muttered in his heart, but his expression did not show, "Okay."
"Ayan!"
"Um."
"Ayan!"
"What?" Hearing this name again, Yan Jiuge turned his eyes away and stopped looking at Chu Qi's happy expression, because he felt that his heartbeat was inexplicably getting faster and he was almost out of his control.
"I'll call you." Chu Qi smiled. Yan Jiuge's attitude softened, which was a good thing for him. Moreover, Yan Jiuge in the illusion was more serious.
Just as Chu Qi was sighing, a voice suddenly fell into his ears—
"Aqi."
Chu Qi’s expression froze.
Three feet away, the young man in the black and gold robe had a gentle look on his face, his handsome face was the same as always, just like how they usually were when they were together.
The feeling of losing and regaining made Chu Qi's heart surge with sadness. He was used to Yan Jiuge's closeness to him and had never considered what it would be like if one day they became strangers again.
"What's wrong with you? Can't you just shout like that?" Perhaps not hearing Chu Qi's answer, Yan Jiuge asked again.
"able."
Chu Qi defended himself, "I'm not used to hearing that."
"You'll get used to it after hearing it a few times." Yan Jiuge said, "I'll call you like this from now on." In this way, they were even.
Suppressing the inexplicable throbbing in his heart, Yan Jiuge looked at the quiet surroundings. There were no monsters causing trouble and no herbs to pick. It was time for them to go back.
"Let's go, let's go back first."
*
Without Yan Jiuge's reminder, Uncle Lin, who had been waiting for Chu Qi to go back and rest at the small building, hurried over at this time.
The noise caused by that sword intent was so loud that it was hard not to pay attention to it.
"Master! Are you injured?"
"I'm fine."
Uncle Lin found Chu Qi and looked him over from head to toe. After confirming that he was unharmed, he felt relieved and said, "I'm glad you're okay."
"By the way, Uncle Lin, this is the ten thousand year old blood Ganoderma lucidum." Chu Qi handed the jade box in his hand to Uncle Lin.
Uncle Lin took it, opened the jade box, and saw the Ten Thousand Year Blood Ganoderma. He hesitated, "Since we have found this item, should we set off to Yancheng immediately?"
"No rush." Chu Qi smiled, "Let's wait for A Yan to finish his work, then we can go to Yancheng together."
"?"
Uncle Lin was stunned, and it took him a while to realize who the "A Yan" Chu Qi was referring to was. He felt complicated, and from time to time he glanced at Yan Jiuge with a scrutinizing look.
"Okay." Uncle Lin finally gave in.
The later we go to Yancheng, the later the unknown danger will come. It won't hurt to let the young valley master relax for a while.
(End of this chapter)