System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

70: Sword Intent CageThe dizziness from the spatial teleportation receded like a tide, and his feet stepped onto solid ground once more.

Ye Chen steadied himself and immediately looked around vigilantly.

Before his eyes was not the imagined celestial mountains, pavilions, exotic flowers, or rare herbs, but a world of immense desolation and oppression.

The sky was an eternal leaden grey, devoid of sun, moon, or stars; only heavy clouds pressed down low, as if within arm’s reach.

The ground consisted of parched, cracked, dark red soil, sparsely dotted with twisted, charred dead trees that resembled monsters struggling in their death throes.

The air was thick with an aroma akin to a mixture of rust and ash; while the Spiritual Qi was not thin, it was abnormally violent, interspersed with countless chaotic, fragmented, and conflicting shards of Sword Intent!

So, this is the Ten Thousand Sword Secret Realm?

It was completely different from the treasure land filled with Opportunity that Ye Chen had envisioned; it was more like the ruins of an ancient and tragic Dao of the sword battlefield.

He attempted to circulate his Cultivation Technique to absorb the local Spiritual Qi, only to discover that upon entering his body, the violent Spiritual Qi faintly triggered restlessness in his own spiritual power, requiring him to expend more mental energy to refine and purify it.

What shocked him even more was that his newly mastered ”Nirvana Devouring” Sword Intent was being severely suppressed here!

It was not weakened, but rather felt as if it had fallen into an invisible quagmire.

When he tried to extend his Sword Intent outside his body, he could clearly feel the repulsion and compression from the countless chaotic shards of Sword Intent in the air.

Although these fragmented Sword Intents lacked a system, their sheer numbers, when gathered together, formed a powerful ”Sword Intent Field.” Any external, complete Sword Intent entering this field would be subjected to all-encompassing interference and suppression.

”No wonder the Dean said that danger and Opportunity coexist here...” Ye Chen realized.

Here, attempting to wield Sword Intent against an enemy was many times more difficult than in the outside world.

But at the same time, if one could hone their Sword Intent here, allowing it to condense and transform under high pressure, the gains would inevitably be immense.

He tried taking a step forward; the loose, brittle soil beneath his feet emitted a ”rustling” sound.

His Divine Sense expanded outward, but it was also severely restricted here, only able to cover a range of a hundred zhang around him; anything further became blurred and obscured by the chaotic Sword Intent Field.

He remembered that four other Core Disciples had entered with him, but looking around now, the area was empty; clearly, they had been randomly teleported to different regions upon entering the Secret Realm.

”The top priority is to familiarize myself with the environment, find a way to deal with this Sword Intent suppression, and then... seek Opportunity, or wait for the ’fish’ to take the bait.” Ye Chen planned calmly in his heart.

He had not forgotten the other important purpose of entering the Secret Realm this time.

He chose a direction and began to explore cautiously.

His pace was not fast; every step he took was exceptionally steady, his Divine Sense spread out like a spiderweb, carefully sensing everything around him.

After traveling for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, there was nothing but desolation; he found nothing of value and encountered no living creatures, as if this were a land of deathly silence.

However, just as he passed a particularly huge, charred, dead tree, a sudden change occurred!

”Hum—!”

That dead tree seemed to be plucked by an invisible hand, suddenly trembling violently!

The twisted patterns on the trunk suddenly lit up with a scarlet glow, and a violent, bloodthirsty Sword Intent, like a burst dam, erupted, instantly locking onto Ye Chen!

Immediately following this, the dark red ground around the dead tree cracked open, and three ”Sword Puppets” made entirely of stark white bones, wielding broken bone swords, crawled out like ghosts with scarlet Soul fire dancing in their eye sockets, surrounding Ye Chen in a triangular formation!

The aura emanating from them had reached the level of the Kaiyuan Realm Fifth Level, and on their bones, a violent Sword Intent, originating from the same source as that dead tree, faintly flowed!

”Guardian Sword Spirits? Or monsters created by the erosion of the Sword Intent here?” Ye Chen’s eyes narrowed; he dared not be careless.

In this environment where Sword Intent was suppressed, facing a siege by three Sword Puppets of the same rank was by no means an easy task.

Without any warning, all three Sword Puppets moved at once!

Their movements were eerie, as if they had merged with this land; their speed was so fast that they left only three white shadows, and the broken bone swords in their hands, carrying scarlet Sword Qi capable of tearing through everything, stabbed at Ye Chen’s vital points from three tricky angles!

Before the attacks arrived, the violent Sword Intent was already assaulting Ye Chen’s mind, attempting to trigger the desire for slaughter within him.

Ye Chen snorted coldly, and the Grand Void Roaming Dragon Steps were instantly deployed.

Under this Sword Intent suppression, his movement technique was slightly affected, not as agile as in the outside world, but still profound.

His figure was like smoke, dodging the two bone sword thrusts by a hair’s breadth, while simultaneously drawing his qingfeng sword, which carried a condensed dark golden Sword Qi, and striking at the glabella of the third Sword Puppet.

”Clang!”

The sword tip collided with the bone sword, emitting the sound of metal clashing.

The Sword Puppet’s strength was astonishingly great, vibrating Ye Chen’s wrist until it went slightly numb.

What was even more troublesome was that the violent Sword Intent contained on the opponent’s bone sword was attempting to erode along the qingfeng sword, while at the same time, the chaotic Sword Intent Field in the air seemed to have found a Breakthrough point, intensifying the suppression of Ye Chen’s own Sword Intent.

Ye Chen felt his Nirvana Sword Intent moving sluggishly; its power had been suppressed by at least thirty percent!

”I cannot fight for long!”

His thoughts raced, and his footwork shifted again, like a dragon swinging its tail, narrowly dodging the follow-up attacks from the other two Sword Puppets.

At the same time, he attempted to mobilize that ”devouring” characteristic.

A flash of dark golden light appeared at his fingertip, and a strand of finger power intermingled with dark red patterns shot toward the joint of the Sword Puppet on the left.

”Pfft!”

The finger power hit successfully, causing a small charred hole to appear in the bone at the Sword Puppet’s leg joint, and its movement immediately stalled.

However, the energy devouring feedback Ye Chen had expected was minimal, almost negligible.

These Sword Puppets did not seem to be composed of pure energy; their core consisted of that violent Sword Intent and some kind of undying Battle Intent. The Nirvana Sword Intent could damage their form, but the ”devouring” characteristic was ineffective against them.

”It seems that the monsters here must be crushed with absolute power or a higher level of Sword Intent!” Ye Chen realized instantly.

He no longer held back, took a deep breath, forcibly withstood the pressure of the Sword Intent Field, and frantically injected nearly half of the spiritual power in his Dantian into the qingfeng sword!

At the same time, the ancient sword phantasm deep within his Soul stirred slightly, and a faint yet superior ancient Dao of the sword aura permeated the area, actually causing the surrounding chaotic Sword Intent Field to freeze for a moment!

Now is the time!

”Nirvana — Instant Shadow!”

A fierce look flashed in Ye Chen’s eyes; he followed his sword, transforming into a streak of dark golden lightning that tore through the grey sky!

The sword light no longer sought large-scale annihilation but was extremely condensed, reaching the pinnacle of speed and piercing power!

”Swish! Swish! Swish!”

Three soft sounds rang out almost simultaneously.

The three Sword Puppets maintained their lunging posture, standing stiffly in place.

The next moment, a tiny hole appeared in the glabella of their heads, and the scarlet Soul fire in their eye sockets dimmed and dissipated instantly, as if blown out by a gale.

”Clatter...”

The three Sword Puppets collapsed to the ground, turning into a pile of lifeless, withered bones.

Ye Chen stood holding his sword, breathing slightly heavily.

The burst of power just now, along with resisting the suppression of the Sword Intent Field, had consumed a significant amount of his mental energy and spiritual power.

He walked to the dead tree that was emitting a scarlet glow and slashed out with his sword without hesitation!

”Crack!”

The dead tree broke in response to the sound; what flowed from the broken end was not sap, but dense, blood-colored Sword Intent energy.

As the dead tree broke, the violent Sword Intent that had been permeating the surroundings quickly dissipated.

Ye Chen swept his Divine Sense across and discovered a small crystal, about the size of a fingernail, blood-red and crystal clear, at the base of the broken dead tree; it contained pure yet violent Sword Intent energy.

”Sword Intent Crystal?”

Ye Chen picked it up and could feel the pure Dao of the sword insights contained within; although its attributes were violent and not suitable for direct absorption, if he could refine and purify it, he might be able to comprehend some unique methods of wielding the Dao of the sword from it, which would count as a decent harvest.

He put the crystal away and was just preparing to continue exploring when he suddenly felt something; he turned his head sharply to look at an area of jagged, strange rocks to his side and rear.

In that very instant, relying on his increasingly keen spiritual perception after his transformation, he had captured a trace of an extremely obscure, cold, and deathly aura that was completely out of place in this Secret Realm!

That aura flashed and vanished, as if it were just an illusion.

But a cold arc curled at the corners of Ye Chen’s mouth.

The fish... seems to be unable to hold back any longer and has started to swim.

He did not immediately chase after it, but instead, as if he had discovered nothing, continued to move forward in the original direction, unhurriedly.

Only, the Nirvana Sword Intent that had been suppressed around his body silently adjusted its frequency, like a spider weaving a web, waiting for the prey to crash right into it.