Martial Cultivator

The brilliance of that one sword, although the two of them were not sword cultivators, just seeing that sword mark was probably enough for them to grasp a few things.

So even Autumn, who had always held great admiration for her royal father, did not dare claim that her royal father could surpass that sword immortal after seeing this sword.

In fact, she had a more direct thought in her heart - her father probably would not even last a single strike against that person.

Chen Chao smiled and said, “All the sword cultivators in the world regard the Sword Sect’s Sect Master as the number one in Sword Dao under heaven. If they saw this sword mark, that belief would probably collapse instantly.”

In the world of swordsmanship, the Sword Sect’s Sect Master had already reached the peak. But who knew there could be a level even higher?

Still, it was likely that the Sword Sect Master knew there was no highest point in Sword Dao. He would still want to keep climbing, higher and higher.

Chen Chao said softly, “Sometimes I really admire that Sect Master. Living in this world, and spending one’s whole life pursuing a single thing.”

Such a pure person, even if standing on the opposite side, would probably still earn your admiration.

Autumn said, “If one day you find out that everything in this world is fake, and everything you did was prearranged by someone else, you probably wouldn’t be doing much better.”

She said it casually, but Chen Chao looked seriously at her and smiled, “Once you’ve experienced it, it’s just whatever.”

Autumn was startled by his words and glanced at the young martial artist in surprise. In the end, she said nothing and simply turned to walk into the hall.

But once the two of them stepped inside, they were once again shocked. This time, they stood rooted in place, silent.

That sword mark, they originally thought splitting open the hall door was already impressive. Who would have thought that upon entering, they would see that all of the structures inside the hall had been cut in half. Even one side of the great hall’s wall only had half left.

As for the many skeletons inside the hall, it was easy to see at the segmented bone areas how cleanly they had been sliced.

There were even skulls that had been split in half by a single sword attack.

The two of them remained speechless for a long time.

In Chen Chao’s mind, an image emerged: a sword cultivator with an indistinct face, standing outside the great hall, casually releasing one sword strike, then turning away without ever looking at the scene within the hall.

It was too unrestrained, too effortless.

Chen Chao said with vicissitudes of emotion, “At that moment, the sword immortal who unleashed that sword was probably the undisputed number one in the world.”

This question did not need anyone to answer, Chen Chao could already be certain. It had to be, there could be no other answer.

If not, and there were that many figures like this back then...

Then compared to them, his own era, Chen Chao could only think of a word:

Pathetic.

Too pathetic.

Autumn’s expression did not change. But in her heart, she was shaken to the core as well.

Chen Chao took a step forward, and in that instant, it was as if he heard a slicing wind at his ear. Before he could react, a bloody gash suddenly appeared on his lower leg, followed by a wave of pain. Chen Chao reacted quickly and immediately retracted his foot, then finally let out a sigh of relief.

Looking down, he saw a fairly deep cut had appeared on his calf.

Autumn glanced ahead and once again summoned a black butterfly from her fingertip. The butterfly spread its wings and flew forward, but was instantly torn apart. Demonic qi scattered and quickly dissipated.

“Damn it, how many years has it been, and this place is actually still filled with sword qi!”

Chen Chao gritted his teeth. He had sensed some sword qi earlier, but not much. Chen Chao thought that after so many years, the sword qi here would have dissipated by now.

But only now did he suddenly realize, the sword strike left behind by that sword immortal back then had shown no signs of dissipating even to this day.

What kind of cultivation would it take to achieve that?

For a moment, Chen Chao was a little dazed. But more than anything, he was shocked.

Autumn said with a laugh, “Good thing you only took one step. If you had tried to run through, you’d be in over a hundred pieces by now.”

Chen Chao gave her a cold look and nodded. “Good thing it was me.”

Yes, if it had been Autumn instead, she really might have been torn to pieces.

“What now?”

A great hall, the two of them could only stand at a distance now. There was simply no way to step inside.

Chen Chao said, “Why don’t you show your true form and see if the sword qi can tear you apart?”

Autumn said nothing, just rolled her eyes at Chen Chao.

The terror of this sword qi was not something those in the Nepenthe Realm could withstand. Even an existence at the end of Nepenthe would probably feel their scalp go numb upon seeing it.

But since this great hall stood at the top of the Divine Mountain, the two of them had to go in and take a look no matter what.

Now the problem was: how to go in?

That was the difficult question in front of them.

“Hurry and think of something.”

Autumn stared at Chen Chao and said calmly, “I want to see what’s inside.”

Chen Chao examined the great hall in front of them. The front wall had already collapsed halfway, but on both sides were two long corridors, blocked by collapsed structures. He could not see what was inside.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Chao said, “Give me that flying sword of yours.”

Autumn did not argue and simply pulled out the slender flying sword from her hair. The sword instantly returned to its normal size. Chen Chao reached out and took it.

The flying sword let out a faint hum, seemingly displeased.

Chen Chao could not help but sigh again: What’s wrong with you? You just like this demon girl, is that it?”

But he did not waste time bickering with the flying sword. He inserted it lightly into the ground.

Autumn looked thoughtfully at Chen Chao.

Chen Chao cautiously took a step forward, but did not enter the terrifying zone of sword qi. He stopped right before it, separated by only a few inches.

Chen Chao took a deep breath and extended a finger, a wisp of white mist emerging from his fingertip.

Back on Sword Qi Mountain, Chen Chao had picked up a technique, which was how to thread through chaotic sword qi without clashing directly with it.

But the premise at the time was that the sword qi came from countless people and countless swords. But right now, the dense sword qi here all came from one person.

So Chen Chao was not confident he could channel the sword qi according to his plan and guide it into the flying sword.

But this was the only method Chen Chao could think of.

The truth was that neither of them were sword cultivators. If there had been a sword cultivator here, things would have been much easier.

Without overthinking, Chen Chao sat in front of the sword qi. The white mist drifted in gently, he tried his best not to let the mist show any aggression, for fear of arousing resistance from the sword qi.

But after a short while, the white mist was still shattered by most of the sword qi. Chen Chao broke out in a sweat, but kept trying to pull a single wisp of mist, dragging with it a nearly imperceptible trace of sword qi, linking it with the flying sword.

At last, Chen Chao let out a breath of relief, because that trace of sword qi had entered the flying sword.

The field of sword qi was currently like a lake, and the flying sword was a pool Chen Chao had dug next to it. What he needed to do was to open a channel between the lake and the pool.

Let the water flow into the pool.