Inside the bamboo forest, the instant Lu Xun’s fingertips touched Second Senior Sister’s wooden sword, the small sword inside his Heart of the Sword started to react violently!
Its reaction was fiercer than with that of the previous two swords!
“Peng…!”
This time, it wasn’t the wooden sword that was sent flying, instead, it was Lu Xun who was blown away!
Lu Xun, “#%#**…!”
Second Senior Sister’s wooden sword was still hovering in the air, not moving a single bit.
It was clear now, the small sword inside Lu Xun’s Heart of the Sword couldn’t send it flying away for the time being!
Now, this was a serious problem placed before Lu Xun:
“My hands, it seems like they can’t hold onto a sword!”
Then why not try with his feet?
He smiled in amusement at his own mentally deficient idea.
When Cat Southnorth saw this kind of anomaly, she was worried about her Little Junior Brother. It was mainly she who was responsible for him becoming like this to a certain extent.
However, Lu Xun still actually had the mood to laugh! This infuriated her so much that she wanted to claw at his face!
Lu Xun genuinely wasn’t worried, the damned system didn’t have a reason to screw him over. If it existed, then it was reasonable—he simply took a crooked path, and even a narrow one at that, however, it didn’t mean that the path was a dead end.
Second Senior Sister stored away the wooden sword, she didn’t say anything and seemed to be thinking about something.
Cat Southnorth circled Lu Xun once, bewildered, she said, “He has a perfectly fine Natural Sword Constitution, why can’t he hold onto a sword!?”
She continued, consoling him, “Don’t worry Little Junior Brother, wait till Sir comes back. He’ll definitely have a solution!”
Of course, she was already prepared to be criticized.
Although Sir was an amiable person, apart from his dislike of overly handsome men, he was gentle and kind to everyone. But he was still a man who had principles and followed rules… sigh! Wait, wait!
Cat Southnorth couldn’t help but size up Lu Xun again.
Suave, refined, and sophisticated.
‘Heh, it’s over!’ Cat Southnorth sighed inwardly.
It was unexpected that Second Senior Sister, who sat on the large rock, suddenly uttered, “S-spar.”
“Huh?” Cat Southnorth and Lu Xun were both surprised, but they soon understood Second Senior Sister’s intentions.
It was to find a person to fight—see what effects the small sword inside the Heart of the Sword had.
“Then… should I do it?” Cat Southnorth was eager to try.
“Sword… sword cultivator, outer… outer sect disciples,” Second Senior Sister said.
Although Cat Southnorth didn’t understand Second Senior Sister’s intentions, she still did what she was told. Then, she flew towards the outer sect to grab a sword cultivating disciple.
In a short while, Ji Li, who knew nothing of the current situation, was caught and brought back by the lolita.
Ji Li was already stupid to begin with, and now, she was even more muddleheaded. But it didn’t affect her good mood at the moment.
She could see Lu Xun again! This was a delightful thing for her, someone who had late-stage appearance complex—the only thing that was lacking now was pink bubbles emerging from her heart.
Cat Southnorth’s way of thinking was quite simple. A guinea pig needed to be seized anyhow, then why not catch a familiar one?
After they arrived at the bamboo forest, Ji Li saw Lu Xun standing.
With his tall and straight posture, matched with the surrounding bamboo forest and narrow and winding roads, he was deserving of the praise, ‘The beauty in the field is like a jade, the handsome young master is unmatched in the world[1].’
“So you’ve come?” Lu Xun said to Ji Li.
After staring stupidly, Ji Li nodded.
“There’s something I want your help with,” He said frankly.
“Okay!” Ji Li was somewhat happy.
Lu Xun pointed at her Wedding Dress sword and continued, “Draw your sword and try to stab me.”
“What?” She was dumbfounded again.
“What, “what?”, hurry up.” Lu Xun didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Oh!” Ji Li obediently drew her sword. Once the Wedding Dress sword was unsheathed, a chilling glare flashed by.
She knew Lu Xun was much stronger than her. Since his cultivation was more profound than hers, she immediately gave it her all.
Although she hadn’t officially learned the Demon Sect’s sword cultivator’s sword techniques, she still came from a martial arts family and trained with a sword for several years since she was young.
Because of this, she was quite fast. The Wedding Dress sword abruptly thrust forward, and then, in just less than three chi[2]away from Lu Xun, an anomaly arose.
Lu Xun attempted to initiate the small sword inside his body, then, under the trembling of the small sword, the Wedding Dress sword in Ji Li’s hands was immediately shocked backward!
“You alright?” Lu Xun asked.
The space between Ji Li’s forefinger and thumb hurt terribly. In fact, it wasn’t only her right hand but her entire right arm was also shocked numb. It ached fiercely, however, she said with a smile, “I’m fine, do you want to try a few more times?”
Lu Xun looked at her slightly trembling fingertips. Even if she controlled it with all her effort, this involuntary reaction of the body was something that couldn’t be suppressed.
Not to mention, this foolish girl’s acting was so terrible. The academy award-level actor, Lu Xun, had already seen through it with a single glance.
“There’s no need, one test is enough.” With that said, he didn’t forget to add, “You really helped me out a great deal this time!”
Although Ji Li didn’t understand exactly how she helped him, this didn’t affect the joy she felt inside. The corner of her lips instinctively rose, the aching in her arm even lessened quite a lot.
After this test, Lu Xun roughly understood the tricks of the small sword inside his body.
Because of it, Lu Xun couldn’t hold swords, he became a swordless person.
However, also owing to it, opponents that were equivalent to Lu Xun in strength also couldn’t hold swords, they too became swordless people in front of him.
And so, he tried to initiate the small sword inside his body. In the next instant, a tiny sword qi emerged from his fingertips!
An extremely sharp sword qi!
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Lu Xun looked at the sword qi at his fingertips, he couldn’t help but think, ‘Did I become a sword-man[3]?’
According to reason, sword qi was produced by swords. However, he now produced sword qi with his physical body. Didn’t this make him a sword-man?
‘Why does this give me the feeling that it’s like an advanced configuration of the Six Meridian Divine Swords[4]?’ Lu Xun thought, scrutinizing the sword qi.
Previously, when he watched ‘Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’, Duan Yu was truly cool when he used the Six Meridian Divine Swords. In addition, his Six Meridian Divine Swords was sometimes effective and sometimes ineffective. He could always use it to show off just at the right time, watching it got him fired up!
Lu Xun completely went down a crooked path of the ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’.
He was now a sword and the sword was him. He probably wouldn’t be able to use swords for his entire life. He would also need to continuously improve the level of the Sword Nurturing Technique, and then, raise the strength of the small sword inside his body. Thereby strengthening the strength of the sword qi!
What Cat Southnorth and Second Senior Sister found the strangest was that although Lu Xun inexplicably walked down another path, his sword qi’s power didn’t weaken the slightest bit. It was even stronger!
‘Could this be the profoundness of someone with the Natural Sword Constitution?’ Second Senior Sister and Cat Southnorth thought.
Currently, Lu Xun’s strength was still pitiful. However, once he progressed, what would he be like?
At that time, a crowd of sword cultivators before him wouldn’t even have the right to draw their swords!
Once sword cultivators lost their swords, it was equivalent to having half their cultivation crippled!
Since their profound sword techniques couldn’t be employed, their world-shaking sword qi also couldn’t be unleashed!
However, Lu Xun was different, he could still use it!
With him as the center, the surroundings would practically be a swordless domain.
Inside this domain, there could only be one sword, which would be himself!
After realizing this, Cat Southnorth suddenly smiled:
“One Sword Mountain and Ten Thousand Swords Mountain, they’re doomed!”
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[1] A phrase previously used to describe an ideal couple, but later used to describe men
[2] A Chinese foot, one-third of a meter
[3] Sword-man 剑人 (Jian Ren) is a pun for 贱人 pronounced the same but means cheap person
[4] A sword/finger technique in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong and its screen adaptation