For some reason, all the swords felt a little nervous.
They all turned their attention toward the giant sword.
What should they do now?
Should they help a little?
If they could help Yu Songnian once, Yun Jin would, more or less, owe them a favor, right?
But they were a fair and impartial sword tomb. Opening a back door like this, wasn't that somewhat inappropriate…?
The giant sword pondered for a moment, then said slowly, "Actually, we're only helping him briefly suppress his illness. We're not helping him pass the trial. That doesn't count as opening a back door."
Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly it.
The swords nodded repeatedly.
A flash of light immediately passed over the massive body of the giant sword.
Then.
A vast and powerful force descended from the sky. Yu Songnian, who had already been completely petrified, actually began to recover little by little, gradually returning to his human form.
The gloating Ma Yuanwu: "???"
Yu Songnian himself: "????"
He only remembered that it seemed like his illness had just acted up, but in the blink of an eye, it's gone?
This made Yu Songnian recall the time after he went to Tianxing Sect, when his master helped him suppress the petrification disease. At the beginning, with his master's strength, it could barely be suppressed, but later, as the illness worsened, even his master could no longer hold it down.
Eventually, when his master was severely injured and his cultivation regressed, there's no way to suppress it at all.
The sensation just now was somewhat similar to how his master had suppressed the illness in the very beginning.
Could it be that someone… had secretly intervened to help him?
If so, that person's strength would have to be at least beyond the Fusion Stage!
Yu Songnian was filled with uncertainty.
At that moment, a calm voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"I helped you once just now. When Yun Jin clears the trial, remember to put in a good word."
Yu Songnian: "???"
He was stunned for a moment.
Could it be that within this sword tomb, there still existed someone with cultivation reaching the heavens?
This person had secretly helped him and from the sound of it, it's because of his little junior sister?
Yu Songnian couldn't help but laugh helplessly.
All he could say was.
As expected of Little Junior Sister!
Yu Songnian turned around and saw Ma Yuanwu still standing there. He asked in confusion, "Why haven't you left yet?"
Ma Yuanwu's expression darkened. Without another word, he turned and left.
He decided.
He could no longer talk to this pair of senior and junior siblings.
He's afraid he would be angered to death!
Wasn't Yun Jin just one stage ahead of him?
He could catch up!
He definitely could!
With that, Ma Yuanwu encouraged himself and headed toward the eighth stage.
Yun Jin knew nothing about what the swords had done. She had already entered the space of the final sword.
Thunder Sword.
This was a lightning-attribute treasured sword.
Within the sword domain, dark clouds filled the sky, with lightning faintly flickering within them, looking as though it could strike down at any moment.
Her only foothold was a small mountain peak.
Endless lightning hovered above the mountain, as if ready to strike at any moment.
Yun Jin lifted her head and looked at the clouds.
Lightning attribute…
Within the sword domain.
The swords were all watching with anticipation.
This stage was the final obstacle before reaching the giant sword.
If Yun Jin could comprehend the true meaning of lightning, then the final fragment would naturally be within reach.
Yun Jin calmed her mind and slowly sat down.
The moment she settled herself, the first bolt of lightning could no longer wait and came crashing down.
Yun Jin didn't move at all. The lightning roared as it struck the ground in front of her, blasting out a massive crater, its bottom scorched black.
This is the power of lightning.
Yun Jin narrowed her eyes.
In the next moment.
Another bolt fell.
Another crater.
The same heart-shaking might.
At the same time, a large chunk of earth collapsed from the edge of the slope Yun Jin stood on.
If the lightning continued like this, it wouldn't be long before Yun Jin had nowhere left to stand.
The reward for this stage should be a fragment.
But.
What exactly was the trial of this stage?
And how was one supposed to clear it?
Yun Jin narrowed her eyes and suddenly stretched out her hand.
Lightning, is it?
Perfect, she knew a bit about that too.
After Xuan Jue reaches Golden Core Stage, the characteristic of its water attribute is precisely: lightning within water.
This was just the right chance to see what difference there was between her lightning and the lightning of this sword domain.
When another bolt came crashing down, Yun Jin's water dragon charged straight toward it.
Within the sword domain.
All the swords watched without blinking.
Using a water attribute to face lightning?
That didn't seem like a good idea.
However, in the next instant.
All their blades trembled in unison.
Yun Jin's water wasn't ordinary water.
When the water dragon collided with the lightning, the water vaporized, yet in the next moment, what was revealed within was azure lightning.
This wasn't water versus lightning.
This was!
Lightning versus lightning!
Yun Jin's water-attribute spiritual root had already long possessed the characteristics of lightning.
If she wished, couldn't she convert all her water-attribute spiritual power into lightning at any moment?
Another bolt descended.
Yun Jin remained unhurried, sending another water dragon to meet it.
In the sky.
Massive bolts of lightning collided and clashed, brilliant light flashing as the entire space teetered on the verge of collapse.
Against such lightning, Yun Jin's small figure looked as though it could be shattered at any moment.
Yet she stood perfectly steady, the storm of lightning becoming nothing more than her backdrop.
The giant sword stared, stunned.
This was… lightning within water.
And.
This wasn't something Yun Jin had just comprehended, this was something she had known from the start.
This was…
A characteristic of her own cultivation method.
The giant sword recalled Yun Jin's performance in every previous stage, and its blade began to tremble.
This was…
Xuan Jue!
The very Xuan Jue that its master had once cultivated.
After master and the others fell in that great battle, countless cultivation manuals were destroyed.
Xuan Jue had lost its true inheritance because of that.
If Yun Jin was truly cultivating Xuan Jue, then her Xuan Jue was even more orthodox than the orthodox version.
After all, even master had only comprehended lightning within water upon reaching Mahayana Stage.
But Yun Jin?
She's only at the Golden Core Stage!
Master…
Had you foreseen that such a monster would one day arrive, and that's why you placed me here?
This thousand-year wait.
At this very moment, it became incomparably worthwhile.
It must've been because the master was unwilling to let the sect's inheritance disappear like this.
So you sent such a monster, to let her inherit everything.
And then, one day.
Let the radiance of Wushuang Sect bloom once more across this land.
So many years.
A thousand years of numb, desolate existence.
Yet at this moment, the giant sword felt as though its blade had grown damp.
It had truly...
Hoped for far too long, waited for far too long.
"Can this Yun Jin really clear it?"
Outside the water screen, the crowd began discussing heatedly.
"I heard the last two stages are extremely difficult. Whether she can pass is still hard to say."
"She's only been in the ninth stage for an hour. It's far too early to say anything."
"Exactly. The ninth stage is the hardest. It should take several days at the very least."
Otherwise, Yun Jin's speed would be far too abnormal.
"How could the final stage be so easy to clear? Speed matters, sure, but even the slightest mistake during the trial means elimination! She might be sent out at any moment! The one who can truly clear it will still be my Senior Brother Ma." Yu Liangping snorted coldly.
He considered himself to be in deep enmity with Yun Jin and absolutely refused to hear anyone praising her.
Yu Liangping's words had barely fallen.
In the next moment.
Yun Jin's figure appeared within the water screen.
She had actually...
Come out.
The crowd was momentarily dazed.
Only an hour??
Why was her clearing speed even faster than the first stage?!
Is this even scientific???