Capítulo 1166: Chapter 44: Only Now Do I Know That I Am Myself (Part 2)
“Yan Yu” was silent for a mont and asked:
“When did you recognize ?”
“I don’t really know.” Lin Ning pondered for a while and said, “In this last lifeti, as I grew older, various mories slowly surfaced. But you said before, in a world of consciousness, what you think is what you get, and I am the omniscient and omnipotent master of this world. It’s not surprising that I broke through the seal you set, right?”
“It’s not that simple.” “Yan Yu” replied with a smile, the voice already reverting to Jing Zhongxian’s, “Most people’s wills are not firm enough and are easily lost in the dreamscape they construct themselves. Those who pass the trial are often the ones who have held onto their Dao Heart from the start and never wavered. I’ve truly never seen soone like you, who breaks and then rebuilds.”
“I almost truly lost myself in this reincarnation.” Lin Ning sighed after a long silence, “Ten cycles of reincarnation, with ups and downs, today I finally see my true self. Looking back at the past, it’s like a dream of Nanke.”
She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she found herself standing on the Reincarnation Platform.
On the Reincarnation Platform, a Flying Sword was embedded. It was completely tattered, its luster lost, as if it had undergone a trendous calamity.
Lin Ning recognized it at a glance; it was the Dan Yan Sword she had obtained back then.
“So, this is your true form?” she asked with a slight frown, “Have you always pretended to be an Immortal trapped in a mirror, lurking by my side?”
“I had to be cautious.” The Sword Spirit explained, “The science and technology of your world is too dangerous. If I were captured and sealed underground, subjected to all kinds of high-energy scans, or even material analysis, I couldn’t withstand it.”
Lin Ning ford a Sword technique with her fingers, and the Dan Yan Sword flew back to her side, as natural to her as an extension of her arm.
With a shift in her mind, she realized that this sword and the Sun True Dullness Sword were of the sa grade, nad “Taiyin Su Ming Sword.”
During the Age of Dharma Decline, talent at Shushan beca scarce. The Sun True Dullness Sword remained dedicated and gradually lowered its standards for selecting a master. The Taiyin Su Ming Sword, however, had a more rebellious personality and took the opportunity to leave Shushan to wander the world without a master.
Without the support of a sword master’s True Yuan, the Taiyin Su Ming Sword finally exhausted its origin after thousands of years, planning to disguise itself as an ordinary Flying Sword to find a sword master with abundant True Yuan, only to find that the quality of cultivators today was even worse than a thousand years ago.
Its ambition was at least as high as that of the Sun True Dullness Sword. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have left Shushan boldly. Now, reluctantly unwilling to compromise, it sought a temporary refuge in a Mysterious Realm, waiting for a destined person to find it.
After an unknown period, with still no one finding its location, the origin-depleted Taiyin Su Ming Sword grew ever more dilapidated, its Spiritual Wisdom fading—until Lu Country’s cultivators entered the Mysterious Realm.
“Since your origin is exhausted and you urgently need True Yuan replenishnt, why not quickly find a cultivator to recognize as your master?” Lin Ning found it perplexing, “Why go through such trouble to design a complex trial?”
“Choosing a master is a very serious matter for a Divine Sword,” the Taiyin Su Ming Sword explained, “Once a master is chosen, there can be no betrayal until the sword master perishes or ascends, at which point we can switch to another master. Therefore, it must be considered repeatedly, better to err on the side of caution than make a mistake.”
“Besides, if I casually chose a master and the result was that the sword master’s power lagged far behind the Sun True Dullness Sword master, how could that be acceptable?”
Lin Ning felt that the latter statent was the sword’s real concern.
However, among the Sword Immortals of Lu Country, there were only three who could stand out: Yan Yu, Li Minghu, and herself. Others, like Liu Longtao and Zhang Huaide, were not pure Sword Immortals but rely “cultivators possessing flying sword offensive ans.”
“Why not choose Li Minghu then?” Lin Ning continued to ask, “Her swordsmanship talent should be greater than mine, right?”
“She’s not of pure human bloodline,” the Taiyin Su Ming Sword answered, “I think a half-demon sword master might work, but I’m not very fond of serpent demons.”
Half-demon? Could it be referring to Li Minghu?
Rembering Li Minghu’s blood-red hair, Lin Ning asked thoughtfully:
“So, can you help deal with the Orochi, right?”
“Well, that’s hard to say.” The Taiyin Su Ming Sword chuckled awkwardly, “If my origin were still abundant, it would’ve been just a matter of a single Sword Qi.”
“How much Sword Qi can your origin still release?” Lin Ning asked.
“Well…”
“Surely, it’s not completely exhausted?” Lin Ning was shocked.
“There should be about one-tenth of a Sword Qi left,” the Taiyin Su Ming Sword said helplessly.
One-tenth of a Sword Qi… Lin Ning was utterly speechless.
That ans it can’t release any Sword Qi at all!
“Don’t make that face,” the Taiyin Su Ming Sword quickly said, “A luxury car without fuel is still a luxury car. Even if energy is insufficient, at least my grade stands here, and even simply achieving Sword-Human Unity, the impact and lethal power surpass ordinary Flying Swords, without worrying about being shattered by external forces. These are the benefits I can offer the sword master!”
“Moreover, as long as you supply with True Yuan every day, persistently, even if you’re only at the Golden Core Realm… given ti, I can definitely recover my original strength. It’s not far away, and the future is promising!”
In the end, it seems unlike Yan Yu handling the Head-falling Drought, a single sword stroke can’t make the Orochi disintegrate into ashes.
Lin Ning wasn’t discouraged, internally comforting herself: If I truly could slay the snake in one stroke, it wouldn’t highlight my capabilities. People would only know that the snake was defeated by the Taiyin Sword Master, not realizing that the Taiyin Sword Master was actually Lin Ning, the Lin True Man.
It didn’t matter if it couldn’t release Sword Qi; surely this Divine Sword could still hold its ground against the giant serpent—it would all beco clear once tried.
Leaving the Illusion Realm World, Lin Ning opened her eyes, only to find herself still in the corridor outside the hall where the Golden Core True Man eting was previously held.
Yet, there wasn’t a single person around her anymore.
Lin Ning exited through the window using Sword Control, only to see that it was noon outside, but there were few vehicles or pedestrians on the road, and the entire city seed to have fallen into an eerie silence.
Curiously pulling out her phone, intending to call her companions to ask, she found they had sent her nurous unread ssages.
Looking at the ti, it turned out to be almost over a month since the last Golden Core True Man eting.
The population migration and evacuation work in Lu Country were not yet completely finished, while Europe had already fallen under the attack of the Light Serpent, with over 70% of mortals slaughtered, only a few hiding deep in the mountains and forests had survived.
The Light Serpent had now swept through Central Asia, having just entered Lu Country’s Western Border yesterday, where Golden Core True n were intercepting it to buy ti for the final population evacuations.
Lin Ning sent a ssage to her friends and then drove the Su Ming Sword, soaring into the sky.
Looking down from high above, the highways were empty, railways halted, towns abandoned into Ghost Cities, and major cities had transford into silent forests of steel, as if it were a post-apocalyptic world after human extinction.
Even the mobile signal beca very unstable, intermittent, sotis on, sotis off.
After a while, Su Yunjin suddenly sent a voice ssage:
“Ningning, are you back?”
“Where are you?” Lin Ning concisely responded, “I’ll provide support.”
“Okay, I’ll send you the location address.”
Su Yunjin was still operating her phone when suddenly Zhou Hongyu’s voice transmission ca over:
“What are you still doing there? Let’s go, we Magic Cultivators are the first line.”
The main force suppressing the Light Serpent was the Circulation Purple Cloud Formation laid out in the northwest inland, followed by large-scale Spells of the Magic Cultivators.
Even if it couldn’t penetrate its body’s Barrier, as long as it could slow it down, the strategic objective would be achieved.
Su Yunjin followed everyone using Sword Control, heading towards the dazzling and fiery source of light in the distance, forming Taoist Incantations, stimulating True Yuan, and beginning to exert full force with the Taoism thod.
The first round of assault hit, yet the serpent remained unscathed. Enduring the fierce bombardnt of various Taoist thods, it forcefully tore open a gap in the Purple Cloud and its massive, mountainous body broke into the formation.
Ye Jun’s calculations proved accurate; the current Purple Cloud Formation could no longer subdue this serpent.
The Privy Council quickly called off the follow-up attack plans and implented the strategy of luring the enemy away: massively mobilizing mortal armies to enter the battlefield, using absolute numbers to draw the life-consuming Light Serpent away.
These soldiers had already written their last letters, intending to trade their lives for more ti, allowing the people at the rear to continue migrating towards the Mysterious Realm.
As the army was about to set out for migration, Lin Ning drove the Su Ming Sword and finally arrived at the battlefield.
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