409: Chapter 333: The Union of Evil Spirits_2 409: Chapter 333: The Union of Evil Spirits_2 He said indifferently, “Your sword moves have begun to repeat.”
“Have you run out of tricks?”
Before the man, Bai i, who was drenched in blood as if dead, slowly extended a sword finger, about to unleash the next strike.
During the past two hours of intense battle, the man hadn’t even personally taken action, rather he used Bai i’s body to spar with the Swordmaiden, forcing her into a state resembling his own prowess with the sword.
Fear, anxiety, worry, tension…
faced with such overwhelming disadvantage, under the shadow of death, a myriad of negative emotions kept surging into the Swordmaiden’s heart, spurring a sense of exhilaration in her.
How long had it been, this razor’s edge of life and death, where she could perish at any mont?
Even during the previous duel with Lin Xing, he had made it clear he would not kill the Swordmaiden, draining the fight of life-or-death thrills.
“It seems I must use it after all.”
The Swordmaiden chuckled, then pulled out a broken sword from her bosom.
Seeing her actions, the man frowned slightly, “The Ei Sect Leader’s Broken Sword?”
The Ei Sect Leader’s Broken Sword was a sacred relic passed down through the generations of Ei Sect Leaders.
Legends held that the relic contained the secrets of the Ei founder’s unmatched prowess and eventual ascension to immortality.
Yet, no prodigy of Ei had ever deciphered its mysteries, with many brilliantly talented individuals dying due to their overconfidence in their abilities interacting with the relic.
Because, as legend had it, one must pierce their brain with this broken sword, and only if they survived would they receive the legacy within.
If initially there were believers in this legend, successive generations of Ei Disciples dying by this broken sword had eradicated such belief.
Especially as successive generations of Ei luminaries studied it to no avail, concluding that the gradually rusting relic was nothing more than an ordinary broken sword.
Thus, watching the Swordmaiden raise the broken sword, the man’s eyes filled with disappointnt, “I thought during our fierce battle you had stolen sothing useful, but it turns out to be this worthless trinket.”
“This is your last resort?”
“Putting all your hope on such an unreliable tale, on an ancient you know nothing about?”
“Disappointing, you’ve disappointed deeply, and ruined this battle thoroughly.”
Rage surged from the man, turning into flas that filled the sky above Ei Mountain with sword light.
Yet, the Swordmaiden simply smiled unconcernedly, for the broken sword in her hand was precisely what the Great Bright Buddha had guided her to Ei to find, a broken sword suited for her.
Of course, her attempt to harness this sacred object was inspired not only by the Great Bright Buddha’s guidance but also by a feeling, a feeling that beca increasingly evident and intense through repeated trials in the heat of battle.
The object in her hand was beckoning her, craving her.
And the Swordmaiden had always trusted her instincts.
Especially in this life-or-death struggle in pursuit of breakthrough, she felt an indescribable thrill, excitent, and…
eagerness!
Without delay, she channeled energy into the broken sword in her hand, causing the blinding sword light to flare from the blade, and in the next mont, she plunged the broken sword fiercely into her own head.
As the Swordmaiden lay in a pool of blood, the man snorted coldly, and several beams of sword light slashed towards her, decapitating her in the blink of an eye.
Looking at the unmoving Swordmaiden, who had lost all signs of life, the man sneered, “What a fool.”
As the man was about to leave, the Swordmaiden felt her consciousness floating, as if she had arrived at so mysterious realm.
At the sa ti, a male voice rang out, “What a heartless and ruthless talent in Sword Dao, to gain such an excellent disciple…
Has my Ei really not been destroyed?”
“A thousand years, and you’re the fifth to reach this stage…
Hmm?
It seems Taiqing had sealed a part of your mory, using a cunning thod to make you ruthless and cold-hearted, slaying indiscriminately.”
“Hehe, let’s see, once you regain all your mories, will you ascend to new heights and beco a peerless overlord who can slaughter across the world, or will you beco a nonce like , a nobody lost among the masses.”
…
From a young age, the Swordmaiden had joined the outer sect of the Taiqing Sect with her parents.
Due to the high performance demands every month, the Swordmaiden rembered her parents always leaving early and returning late, recruiting people to join the Taiqing Sect.
But this business was not easy.
As their performance steadily declined, life for their family grew increasingly difficult, and they resorted to deceiving and borrowing money to survive.
With the days becoming harder, the parents started to argue and fight, the violence gradually extending to the Swordmaiden.
In the end, following a drunken argunt, the Swordmaiden was accidentally blinded by her father, and deed a burden by her mother, who then abandoned her in the street.
In the days that followed, she fought, killed, swindled…
just to eat.
The Swordmaiden vaguely recalled how she had survived through it all.
All she rembered was that, a year or two later, an elder of the Taiqing Sect took notice of her and healed her eyes, but required her to renounce all worldly attachnts and kill her entire family to join the sect.
The Swordmaiden agreed without hesitation.
Even now, she vividly rembered how with just two stabs, she had killed her own parents.
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