Chapter 39: Chap 39

The gates slowly part. Under this floor is the Lightning Slash trial.

She stands in front of a round pond. The water in this two diameter pond is pitch black. It’s the same liquid on the upper floor. The objective is to leave a cut on the surface of the liquid from one end of the dark pond to the other in a sixteenth of a second. In short, the tip of the sword needs the speed of forty eight meters a second.

There were those who tried to cheat with Invisible sword or similar techniques, but the dark water is resistant to qi attack. Incredible amount of qi is needed to cut the surface using qi blade. To low cultivation disciples like most of those who had challenged or will challenge, it’s best to finish this one as it was supposed to be.

She walks to the edge and draws the sword. Her right arm and the blade form a straight line parallel with the ground. The tip points to the right. 

Yun An shuts her eyes. Her breathing, her heartbeat, even her mind become as subtle as the air of the cave. With the exception in her sword arm, her muscles and intent relaxes. Her being trickles into the metallic tool in her hand.

She counts the beating of her heart, not by numbers but by senses. Her logical brain is going dormant. What she is about to do next has little to do with reason but more so with feeling. The abstract concept of “this feels right” is what she is aiming for. It is the ingredient for the best sword strike.

If what she has in her hand is something else like the familiar weapon she held in the previous lifetime, Yun An wouldn’t have to do this. To make the best use of a weapon ill-suit to her, she needs the state of highest concentration. It will end as quickly as it starts but there is a chance she will succeed in the small window.

The counting goes on in her mind, denoted with intelligible terms. While she is stumbling inside herself and everything is hazy like contracting hayfever, the feeling is sneaking up on her from behind.

Swoosh!

In one fell swoop, the liquid body becomes two halves. Unlike any other strikes, these people in here had witnessed. This one move is the sharpest she has ever made.

“How?”

“Such… Such…”

Neither Tian Zhong, the senior who slept, ate, and tended for her, nor her master, the venerable ascendant, the wandering sage had the faintest idea of such an occurrence. They know she is more than meets the eyes. They don’t know the depth of her secrets.

She has amnesia. Could that amnesia… Could there be any explanation related to that amnesia?

The one who had such thought was Tian Zhong.

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Xu Feng skips a heartbeat before that air-splitting cut. His eyes still couldn’t perceive the space her sword travelled through as one piece. Saying that that cut had divided space itself wouldn’t be an exaggeration. He was speechless as was everybody.

Sadly that was not enough. The gates remain silent to her gaze. Her best attempt was so close but not there. 

Everything went almost too perfect that it bewitched his eyes. For a second, he was about to complain that something was wrong with the mechanism. Reflecting carefully on what he has seen, he is certain where the hiccup is.

Like a chink in the otherwise impeccable armour, her sword failed when qi entered the play. Xu Feng quickly digs up the reason.

Dong Yun An has won many matches but none of those triumphs is thanks to her qi. Her strength, her perceptiveness, her skills, those were the major actors. Qi can be said to be her weakness. The moment she imbued the sword with qi, her flawlessness cracked.

Such a waste! He knows this doesn’t concern him, but Xu Feng can’t help but feel frustrated. It’s like a masterpiece of a painting, ruined because of a droplet of ink.

She sheaths the sword. She let out a long sigh. Perhaps, This is where she stops. 

“Don’t be so discouraged.” It was Zhao Ren. “You did well with your cultivation. You just fell short. There is always the next time.”

“Senior.” She acknowledged him. However, her lack of dejection tells Xu Feng she likely did not acknowledge Zhao Ren’s words. She merely responded out of courtesy, replying back to let her senior know he has been heard.

“You don’t look too unhappy. That’s… a good attitude. Then let’s head back.”

“Zhao Ren.”

“Senior master.”

“I don’t think she has given up yet. Am I correct, Yun An?”

“Yes, master.”

“Wh-”

“So what are you going to do now, Yun An?”

“This disciple believes if all things fail, one can still rely on brute force.”

“Oh hoh! Brute force? I will be delighted to see how you break this trial. Ohohoho.”

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