Extreme Shadow Sword Intent, Stunning the Entire Crowd!

Zhang Yuan's voice rang out abruptly, and everyone's gazes swished toward him.

Some students looked startled and suspicious, while even more were stunned and confused, utterly at a loss.

"Sword Intent? What's Sword Intent?"

The vast majority of the students wore puzzled expressions.

The term seemed somewhat familiar, yet also strange, as though they had heard it somewhere before.

But Fang Yuan and the other descendants of prominent families, who had greater status and broader knowledge, changed expressions and frowned.

Sword Intent?

In theory, the highest level of a martial skill was mastery.

Take Extreme Shadow Swordplay, for example. Reaching the Extreme Shadow level was the mastery level universally recognized by everyone.

But there was one exception!

That was comprehending the true essence of a martial skill, standing shoulder to shoulder with—or even surpassing—its creator, comprehending the martial art's "true marrow" and grasping its intent!

This was a realm above mastery!

Yet mastering the true intent of a martial skill was something that might not emerge even among ten people who had reached mastery in that skill!

It tested not only a Martial Artist's aptitude and Comprehension in martial skills, but also whether they "matched" the nature of the martial skill itself!

For instance, if an old man with one foot in the grave were made to cultivate a martial skill that stirred the heart and temperament, he would basically find it impossible to comprehend that martial skill's true intent.

Mastery was form; above form lay intent!

Though Extreme Shadow Swordplay was unranked, its difficulty was no less than that of many first-rank martial skills. Rumor had it that its creator had been a Mid Blood Nourishing Martial Artist. His entire family had been slaughtered as a sacrifice by a Blood Nourishing Peak Martial Artist of the Heavenly Demon Cult. He had hidden in the forest for half a month, all for a single Extreme Shadow strike!

In the end, his sword succeeded, and he took his enemy's head!

The true intent of his swordplay was an incomparably decisive Extreme Concealment Strike!

Principal Sun Rui revealed a surprised expression, but still nodded. "Of course it counts."

Seeing the baffled looks on the students' faces, he explained what Sword Intent was and how difficult it was to attain.

At once, all the students understood—but rather than fading, the doubts in their hearts only grew.

In just one month, someone had cultivated Extreme Shadow Sword Intent?!

How was that possible? Who was it?!

That little fatty right in front of them?!

Everyone was baffled as they looked toward Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan did not deliberately keep them in suspense. With so many eyes fixed on him, cold sweat had already formed on his back, making him somewhat nervous. Still, he sneered in Wan Yue's direction, as though mocking him.

You fucking mocked me! Let's see whose face gets swollen later!

"Why's that dead fatty looking at me?!"

Wan Yue's heart gave a sudden jolt. Remembering how he had mocked Zhang Yuan in the group chat a few days ago, a guess abruptly surfaced in his mind, and his whole body shuddered.

No way?!

Zhang Yuan shrugged, pointed at Su Ye, and chuckled.

"I'm asking for Brother Ye, not for myself."

Swish!

Everyone's gazes abruptly turned toward Su Ye. They were uncertain, suspicious—and completely dumbfounded!

Extreme Shadow Sword Intent?!

Even Ye Xingli, who had already stepped forward, paused lightly in her lotus steps. Her Beautiful Eyes turned toward that refined-looking student, flickering with an unusual light.

Su Ye merely gave Zhang Yuan a helpless glance, but there was no blame in it.

This was really making him stand out too much!

But then again... so what if he stood out a little?

The corners of Su Ye's lips lifted slightly. Looking at the equally stunned Yao Hong beside him, he said, "May I borrow your wooden sword? Thank you."

"Sure." Yao Hong froze briefly, then smiled brightly and handed the wooden sword to Su Ye.

Su Ye gripped the wooden sword.

In the next instant, his sword rose!

The martial path valued striving!

If one entered the martial path only to cower and hesitate, then what was the point of practicing martial arts?!

Su Ye practiced martial arts so that he could tread upon the peak of the martial path, so that he could contend with everyone of the same realm and age!

As his sword swept out, everyone immediately sensed something different!

It was unlike the feeling they had gotten when all the students had demonstrated Extreme Shadow Swordplay earlier. It was... an artistic conception!

They seemed to feel that decisive, enduring Extreme Assault Strike!

Killing intent was like a sword leaving its sheath, erupting mightily in a single instant as it slashed forth with irresistible force!

A sword mark streaked through the air, yet the sound of it splitting the air came from ahead.

This Sword seemed to have broken the sound barrier, truly achieving "Extreme Shadow"!

It was far faster even than its own sword shadow!

Even the many homeroom teachers stood dazed for a moment, staring intently at Su Ye as he drew his sword!

Extreme Shadow!

True Extreme Shadow Sword Intent!

This was a stage even higher than mastery!

Among the experienced homeroom teachers present, all of whom had reached the Blood Nourishing Realm, fewer than ten had mastered Sword Intent!

But who were they?

Which of those who could become homeroom teachers at First High School had not graduated from a top academy?

They had decades of teaching experience, had reached Blood Nourishing, and were social elites!

Yet Su Ye was only a senior high school student who had cultivated for a month!

Just a student who had only recently turned eighteen!

Those students who had not even gotten started with Extreme Shadow Swordplay did not know how to judge it.

But seeing the expressions of the teachers and those few top students, how could they not realize that Su Ye had truly cultivated Extreme Shadow Sword Intent?

The entire venue fell silent!

The students all wore different expressions, and several of them were particularly conflicted!

At that moment, Wan Yue wished he could become an ostrich. He wanted to lower his head straight into the blue floor mat and never raise it again. Regret filled him to the extreme!

Earlier in the group chat, when Zhang Yuan said Su Ye had reached the Extreme Shadow level, he had been the first to leap out and mock him, asking whether he had a fever.

But now, Su Ye had done far more than reach the Extreme Shadow level. He had directly comprehended Extreme Shadow Sword Intent!

Even among ten Martial Artists who had reached the Extreme Shadow level, perhaps not one could comprehend Extreme Shadow Sword Intent!

Now, he looked like a clown!

And earlier, he had sneered sarcastically at Su Ye outside the school—but what about now?!

Ten Martial Bones, punching force above a thousand!

Azure Cloud mastery, a perfect score!

Extreme Shadow Swordplay, comprehending its true intent!

Even if Su Ye had no background at all and was merely an "ordinary citizen," while Wan Yue came from a well-off family and his father was a manager at Pill Immortal Pavilion with a net worth in the tens of millions.

With talent like Su Ye's, how could his future possibly be poor?

Countless big shots would surely pay attention to him and invest in him. He was definitely one of this year's "Five Top Academies seeds" at their school!

He now wished he could slap himself, swallow a pill of regret, and take back the provocative words he had said outside the school.

Fang Yuan was also dazed. For the first time, he felt disheartened!

The training wooden sword Lin Qingyue had been holding slipped from her hand with a clatter and fell to the ground!

A few loose strands of hair, damp with fragrant sweat, fell across her face. Her expression was one of utter disbelief!

Extreme Shadow Sword Intent?!

Why? Su Ye—the one whose engagement she had personally broken off, whom she had Looked Down Upon—had actually comprehended Extreme Shadow Sword Intent?!

More dazzling than even her?!

At this moment, the entire crowd's eyes were focused on Su Ye!

"Martial Bones, Breathing Technique, martial skills—every single one of them has been exceptionally eye-catching in this test!"

"His Breathing Technique tied for a perfect score, and his martial skill is unquestionably first! Even with his Martial Bones, though he has one fewer Martial Bone than those two heavenly daughters, his Foundation is deeper, and he even set the record with a thousand-kilogram punch!"

As the students thought of Su Ye's performance, they could not help but lose themselves in thought, their hearts filled with incomparably complicated emotions!

Only two words remained in their minds: Prodigy!

Their year had produced a prodigy student!