Now that he had passed the first level, where was he supposed to go next?
How was he to reach the second level?
After only a brief silence, Ye Lin received a prompt.
Looking up, he saw a towering stone platform had quietly appeared in the distance.
The platform had not been there moments ago. Yet in the instant he let his guard down, it had appeared.
Ye Lin did not know how it had appeared.
He only knew that he had found the way.
Without hesitation, he lifted his foot and walked toward the stone platform.
Passing through the Sword Graveyard forest, he found a white stone platform floating in the Void before him.
At the center of the platform stood the phantom of a nine-story sword tower. Its body was translucent, and within it, a silver-white sword light, shrunk countless times over, slowly revolved.
Upon closer inspection, the phantom was the projection of the Holy Land's sword Dao origin.
Though it was only a projection, the pure Sword Intent it emanated made Ye Lin feel as though his Primordial Spirit were being cleansed.
After hesitating for a moment, Ye Lin slowly walked beneath the platform and sat down cross-legged.
"This junior, Ye Lin, has passed Ten Thousand Swords Tempering the Body and has come to undergo Sword Soul Heart Inquiry."
Ye Lin looked at the projection before him and spoke loudly.
As his words fell, the sword tower phantom before him gave a slight tremor.
The silver-white sword light stopped revolving. A detached, vast will, as though formed from the convergence of countless sword cries, descended directly upon Ye Lin's sea of consciousness.
There was no warning; it was as though it had descended directly.
"Heart Inquiry begins."
The vast voice echoed through Ye Lin's sea of consciousness.