My sword and I leveled up together

He walked deeper into the forest.

Following his memories from the previous night, Lin Tian found Senior Brother Li's corpse.

It was just as Ling Qiuzi had said.

Senior Brother Li's skin had become very dry, and his cheeks had sunk deep into his face.

His eyeballs had shrunk considerably as well.

Lin Tian's gaze sharpened slightly as he looked at the vast runic formation in the sky.

What exactly was Li Musheng trying to do?

He still had to keep cultivating for now.

With the Heavenly Sword in hand, he would bring Li Musheng down beneath his blade one day, sooner or later.

Then he would leave him barely alive.

He would slice the flesh off his body, one stroke at a time.

He would watch him howl endlessly and slowly torment him.

He would kindly ask him what 1,000 minus seven equaled.

His manner had to be gentle, and his voice had to be soft.

At this thought, a vicious grin spread across Lin Tian's face, his teeth grinding audibly.

No.

Lin Tian shook his head and regained his composure.

The illness from his previous life had almost flared up again.

He frowned. How had reincarnation brought the illness from his previous life along too?

This wasn't good.

Then Lin Tian headed deeper into the forest.

The air began to grow hot and humid.

All sorts of crawling creatures appeared on the ground.

Lin Tian slashed his sword.

Whoosh!

He killed a large swath of the crawling creatures.

No sound rang out in his mind.

"Their level probably isn't high enough."

Muttering to himself, Lin Tian continued forward.

The beasts' roars grew clearer in his ears.

The creature had sensed him too.

Its roars carried a primal killing intent.

He walked nearly another hundred meters.

A creature stood nearly two meters tall, with a build much like a human's.

Its entire body was made of white bones.

Its face was also white bone, with dim light flickering inside two deeply sunken eye sockets.

It had neither a nose nor a mouth.

There was only a row of five vent holes.

"What kind of vicious beast is this?"

Lin Tian frowned. The previous occupant of his body had read books introducing vicious beasts.

He had never seen a vicious beast that looked like this.

"A little strange."

Lin Tian's gaze turned icy as he considered whether this vicious beast had any connection to the formation.

"Kha!"

A piercing screech rang out.

Every bone in the white-boned monster's body trembled.

It directed malice of the utmost intensity toward Lin Tian.

Lin Tian chuckled and walked toward it without another word.

Boom!

The white-boned monster suddenly moved, turning into a white blur as it charged at Lin Tian.

"Slash!"

Lin Tian twirled his sword, its blue-green light like a dragon.

He thrust his sword forward.

Clang!

It felt as though he had struck a slab of steel.

Then.

Crack, crack!

The Heavenly Sword, far sharper than spirit swords of the same grade, cut through the white bones.

A spray of bone fragments flew up.

It cleaved the white-boned monster in two at the waist.

Splash!

A large mass of thick black liquid sprayed out.

It flowed across the ground like the asphalt from his previous life.

Then it seeped into the soil.

"Kha!"

The white-boned monster continued to screech after being cut in half, both pieces of its body trembling.

Still not dead?

Lin Tian frowned.

He swung his sword.

Streak after streak of Sword Qi slashed down, cutting the white-boned monster into fragments.

"You have slain a Cold Nether Beast for the first time. Your sword develops intense curiosity."

"Your sword's sharpness increases by ten percent. You gain one year of sword Dao comprehension."

Familiar yet unfamiliar memories appeared in his mind once more.

Sensing something within, Lin Tian smiled faintly.

He felt he was not far from comprehending Sword Momentum.

Then sword light flashed.

Lin Tian cut down a tree so thick it would take two people to encircle its trunk.

He took a section and fashioned a scabbard for the Heavenly Sword as he walked.

By now, the Heavenly Sword's sharpness had reached a terrifying degree.

Even rock would be sliced apart like tofu.

Afterward, Lin Tian kept searching for vicious beasts.

Over the entire morning, he slew thirteen Cold Nether Beasts.

He also killed four or five ordinary vicious beasts.

This bout of slaughter.

It increased the Heavenly Sword's strike damage by forty percent and its sharpness by thirty percent.

Lin Tian's cultivation soared straight to the Body Opening Third Stage.

He also gained another four years of sword Dao comprehension.

If anyone else saw how easily Lin Tian advanced, they would probably cough up blood.

Unsurprisingly.

Lin Tian was covered in bloodstains again.

In his previous life, Lin Tian had been a mercenary.

In truth, it was not what ordinary people imagined.

Mercenaries rarely fought head-on with real blades.

In a typical clash.

They laid mines and drove tanks to ambush and kill.

Rustle, rustle!

Lin Tian kept heading deeper into the forest.

This forest covered a vast area.

Only a small portion of it actually lay within the vast runic formation.

Lin Tian had already ventured roughly four or five kilometers into the forest.

Another three or four kilometers inward should bring him to the end.

Rustle, rustle!

It was already noon.

Veiled by the reddish formation, even the light cast down by the blazing sun was pale red.

A giant wild boar appeared in Lin Tian's sight, over three meters tall, covered in long black hair, with thick tusks jutting from the corners of its mouth.

This was the most common kind of Demon Pig.

Ordinary Demon Pigs were much smaller than this one and were all first-tier vicious beasts.

This one was so enormous and stout.

It should have reached the second tier.

The second tier corresponded to a martial artist's Body Opening Realm.

Vicious beasts often surpassed martial artists in physique and strength.

But most martial artists could defeat vicious beasts through dazzling movement techniques and martial skills.

At the same time, the wild boar noticed Lin Tian's presence.

Moo!

A deep porcine bellow rang out, and the giant wild boar actually began to flee.

Lin Tian sneered and pursued it, sword in hand.

The man and the boar barreled through the forest.

The Demon Pig knocked down a dozen or so large trees.

Lin Tian moved nimbly.

The distance between him and the Demon Pig kept shrinking.

And just then.

A figure appeared in both Lin Tian's and the Demon Pig's sight.

"Oh, what a big one."

The man was utterly disheveled. He drew a plain saber from his waist.

With his saber in hand, he drove it into the Demon Pig's head.

Moo!

The Demon Pig let out a pained bellow, and its enormous body collapsed.

Seeing this, Lin Tian stopped and eyed the disheveled man with hostility.

That saber strike had been very fast.

The man's cultivation was far higher than his.

He was probably around the peak of the Body Opening Realm.

At the same time, the disheveled man saw Lin Tian, and a trace of disdain curled at the corner of his mouth.

He jumped straight onto the Demon Pig's enormous body and sat cross-legged.

The chill in Lin Tian's eyes faded. He stopped dwelling on it, turned, and left.

"Heh, coward."

The man scoffed and sliced a piece of raw meat off the Demon Pig.

He scraped away the bristles and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Gamey. Packs a punch!"

He exclaimed in admiration.

His gaze suddenly sharpened, and he shot backward.

A red blur lunged at him with a vicious grin.

"You're courting death!"

The man growled, adjusted his posture in midair, and swung his plain saber at Lin Tian.

Crack!

The crisp clash of metal rang out.

As the sound reached his ears, the disheveled man's pupils suddenly contracted.

His plain saber had snapped!

"How is that possible!"

He cried out in alarm, but the blue-green Sword Qi had already slashed into his body.

Splash!

As though slicing through tofu, his flesh burst apart, exposing stark white bones.

It all happened in an extremely short span of time.

Too fast.

Before the man could even react, Lin Tian had wounded him.

He was a saber wielder.

Yet in the instant they met, his saber had been cut in two.

"You can't kill me!"

He kept retreating, terror flickering in his eyes.

"Give me one reason not to kill you."

Lin Tian spoke in a low voice, his face full of bloodthirsty smiles.

"Li Musheng laid down a rule: martial artists must not engage in excessive slaughter within Blood Town!"

"Otherwise, the grand formation will punish them!"

Lin Tian frowned, then his smile grew even more unrestrained.

"I don't believe it."

He thrust his sword, and a thin line of blood appeared across the man's neck.

The man hurriedly covered it with his hand, his eyes wide.

Pfft.

Blood spurted out, and he fell, unwilling to accept his fate.

"You have once again slaughtered one of your own kind. Your sword has once again tasted human blood."

"Your sword's sharpness increases by ten percent. You gain one year of comprehension of the sword Dao."

The familiar voice sounded in his mind once again.

Sizzle!

A sound like boiling water dripping into hot oil rang out.

Lin Tian raised his head and looked up.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

The color of the runic grand formation seemed to have deepened considerably.

A sense of dread arose in Lin Tian's heart.

It was as though he really was about to be punished by this grand formation.

The man had not been lying to him.

When he had killed Senior Brother Li last night, the same feeling had arisen in Lin Tian's heart.

Only, it seemed even stronger today.

Just what secrets did this little town hold?

Lin Tian suppressed that faint tremor in his heart.

Then he sat down cross-legged on the spot.

He had just gained another year of comprehension of the sword Dao.

After several such accumulations.

Lin Tian's comprehension of Sword Momentum had already come naturally, like water flowing into a channel.

Hum!

A humming sound arose from within Lin Tian's body.

The Heavenly Sword sensed Lin Tian's wondrous state at that moment and began moving on its own.

It floated in midair before Lin Tian.