Innate Divine Ability: Lucid Sword Heart

In his previous life, he had been an ordinary person.

Li Boyang's understanding of sword moves and forms had come entirely from movies, television, and all kinds of wuxia fiction.

Those moves were often flights of fancy that defied expectations, making them difficult to put into actual combat under normal circumstances.

Now, however, Li Boyang was a spirit body that had no fear of injury.

And the Divine Firmament Sword came with the sword-control properties possessed only by "sword immortals"...

Thus, Li Boyang had successfully executed those theoretically impossible sword moves, and even sword-control techniques.

It was also during this process that Li Boyang keenly noticed the peculiar nature of his Primordial Spirit.

With ordinary fighting moves, even the various combat-tested martial arts in his memories, he struggled to achieve a thorough grasp of them in a short time.

Li Boyang often had to exchange several moves with You Xiao and have his spirit body beaten apart a few times before he could develop the right combat instincts.

Yet when it came to those fanciful, unexpected sword moves, Li Boyang could learn and master them instantly.

No matter how incredible those sword moves might appear to others.

Li Boyang could learn them at a glance and perfect them upon use, as though he had been born knowing them.

Could this be the legendary Lucid Sword Heart?

The thought flashed involuntarily through his mind.

Li Boyang felt that even the "Lucid Sword Heart" of the xianxia fiction from his previous life could hardly amount to more than this!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

With the Divine Firmament Sword in hand.

Li Boyang's Primordial Spirit cast aside every distracting thought, truly reaching the state of man and sword as one.

In this state, Li Boyang could not only execute and fill in the gaps in all kinds of sword forms and moves.

His perception, reaction speed, and attack accuracy also improved tremendously, allowing him to respond to enemy attacks as quickly and effectively as possible.

Clang!

After another exchange, Li Boyang finally seized an opportunity to retreat and break away.

At the sight, despite his immense fury, You Xiao was also alarmed by how quickly Li Boyang was growing.

From an utterly amateurish sword grip to handling his attacks with ease...

You Xiao knew the Divine Firmament Sword could grant its sword soul a talent for wielding swords-a combat instinct akin to "swordsmanship mastery."

But he had never imagined that this talent could manifest so terrifyingly in an "extraterritorial heavenly demon."

"Is dodging all you can do?!"

His eyes wide with rage, You Xiao looked up into the sky, his gaze brimming with ferocity.

For Li Boyang had already fully adapted to his current power.

As he retreated, his massive, ten-meter-tall body had also risen into the air, almost miraculously.

Truth be told, even in this world of Divine Abilities and spells, the law of universal gravitation was still a physical reality.

That much was evident from the four-armed ghost god You Xiao had become-he had no ability to fly.

"Is talking trash all you can do?"

Hearing this, Li Boyang glanced down at You Xiao in disdain.

When it came to foul-mouthed insults, Li Boyang, who had learned from the brothers of Zaun, was not about to indulge You Xiao.

"Isn't fighting all about using your own strengths to attack your enemy's weaknesses?"

"Are you the idiot, or am I?"

"Why would I ignore my strengths and insist on competing with someone else using my weaknesses?"

Without giving You Xiao any chance to retort, Li Boyang pointed his sword at him again.

Hum!

This time, it was no longer the clash of metal that rang out, but the Divine Firmament Sword's own ringing.

Accompanied by that piercing sword cry, the Divine Firmament Sword in Li Boyang's hand suddenly split into two, then four, then eight...

In less than a single breath, nearly a hundred flying swords had appeared behind Li Boyang.

Those flying swords were all replicas Li Boyang had created with his own Sha Qi, disposable flying swords that existed between illusion and reality, being and nothingness.

However, although they were disposable creations fashioned from Sha Qi.

The killing power of these flying swords was not the slightest bit inferior to that of the Divine Firmament Sword itself.

Through a method Li Boyang could not comprehend at all, that Sha Qi replicated the Divine Firmament Sword's hardness and sharpness.

This was what was called a Divine Ability, one that belonged to Li Boyang alone.

There was no need to force an understanding of its underlying principles.

As long as he wished it, his Primordial Spirit and Sha Qi would automatically help him achieve his aim, just like the Witch of the Huai River's Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability.

-Incomparably powerful, yet utterly beyond reason: this was the essence of an Innate Divine Ability.

"Taste the power of this Splitting Light and Transforming Shadows!"

With just a low cry, Li Boyang sent the flying swords around him shooting out instantly.

As those hundred-odd flying swords tore through the sky with sonic booms, even the four-armed ghost god with his indestructible body had no choice but to dodge.

As for fleeing?

Setting aside whether he, controlled by resentment and rage, still possessed the concept of "running away."

Even if You Xiao truly wanted to flee, he would first have to ask whether Li Boyang agreed.

Whoosh-boom!

And so, as the first sonic boom rang out, a relentless succession of slicing and slashing followed.

Riiip...

A hundred-odd flying swords darted and wove together, forming a fine golden net.

At this moment, You Xiao fully experienced the pain of having his "flesh sliced with a blunt knife."

When the first piece of flesh was sliced away, You Xiao could still rely on his regenerative abilities to force it to recover.

But when those cuts multiplied into hundreds, even thousands, the agony of being carved apart by a thousand blades utterly shattered You Xiao's psychological limits.

"Aah!"

His agonized wails echoed ceaselessly through Black Cloud Marsh.

From skin to flesh and blood, then down to bone, You Xiao rapidly became a towering skeleton at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Meanwhile, the ghost king fighting Xiluo let out a scream at the same time.

"Aah!"

Although she did not know what had happened.

The battle-seasoned Xiluo still seized the opportunity to set him ablaze.

Whoosh!

In an instant, the roaring flames burned the ghost king to nothing.

Throughout the entire process, the ghost king, who had displayed such overwhelming strength earlier, had no strength left to resist.

The heart-piercing pain from his main body had already destroyed his mental defenses.

"..."

Only after witnessing the ghost king burn away completely.

Did Xiluo turn to look toward that battlefield in Black Cloud Marsh.

From Xiluo's current vantage point, the "golden threads" formed by the hundred-odd flying swords darting and weaving together were gradually disappearing.

Within her sight, a grim white skeleton stood upon the earth, but it no longer showed any signs of movement.

Opposite that skeleton, a man whose clothing and appearance were utterly out of place in this era floated silently in midair, his expression cold.

Was he... that little one?

Since this was her first time seeing Li Boyang's appearance from his previous life, Xiluo could only identify him by the Divine Firmament Sword in his hand.

He did look rather handsome...