Shortening the Long, the Tangible and Intangible in One Hand

The Wolf Head swordsman suddenly slammed backward.

His right scapula slammed against a layer of air, making it appear like a thin, liquid film.

Although it was just a fleeting scene, the next moment, the membrane shattered into a ring of mist, and the figure escaped from within.

The fact that he could perform such a scene shows that he is not only fast, but also possesses a profound ability to handle heavy tasks with ease, transforming air into water, and shifting between the real and the illusory.

They retreated to the river.

The river water was being affected by the drastic changes in airflow and was about to surge upwards.

The swordsman stomped his right foot, causing the surging river water to instantly transform into curtains of water that rose rapidly.

It was as if seven walls of water had appeared between the shore and the swordsman.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!

Thousands upon thousands of leaves fell upon these walls of water, breaking through six layers in succession.

The last layer is the most sturdy.

Even after hundreds of leaves were embedded inside the water curtain, it remained intact.

Some leaves cut in with their tips, while others are embedded horizontally.

Some leaves spun and cut through the water wall, and although their speed decreased sharply after entering, they continued to spin.

There were also a dozen or so leaves; the leaf tissue shattered completely the moment they hit the wall of water.

Only the middle leaf stalk remained, like a sharp needle, embedded in the wall of water.

With just one glance, the Wolf Head swordsman grasped the power exerted by these hundreds of leaves and gave a slight praise.

"What unpredictable and ever-changing swordsmanship!"

In the environment of Jinling No. 7, the effects of gravity changes have always existed.

The attacker used the Saber Intent to make so many leaves fly at the target simultaneously, with no scattering in their trajectory.

It already reveals an exceptionally sophisticated and complex set of principles.

The Wolf Head swordsman used a water wall to deal with the leaves so that he could take one more look.

His gaze pierced through the foliage, reaching into the jungle, where he could see figures standing beneath the trees.

"It's you?"

Wolf Head was a little surprised, "Last time I thought you were the kind of person who used your power to intimidate others and was good at teaming up with others to attack."

"So you were someone who relied on skill too, and you... you've broken through?"

Chu Tianshu, his left hand resting on his sword, chuckled, "Last time you didn't even give me a second glance, but this time you finally treat me with respect, which fulfills one of my wishes."

Did you even give me a second glance last time?

The Wolf Head swordsman laughed heartily, "Everyone is just focused on their own goal."

"Last time our goals weren't actually conflicting, so why are you trying to make things difficult for me this time?"

Wolf Head reached out with his left hand and flicked his fingertips.

The wall of water crumbled with a crash, carrying all the leaves into the river.

Both of them can see each other more clearly.

"With your keen observation skills, you should be able to tell that I'm no longer Precursor."

Wolf Head smiled broadly, his two pointed ears twitching, making him appear even more energetic, and pointed in Zhang Tao's direction with his left hand.

"Heh, if you've come to deal with the Forerunner of Ghosts and Gods, then you don't need to attack me. Let's part ways amicably, shall we?"

Although Chu Tianshu didn't turn his head to look in that direction, he knew in his heart that the Shadow Assassin had already started fighting with Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao was radiating bright white lightning, and he was standing on two wheels of light formed from lightning essence.

The sunlight was not as bright as his own body, so there was no shadow of him on the ground.

but.

The Shadow Assassin charged forward without hesitation, slashing at the brighter area on the ground.

A sudden sense of alarm arose in Zhang Tao's heart, and he swung his whip to block.

With a soft thud, the large iron whip suddenly shifted to its position at the waist, and sure enough, it thudded again.

A halo of light rolled beneath Zhang Tao's feet as he dodged to the side, his gaze lowered, fixed on the humanoid shadows chasing him on the ground.

This shadow not only has significantly increased attack power, but its swordsmanship skills have also improved considerably.

The two attacks that occurred in that split second.

The speed of the change was almost as astonishing as the speed at which Zhang Tao wielded his whip.

The shadow that existed back then had a significant advantage in speed because it was weightless, but in terms of the finesse of its swordsmanship, it couldn't even come close to the superficial level of what it has now.

This was certainly not an improvement in swordsmanship achieved through normal means.

Instead, they rely on obtaining the status of Precursor and make the best use of the advantages that come with that status.

Both Chu Tianshu and Zhang Tao can confirm it.

The Shadow Assassin has indeed become a new Precursor!

With a firm resolve, Zhang Tao suddenly suppressed the electric light emanating from his body.

His shadow appeared on the ground, but this clearly defined black figure moved with incredible speed, leaping away and disappearing into the jungle.

The Shadow Assassin was in hot pursuit.

The Wolf Head swordsman's ears twitched, and his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

There were many dark shadows in the jungle.

In such a complex environment, the Shadow Assassin can overlap with various shadows at any time, making his moves more varied and unpredictable.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Tao rushed in, the Shadow Assassin couldn't wait to chase after him.

However, Zhang Tao's strength lies in his solid foundation; every move he makes is a normal attack, yet every move can also be made with full force.

No matter how many variables arise on the enemy's side, Zhang Tao's response will definitely remain at the same level.

On the contrary, the Shadow Assassin himself, whose swordsmanship is not yet proficient, is more likely to expose his own weaknesses if he tries to rely on the terrain to increase the variables.

"That shadow, though still immature, has truly grown much stronger."

Chu Tianshu smiled and said, "You don't seem particularly obsessed with devouring humans, yet you've raised a ruthless killer who would definitely seek revenge on Jinling to be so strong."

"The straw hat you casually tossed to my apprentice that day was also filled with murderous intent."

"Letting a monster like you roam freely outside poses a far greater threat than those gluttonous Spirit Realm creatures."

So, do you think it's possible for us to part ways amicably?

As he spoke, he rested his right hand on the hilt of the knife, his eyes fixed on the wolf ears, and grinned, revealing his teeth.

"Besides, your ears have been twitching the whole time. You actually really, really, really want to tear me apart in a sword fight, don't you?!"

Chu Tianshu tilted his head slightly, revealing the left side of his neck better, and spoke with a smile.

Come on!

This wolf doesn't like to fight with Zhang Tao.

But facing Chu Tianshu, who was displaying his swordsmanship, he never considered leaving without a fight.

The wolf's ears jerked violently, instantly standing even straighter than usual.

His smile seemed to emanate not from his face, but from his ears.

Indistinct!!

The black Great Saber flashed suddenly, almost as if in a daze.

The curve of that knife wasn't originally very obvious.

But when the Wolf Head wolf swung its blade, it seemed to move so fast and so fiercely that the arc of the blade's shadow was extremely pronounced.

Several enormous, bow-shaped black shadows swept across the water's surface.

The water surface didn't even have time to ripple.

It seems like the scene suddenly changed while the photo was being taken.

The difference between the water surface a moment before and a moment after is that three leaves are missing.

The three leaves had already shot through the air, hurtling towards Chu Tianshu.

It wasn't shooting, it was booming!

The three fragile leaves, instead of being destroyed by the fierce blade force, became an ingenious vessel.

Concentrate immense power onto the leaf.

As the three leaves flew by, the air cracked open with eerie, large white streaks.

The leaves are only about two fingers wide and as thick as paper.

However, the three white streaks that ripped through the air were as wide as a person's thigh.

Chu Tianshu's sword flowed from its sheath like a ray of silver moonlight.

The speed of moonlight, no matter how soft and silky it may appear, is never slow.

He made six cuts on three leaves.

Each leaf is divided into four pieces, one horizontal and one vertical.

All twelve fragments deviated from their original trajectories and flew away from Chu Tianshu.

The loud explosion sent Chu Tianshu's hair flying backward.

Those twelve fragments, when they reached the area behind him, blasted at least twenty or thirty large trees in half.

Dust and debris, like earthen dragons, accompanied the fallen tree canopy as they drifted deeper into the jungle.

At that moment, Chu Tianshu's blade silently swung in a huge arc and slashed forward.

There was neither the sound of wind nor the glint of swords.

The Wolf Head swordsman standing on the water suddenly dodged to the side.

Click!!

Behind him, a straight knife mark, twenty meters long, had appeared on the cliff face.

Below the knife mark, it's just at the water's surface.

The water surface rippled slightly, then struck the end of the knife mark with a hissing sound, like hitting a branding iron; some of the river water instantly vaporized.

This knife mark is inconspicuous and doesn't seem to have any obvious significance.

This astonishingly high temperature will remain for at least half an hour.

"Grief burns like fire in one's heart?!"

The Wolf Head swordsman understood the Saber Intent behind the strike; his black blade sliced through the water, soaring into the air.

"Behold my ecstatic joy, a wondrous peak rises from the flat ground!"

The water flowed like wolf fangs, roaring and rising one after another.

Each of the river fangs is at least as tall as a person, and after it rises, it continues to move rapidly forward.

More wolf fangs rose from behind, standing upright as they charged forward, cutting through everything in their path.

After Chu Tianshu unleashed that slash, he was about to rush straight away when he saw so many wolf fangs breaking through the water and charging towards him.

He laughed loudly, took a step into the air, and stepped directly onto the tip of the wolf's fang.

Wolf Fang moved in the opposite direction to him, and at a much faster speed.

But Chu Tianshu, stepping on the sharp tips of the wolf's teeth three times in a row, still managed to run with a sense of unbridled joy.

While the world flows with the tide, I go against it; it is a kind of sorrow, but also a kind of heroic spirit.

The long, silver-white sword trailed in the wind, suddenly accelerating.

Chu Tianshu slightly shifted his body, about to pass the Wolf Head swordsman, and slashed horizontally at the Wolf Head's waist with his long sword.

Wolf Head suddenly moved half a step to the right, maintaining a face-to-face position with Chu Tianshu, and thrust his blade straight at him.

Chu Tianshu suddenly turned around, not rushing forward, nor trying to pass by.

The blade flashed like the ribs of a folding fan, spreading out around his body and spinning in a circle.

The Wolf Head thrust of the blade was deflected by the fan-shaped, silvery-white light.

"Ha!!"

Wolf Head chuckled and casually released the hilt of his knife.

The black blade spun in mid-air, and even after leaving his hand, it continued to accelerate, transforming into a black disc.

The Wolf Head pointed its head in the air and the disc moved suddenly.

The speed was so fast that it almost turned a perfect circle into an ellipse.

How could Chu Tianshu possibly spin faster than the black blade?

But his body suddenly stopped, and the momentum he had been carrying seemed to flow entirely into his right arm.

His entire right arm twitched like a spiral, and the force was then transmitted to the blade.

The Sanqi shape resembles both a knife and a sword; when it is shaken, it forms a sword-like flourish.

All the force from the rotation of the entire body was concentrated in this sword flower, which was only an inch in size.

The oval blade wheel collided with the silver-white sword flower, unleashing a terrifying dark red glow.

Boom!!!

That wasn't just because of the red light produced by the intense friction between the two metals.

Furthermore, it was because of the Tribulation Ash Spirit-Shocking Sword Intent that Chu Tianshu unleashed.

The elliptical blade wheel seemed to have collided with an insurmountable chasm, refracting outwards.

Chu Tianshu instantly transformed his sword into a blade, slashing across the Wolf Head's neck.

The Wolf Head dodged backward, and with a single grab, the water vapor transformed into a blade.

The sword that cleaved through the white mist in Sanqi strokes.

The Wolf Head retreated again, its claws flashing like knives.

The flowing wind formed a knife shape, resembling a colorless crystal.

But when Sanqi clashed with Fengdao, Fengdao shattered instantly.

Chu Tianshu stepped onto the water and sprinted at full speed.

The Sanqi strikes moved like lightning, crisscrossing and slashing wildly in his hands, Zongheng advancing and pursuing the enemy.

The Wolf Head retreated rapidly, its hands unleashing a series of slashing and clawing attacks.

Each time it catches something, it creates wind blades, water blades, wolf fur blades, stone chips blades, and water plants blades.

All the knives were destroyed by Chu Tianshu.

The original material of Sanqi was merely a ritual implement made from the essence of plants and trees.

But having accompanied Chu Tianshu to this day, this divine weapon has grown almost alongside him, undergoing the tempering of his spirit and energy.

At this moment, as the sword was wielded to its extreme, the silvery-white blade light gradually turned dark red and then blood red.

That was a piece of Chu Tianshu's hard work, which he held firmly in his own hands.

With heart, soul, and spirit, they are invincible.

"Fine, you call yourself a Overbearing Saber!"

In the midst of the fierce duel, the Wolf Head swordsman, without stopping his hands and feet, squeezed out these words, one by one.

Each word, in place of a roar, is used to form this sentence.

He had retreated to the point where his back was against the cliff.

"Look at my knife again!"

As another knife in his left hand was cleaved in two, his right hand swiftly pressed down and grabbed the cliff face.

Behind the cliff are towering mountains, their weight seemingly endless.

His grasp seemed to pull away the mountain's shadow and extract a bit of its weight.

The Wolf Head Swordsman has read many stories created by humans.

In those stories, those who claim to be wielding the Overbearing Saber " always bring up the topic of love and indifference at the drop of a hat.

They seem to always be pursuing a way of killing without warning, without any worries, and without hesitation should any unexpected events occur along the way.

But in the eyes of the Wolf Head Swordsman, simply pursuing that kind of intense and resolute will does not count as sword practice at all.

It's more accurate to say that they are cultivating a kind of ruthless and heartless spiritual skill.

Moreover, those who pursue a path of ruthlessness can never be called rulers.

A true hegemon needs even stronger, more intense emotions.

Its nature is like fire, its desires like the sea, its thoughts are complex and numerous, it desires to possess everything it sees, and it has a wide range of interests, yet it tries to carry them all out—this is the true ruler.

A person with singular interests and a straight path is called a fool or a idiot.

If there were a fool like Yu Gong, he might be respectable, but he would certainly not possess the style of Overbearing Saber.

The Wolf Head Swordsman's Overbearing Saber is used to express interest in most things in his environment.

Regardless of whether those things are hard or soft, whether they gather or disperse, master them, cultivate smoothness, and hone your sharpness.

The smooth, blunt side always faces oneself, while the sharp, fierce side always faces the enemy.

This is a real knife.

Along the way, he grabbed at the wind, the water, and the debris, all in order to grasp the trend of gravitational anomalies in the next instant.

This demonstrates mastery of swordsmanship; it is no longer a precursor, nor does it have any impact, yet it still manages to concentrate the unusual movements into a single strike.

This is evidence obtained through feng shui fragments and other things, and the final result is the profound and powerful force that governs the rise and fall of these things.

Shorten the long into the short, gather the wide into the wide, the tangible and the intangible are all in my hands.

This is the Overbearing Saber!

That dark, seemingly unformed Great Saber, with a single swing, tore apart the wind, the water, and the light.

Wherever the blade passed, the air seemed to transform into a canvas for graffiti.

Various gray and white lines, seemingly chaotic, together form a rough and rugged pattern.

The undulating Great Saber led this chaotic state, slashing towards Chu Tianshu's Heartblood Divine Blade.

(End of this chapter)