Chapter 131: Elemental Energy of the Sword (1/2)

Chapter 131: Elemental Energy of the Sword

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Sword in hand, Ai Hui prepared to strike.

Twenty minutes passed, but Ai Hui remained in that same stance, not moving one bit.

Several students soon became impatient and prepared to leave.

“What is he trying to do? He’s obviously making it unnecessarily complicated!”

“Let’s go!”

The majority of the students left the training ground, leaving only a handful behind. Those who remained began to sit in clusters, chatting under the shade.

Ai Hui’s explosion had shocked the students greatly.

The shock, however, seemed to clear up the fog in the students’ minds, rousing them from their distracted state. After all, they were young people whose minds could easily be taken away from their worries.

Although the shadows of the incident still lingered in their minds, the students were already becoming more cheerful. Teacher Xu was slightly embarrassed that he, himself, was stuck in a daze and unable to monitor the condition of his students. If not for Ai Hui’s distraction, the rest of them would probably still be in shock.

He heaved a sigh of relief, placing his gaze on Ai Hui. Teacher Xu had many misgivings.

He was well aware of Ai Hui’s situation. He knew that Ai Hui had a weak aptitude but was very hardworking and polite. Seeing the large pit in the ground left him bewildered.

Was that sword-wielding young man really the untalented Ai Hui that he knew?

To Teacher Xu, Ai Hui was now a figure shrouded in mystery. Many details from the incident at the Garden of Life spontaneously surfaced in his mind. Teacher Xu remembered how Ai Hui had demonstrated respectable strength.

Only two of his students were taken in by other teachers as disciples. One was Duanmu Huanghun, while the other was Ai Hui.

He glanced at Duanmu Huanghun, who was observing Ai Hui attentively. Teacher Xu smiled to himself, noting that Ai Hui would make a fine rival for Duanmu Huanghun.

Ai Hui did not pay attention to what was happening in the periphery. He had regained his composure after receiving the sword, channeling his attention toward the changes in his body and sorting out the waves of ideas that had washed upon his mind.

His eyes were getting brighter.

Ai Hui made a sudden movement.

Teacher Xu saw Duanmu Huanghun shiver slightly.

Teacher Xu quickly reacted, turning to look at Ai Hui. Indeed, Ai Hui had stood up.

The head guard was more experienced than the other two when it came to such situations. Despite Ai Hui remaining utterly motionless, the head guard was not impatient. The moment Ai Hui made a move, the head guard immediately opened his eyes wide to avoid missing anything important.

These spontaneous and rare moments of epiphany were extremely important for practitioners. It was also immensely beneficial for spectators to observe such moments, especially since they did not occur that often.

Thus, the head guard was very patient.

Ai Hui’s attention was focused on the space in front of him.

He formed a seal with his left hand before slowly raising the sword with his right.

Like an elderly lady, his moves were executed extremely slowly. A wisp of elemental energy flowed out from the mass of elemental energy within his natal residence, attracted by the movement of his sword. The grass sword in his hand was like a delicious piece of meat, enticing the elemental energy in his body to flow.

Ai Hui’s sword strokes were deliberately unhurried. Following his movement, the elemental energy within his body felt like a wild horse tugging forcefully at its reins, slowly surging forward. It entered his right hand palace before moving into the grass sword. At that instant, when the elemental energy poured into the grass sword, the resonance between the sword embryo and the grass sword soared abruptly.

Right at that very moment, the sword embryo between his brows started to throb.

It appeared to throb rhythmically, like a pulse. The throbbing was not quick, but it felt like something was repeatedly hammering his mind.

Ai Hui restrained his mind, ignoring the throbbing of the sword embryo. His focus was on maintaining the speed at which he channeled the elemental energy as he continued with his patient sword strokes.

Dong, dong, dong!

Like a noiseless drum, the throbbing pulsed on intensely.

The elemental energy within the sword appeared to heed his call, flowing one round through the grass sword before returning to his body.

Ai Hui was ecstatic as he confirmed his theory. The accident earlier enabled him to have a deeper understanding of the sword embryo. He was able to sense the grass sword attracting the elemental energy within his body, and he then noticed the sword embryo attracting the elemental energy back from the grass sword.

The explosion had occurred because he had failed to control the speed at which the elemental energy flowed. The sudden influx of excessive elemental energy into the sword was responsible for the subsequent explosion. From within this mess, Ai Hui managed to identify the sword technique as the sword embryo’s trigger.

This was something new.

The amount of elemental energy that Ai Hui had back when he first started practicing swordplay techniques was pathetic. Despite that, he had always practiced infusing the grass sword with elemental energy. However, it was only recently that he began to circulate the elemental energy within his body as he practiced swordplay.

Ai Hui knew he had struck the jackpot when the elemental energy slowly flowed back into his body!

The elemental energy that had returned was transformed!

The sharpness associated with the elemental energy in his body became even richer. Ai Hui did not know how to describe this particular flavor, but the first thing that came to mind was the flavor of a sword.