Chapter 288 (1/2)

Chapter 288: Sword Formation

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

When Ada saw that Fang Xingjian was reading the stone tablet seriously as if everything appeared to be clear and logical, she criticized him secretly in her heart while she trained the other students.

Like Rota, another female Knight, Ada had also been born into an aristocratic clan and had received the best education and cultivation resources. Furthermore, her talent was outstanding and she was willing to put in hard work for her cultivation. This was how she had been able to become the level 24 Conferred Knight she was now.

Despite this, Ada was already 38 years old this year.

She had gotten married at 28, but unfortunately, when she was 30, her husband had failed in his attempt to attain the Heavenly Barrier of 30% ether synchronization rate and had entered a comatose state.

This was the worst possible scenario. When a person became a vegetable, it meant they were not really dead. So, in order to maintain their reputation, the clans of both parties had not allowed her to get a divorce, and she was made to live a life as a widow.

Living a life of self-pity, Ada had turned all her energy onto her cultivation. However, her mood had still grown increasingly bad and her temper had become increasingly violent. She would blow her top at the smallest thing, and she became the old hag to whom everyone in the academy would turn a deaf ear.

‘Harsh and stern with a bad temper’ became the impression that everyone had of her.

This had lasted until two years ago, when she had met the Fifth Prince while she had been out in the wild, hunting ferocious beasts.

Additionally, this encounter had made her fall completely for the Fifth Prince’s demeanour, passion, talent, and abilities. In her eyes, there was no other man in the world who would be able to compare to the Fifth Prince.

Thinking of the Fifth Prince, a smile appeared on Ada’s face unknowingly, and the gaze she threw at Fang Xingjian grew icier than before.

‘Hmph, the Fifth Prince studied the Aquatic Sword Formation by linking the bare-fisted martial arts theories to sword theories. Then after he observed the Heavenly Waterfall Lake, he imparted the ‘Heavenly Waterfall Slash’ to me..

‘Even if you’re wearing the level 29 Heavenly Abyss Annihilation Armor, there’s no way you can fend off this move created by the Fifth Prince. I’ll use this move to defeat you and let you understand that no matter how strong you are, there’s always someone out there who is stronger than you.’

Fang Xingjian had his meal, then he started his cultivation. About one and a half hours later, he stretched out his five fingers, and it was as if he could sense a gush of water vapor surging toward him. In the blink of an eye, countless water droplets continued to gather incessantly on his palms, forming a longsword made from water.

Rota smiled and asked, “You’ve managed to pick up the Aquatic Sword Formation?”

Fang Xingjian shook his head and said, “This is only the Aquatic Sword Qis. I must be able to create twelve Aquatic Sword Qis before I can start to form the sword formation.”

Amidst the gazes of two students, Rota, Ada and the other lady, Fang Xingjian started to form streams and streams of Aquatic Sword Qis. Each time one stream was created, he would toss it into the air. Then in the blink of an eye, another twelve streams of Aquatic Sword Qis had appeared.

Once the twelve streams of sword Qis appeared, a mysterious connection was formed between them. Fang Xingjian seemed to have become the control station of a freight station, incessantly exchanging information and energy through the ether particles and the twelve streams of sword Qis.

A confident smile appeared at the corners of Fang Xingjian’s lips. WIth a light tap of his sword fingers, the twelve streams of sword Qis circled around his body, swaying about freely as if they were floating batteries [1].

Laughing out loud, he then randomly took up an Aquatic Sword Qi and started to perform a sword dance.

The water sword in his hand swung freely, while the remaining eleven streams of sword Qis moved about unhindered and slashed through the air, creating loud tearing sounds.

Fang Xingjian tapped his longsword across space and shot out eleven streams of sword Qis consecutively, lifting up several ten thousand jin of golden sand at the shore.