Chapter 525 (1/2)

Chapter 525: Swordless Sword

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations Editor: Yukidaruma TranslationsLilia’s sword attack was as fast as a falling meteor. With a single thrust, sound explosions rang out continuously. Everywhere her sword passed by, it seemed to have created a vacuum passageway in the air, and her sword’s speed reached 15 times that of supersonic speed.

From this one sword attack, one could tell that Lilia had improved tremendously during this past period of time. In fact, she was never one who lacked passion in sword arts. It was just that her talent had been insufficient and she had no great teacher to provide her with guidance. That was why there had been a limit to her strength.

However, she then managed to get guidance from a grandmaster of sword arts like Fang Xingjian, and she also received the mystical prints to increase her aptitude. With these, in addition to her passion and hard work which were not lacking, Lilia had improved at a tremendous rate.

In particular, due to Fang Xingjian’s influence on her, Lilia had chosen the Windstorm Sword Hero for her first transition and the Gale Wind Sword Deity for her second transition. Her speed bested the second transition experts who were of the same level as her.

Her current attack lashed out at 15 times that of supersonic speed, and the space within a 100-meter range seemed to have been sliced into two by this sword.

Lilia’s rate of improvement was already very fast, and she was also one of the higher ranking ones amongst those of the same level as her. However, she was facing a Demigod with three tiers of perfection.

As the person who was ranked third in the National Selection, Asto’s talent was undeniable. Furthermore, he had even signed the Hell’s Map and gained the power representing ‘nihility’ amongst the 36 Hell’s Maps. With that as his foundation, working together with his sword arts cultivation, he had created his unique Killing technique, the Swordless Sword.

Currently, Asto had not moved an inch. The tip of Lilia’s sword was just one A unit of length (one zhang = 3.3 meters) zhang 1 away from Asto’s body when she let out a stifled snort. Then it was suddenly as if she had collided into a mountain. Her longsword was shattered, and she was sent flying out while splurting a mouthful of blood.

Lilia rolled over ten rounds on the ground before the power from Asto was neutralized. She lifted her head to look at Asto, thinking, “What was I hit with earlier?”

Asto’s Swordless Sword was a power which could change ceaselessly between the illusionary and the real world.

When he managed to turn his own power into an illusionary one, his sword force would neither affect nor be affected by anything in the actual world.

Streams of sword force continued to linger within one zhang around him, neither affecting the physical nor being affected by the physical world.

It was when Asto transformed this surge of sword force into part of reality that the sword force began to affect the physical world.

As the illusions were unaffected by the physical world, he could apply a spinning sword force around himself. Unaffected by the physical world, the spinning sword force would not weaken, and it would forever circle around Asto’s body until it was turned into something real one day.

Therefore, while it seemed as if there was nothing at all within one zhang around Asto, there were, in fact, countless illusionary spinning sword forces being stored there. The amount there was probably countless times beyond Asto’s limits.

Relying just on the Swordless Sword within the one zhang range around him, it would be no problem for him even if he had to forcibly take on a Divine level expert’s attack. Furthermore, having reached the level of perfecting brain regeneration, someone with his level of defense was rare in this world.

Asto looked at Lilia and said, “It’s a death penalty for one to assault one of the country’s Conferred Knights. Die.”

As he spoke, Asto tapped out with his finger, sending forth a gush of sword force which was around him. He turned it from something illusionary into a part of reality, shooting toward Lilia.

The terrifying sword light compressed the air, leaving behind streams of white force in the air which struck toward Lilia’s head like a laser beam.

Anderson’s countenance changed, and streams of black shadows flashed, appearing before the sword force. There were shadow blades slashing out from each shadow, trying to fend off the white force in the air.

However, although it seemed that Asto had launched a casual attack, the sword force he had transformed was comparable to a full power attack with the strength of his physical body. With that being said, how could Anderson possibly be able to fend it off?

The shadow blades were crushed, and Anderson dropped to the ground, with blood flowing out from his seven apertures.

The sword force did not weaken in the least and continued to strike toward Lilia.