Vol 16 Chapter 19 (1/2)

Book 16, The Nihiluer Appears

[Note – This chapter’s title comes from a Chinese idiom which essentially means ‘true intentions revealed in the end’; it comes from a famous historical story where an assassin atteer within a scroll that the Qin Ean to unfurl it, and at the the very bottoer appeared; the assassin ier and used it to‘at the scroll’s end, the dagger appears’ refers to true intentions being revealed]

His swordplay becaers began to gloith that sharp, silvery-white aura This silvery-white aura caused his sword-fingers to become even sharper and fiercer! They were now sharper andthan even actual swords!

Within the underwater estate

The black-robed Ning was currenty asking the giant yellow bear sohts surrounding ers are?”

“You don’t know?” The giant bear was puzzled “You know about heartforce, so how can you not know about…oh, right Most likely, Patriarch Subhuti orried that you would set your sights too high, and so he didn’t tell you right away”

“What do youasked

The giant bear explained, “For Sword I the Grand Dao of the Sword isn’t the end of the road After you coin to focus on understanding the essence of the sword itself When using sword-arts, your blade will naturally eht is also referred to as ‘swordforce’; generally speaking, peerless Sword Ihly in to slowly discover and cultivate this power You’ve just barely touched upon it; I iine you are at the lowest, most basic level of swordforce”

“Swordforce?” Ning now understood “So that’s how it is When I was in Mount Innerheart, I saw some books which made note of the fact that when one coin to attune to the very essence of the Taiji itself, at which point a strange type of poould slowly be developed; taiji-force! It seems my swordforce is quite similar to this taiji-force in nature”

“Right” The giant bear smiled and nodded

Ning now completely understood

Taiji-force, swordforce…generally speaking, those who completely mastered the Grand Daos of Taiji or the Sould be able to sloork on controlling this type of power It could be considered an additional supple one a bit more powerful in battle

“One of the greatest dangers for I let out a sigh

For exae, the Primal Daoists, Loose Immortals, and Earth Immortals wouldn’t even tell him that the Dao was divided up into Heavenly Daos, Grand Daos, and ordinary Daos This was precisely because they orried about their disciples being excessively a whatsoever! The sa about swordforce all along, itto the Dao of the Sword, which would actually negatively ihts

“I haven’t even fully un to be able to use a slight aratified manner

“The nu the past ten-plus years was far ed in before you arrived here in the Nihiluin with; if the Dao of the Sword or the Heavenly Daos were present here, I ily fast in the Dao of the Sword” The giant bear added, “Since this place does not have the Dao of the Sword, you haven’t been able to advance in the Dao of the Sword at all…whichto the essence of the sword and ended up controlling a tiny thread of swordforce This can be considered an unexpected benefit for you I trust that in the future, the fact that you have started your quest for the essence of the sill be of tre the Dao of the Sword”

“Right” Ning nodded lightly

“Monster A true monster”

“No wonder Lu Dongbin felt so certain that he was born to be a peerless Sword Immortal, and even Patriarch Subhuti felt that he was extre the Dao of the Sword, he’s already taken control of a tiny amount of swordforce Clearly, he has an incredibly, unbelievably high level of aptitude towards the sword”

Within the blurry, void-like region within the underwater estate The giant yellow bear had told thened in amazement

However…Ning had only mastered the most basic, elementary level of swordforce at present; there was a limit as to how much it could help hi increase his power much more

Still…that tiny bit oftruly was an unbelievable talent as a Sword Immortal

“No matter how talented he is, it won’t matter unless he can escape this Nihilum Zone” A h “To date, the Snaphorn world hasn’t truly gone all out against our young master…but if push comes to shove, then ill be forced to intervene By then, ill have to deal with the master of the Snaphorn world…and we have no idea as to if we can beat him or not”

“The real question is, has the master of the Snaphorn world reached the Daofather level yet?”

“If not, he won’t pose a threat”

“But if he is at the Daofather level…we’ll probably be doomed”

“We have nowhere to run Even if we don’tmaster, the master of the Snaphorn world will eventually discover the Starseizing Manor After discovering the Starseizing Manor…if he is at the Daofather level, he’ll definitely be able to find our world By then…we’d still have to fight him”

Technically speaking, Ning had yet to become an Empyrean God, and per the orders of Daoist Threelives, they weren’t supposed to save hi’s fate up to hio find another successor Alas…they were now trapped within the Nihilum Zone and unable to depart from it, much less find another successor

This day, Ning engaged in dozens of battles before coh he needed to replenish his divine power In reality, Ning still had half of it left; after all, now that he had reached the seventeenth stage of the [Criram of the Nine Heavens], his divine poas much thicker than it had been in the past For the sake of being prepared for all eventualities, he always came to a halt when he only had half of his divine power left

In turn, the violet-caped warriors always let him replenish his divine power as needed

As he replenished his energy…threewithin the darkness of the Void

“Ever since this huainst our Firstborn, he’s continuously improved his mastery over his heartforce Less and less of it leaks out, and the ripples it causes are harder and harder to discern Recently…he’s leaked out no heartforce in his battles whatsoever Although we can vaguely sense that he is using it, we are unable to sense any of the heartforce ripples now This poses no use to us in our attempts to develop a heartforce technique at all” The first Queen Mother’s thoughts held a hint of resentment

“Two elder sisters, what should we do?” The third Queen Mother asked

“During this period of time, tens of thousands of battles have been carried out We’ve developed a few ideas, while you, little sister, have actually ed to coalesce some heartforce You’ve developed a basic level of skill in heartforce; this can be described as a merit for this human” The second Queen Mother continued, “However, our elder sister and I have yet to be able to coalesce heartforce, ure out a way to apply it”

“Although I’ve ed to coalesce heartforce, I still need to sloork away at a hts held a hint of resentment as well “If he continues to leak heartforce…a few h”

A hundred years, a thousand years…these were very short periods of time for them

Alas, Ning had only given the had very perfect control over his heartforce When using his sword-arts, his heartforce didn’t leak outwards at all; the Queen Mothers knew that Ning was using heartforce, but there was no way for them to analyze it After all, the more that leaked out, the more easy it was to analyze