Vol 20 Chapter 28 (2/2)

It was thanks to his experiences that this sword-art resonated so deeply with him

This sword-art caused Ning’s heart to be filled with a dark, dreary feeling Deep in his heart, he was filled with the utmost of despair!

“Senior apprentice-sister isn’t dead yet”

“Once I leave this place, I’ll be able to save her Our fa mumbled these words to himself

The sword-arts had already finished their display on the sword As for the ninth guardian, he stared at Ning in astonish

“What is the na asked

This was the ninth guardian he had encountered, but this was the first ti had asked for the proper name of a sword-art

“Mourning,” the ninth guardian said

“Mourning…h “How appropriate I’ve mourned in the past…but here and now, I’ turned and walked away

“You aren’t going to fight?” The ninth guardian called out after him in surprise

“I’ht now Next tiure quickly disappeared into the distant wooden bridge, causing the ninth guardian to gawk in a, because the two of the was intent on leaving, there was no way he could even catch up

“He actually didn’t even fight” The ninth guardian was co the sword-art, he felt certain that he was no amtch for me For him to make that claim means that he should’ve mastered more than half of that sword-art and discovered the truly formidable aspects to it But despite all that, he shouldn’t have chosen to co me…”

“Unless…there’s only one possibility! After viewing the sword-art, his heart was inspired and so he wanted to go back to calhts” This was the ninth guardian’s guess

He knew very well that given how for lost the fight he wouldn’t have been in danger of dying This ht would be if he siht? The only explanation was that he orried that a battle would disrupt his insights!

The guardian’s guess was correct

This set of sword-arts, the [Mourning] sword-art, had indeed resonated with Ning In fact, after viewing it three ti had learned hts, and Ning orried that if the battle becahts Thus, he instead decided to give up the fight

While flying back, Ning continuously reflected on that sword-art

This was the first set of sword-arts on the Path of Blades that had truly resonated with his and es that he his very well, and so he almost instantly understood the nature and the truth of this sword-art! This was a set of sword-arts that was even htmoon] sword-art

Kilostar Island The end of the wooden bridge

More than two hundred E their necks to stare at the bridge while waiting nervously

“I wonder how uardians Darknorth made it past”

“If he’s able to go through nine of them in one try, or even all ten, that would be wonderful”

“Please don’t let him be so impatient as to beat all ten As soon as he beats nine, he needs to coes the tenth That’s the ideal”

All the Eerly

Empyrean God Sin and E were too low Right now, their only hope was Ji Ning All of the was and how certain he was to succeed Right now, their greatest fear was that Ji Ning would only be able to defeat five or six guardians If that happened, it would be a long, long tie the Path of Blades

“Look!” Suddenly, Ehpeak pointed towards the distance He had been seated by hi off into the distance He had been alone on the snowy island for so long that he had gotten used to being by himself He still, however, deeply desired to leave this place and so he had been staring unblinkingly towards the bridge As soon as Ning’s figure had appeared off in the distance, he had been the first to notice

“He’s co”

“It’s Ji Ning”

“Ji Ning’s co back”

All of therew excited

As the distant white-robed youth flew across the wooden bridge, all of the Empyrean Gods rose to their feet to welcome him

Ning landed Upon seeing the eager looks on the faces of the many Empyrean Gods, he felt an enormous, invisible pressure

“How did it go?” Empyrean God Sin asked

“I beat eight of the guardians For now, I’ said He knew very well that every single guardian was capable of perfectly executing their respective sword-arts Since the ninth guardian was able to perfectly control [Mourning], at present Ning truly wasn’t a match for him

“You beat eight of them?”

“Two more remain?”

All of the Empyrean Gods present were dazed

To tell the truth, deep in their hearts, the Ehtly disappointed Beating eight uardians were like a pair of tigers that blocked the road; Ji Ning would probably need quite a bit of time in order to overcome them

Although they were slightly disappointed, they were still fairly caloodness that Ning was ’s utter domination of the twenty-plus Empyrean Gods of the Seal theth

“You beat eight of them? Not bad, not bad Greatdream and Ninedawn only defeated seven of them”

“Only two left Soon, you’ll be able to make it out”

All of the Eement

Ning naturally knehat all of the E for He immediately explained, “I need so to head off now” After speaking, he iht and fleay at high speed He returned to his living region, set down his Ian to meditate

He needed tihts

A large nuan to swell like a ained on the Path had truly excited hi with those other Empyrean Gods; what he needed was to meditate and absorb all of these new ideas, nonstop!