Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 399: Sword Master Challenge 2

The shadow was a humongous golden sword with an ornate hilt.

At a glance, the sword looked powerful and had the momentum of slashing the world into two. Most importantly, as soon as it appeared, an invisible barrier enclosed the stage.

’Sword intent domain.’ Zhen Yuan observed and subconsciously raised an eyebrow.

"You are a Mahayana realm cultivator, but your cultivation domain is nothing compared to my sword intent domain." Lu Jing stated, and Zhen Yuan nodded.

The sword intent barrier would be an impossible hurdle if he were an ordinary Mahayana realm cultivator.

Unfortunately, Zhen Yuan was least afraid of domains.

Ignoring the fact that no domain could trap him, even if there was one that could, Zhen Yuan only needed to release his own domain to render the opponent helpless.

This time, though, Zhen Yuan didn’t unleash his heavenly law domain.

After all, he was participating in a swordsmanship challenge, and his domain had nothing to do with sword cultivation.

Instead, he smiled and waved his sword in a circle.

Soon after, a sword light disk appeared and began rising towards the heavens.

As it rose, the disk grew and was soon as large as the stage.

A moment later, Zhen Yuan pointed his sword upward, and the disk flew until it collided with the upper barrier of Lu Jing’s sword intent barrier.

"Are you trying...." Lu Jing started, but his sneer suddenly turned into a horrified expression.

Seeing the horrified face, Zhen Yuan chuckled.

’This is the horror of the Formless Sword style.’ He thought.

Unlike other sword styles that stuck to forms and moves, the Formless Sword style followed intent.

As a result, it was extremely difficult to practice, let alone master, but after achieving a certain level, Zhen Yuan could use the world as his sword, and his sword could take any form.

Previously, he used the surrounding spiritual aura as his sword, which was why his sword attack kept changing colour when responding to different qi elements.

After absorbing Lu Jing’s gold element sword barrier, the sword became more powerful and was able to harm the opponent. This time, Zhen Yuan injected his space understanding into his sword light, allowing his attack to affect Lu Jing’s sword intent domain.

That said, the Formless Sword style was powerful, but it was taxing on qi and soul power. After using a few moves, Zhen Yuan had already lost a significant portion of his energy and knew he couldn’t sustain the heavy consumption.

’I need to shift the fight to ordinary swordsmanship.’ He thought, but didn’t allow the disk to falter.

A moment later, a loud crack was heard, and Lu Jing spat a mouthful of blood.

"How...., how is this possible?" He muttered with a shocked face.

It was not impossible for an opponent to break a sword intent domain. However, it wasn’t so easy that a same realm cultivator could break it with one move.

Knowing this, Lu Jing looked at Zhen Yuan with a thoughtful expression.

"Your swordsmanship has to do with space." He stated, but Zhen Yuan neither denied nor confirmed.

Instead, he tilted his head and smiled before speaking.

"This time, I would like to advise disciple Lu not to exhaust himself with a sword intent domain. I will break it every time." He said, and several swordsmen couldn’t help but frown.

After all, most considered their sword intent domain as the bottom of their box.

Whenever the domain appeared, the enemy would lose a layer of skin, even if they didn’t die, but what about Zhen Yuan?

Not only was the person unharmed after being trapped in a fellow cultivator’s domain, but he managed to break the cage with just a little effort.

’I am glad I am not the one fighting him.’ Most of the swordsmen thought and became more attentive, not wanting to miss any aspect of the fight.

"Junior brother Zhen hasn’t used sword intent so far. Do you think he can use it?" A spectator observed, and the surrounding cultivators realised that what the person said was true. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

So far, Zhen Yuan had used ordinary sword qi and sword light, but no sword intent.

"He is not a swordsman after all." Someone said, and the nearby cultivators nodded in agreement.

"Let alone an ordinary cultivator, it’s not easy for a swordsman to cultivate sword intent. It makes sense that junior brother Zhen can’t use sword intent."

"Your thoughts are correct, but..." Someone started and frowned with a thoughtful expression.

"But what?"

"Why do I sense a trace of intent in junior brother Zhen’s attacks?" He asked, and a nearby female cultivator nodded in understanding before speaking.

"I sense the same thing." She said and quickly continued.

"However, what I sense is a little different from sword intent."

"I think it’s sword intent..., but not pure sword intent. It feels like a mixture of sword and other intents."

"Exactly! That’s the feeling I get when looking at fellow Daoist Zhen’s attacks, but how is that possible?"

"It’s already difficult for a cultivator to master one intent. How could someone comprehend more than one intent?"

"Fellow Daoist Zhen and junior brother Shen have mastered many disciplines. Is it so surprising that Zhen Yuan has comprehended more than one intent?"

"Do you think studying more than one discipline means comprehending multiple intents? How is that possible?"

"This fellow Daoist is right. Intent is a lower form of the dao. Do you think it’s easy to comprehend the dao?"

"Countless tribulation transcending realm cultivators have been unable to ascend because they can’t comprehend a trace of the dao. This shows how difficult it is to comprehend the dao even if it’s just a trace.’

"Your arguments are true, but how do you explain fellow Daoist Zhen’s attacks? I don’t think I sensed wrong."

Since the group couldn’t agree on what was going on, they turned to the stage and continued watching the fight.

However, they weren’t the only confused parties.

Even Luo Jianfeng found himself at a loss.

Like several others, he sensed that Zhen Yuan used multiple intents in his attacks, but couldn’t reconcile the fact that someone could grasp more than one dao.