CHAPTER 51: CHAPTER 51: MAN AND SWORD AS ONE

Puh puh puh!

The sword light was sharp, carrying fire, swiftly piercing through each skull.

Because Shen Wang was filled with anger, the Red Flame Sword seemed to become fiercer.

Without the leader of the evil spirit, the zombies within the array became headless flies, quickly killed by Shen Wang’s sword control.

Altogether eighteen zombies, bringing Shen Wang eighteen points of experience, and the Celestial Swordsmanship directly reached great success.

The flying sword returned, dancing around Shen Wang like a swimming fish, gaining more spirituality.

However, Shen Wang wasn’t much happy, as his daughter was targeted by something vile, and no one could feel good about that.

"How powerful exactly is this thing, completely can’t see through."

Shen Wang frowned; since the opposite side could see through the Yin Yang Inversion Array, its power shouldn’t be weak, but it didn’t dare to come out during the day, so it might not be too strong.

He planned to deal with it later after reaching Foundation Establishment, preferably completely getting rid of it to prevent future troubles.

After killing more zombies than last time, Shen Wang continued to watch the outside.

In the woods, a group of zombies jumped out, Shen Wang’s gaze sharpened, and in the direction of the back mountain, a line of zombies was coming down, much more in number than last time.

One of the zombies showed a playful expression: "From today on, you will have no peace."

"Come as you please."

Shen Wang sneered coldly, this thing, no matter how cunning, wouldn’t think he has a system, allowing him to improve magic experience by killing these zombies.

"Heh heh."

The evil spirit laughed coldly, commanding the zombies to attack.

Watching zombies jumping over, Shen Wang felt like he was playing a zombie-killing game from his past life. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any sunflowers or pea shooters, just arrays and runes on the wall for protection.

But he had his flying sword, talismans, and magic to handle these things.

The zombies let out strange cries, advancing unaffected with the evil spirit’s help.

Shen Wang yet again formed a spell, and his flying sword rushed over, piercing through the zombies’ heads.

As he killed zombies, his sword control technique became more adept, but his Red Flame Sword dulled under the pollution of zombie’s evil aura.

After killing thirty-five zombies, Shen Wang’s gaze suddenly sharpened.

The flying sword he previously controlled through spells now underwent some changes.

This change was sensory; the flying sword seemed to become a part of his body, giving him various feedback, letting him clearly know the sword’s position, direction, and speed.

He felt like someone who has cultivated sword control for decades, his thoughts resonating with the flying sword.

This was the perfection of Celestial Swordsmanship!

Shen Wang was overjoyed, feeling as if he had merged with the flying sword, his thoughts following the sword’s path.

"Man and Sword as One?"

Shen Wang mused, Sword Control Technique belonged to the Controlling Sword with Qi phase of Sword Dao, essentially consuming Spiritual Power to drive the flying sword to attack.

In essence, it’s similar to driving a carriage or cutting vegetables with a knife, except it’s remotely operated.

But at this moment, the flying sword began to become like a part of Shen Wang’s body, wielded with ease.

According to some rumors, this is a characteristic of further advancement to Divine Sword.

This stage first requires achieving Man and Sword as One, to unleash even greater attack power.

His current situation should be reaching the level of Man and Sword as One, entering the threshold of sword control technique.

Remarkably, he achieved this step by killing just over thirty zombies, which was quite easy, considering few within the Sect could achieve Man and Sword as One.

It’s said that for a Qi Cultivation Cultivator to reach this step, it mainly depends on talent; it’s not just about using sword control technique a lot.

After Man and Sword as One, he felt his thoughts had become the sword, clearly sensing the flying sword being seriously tainted by the evil aura, further use would directly damage the sword.

In fact, even without Man and Sword as One, seeing the dim glow of the flying sword with reduced power, anyone could tell its status wasn’t good.

"Must stop now!"

Shen Wang called back the flying sword, injecting Fire Spiritual Power into it, assisting in removing the tainted evil aura.

Activating the flying sword consumes Spiritual Power and Divine Sense, and at this moment, his Spiritual Power was also heavily consumed. Shen Wang looked at the still appearing zombies, reluctantly taking out a Fireball Talisman.

Bang bang bang!

Shen Wang threw the Fireball Talismans with a grim expression.

Unlike sword control or magic, using talismans had no rewards, purely wasting Spirit Stones.

A Low-Level Fireball Talisman sells for five pieces, even at cost, it’s one, equivalent to using Spirit Stones to kill these things.

"What a waste!"

He muttered, if not for his high success rate in Talisman Making, handling the evil spirit’s zombie harassment would have been impossible for him.

This was no zombie extermination, purely money burning, and hardly any return.

Because of this, he controlled the frequency of talisman use, taking every chance to recover Spiritual Power and purge the evil aura from the flying sword.

As for Array Power, he wasn’t in a hurry to use it; it’s the last line of defense, to be used only as a last resort.

While multitasking, Shen Wang looked at the zombies’ clothing and sighed: "These zombies truly are refugees. It seems the world is truly harsh, not only do people eat people, but the evil spirit is also capturing and devouring people."

He was almost certain the evil spirit captured refugees and turned them into zombies to target him, possibly the previous zombies were refugees too.

He couldn’t deal with the evil spirit himself, unsure if he could cut off its root, preventing it from capturing refugees...

In thought, Shen Wang recovered some status, the Red Flame Sword brightened again. Shen Wang once more activated the flying sword to kill a zombie.

This time there was no reward, Shen Wang gritted his teeth, killing ten more before rewards came.

[Master-level Swordsmanship +1, currently 2/100]

Seeing the prompt, Shen Wang realized that Man and Sword as One counted as master-level experience in Sword Dao, which was reasonable.

He continued to kill ten more, becoming panting and sweating, his expression exhausted.

"The mind can’t hold on much longer."

Shen Wang was helpless, sword control consumes mental energy, after killing over fifty zombies, it’s not something that can recover in a short time.

He could only bear the heartache and use Fireball Talismans.

With just over twenty Low-Level Fireball Talismans left, Shen Wang had to control their use.

Time passed, until late at night, after over a hundred zombies fell, all Fireball Talismans in Shen Wang’s hands were used up, and there were still zombies.

The most hateful thing was discovering that Fireball Talismans had area damage, the evil spirit purposely had zombies come one by one, significantly reducing the Fireball Talismans’ effectiveness.

Seeing more zombies, Shen Wang cursed, and could only pick up the Main Banner, activating the Yin Yang Inversion Array.

As the array initiated, a more powerful Power of Inverted Yin and Yang erupted, directly blocking the approaching zombies.

These zombies jumped forward, only to be flung back by the array, unable to advance regardless of the direction.

The evil spirit in the darkness flew out, circled the ancestral residence, and discovered Array Flags placed inside, with runes’ protection, it couldn’t destroy them, reluctantly leaving.

However, it didn’t stop the harassment, continuing to have zombies attack, consuming the array’s power.

In reality, all it was doing was depleting Shen Wang’s resources, weakening the defense here until a certain point, it could directly break in.