CHAPTER 1076: CHAPTER 1074: GREAT VALUE (4 MORE)

"In the next few days, your task is to condense the Sword Rhyme, to compress the Sword Rhyme into a thin light, thin enough to penetrate the body of this small fish without breaking the fish’s body, leaving only a small hole."

"Huh?" Su Chen was stunned.

What kind of Plane joke is this?

How big is his Sword Rhyme now? It’s basically about the size of the Ancient Dust Sword’s blade, just in the form of fog and light.

He had never thought about condensing and compressing the Sword Rhyme.

Especially, compressing and condensing it to the extent that Old Mu described?

This is practically turning a large watermelon into a sesame seed!

"Once you achieve it, your Strength will take a significant leap forward." Old Mu said casually, then disappeared.

Leaving Su Chen alone.

"Young boy Su, go ahead and do it. Old Mu was right, you’re not artistic enough, not detailed enough, too wasteful," Jiuyou also sighed: "Old Mu, living for millions of years as a super old monster, immediately pointed out your fundamental issue."

"Alright!" Su Chen nodded.

Next.

He began to attempt again and again to drive the Sword Rhyme!

Driving the Sword Rhyme was not easy; one might even say very difficult.

Each time Su Chen drove it, he needed to rest a few breaths.

Every time he drove it, he tried to condense and compress the Sword Rhyme, which was an extremely hard task, because to drive the Sword Rhyme, he needed to use the Divine Soul.

Exhausting!

With each attempt, it felt like his Divine Soul was about to explode from pain, akin to the sensation of mental overwork, the Divine Soul would burn with pain.

Su Chen’s face remained pale all along.

But, he persevered.

Non-stop.

In truth, although Old Mu left earlier, he hadn’t really gone away; instead, he was hidden in the air, continually watching Su Chen.

He quietly observed and nodded.

"Not bad, showing some perseverance."

Soon, a day passed.

"Gained quite a lot." Su Chen was somewhat exhausted. His Divine Soul was truly on the brink of overload, yet with the Three Powers Transformation, otherwise he would have fainted long ago. Right now, he wished his Divine Soul could sleep for three to five days.

However, Su Chen was extremely thrilled.

Because, within one day, he had managed to condense and compress the Unyielding Sword Rhyme down to about the size of a fist. Although still far from Old Mu’s demands, it was considerable progress, wasn’t it?

The next day.

Continuing.

The day after.

Still continuing.

Su Chen fell into a kind of frenzy.

A full seven days, torturing himself to the death every day.

The eighth day.

Early morning.

"Old Mu, look." Su Chen said with a smile, pointing at the small stream, then suddenly, an extremely, extremely dazzling light appeared on his hand, flashed, and disappeared, like an illusion.

Then, in the stream, a small fish was struck.

It pierced through the body of the small fish, leaving a needle-like hole on the fish’s body.

"Not bad." Old Mu praised. In fact, he had estimated that Su Chen would need ten days of madness to meet his requirements, unexpected that Su Chen managed in seven days.

Then Old Mu said again: "Now, you draw the Sword, drive the Sword Rhyme, attach this compressed-to-ultimate Sword Rhyme on the sword tip, remember, only on the sword tip!"

"Okay!" Su Chen nodded.

Then.

Swish!!!

A sword slashed out.

The Ancient Dust Sword swung out unceremoniously.

This sword showed no Sword Rhyme accompaniment.

Yet, in fact, this sword indeed had Sword Rhyme accompanying, just that the Sword Rhyme was compressed to the ultimate, almost imperceptible.

As this sword swung, far away, that massive mountain occupying hundreds of thousands of square meters and towering tens of thousands of meters at the midsection...

First quivered.

Then broke.

Broken apart.

This was nothing, Su Chen had done it before.

But, the terrifying thing was, this ’break’ differed from Su Chen’s previous ’break’.

This time, it was truly broken.

The mountain’s midsection, the sword scar from front to back, uniformly neat, as if cut by a machine.

Enough to explain how sharp this sword was, almost eerily sharp.

Previously, when Su Chen broke the mountain with his sword, it was more of a brutal force explosion, the edges of the break were messy, with rubble and dust in chaos, rather than this heart-chilling fierceness.

"So sharp." Su Chen gasped, somewhat in disbelief that this truly was the sword he swung? It was horrifying!

Moreover, this sword was faster.

He hadn’t even utilized the Sky Extinguishing Sword, yet its power was several times stronger than when he had used the Sky Extinguishing Sword before.

"Remember, the smaller the attack area with similar power, the greater the impact." Old Mu said solemnly: "Sword Rhyme, in the same way."

Su Chen nodded heavily, it was like how a needle could pierce through flesh and bone under similar Strength, while a large wad of cotton wouldn’t even hurt at all.

"Thank you, Old Mu." Su Chen sincerely expressed thanks.

In fact, what Old Mu taught him wasn’t overly complex, but extremely crucial, things he had overlooked before, especially regarding Sword Rhyme. His thinking had been limited, never realizing Sword Rhyme had so many nuances.

"Alright, young one, head to the Cloud Sword Sect’s main hall now!" Old Mu said lightly: "He Shoudao’s little disciple, there’s some trouble."

Isn’t He Shoudao’s disciple Ji Yu? Su Chen’s eyes flashed: "What trouble?"

"Didn’t you leave a Sword Rhyme in the Cloud Sword Sect’s Martial Training Field? That little girl proved quite talented. Gained significant benefit from it. She has comprehended her own Sword Rhyme."

"What?" Su Chen was surprised and delighted.

"But precisely because of this, her value increased! She was originally discarded by the Ji Family, now the Ji Family wants her back to the sect and acknowledge her ancestors!" Old Mu snorted: "That girl was once an illegitimate daughter, her own mother was forced to death by the Ji Family, years ago she was driven out by the Ji Family, erased from the ancestral records. Had it not been for the Cloud Sword Sect, she’d have died young."

"Returning to the sect for some bullshit ancestors acknowledgment." Su Chen coldly snorted, his voice chilling.

"Exactly, ancestors acknowledgment is nonsense, but Ji Family’s shameless ones don’t think so, their attitude is tough, insist on taking Ji Yu away. Currently threatening and coercing, their attitude is outrageously arrogant, as if ready to bloodbath the Cloud Sword Sect if Ji Yu isn’t handed over." Old Mu sneered, quite derisively.

"Is Ji Family very powerful?" Su Chen asked: "Cloud Sword Sect actually lets Ji Family act so reckless?"

"Ji Family itself isn’t very strong, but behind Ji Family stands the Azure Sword Sect. Azure Sword Sect is also one of the Ten Great Powers of Ningtian Continent, stronger than Cloud Sword Sect."

"Old Mu won’t take action?"

"Even if Cloud Sword Sect is destroyed, I won’t act." Old Mu said, then disappeared, a cranky old man.

"Ji Family? Hehe..." Su Chen’s expression turned cold, moving towards Cloud Sword Sect’s main hall.

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