Humming a song, feeling the life force draining away from my body, layers of grey and black covered my vision, and when I opened my eyes again, I was in that grey and black space again.
She continued to save the Blood Spirit Stone, casually sat down to rest for a while, and continued clicking.
……
When loading the game for the fifth time, Xi Heng proceeded step by step according to his previous experience. Although he spent some effort along the way, he was finally able to kill Fang Tiande safely and get the Blood Spirit Stone.
The sixth time was still the same, and as the number of blood spirit stones gradually increased, her blood surge technique became more and more powerful... As long as Fang Tiande's energy was almost consumed, she could use the blood surge technique and add a life-breaking sword to kill him.
The seventh time... the eighth time...
As the killing went on, Xi Heng created a set of process formulas. As long as he followed the formulas step by step, he could achieve victory.
Ninth time loading the file... Tenth time...
Because he had used the life-consuming Sword of Death many times in succession, Xi Heng became more and more proficient in it. He could already make some subtle adjustments in his moves so that he would not die immediately after using the moves.
However, after all, she already has a near-death buff like the Bloodline Forbidden Spell, so the negative effects of the Sword of Life-Severing are of little significance to her.
The fifteenth time to load the file... the twentieth time...
After the battle, Xi Heng realized that the Sword of Life was actually still not a complete move.
After losing her life time and time again, she saw several different possibilities and prepared to try to improve them in the next few battles with Fang Tiande.
Twenty-fifth time loading the file...Thirtieth time...
During the attempt, something went wrong for a moment. The power of the Sword of Life weakened a little at that moment. After stabbing into Fang Tiande's heart, it failed to disrupt and shatter it immediately. Instead, it allowed the opponent to use a special move at the moment of death.
Xi Heng quickly used magic to suppress the opponent. Fortunately, she still had the spiritual energy of a blood spirit stone left. She directly inserted the bones that had changed into shocking bones into the enemy's body, stabbed them into the ground and clamped them tightly. Then she used the remaining strength to press down the blade, and finally took the enemy's life.
Fortunately, her experience in killing Fang Tiande has reached the point where the other party has difficulty resisting, otherwise she might really be killed by the other party in this life.
Therefore, despite the disaster, there was indeed a blessing in disguise.
Gradually, she figured out a way to split the meridians that were severed by the qi and blood into two parts that would interfere less with each other. After using her right arm to perform a life-threatening sword attack, she could continue to use her left arm to stimulate the qi and blood to attack.
Or he could cripple both arms and then strike out two fatal sword strikes in succession.
"If I were hit by two life-threatening sword moves, even a master of hard power would find it difficult to block it..."
She was just thinking in the gray space, and then continued to load the file.
On the 35th reload, Xi Heng used both life-killing swords in full force, piercing Fang Tiande's heart and dantian at the same time, leaving the enemy without any strength to resist and killing him instantly.
Afterwards, she reluctantly squatted down, and with her almost paralyzed hands, she took out the Blood Spirit Stone bit by bit. She held it in her palm with her weak five fingers, and her vision became increasingly dimmer.
Gradually, the words "load file" floated before my eyes.
She didn't care about anything else at the moment. She just sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes and kept recalling the strange feeling she had when she used the Sword of Life twice in a row.
At the moment when she completed the move, the "nature" of the two swords in her hands seemed to suddenly change for a moment.
From a 'sword', it became something more soulful.
That thing seemed no longer to be a sword, but an extension and extension of the soul.
Although it was only a moment, the feeling was extremely clear.
"I seem to... have reached the next stage of sword intent?" Xi Heng blinked.
I looked down at my hands and scratched them, but I couldn't feel that feeling anymore.
As the memory faded, the feeling of the sword as if it were the soul gradually faded from memory.
Xi Heng thought it was truly amazing and wanted to experience it again.
Then, she clicked the load button without hesitation.
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Chapter 78: Heart-Severing Soul
On the 36th replay, Xi Heng used his previous experience to safely get through Fang Tiande's heyday, and finally used two life-threatening swords to stab the man in the vitals in an instant.
As always, Fang Tiande's life was taken away easily.
The two life-threatening swords burst out from the left and right at the same time, which was obviously more powerful and influential than a single sword piercing the heart.
After being hit by a life-severing sword, Fang Tiande still had a chance to say his last words. If he had enough energy left, he might even be able to launch one or two weaker counterattacks.
But when one sword became two swords, the damage caused was somehow increased several times.
The moment the move hit, the light in the opponent's eyes disappeared instantly. Not to mention swinging the axe to fight back, he couldn't even blink.
It's like two swords hitting with an instant death effect, the sword blades pierce the enemy's body, and the enemy's mind will be damaged and faint.
Fang Tiande was in a coma, and naturally he could no longer activate the internal energy to maintain his body, which quickly collapsed.
While Xi Heng was using this move, he once again experienced that fleeting special feeling from before:
The moment the sword hit her, she felt the two swords in her hands suddenly undergo some inexplicable changes.
Although on the surface the shape of the sword did not change, in her heart's perception, the blade instantly changed from a real object to something that should not exist as a physical entity.
This "thing that should not be real" was held in her hands as a "real entity", bringing a strong sense of dislocation.
It was as if what she was holding in her hand was not a sword, but another kind of inexplicable "feeling" itself, like a sixth sense, or some kind of premonition, which she grasped in her hand.
What she holds in her hand is 'a feeling expressed by the mind', and this 'feeling' is her sword.
After this surprising feeling disappeared, Xi Heng ended the reload with the negative effect of the Sword of Life-Severing, and kept the Blood Spirit Stone as a trophy as usual...
Afterwards, she looked down at her slender fingers and stayed there quietly.
His five fingers grasped and grasped, as if trying to keep the unique and strange feeling.
But that feeling eventually faded away, leaving only lingering memories.
"what is that?"
Xi Heng pinched his chin and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.
If I have to say it, it is...
At the moment of swinging the sword, the sword changed from a physical substance like a "sword" to a part of her soul.
'Part of the mind' is not something that can exist physically.
But for no reason, it is intertwined with the concept of "sword" and cannot be separated.
So much so that the moment this feeling appeared, Xi Heng found it difficult to adapt.
I was clearly holding a sword, how did it turn into a soul?
For a short time, her logical thinking was a little confusing.
"How can a heart be a sword? And how can a sword become a heart? What a contradiction."
Xi Heng tried to think rationally, but just couldn't figure it out.
But just now, the heart and the sword did exist together and were perfectly intertwined.
Following the principle of not thinking about something if you don't understand it, Xi Heng found a random reason to convince himself:
"Maybe this is what they call 'unbelievable'..."
Language can only describe things that can be described, but for things that cannot be described, language is powerless.
Xi Heng roughly realized that this "feeling of the interweaving of sword and heart" seemed to be something unspeakable.
"No..." She shook her head:
"Perhaps this is the next stage of sword intent. Since it is an experience related to the sword and the heart, let's call it 'Sword Heart'."
"I just don't know what effect this sword intent will have in actual combat..."
She vaguely recalled that after Fang Tiande was hit, his mind seemed to be affected by the move and he fainted.
Is that kind of influence related to 'Kenshin'?
Questions popped up in her mind one after another.
After a moment he shook his head and shook it off.
"But now... let's slowly control the sword."
Xi Heng planned to leave all these problems to be explored after his sword intent was truly improved.
Now her 'Sword Heart' still exists in the realm of a momentary flash of inspiration - just like the original 'heart as calm as water', it cannot be freely controlled.
A calm mind can be maintained for a while, but a sword heart is fleeting and more difficult to grasp.
"continue!"
Her curiosity about Kenshin outweighed the inevitable boredom caused by reloading the game.
Follow with your finger and click to load the file.
After the twisting and winding feeling, I opened my eyes and saw the familiar battlefield again.
Xi Heng grabbed two long swords and approached naturally.
……
The 40th time to load the file... The 50th time...
After using the Sword of Life many times, Xi Heng's feelings about the "Sword Heart" became clearer, and the original awkwardness and discomfort gradually disappeared.
Instead, she now felt that Kenshin was truly a strange and even wonderful thing.
Before the sword intent reaches the stage of "sword heart", the sword blade is ultimately just an external object. Even if the sword skills are integrated into the whole body and become instinctive, it is still an external object after all.
But after reaching the level of "Sword Heart", the blade had a slight connection with her heart, even becoming closer than her arm.
The blade becomes something like an extension of the mind, and control over it will naturally be further improved.
After acquiring the sword's heart, Xi Heng could easily feel the slight vibration of the sword blade, the sharpness of each part, or the large and small marks on the sword.
As she reloaded the game again and again, she gradually understood the sword's heart. She became more and more assisted by God in battle. Every move she made was flawless. When she thought about how to kill, the sword would obey her meticulously.
Xi Heng even had an illusion that she seemed to have removed the intermediary of her arm and was swinging the sword directly with her mind.
Sixtieth time loading the file.
"The sword cuts the flesh, the heart cuts the soul."
Xi Heng easily pierced Fang Tiande's heart with a fatal sword move, and muttered to himself:
"After roughly mastering the sword's heart, my sword seems to have caused some damage to the soul..."
As long as the hit is successful, even if the enemy uses his energy to block her sword, he cannot stop the sword that points directly to the heart.
Coupled with the indestructible Sword of Life, no matter how much energy Fang Tiande has left, or whether he is in his prime, as long as he hits his weak point, he can be killed by the sword immediately.
After reloading the game dozens of times, Xi Heng has already roughly mastered the sword spirit.
Although it is still difficult to use spontaneously, the duration is getting longer and longer.
Whenever you start loading a game, when dealing with ordinary rebel generals, as long as you induce the Sword Heart state, you can easily defeat the enemy with one blow using ordinary moves, even without using Qi and blood.
Xi Heng even felt that in this state, he could easily kill the enemy even with just a rough wooden sword.
"Wait, wooden sword?"
She suddenly recalled the "Heluo Fish Dragon Sword Technique" she had memorized before, which seemed to have some descriptions related to "Sword Heart".
The Qinglong chapter of that sword technique book states that when the sword practitioner reaches the heavenly realm of 'leaving the realm and observing the subtle', he can throw away the heavy sword of the Xuanwu chapter, randomly pick up a wooden branch to make a sword shape, and then continue to fight the enemy with the wooden sword to start a new chapter.
I believe that the 'realm of heaven and man' mentioned in the book must be the realm of sword heart.
While thinking, Xi Heng easily killed Fang Tiande again, grabbed the Blood Spirit Stone and waited for the game to load.
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70th save file load.
As the sword of life is used again and again, the swordsmanship becomes more and more perfect.
She was now able to control the swordsmanship that was originally just a flash of inspiration at will.
And because of her mental enhancement, her mental age slowly increased to nearly forty.
With the blessing of Sword Heart, Xi Heng could easily kill more than 20 rebel generals with his powerful dark energy even without using the bloodline prohibition at the beginning of reading the file.
