Taibai sword intent, a sword cuts the mountain! Everyone is numb!

“Buzz—”

The golden Sword Aura dissipated abruptly a few centimeters from the wall, but the strong wind it generated still caused the special alloy wall to emit an unbearable roar.

Lin Xiyue looked at the not-so-small Cultivation room in front of her, her brows tightly furrowed.

“No, I can't fully unleash it.”

The third Move of the Sky-Splitting Three Swords, “Sky-Splitting,” emphasizes an indomitable, all-shattering Aura.

But in this underground base, she always felt constrained, afraid of accidentally demolishing the base, which cost tens of billions to build.

More importantly, she could feel that as her Cultivation Technique operated, the Spiritual Qi in the surrounding air was becoming increasingly sparse.

This underground space was man-made after all, and the Spiritual Qi content was extremely scarce.

If she stayed in such an environment, how could she Cultivate Immortality?

Thinking of this, she could no longer stay and turned to walk out.

A moment later, in the meeting room.

Lin Xiyue laid out her troubles, and the Four Elders exchanged glances after listening.

“You mean, this base... is currently limiting your potential?” The Grand Elder was stunned.

“Yes.” Lin Xiyue nodded, “The place is too small, and the Spiritual Qi is too little. I need an open, natural place to practice my Sword Intent. Preferably a deserted mountain.”

The Second Elder slapped his thigh, “Oh! Look at us! Cultivating Immortality, of course, it’s best in a blessed land! What are we doing keeping Girl Yue in the basement!”

He immediately looked at the secretary waiting beside him: “Go and check immediately! Find the most secluded, least visited mountain within a hundred kilometers of the capital!”

“And!” The Second Elder added, “Notify the war zone, Level 1 alert! Block off a twenty-kilometer radius centered on that mountain, not even a single bird is allowed to fly in!”

“I’ll go personally arrange for the Kunlun Squad to assemble and protect Girl Yue throughout!” The Second Elder stood up energetically, his face filled with excitement.

This girl was the only hope for Great Xia’s rise!

Let alone just changing a place to practice Sword Intent, even if she wanted the stars in the sky, they would have to find every possible way to build a ladder to pluck them!

Less than half an hour later, a massive convoy consisting of special vehicles and armed helicopters, escorting Lin Xiyue, majestically drove out of the underground base, speeding towards an unnamed mountain range in the suburbs.

When Lin Xiyue got out of the car and breathed in the first breath of fresh mountain air, she felt completely different.

What permeated the air was an indescribable sense of comfort.

Although still sparse, compared to the stuffy recycled air in the underground base, the Spiritual Qi content here could be called rich!

Her Geng Metal Sky-Splitting Art even began to operate spontaneously and greedily, drawing wisps of Spiritual Qi into her body.

“So that’s how it is...” Lin Xiyue suddenly realized, “Cultivation, indeed, cannot be separated from nature!”

“It seems I’ll have to find a famous mountain or great river to live in from now on, otherwise, staying in steel and concrete buildings every day, I might just Cultivate into a steel-boned Immortal!”

Lin Xiyue made a mental note of this.

“Girl Yue, how is it here?” The Second Elder walked over at this moment, pointing to the small mountain ahead, about three to four hundred meters high and densely vegetated, his face beaming, “We’ve cleared a twenty-kilometer radius, you can do whatever you want! If it’s not enough, we’ll find a bigger one!”

“Enough, enough.” Lin Xiyue’s eyes lit up as she looked at the small mountain.

This was simply a perfect target for practicing Sword Intent!

Without further ado, she nodded to the Elders, then leaped out several tens of meters like a light bird, landing steadily on the open ground at the foot of the mountain.

The two hundred members of the Kunlun Squad also quickly spread out, setting up a cordon around, each with a solemn expression, but their eyes were fixed on the young girl in the center.

They also wanted to see with their own eyes how terrifying their instructor's current strength was.

Lin Xiyue took a deep breath and immediately drew her sword.

“Startled Sting!”

A slender golden Sword Qi arrived in an instant, leaving a bottomless small hole on a boulder a hundred meters away.

“Chasing Lightning!”

Her figure transformed into afterimages, countless golden, lightning-like Sword Qi flashed wildly on the mountain, each time stirring up large amounts of shattered rock and dust.

This scene made the Four Elders in the distance twitch their eyelids.

“Good heavens... this destructive power!” The Third Elder adjusted his glasses, feeling his worldview being impacted once again.

The Second Elder, on the other hand, was full of excitement, enthusiastically patting the Grand Elder's shoulder: “Old fellow, did you see that! Just that one Move, if it hit a tank, what do you think would happen?”

The Grand Elder was silent for a moment, then slowly uttered a few words: “I guess... it would be cut in half, right down the middle, with a very clean cut.”

The Fourth Elder, hearing this, seriously added: “I think we need to re-evaluate the definition of ‘individual combat capability’...”

While they were discussing, Lin Xiyue in the field had completely immersed herself in the sword art.

She practiced the Sky-Splitting Three Swords over and over, from unfamiliarity to proficiency, from proficiency to Perfection.

On the mountain, dense Sword Marks crisscrossed, as if it had been slowly tortured a thousand times, and the entire mountain peak had shrunk a section.

Gradually, Lin Xiyue no longer felt the sword in her hand, nor did she feel her own body.

She seemed to have transformed into a wisp of wind, a beam of light.

The sword in her hand was no longer a tool for executing Moves, but had become an extension of her will.

In her mind, the Profound Truth of the Geng Metal Sky-Splitting Art revolved like stars.

Sharpness, tearing, invincibility... this was the essence of Geng Metal.

But at this moment, she felt something different from it.

It was a 'Dao' that transcended 'form'.

Just like an ancient poet, drunk with wine, casually splashing ink, creating a timeless masterpiece.

That was not technique, but an outpouring of emotion, a sublimation of spirit.

Why couldn't her sword be like this?

Why be confined to specific Moves?

When the speed of Startled Sting and the change of Chasing Lightning merged into one, moving with her will, what would that be like?

In her mind, poems she had memorized in school inexplicably surfaced.

“Killing one person in ten steps, traveling a thousand li without a trace. When the deed is done, she brushes her clothes and hides her body and name deep.”

“Silver saddle illuminates a white horse, swift as a meteor!”

“Taibai... is a star, is metal, and is also poetry...”

Lin Xiyue murmured unconsciously.

She seemed to see a white-robed Sword Immortal, above the Nine Heavens, raising a cup to invite the moon, dancing with a long sword while drunk.

Where the sword light reached, the galaxy reversed, and heaven and earth lost their color.

In that sword art, there were no fixed Moves, only endless grace and boldness.

A sudden enlightenment, like lightning, struck her spiritual platform.

Buzz!

The surging Geng Metal Spiritual Energy within her body underwent a qualitative change at this moment.

The golden Spiritual Energy, which originally only had the pure meaning of sharpness, now had an additional layer of clear radiance, as bright as moonlight, becoming more agile and profound!

Taibai Sword Intent!

Enlightenment!

The onlookers outside the field felt the young girl's temperament suddenly change.

If before she was a peerless sharp blade unsheathed, with her edge fully exposed.

Then at this moment, she was a bright moon hanging above the Nine Heavens, cold and aloof, yet containing supreme power capable of annihilating everything.

The members of the Kunlun Squad even felt their breathing become difficult, as if enveloped by an invisible pressure, their very Souls trembling!

“This... what is this...?!” The Grand Elder’s pupils constricted, his heart pounding.

Just as everyone was stunned by this sudden Aura, Lin Xiyue moved.

She slowly raised the long sword in her hand, its tip pointing diagonally towards the sky.

There was no earth-shattering Aura, nor dazzling light effects.

She simply, casually, waved her hand towards the mountain peak in front of her, which she had already whittled down beyond recognition.

As if merely brushing dust from her sleeve.

A seemingly inconspicuous golden Sword Aura, carrying a hint of clear radiance, shot out from the blade.

It flew very slowly, so slowly that everyone present could clearly see its trajectory.

It flew very quietly, without the slightest sound of breaking through the air.

However, the moment this Sword Aura touched the mountain.

The entire world seemed to be paused.

There was no explosion, no roar.

In the frozen, astonished, and disbelieving gazes of everyone, the hundreds-of-meters-tall mountain peak... silently... split open... from the middle.

A smooth, mirror-like cut appeared in the center of the mountain.

The upper half of the mountain, after pausing for about a second, slowly slid down and collapsed with a crash, raising a sky full of dust.

One sword, severing a mountain!

“Thud.”

Lin Xiyue's petite body swayed, and she braced herself with her long sword on the ground, barely managing not to fall.

Her face was as pale as paper, her Spiritual Qi completely drained by that last sword strike.

Meanwhile, on the open ground in the distance, whether it was the battle-hardened Kunlun Squad or the Four Elders who governed Great Xia, all were now as if struck by a petrification spell, collectively frozen.

The Second Elder’s mouth hung open, a cigarette still clutched in his hand, unnoticed as it dropped to the ground.

Only one thought remained in his mind now.

Splitting a tank?

Too small-minded!

Does a tank even qualify?

This, damn it, even an aircraft carrier would be sliced like a cucumber, wouldn't it?!