179: Chapter 179 Blade's Bone and Heart's Pulse, A Thousand Blades Clanging!

Outside the reality dimension, there was a layer of the Void Realm that could not be observed by any instrument.

Kong Ming brought Shen Qingci and stood quietly in front of a space crack that spanned across the darkness.

On the other side of the crack, there were no stars, no light.

Only a huge valley hung upside down in the Void Realm.

The entire valley presented a metallic grayish-white color.

Above the cliffs, tens of thousands of broken weapons were densely inserted.

Sabers, swords, spears, halberds...

Each one was covered in rust and cracks, as if having experienced countless extremely tragic wars.

Yet even so, they still emitted a bone-chilling cold light.

Thousands of cold lights gathered together, like a river of stars flowing backward.

"This is the [Saber Valley Secret Realm]."

In Kong Ming's tone, there was a hint of nostalgia and awe.

"Back then, before your mother stepped into the Tier 9, she sharpened her blade here for seventeen years."

He turned his head, his silver eyes looking at the girl beside him.

"Your father sealed this place for eighteen years; this is the Legacy land he left for you."

Shen Qingci stretched out her hand, her fingertips lightly touching a faint aura escaping from the edge of the crack.

Cold.

Sharp.

It cut directly into her skin and flesh.

"The flow of time here is different from the outside world."

Kong Ming's voice pulled her thoughts back.

"One day outside is ten days in the valley. You can stay inside for ten months."

Ten times the flow rate!

Shen Qingci's pupils constricted slightly.

"Are you ready?"

She nodded heavily.

Kong Ming said no more, raised his sleeve, and lightly flicked it towards the silvery-white crack.

Hum...!

The door to the Secret Realm, sealed for eons, was pushed open with a boom.

The outermost Seal was broken at the sound.

In the next instant, the Geng Metal Saber Qi that had been silent for eighteen years, like a dam-bursting torrent, sprayed out violently from the crack!

That was not Source Energy, not wind, but the purest killing aura condensed from the will of thousands of divine weapons and sharp blades!

Sshhh!

Shen Qingci hadn't even had time to react.

Just by being grazed by the edge of that Saber Qi torrent,

The special A-grade defensive combat suit on her body split open at the sound.

Fine beads of blood also seeped out on the surface of her skin.

The second, the third, grazed her forearm and side waist in succession...

Each one carried the bone-deep chill unique to Geng Metal.

The Tier 3 Silver Source Energy shield that was operating automatically on her body surface was as fragile as thin paper in front of that terrifying Saber Qi, trembling violently, ready to be torn apart at any moment.

And this was just the outermost aura!

"Step back!"

Kong Ming's gaze darkened, the power of space suddenly condensed in his palm, and he raised his hand, preparing to set up a barrier directly at the entrance.

He knew better than anyone.

This Saber Valley was not a gentle training room at all.

This was the Shura land where Luo Qingyi once used to temper her Tier 9 Saber Intent and had killed countless enemies!

If Shen Qingci, with her current Tier 3 Realm, forced her way in,

If she was even slightly careless, before her Saber Bone could Awakening, she would be shredded alive by this omnipresent ten thousand blade Saber Qi!

However, just as Kong Ming was about to make a move.

"Uncle Kong Ming."

Shen Qingci shook her head and blocked his wrist.

The girl's gaze passed through the raging Saber Qi and looked at the broken weapons in the valley.

There was no fear in her eyes, only a burning determination.

She thought of Su Ming.

That guy who had made a comeback from an F-grade talent, again and again, his strength soaring like a rocket in an absurd manner.

She also thought of her father.

That old face that was always hidden under the oil stains of the Scrap Yard, looking nonchalant, but always revealing endless fatigue and heaviness inadvertently.

One was frantically clearing the way in front, and the other was silently guarding from behind.

She could no longer stand behind them with peace of mind.

"I cannot keep standing behind you."

The voice penetrated the howling of the Saber Qi, clear and calm.

The next moment, Shen Qingci did something that even caught Kong Ming off guard.

She actively withdrew all her protective Source Energy.

She let the Geng Metal Saber Qi, which was enough to tear through steel, pierce into her flesh like countless steel needles.

"Ugh..."

Intense pain spread through her limbs and bones, as if ten thousand small knives were cutting her Meridians and bones at the same time.

Shen Qingci let out a muffled groan in pain, her pretty face turning ghastly pale, and beads of cold sweat the size of beans oozed out one by one.

But she did not take half a step back.

She forcibly suppressed her body's instinctive reaction,

Closed her eyes in this extreme pain, calmed her heart,

And blocked out the sound of the Saber Qi, the wind, and her own rapid breathing from the outside world...

Her consciousness began to sink into her body,

Sink into her bone marrow,

Sinking to that boundary she had never been able to truly touch.

The Geng Metal Secret Marrow was flowing.

Slow, thin, like an underground river that had been blocked for eighteen years.

Shen Qingci held her breath, her perception following the grain of her bones inward,

One inch, two inches...

She used all her heart and mind to perceive the rhythm of every inch of bone in her body.

The next moment.

She heard it.

"Thump..."

It was not the sound of a heartbeat.

But a kind of clearer, sharper clanging!

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Immediately after, all two hundred and six tempered bones in her body,

Actually emitted a clear clanging at the same frequency at the same time!

The sounds gathered together, like ten thousand sabers returning to their sheaths,

And like a proud Soul opening its eyes at this moment!

Kong Ming was stunned on the spot.

His silver pupils constricted, and then fixed on Shen Qingci.

She actually... did it herself!

Relying on her own will, she finally heard that which had been silent for eighteen years...

Saber Bone Heartbeat!

"Clang...!"

With the first rhythm of the "Saber Bone Heartbeat," the [Geng Metal Secret Marrow] inherent in Shen Qingci's body seemed to have been summoned and began to flow wildly on its own!

Strands of brilliant silver-white light followed her bone marrow and instantly spread throughout her body!

A strange scene happened.

Those Saber Valley Saber Qi that were originally destroying her flesh and Meridians, suddenly changed direction.

They no longer attacked her flesh and Meridians, but followed the patterns that lit up on her bones,

Flowing crazily into them, turning into finer, more solid silver saber patterns.

Then...

Thousands of saber patterns gathered into an unstoppable torrent,

And slammed heavily against that first indestructible barrier deep in her Bloodline!

That was the first layer of Seal that Shen Hongyuan had condensed with Tier 9 space power back then!

Boom...!!!

The impact exploded in the depths of Shen Qingci's Soul!

The first layer of the Tier 9 Seal shattered at the sound!

A terrifying aura, far more majestic, noble, and sharp than before,

Rushed into the sky from Shen Qingci's body!

Behind her, a blurry phantom of a woman in white, stunningly beautiful, flashed and disappeared!

valkyrie, Luo Qingyi!

Crack!

The incomparably solid Realm barrier in Shen Qingci's body,

Under the impact of this aura, was torn to pieces on the spot!

Tier 3 Silver Late Stage!

Tier 3 Silver Peak!

Bottleneck, broken!

Tier 4 · Gold Early Stage!

Tier 4 · Gold Middle Stage!

...

Tier 4 · Gold Peak!

The aura climbed wildly like a broken bamboo, until it stayed steadily at the Tier 4 · Gold Peak, only one step away from Tier 5.

"Hum hum hum..."

The Tang cross-sword cold edge she had been holding in her palm trembled violently at this moment, emitting a high-pitched and impassioned long cry.

That cry formed a resonance at the same frequency with the thousands of broken blades silent in the entire Saber Valley.

"Ten Thousand Blades Resonate! Mistress..."

Kong Ming muttered distractedly.

"Returned..."

The aftermath of the Breakthrough swept across the Void Realm, and the entire Saber Valley Secret Realm trembled because of it.

In the depths, those broken blades that had been silent for eighteen years lit up with faint light one by one, lining up in the darkness.

Kong Ming forcibly stabilized the space at the entrance of the Secret Realm and looked at Shen Qingci, whose aura had completely transformed.

"The first layer of Seal is just the beginning."

His voice was a bit hoarse.

"The deeper you go into the valley, the more stable the time flow, and the stronger the Saber Intent. There, hides the... true valkyrie will that your mother left behind back then!"

Shen Qingci slowly opened her eyes.

In those cold eyes, there was now a brilliant silver-white.

She looked down at the silver saber patterns carved on her body by the Saber Qi and gripped the cold edge in her hand tightly.

Without any hesitation, she stepped into the depths of the Saber Valley where ten thousand blades hung upside down.

Kong Ming watched her determined back.

A glimmer of light flashed in those silver eyes that had lived for countless years.

He knew that the valkyrie Bloodline that had been sleeping for eighteen years...

At this moment, was finally about to awaken!