346: Chapter 356 I Beat Myself Up? The Sword Emperor's Astonishment!

Beneath his straw cloak, Su Jin's cheek twitched violently twice.

What kind of situation is this?

Paying money to hire me to beat myself up?!

Looking at Mu Linglong's cute appearance, with her face full of indignation as she waved her pink fist, Su Jin really couldn't bear to crush her spirit at this moment.

He suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and said in a deep voice, "The Sword Domain is so vast; finding such a person in the boundless sea of people probably won't be easy, right?"

"Don't worry!"

Mu Linglong patted her chest and said with full confidence, "Once I return to the Ten Thousand Sword Ancient Clan, I will immediately go find the clan's Divination Saint! As long as he is in the Sword Domain, the Saint will definitely be able to calculate a general direction for me. When that time comes, I will naturally pass the information on to you!"

"..."

Su Jin was completely speechless.

Fine, this girl was not only tsundere, but also quite vengeful. Not only was she vengeful, she was even going to use a Saint to divine his location! This was going to be a bit troublesome.

"Hehehe..."

In his Sea of Consciousness, the Yuanhong Sword Spirit let out an extremely malicious and cheap laugh:

"Kid, this portrait, isn't it you? This girl is too blind to recognize you, but this Seat has seen your true face! You say... what if this Seat accidentally lets it slip later..."

"If you dare to say even half a word, I will shove you into an outhouse and Seal you for ten thousand years." Su Jin responded in his heart with an expressionless face.

Yuanhong instantly shut up.

"Take it one step at a time. The gains from this trial are immense; the most urgent task is to go into seclusion and digest them."

Su Jin calculated secretly, "Two years from now, the most core Sword God Domain will open. I must strive to raise my Realm one step further before then. As for my identity being exposed... I'll deal with that later."

After making up his mind, Su Jin looked up at Mu Linglong: "Miss Linglong, thank you for your immortal core. I am going into seclusion to perform Fusion with the Great Dao Origin."

"Ah!"

Mu Linglong exclaimed upon hearing this, and suddenly patted her smooth forehead: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten! I also need to hurry and enter seclusion to perform Fusion with the insights from the Trial of the Sword!"

Someone once calculated that peerless Prodigies who can step onto the seventy-first floor and above, as long as they completely digest what they gained from the trial, can directly advance to above the fourth level of the Golden Immortal Realm! And for every five additional swords pulled out, one can advance an additional level.

Mu Linglong calculated that, given the number she had risked her life to pull out this time, it was highly likely she would reach the seventh level of the Golden Immortal Realm after leaving seclusion!

"Eh? Wait!"

Mu Linglong's eyes lit up, as if she had figured something out, "If I can reach the seventh level of the Golden Immortal Realm, do I still need to ask him for help to teach that piece of rotten wood a lesson? Wouldn't it be more than enough for me to go beat him up by myself?!"

The more Mu Linglong thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. It was all that hateful forced marriage's fault, it had made her so angry her brain stopped working!

Subsequently, the immortal palace arrived at a safe Star Domain station. The two bade each other farewell, each searched for a secret chamber, and began a long period of seclusion to condense their own Great Dao Origin.

...

At the same time.

At Sword Emperor Mountain, which was extremely far from this place.

As the strongest force in the Sword Domain, the existence of Sword Emperor Mountain in the Sword Domain was equivalent to the status of Purgatory Hall in the Wanxiang Star Domain, or perhaps even greater; it was the true hegemon.

Above the clouds, deep within Sword Emperor Mountain.

Elder Hun, who had just returned to the Sect with Young Master Yifeng, did not pay attention to the Young Lord who was throwing a tantrum. Instead, he went alone and respectfully to the door of the secret chamber where the Sword Emperor was in seclusion.

"Sect Master." Elder Hun bowed deeply.

The door to the secret chamber swung open with a boom.

On a prayer mat in the center of the great hall sat a middle-aged man with a cold expression, possessing a natural authority that did not require anger to be intimidating.

He was extremely handsome, but the most eye-catching thing was a single strand of glaring snow-white hair hanging over his forehead amidst his ink-black hair.

With his heaven-reaching means at the Middle Stage of the Great Emperor Realm, wanting to change his appearance or turn the white hair black was just a matter of a single thought.

Yet he allowed this strand of white hair to remain, as if he were remembering some indelible memory.

This was the current actual ruler of the Sword Domain—the Sword Emperor!

"Young Master Yifeng... did not obtain the qualification to enter the Sword God Domain?"

The Sword Emperor did not open his eyes. His voice was as calm as water, yet it carried the pressure of a Great Emperor that made people afraid to even breathe loudly.

With his Divine Sense at the Middle Stage of the Great Emperor Realm, the moment Elder Hun stepped into the courtyard, he knew instantly whether or not Young Master Yifeng carried the mark of the God Domain.

"Yes. Reporting to the Sect Master, there were some unexpected variables during this trial."

Elder Hun lowered his head even further and replied concisely: "There was a Loose Cultivator in a straw cloak of unknown origin who reached the top of the Heavenly Stairs."

"Reached the top?!"

The Sword Emperor's deep eyes, which seemed to contain a sea of stars, suddenly opened.

"Hum—"

Accompanied by him opening his eyes, the space around the entire Sword Emperor Hall twisted in waves!

"That's correct. He not only reached the top, but he also had some conflict with Young Master Yifeng." Elder Hun bit the bullet and said.

"Tell me in detail."

A rare spark of interest ignited in the Sword Emperor's eyes.

Clearly, his interest at this moment was not at all on his own good-for-nothing son, but rather, he had developed a keen interest in this Su Jin who could reach the top of the Heavenly Stairs!

Elder Hun dared not conceal anything and began from when Su Jin cut down an Elder of the Blood Sword Sect with one sword outside the Linchuan Realm, and how he displayed a Domain that only a Saint King would have just after entering the Golden Immortal Realm...

When he heard about Su Jin's "Heavy Sword Domain," a look of amazement flashed in the Sword Emperor's eyes.

Subsequently, Elder Hun recounted Su Jin's performance on the Heavenly Stairs in minute detail.

"In order to stop others, Young Master Yifeng brought up Sword Emperor Mountain and ordered all Cultivators not to step onto the seventy-first floor..."

"But that Sword Cultivator in the straw cloak did not obey the Young Lord's order. He ignored the threat and crossed the Heavenly Stairs directly..."

Elder Hun continued his narration.

After a long while, the Sword Emperor raised his hand to interrupt him, his brows slightly furrowed as if he had grasped some key point, and he asked:

"You mean to say that when he was on the first fifty steps, he walked slowly, even sitting cross-legged on one step for a long time. But later on, he walked faster and faster?"

"Reporting to the Sect Master! That is indeed the case!"

Elder Hun's face showed deep confusion: "This subordinate was watching through the projection at the time and couldn't understand it no matter what! Clearly, the first fifty floors were the simplest, yet this person spent the most time, as if he were comprehending something very obscure. Conversely, on the last fifty floors, he made Breakthroughs extremely quickly!"

"Even on the ninety-first floor and above, which is recognized as the most difficult and requires imitating the Sword Emperor's ultimate techniques, he was like bamboo being split, reaching the top all the way!"

After listening to Elder Hun's description.

The Sword Emperor's gaze flickered violently, and he remained motionless like a statue, seemingly lost in some memory.

The entire great hall was dead silent. Elder Hun stood to the side, not daring to even breathe loudly.

"Sigh..."

It was unknown how much time had passed.

The Sword Emperor suddenly closed his eyes and let out a long sigh filled with a hint of desolation.

"I know why he walked so slowly in the beginning."

The Sword Emperor's voice carried a hint of reverence that even Elder Hun could not understand: "He was not comprehending the Sword Emperor's Sword Intent; he was tracing the source... he was comprehending the Sword Emperor's 'Dao' of returning to simplicity!"

"With such Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability and Heart-Nature, if he had been born one hundred thousand years earlier..."

The Sword Emperor touched the glaring strand of white hair on his forehead and muttered to himself: "Perhaps the Sword Domain... would still have a chance."