20: Chapter 20: The Seed of Sword Intent, A Battle Affecting Hundreds of Kilometers!

"That's good. Understanding it too early is actually not a good thing."

The middle-aged man turned his back and faced the shattered void.

"The core of Sword Intent is only two words… Extension."

"Extend your will, your power, and everything you have along the sword."

"Extend it to your enemy, extend it between heaven and earth, extend it to… places you yourself cannot even imagine."

"The further, the stronger."

"The purer, the sharper."

"When your Sword Intent can extend to the end of the universe, what you cleave will no longer be space."

"What you cleave is the rules themselves."

He turned around, his gaze falling on Lin Wan.

"Remember this feeling."

"Not the feeling I taught you, but the feeling in your heart when you saw me draw my sword and wanted to become like that."

"That is your Sword Intent seed."

"No matter how strong someone else's Sword Intent is, it is only theirs."

"Only what grows from within your own heart is truly your own."

"And one last thing to tell you…"

"The Way of the Sword follows the heart!"

After saying this, the middle-aged man's figure began to fade.

Like ink painting dissolving in water, his edges gradually blurred.

He took one last look at Lin Wan and, for some inexplicable reason, added one more sentence.

"Oh, by the way, my surname is Su."

"If you can really reach the end of the universe in the future, remember to burn a pot of wine for me."

As his voice fell, the entire solitary peak, the entire sea of clouds, and the entire blazing sun… shattered with a roar.

Lin Wan opened his eyes abruptly.

He carefully sensed his body and realized there was something new inside.

A… seed?

No, not a physical object.

It was a certain feeling branded deep within his soul.

[sword intent inheritance stone usage complete…]

[Host has obtained Sword Intent seed]

[Current comprehension level: 0.1%]

[Sword Intent bonus: 1x damage]

"It's only 0.1% and it adds 1x damage; wouldn't it be 1000x if it were perfected?"

"Damn, this old guy is so valuable. No way…"

"I have to fleece him completely!"

As he said this, Lin Wan duplicated another sword intent inheritance stone and slapped it onto his forehead.

At the peak of the solitary mountain.

"Why are you here again?"

The middle-aged man surnamed Su turned around, puzzled.

When he saw who it was.

"What the hell, why is it you again, kid?"

…

The eighteenth hour.

"It's lucky this is just a Sword Intent avatar. If it were that Su guy's true self, he would have cleaved me in two with one sword long ago."

Lin Wan grinned.

"One hundred times, oh one hundred times, so satisfying!"

"It's a pity it's ineffective now, otherwise I would have fleeced him until the end of time."

[Sword Intent seed]

[Current comprehension level: 1.3%]

[Sword Intent bonus: 13x damage]

Aside from the first time, which yielded the most, the efficiency of the sword intent inheritance stone dropped significantly starting from the second time.

By the end, it only reached 1.3% before the wool was completely fleeced.

But that makes sense; this is just one person's insights. If he switched to someone else, he could start fleecing them again.

"Besides, the level of my Sword Intent must be very high, otherwise it wouldn't be so difficult to comprehend."

"It's time to see what my current combat power is."

Lin Wan looked at his base panel.

[Panel data image]

Comprehensive Combat Power: 8980

Sometimes, even Lin Wan himself doubted whether he was cheating.

[Chaotic Beast Star Sector Combat Power Ranking]

[01: Hesikeer / Dragon Clan]

[Combat Power: 15561]

[Affiliated Civilization: Kase Civilization]

…

[02: Chu Ming / Half-Blood Dragon Clan]

[Combat Power: 10120]

[Affiliated Civilization: Kase Civilization]

…

[03: Night Kasi / Shadow Race]

[Combat Power: 9355]

[Affiliated Civilization: Dark Night Civilization]

…

[04: Nuoxia / Half-Blood Dragon Clan]

[Combat Power: 9045]

[Affiliated Civilization: Kase Civilization]

…

[05: Lin Wan / Human Race]

[Combat Power: 8980]

[Affiliated Civilization: Blue Star Civilization]

…

[010: Lu Nuonuo / Half-Blood Dragon Clan]

[Combat Power: 7856]

[Affiliated Civilization: Kase Civilization]

Parachuted into 5th place on the ranking.

Six hours ago, Lin Wan still felt that the 1st place was a target he couldn't chase yet.

Now, he wasn't far from 1st place.

"The biggest contributors to my combat power are the Unlimited Blade Works talent and the Sword Intent seed."

"If it weren't for the fact that the effects of Combat Perfection and Swordsmanship Perfection, which boost dynamic combat power, both dropped by 30%, his combat power would definitely have broken ten thousand."

But that was normal; two basic skills couldn't support such a massive boost in combat power forever.

However, his specialties seemed to be equivalent to innate talents, which never decayed.

"The bonuses from talents and specialties are too high, and my base attributes haven't caught up. From here on, my combat power will likely only rise steadily, not exponentially like it is now."

"I wonder how those geniuses survived this early phase."

[Be content, Host. To have your strength skyrocket so much in such a short time is rare even among the heavens.]

[Never mind others; just look at the 1st place on the ranking. They lived for at least several hundred years to reach that combat power.]

"Is that the same thing? What kind of person is the 1st place? I have you, does it have you?"

"If I couldn't do this with a system, wouldn't I be a piece of trash?"

[I love hearing you say that.]

[My second host only took ten-plus years to achieve galaxy-level combat power; you are stronger than him.]

"Then how did he die?"

[He was cursed to death by a woman.]

Lin Wan: "…"

Why are this system's hosts so strange? Their causes of death are all related to women?

[My second host was a man who lived off women. He juggled relationships between multiple women but didn't handle them well. He deceived one of them and was ambushed while undergoing his tribulation.]

[His head was chopped off, and he fled through hundreds of galaxies with only his headless body, but in the end, that woman cast a curse on his severed head…]

"Hiss…"

Lin Wan gasped.

Isn't this the Makoto Itou script?

That's too scary.

"Luckily I don't have any women. As a Sigma male, I will never fall into a woman's trap."

His goal is only to become stronger.

And to find the yellow-haired Ye Fan and beat him up.

Everything else can step aside.

However, just as he was thinking this, a fierce wind swept over in the next moment.

The howling wind blew his hair into a mess.

Sounds of fighting came from dozens of kilometers away, and even Lin Wan here was affected.

Lin Wan's pupils constricted.

He saw that on the combat power ranking list which hadn't been closed yet, a name began to rise rapidly.

[Chaotic Beast Star Sector Combat Power Ranking]

[01: Hesikeer / Dragon Clan]

[Combat Power: 15561]

[Affiliated Civilization: Kase Civilization]

…

[02: Lu Nuonuo / Half-Blood Dragon Clan]

[Combat Power: 7856 → 14956 (Abnormal)]

[Affiliated Civilization: Kase Civilization]

"My 5th place…"

…

The sentient beings closest to the battle site stood and watched the battle that affected a radius of over a hundred kilometers.

The range of the battle could easily cover two cities.

"What happened?"

"This power… is terrifying. I can feel the terrifying pressure from over a hundred kilometers away. Has it reached the Second Order?"

A sentient being from the Dark Night Civilization judged.

But as for who was most familiar with this pressure, it was only the people of the Kase Civilization.

"This is… Dragon Might, a very terrifying Dragon Might. Only a First Generation species has this kind of oppressive feeling!"

"It's Hesikeer! Among the chosen Trial-takers, only Hesikeer has this kind of strength!"

"Damn it, it's that detestable Dragon King. Who is… who is fighting the Dragon King?"

"Look at the ranking, it's… Senior Sister Nuonuo. Unbelievable, how could she have this kind of strength?"

"That S-rank Senior Sister?"

"Run… they've fought from the core area to the inner perimeter!"