39: Chapter 39 Sword Intent 10%

Lin Wan felt his consciousness suddenly sink, and then float up again; what greeted his eyes was an entirely different world.

A snow-capped mountain.

Endless expanses of white, wrapped in a silver cloak.

Between heaven and earth, there were only two colors: the pure white of the snow and the azure blue of the sky.

The wind and snow were light; fine snowflakes drifted slowly from the sky, landing on Lin Wan's shoulders, yet he could not feel a trace of cold.

He stood on the peak of the snow mountain.

Not far ahead, a figure stood with its back to him.

Clad in white that surpassed the snow.

Long hair like a waterfall cascaded to the waist, the tips gently stirred by the mountain wind.

The figure was slender and tall, with not a trace of aura leaking out, yet it made the Sword Intent seed in Lin Wan's sea of consciousness tremble wildly.

It was a resonance, as if it had found its own kind.

The woman turned around slowly.

Lin Wan saw her face clearly.

Cold and aloof.

Stunningly beautiful.

It was actually a female Sword Immortal this time—female Sword Immortals are great!

If a female Sword Immortal is teaching, one must learn!

She looked at Lin Wan, remained silent for a moment, and then spoke.

Her voice was as clear and cold as snowmelt:

"Sword Intent seed... you already possess one inheritance."

"It is Old Su's Heavenly Sword, isn't it? Crude, but the path is correct."

There seemed to be a hint of disdain in the woman's words.

Lin Wan's heart stirred. She knew that master of the sword path surnamed Su?

And listening to her tone, it seemed her status was even higher than that person surnamed Su.

"That you can come to me shows that your talent is not limited to holding just one Sword Intent."

The woman raised her right hand, brought two fingers together, and pointed them lightly at the space between Lin Wan's eyebrows.

In an instant, the world changed color.

The snow stopped, and the wind went still.

Lin Wan smiled.

As expected, the big shots all love to pull this stunt.

The woman moved.

Her figure did not shift, but those two fingers pressed together slowly traced forward...

Lin Wan's breathing became rapid.

This plain stroke caused Lin Wan's Sword Intent seed to explode suddenly, as if something inside the seed had cracked open. The light emanating from that crack—he didn't know what it was, nor did he know what method was used—was forcibly poured in.

"Old Su's Heavenly Sword is about extending the sword outward, extending it to a distance you cannot imagine."

"My sword flows against the current."

"All things have trajectories: water flows to low places, trees grow toward heights, living beings go from birth to death, and time flows from the past to the future."

"Everything is running along some predetermined trajectory."

"And my sword..."

Her fingers retracted gently.

"Flows against the current."

In that moment,

Lin Wan saw a scene even more shocking than before!

The snow mountain began to melt.

The melted snow water surged from the ground back into the sky, re-condensing into ice crystals and falling back into the clouds.

The wind blew from afar, but it retreated back into the distance against the direction it had come.

Everything between heaven and earth seemed to have had a rewind button pressed; under the influence of this Sword Intent, time flowed in reverse for an instant.

Then, everything returned to normal.

The woman withdrew her hand;

this was merely the limit of this Sword Intent avatar, not her own limit.

"The core of the Counter-Current Sword Intent is to see the trajectory, and then walk against it."

"A river flowing backwards is retracing; time flowing backwards is reversing; life flowing backwards is reverting."

"If you can find the trajectory of all things in motion, you can walk against it, all the way to the source."

"Walk to the place where everything began."

Her figure began to fade, like mist on the snow being blown away by the wind.

Finally, she left only one sentence:

"If we are fated to meet again, bring me a pot of cold tea from the snow mountain."

"Yes, yes, I'll be back soon!"

As the words fell, the world shattered.

Lin Wan opened his eyes abruptly.

Deep in his sea of consciousness, that Sword Intent seed was undergoing a violent transformation.

[sword intent inheritance stone usage complete...]

[current total Sword Intent comprehension: 2.8%]

[total Sword Intent bonus: twenty-eight times damage]

It increased by 0.8% all at once; as expected, the teaching standard was several levels above that of the one surnamed Su.

Lin Wan was extremely excited,

and then, under Ye Fan's puzzled gaze, he copied another stone and slapped it onto his own head.

...

On the peak of the snow mountain,

before Lin Wan could react, a cold and aloof voice came from his ear:

"Little brat, you are becoming a bit insatiable!"

"If it weren't for the fact that my true body is busy, I would really like to bring my sword over and teach you a lesson."

The woman appeared behind Lin Wan, leaning over to whisper in his ear.

For some reason, she was not angry; instead, a playful urge had emerged.

Lin Wan's body trembled,

but he still turned around resolutely, saying with an eager gaze:

"Isn't it because Fairy Sister's teaching is so good? I couldn't help myself."

"Truly, I wanted to learn so much."

The woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Oh~, is that so?"

Lin Wan nodded heavily,

and while speaking, he gazed at the woman with longing,

"I greatly admire experts like Fairy Sister!"

"I also want to become a Sword Immortal just like Fairy Sister."

"Just like... a great Sword... Immortal!!"

As he finished speaking, Lin Wan pointed his hand at the sky, his heroic spirit radiating outward.

He was not lying; he truly admired the strong.

The woman's expression trembled slightly.

Her eyes reflected the person in front of her, overlapping with a youth from her memories.

The same tone, the same gaze, just like in the past.

"Too similar!"

the woman murmured.

Perhaps it was the Dragon Luck at work; the greed for super power in Lin Wan's eyes was over-interpreted by the woman as the pure, innocent gaze of a youth.

Lin Wan enjoyed a wave of treatment reserved for a child of destiny.

The look in the woman's eyes as she taught him swordplay was always as gentle as water.

Lin Wan used up his sword intent inheritance stones one time, then another, and another.

And the woman's partiality toward him was endless, indulging his excessive demands.

Finally, the woman seemed to sense Lin Wan's limit, her eyes filled with reluctance.

"Little brother, you should go back now!"

"You have the mark of a Trial-taker on you; you should be in the middle of a cosmic ascension trial, right?!"

"Remember your sister's name; I am Ye Qingxian!"

"When you become the number one great Sword Immortal in the universe, remember to come find me!"

Lin Wan's gaze also held reluctance.

Not to mention anything else, Ye Qingxian was truly good to him—a good that involved no interests, an endless goodness.

He nodded solemnly.

"Sister Qingxian, I will; I will definitely come to find you."

"At that time, let us roam the world with our swords together!"

"Okay!"

She nodded with a smile.

The world shattered.

Lin Wan's consciousness returned.

Thump~

Thump~

His burning heart was beating.

He slowly opened his tightly closed eyes.

Endless sword energy condensed in his eyes.

Boom!!

Terrifying Sword Intent surged out from his body like a landslide or tsunami!!

[sword intent inheritance stone usage complete...]

[current total Sword Intent comprehension: 10%]

[total Sword Intent bonus: one hundred times damage]

This was the insight he gained after draining Ye Qingxian's teaching philosophy dry.

If he could be considered to have just entered the door of Sword Intent before, then now he was proficient.

He looked up at the sky.

The scorching sun had already set.

The dual purple moons, one large and one small, became the main feature of tonight.

It was also Lin Wan's stage.

Lin Wan looked at the combat power ranking list.

[01: Lin Wan / Human]

[Combat Power: 662425]

[Affiliated Civilization: Blue Star Civilization]

...

"Ye Fan, let's go!"

Lin Wan stood up.

Ye Fan, who was biting on grass and daydreaming, instantly returned to his senses,

"Brother-in-law, did you get it done?"

"Hmm!"

"How much certainty do you have?"

"I will definitely win!"

Wang said.