Chapter 1322 - 1308: Sword Duel

All the weapons on these racks are extremely uniform; they’re all wooden swords, without any other items.

The crowd frowned.

Soon someone noticed that they couldn’t retrieve their weapons from their storage spaces. Even those carrying weapons couldn’t use them, stopped by some unknown force.

It seems.

If they want to use weapons, they must take the wooden swords from these racks.

No way around it.

After all, they’re on someone else’s turf, unless their strength surpasses the Sword Monarch, they must follow the rules set by the others.

The crowd picked up the wooden swords from the racks.

At this moment.

The large gate in front of the courtyard suddenly burst open with a bang, revealing the scene behind it.

Behind it.

Is an enormous training ground.

On the training ground, there are numerous puppets that appear to be used for sword practice.

As soon as the crowd stepped onto the training ground, these puppets instantly came to life.

"What’s going on?"

At this moment, someone suddenly discovered they couldn’t use their True Qi, as if it was locked.

A vast amount of True Qi.

Now completely locked, they’re no different from ordinary people.

This filled them with panic.

At this moment.

After they entered, the gate slammed shut, and those wooden puppets, also wielding wooden swords, charged forward like lightning.

The crowd was thrown into chaos by these sudden attacks.

However.

Someone quickly reacted, beginning to engage the wooden puppets.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

The sound of wooden swords clashing continuously echoed.

The strength of these wooden puppets was unexpectedly not weak, their sword techniques were exquisite, and they fought evenly with the cultivators, making it difficult to tell who would win.

Baiyu had already understood this trial.

Clearly, the Sword Monarch wanted to test their level of Sword Dao!

This trial.

Can only rely on pure strength.

Although Baiyu couldn’t use True Qi either, the Sword Monarch could only seal his True Qi, not his Martial Dao and Extraordinary Sequence powers.

Moreover.

Baiyu possessed many peculiar items.

So he used a bit of Blood Qi to directly smash the wooden puppet he was facing, causing a strange component to fall from the puppet’s heart.

He picked up the component.

Then walked to the other side of the training ground, towards the exit.

The large gate here was tightly shut.

Beside it, however, was a recess with a silhouette resembling the component.

Baiyu aligned the component with the recess, pressing it down gradually, and the door opened with a click.

Alright.

This thing turned out to be a key.

Baiyu was a bit surprised, as he hadn’t considered the possibility of this being a key.

However.

Since the door was open, he certainly wouldn’t linger here.

He stepped forward.

Walked through the door.

In an instant, the door shut with a bang again.

It’s undeniable that the Sword Monarch’s evaluation was truly rigorous, making extensive efforts to select an heir.

Behind the gate.

Lies a long corridor.

Baiyu walked through the corridor calmly, without encountering any danger, and at the end of the corridor, there stood a magnificent grand hall.

On the walls on both sides of the hall.

Various swords were inserted, including some former treasures, collected by the Sword Monarch and placed in his tomb.

The entire grand hall was supported by eight large pillars, all crafted from jade.

Glimmering with faint light.

Above.

Many sword techniques were carved.

At the end of the grand hall, there was a throne on which a corpse sat.

The reason it was judged to be a corpse.

Was because Baiyu immediately saw that the corpse had no Blood Qi, its blood had dried up, all internal organs had ceased functioning, showing no signs of life.

Baiyu’s expression remained indifferent.

While staying in the hall.

At this moment.

The oil lamps hanging on the walls suddenly lit up, brightening the entire hall.

Baiyu furrowed his brows.

His Spiritual Sense swept out, carefully probing around, but found no one else, apparently an automatic response from the hall.

When people arrive.

The lamps light up?

Adhering to a principle of cautiousness, Baiyu didn’t continue exploring, instead scrutinizing the corpse in detail.

The appearance of the corpse.

Bore a striking resemblance to the white-clad apparition he previously played chess with; clearly, it was the Sword Monarch himself, showing no signs of decay after so many years, truly proving that the high-level cultivator’s body itself was a Magical Treasure.

Before long.

Others soon started entering.

Baiyu noticed, it was a female cultivator entering from a different direction than he had.

Apparently.

Others from different gates also began passing the trials, entering this final layer.

The woman wore the Taiyi Sword Sect attire and stood beside him, sizing up Baiyu, noting he appeared unaffiliated, she frowned but soon relaxed.

She asked in a low voice, "Where does the gentleman come from?"

Baiyu didn’t expect her to initiate conversation, so he replied, "I come from the Eastern Tang Dynasty."

"Eastern Tang Dynasty?"

The woman furrowed her brow, racking her brain to recall this place, though the memory of a cultivator is excellent, she had never heard of such a place.

Possibly an island overseas.

She tentatively asked, "Are you a loose cultivator?"

"No, I am the Grand Elder of the Sea Cloud Sect."

Baiyu lied earnestly.

Yet evidently, the woman hadn’t heard of the Sea Cloud Sect, but realizing his ability to arrive here first, his power was indisputable.

Therefore.

The woman remained polite, saying, "I am Bing Jianyi from Taiyi Sword Sect."

Ah, someone from Taiyi Sword Sect...

Baiyu smiled and nodded, "So it’s a fellow from Taiyi Sword Sect, I’ve had good relations with some Elders from your sect."

Bing Jianyi smiled, "Then we are friends, have you discovered anything here, fellow cultivator?"

Baiyu shook his head, "No discoveries."

Bing Jianyi furrowed her brow, asking in a steady voice, "You’re acquainted with the Elders of our Taiyi Sword Sect?"

"Hehe, that’s from days long past, better left unsaid."

Baiyu chuckled, steering the conversation elsewhere.

Clearly.

If Bing Jianyi knew he killed her sect’s Vice Sect Leader, who knows if she’d fight him on the spot.

Of course.

Even if told, she likely wouldn’t believe it.

After a brief exchange, they didn’t continue talking as others began entering.

About half an hour passed.

Nearly forty people gathered inside the hall.

These.

Were all those who passed the tests.

In fact, the pass rate wasn’t low, considering previously there were only about a hundred people outside, but remembering these hundred or so were all elites of the Giant Spirit Realm, the pass rate wasn’t especially high.