Chapter 179 - 136: Myriad Swords as One, Point of All Things

Chapter 179: Chapter 136: Myriad Swords as One, Point of All Things

"I don’t know what the void is either. The people in the organization didn’t tell us; they just told us to watch this place."

"But we guess it must be something that only Extraordinary Beings of a very, very high realm can access. At least, we aren’t qualified yet."

"So... the people the organization sent before, do we know them?"

"We don’t."

Shen Ruyun shook her head. "They were all new faces."

"Their most obvious characteristic was that they were all white-haired elders, similar to Elder Lu and that Sword God. They must be Extraordinary Beings from the previous generation."

"I see,"

Su Yu said pensively.

He suddenly felt that the special organization had become somewhat unfamiliar. Su Yu never imagined that the organization had so many hidden cards up its sleeve.

Then again, he also hadn’t expected the Spiritual Sect to be such a powerful behemoth. All he could say was that the world was changing too fast, catching people off guard.

DING!

While Su Yu was lost in thought, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

He took a moment to identify the sound.

It was coming from the phone issued by the special organization.

Su Yu took out the phone and glanced at Shen Ruyun. Her phone hadn’t made a sound, which meant this wasn’t a message sent to all organization members.

"Alright, I need to talk to someone. You can stay here by yourself for now."

Shen Ruyun didn’t make things difficult for Su Yu. She spoke up and left immediately.

She knew very well that the organization’s decisions were to be obeyed unconditionally. Since the organization hadn’t sent her a message, there was no need for her to pry.

Besides,

sometimes receiving a message from the organization,

wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

When the organization assigned missions, it would select and notify members suitable for the task. Receiving a text was almost equivalent to being assigned to the upcoming mission.

Sure enough, as soon as Su Yu opened his phone, he saw a message from his senior, Li Yu. The message was long and detailed; it took Su Yu a while to read through the entire thing.

In short,

it was an order for Su Yu to attend a strategy meeting for the encirclement of "Vice Bishop Jie." The message included the time, place, a general agenda and direction for the meeting, and some other miscellaneous details.

"Received."

Su Yu replied with a single word. He slowly raised his head to gaze at the distant sky, his thoughts unreadable. Suddenly, a fluctuation of sequential energy resonated within him.

CRACK.

The bottleneck of Tier Three Peak suddenly shattered.

Just like that, Su Yu inexplicably reached the realm of a Tier Four Sequencer.

...

At the same moment as Su Yu’s sudden breakthrough,

far away in a Sword Hall in Southern Cang City, a breakthrough belonging to Su Xing was also underway.

The Sword Hall, Su Xing’s room.

The room had been tidied up by Su Xing. The bloodstains on the white bedsheets were gone. Su Xing sat on the bed, a blue light flashing in his eyes as he quietly stared at the system panel and the strings of data displayed on it.

[Sword Saint Profession System]

[Name: Su Xing]

[Age: 22]

[Profession: Swordsman, Sword Hall Coach]

[Sword Disciples: Lu Anning, Xiao Yu]

[Profession Skills: Myriad Swords Return to One Lv.1 (2076/30000), Sea Overturning Lv.1 (232/100000), Qi Sword Stance Lv.1 (5721/100000), Spirit Sword Lv.1 (2631/100000), Drifting Snow Lv.1 (221/100000), Sword Liberation Lv.1 (298/100000), Starlight Tap Lv.1 (378/30000)]

[Sword Dao Points: 154]

One hundred and fifty-four Sword Dao Points.

Although Su Xing had already seen this number, seeing it again made his heart skip a beat.

The feeling of excitement was incomparable. It meant he could take another huge step forward on the Sword Dao.

He had been unconscious during this recent increase and didn’t know how long the absorption process had taken, but he figured it couldn’t have been very fast.

After all, it was a full 154 Sword Dao Points, even more than the 149 points from last time. It must have taken at least four or even five days to absorb them completely.

Thinking about it that way,

being unconscious for seven days wasn’t much of a loss.

HUFF.

Su Xing took a deep breath and thought to himself,

’These Sword Dao Points are enough to raise the last two sword skills to Tier Four. After that, I’ll need to consider how to get them to Tier Five.’

As for which sword skills to upgrade, that was the easiest question to answer.

Right now, only "Myriad Swords Return to One" and "Starlight Tap" had yet to reach Tier Four. All his other sword skills were already at his current realm, making him quite balanced.

Having decided where to allocate the points, Su Xing slowly exhaled, his gaze gradually focusing on the "Sword Dao Points" display.

He slowly uttered a few syllables, the sound too quiet to be heard clearly, but the system responded instantly. A pop-up window appeared swiftly before him.

[Sword Saint Profession System]

[Sword Dao Points: 154]

[Do you want to add 72 Sword Dao Points to the profession skill "Myriad Swords Return to One"? Yes/No?]

"Yes."

Su Xing nodded lightly, the word escaping his lips as quiet as a mosquito’s buzz.

The system reacted just as quickly. The 154 in the Sword Dao Points column instantly dropped to 82.

The proficiency value behind "Myriad Swords Return to One" began to skyrocket as if it were inflating, the numbers flickering too fast for the naked eye to follow. Soon, it became a blurry black smudge, completely indecipherable.

Su Xing glanced at it once before looking away. His gaze fell back on "Starlight Tap" in the profession skills list. His throat moved, and a calm voice, like a silver needle dropping, landed in the quiet room.

"System, add more."

[Sword Saint Profession System]

[Sword Dao Points: 82]

[Do you want to add 72 Sword Dao Points to the profession skill "Starlight Tap"? Yes/No?]

Having the experience of allocating points to two sword skills in a row last time, the system panel popped up much faster this time.

The moment Su Xing’s voice fell, the system window appeared again. He gave it a quick scan and said flatly,

"Yes."

As Su Xing’s voice faded, the two skills, "Myriad Swords Return to One" and "Starlight Tap," began to twitch and distort frantically, as if the system was bugging out. One system panel after another popped up, leaving Su Xing feeling dizzy.

[Your profession skill "Myriad Swords Return to One Lv.1" has been upgraded to "Myriad Swords Return to One Lv.2"]

[Your profession skill "Starlight Tap Lv.1" has been upgraded to "Starlight Tap Lv.2"]

[Your profession skill "Myriad Swords Return to One Lv.2" has been upgraded to "Myriad Swords Return to One Lv.3"]

[Your profession skill "Starlight Tap Lv.2" has been upgraded to "Starlight Tap Lv.3"]

...

[Your profession skill "Myriad Swords Return to One Lv.6" has advanced to "Myriad Swords Unite Lv.1"]

[Your profession skill "Starlight Tap Lv.6" has advanced to "Tap of Myriad Forms Lv.1"]

Myriad Swords Unite, Tap of Myriad Forms.

Su Xing glanced at the names of the two sword skills without giving them much thought. He quickly closed his eyes, focusing his mind and bracing himself for the coming bombardment of information.

Sure enough, just a breath later, an unprecedented wave of excruciating pain flooded Su Xing’s mind.

The information from these two sword skills surged into his mind like a tank plowing through an ancient village, devastating and unstoppable. In an instant, it shattered the world before his eyes.

Su Xing’s body sat blankly on the bed, but his consciousness seemed to be in the deepest abyss. As far as his mind’s eye could see, there was only darkness. Besides the black and some lines, he couldn’t perceive a third thing’s existence.

This situation,

lasted for an unknown amount of time,

until Su Xing’s brain finally seemed to recover from the mass of information.

Su Xing’s eyes flew open, and he gasped for breath in huge gulps, like a drowning man finally rescued and brought ashore.

After a long while,

Su Xing finally realized,

he had returned to the place where he had previously practiced "Sword Liberation." Below him, the small figure stood in the center of countless longswords, practicing "Myriad Swords Return to One" again and again.