Published: February 21, 2025
Spatial sword intent surrounded Chen Chu.
On the other side of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, deep within a branch of the peaks.
At the edge of a sheer cliff, fierce winds howled. An Fuqing, dressed in ordinary battle armor, sat cross-legged, her eyes clear as jade, quietly gazing ahead.
Before her, the space beyond the cliff appeared like a wrinkled transparent sheet, with dark cracks forming and disappearing in the blink of an eye as the space self-repaired.
These black cracks ranged from a few centimeters to over a meter in length, slicing through everything in their path, including the air!
As she observed the continuous birth and disappearance of the spatial cracks, the reflection of space shattering and vanishing gradually surfaced in An Fuqing's eyes.
When Chen Chu broke through to the three heavens, Liu Feixu and Pang Long had mentioned that during the Keluoya Trial, An Fuqing comprehended the sword intent.
In the eyes of the school leaders, her comprehension ability was even more exaggerated than her astonishing cultivation talent.
Even Chen Chu, who had achieved true martial divine rhythm with the low-level dragon elephant skill at the three heavens, reaching the theoretical limit described by the technique's creator, was considered slightly inferior to her in terms of talent potential.
It wasn't until Chen Chu, with average talent, became the first to break through to the four heavens that his talent potential evaluation at the school was on par with hers, but just on par.
This is the terrifying aspect of comprehension as a "talent."
At this moment, as she observed the birth and demise of the spatial cracks, a terrifying aura of sword intent began to emanate from An Fuqing, her long hair moving without wind.
Within a radius of about ten feet around her, tiny cracks began to appear on the hard rocks, and grass silently shattered, with even the air emitting soft popping sounds.
Once the mountain stream's fierce winds entered within a few meters of An Fuqing, they would suddenly vanish.
No, it wasn't that they vanished, but that they were torn apart and annihilated by the invisible, sharp sword intent, just like the spatial cracks that continuously appeared and disappeared, terrifying to behold.
Sword intent is a form of willpower, stronger than ordinary willpower, capable of doubling the power of sword energy once comprehended.
Regardless of whether they practiced sword or knife techniques, those who understood sword intent and knife intent would see a significant boost in combat capabilities.
Under normal circumstances, for a cultivator to comprehend sword intent, the prerequisite is to cultivate advanced combat skills to mastery and then to achieve a moment of sublimation with extreme belief and martial arts realm.
It is easy to imagine how difficult this is.
And An Fuqing, who comprehended sword intent at the three heavens, was a true prodigy.
Of course, the so-called difficulty is only for ordinary people; geniuses are always exceptions. Otherwise, if everyone were mediocre, the term genius wouldn't exist.
At this moment, An Fuqing had been sitting here for several days. After her initial comprehension of the illusionary sword intent, she gained further understanding from observing the spatial cracks.
Suddenly, An Fuqing brought her right hand's two fingers together, condensing a one-meter-long white sword energy at her fingertips, the sword intent swirling around it as she casually waved her hand.
Puff!
Wherever the sword energy passed, a pitch-black mark appeared in the air, lingering under the residual sharp sword intent for a long time.
"Wrong."
Looking at the merely pitch-black vacuum marks before her, An Fuqing frowned slightly and dispelled the illusory sword energy in her hand.
The girl continued to gaze ahead, her clear and bright eyes reflecting the black cracks that constantly appeared and disappeared, falling silent once more.
On her body, the sharp intent to sever everything became increasingly pronounced and powerful.
As An Fuqing fell into a state of sudden enlightenment, true power began to circulate automatically within her, absorbing and expelling the energy of heaven and earth at an astonishing speed, her aura growing stronger and stronger.