Published: December 25, 2024
The large black cat and the skeleton helmsman were both dumbfounded at this moment, as they watched Qin Chen rushing through the countless corpses, completely immersed in a kind of enlightenment.
At first, Qin Chen had charged toward the outer area of the Ghostly Souls Land, but now he had stopped, as if he wouldn't rest until he had killed all the corpses in front of him.
The army of corpses had been completely drawn to Qin Chen, and the skeleton helmsman and the large black cat nearby were utterly ignored.
Especially the skeleton helmsman, having absorbed a vast amount of corpse energy, had this energy swirling around him, causing many of the surrounding corpses to regard him as one of their kind.
Looking around, endless bones continuously surged toward Qin Chen, but those corpses seemed to be blocked by a powerful force at the center, unable to engulf the person in the middle.
If the skeleton helmsman and the large black cat were at the core of the army at this moment, they would see that Qin Chen had completely closed his eyes, and even his mental and spiritual powers were no longer scattered, relying solely on his keen sense of crisis and sensory perceptions to control the sword light.
The spirituality and elegance of that sword light became increasingly clear.
Qin Chen disregarded everything and unleashed the sword light, searching for that thread of spirituality within it.
With each wave of the corpses' attacks, his sword light would block them, causing a shower of shattered bones. However, there were simply too many corpses surrounding him, and some managed to break through the sword light and injure him.
Fortunately, Qin Chen's Indestructible Sacred Body had already cultivated to the sixth level; those corpses that could attack him were the weakest. Any threatening attacks were captured by his perception, and the sword light would block them immediately.
In the end, a sword light shield even formed around Qin Chen, enveloping him in darkness.
Even though the mysterious rust sword consumed very little true essence, such a high-density confrontation made it difficult for Qin Chen to persist. Whenever his true essence in the dantian slightly weakened, he would immediately take a large number of pills to replenish it, swallowing them in an instant.
To prevent any accidents in the Heavenly Demon Secret Realm, Qin Chen had almost refined all the spiritual herbs on him into pills. These pills were originally intended for the most critical moments in battle, but now they were all consumed in this fight against the army of corpses.
In fact, given the speed at which Qin Chen was slaying these corpses, leaving the Ghostly Souls Land shouldn't have been a difficult task.
But at this moment, he seemed to have completely forgotten about leaving; in his heart and hands, there was only one action: controlling the sword light and killing the army of corpses.
Prior to this, Qin Chen had already reached an unparalleled level in swordsmanship and had deep attainments in sword control, having reached the second level where the heart moves and the sword moves.
As for the third level, where man and sword become one, using true essence to control the sword light to decapitate someone from a thousand miles away, he still could not comprehend it.
Moreover, Qin Chen had been unable to release true essence sword light, making the sword light be controlled by his sword techniques.
Before, Qin Chen had even discovered that when he practiced sword control, the sword light seemed to possess a sense of spirituality, which instantly absorbed him, causing him to forget his situation.
This feeling of controlling the spirituality of true essence sword light allowed him to grasp the sensation of the third realm of sword control, the unity of man and sword, stirring a profound joy within his heart that he couldn't let go of.
He feared that if he stopped, the subtle feeling he had just obtained would vanish once again.
The skeleton helmsman and the large black cat watched in a daze; if they still couldn't tell that Qin Chen was cultivating, then they would be fools.