CBGC - ch109.1

Chapter 109: Jumping down the cliff

The Springwater Sword in Su Tingyun's arms is shaking incessantly. From the tip of the sword, it’s as if there’s a tongue of fire moving around inside it, its speed getting faster and faster, like it’s gone mad.

Su Tingyun can barely keep the sword in her arms.

The Springwater Sword keeps shaking, even cutting her hand as it struggles to break free from her grip. By reason, she has already achieved the level where she’s one with her sword, so this flying sword cannot possibly hurt her. For such an anomaly to occur now, it makes Su Tingyun extremely cautious.

She watches as the Springwater Sword rams into the center of the seal at the bottom of the pool, and she can make out a faint barrier on the seal. With the impact of the Springwater Sword, layer upon layer of water ripples out, causing the flying swords on the bottom of the lake to hum and gradually change formation beside her.

There’s a sudden spike of killing intent, similar to when Little Uncle was cultivating his sword at the bottom of the lake last time.

Did the Springwater Sword activate the Sword Formation of the Killing Sect?

The flying swords in the water stand upright around her. All of them are rusty broadswords, long and wide, positioned vertically under the water and swirling around. It feels like each of them is a person floating in the water, making her heart beat a little faster.

But Su Tingyun thinks back to her previous experience, of feeling the elder’s sword intents when she was under the obelisk. She thinks that this might be a similar test again, but only in the Cleansing Sword Lake. Perhaps there are sword spirits and intents in these flying swords, and she needs to comprehend them carefully.

Thinking of this, Su Tingyun stretches out her hand and grabs the hilt of the Springwater Sword.

She gently pets the sword body and soothes it softly, hoping that it won’t be stimulated by the surrounding sword spirits and killing intent, trying to make it recover. Su Tingyun moves very gently. She can feel the violent energy inside the sword, so she murmurs softly, slowly pouring in spiritual energy into the sword blade. Finally, the red light within the flying sword calms down a little, but it does not return to the tip of the sword. Instead, it wriggles around the sword body, looking like a miniature red dragon.

It has a head, whiskers, tail, and four feet. As she’s holding the sword, she notices a flash of golden light in the ring on her hand, and feels the Springwater Sword settle down. Could it have something to do with the ring? She was able to subdue the Springwater Sword for some reason, and that reason is probably the help from the ring.

The ring has helped her get the sword and the Fire. Does it still need to assimilate certain things before it can truly access its uses?

A thought flashes through Su Tingyun's mind. She stands in the water, sword in hand, and holds her breath as she looks around at the sword formation.

These iron swords show no signs of attacking. They’re only humming together, causing the water in the Cleansing Sword Lake to surge, unable to return to calm.

Su Tingyun grips her sword tightly and sits down again, while the iron swords around them all audibly stab down into the mud at the bottom of the lake, as if warning Su Tingyun and her Springwater Sword. She’s been to the bottom of the lake before, she had approached the seal then, and there was no such abnormality at that time. Bai Su’s group studied this for a long time, and nothing happened. Why did this strange scene occur this time?

She calms her mind and senses the sword intents again. But this time, as soon as Su Tingyun regains her calm, she feels a tremendous amount of killing intent rushing towards her.

It’s as if she is in an ancient battlefield, where countless bones are buried under yellow sand, and divine warriors and weapons have been worn away by time and wind, leaving only an aggregate of grievances and killings. The battlefield had turned into hell on earth. This place feels so similar to the Sealed Heaven Border.