Chapter 45: Comprehending Sword Intents

"What are you afraid of? It's just a fight, right? Come on, Yun Shang! You can do it." Mustering up her courage, Yun Shang decided to take the initiative.

She raised the Hanyue Sword, summoned her Qi and quickly stepped forward. The Hanyue Sword was drawn back from the front to the left in an arc, and the force reached the sword body. A red-golden sword energy flashed and rotated backwards.

Seeing the heavy sword coming, she immediately leaned back and tapped the ground with her toes to avoid the heavy sword attack.

Without any hesitation, Yun Shang drew her sword again, and the tip of the sword moved in a small circle to the left, with the force reaching the front of the sword. She bent her elbow slightly, and stabbed the sword hard at the chest of the sword-testing stone man.

"Sizzle" red-golden energy flashed, and the fire-gold sword energy pierced a hole as big as a basin in the stone man's chest, and "swoosh" broken stones fell from the hole in the stone man's chest. It felt nothing, and the heavy sword in its hand chopped towards Yun Shang's head again.

Seeing that her head was about to be hit, Yun Shang immediately grasped the Hanyue Sword with both hands to resist with all her strength. She bent her legs, quickly passed under the stone man's crotch, and instantly came behind the stone man.

While the stone man had no time to react, she drew her sword at high speed, using the Attributeless Swordsmanship to attack continuously.

"Ka Ka Ka" the stone man's heart slowly froze all over his body. "Si Si" the stone man slowly exploded, "Bang" the sword-testing stone man shattered into slag.

Watching the stone man being smashed to pieces, Yun Shang immediately sat down and ate a spiritual fruit to circulate her spiritual energy.

Yun Shang exhaled lightly, thinking: Fortunately, this stone man reacted slowly. If he reacted faster, I might be in trouble!

After a short rest, Yun Shang stood up and prepared to continue immediately. The two stone men with middle foundation building cultivation on the opposite side walked towards Yun Shang with heavy steps...

Yun Shang is being tortured badly in the tower now!

A heavy sword hit her back with great force, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth.

The bones in her back were broken, and her entire lungs ached. Yun Shang quickly drink spiritual spring water from the space to heal her wounds.

Yun Shang bent down as quickly as possible to avoid the stone man's second attack, and another stone man attacked Yun Shang from the side.

Yun Shang was now attacked from both sides, and was attacked by many stone people. After blocking the fierce attack from one side, she was hit hard from the other side.

There was no part of her body that was intact, her skin was bruised, her flesh was flying, her bones were broken, it was horrible to look at! Yun Shang immediately drink spiritual spring water.

Fortunately every time she was having time, she will continuously drink magical spiritual spring water that can heal injuries and relieved fatigue so she can hold on. 

Then she continue insisting, going through so much hardship and pain, she would not give up just like that.

Yun Shang tried to keep her head clear, and held the Hanyue Sword tightly with her hands. Isn't it just a group fight? Come on! I'm not afraid.

"Clang... Clang..." "Hiss..." "Boom..." There was the sound of fighting inside the sword-testing tower.

At this time, Yun Shang's eyes were red with anger from the stone men, and her body was numb from the pain. No matter what, no matter what method, as long as she could smash them, she would win.

She continued to fight back with all her might, holding the soul-replenishing fruit in her mouth, using her left hand to pierce with fire, and using her right hand to attack with sword energy. As long as she was not killed, she would be fine. She would not feel the pain after enduring too much.

Finally, more than a hundred stone men in the middle stage of foundation building were all smashed by Yun Shang.

Yun Shang, covered in wounds, was lying in the sword-testing room filled with rubble. She no longer cared about the rubble that might pierce her skin.

Her vision gradually blurred, and she passed out. The bright red blood flowed all over the ground, staining the broken stones around her.

Because Yun Shang's own cultivation was just in the twelfth stage of qi training, it was a terrifying thing for her to fight against so many stone men in the middle stage of foundation building, let alone win.

That requires strength, perseverance, courage, and resilience. Over the thousands of years, there are only a handful of monks who have been able to do so.

Moreover, those few brave people were all male cultivators. It was extremely rare for a female cultivators.

In fact, this is really because she has spiritual spring water with her, if not she will definitely can't hold on.

In the Sword Test Tower, Yun Shang was awakened by the pain. She slowly opened her blurry eyes and looked at the rubble on the ground in the dim space in front of her. Then she remembered that she was lying on the ground in the Sword Test Tower.

She can't sleep here for long, She have to get out quickly. Thinking of this, she take out spiritual spring water from the space and drink it.

After being healed, she stood up immediately, she slowly climbed up and sat cross-legged on the gravel. Yun Shang immediately uses "Chaos Art" to replenish her spiritual energy. Running out of spiritual energy is a very dangerous thing, and if it is not replenished in time, it will seriously damage the foundation.

When Yun Shang was recovering, she recalled the battle with multiple middle stage of building foundation.

A figure appeared in her mind, dancing with the Hanyue Sword over and over again.

It was moving like flowing water, with great momentum!

It was getting faster and faster, so fast that she couldn't see clearly.

Now Yun Shang was trying to comprehend the sword intent. It's fortunate that she is the only one in Sword Trial Tower, because the worst thing to do in this situation is to be disturbed.

It was not until the next morning that Yun Shang woke up. Did she understand the meaning of the sword?

It seems she got this opportunity because she was on the verge of death and located in Sword Trial Tower full of sword intents.

After her spiritual power was sufficient, she slowly raised her head. She accidentally saw the staircase leading to the second floor of the Sword Trial Tower displaying:

Yunhai Peak: Yun Shang, you have passed middle-stage of foundation building. Do you want to enter the second level or continue the first level of higher level sword test stone competition? If you want to enter the second level, please put your identity jade card here. If you don't want to enter, you can hold the jade card to input spiritual energy and leave the tower. This result will still be valid next time.

Yun Shang was already stunned as she stared at the subtitles, feeling a great shock in her heart. Was this hint saying that after smashing the sword-testing stone once, she could go out to recuperate and come back again? Instead of having to keep breaking through levels like she was doing?

Why did I risk my life like this? Why didn't I understand the rules of the tower?

"Oh my god! You can't play with me like this. How could I be so stupid?" Yun Shang really wanted to faint, not because of the wound, but because she felt that she was too stupid. At this moment, she really wanted to cry but had no tears...

In fact, this matter was not entirely Yun Shang's fault, because every disciple who came to the sword test space would be informed of the rules of the tower by the deacon disciple. The mistake this time was because the deacon disciple was too excited to see Yun Shang and forgot for a moment.

"Buzz" The door of the Sword Test Tower slowly opened, and the sunlight outside the door hurt Yun Shang's eyes. She blocked her eyes with her sleeves and slowly adjusted. Yun Shang then straightened her body and walked forward slowly step by step.

After coming out of Sword Trial Power, she goes back to Yunhai Peak to recupating. 

Yun Shang then entered her cave and "flash" entered her space. After entering the space she soaked in spiritual spring, after that feeling fatigued she come out of the space want to fall asleep on futon.

It is already a long time ago she fell asleep like this, since she start practicing and can replenish her fatigue with meditating, she never waste time on sleeping. 

This is the exception, she really hurt herself by not knowing the rules of Sword Trial Tower, is it really her fault not communicate with others? But it also have advantage, because if not for not knowing this, she will not exert all of her potential and comprehend sword intents so quickly.

Well, take this as a lesson for future.