Chapter 122 - 83: 512 Sword Lights!

Chapter 122: Chapter 83: 512 Sword Lights!

In the Magic Grotto Heaven.

Li Yinsheng was engulfed by a vast river of Sword Light. He and his junior sister’s Mirror Image fought from the White Jade Platform to thousands of feet in the air, then chased each other back down to the ground. The river composed of countless Sword Lights relentlessly pursued him.

No matter how tyrannical a Body Cultivator’s Physique was, it couldn’t withstand such erosion. Moreover, after the Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword was elevated to two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights—a number Li Yinsheng had never even heard of—its power was vastly magnified. It was not inferior to those offensive Magic spells found on the Third Layer of the temple’s Scripture Pavilion. Submerged in this river of Sword Light, Li Yinsheng estimated that if he relied solely on his Physique to endure it, he would be ground to death sooner or later.

Of course, if not for being in the Grotto Heaven where Magical Power was virtually limitless, this Sword Light could not have been endless. Unleashing one hundred and twenty-eight Sword Lights in a single breath was already a considerable drain for a Daoist, let alone sending wave after wave of two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights.

Even if he really encountered an opponent with such unimaginably profound Magical Power in the outside world, he wouldn’t be stupid enough to take it head-on. Body Cultivators were not revered simply because of their impregnable defenses and immense resilience. For him, enduring such attacks to charge in front of his junior sister’s Mirror Image and throw a punch wouldn’t be a difficult task.

However, within this Magic Grotto Heaven, he couldn’t do that. The moment he used any method other than the Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword, the Grotto Heaven’s warning would arrive. Besides, his junior sister’s Mirror Image shared an identical aura to his own. Wasn’t she also a Body Cultivator?

While fighting his junior sister with the Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword, he had tried various other methods. For example, initiating a direct Soul Emergence. In this state, his speed would be faster and the power of his Sword Technique would be greater. In response, the Soul of his junior sister’s Mirror Image also emerged. Then Li Yinsheng discovered that although Soul injuries could recover in an instant within the Magic Grotto Heaven, they hurt far more than Flesh Body injuries!

He also tried retreating directly in the face of his junior sister’s Sword Technique, avoiding foolishly trading Magic blasts with her, and instead wandering around to look for flaws. But this was meaningless. The Cultivation, Divine Sense, and Physique of his junior sister’s Mirror Image were exactly the same as his. He himself didn’t know any brilliant Escape Skills, so how could he outrun these Sword Lights?

Moreover, he figured that even if he had a way to dodge the brunt of the attacks, if he hid for too long, the Grotto Heaven would probably warn him for slacking off. Therefore, he could only brace himself against the endless Sword Light, taking a beating while studying his junior sister’s two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights.

Although the secret manual of the Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword never mentioned that the number of Sword Lights could be increased beyond one hundred and twenty-eight, the extra Sword Lights produced by his junior sister didn’t just appear out of thin air. They were genuinely derived from the foundation of the Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword, pushing it to a higher realm!

As the one experiencing these Sword Lights firsthand, Li Yinsheng could distinguish what had been added by sensing them carefully. Subsequently, he began to imitate the extra elements he perceived.

Just as he expected, with his deliberate imitation, the Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword—which was supposed to reach Great Success at one hundred and twenty-eight Sword Lights—started to increase its Sword Light count once again!

One hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-one...

One hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and ninety-seven...

Two hundred and fifty-four, two hundred and fifty-five...

Two hundred and fifty-six!

Hovering high in the air, Li Yinsheng tilted his head back and let out a long howl. Behind him, two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights shot into the sky. Each one was hundreds of feet long. From afar, it looked like a radiant mountain peak suspended in the heavens! With this mountain peak as the source, a river of Sword Light—no less magnificent than that of his junior sister’s Mirror Image—poured down from the summit, standing as an equal to hers!

The two luminous peaks of Sword Light confronted each other from afar in the night sky, their respective rivers of Sword Light grinding against one another. It was as if two dazzling galaxies had suddenly appeared in the sky, intertwining and converging, causing even the moonlight to pale in comparison.

"Two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights! With such a Sword Technique, who would dare say I’m not a Sword Cultivator in the future? Junior Sister, I really must thank you for your guidance this time!"

Even knowing full well that the Mirror Image wouldn’t respond to him, Li Yinsheng couldn’t help but speak. Over the years he had spent in the Grotto Heaven, he had focused entirely on taking beatings and comprehending the Sword Technique. He was almost suffocating from holding everything in. He had suffered so much just to master these unprecedented two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights. Once he returned, he definitely had to find his Martial Uncle and show off!

A smile of sweet reward after bitter struggle appeared on the corners of Li Yinsheng’s lips.

Immediately after, his Divine Sense perceived that his junior sister’s Mirror Image seemed to have changed her Sword Technique again.

The two hundred and fifty-six Sword Lights split into two once more. Each Sword Light was now nearly a thousand feet long. The mountain peak of Sword Light behind his junior sister shrank a little in height, but it stretched out to form a continuous mountain range. The river of Sword Light cascading from the summit transformed into a winding, majestic great river.

Five hundred and twelve Sword Lights!

Watching the vast torrent of swords washing over him, Li Yinsheng was stunned at first, then let out a relieved smile.

At the summit of Bamboo Forest Peak.

The cross-legged Li Yinsheng slowly opened his eyes.

"It feels like a lifetime ago..." he muttered to himself. He had experienced this feeling during his many previous secluded Cultivation sessions in the Grotto Heaven, but it had never been as intense as it was now.

It was probably because he had only been in secluded Cultivation before. As long as he calmed his mind and focused, even if the time felt long, he hadn’t been burdened by other matters. But this time, he had genuinely fought tooth and nail against his junior sister’s Mirror Image in the Grotto Heaven for so many years.

At this moment, his Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword had achieved an unprecedented, and likely never-to-be-replicated, five hundred and twelve Sword Lights.

At the same time, he also confirmed one thing.

The combat prowess of a Sword Cultivator was truly terrifying. Under the condition of equal Cultivation, a Yin Yang Light-Splitting Sword with five hundred and twelve Sword Lights was genuinely capable of obliterating fellow Body Cultivators.