"You know, you will face severe punishment for raising your hand against your fellow disciple within the palace. Are you sure you want the Vice Palace Chief to hear about it?"
Suddenly, a hesitant look appeared on Feng Baiyi's face.
Indeed, their original plan was to kill Yun Che when he was outside of the Profound Palace. But for some reason, he never left it!
And when he did, he just vanished.
Now that he finally appeared once again, Feng Baiyi and Murong Yi couldn't wait for him to leave the Profound Palace once again. Who knows, he might vanish once again.
As such, they decided to attack him within the palace and kill him.
"Don't worry, Brother Baiyi," Murong Yi, standing on the other side of Yun Che, stated viciously. "The Vice Palace Chief has left for the western front due to some complications and isn't present within the palace. As long as we are quick, no one will know about it."
Feng Baiyi's face relaxed, and a confident expression appeared on his face.
He smirked and looked towards Yun Che.
"Hear that, brat? You have no one to save you today! Face your punishment!"
"I knew you guys lacked basic common sense, but this is just baffling," Yun Che sighed before he stood up with claymore in his hand. He smirked. "Well, I just found two experimental pigs for this new baby in my hand. Before handing it over to Cang Yue, let me try it on you two."
Feng Baiyi and Murong Yi's expressions turned ugly at the blatant display of disdain Yun Che showed towards them.
It made their disgust and hate towards him fuel even further!
"Die for me, Yun Che!" Not holding back anything, Murong Yi called out his spear and lunged at Yun Che with full force.
He still didn't believe that he was weaker than Yun Che and only thought that he was able to defeat him due to his tricks.
This time, he was extra cautious with his steps to not fall for the same trick again.
Though all of it was useless as Yun Che had no plan for using the same trick again anyways.
Raising the claymore, he gripped it tightly with both of his hands and swung it towards the coming Murong Yi.
Suddenly, a loud "om" sound resounded, and the sword in his hand responded to his talent and intent instantly.
A sword intent suddenly burst out of Yun Che's body, cutting everything around him before the claymore had even swung!
["Sword Intent" skill acquired!]
[Since "Sword Art" is already maxed, all skills related to swords are maxed from the start!]
["Sword Intent" skill maxed!]
Murong Yi's and Feng Baiyi's eyes widened in horror.
The sudden sword intent that burst out of Yun Che's body was so disgustingly horrifying that they couldn't even move a single finger of their bodies any longer!
In a burst, a flash appeared.
When it vanished, Murong Yi's head rolled in the air!
After taking several rotations, it fell on the ground with an audible thud.
Before the blood could burst out of his body, it was suddenly ignited with flames, turning into ashes the next instant.
Silence fell within the room as Yun Che stared at the claymore in his hand with an appreciative glance.
"A good weapon indeed," he nodded, before his gaze turned towards Feng Baiyi, and he smirked.
Feng Baiyi's eyes widened, and he lost control over his bladder, letting his piss leak out of his robes, making Yun Che raise a brow.
"Well well, now that's new," Yun Che chuckled and raised the claymore once more. "Though I won't be saying the cliche line 'I'm too disgusted to kill you here.' This sword is humming with happiness when I swing it after all."
It was no joke, as Yun Che had realized that the claymore in his hand had already started to gather consciousness of its own! It wouldn't be long before it formed its own sword spirit!
"Uncle Feng, save me!" Feng Baiyi didn't even dare to reply to Yun Che or fight back; he instantly asked for the help of his protector.
"Junior, you're courting death!"
"If it's a beautiful woman, then why not?" Yun Che chuckled and swung the claymore once again.
Again, a loud "om" sound appeared, and the claymore vibrated with happiness as Yun Che's sword intent burst out from his body and merged with it.
An old man appeared in front of Feng Baiyi and snorted.
He raised his hand to stop the coming sword energy, but his eyes widened, and his pupils shrunk to a needle when he realized that the sword energy hadn't even reached him, and his hand had already been cut from different places!
"Not good! You were hiding your cultivation!" Uncle Feng shouted in horror, realizing that the junior in front of him was stronger than him, an Earth Profound Realm cultivator!
"Nah, you guys are just too weak."
Yun Che smiled, and the sword energy finally reached Uncle Feng, who met the same end as Murong Yi. It didn't stop there as it reached Feng Baiyi and decapitated him too!
Two headless bodies burst into flames once more, turning to ashes the next moment.
Silence returned to the now destroyed room as Yun Che stared at the claymore in his hand with an appreciative gaze.
"Good girl. You better protect your master in the future, or I'll be angry."
The sword hummed beautifully, as if promising to do her best, making Yun Che chuckle.
He thought this sword was quite cute.
And why did he call it a girl? For obvious reasons of course. He wouldn't want the sword spirit of his wife to be a man. Anyways, the sword hadn't formed its own free consciousness, so it was genderless. It wasn't bad to call it a girl, so it wouldn't be a problem later.
"Alright, let's put on some enchantments then." Of course, he wasn't done with the creation of the weapon yet. Since he had decided to create it, he was going all in and would make it the "perfect" weapon for Cang Yue with whatever resources he had.
Sitting back on the bed, which was still somehow intact, he placed the sword on his lap and placed his finger on its blade.
A golden glow appeared over the tip of his finger, and he started to write down the enchantments: Star God's Brilliant Annihilating Slash (5), Fire Manipulation (5), Curse Resistance (5), Ice Resistance (5), and Fire Immunity (5)!
Once done, intricate writing glowing in darkish-golden appeared over the blade, giving it a distinct golden glow. It further added to make it look beautiful!
With a gentle caress on the blade, Yun Che smiled.
"Well, let's go shopping then. We will start cultivating after."
Currently, he was at the mid-stage of the Spirit Profound Realm, and that was him cultivating passively!
There were still three months left for the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament.
Yun Che thought it shouldn't be hard to break into the Sky Profound Realm at least.
Now that he was fully into abusing his skills, nothing was stopping him from breaking the conventional laws of this world, not even the Ancestral Goddess!
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Blue Wind Profound Inner Palace.
It has been four months since Yun Che returned to the Blue Wind Palace from the Wasteland of Death.
During this time, he did nothing but cultivate and was able to break into the second level of the Sky Profound Realm! Such speed was unheard of!
Obviously, after fully "liberating" himself, he didn't hold back in his cultivation in the least.
It is estimated that if not for the low profound quality within this star and the empire, he could have attained much more. Adding the fact that Cang Yue was also cultivating with him during this time, which further lowered the quality of profound energy he could absorb.
Except for cultivating, he was also trying to further comprehend the Great Way of Buddha and finally broke into the 3rd level of it.
During this time, Yun Che realized that the practice of the Great Way of Buddha was becoming more and more time-consuming.
Yes, he might not have his whole focus on cultivating it and cultivated his profound strength most of the time instead, but it still felt slow to him. Since he was using Heretic God's Gates to cultivate his body, and now he could only open gates till the third level, the Gate of Purgatory! After which he would be immensely tired and feel weak, though his restoration skills would kick in instantly.
But that wasn't the point. The point was, he couldn't open gates beyond purgatory at all!
He remembered what happened when he tried to open it the last time when he reached the Sky Profound Realm. If not for Jasmine forcefully suppressing his cultivation and stopping him from fully opening the gate, it is estimated that his body would have exploded into tiny pieces of meat.
He really overestimated himself.
That day, he realized why Yun Che never opened the fourth gate for a long time until he reached the Divine Tribulation Realm! He felt stupid opening it when he wasn't even in the Divine Realm.
As such, after that, his cultivation of the Great Way of the Buddha was halted until he reached a respectable level; he didn't want to die instantly from opening it. After all, his goal was to damage his body, not to commit suicide.
"I'm late!"
Jumping out of bed, he hurriedly ran to the bath and cleaned his body from the last night's session of Dual Cultivation with Cang Yue, and changed into a neat set of robes.
Yes, he had been Dual Cultivating with her for four months. Not only did it feel absolutely great, but it also helped Cang Yue cultivate her body and profound strength. Since he was stronger than her, it didn't help him much in this case.
Turning into a blur, Yun Che vanished from his room, which was actually Cang Yue's room in the palace, and flew towards the inner palace at high speed.
Using his skill [Flash Drive], which he got when he burst energy under his soles while flying, he appeared within the inner palace in a blink.
The moment he appeared, a melodious voice that could pull at the heartstrings of any man resounded.
"Brother Yun, you are here."
Yun Che nodded and looked towards Cang Yue with a confused gaze.
"Why didn't you wake me up?"
Since he had slept with Cang Yue, he wondered why she didn't wake him up when she left for the inner palace.
Suddenly, a shy look appeared on Cang Yue's face and she averted her gaze.
"Brother Yun looked so handsome when sleeping... Cang Yue couldn't bring herself to wake Brother Yun. Please forgive Cang Yue..."
'...This girl…' Yun Che wondered if she was entering the boundaries of goudere. Perhaps she already had entered it a long time ago, just the symptoms were showing now.
Shaking his head, he looked around and found no one.
Curious, he asked, "Is it just us two?"
Cang Yue shook her head.
"Even if I am the Princess of the Empire, I am still just a disciple of the Blue Wind Profound Palace."
'Yeah, I fully believe you.'
"Ahem." As if understanding what he was thinking on an instinctual level, making Yun Che stare at her speechlessly, Cang Yue embarrassingly continued, "Cang Yue still needs to fight for the spot to participate in the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament."
"Uh-huh. Then?"
"...Cang Yue didn't think that Brother Feng Bufan and Brother Fang Feilong wouldn't even stop a single slash for me..."
"Oh..."
Yun Che understood right away.
She probably hurt them so badly that they cannot participate in the tournament anymore.
"You make me proud, Yue'er." He nodded appreciatively, causing Cang Yue to smile sillily.
She enjoyed getting praised by Yun Che the most!
"So, what about Fen Juechen?"
He remembered he was ranked first within the Heavenly Profound List, yet he didn't see him around.
"About him," Cang Yue nodded. "Little Brother Yuanba had gone to get him."
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