Ye Fan was now back in the Thousand Swords Tomb Valley.
It was because he had hidden a secret in one of the tombs there and it was now time for him to unravel it.
It was also in this same tomb that he had discovered the sword intention of the sword cultivation senior that had aided him to improve upon his sword stroke.
The tomb was deep underground; it was dark and messy ruins of its broken pillars greeted him.
Soon he had come to a massive wall that he had spent the past 3 years trying to open it but had failed; it was because this massive wall required him to be at least in the Energy Nascent Stage to use his inner spiritual sea for his profound strength.
This time round it was different.
It was because he was now a half-step Energy Nascent Cultivator.
He began to exert all his profound strength to push at the wall.
Now that the profound power of his profound strength had increased tremendous, he decided to give this massive wall another try.
To his astonishment, this time round the massive wall was actually trembling and it was moving with his push!
So he exerted all his profound strength until he had broken into heavy sweat before finally pushing the massive wall aside.
He was absolutely delighted even though his arms were now trembling with heavy exertion.
Next, he walked into this hidden chamber and began to walk around.
This chamber was not large and there was a stone bed in here, probably used by the senior sword cultivator as a place for his quiet meditation.
All of a sudden, his eyes began to beam brightly because he had noticed some words on the wall next to the bed.
He quickly went over and to feel his fingers on the words and began to make sense of the inscriptions.
This could be a lost cultivation sword art or even an intricate formula that was left behind by this senior sword cultivator.
He excitingly read the inscriptions with his fingers because the words were exactly quite faint to the eyes and it was not so obvious.
The inscriptions read:
I am so lonely at the peak of my sword cultivation for I have no equal among the mortal cultivators. To be an extreme sword cultivator, one must first severe all familial emotions and to be one with the sword. You can only love your sword and no others…
Ye Fan was emotional and even his fingers were trembling as he repeated, "So I must severe all familial emotions and my only love will be my sword?"
This was easy to be accomplished for Ye Fan since he was an orphan and he was a loner.
He continued to read the inscriptions with his fingers.
You must forsake all other love except for your sword and be a complete eunuch in this aspect. Because your sword must be as emotionless as you in order to display to its full potential. Your will be resolute and your heart must be as steel!
Finally, the inscription said: Sword Saint Ji Yuan.
Ye Fan was startled, "So the name of this senior sword cultivation is Ji Yuan?"
Then he felt more inscriptions but this time he was startled to see that most of the inscriptions were destroyed by the same sword stroke from this Senior Ji Yuan.
He could tell that it was from this Senior Ji Yuan because he could still feel the profound signature of his sword stroke on the destroyed inscriptions.
"Why did Senior Ji Yuan destroy these inscriptions? It doesn't make any sense to me…"
He tried to decipher as much of the destroyed inscriptions as possible but unfortunately, he could only make up some broken inscriptions like:
Don't… this is… believe… Xiang Li.
He had suddenly realized that these inscriptions had a different profound signature on it and it seemed to be written by someone else and the name of this Senior was Xiang Li?
But why did Senior Ji Yuan destroy the inscriptions that is left behind by Senior Xiang Li?
This Senior Xiang Li must be a powerful cultivator in order to write these inscriptions next to the inscriptions of this Senior Ji Yuan.
But this Senior Xiang Li was obviously not the match of this Senior Ji Yuan because her inscriptions were destroyed by him.
He examined the inscriptions of this Senior Ji Yuan again and quietly resolved, "By following the advice of Senior Ji Yuan, I should be able to become a sword saint like Senior Ji Yuan… and I can finally have the chance to kill the Witch Xuan Xueqi too…"
All of a sudden, his sharp ears picked up a movement from the outside and he was greatly startled.
Before he could evacuate this room, a beautiful figure and a most beautiful maiden had suddenly walked into this chamber and she was Fairy Xuan Xueqi.
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled as she looked at him, "So this place is the secret that you have been trying to hide from the Profound Cloud Sect."
Ye Fan had turned pale immediately!
And he was clutching onto his precious long sword now…