Chapter 134: Chapter 132: Heavenly Sword Skill
In the dead of night, Fenggu Town was plunged into Darkness, with only a few scattered lights still burning within the great family compounds.
At the Hua Family estate, a figure moved stealthily through the Darkness. It was almost completely one with the night, silent and nearly impossible to detect.
The Hua Family Mansion was comprised of nine courtyards!
The Ninth Layer was the Hua Family’s Forbidden Land, a perilous place of no return that no one could set foot in.
The Eighth Layer was where the Ancestral Level figures of the Hua Family entered secluded Cultivation; years could pass without any sign of activity from there.
The Seventh Layer was the Clan Leader’s residence, the Sixth Layer housed the Grand Elder, and further in were the various other Elders.
As for the younger disciples of the Hua Family, including Hua Xiaoling, they all resided in the Second Layer courtyard!
The figure drifted out from the Second Layer courtyard, moving like a phantom, and soon entered the Third Layer courtyard.
The Third Layer courtyard was still immense, with ancient, towering trees, rare flowers and exotic grasses, stone pavilions, and shaded paths. It was indeed a place of singular beauty.
The figure drifted gracefully toward an ancient tree!
However, while he was still in mid-air, a voice echoed throughout the Hua Mansion: "Assassin!"
Before the voice faded, the entire fifth courtyard was brightly lit, completely exposing the figure.
He was dressed in night-crawling attire, with only a pair of eyes as bright as stars visible.
He was suspended in mid-air as streaks of arrow light cut through the night sky, sealing off his intended landing spot and leaving him with nowhere to hide.
But just then, the figure miraculously vanished in mid-air. All the arrow attacks missed their mark.
Void Shadowless!
The one who could disappear from the void without a sound was, naturally, Jiang Jichen.
He hadn’t expected them to station so many people in the fifth courtyard, and all of them expert Bow Cultivators from Heavenly Hunting Mountain.
Had it been anyone else, even an Innate Fifth Realm Spirit Cultivator, they would have likely faced certain death under such a volley of arrows while suspended in mid-air.
But Jiang Jichen possessed the Celestial Secret Technique, Shadow Step. Attacks like these were not enough to take his life.
When he reappeared, Jiang Jichen had already rushed to the boundary between the third and fourth courtyards. One more step and he would be in the Fourth Courtyard.
At that moment, a flash of Sword Light struck, appearing without any warning, as if its wielders had been waiting there for a long time.
Jiang Jichen showed no trace of panic; it was as if he had expected this. A Red Copper Rust Sword appeared in his hand as he executed a Sword Technique.
"Eight-direction Wind and Rain, Earth and Heaven Shaking!"
By now, Jiang Jichen’s Sword Skill Realm had grown even more profound. He executed the Sword Technique with casual grace, like strolling through a gentle drizzle—the very picture of elegance.
"CLANG! CLANG!"
"SQUELCH! SQUELCH!"
First came the clash of Treasure Swords, followed by the sound of Sword Qi slicing through flesh, making the scalps of those hidden in the Darkness tingle.
Under the lamplight, blood splattered and flesh flew. Over a dozen sword-wielding experts were completely slaughtered in a single exchange.
These were the elites trained by Hua Ming, yet now they proved to be so pathetically weak.
But Jiang Jichen’s figure did not stop. He used Illusory Indeterminacy to evade one attack after another, continuously pushing deeper into the Hua Family’s grand estate.
The commotion was simply too great, alarming everyone in the Hua Family. Besides, Hua Ming and Lie Xiaoyu had only set up heavy ambushes in the Third and Fourth Layer courtyards; they simply didn’t believe Jiang Jichen could break through the Fifth and Sixth Layers!
In their view, breaking through the Third Layer should have been his limit. But unexpectedly, all the Killing Techniques they had laid out were useless. Instead, it was as if the ambushers had nowhere to hide from the man in black, and they were picked off one by one.
He had already reached the border between the Fourth and Fifth Layers. One more step and he’d be in the Fifth Layer!
But there were no arrangements in the Fifth Layer courtyard. If he broke in, it would undoubtedly cause chaos.
Although Jiang Jichen would certainly be eliminated by the experts in the Fifth Layer courtyard, they would not be able to escape responsibility, and the losses would far outweigh the gains. At the very least, his own career as the Hua Family’s Chief Steward would be over. In such a situation, not even the Grand Elder would protect him.
"Stop him! He absolutely cannot be allowed to enter the Fifth Layer courtyard!"
Hua Ming shouted the order and even moved forward himself to stop Jiang Jichen.
Lie Xiaoyu’s face was utterly grim.
The ambushes in the third and fourth courtyards had all been arranged by him. He had used Heavenly Hunting Mountain’s methods for Hunting Fierce Beasts to trap his opponent, but he never expected all his arrangements to crumble so easily. This was a huge blow to his confidence, but it also deepened his hatred for Jiang Jichen.
"Kid, you’re dead! You can’t break through! The final line is the Ultimate Killing Arrow Formation—a thousand arrows to pierce the heart! It can kill an Innate Sixth Layer Perfect Realm expert! You’re just a piece of trash at the Innate First Realm, you..."
Lie Xiaoyu shouted viciously.
But in the next moment, his words came to an abrupt halt. Countless arrow glints flew through the air, but the figure, with a sword in his hand, stood as if he owned the world!
An invincible aura, an undefeated legend. The sword in his hand was like a thousand points of starlight, tapping each and every one of the thousands of streaks of arrow light.
"Thousands of Starlight!"
As Jiang Jichen’s Cultivation Realm improved, he was able to use more and more techniques. At this point, it was naturally impossible for him to completely hide his Cultivation anymore.
Facing the terrifying arrow formation, the "thousand arrows to pierce the heart," he had no choice but to use his Innate Third Realm Perfect Realm Spiritual Power Cultivation and unleash an exceptionally frightening Swordsmanship technique.
The first style of the Star Sword Technique: Thousands of Starlight!
This Swordsmanship, like Shadow Step and Soul Destruction Finger, was a Heavenly Skill.
Of course, Jiang Jichen had also used another Celestial Secret Technique, the Tai Chi Sword, of which Yin-Yang and Four Symbols were two of its Sword Techniques.
Thousands of Starlight flickered in and out of existence, not ceasing until all the arrow glints were extinguished and the "thousand arrows to pierce the heart" formation was broken. Only then did the starlit Sword Shadow disappear.
Jiang Jichen was about to step into the Fifth Layer courtyard.
Hua Ming’s figure appeared, blocking the way. At the same time, Lie Xiaoyu and seven other Innate Sixth Layer Initial Stage experts charged forward to kill.
"Jiang Jichen, I knew it was you. To think you’d hidden your cultivation and combat power... it’s truly beyond my expectations. But this is as far as you go. Now, I will send you on your way!"
Hua Ming spoke coldly as the Cultivation of an Innate Seventh Realm Middle Stage Minor Grandmaster erupted from him. An endless storm of Spiritual Patterns swept through the Fourth Layer courtyard, directly sending some of the weaker cultivators flying.
And Jiang Jichen was at the very center of the Spiritual Pattern storm!
A Spiritual Pattern storm was a unique method available only to a Minor Grandmaster. Only those whose Spiritual Power in their seven Spirit Veins had turned to Spiritual Liquid could simultaneously erupt with such a massive amount of Spiritual Patterns, forming a storm that could shred nearly any Spirit Cultivator below the Minor Grandmaster Realm.
"You alone? I’m afraid you’re not quite enough!"
Instead of retreating, Jiang Jichen advanced, speaking with soaring, heroic spirit.
The Red Copper Rust Sword in his hand shed a little more of its rust, revealing faint red patterns and appearing ever more mystical.
"Yin Yang Two Principles, Divide Heaven and Earth!"
Jiang Jichen swung his sword. Two Sword Auras, one black and one white, appeared and forcibly split the Spiritual Pattern storm apart. Jiang Jichen strode forward, launching an Ultimate Killing Sword Skill directly at the astonished Hua Ming.
