novelraw Chapter 203 : Earth-grade Sword Technique 《Six Formations of the Broken Array》!
Chapter 203 : Earth-grade Sword Technique 《Six Formations of the Broken Array》!
Chapter 203: Earth-grade Sword Technique 《Six Formations of the Broken Array》!
Within the 【Origin Spirit Realm】, the so-called 【Swordless One】 Chu Huaixu temporarily held a sword in his hand.
It came from the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, from the Nascent Soul stage cultivator standing before him.
Chu Huaixu didn’t know its name, only that among the four swords, this one exuded the strongest killing aura.
Simply put, it should have the highest attack power.
Since reaching the sixth-level Spirit Embryo, his Heart Sword could briefly leave his body and enter other swords.
He had never used this move before due to too many limitations.
He was quite afraid that if he said “Borrow a sword for a moment,” he’d end up reshaping the other’s weapon into his own.
One slip, and it would be too easy to break something!
But right now, he felt no such burden.
Once the 【Heart Sword】 entered the entirely golden flying sword, it instantly extinguished the sword spirit within it!
Chu Huaixu was beginning to understand something.
When the Heart Sword remained in his body and tried to attack a sword spirit through another sword, it was like scratching an itch through a boot—ineffective.
The result was far weaker.
But if it "whoosh—" entered someone else’s weapon, things changed drastically.
The man before him, Ye Kongxuan, was a Nascent Soul Old Monster.
The magical treasure in his hand, being from the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, was surely top-tier.
But before the Heart Sword, its sword spirit was fragile—like a thin membrane.
As far as Chu Huaixu knew, cultivators in the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven didn’t possess Life-bound items.
In other words, they didn’t nurture their treasures.
They simply used blood to bind a multitude of magical treasures—quantity over quality.
With the flying sword’s spirit destroyed, Ye Kongxuan instantly spat blood from backlash.
But what filled his face more was overwhelming shock!
“How could this be!”
“You brat, what did you do to my Four Symbols White Tiger Sword!” For the first time, fury surfaced on his face.
Just like that, his most prized Four Symbols Sword Formation was utterly crippled.
Chu Huaixu didn’t know—by taking the Four Symbols White Tiger Sword, it wasn’t as simple as replacing it.
The Four Symbols Swords had to be nurtured together from the start, kept in perfect balance to form the Sword Formation.
Making a new one wouldn’t match completely.
To use the formation again, he’d need four fresh swords and start over...
What infuriated Ye Kongxuan more was that in Chu Huaixu’s hands, the Four Symbols White Tiger Sword was even stronger!
The young man even looked down at it, a trace of... satisfaction?
“Not bad, not bad, you refined it nicely for me!” Chu Huaixu smiled at Ye Kongxuan.
Perhaps because of the Heart Sword within, or some other reason, it felt very comfortable to wield.
Though borrowed, he suddenly didn’t feel like giving it back.
“Well, that’s easily solved,” Chu Huaixu thought.
“Just kill him!”
“Zzt——!”
Clashing sounds of metal rang out through the Origin Spirit Realm.
Ye Kongxuan controlled the remaining three flying swords, striking at Chu Huaixu.
Chu Huaixu parried effortlessly with the Four Symbols White Tiger Sword.
“Feels good to hold a sword again!”
But Ye Kongxuan’s mindset grew worse, and his killing intent stronger.
His rise had started by slaying a Foundation Establishment cultivator and robbing him.
He never imagined being robbed face-to-face by some Xuanhuang brat!
Even worse, though Chu Huaixu looked confident, Ye Kongxuan was on edge and afraid.
He still didn’t understand how his sword was "borrowed."
And so—how many more times could the boy do it?
“Can he still use that strange technique?”
Losing the Four Symbols Formation severely weakened Ye Kongxuan.
He still had various divine powers but lacked a killing move.
Chu Huaixu kept falling into traps, but his body was too tough—he healed instantly.
It felt like his very body was being nourished by this small world.
Like soaking in body-tempering liquid, like a non-stop medicinal bath!
This enhanced his healing; wounds closed rapidly.
Time passed—half the time limit had elapsed.
Aside from backlash, Ye Kongxuan was nearly unhurt.
Chu Huaixu had several light wounds—but his health bar didn’t drop.
“This has to end fast,” both thought simultaneously.
The old monster’s brow lit up with a four-colored mark.
His aura soared as he grasped the Azure Dragon Sword, letting the other two fly at his sides.
Earlier, he had kept his distance, using flying sword arts and strange abilities.
Now he advanced with sword in hand.
Two Four Symbols Swords clashed, and dark currents around Chu Huaixu knocked aside the incoming blades.
“Nascent Soul Old Dog really has tricks. Always trying to sneak attack!” he taunted.
He pushed back with a single strike, his body refinement advantage showing in close combat!
What surprised him, however, was that Ye Kongxuan’s sword strikes kept getting stronger with each clash!
Like wave after wave!
The mark on his brow grew brighter and deeper.
“Four Symbols Spirit Body—activate!” he roared.
Chu Huaixu seemed to hear four beast-like roars!
With a swing, even Chu Huaixu’s reinforced physique staggered half a step.
“Xuanhuang brat, even in Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, few have seen me use this!”
“Now you can die without regrets!”
But Chu Huaixu’s reply nearly made Ye Kongxuan think he was hallucinating.
He said blandly:
“Stupid mutt.”
A brag deserves a curse in return.
He mimicked Ye Kongxuan’s words:
“Nascent Soul Old Dog, in the Xuanhuang Realm, no one has yet seen me use this move.”
“Now you can die without regrets!”
Before entering the Origin Spirit Realm, he had spent all his Experience Points.
Now, only one thing could use up that much EXP: the Earth-grade Sword Technique【Six Formations of the Broken Array】!
Nearly 600,000 EXP—only enough to bring it to Minor Mastery.
Yet even at Minor Mastery, it surpassed his perfected【Thunder at Fingertips】!
Holding the fully golden White Tiger Sword, his aura changed instantly.
His body crackled, and his right arm echoed with snapping bone!
Agonizing pain spread through his arm, then his whole body.
His right arm fractured, blood sprayed, skin split!
【Six Formations】—a poetic name for snow.
【Broken Array】—a poetic name for lightning.
His body filled with chilling cold. Though his arm boiled with blood, he felt freezing!
Blood-colored lightning coiled around his sword.
Crackling thunder mixed with bone-breaking sound.
Yet the black-robed youth’s face remained blank—as if pain didn’t exist.
The Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise Swords pierced diagonally from above—Chu Huaixu didn’t dodge!
To use【Six Formations of the Broken Array】, he must be fully focused!
Only his Jade Pendant and Black-Gold Robe shielded him.
Watching the young man’s madness, Ye Kongxuan felt a chill down his spine!
“Is he insane?! Why doesn’t he dodge?!”
He could already see those swords punching holes into the youth.
The move caused such injury already—and still no scream, no change of expression.
People of the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven feared death.
If they couldn’t win, they ran.
Ye Kongxuan even treasured this possessed body more than Chu Huaixu did his own!
But now, that sword had arrived before him.
The four-colored mark glowed bright—
He shouted, clashing his Azure Dragon Sword.
The other two flying swords pierced through the Black-Gold Robe, stabbing massive bloody holes into Chu Huaixu!
Yet he remained expressionless, as if nothing happened.
Instead, a scream came—from Ye Kongxuan!
His right arm and half his shoulder were severed by Chu Huaixu’s strike!
The black-robed youth followed up with a punch.
No technique, no spell—just raw force!
Ye Kongxuan flew backward, crashing into a tree, which fell with a crash!
But three seconds later, the fallen tree vanished, and a perfect one stood again—this little world had "healed."
Yet only this realm healed, not their bodies.
The fallen cultivator’s face was pale.
He glared venomously at Chu Huaixu.
Both were heavily wounded.
But Chu Huaixu walked forward, gold sword in hand, unfazed by his own gaping wounds.
Ironically, those wounds made his earlier strike stronger, more terrifying!
This Earth-grade sword art could unleash damage nearing Heaven-grade—through brutal self-harm and cost!
But that didn’t matter. He didn’t care how hurt he got, or how much it hurt.
——Chu Huaixu only wanted him dead!
The 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】 floating in that pillar of light—Chu Huaixu was determined to obtain it.
Yet what happened next shocked him.
“Xuanhuang brat, *cough—*!” Ye Kongxuan spat blood and said, “Didn’t expect you to push me this far.”
“I was reluctant to abandon this body. I wanted to reclaim Nascent Soul with it.”
“But now, I must give it up.”
He pulled something from his storage pouch and placed it in his palm.
Chu Huaixu’s gaze focused, then flicked to the light pillar—
“Hm? Still there.” He sighed in relief.
Then, his heart burned hot.
Because in Ye Kongxuan’s palm—was another 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】!