The Unparalleled Sword Emperor

Chapter 2825 - 2800: Haven’t You Already Learned Everything?

"The words are the key to unlocking the formation!""And the sword marks are the sequence to illuminate the words!"

"Although these sword marks are ancient, with careful observation, one can still determine the direction and technique of the sword strikes, thereby deducing the sequence to illuminate the words!"

Lin Bai walked before the stone wall, and in his heart, he tempered each sword mark repeatedly. After finally confirming the direction, he illuminated a word.

This is an endeavor that cannot be rushed, and Lin Bai settled his heart, illuminating the formation within the cave mansion step by step.

Here lie nine hundred ninety-nine sword marks and fifteen thousand words; illuminating them all requires a considerable amount of time and effort.

Fortunately, Lin Bai currently has a lot of time, so he isn’t lacking it.

Seven days later, all the words within Dugu Yunhe’s cave mansion were illuminated by Lin Bai in sequence.

"This is the last word." Lin Bai walked to the last word in the side chamber, and with a touch of sword intention, the last word was illuminated.

The entire cave mansion of Swordgod Dugu Yunhe was then filled with a golden light visible only to Lin Bai.

Within this golden light, a burst of sword intention flashed fiercely.

These golden-lit words suddenly flashed before Lin Bai, then dimmed again.

"Hmm?"

"What’s going on?"

"Did I guess wrong?"

Lin Bai looked at the surrounding dimmed words with some anger.

He had sacrificed so much time to illuminate these words, and each step was taken with utmost care.

Each sword mark was contemplated over a thousand times in Lin Bai’s mind before choosing a word to illuminate.

After such tremendous effort, was it all to disappear like this?

Just as Lin Bai was feeling perplexed, laughter suddenly came from the main hall: "Grandfather, when will you teach me the sword skill?"

Hearing this voice, Lin Bai frowned secretly, only feeling that other warriors from the Sword God Family had arrived at the cave mansion.

"Never mind, since they disappeared, it seems this Mist Sword Art is not destined for me, so I’ll let it be!"

"Just right, other warriors from the Sword God Family have arrived, so I won’t waste time here!"

Lin Bai shook his head in disappointment and walked out of the side chamber.

Entering the main hall, Lin Bai saw an old man and a young boy.

The old man, with his immortal wind bone, dressed in a grey robe, although his hair and beard were grizzled, his eyes gleamed with a radiance enough to pierce the sky.

Beside him was a child not yet seven years old, holding his finger, walking within the cave mansion.

Lin Bai came out, giving a faint glance at the old and the young.

Originally intending to leave.

But as Lin Bai stepped to the entrance of the cave mansion, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at the old and young again, feeling something amiss.

At once, Lin Bai did not hurry to leave but stood at the doorway of the cave mansion, watching the old and young.

The grey-robed old man smiled gently and said, "You’re still young; you can’t cultivate grandfather’s sword skill yet; you need to start practicing simpler sword skills first!"

The old man kindly spoke to the child.

The child replied unhappily, "No, no, I don’t want to practice those sword skills; I want to cultivate grandfather’s sword skill. My dad, mom, and other uncles said grandfather’s sword skill is the best under heaven!"

The grey-robed old man laughed heartily and said, "Haha, the most formidable sword skill, Xuan’er, remember, under heaven, there’s no single most formidable sword skill, only the most formidable sword cultivator!"

The child looked at the old man puzzled and asked, "Why?"

The grey-robed old man slowly explained to the child, "Once a mortal warrior held an unmatched sharp sword and practiced unparalleled cultivation skill martial techniques, but in his hands, they were just scrap iron!"

"Once there was an exalted strong one, though he didn’t practice cultivation skill martial techniques and possessed no unmatched sharp sword, as he raised his hand, everything from heaven and earth could become sword!"

"The sword in his hand was the flower and grass of this world, a stone and water from the mountain rivers, an emotion and action from the multitude..."

"Do you understand?"

The grey-robed old man spoke kindly.

"Don’t understand." The five-year-old child shook his head and said, "I don’t care, I want to cultivate grandfather’s sword skill; I want to practice; I want to practice... Wow... Bad grandfather... Wow..."

The five-year-old child released the old man’s hand and sat on the ground, crying loudly.

The grey-robed old man could only laugh helplessly, "Alright, alright, grandfather will teach you!"

The five-year-old child immediately broke into a smile and said, "Then grandfather, teach me!"

The grey-robed old man said, "You’re just like your father as a child!"

"Come, grandfather will teach you!" The grey-robed old man took the child into the cave mansion.

Lin Bai watched the old man’s every move.

The old man stood within the cave mansion, looked around the stone walls, thinking about something, and after a long time, a chaotic smile appeared at his mouth, as though a cunning plan was brewing in his mind.

At once, the old man waved his hand, leaving numerous sword marks and indistinct words on the surrounding walls.

Lin Bai looked at these sword marks and words; they were precisely the sword marks and words he had just seen within the cave mansion.

The child asked curiously, "Grandfather, didn’t you say you’d teach me sword training?"

The grey-robed old man laughed, "Yes, Xuan’er, look at the sword marks and words on the surrounding stone walls; how many can you see?"

The child looked up and said, "A sword mark... Grandfather, you’re lying; there are no words!"

The grey-robed old man laughed, "Haha, wait until you can see all the sword marks and words within this cave mansion; grandfather will teach you sword skills!"

"Really?" the child asked joyfully.

"Really!" the grey-robed old man said, "Within this cave mansion, grandfather left a total of nine hundred ninety-nine sword marks and fifteen thousand words; as long as you can rearrange all these sword marks and words!"

"Grandfather will teach you sword skills!"

"Hmm!" The child nodded happily.

At once, the child stood before that sword mark, looking at it for a long time.

The grey-robed old man watched the child’s focused appearance and couldn’t help but smile, sitting behind the child, gazing at him lovingly.

At this moment, the mist in the cave mansion stirred, and the old and young before him gradually transformed.

The five-year-old child instantly became a fifteen-year-old youth.

"Grandfather, today I saw eighteen sword marks and seventy-two words; soon I’ll be able to cultivate your sword skills." The fifteen-year-old child said excitedly.

The grey-robed old man laughed and said, "Good! Grandfather’s waiting for you!"

The mist surged again.

And with each surge of mist, the five-year-old child would grow.

From the initial five-year-old child to a fifteen-year-old youth, then eighteen, twenty-eight-year-old young adult, to thirty-eight-year-old middle-aged, to fifty-eight...

Until the child became seventy-eight, he finally saw all the sword marks within the cave mansion and all the words, illuminating every word.

Lin Bai stood aside, watching the transformation from a five-year-old child to an eighty-year-old man, witnessing his lifelong endeavor to illuminate the words within the cave mansion.

He did not know how many times he had failed, how much energy had been spent, to illuminate all the words.

At seventy-eight years, the child had become an old man, with his own offspring, walked before the grey-robed old man with a smile and said, "Grandfather, today I’ve finally illuminated all the words here, can you now teach me sword skills?"

At that moment, the grey-robed old man, already in twilight, emanated a dense aura of death, gazing at his grandson now turned elder, kindly smiled and said, "You... have already learned, haven’t you?"

The grey-robed old man laughed while saying.

With these words entering his grandson’s mind, they exploded!

And as Lin Bai heard this, his expression too instantly shattered!