Chapter 12 A Sword in Spring Amidst the Flaming Heart
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Upon hearing the voice outside the shop, the old man behind the counter, who had been bending over to fetch pills for Chu Weiyang, suddenly paused, then straightened up and calmly looked at Chu Weiyang.
“No matter how much influence the Pill Sect has, this is still Heyuan. Don’t expect me to protect your life just because you buy three pots of pills. Of course, as long as you stand in my shop, I’ll have something to say to the people outside, but if you wait until you’ve bought the pills…”
The old man shook his head, his meaning quite clear.
Meanwhile, the voice outside continued incessantly, becoming increasingly sharp and sarcastic.
However, as the tone suddenly rose, the earlier sinister aura vanished, replaced by a sudden, noisy clamor.
"Oh, by the way, I heard your elders went to the Old Mother's place on Tingchang Mountain, only to be beaten up and come out looking disheveled..."
"Let me teach you a lesson. At this time of year, don't wander around with a sword. It's only because your father is kind-hearted that he can't bear to see people being killed..."
"Speaking of which, what kind of 'Fiend Elixir' does your Sword Sect have? It's quite a rare and interesting concoction. Do you have any here? Give me some, so I can broaden my horizons!"
The more this person chattered on, the more Chu Weiyang's agitated mind relaxed.
At first, the young man thought he had encountered a tough opponent because he could directly identify the Sword Sect cultivator from Chu Weiyang's demeanor.
But after these last few sentences, which broke through his own aura and power, Chu Weiyang understood the man's background.
He was just a hoodlum hanging around the marketplace, whoever had given him a few words of advice, whether true or false, had acted rashly, tempted by the lure of wealth, and had been used as a pawn. Yet, he genuinely lacked any sense of propriety, which led to his failure. What he said to Chu Weiyang was nothing but noise.
The person who truly saw through Chu Weiyang's true nature was probably still observing coldly from some corner.
Understanding this, ignoring it and not responding was the best choice.
As long as he didn't act, no one would know the sword's sharpness. The true rogue cultivators and demonic cultivators who frequented the marketplace were people whose composure and shrewdness were ingrained in their bones; they wouldn't rashly attack an unknown swordsman while hesitating.
However, when a complete stranger mentioned "Fiendish Essence,"
especially in the River Source area, outside the Rejuvenation Pavilion, in a place completely unrelated to the Demon Suppression Cave, when someone mentioned "Fiendish Essence,"...
Suddenly, it was as if thunder had exploded in Chu Weiyang's heart, then traveled along his central meridian and struck straight into his dantian.
Following this invisible lightning bolt, the Crimson Palace Heart Fire surged upwards and downwards!
A raging inferno reached the heavens!
The persistent, gnaw-like discomfort tormented Chu Weiyang's mind, almost driving him mad!
Just one sentence, and the young man seemed still in that dark, ghostly cave, never having left it.
Yet he had clearly already left the mountains, striving to integrate into this vast world.
Everything seemed to have been utterly destroyed by that one sentence!
In the darkness, Steward Ma's mocking voice echoed.
"You think you've escaped the Demon-Suppressing Cave?"
"No! From now on, your place of residence, your body, will be your own Demon-Suppressing Cave!"
In an instant, the thought ignited an uncontrollable rage!
And there was no need to!
One moment, Chu Weiyang stood there steadily, as imposing as a pine tree.
The next instant, he shifted his stance, turned, and spun towards the doorway with a graceful, swift movement!
Each step, forward and backward, yin and yang, began and ended in sync, his feet positioned horizontally and vertically, forming a T-shape, like the meeting of yin and yang.
This twisting and turning, this agile maneuvering, revealed the pinnacle of his movement technique!
As Chu Weiyang took his first step, the young man's hand already gripped the hilt of his sword, and by the time he stood at the doorway, the sharp blade was already drawn!
In a flash, the sword danced in his hand, and as it thrust out, each moment of slaughter against wild beasts along his long journey flowed through Chu Weiyang's mind.
The six chapters and thirty-six forms of the "Spring Sword," each move of which appeared almost simultaneously in his mind!
In a daze, Chu Weiyang experienced a strange feeling.
He suddenly understood the feeling that Steward Ma had described.
But it wasn't entirely the same as what Steward Ma had said.
When his understanding of the *Springtime Sword* truly reached its essence, in a moment of hazy awareness where his inner and outer senses were in harmony, suddenly, the raging fire within his Crimson Palace seemed to envelop something!
It wasn't the usual heat from consuming food. Rather,
it was a subtle, ethereal, gentle, and clear current.
Subconsciously, Chu Weiyang began circulating the *Five Organs Qi-Nourishing Essence Technique*.
Having mastered the technique, almost instantly, the fire within his heart, carrying that invisible stream, circulated through his five internal organs.
It wasn't actually consuming anything; during this circulation, not a single drop escaped from the fire and entered his organs.
But when the fire returned to its place, along with the circulation of the technique, something clearly seemed to have entered that clear current from within the fire.
It was anger, the boundless anger Chu Weiyang had nurtured in the Demon-Suppressing Cave!
It was thunder that pierced through his entire being! Those were flames raging with lightning!
Those were the sounds and calamities echoing in spring!
The heart fire returned to the Crimson Palace, and the stream of light mixed with lightning and fire descended towards the dantian.
Before entering a state of deep meditation, before sitting in oblivion, Chu Weiyang had already obtained the first wisp of sword intent. It
was related to spring, but it originated from anger.
This was something that even Steward Ma could not explain clearly. After all, in this world, perhaps only Chu Weiyang had ever cultivated both the "Five Viscera Qi-Nourishing Essence Technique" and the "Spring Sword" and encountered such a situation.
When Chu Weiyang looked directly at the door,
when their eyes met in the void,
the lightning and fire that flashed in those deep pupils seemed like some invisible force, like conveying some supreme heavenly might. Almost instantly, it suppressed the man's mind, leaving him stunned on the spot, unable to react at all in the face of life and death!
The next moment, Chu Weiyang's almost murmured voice rang out.
"Awakening of Insects—"
This is the name of the sword intent that Chu Weiyang derived from the "Springtime Sword"!
It is the rage of one of the four seasons!
It is the turbulent thunder above the nine heavens!
It is the boiling wildfire on the boundless earth!
Before the Awakening of Insects arrives, thunder roars first, and the torrential rain and gale are like dragons!
The sword tip thrusts out.
That wisp of sword intent hangs above the dantian, like the great sun illuminating the vast ocean.
The next instant, sword energy surged, boundless killing intent swept out, whipping Chu Weiyang's robes into a fluttering din, stirring up a gale and sandstorm, as chilling as the depths of winter! With
this sword strike, there was no chance of survival.
The longsword pierced his eye socket and emerged from the back of his head, cleanly and swiftly ending his life, and incidentally, as he had requested, opening his eyes to the world.
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