Chapter 339

Chapter 339

"Humph! I have lost," Zhang Yan said with a bewildered look on her face as she gazed at the starsword qi before her. That sword qi was like a galaxy emerging from the snowy ground. She murmured,

"I cannot counter your sword intent with comparable means."

"Sword intent is but a manifestation of a swordsman's will," seeing that Zhang Yan had admitted defeat with grace, Li Shiyin remarked, "Senior's cultivation is profound and unfathomable. I believe you will soon comprehend a sword intent that belongs to you."

Seeing that the two had finished speaking, this round was over, so Qin Ran said,

"This is the enhancement that sword intent provides to the second realm of sword qi. Next is the enhancement that sword intent provides to the third realm of sword qi. I will also let Senior see what a sword formation is."

"Sword formation?" Zhang Yan was rather surprised. "Could it be qi arrayed into a formation?"This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

"Sword formation..." Li Shiyin was also very surprised. She hurriedly turned her head back to look at Qin Ran, blinking her large eyes as she wordlessly asked him, "Master, when did I ever learn any formations?!"

Qin Ran smiled and blinked his eyes back at her, then said with his divine sense, "Just summon your sword qi, I will set up the formation for you."

Li Shiyin felt relieved and looked back at Zhang Yan with a smile. "My master is very skilled with formations. I also study them sometimes.

"Master often tells me that all things under heaven and earth are formations. The channels and textures of the human body are formations. Cultivation methods and mystic abilities are formations.

"He taught me to combine sword qi and formations to obtain sword formations. Using sword qi enhanced by sword intent as the material for formations and setting up formations with it. Since it is sword qi, when the sword qi changes, so do the formations. I believe this is a path of limitless potential.

"Senior, please observe..."

As she spoke, over a hundred strands of sword qi flew out from her body, dancing chaotically like a swarm of bees, like a flying flock of migratory birds.

Qin Ran looked at Li Shiyin recounting with a straight face before them and could not help his strange expression. Because these were actually his words. And he had indeed worked together with Li Shiyin to research this, but...this silly girl Li Shiyin had not learned formations for even a day!

The sky filled with sword qi that flew out and danced in midair. At a certain moment, the sword qi seemed to gain awareness and began to systematically arrange itself between the two people from Wulin Sword Sect and Qin Ran's master and disciple.

As more and more sword qi arranged itself, their figures grew more and more blurred. Suddenly at one point, their figures and the sword qi all disappeared into thin air, leaving only the snowy ground behind. It was as if they had never appeared there or had been teleported away.

"They..." Zhao Ya Qing's expression changed and she stepped forward, carefully searching around her. "Did they teleport away?"

Zhang Yan was stunned. She furrowed her brows slightly. She also did not know that.

She was a cultivator, with a long lifespan, and she did not care about mortal matters. But...Cloud Heaven Sect was also an immortal cultivation sect. Shouldn't they also look down on mortal affairs?

"Perhaps..." she guessed, "There is some great kindness between the Xuanqin Court and the Cloud Heaven Sect's Sect Leader?"

"What kind of great kindness would be worth the Cloud Heaven Sect dispatching Nascent Soul stage cultivators to assist?" Qin Ran laughed and questioned further. "They even had several Golden Core cultivators die. Yet the Cloud Heaven Sect still shows no intention to withdraw? In fact, newer cultivators have arrived. What is this great kindness between them?"

Even trading a promise from a Nascent Soul stage cultivator would be priceless...it would take countless top-grade spirit stones to buy one. Let alone dispatching one to serve as commanded.

These words made Zhang Yan realize something seemed fishy here.

"But what if, between them, it is not kindness, but equal cooperation aimed at a shared monumental ambition?" Qin Ran looked at Zhang Yan and posed a further question. "It is the Xuanqin Court and Cloud Heaven Sect cooperating together for an earth-shattering plot!"

"You mean..." Zhang Yan thought and asked, "Could the Cloud Heaven Sect be coveting the sects of North Chu?"

"Too small!" Qin Ran shook his head. "It is not just Xuanqin and North Chu, but the entire Land of Immortal Legacy!

"Xuanqin's ambition is to unify the entire Land of Immortal Legacy; the Cloud Heaven Sect's ambition is to unite all cultivation sects. Xuanqin will take care of the mortal world; Cloud Heaven Sect will take care of the cultivation world. Xuanqin will become a super empire, supporting Cloud Heaven Sect, providing them all the resources they need, including population; Cloud Heaven Sect will become the super sect, sheltering Xuanqin.

"Their ambition is to unify all of the Land of Immortal Legacy's resources to create a super sect!"

These words directly stunned Zhang Yan and the youth in black. They did not dare to believe it, yet somehow felt it was possible at the same time.

"They...they..." The youth in black was so frightened he stammered. "A tiny sect like Cloud Heaven Sect, how can they possibly defeat all the sects across the Land of Immortal Legacy?"

"When the Xuanqin Emperor unifies the mortal kingdoms, not a single cultivator cares. But once unified, tilting all the mortal resources of the Land of Immortal Legacy to Cloud Heaven Sect, undoubtedly, Cloud Heaven Sect will only grow stronger and stronger.

"By then, Cloud Heaven Sect will swallow up sect after sect. Given cultivators' mentality of aloof indifference, they will certainly sweep across the land like an avalanche. "

Qin Ran looked at him with a mocking yet meaningful look, and added, "Moreover, they need not accomplish this in a short period of time. They can slowly unify over a very, very long period."

This remark struck at their Achilles heel. Because this was precisely Wulin Sword Sect and Zhiren Valley Sword Sect's strategy. The youth in black and Zhang Yan fell into endless silence.