Chapter 21: Chapter 19 Sword Intent Seed

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Moo!

The mutated Silver-Striped Snake Demon suddenly opened its eyes, and from its emerald green eyes, two beams shot out, as tangible as real light, tearing through the air as they struck.

"What's happening?!"

"How did this Silver-Striped Snake Demon suddenly grow so much stronger?!"

"Its aura, my God, this must be the presence of a seventh-order Demon Beast! It's clearly injured, so how did its strength surge again?"

The strange transformation of the Silver-Striped Snake Demon caused Zhou Mo, Hong Man, and Fang Shan to be utterly shocked; they had never heard of such a change happening to a Silver-Striped Snake Demon before.

A sixth-order pinnacle Demon Beast already made them hard pressed to resist; advancing to the seventh order, it could easily kill them with little effort!

"Ye Chen, what should we do?" Lin Jing, who was pulled back by Ye Chen to dodge, looked at the bizarrely transforming Silver-Striped Snake Demon with shock filling her beautiful eyes, completely unexpecting such a sudden upheaval.

"This Silver-Striped Snake Demon seems to contain a special power within its body, distinct from its original strength," Ye Chen said solemnly, watching the Silver-Striped Snake Demon still adapting to its newly transformed body.

After cultivating the "Meridian Refining Art" from the Primordial Star Scripture, his perception of the surrounding environment had greatly increased. Although the mutation of the Silver-Striped Snake Demon shocked him, he still detected something special about the creature.

Sword power!

Whether it was the sword-like, yet not a sword pattern between its eyes or the energy it expelled, it all gave him the impression of a power unique to Sword Cultivators.

This Snake Demon living in Mirror Lake actually exuded a sense of power akin to that of human Sword Cultivators, which was indeed very strange.

"Another kind of power?"

Lin Jing looked at the powerfully surging Silver-Striped Snake Demon but could not sense the other special power Ye Chen mentioned. All she felt was that the current Silver-Striped Snake Demon was somewhat frightening and intimidating.

Boom!

While the two were briefly conversing, the Silver-Striped Snake Demon seemed to have adapted to its suddenly augmented body. Its pair of emerald green giant eyes directly targeted Ye Chen and Lin Jing, who had wounded it.

Then, the Silver-Striped Snake Demon, with its massive tail, sprung fiercely, propelling its entire body like an arrow toward Ye Chen and Lin Jing.

"Dodge its sharp edge first!"

The instant the Silver-Striped Snake Demon lunged, Ye Chen called out calmly to Lin Jing, and they moved in a flash, swiftly dodging the explosive lash of the Silver-Striped Snake Demon.

Roar!

The Silver-Striped Snake Demon, having increased in strength dramatically, was not willing to let go of the two who had injured it. It let out a loud roar, and its twenty-meter-long massive body, surprisingly agile, pursued Ye Chen and Lin Jing who were evading.

During the pursuit, the Silver-Striped Snake Demon's gaping mouth suddenly opened wide, and a flurry of sword-blade-like True Qi Storms swept out.

Ye Chen pushed the Yellow Class mid-tier movement technique "Startling Goose Steps" to its limit, narrowly avoiding the sky-full of sword blades. Lin Jing also performed a set of "Shocking Cloud Body Skills" to dodge, preventing the sword-blade-like True Qi Storms from harming them.

Instead, the storm hit a thick tree in the distance, severing it cleanly in two.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With a swirl of True Qi in his hand, Ye Chen pushed Lin Jing several meters back, then with the fine steel sword in hand, he directly met the oncoming silver-striped Snake Demon.

Lin Jing's voice was tinged with a hint of sobbing as she watched Ye Chen charging towards the silver-striped Snake Demon, her mind turning blank in an instant.

Ye Chen, soaring into the sky, was engulfed by surging True Qi, seemingly wrapped in a green-hued Qi. His eyes shone brighter than ever before as he unleashed his strongest Torrential Rain Sword Skills towards the silver-striped Snake Demon!

The silver-striped Snake Demon, with a particular venom for Ye Chen, thrashed and bit wildly, seeking only to brutally kill the tiny human before it!

The sky erupted with True Qi, and the ground tore apart.

In the midst of the fierce battle, Lin Jing, whose mind had been a blank slate, watched as Ye Chen, facing off against the drastically empowered silver-striped Snake Demon, didn't fall behind at all.

"The power of the sword!"

"It's truly the power of the sword!"

"This silver-striped Snake Demon's sudden increase in strength is because it has a force of the sword within!"

In the midst of the intense battle, Ye Chen fought with increasing brightness in his eyes.

All thirty of the Qi Meridians, Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and the thirty-three Meridian Wheels within him that had been cultivated were now all open, sensing the strange forces permeating the sky.

In that instant, it was as if heaven and earth came to a halt, and all sounds completely vanished.

Above and below the heavens, there was only that peculiar force, the strange power of the sword.

When that power resonated in a mysterious harmony with Ye Chen's breathing, his hair flew without any wind behind him, and his eyes suddenly erupted with a compelling Divine Light.

He raised his sword and swung down!

This single stroke was like a deluge of heavy rain plummeting from the sky, carrying with it the power to obliterate everything, and cleaved a Qi edge over twenty meters long straight at the silver-striped Snake Demon that seemed to have frozen in mid-air.

In absolute silence, the large body of the silver-striped Snake Demon was split in two, cleanly severed.

After a moment, it was as though the world began to move once again.

Boom! Boom!

Amongst the spraying blood, the two halves of the serpent's body thunderously crashed onto the ground.

The silver-striped Snake Demon, which had surged in power to that of a seventh rank Demon Beast, was now dead at the hands of Ye Chen, slain by his single sword strike!

The resounding crash brought Lin Jing back to reality from her blank mind, and Zhou Mo and the others, severely injured, looked on with utter astonishment in their eyes.

And Ye Chen, who flew down from the sky, exhaled a breath that was sharp as an arrow.

His eyes shone like stars, and in his mind, it felt as if a seed was slowly taking form.

"Sword Intents, it's as if I have touched the threshold of Sword Intent."

"What exactly is inside this Snake Demon that it allowed my Sword Dao Realm to improve so greatly in an instant?!"

Unable to contain his curiosity, Ye Chen walked towards the corpse of the silver-striped Snake Demon.