Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 566 - 564: Sword. Break

Chapter 566: Chapter 564: Sword. Break

"If I may ask, why were you in that Sword Qi Crystal, and why..."

Xun Wuxian extended a hand to Wen Wen, signaling him to stop asking further, "That is a secret of The Xun Family, I’m not at liberty to discuss it."

Then he simply stretched his body and said to Wen Wen, "I don’t have much time to move around, but I can take some time out to help you deal with some minor troubles, like him..."

Before Xun Wuxian finished speaking, a fiery red fireball descended from the sky, crashing into the ground and creating a large crater.

Climbing out of the crater, a figure ablaze with flames, was the Red Beard who had previously fled.

At this moment, Red Beard looked thinner than before, his eyes filled with hysterical madness.

"Where is the Merry Troublemaker, where is the Sword Qi Crystal!"

Wen Wen immediately noticed something was off with Red Beard’s condition, seemingly having lost his sanity, just like Jumo when he used the Demon Sword.

In his hand he held a fierce longsword... no, perhaps it couldn’t be said that he was holding it.

The hilt of the longsword had disappeared, replaced by tendrils of flesh and metal that were tightly wrapped around Red Beard’s right arm.

Even though the sword had transformed, Wen Wen could still recognize it as the longsword forged from the Sword Embryo that Red Beard had prepared.

Apparently dissatisfied that the Merry Troublemaker had taken away the Sword Qi Crystal, he had quickly forged a Demon Sword that suited him with Matilda and that Sword Embryo, hoping to snatch back the Sword Qi Crystal.

However, severely injured as he was, he could not control the hastily crafted Demon Sword and was instead being controlled by it.

More sadly, although the materials and Sword Embryo of this new Demon Sword were stronger compared to those of his previous Demon Swords,

because the forging process was too rushed, the Demon Sword hadn’t done much to enhance Red Beard’s strength and, because his mind was controlled, his strength had even weakened compared to before.

it wouldn’t matter that the Merry Troublemaker had now become the Disaster True Sequence’s Xun Wuxian—even if he were still the original Merry Troublemaker, appearing again would just be delivering himself to death.

Someone else might have been frightened by his fearsome appearance, but Wen Wen, with his Mirror Eye, could directly gauge his strength.

"The Sword Embryo of that sword is indeed very nice, pity it has been forged into such a vile thing... What a waste."

Xun Wuxian said regretfully, shaking his head as he condensed a white longsword in his hand.

With just one swing of this sword, he could kill the current Red Beard, but Wen Wen stepped in front of Xun Wuxian.

"He doesn’t need the senior to take action just yet, I’d like to ask the senior for another small favor."

Xun Wuxian frowned and said, "Then you’d better be quick, I’m short on time."

Wen Wen said with a confident smile, "Don’t worry, it will be quick."

After speaking, Wen Wen walked toward Red Beard and drew his Ice Longsword.

If Xun Wuxian took action, Red Beard’s death would be certain, but Wen Wen didn’t want him to die.

Not to mention that Red Beard’s death would lead to the deaths of countless ordinary people, considering Red Beard’s value to the Sanctuary, Wen Wen didn’t want him to die.

Moreover, Wen Wen wanted to try out the sword technique that Xun Ying had taught him!

Wen Wen had attempted that sword technique countless times before, but had never once successfully executed it; however, now Wen Wen felt that he could do it.

Perhaps it was because he had grasped the Sword of Heart, or perhaps seeing Xun Wuxian’s Sword Qi had inspired him—whatever the reason, Wen Wen now had a strong intuition and... impulse!

Seeing Wen Wen approach, Red Beard let out a wild roar and then charged at Wen Wen, the ground beneath his feet melting from the extreme heat.

Wen Wen was not at all flustered, with both hands grasping the hilt of his sword, he took a deep breath, assumed the stance he had trained thousands of times, and then closed his eyes.

After closing his eyes, Wen Wen did not lose awareness of his surroundings. A faint Sword Qi formed a massive circle around him, within which he could sense everything.

"This sword, is such that..."

Once the sword technique was ready, Wen Wen immediately noticed the uniqueness of this strike.

It did not sever everything pointed at by the sword’s blade but cut through anything Wen Wen wished to sever in front of him.

Merely because of the thought, this sword held endless possibilities.

Before Wen Wen could slash, Xun Wuxian, who was watching the battle, raised his eyebrows, expressing his astonishment with admiration, "The sword has not even been drawn, yet already such might is apparent. This sword is incredible; who taught him?"

Red Beard, who had lost his reason, did not understand how dangerous Wen Wen was at the moment, continued to charge towards Wen Wen, and, upon reaching about ten meters away, leaped high to bring his sword crashing down on Wen Wen.

Where Red Beard’s blade pointed, it was as if a volcano erupted, the Sword Qi of magma and flame merging together, seemingly about to engulf Wen Wen entirely.

"As the heart desires, no thing cannot be cut—Cleave!"

Simultaneously with Red Beard’s swing, Wen Wen also brought down his longsword, a jet-black sword light like a pitch-dark curtain, parted everything in front of Wen Wen to the left and right.

At that moment, it seemed as if there was only the clear, crisp sound of a sword’s cry between heaven and earth.

Red Beard’s slash, Red Beard’s Demon Sword, and Red Beard’s body were all bisected by the sword light.

Before swinging his sword, Wen Wen had wanted to block Red Beard’s attack, to destroy Red Beard’s Demon Sword, but he did not wish to harm Red Beard’s life.

Therefore, when that black sword light disappeared, Red Beard’s attack dissipated into the air, the Demon Sword slowly crumbled, revealing the Sword Embryo inside, while Red Beard himself flipped his white eyes and fainted to the ground...

After swinging that sword, Wen Wen’s lips curled into a smile.

The power of this sword was even stronger than he had imagined, one stroke could defeat a Disaster Upper Order powerhouse!

But Wen Wen’s smile soon froze. He felt a wave of weakness, even a bit unsteady on his feet, as all the Supernatural Power within him had followed that stroke.

At the same time, his arms faintly transmitted intense pain, and blood dripped down to the ground along his wrists; both of his hands must have swollen by now.

This was not the worst of it. What pained Wen Wen’s heart more was that the Ice Longsword, which had accompanied him for so long, had shattered into pieces on the ground!

Although he had defeated Red Beard, Wen Wen was originally stronger than Red Beard, so paying such a price could be considered a loss.

Wen Wen hurriedly gathered up the fragments of the Ice Longsword from the ground, intending to cut his losses immediately; these shards could still perhaps be made into a few daggers.

Watching Wen Wen’s departing figure, Xun Wuxian sighed, "An old relic like me is indeed outdated... Young man, who taught you your sword techniques?"

Wen Wen’s strike had traces of the Xun-style Sword Technique, its power likely comparable to several secret techniques not shared within The Xun Family, only a true ’Sword Immortal’ could create swordsmanship of this level.

However, among the techniques Xun Wuxian knew of, this one did not exist.

Without hesitation, Wen Wen replied, "The Judicator, Xun Ying."

"Xun Ying... Another Sword Immortal has emerged from The Xun Family, I am somewhat eager to meet him now," Xun Wuxian said.

In the centuries past, when the titles for varying levels of superpower users were not yet unified, swordsmen at the ’True Self’ realm were referred to as Sword Immortals.