Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect
Chapter 165 - 164 Crane Feather

Chapter 165: Chapter 164 Crane Feather

"Screeech——!"

"Whizz whizz whizz whizz!"

"Clang clang clang dang!"

Tie Dan was pursued by the Flying Crane Sword. Using the ’Perfect Fifth Sword Technique’, he shifted his movements with the rhythm, constantly changing direction to escape for his life within the forest.

He thought Lord Xiao enlightened him with music theory to help him comprehend the transformations of this array’s mysteries and use this sword technique for breaking the array. It turns out, after all, it was to teach him to understand the array’s changes for the sake of fleeing.

But that tree-planting old man was taking things too far! Even using a Sword Box to set up an array? Really putting everything on the line, right? Moreover, these old folks sure had some tricks up their sleeves! That wooden crane flapped its wings and released a ring of Crane Feather Blade Fans with a whizzing sound! It sent out as many as ten flying swords! Isn’t that too outrageous!

This encounter was even more perilous than the forest formation earlier. Even Lord Xiao didn’t appear, so as not to interfere with Tie Dan’s escape.

After all, a previous mistake at most meant getting beaten by a tree, and the Blood Jade Technique still allowed some recovery. Now, a direct hit could really be a matter of life and death, leading to dismemberment in this place!

"Nine Heavens Qianjin, Unleash Divine Weapons, Evil Beaten, Supreme Evil..."

"Swish swish swish!"

Tie Dan quickly shut his mouth and shrank back, tunneling away to avoid danger. The Crane Feather Flying Sword scraped past his lion-skin great cloak, shaving off a patch of fur.

Damn it! The Nine Yin Sword Control Technique isn’t working! Looks like the flying sword commands from each Mystic Sect are different!

But it’s okay! Tie Dan remained calm! Because he knew the way to counteract it!

Indeed, Tie Dan had never learned the Purple Mist Taoist Method, which is why he often found himself at a disadvantage when confronting this old man.

However, as a disciple of the Sword Sect, mastering the flying sword was essential, and naturally, he also had expert knowledge of techniques to counterattack when being pursued by a sword.

Of course, if a flying sword is coming to kill you, it’s best to have a magic treasure for defense and stabilization. Engaging the enemy while unarmed is not the plan.

There are two basic methods to counteract the art of flying swords. The first is still the Sword Control Technique.

Try to erase the Divine Sense attached to the sword by the opponent and take control of the flying sword using the Sword Control Technique.

Of course, taking control directly with the Sword Control Technique occurs mostly during sword duels within the same sect, especially when there’s a significant disparity in strength. In Sword Sect sword duels, it’s common to severely injure the opponent first, and then capture the opponent’s weapon during their fainting or severe injury, declaring victory afterwards.

The second is Qi Manipulation Technique, or more strictly not ’Manipulation’ but ’Avoidance’. If Qi Refining is to harness beneficial True Qi to cultivate within, then the Technique of Qi Avoidance is to avoid noxious Mixed Qi. Common water avoidance and fire avoidance skills apply this method.

Fortunately, the projectiles from that wooden crane were iron swords. Hence, Tie Dan skillfully pinched a Gold Avoiding Technique, repelling all those Crane Feather Treasure Swords from his surroundings. The blades fell in vain against empty space, and with Tie Dan’s agile maneuvers, protected by his vestment robe and sword technique, though surrounded by a chaotic barrage of swords, they couldn’t get close!

However, Tie Dan also knew that the Gold Avoiding Technique was merely a temporary measure, not a permanent solution. The key was still to take out the wooden crane above.

But the crane soared high in the sky, coming and going like the wind, as if tunneling through, with its body protected by refined Purple Mist Dao Qi. At least ranking at the Nascent Soul Realm entry rank, it was far more challenging than some gatekeeping lion or dog.

Fortunately, Tie Dan also grasped the Perfect Fifth Sword Technique and had the Gold Avoiding Technique to protect himself. With this overcapacity for self-preservation, he wasn’t in a hurry to determine life or death and could study the opponent’s weaknesses carefully.

Yes, the weakness was clear. This wooden crane had a time restriction.

After all, as the array eye of the Weichi Formation, this crane constantly fed its own mana to the array to sustain this piece of heaven and earth. Roughly estimating, in no more than three days, its mana should be exhausted.

But Tie Dan didn’t want to exhaust himself dodging, hiding, and being pursued by swords in this array for three days.

Fortunately, Lord Xiao had taught him not only the knack of Listening Sound Enlightenment but also the secrets of Refining and Treasuring. Thus, Tie Dan calmed his mind, relocating within the array to avoid the flying swords while observing the design and structure of the wooden crane, deducing where its weaknesses lay.

Thus, this one man and one crane wrestled within the array for a full day and night. Tie Dan even deliberately took a few sword hits, staining it with his blood to investigate the wooden crane’s internal structure, gradually piecing together a mental picture of the crane, deducing approximately when it recycles its swords and replenishes Ju Qi and when it energizes the formation.

Having calculated all this inside and out, Tie Dan prepared himself, seizing the moment just as the wooden crane was recharging the array, with its next round of sword energy exhausted and the Crane Feather Flying Swords retracted into the wings, to launch a sudden counterattack!

Activate the Triple Turbines! Initiate the Taibai Sword Light! Launch the Red Vein Pupil Sword!

In an instant! The sword light erupted! A powerful blow shattered the wooden crane’s Protective True Qi! Disrupting its internal Qi-circulation!

Then take advantage of your enemy’s sickness to claim its life! Exploit the weakness to press on the attack relentlessly, biting down in a continual assault, wielding a great blade to charge forward!

"Die——!"

"Screeeech——!"

Yet, unexpectedly, the wooden crane was quite formidable!

Even though it had just exhausted its True Qi to replenish the array and suffered a decline in cultivation!

Even though it had just recycled its flying swords and left without a No Sword Formation to use!

Even though Tie Dan calculated the cooldown timing and seized the opportunity to counterattack!

Still, it brandished iron wings and steel claws, engaging in close combat!

Not only did each move carry immense power with copper skin and iron bones, making it particularly difficult to defeat, but it also knew martial arts!

Really! Even this Mystic Sect’s crane knew martial arts! One moment flicking its wings, then delivering an elbow blow, kicking, or attempting a heart strike! Its combat power was formidable, and technique incredibly high!

Tie Dan never expected to be half-dead beaten by a crane, unexpectedly having his eye pecked blind, but he couldn’t miss the chance finally grasped. Allowing the opponent to distance itself and unleash flying swords again would be even more dangerous!

Thus, he gripped his teeth tightly, engaging in close-quarters fistfighting with the wooden crane, a bloody struggle! Rolling back and forth in the forest, breaking countless trunks and shrubs, rolling around Thorny Ridge several times! Results in blood sprayed everywhere, his lion skin torn apart!

Finally, after a lengthy, brutal, and bloody fight, the sharp, angry clanging sounds began to subside.

The entire deep forest array also temporarily returned to calm, leaving only the gentle sound of falling leaves rustling in the breeze.

Having lost its core array eye, the gathered Purple Mist True Qi in Weichi forcibly scattered, causing forest branches and leaves to collapse in sheets, transforming into spring mud amid the rustling.

Yes, Tie Dan won again.

Yet it was a hard-won victory.

After all, such an Artifact Spirit Treasure is neither a person nor a demon but an object.

An object that obeys the master’s command, battling to the end.

Thus, the wooden crane fought till the final moment.

Having been destroyed by Tie Dan with the Child Sword Light, breaking its Protective Taoist Energy, destroying the Sword Formation Talisman Seal, having its wings and claws mutilated by the treasure sword, its iron carcass smashed by Lord Xiao, and finally dealt the last blow with the Divine Sect dagger, completely annihilating the Treasure Core’s Xuan Nu Talisman Seal, it finally ceased its movements.

Yet Tie Dan was also beaten to a bloody state by a crane, having his eyes pecked out, his intestines pierced by iron claws, one leg and an arm slashed by sword feathers, being skewered through by thorny wood swords like meat on a stick.

To battle a single Sword Box and end up like this, what a hardship...

And the most speechless thing was that when the Wooden Crane Sword Box shattered, those ten Crane Feather Flying Swords triggered some kind of fail-safe! They turned into a radiant light and vanished! Nowhere to be found!

Damn it...

All that effort, and not a thing to show for it... so difficult...

"Incredible, incredible. I thought this time, encountering a true inheritor from Hutong Mountain, surviving with your life would already be commendable, yet you managed to win this small round."

Lord Xiao also let out a breath, raising a little finger in front of Tie Dan, shaking it as he sighed,

"Ah, alas! The Yangtze River’s waves drive forward the waves ahead, young heroes emerge throughout history~~"

Hutong Mountain... remembered...

Although the injuries were undeniably severe, Tie Dan had long become accustomed, even managing to protect his abdomen well enough this time to avoid passing out and needing a stroll in Chen Xuantian’s place, healing wounds directly on-site using the Blood Jade Technique.

Additionally, thanks to the spiritual qi gathered by the grand array, Tie Dan estimated it would only take about a day’s effort to regenerate flesh and restore Qi Power, letting him spring to his feet again...

"What? The Great Dao Body of Blood God Master! You are part of our Divine Sect?!"

Then, a blood rainbow appeared across the sky, arriving in an instant like a crimson lightning bolt. It refracted through the forest, illuminating the space in front of Tie Dan, forming a blood shadow humanoid figure in the blood light, its face obscured.

Lord Xiao brushed back his hair, looked at the blood shadow, tilted his head back, and exclaimed,

"Ah alas! The Yangtze River flows east, and the waves cleanse out heroes~~"

Tie Dan, "..."