The Unparalleled Sword Emperor
Chapter 1606 - 1603: Horizontal and Vertical! Single-Stroke Sword Skill! (5 Updates)

Chapter 1606: Chapter 1603: Horizontal and Vertical! Single-Stroke Sword Skill! (5 Updates)

Lin Bai paused in surprise, stopping his sword skill, and looked around into the surrounding darkness.

In the moments before, Lin Bai clearly felt the trajectory of sword marks, but as he stopped his sword practice, he could no longer sense the direction of that trail.

"Could it be that I can only perceive it when I’m practicing my sword?"

Lin Bai’s expression became solemn, and he silently raised the Demonic Sword once again, swiftly executing the "Sword of Ten Steps" within this dark cave, continuously evolving the moves.

Whoosh—

A sword swept through the empty air, and the might of the Broken Night sword instantly erupted, a streak of dawn light that shattered the darkness flashed across the land.

This sword was the strongest among the "Ancient Sword Skill," named Broken Night; at this moment when deployed, aligned with Lin Bai’s Late Stage of Aurora Intent, it even illuminated a fraction of the surrounding darkness!

At that instant when the darkness around became bright, Lin Bai caught sight of a sword mark crossing through the void!

"Light and darkness..."

Lin Bai came to a halt, quietly contemplating in his heart.

Standing in the darkness for a long while, Lin Bai silently sat down cross-legged, revealing the Aurora Intent around him, gradually condensing the power of the Aurora Intent in his eyes.

Suddenly, Lin Bai’s eyes shone brightly, a bright white glow emerging within his eyes.

Lin Bai raised his gaze, looking forward.

At that moment, Lin Bai suddenly felt as if in the darkness, there was also someone watching him.

"When you stare into the darkness, the darkness stares back at you!"

Lin Bai’s heart shook, and little by little, the Aurora Intent began to gather around him.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Just then, as the light around Lin Bai grew brighter and brighter, the darkness of the Eternal Darkness Cave actually couldn’t devour the force of the light on Lin Bai’s body, the crack of dawn light began to shine within the Eternal Darkness Cave.

As the light flickered, sword lights flashed by Lin Bai’s face.

This sword light was nothingness, only due to the light shimmering from Lin Bai’s body, making the sword light appear in front of him as if captured by a Recording Orb.

Swoosh—

A sword light, sweeping through the sky!

Lin Bai’s gaze instantly focused on this sword light; this stroke was straight and long, with boundless power, as if a sword slashing from the southern skies to the northern earth, from the stars to the Vast Ocean, straight and unobstructed.

It was as if under this sword, any obstruction would be instantly shattered!

This stroke was named simply as "First Horizontal."

"A single stroke..." Lin Bai was stunned.

Immediately, another sword stroke came down from the high sky, as if slashing from Outside the Nine Heavens Cloud straight down to Nine Netherworld Hell, this stroke of sword light instantly divided the heavens and the earth.

"Another ’First Horizontal’..."

Lin Bai remained stunned.

Afterward, strokes of sword light swiftly passed through the darkness, being merely remaining shadows and lights, without any harm!

Seeing the trajectory of these sword marks passing by, Lin Bai couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

"Vertical as one, horizontal also as one..."

Immediately after, Lin Bai softly murmured to himself and stood up from the darkness, drew out the Demonic Sword, and with a stroke following the sword mark, the sword light suddenly filled the heavens.

Lin Bai imitated these sword marks, practicing his sword skill!

One day, two days, three days, in the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

After half a month, the puzzled look on Lin Bai’s face finally revealed a hint of sudden enlightenment, standing in the darkness he exclaimed with a realization: "So this King Skill Level technique is just one stroke."

"This set of King Skill Level techniques brings the elementary sword skills to their utmost limit!"

"Every Sword Cultivator knows before practicing swordsmanship, the elementary sword skills are namely: thrust, slash, poke, lift, pick, burst, block, chop, wipe, shave, cloud, hang, support, press, and so on!"

"And this set of King Level sword techniques actually brought all these elementary sword skills to their utmost limit, could this be... The Great Simplicity, all paths leading to one?"

"The Sword Cultivator who created this set of sword techniques must be a monstrous figure in the realm of Sword Art!"

Lin Bai deeply felt that the Sword Cultivator who created the "Single-Stroke Sword Skill" must once have been a monster-level character on the Lingnan Continent, or even in the East Continent.

After Lin Bai’s realization, suddenly the sword marks in the darkness shone brightly.

A young man’s voice echoed in the darkness.

"A vertical and a horizontal! A horizontal and a vertical!"

"A point and a drip! A long and a short!"

"In concert and counterpoint! Invisible and then visible!"

"Life and death! Movement and stillness!"

"Rising and falling! Wholehearted and focused!"

"..."

This voice continuously echoed in the darkness and by Lin Bai’s ear, firmly etched into his mind.

After memorizing these sounds, Lin Bai quickly sat down cross-legged and recited these words in his heart, suddenly a vast and majestic sword technique thundered into existence in his mind.

And with it, the sword skill evolved in Lin Bai’s heart.

"Is this the Single-Stroke Sword Skill?" Three days later, Lin Bai opened his eyes feeling slightly exhausted. After three days of contemplation, he had finally grasped a bit of the mystery of the Single-Stroke Sword Skill!

Suddenly, Lin Bai stood up vigorously, the Demonic Sword buzzing in his hand, a flow of Sword Intent rising from his body.

One sword!

The Demonic Sword thrust forward fiercely, one sword reaching heaven and piercing the earth, sweeping across ten thousand feet of sky, shattering everything in front of it with one strike!

"This sword technique only has three techniques!"

"First technique: Horizontal!"

"Second technique: Vertical!"

"Third technique: Horizontal and Vertical!"

Lin Bai chuckled bitterly several times and said, "The creator of such an extraordinary sword skill was not attentive enough when naming them, what kind of names are these?"

"Horizontal and Vertical?"

Lin Bai chuckled and shook his head bitterly, but after thinking about it carefully, he nodded in agreement: "However, it’s true, looking at the ’Single Character Sword Skill’, it is the ultimate use of basic sword techniques, containing the profound truth of The Great Simplicity. Presumably, the sword cultivator who created this technique was also an extremely lazy person, thus even the naming is so simple!"

In the following days, Lin Bai continuously honed the mystery of the "Single-Stroke Sword Skill" within the Eternal Darkness Cave.

After half a month of refining, he was pleasantly surprised: "Now the ’Single-Stroke Sword Skill’ is probably one of the strongest sword techniques I possess!"

"The power of the Single-Stroke Sword Skill is much greater than that of both the Devouring Sun Sword Skill and the Ten-Step Sword!"

"While the Heaven-reaching Sword Skill and Qingmu Divine Thunder can also enhance my strength!"

"Of course, my strongest trump card is still my self-created... the Slaying Immortal Sword!"

"With the sword techniques I hold now, slaying a First Level of the Yangshen Realm would be effortless. If I now were to battle with Qi Xuan, perhaps I wouldn’t need to use the Heaven-reaching Sword Skill to defeat him!"

"If I play all my trump cards, bringing out both Qingmu Divine Thunder and the Heaven-reaching Sword Skill, I shall have no opponent under the Third Level of the Yangshen Realm!"

Lin Bai said to himself in his heart.

"As for the Blood Sea Seven Steps... I feel this skill, though not a King Skill Level, still has decent power, but I’m used to using the sword, so this skill could be reserved for use after I perform the ’Ancient Divine Scripture’!"

Lin Bai sat cross-legged in contemplation within the Eternal Darkness Cave.

"Now that I have comprehended the ’Single-Stroke Sword Skill’, the two or three months mentioned by Senior Gui Jing should be almost up, right? Why hasn’t he come to let me out?"

"Once I leave the Eternal Darkness Cave, it will be almost time to seek out Yejian Jun!"

"Yejian Jun now also has the Second Level of the Yangshen Realm strength, with my current state, killing him... will not be difficult!"

Lin Bai said silently to himself.

As Lin Bai was contemplating, the bracelet on his wrist emitted a prismatic glow, and Gui Jing’s voice came from the bracelet: "Dongfang Bai, follow the prismatic light on the bracelet, I’ll guide you out!"

Hearing Gui Jing’s voice, Lin Bai immediately paid attention to the glow on his wrist and saw a prismatic light burst forth from the bracelet. Lin Bai immediately got up and followed the light.

In a short while, the prismatic light shot out from the Eternal Darkness Cave, landing on a bracelet on Gui Jing’s wrist. Afterward, Lin Bai also walked out of the Eternal Darkness Cave.

Seeing Lin Bai emerge, Gui Jing chuckled lightly: "These two months weren’t easy, were they?"

"In the darkness, there is nothing that can’t be endured." Lin Bai shook his head slightly, his complexion pale. He looked up at the sun in the sky and chuckled lightly, "I still prefer to live under the sun."

Gui Jing chuckled lightly: "I hope these two months of confinement will teach you a lesson."

"Go and rest well. In five days, we’ll set off for Starry Sky City, the Stars Secret Realm is about to begin!"

Gui Jing said indifferently.

"Starry Sky City? Stars Secret Realm?" Lin Bai looked at Gui Jing, puzzled.

"Yes, not just you will go, Yejian Jun, Lin Luo, and Lin Anyang will also participate, and at that time the Seven Great Unparalleled Sects will all send masters there!"

Gui Jing said with a faint smile.

Upon hearing this, a cold smile crept over Lin Bai’s lips: "It doesn’t matter if other people go or not, just him being there will suffice!"