Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 441 - 355: The Formless Sword_2

Chapter 441: Chapter 355: The Formless Sword_2

She was actually battling Lin Xing while simultaneously creating new sword moves on the spot, intent on surpassing him in swordsmanship.

But as move after move was created, more and more girl disciples dissipated into the air.

"No," she said.

"This move won’t work."

"Neither will this one."

As the number of girls beside her dwindled, the swordswoman felt mounting pressure. She discovered that no matter how she tried to break through with her sword moves or blend the swordsmanship of various personas, she couldn’t surpass Lin Xing before her.

This attempt even caused signs of instability in her persona once again.

At that moment, suddenly, Lin Xing’s clone acquired a bloodstain on its face.

The swordswoman looked at the scene in surprise, "You... made a mistake?"

Lin Xing didn’t answer but looked at each vanishing sword trainee, as countless memories began to surge in his mind: "Yiyi... She’s Yiyi? My daughter..."

"No!"

A chill appeared in Lin Xing’s gaze, "It’s Xingxiao’s memories messing with my mind."

"Get out of my head!"

During the battle beyond the heavens, Lin Xing chose to merge with Xingxiao’s memories in his own mind, just as Little Lin Xing had, in order to overcome his counterpart who had understood deeper temporal and spatial powers.

This not only allowed him to comprehend deeper temporal and spatial forces but also made his thoughts, harmonized by the two sets of memories, become calm, rational, and unlike his past self.

But it also led to an unlikely flaw when he saw the young girl disciple, Bai Yiyi.

However, Lin Xing’s flaw was fleeting, so fast that the swordswoman thought it might have been her imagination.

Meanwhile, the cold light in Lin Xing’s eyes grew more intense.

"A flaw?"

"At this moment, do I still have such a flaw?"

Murderous intent exuded from him, progressively locking onto the swordswoman.

The best way to resolve this flaw seemed to be to directly annihilate the swordswoman.

"Lin Xing, what are you trying to do? She’s your daughter!"

"Daughter? If a daughter errs, then she needs to be slain even more!"

"You’re mad, Xingxiao, you’ve gone mad! To kill even your own daughter, are you even human anymore?!"

While Lin Xing’s thoughts were tumultuously turning in his mind, the battlefield took a sudden and drastic turn.

Lin Xing’s clone became increasingly ruthless and relentless, eventually suppressing the three swordswomen he was actively fighting after a hundred moves.

Boom!

The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword Intent was shattered by Lin Xing’s clone’s punch, with a profoundly forceful thought mixed with power that directly crossed the shattered sword gang and crushed the humanoid manifestation of Sword Intent to dust.

Seizing another swordswoman’s head, the wild bloodlight mixed with runes representative of the six secrets’ power exploded from his arm, crushing the swordswoman’s head outright.

The last swordswoman tried to retreat only to be met with Lin Xing’s clone erupting into a mass of bloodlight, brutally crashing into her body, grinding her to dust like a red shockwave.

Meanwhile, increasingly more sword-training girls began to appear beside the other swordswoman.

The swordswoman continued attempting to create moves on the fly, trying to find a way to defeat Lin Xing.

She gave up trying to blend the different variations of her swordsmanship, though.

Doing so only caused her personas to clash again and her mind to scramble into madness.

They began to search for commonalities within the different personas and different powers.

That commonality was the Taiqing Sect’s most formidable sword technique, the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword.

Whether it was a swordswoman of the Taiqing Sect or Xingxiao’s daughter Bai Yiyi, or most personas currently in her mind, almost all had learned this sword technique to some extent.

As she kept trying to break through under the mounting deathly pressure from Lin Xing, trying to unify the common power of all personas,

She found her comprehension of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword advancing by leaps and bounds.

Especially one memory in her mind had led the swordswoman to the realization that the "Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword" she learned under the Taiqing Sect was missing a crucial part.

It was a peaceful afternoon.

On the Great Snow Mountain, a kind-eyed, benevolent elder held her in his arms, whispering various secrets of the martial world in her ear.

The elder was known as the Immortal Palace Leader, and he was her father Bai Hai Liu’s master, living with their family on the Great Snow Mountain since her birth.

"The Taiqing Sect originates from the Taiqing Device, and it is a sect created to manipulate memories and distort personalities."

"In this sect, whether it’s the most powerful sublimation, imagery, or even the three ultimate skills, are all related to memory and personality..."

"The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword is also thus."

"To take the heart as the sword, and heaven and earth as the sheath, wherever the heart goes, the sword follows without fail."

"But remember, the most formidable sword is never the tangible sword, it is the intangible sword..."

The little girl curiously asked, "Grandpa, what is the intangible sword?"

The Immortal Palace Leader chuckled and patted the little girl’s head, "You’re too young to understand these things."

"But don’t worry, Grandpa will help you to comprehend it."

"It’s just that the process is a bit tough."

The little girl quickly said, "Yiyi isn’t afraid of hardship. Grandpa, you can teach me now."

The Immortal Palace Leader shook his head, "I said you’re too young and can’t learn yet."

"When you call me ’Dad,’ then you can start learning."

"When you start calling me ’Brother,’ you should be able to master about fifty percent."

"When you start calling me ’Master,’ you’ll have your own intangible sword, capable of using this sword to save the people."

"Right?"

"Swordswoman?"

...

A glimpse of insight flashed in the swordswoman’s eyes, and she finally understood that her ability to create the Sword Intent of her parents, to integrate memories and even personality into the Sword Intent, was never solely reliant on herself but also because of the potential of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword.

"Compared to the tangible sword..."

The summoned sword energies shattered one by one, and a massive burst of lights erupted from her Sword Intent.

"The intangible sword is stronger."

"And in fact, I had crossed this threshold unknowingly."

Scenes of light radiated from the swordswoman’s mind like an explosion sprawling out.

The Great Snow Mountain, Xingxiao, her father, and her mother...

The city, the hustle and bustle, modern life...

The Taiqing Sect, Qingtian City, Taiqing Outer Sect...

Various memories were transformed into tangible lights and images, appearing directly in the present world.

In the swordswoman’s mind, the broken sword let out a light sigh, "Impressive. So the Taiching didn’t mean to drive you insane; they were using this intense method to help you truly master the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Sword."

"Was this arrangement across time and space, through several cycles of reincarnation, all to deal with the monster before you, to save the people?"

"What an outrageous thing. Did they also account for me in their calculations?"

On the other side, looking at the scene of the Great Snow Mountain emerging, watching the joyous life of the Xingxiao family, and seeing the scene where this family was ultimately annihilated by Lin Xing, his expression suddenly fluctuated.

In the next moment, a figure already emerged from behind him, it was Xingxiao’s Illusion.

The state of their merged memories was finally shattered after these continuous stimulations and contradictions.

And after breaking free from the influence of Xingxiao, the murderous intent on Lin Xing also surged tenfold...no, a hundredfold!

"Dark Limitless Creation!"