Urban Super Medical Sage
Chapter 880 - 875: Sudden Enlightenment (2 more)

Chapter 880: Chapter 875: Sudden Enlightenment (2 more)

Then.

Under the watchful eyes of many.

Su Chen stepped into the Forest of Thousands Swords.

As soon as he entered,

suddenly, the sky spun and the earth turned.

Su Chen felt as if his Divine Soul was being extracted and shuttled to another space and time.

He had felt this sensation before.

Back then, during the integration with the strange ancient purple metallic coffin in the Burning Heaven Mountain Range’s earth veins, he also seemed to fall into another space and time.

The difference was, back then, he fell into the space and time of the Ancient Era.

But now, he has fallen into a place shrouded in thick mist, deathly silence, and ominously hazy.

Around him, not even the slightest sound could be heard; everything was obscured by a layer of dense fog.

He tried to release his Divine Soul to explore.

But the results were not good.

Just at this moment!

Suddenly.

Whoosh.

A sense of dangerous aura ripple winkled across Su Chen’s mind.

In that instant, before he could even react, Su Chen’s whole body shuddered violently, with his heart now hollowed out.

Transpierced!

Blood streamed freely, and Su Chen felt the bone-piercing pain.

"This is..." Su Chen subconsciously looked at his chest, was his heart transpierced? If it weren’t for having the Divine Mansion tending towards the Undying and Indestructible, would he have died from that blow?

Su Chen was genuinely stunned.

"Young boy Su, surprised?" Jiuyou said with a smile: "Just as you thought, if it wasn’t for your body being comparable to the Undying and Indestructible, and your Divine Mansion keeping your Physical Body alive, you would be dead."

"Why would this happen?" Su Chen took a deep breath and asked, with a very solemn expression.

"Because you have not even grasped the basics of the Way of the Sword." Jiuyou huffed: "This is the Forest of Thousands Swords, the world of the Sword. You, a swordsmanship novice, rushing in so impulsively, if that’s not seeking death then what is?"

"Cough cough... novice in swordsmanship?"

"Isn’t it so? Have you found your own swordsmanship? Haven’t you always relied on the heaviness of the Heavy Divine Sword and your own strength in combat? That’s not swordsmanship, that’s more like strength-based fighting. Even with the Chaotic Soul Sword, in reality, it involves more of the Soul Path rather than the swordsmanship."

"That’s true." Su Chen gave an embarrassed smile, while at the same time, the piercing, glaring wound on his chest rapidly healed.

Taking in a deep breath, Su Chen asked: "Jiuyou, what should I do now?"

"Since you are Undying and Indestructible, you have countless opportunities, so, I will not teach you. You need to slowly comprehend and feel for yourself, think about what you should do. Until the moment you can leave this Forest of Sword Intent, you would have completed the First Level."

No sooner had Jiuyou finished speaking.

Su Chen’s expression changed again: "Damn it!!!!!"

Instinctively, he sidestepped, because another sword strike was coming, just as fast, just as terrifying.

Although he was slightly aware of it this time, but...

Puff!

The Sword Light still penetrated Su Chen’s chest.

Deeply embedded.

Accompanied by fresh blood and shattered bones.

"Cough cough..." Su Chen’s complexion turned a shade paler, he coughed and took a step back, with his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

What should he do?

While he was pondering.

Puff puff puff!!!

The Sword Light continued to attack.

And it seemed to be even more frequent.

From a single Sword Light before to three, five, ten, thirty, a hundred, and so on, a volley of thousands of swords.

Su Chen was constantly facing life and death challenges, experiencing the deadly pain of Thousands Swords Piercing the Heart.

Over and over again.

Soon, Su Chen no longer even looked human.

Thankfully he had the Undying and Unyielding Body, and thankfully these Sword Lights did not harm the Divine Mansion, and thankfully he possessed the Temporal Heavenly Dao.

Otherwise, he would have been unable to persevere.

In a short while.

A Shichen passed.

During that Shichen, Su Chen had counted the number of times he had been pierced by the Sword Light: no fewer than a hundred thousand times.

He tried dodging and countering.

To no avail.

"Huff huff huff..." Su Chen breathed heavily and shakily, covered in blood, with clenched hands and deeply furrowed brows: "Relying on speed to dodge is simply impossible, my speed could be a thousand times faster and still not as fast as these Sword Lights. It seems as if they use Instantaneous Movement, without needing any time to pause. And as for countering, it’s even more absurd. I might be able to counter one Sword Light, ten Sword Lights, but can I counter a thousand, or ten thousand? Therefore, to break through this situation, I need to change my approach."

Thinking deeply.

Suddenly.

Su Chen abruptly raised his head, his eyes suddenly brightening!!!

"I can’t avoid it, I can’t fight against it," Su Chen murmured to himself, as he finally grasped the crux of the matter. An hour of worse than death, despair and pain made him realize a truth. Any resistance or defiance was futile and useless; only if the Sword Light voluntarily gave up attacking him, would it be the real solution.

If someone wants to kill you and they are leagues stronger than you, capable of easily crushing you to death, the only way for you to survive is for the killer to change their mind.

If the attacker gives up on killing you, then you would live, wouldn’t you?

"So that’s how it is." Having figured it out, Su Chen suddenly saw the light. A hint of a smile appeared on his pale face: "What must I do to make these Sword Lights give up attacking me?"

Su Chen asked himself.

And the answer was quite obvious.

A wolf attacks humans and antelopes, but it generally won’t attack its kind and even if it does, it doesn’t strike to kill.

Therefore, by analogy, if I want these Sword Lights to stop attacking me, then if I possessed their Sword Intent, Qi, flavor, and Divine Charm, I’d become part of their kind, and thus I wouldn’t be attacked.

Having figured this out.

Su Chen no longer hesitated and sat down cross-legged on the ground.

Next, he allowed these Sword Lights, pouring down like rain, to continuously pass through his Physical Body without resistance or avoidance.

Instead, he silently felt, capturing that one-in-ten-thousand breath of a moment when the Sword Light entered his body, carefully feeling every aspect of the Sword Light.

Absorbing, Devouring, Condensing, and Integrating the Sword Intent, Qi, flavor, and Divine Charm above the Sword Lights.

Certainly, he couldn’t get much from a single Sword Light, just a shred.

However, as time passed, small gains accumulated.

Another two Shichen went by.

Su Chen’s body was almost indistinguishable as human, covered in blood and shattered bones, a scene of gruesome carnage!!! Yet, he was still alive!

Moreover, his eyes were filled with excitement, elation, and great joy.

These two hellish hours were not spent in vain.

At this moment, he had attained a clump of Sword Intent as smooth as moonlight!

Moreover, this Sword Intent was pure.

It had no Attributes.

This Sword Intent flowed throughout his body, formless, shadowless, traceless, without flavor, without color, but it was indeed genuinely existing.

And as this clump of Sword Intent flowed through him, Su Chen seemed to be labeled with the mark of Sword Intent.

He became one of the same kind.

The Sword Lights that had been attacking him fiercely, bringing him close to death, all disappeared.

Even more astonishingly, the surrounding fog and those strange, hallucinatory mists all vanished cleanly, as if it had all been a dream.

But the pure Sword Intent within his body was real.

"Jiuyou. I should have passed through the Forest of Sword Intent. I’ve obtained my own Sword Intent. However, for now, my Sword Intent doesn’t have any Attributes. What do you think, which Attribute should I condense this clump of Sword Intent into?" Su Chen asked, as the horrid conditions of his body swiftly healed, his voice brimming with boundless expectation.

Now, this clump of Sword Intent he’d received was like an uncarved gem, still without form.

If he wanted to, he could shape it into any form.

The shape it takes is very important.

It concerns the future.

It’s a significant matter.

"There is no good or bad Attribute, only what is fitting and what is not. Young boy Su, what do you think your Sword should embody?" Jiuyou asked in return.

"I understand!" Su Chen’s body trembled, he nodded firmly, his eyes suddenly clear.

Which intent should it embody?

Of course, it’s the Unyielding Intent of an enlightened mind!!!

What is Unyielding?

Not believing in the Heaven and Earth Laws, not believing in destiny’s choices.

Not bowing to the strong, not fearing life or death, not willing to submit.

Following what’s in the heart, seeking enlightenment of the mind, though nine deaths meet none but regret.

That is Unyielding.

"Unyielding!" Su Chen uttered these two words, then closed his eyes, calm as an ancient well, as he entered a strange tranquility.

At the same moment.

Outside the Forest of Thousands Swords.

Above the Divine Stone, the black speck had crossed the First Level Sword Scar, reaching the area of the second Sword Scar.

In an Instant!

The previously dead silent crowd outside the Forest of Thousands Swords burst into noise, agitation, shock, and confusion!

The guarding Elder Way raised his head abruptly, the withering aura about him vanishing, as his aged eyes glittered intensely, staring at the Divine Stone, staring fixedly.

"He actually made it through the Forest of Sword Intent? And in less than five Shichen? The fastest in the history of Supreme Heavenly Fire Sect to pass through the Forest of Sword Intent?" Elder Way muttered to himself, his voice filled with extreme bewilderment and shock.

[Today is a holiday, quite busy. Only managed to write 2 Chapters, owe 4 Chapters, will make up tomorrow. Without accidents, 10 Chapters tomorrow.]