Reincarnated Swordmaster

Chapter Title: Heavenly Realm

One instant.

That was an inexpressible contradiction!

*Click*

*Click*

In that moment, I realized that two people had entered a bizarre space. It was the realm of mental clarity that only true masters could access—a world of utter silence where time and space seemed frozen, and the opponent's mind rang out clearer than one's own. Their supreme transcendent arts had linked up, allowing them to freely step into this domain.

A mechanical ticking sound echoed through the air. And through Swordsman Yeo Dongbin's gaze, I shared his transcendent martial perception, glimpsing what had transpired in that fleeting instant.

Woooooo!

The White Lotus Leader had already unleashed his ultimate technique, Heart Heaven Infinite, floating thousands of mandalas around his body. From each one, pristine white palm prints shot forth, devouring space itself. Their speed was so extreme that without borrowing the senses of the Great Lao Immortal and Fighting Immortal Yeo Dongbin, even noticing them would be impossible.

[It's coming.]

In the next instant, Yeo Dongbin's sword unfurled a flawless barrier as if it were the most natural thing in the world, overwhelming the range of Heart Heaven Infinite in turn.

Incredible as it seemed—Swordsman Yeo Dongbin had seized the initiative against the Leader who'd activated Heart Heaven Infinite, striking first despite being second to act!

'This... this is the Fighting Immortal's way of battle...'

Heavenly Escape Swordsmanship

Leaping Empty Transcending Boundary

Sharing a body with Yeo Dongbin now, the technique's name flowed unconsciously into my mind. His battle sense meandered the limits of any living being. No, it wasn't mere battle sense—it was an art for annihilating foes in clashes of ultimate speed.

Moments of speed were divided into fen, li, hao, si, hu, mi, xian, sha, and below them even finer units like chen, ai, miao, and mo. But watching Miyamoto Musashi's duel with the Leader, I'd realized that in the absolute realm, such divisions were meaningless. When intent shook the lord of heaven and altered laws, how could human senses judge the chaos and changes that arose?

Yet having glimpsed the absolute realm, I could now intuit it clearly.

Heavenly Escape Swordsmanship's Leaping Empty Transcending Boundary captured any plunge into profound time domains with the Fighting Immortal's absurd transcendent sense, ensuring absolute surprise attacks never landed—a transcendent technique! No matter how much a master trained, human senses couldn't even imitate it. I'd never dreamed of elevating super-sensory perception to the absolute realm itself, and the realization sent chills racing through me, my hair standing on end.

'No way even the absolute realm's Miyamoto Musashi...'

Did the video's greatest warrior of all time possess the same super-sense as Yeo Dongbin now and fight with it? Wild guesses swirled in my head, but I had no answers. What was certain was that through Yeo Dongbin, I was indirectly experiencing a clash between absolute realm masters.

"Shwishwish"

The countless palm prints from Heart Heaven Infinite unleashed thousands of strikes in a single breath, but Yeo Dongbin deflected them all one by one. No human swordsmanship knowledge or form could explain how. He moved in the Shadowless Realm as if he'd already mapped out hundreds of thousands of trajectories—a scene straight out of legend. Even the principle behind the Leader's qi exploding and vanishing without a trace eluded me.

This instant.

Yeo Dongbin stepped forward. Countless rays of light morphed into photons, visibly swirling around his foot. A white glow emanated spiritual energy, and his body transformed into a sword itself.

[Heart Sword.]

Bloodlust flickered in the Leader's eyes as he spat blasphemous words.

[Savaha.]

At the same moment, Heart Heaven Infinite began to unleash its true power. The thousands of mandalas floating in the air spun simultaneously, dyeing the space in darkness.

I could feel the Leader committing Heart Heaven Infinite's full potential to end it in three breaths as promised. I'd thought it merely rapid qi blasts, but Yeo Dongbin's super-sense and tens of thousands of life-or-death battles screamed otherwise.

Swordsman Yeo Dongbin already knew. He'd faced foes like the Leader countless times in past wars. The Fighting Immortal's potential instinctively drew precise battle experience at light-speed, crafting the optimal strategy on the spot.

"Boom!"

One Strike Mountain Shatter.

Nothing else could describe the scene. Swordsman Yeo Dongbin surged forward at near light-speed, uprooting and obliterating the mountain itself near the garden from its roots.

A colossal blast of explosive heat and thunderous roar swept heaven and earth. Tens of millions of entities of massive boulders and windswept sand lifted wholesale as gravity inverted. Everything in the direction the White Lotus Leader targeted was pulverized, a natural cataclysm where humans appeared as mere specks.

Darkness blanketed the heavens.

Dozens of massive boulders that once formed the sheer cliffs of Ten Thousand Layer Cliffs floated into the palm of the airborne White Lotus Leader's right hand. He seemed to casually push them away, but they veered violently downward.

An intangible sword materialized in the air. In a sense, it resembled a halberd—a transparent force splitting into hundreds of strands, asserting its presence. And from Heart Heaven Infinite loomed an enormous palm strike descending silently in terrifying fashion.

Heavenly Escape Swordsmanship

Six Intents Holy Heaven Diagram

Heavenly Verdict

At last, the final sword decree of the six decrees—heaven, earth, sea, wind, clouds, rain—that had never appeared before revealed itself. Swordsman Yeo Dongbin's terrifying battle experience deemed this the optimal counter.

The earth cratered deeply! The Leader's palm force instantly carved a bottomless abyss over an immense area, but amid that surreal sight, Yeo Dongbin's body became a thunderous divine sword, piercing the palm force head-on.

"Ku-ku-ku-kwang!"

With dozens of explosions, Yeo Dongbin's form rocketed skyward, cleaving clouds and scarring the air itself. The wound was far graver than Yi Guang's Reverse Scale Pill display, darkening my entire field of vision in that instant.

"Spurt!"

Simultaneously, the Leader's outstretched palm was deeply slashed, blood erupting. It resembled the strike from Musashi, but the situations differed slightly. Then, the Leader hadn't used Heart Heaven Infinite; now, Yeo Dongbin had counterattacked without injury. Clearly, Yeo Dongbin's Six Intents Holy Heaven Diagram Heavenly Verdict held the edge over Heart Heaven Infinite.

[Ugh.]

"Shwwuk"

The Leader didn't clutch his hand but focused qi, cleanly healing the bone-deep gash. That insane regenerative power seemed inhuman, but considering the Primordial Spirit's true nature, it wasn't inexplicable. Yet the Leader marveled at being pushed back.

[With just one lapse in a thousand considerations, you would have lost. Why take such a gamble?]

At my current martial level, I'd never grasp the Leader's words. But through Yeo Dongbin's retort, sharing his battle experience let me intuitively understand.

[White Lotus Leader, you can't win without gambling. A rare powerhouse indeed. I had no choice but the best response.]

Indeed. The Leader hadn't lagged because his realm was inferior; Yeo Dongbin's insight revealed Heart Heaven Infinite equal to Six Intents Holy Heaven Diagram.

Yeo Dongbin had simply wagered everything on a success rate under thirty percent with an all-or-nothing sword path—and it precisely pierced Heart Heaven Infinite's weakness. It looked like inevitable victory for Yeo Dongbin, but in truth, he'd barely crossed the razor's edge of a desperate bet. As the Leader said, any tiny mistake would have crushed Yeo Dongbin—or rather, my body—into bloody pulp.

Yet greatness was greatness. Yeo Dongbin could boldly press such a pinpoint all-or-nothing gamble thanks to senses honed in tens of thousands of life-or-death battles. A millennium ago, he'd roamed the Central Plains battling great yokai, barbarians, and dragon kings countless times. He'd even clashed with the White Lotus Cult's founding era peerless masters.

This was experience no ordinary human could gain in ten lifetimes—a supremacy only the semi-immortal Fighting Immortal could claim! The longer the Leader fought Yeo Dongbin, the more his absolute realm inexperience might doom him.

The Leader praised.

[As expected of the Fighting Immortal, strongest of the Eight Immortals! Now, break this exquisite move.]

"Whilling"

[Flowing Turning True Suchness.]

A single ray burst from the Leader's body, birthing eighteen light wheels that blazed forth. They stretched long tails across the four directions, spawning more wheels in an infinite proliferation. Their bizarre forms—unlike anything I'd seen—expanded front, back, left, right, and I intuited that brushing even one would shred a Vajra indestructible body.

No ordinary human cognition could track those light wheel trajectories. Even a Four Heavens Tang Clan poison expert might discern half at best. Unlike Heart Heaven Infinite's brute force, it lacked aggression, methodically claiming space—as if probing Yeo Dongbin's skill in this final three-breath exchange without immediate assault despite encircling him.

Yeo Dongbin seemed aware, lowering his Fire Dragon Divine Sword.

[You've fixated on form and fallen into contradiction.]

The Leader looked flustered.

[What do you mean?]

[The infinite power you've gained hinders your insights.]

[......]

[No matter if you've achieved successive spirit return to void through the flesh, you can't cleverly grasp Taiji's principles.]

As the Leader fell silent, Yeo Dongbin barked.

[Only by emptying can you fill!]

The Leader hovered in the air, pondering Yeo Dongbin's words at length. Then he replied bitterly.

[...It's too late. If only I'd met you sooner.]

[Zhang Sanfeng would have enlightened you more easily.]

Swordsman Yeo Dongbin's eyes blazed.

[Then feel the Fighting Immortal's throne!]

Heavenly Escape Swordsmanship

Fire Dragon Unification!

Brilliant light flowed along the Fire Dragon Divine Sword in Swordsman Yeo Dongbin's right hand. The sword's spirit awakened to his intent, granting him terrifying power! A colossal force writhed, like unleashing the Seven Luminaries.

Yin-yang transformations manifested at the sword tip. Visually indescribable, metaphysical changes swirled in his single form, and soon Yeo Dongbin charged the heaven-dominating light wheels.

Darkness and light twisted like a helix, converging to a point. It linked to Yeo Dongbin's arms, forming another beam, his sword resonating with self-awareness.

Yeo Dongbin became the sword.

Karma melted into the sword path.

It became a transcendent form indistinguishable from the Leader's Heart Heaven Infinite, slicing through the light wheel mass without waste. In frozen time, first slash, second, third piled like leaves, then infinite strikes rent the world like a massive brushstroke.

Sword Immortal Realm

"Roar!"

When the three-breath exchange ended, silence enveloped the area. The Leader and Yeo Dongbin had descended to the ground, gazing quietly at each other. The Leader's light wheels had vanished tracelessly, and flame jewels burned in the air. It was as if a fire dragon had descended to purify the heavens.

Abruptly, the Leader spoke.

[I can't believe there's someone stronger than you in the Heavenly Realm.]

Yeo Dongbin replied calmly.

[This Fire Dragon Divine Sword is my master and incarnation itself. Since ancient times, I've sworn with this power to protect humanity—it's not my power alone. I've sought to uphold conviction over becoming the strongest.]

[Hmm...]

[Leader, don't miss the vital by grasping for the grand.]

The Leader bowed deeply in salute.

[My thanks for the profound teaching!]

"Shushuk..."

At last, Yeo Dongbin's spirit possession ended, and I collapsed, strength drained. I spat blood.

"Kebek!!"

My internal energy was nearly depleted. Just three breaths had exhausted my rare worldly reserves to this degree, letting me feel the terror of absolute realm masters clashing in earnest indirectly.

'Yeo, Yeo Dongbin wasn't worrying over nothing...!!'

Blood kept surging up my throat. The metallic taste filled my nose.

"Cough, cough..."

I might die like this. My channels felt ruptured from extreme exhaustion. After spewing blood two or three times, the Leader said,

[Bask Woong. Eat this.]

"Whish"

The Leader rummaged in his neck pouch, tossing me a black-and-white lotus. He'd saved most of it, it seemed.

"Cough! Th-thank you..."

I snatched it and chewed frantically. No big qi boost, but it would rapidly restore my energy and stamina.

"Gulp! Water..."

As I hacked, the Leader said calmly,

[Want the Millennium Snow Ginseng too?]

"Huhk. My throat's parched, just a moment..."

"Whish"

The Leader tossed something else. Millennium Snow Ginseng. I swallowed the chewed lotus, then devoured it. Each elixir birthed vitality inside, forging blood and invigorating me. First time gulping them like this.

[Recover quickly.]

The Leader gazed skyward, murmuring.

[I allied with the Twelve Laws to oppose the Heavenly Realm, but I've changed my mind. We must stop the Heavenly Emperor at all costs—your role is crucial, Bask Woong.]

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