Swordsmanship Coach: Kill with One Slash

Chapter 231: Chapter 161: Sequence Beast (2)

But as the relationship between the two sides grew increasingly tense, the special organization began to station more and more personnel to guard the area.

"Dangerous?"

"Could they be more dangerous than a Spirit Lord?"

Su Xing asked.

Su Yu glanced at the rearview mirror and shook his head.

"Not more dangerous than a Spirit Lord, no, but they’re extremely troublesome. Those little guys pop up out of nowhere from time to time, and many of our members are getting sick and tired of it."

"Little guys?"

Su Xing latched onto those two words and asked, "They aren’t human?"

"Of course not."

"There are only two people left in the entire Spirit Realm, and they aren’t idiots. They won’t let us catch them that easily," Su Yu said after a moment’s hesitation.

"Those things... they should be classified as Sequence Beasts."

"Sequence Beasts?"

Su Xing was taken aback by the name for a second, but he quickly understood the implication. He hurriedly asked, "Can these things use Sequences?"

"Yeah."

"They are a type of spirit beast."

"Ancient texts record many types of spirit beasts. These Sequence Beasts were known in ancient times as Odd Demons, so naturally, they’re one of them."

"They have a very distinct characteristic."

"They like to appear in areas with dense Spiritual Qi, and they feed on Sequencers. As soon as one eats a Sequencer, it can assimilate their Sequence for its own use. Many Sequence Beasts possess several Sequences, so their power is not to be underestimated."

"Spirit beast..."

At those two words, Su Xing suddenly thought of the cat he’d seen practicing with a sword outside the Sword Hall. With one thing happening after another, he had temporarily forgotten about that little creature.

’Perhaps,’

’it’s a special spirit beast, too.’

"Su Yu, you’re saying they’re spirit beasts that appeared in ancient times. Does that mean they used the Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Realm to survive the great calamity when Spiritual Qi dried up?"

"Probably."

"They enjoy feeding on Sequencers, which is why they actively leave the Spirit Realm to come outside. Because of this, many in the organization speculate that there must be quite a few spirit beasts inside the Spirit Realm."

"Sending people in to investigate this time is definitely not going to be a walk in the park. It might displease the spirit beasts inside and lead to an unavoidable battle."

"Indeed," Su Xing said with a nod.

After he spoke,

the car fell silent.

After a long while, Su Yu, feeling a bit bored, glanced at Su Xing’s face in the rearview mirror and asked,

"Bro, why don’t you learn to drive?"

Indeed,

Su Xing had always been busy with other things in college and never got his license.

After graduating,

he had even less time to get one.

As a result,

he still didn’t have a driver’s license.

"We’ll see," Su Xing said casually.

If he were the old Su Xing, he really would have needed a car to get around. But at his current speed, even the fastest high-speed train probably couldn’t keep up with him. Why would he need a car to travel?

On his own two feet,

Su Xing could travel the world.

The location of the Spirit Realm was extremely remote. This was a deliberate arrangement by the Spirit Lord back then, allowing the Spirit Realm to successfully establish its anchor point.

Su Yu drove for nearly three hours before they arrived. Although part of that was due to Su Yu not driving very fast, it was still enough to prove just how remote the Spirit Realm was.

No wonder

word about the Spirit Realm

was practically common knowledge among Extraordinary Beings,

but ordinary people

knew almost nothing about it.

The Spirit Realm’s remote location

was a very important reason for this.

Su Xing scanned his surroundings and saw they had left the city far behind, officially entering a barren wilderness. The few buildings he could occasionally spot were isolated and extremely dilapidated.

The road here was full of potholes. Although there were signs of an old highway, it was hardly different from a mountain trail.

"What is this place?" Su Xing asked, puzzled.

Su Xing recalled that Xia Country had long since achieved a comfortable standard of living for all its citizens; there shouldn’t be a desolate area like this right outside a city.

"I don’t know either."

"The GPS doesn’t have a name for this place."

"But there seem to be extensive signs of battle here, and they’re ancient. It’s probably related to why this area was abandoned," Su Yu guessed.

His expression was calm. He had seen this sight too many times. The first time he passed through here, he had also been extremely puzzled.

Growing up,

all he had ever seen were skyscrapers.

Even when he visited the countryside, it was always a pastoral scene. He had never seen a dilapidated town that felt like something out of a wasteland.

"I see," Su Xing said with a nod.

He had a faint suspicion that this place might be related to a battle involving the Martial God Hall back in the day. He guessed that after the battle, the residents were relocated, and these towns were completely abandoned.

However,

Su Xing didn’t voice his thoughts.

After all, it was just his speculation,

with no reliable evidence to back it up.

Su Yu continued driving,

and they soon reached their final destination.

Su Xing subconsciously enveloped his entire body with the Heart Sword Stance, completely concealing himself.

The Heart Sword Stance,

compared to the Qi Sword Stance,

had a much more powerful concealment effect.

With the Qi Sword Stance, you could more or less still see traces of airflow. But the Heart Sword Stance was like vanishing from the world entirely, leaving not a single trace behind.

Unless

a powerful individual

sensed Su Xing’s presence through intuition.

Otherwise, it was impossible for anyone else to notice him, even if he was standing right in front of them.

That was exactly what happened to Su Yu.

Su Xing vanished right before his eyes.

He was stunned for a moment,

then looked around for any sign of his brother. When he couldn’t find the slightest flaw in the disappearance, he shook his head with a sigh and walked toward the Spirit Realm.

The "Spirit Realm" was a nice-sounding name, but in reality, it was just a small valley.

At the mouth of the valley’s cave,

stood two people. They were both wearing the combat suits Su Xing had given to the special organization, which showed that the organization had actually made some progress in their research.

However,

the combat suits were still in a semi-finished state

and hadn’t been mass-produced for organization personnel.

Therefore,

Su Yu hadn’t received one yet.

Still,

Su Xing definitely gained a new appreciation for the special organization’s R&D capabilities.

That is,

they were genuinely competent,

not some department that could research for ages and produce no results.

But they weren’t here today to check on the combat suit’s research progress. Su Xing only gave them a passing glance before continuing inside with Su Yu.

When the two guards saw Su Yu, they immediately stepped aside and said,

"Team Member Su, be careful."

Hearing this, Su Yu immediately stopped. He looked at the two Sequencers guarding the entrance with confusion and asked,

"Did something happen in the Spirit Realm?"

"Nothing major, but a Sequence Beast escaped from the Spirit Realm again. The timing was very coincidental—the members guarding the Spirit Realm’s anchor point were changing shifts and didn’t notice it."

"So..."

"I understand," Su Yu said with a nod.

’In that case,’

’every Sequencer in the Spirit Realm is at risk of a surprise attack,’

Su Xing thought to himself.

But what puzzled him even more was how the person guarding the Spirit Realm’s anchor point could have made such a huge mistake.

’Was it really an accident?’

Su Xing shook his head, pushing the thought—which could only be described as baseless speculation—from his mind. After quietly listening to the end of Su Yu’s conversation with the two Sequencer guards, he continued walking inside.

Soon,

Su Yu led Su Xing to the residential area.

Originally, Su Yu had planned to take his brother back to his own room first, to let Su Xing get accustomed to life in the Spirit Realm. But then...

An explosion suddenly rang out!

The sound of the explosion came from another residential area. The dorms were separated by gender, and that particular area housed the female Sequencers.

"...?"

Su Yu froze for a second.

Then he immediately realized what was happening, and his expression turned grim. He never would have imagined that a Sequence Beast would dare to brazenly attack the special organization’s base.

This had never happened before!

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