Swordsmanship Coach: Kill with One Slash

Under the raging flames, the geckos hiding in the cave writhed and twisted like cursed sigils, eventually becoming charred, contorted objects resembling some kind of script.

On closer inspection, they looked like human figures gradually distorted by torture, exuding an eerie and cruel aura.

"Bro, are you alright?"

Beneath the flames, a faint human figure—Su Xing, who had been concealed—was revealed. Su Yu quickly ran over from a distance, asking with concern.

"I'm fine."

"You wait out here."

"I'll go in and take a look myself."

Su Xing said.

The power of the flames was indeed immense, enough to deal with most Extraordinary Creatures of a lower tier.

But for creatures that had reached a certain level, the flames were no different from a tickle. Therefore, Su Xing had to go inside and check for himself to be at ease.

"Okay."

After a moment's hesitation, Su Yu nodded obediently and agreed.

In truth, Su Yu's own strength was not to be underestimated.

At some point, he had already broken through to Tier Four Peak and was steadily climbing toward Tier Five.

But,

compared to Su Xing,

his strength paled in comparison.

So, after hesitating, he couldn't bring himself to say something like, "Let me help." Though he wanted to assist Su Xing, he was also worried he would just get in the way and hold him back.

Su Xing, of course, was unaware of his thoughts.

He had already materialized the Black Sword. The Sparrow Sword circled him like a sentinel on patrol. As he walked deeper into the cave, he gripped the Black Sword tightly, his gaze fixed intently on the path ahead.

The commotion just now had been significant.

If any creatures were still alive in the cave,

the noise would have surely drawn them out.

However,

he didn't see any creatures.

Instead, something else caught Su Xing's eye.

The ground and walls were littered with scorched corpses, both large and small. But they all shared one common feature: something sparkling in their heads.

This immediately

captured Su Xing's attention.

He took a few steps forward and used the Sparrow Sword to pry open one of the broken heads. A stone, like a diamond coated in dust, rested quietly inside.

'What is this?'

Su Xing wondered.

But he figured it out almost instantly.

Many novels had similar concepts—beast cores, Demon Cores, and the like. This was probably something along those lines.

At that thought,

Su Xing picked up the stone.

But,

the moment he touched it,

the System reacted. A panel popped up instantly, and the beast core in his hand began to melt away like a snowflake.

"Hm?"

Su Xing paused, stunned.

Then, a wave of euphoria washed over him.

He realized the notification on the System panel was different from when he absorbed the energy from the Spiritual Sect.

This meant

that the beast core was the second type of energy source Su Xing had discovered

that the System panel could absorb.

In the mundane world,

this wouldn't be very useful.

The Spiritual Qi revival there wasn't strong enough for spiritual beasts to appear yet.

But,

here, in the Spirit Realm,

it was a completely different story.

This battle to exterminate the Spirit Realm's inhabitants... he would be the ultimate beneficiary. This was his chance, his opportunity for a complete transformation.

The cave was filled with beast cores

from the spiritual beasts Su Xing had just burned to death.

Su Xing spent some time absorbing all the beast cores, and finally let out a sigh.

Absorbing the beast cores

had taken a while.

Su Xing naturally assumed there were no other spiritual beasts left in the cave. Just as he was about to call out to Su Yu, who was still waiting outside…

RUSTLE… RUSTLE…

A skittering sound suddenly echoed through the cave.

It was still some distance from his position, but the sound was rapidly approaching.

In the next moment,

when he saw what it was,

even Su Xing's expression couldn't help but change slightly.

His subconscious urged him to retreat,

but he immediately remembered Su Yu was waiting for him outside the cave.

If he ran,

Su Yu's safety couldn't be guaranteed.

Fortunately, the cave's interior was spacious.

Even without leaving, he could create enough room to figure out a way to kill the heap of things in front of him.

As for

why Su Xing's first instinct was to retreat,

it was because

the sight before him was utterly horrifying.

It was a massive, dense swarm of black spiders. They poured out from the distant shadows like a tidal wave, their numbers so great they were impossible to count.

The most absurd part was their size.

Each one was as big as a dog, and there were even two that were as massive as elephants. It was simply outrageous.

'Damn it…'

'Did I just poke a spider's nest?'

What Su Xing found hardest to understand

was that, according to Su Yu,

the spiritual beasts that frequently harassed the special organization were supposed to be Sequence Beasts.

But neither the geckos from before nor these giant spiders looked anything like the Sequence Beasts Su Yu had described.

Why were these other spiritual beasts also attacking the special organization?

The thought passed,

and Su Xing snapped back to reality.

He didn't have the nerve to delay any longer.

One-on-one,

these spiders were no match for him.

After all,

Su Xing could sense that even the two elephant-sized spiders

were only at the Tier Five level.

With his strength, killing them would be easy.

But this was hardly one-on-one; it was more like a thousand-to-one. No matter how strong or badass he was, charging into a tide of a thousand Tier Four and Tier Five spiders wouldn't end well for him.

At the very least, Su Xing wasn't willing to take that risk.

'I need to find a narrow spot, a chokepoint that limits how many can get through at once. That's the only way I might be able to kill them all.'

Su Xing thought.

As if sensing his plan, a portion of the spiders broke off from the main swarm and gave chase.

Once separated from the pack, their speed seemed to increase. Their four pairs of legs moved so fast they were a blur, closing in on Su Xing at an astonishing rate.

The distance between them

was shrinking rapidly.

In just a few seconds, the spiders that had been thirty or forty meters away were now less than twenty meters from him.

Su Xing noticed this,

but he didn't panic.

First, this small detachment that had split off was much weaker than the whole swarm; they posed no real threat to him.

Second,

Su Xing hadn't even used Drifting Snow yet.

As soon as the thought formed, Su Xing's feet began to move in the Drifting Snow pattern, and his speed began to increase with an unnatural, explosive surge.

However,

as Su Xing sprinted,

he suddenly heard a "PFFT" from behind. A powerful sense of crisis washed over him, and without a moment's hesitation, he leaped to the side.

He saw countless white globs shoot past where he had just been. The projectiles missed him and struck the wall ahead, sticking fast to the surface like white cages.

"Is this… spider silk?"

Su Xing exclaimed in amazement.

"How can there be such a huge wad of it!"

Just as Su Xing identified the substance,

behind him,

a series of sounds came again.

THWAP! THWAP! THWAP!

Like a baptism by cannon fire, glob after glob of white spider silk shot from behind like cannonballs!

There were too many;

Su Xing wasn't confident he could dodge them all!

If he couldn't dodge…

Then he would just have to destroy them all.

Without hesitation, Su Xing wielded the Black Sword in his right hand and the Snake Sword in his left. The two blades intertwined and slashed forward violently!

VMMMM!

With the hum of the blades,

the cloud of spider silk was completely sliced in two.

Not only that,

but in the distance, the bodies of the detached spider squad

suddenly let out a crisp "CRACK!" Then, their upper and lower halves abruptly separated, and they all collapsed to the ground as corpses.

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