The Speedrun Begins with Choosing Hunter

Chapter 420: Chapter 402: Joining Hands (Part 2)

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[In your 1,030th year of cultivating the Zhengyang Sword, you became a legend!]

The two words "Zhengyang Sword" transformed into gilded characters.

Bai Yuan felt as if he had truly become a Swordsman who had practiced for a thousand years.

He secretly compared his Sword Intent with Yue Xiaobai’s. The final conclusion was that his Sword Dao was inferior, but his Swordsmanship was superior.

If Yue Xiaobai were to find out, he would probably be depressed for a long time.

Bai Yuan uttered another word: "Fuse!"

A dazzling golden light flashed from the area of his lower left ribs. His Spleen Divine Mansion absorbed the Sword Intent of the Zhengyang Sword, and the Divine Mansion opened wide.

The Tenth Divine Mansion!

His ten Divine Mansions merged, creating a faint resonance as immense power flooded Bai Yuan’s entire body.

He felt that a single punch from him could now shatter mountains and rivers.

"AHHH!"

Bai Yuan let out a long cry, feeling an unparalleled sense of release. ’Practicing the Martial Dao is truly the ultimate path to freedom!’

The climb along the Martial Dao was an exploration of the human body’s limits. This feeling of transcendence was intoxicating; no wonder the world was filled with so many martial fanatics.

But then, Bai Yuan looked at his body in astonishment.

The moment the tenth Divine Mansion opened, he felt as if something inside him had shattered.

A breakthrough!

Bai Yuan’s eyes widened.

His progress toward breaking through the Mingxin Pass was far faster than he had anticipated.

’It’s the Supreme Purity Record!’

Bai Yuan quickly understood. To be precise, it was because of his Lung Divine Mansion. His innate constitution had been improved, and the Zhengyang Sword had purged his baleful aura, allowing him to break through the Mingxin Pass in one fell swoop.

"Break for me!"

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Trap the heart-monkey, guard the mind-horse, to clarify the heart.

This was a saying that had long circulated in the Jianghu.

Bai Yuan had just cultivated numerous techniques like the Supreme Purity Record and the Dragon and Tiger Vajra Strength in one go. All these cultivation techniques had the effect of expelling external evils and consolidating the body.

Now, with the addition of the Zhengyang Sword, he had unexpectedly reached the limit of the Perceptive Realm ahead of schedule.

But on second thought, it made sense. He, a Martial Artist of the Perceptive Realm, could already suppress a Mingxin Martial Artist. If he still couldn’t break through, it would defy all logic.

Bai Yuan felt his mind become unprecedentedly clear and sharp.

Perceptive energy circulated through his meridians again and again, feeling as if it were traveling thousands of miles.

The perceptive energy underwent a strange transformation. The originally formless and colorless stream of energy gradually took shape, glowing with a faint golden light.

Heartforce!

The Mingxin Realm was precisely about purging the impurities from one’s perceptive energy to maintain a pure mind, thereby allowing the body to achieve a powerful state impervious to all evils.

The Heartforce flowed through the great dragon of his spine, reaching the finest vessels in his limbs. Bai Yuan’s entire body began to glow!

His aura surged, climbing higher and higher.

The surrounding trees began to sway from side to side, pulled by his aura as if caught in a fierce gale!

The next second!

The trees within a hundred-meter radius finally gave way and snapped in unison!

If any masters from the Jianghu were to witness this scene, they would be utterly astounded by his divine talent.

To cause such a phenomenon just by breaking through to the Mingxin Realm—what a tremendous fortune!

Bai Yuan’s aura finally reached its peak.

He couldn’t help but let out a thunderous roar.

"OPEN!"

Instantly!

A brilliant golden light erupted!

A dazzling golden light burst from Bai Yuan’s body, outshining the midday sun. His ten Divine Mansions were especially resplendent.

An incredibly profound and mysterious aura emerged from him.

It was as if he stood alone, separate from the world, and nothing in heaven or earth could approach him.

This was the domineering aspect of the Mingxin Pass. Where I stand, all things are annihilated!

The Martial Dao, in the end, was still a way of killing.

Bai Yuan looked at his body. After being reforged by Heartforce, his strength had more than doubled.

With every punch and palm, he truly possessed Mountain-pressing Power!

On a whim, Bai Yuan threw a punch into the empty air.

BOOM!

A massive explosion echoed.

The trees a hundred meters in front of him were blasted into splinters. Even more terrifying, his punch had carved a crack into the very ground out of thin air!

The might of a Mingxin Grandmaster was terrifying to this extent!!

There has always been a saying in the Jianghu: the Mingxin Pass is also called the Breaking Mortality Barrier. Once you cross it, you become a figure akin to an immortal.

And it was true. No matter how powerful a practitioner of the Perceptive Realm was, they could not achieve a feat as terrifying as cracking the earth with a single punch.

The Mingxin Pass wasn’t just about clarifying the heart; it was about purging evil and training the body to its absolute limit, becoming almost a celestial being. Even the most ordinary move, in the hands of a Mingxin Martial Artist, could display the effect of shattering mountains and breaking stones.

Otherwise, why were only those above the Mingxin Realm worthy of being called a Grandmaster?

That word, "Grand," was precisely for the grandeur of their power.

One with infinite strength could become an immortal!

Feeling his own terrifying power, Bai Yuan couldn’t wait to fight Kuaidong for another eight hundred rounds.

By breaking through the Mingxin Pass, he had finally established a firm foothold in the Xuan Yang Imperial Court on his own merit.

Although he already held the high-ranking position of Right Chief Imperial Censor, it was all an intentional arrangement by Li Chengyuan for his grand ambition of unifying the Jianghu.

One had to know that in the Xuan Yang Dynasty, any official of the second rank was a Mingxin Grandmaster.

Bai Yuan, with only a Perceptive Realm cultivation level, was naturally an anomaly among them. But now, he had finally broken through.

He walked the path of cultivating all techniques.

Once he broke through, he could suppress most Martial Artists in the Mingxin Realm. This was the domineering power of cultivating all techniques.

You either don’t break through, or when you do, it is an extraordinary one.

Otherwise, even chosen geniuses like Guihai and Divine Dust would need a great deal of time to consolidate their cultivation after initially breaking through the Mingxin Pass.

But Bai Yuan didn’t need to.

Because he hadn’t just reached the threshold of the Mingxin Realm; he had shattered its limits. That was the biggest difference.

This was a realm countless geniuses could only dream of!

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「Binzhou, Bai Mansion.」

Bai Yuan walked along the streets of Binzhou. It was already late at night.

He pushed open the mansion gates and walked inside.

It was the same as always. Aside from the King of Competition Xiaobai, the other servants were all asleep.

Just as Bai Yuan was about to enter his room to fight Kuaidong for three hundred rounds, Yue Xiaobai’s door was pushed open.

He stared intently at Bai Yuan, his face a mask of disbelief.

"You... you broke through?!!"

Yue Xiaobai swallowed hard.

’Bai Yuan just went out for a bit, how did he come back as a Mingxin Grandmaster!!!’

’Is there any justice in this world????’

Bai Yuan was a little surprised. "Xiaobai, how could you tell?"

Hearing this, Yue Xiaobai’s suspicion was confirmed. His face turned ashen.

"I’m naturally sensitive to Sword Intent."

He stared at Bai Yuan for a long time before finally letting out a long, desolate sigh.

He had originally considered himself a genius qualified to achieve the rank of Martial Saint, but compared to Bai Yuan, he simply paled in comparison.

With a monster like Bai Yuan around, who could possibly surpass him??

Since ancient times, there had never been two Martial Saints born in the same generation. This was not only because the requirements to become a Martial Saint were too high, but also because the world’s fortune was only enough to support one!

Yue Xiaobai felt that all hope was lost.

Dejected, desolate...

Xiaobai’s retreating figure looked exceptionally bleak.

Bai Yuan rubbed his chin. ’What’s gotten Xiaobai so down this time?’

He wore a puzzled expression.

Still, Xiaobai’s perception of the Sword Dao was truly formidable. Other than him, probably not even a Mingxin Grandmaster could discern Bai Yuan’s true strength.

Bai Yuan stopped letting his thoughts run wild and eagerly ran back to his room.

The next second, the room was empty.

When he reappeared, he was already in the Divine Skill Immortal Realm.

"Kuaidong, get out here!"

Bai Yuan strode over the stone steps and entered the palace.

An iron-tower-like figure was already waiting for him in the palace. It was Kuaidong.

Bai Yuan raised his fist and smashed it toward Kuaidong.

Now that his strength had surged, even the Blood Demon Curved Saber was useless to him. External objects were nothing but illusions—with the exception of the Nine Heavens Profound Soldiers, of course.

He exchanged dozens of blows with Kuaidong, and this time, he was not at a disadvantage.

Bai Yuan felt an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

Although he could trade blows with Kuaidong before, he was nowhere near this relaxed.

"Again!"

He lashed out with his right leg in a White Ape Breaks the Mountain kick—a single leg capable of splitting a mountain!

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「One hour later.」

Kuaidong’s figure disappeared.

Bai Yuan stood in the palace, hands on his hips, panting heavily.

’Kuaidong really is strong. I still lost to him by a single move.’

But he had reason to be proud. Kuaidong was a top-tier combatant even among those in the Mingxin Realm. For Bai Yuan, who had just entered the realm, to be able to fight him on even terms was already terrifying enough.

Battle intent surged in Bai Yuan’s eyes. With his ten Divine Mansions fully open, his stamina recovered completely in just a few breaths.

"Again!"

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