Chapter 101

The falling symbol ‘ॐ’ struck down like a star. Facing it, the three drew their swords and slashed out horizontally.

“Quintessence Sword 6th Scroll: Heaven Cleaving Slash!” The three swordlights flashed and struck the symbol three strokes that formed the symbol: ‘3’ ‘o’ and ‘.’, yet it seemed unshaken.

The twins and Langyu stared fiercely at the symbol that was unshaken by their attack.

The God disdainfully flicked his palm and caused that mysterious rune to appear. The aura of ‘Aum’ emanating from him seemed capable of shattering space in a blink. The symbol ‘ॐ’ struck out like a falling star.

Facing this, the three once again drew their swords and attacked. “Quintessence Sword 8th Scroll: Starset Guard!” The white and black swordlight seemed capable of shattering a meteor but could only turn aside the ‘Aum’ symbol, causing it to return to the God’s hand.

“It seems that we can only deflect that symbol. That said, we three still have the advantage in numbers. Let’s quickly slaughter him!” Saying Fu Ying burst forth with sword attacks, with the two behind her following.

The Quintessence Sword was the most widely spread Sword Art of the past and current era, but it was near impossible to master.

Sword stance forms swordlight, transforming into sword intent.

The myriad sword stances of the Quintessence Sword Art themselves were hard to master, forming sword light was difficult for once-an era geniuses and only few could comprehend the Quintessence Sword Intent.

The twins had only failed on the last step of condensing Sword Intent. Langyu had mastered the stances and swordlight the moment she came into this world. And thus, the three disciples were on a similar level in their sword cultivation of the Quintessence Sword.

In truth, it was a fairly pathetic level, but that’s what this trial was meant to fix!

Sword lights flashed down like rain. Nine colors of nine elements surrounded and covered the ‘ॐ’ symbol. It still refused to even dim, shining brightly like the sun.

“ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः ।" A alien voice that was like the ringing of ten thousand bells resounded along with the casting of 6 runes, and the trio faced the rain of lava.

“Sanskrit! This is a sutra!” The trio were alarmed. They didn’t comprehend the appearing words, but they knew that this was a mysterious script of the Hindu Sector.

As long as they faced the symbol of ‘Aum’ which was only a character of the script, they were assured victory. But if the God was capable of casting a sutra, then the battle would get more complex.

Facing the sea of fire, there were only their swords to accompany them. So swordlights flashed and the tide of fire was met by the wall of swords.

"तत्स॑वि॒तुर्वरेण्यं॒" The fire seemed to warp into three discs of white, black and grey… The sacred principle of the Three Realms. And to meet it, blades of swordlights flashed again.

g"भर्गो॑ दे॒वस्य॑धीमहि ।" The rivers of lava were drained dry of fire as a armor of fire covered the god. Covered in fire, the god's punches brought forth wind and fire, pressuring the trio. In response, there came more swordlights.

There wasn't much they could do. The trial was for cultivating the Quintessence Sword Dao, and so they could only use that sword technique. And so, they slashed, stabbed and cleaved with swordlights.

"धियो॒ यो नः॑ प्रचो॒दया॑त् ॥" The God turned into a sea of fire which spread out covering the earth and the sea, further transforming into the air and finally covering the world by transforming into light.

The girls suddenly experienced a cacophony of noises inside their heads, chants that they couldn't comprehend resounding in Sanskrit. It was perhaps a curse from the God or perhaps a inheritance. But they couldn't hear it and couldn't comprehend it.

All they could do was let it pass from one ear to outside.

Their trials done, they thought about the battle they had experienced and insights they had comprehended. There were none, as the whole thing couldn't be called a battle. The 'God' sang hymns, recited mantra, controlled fire to attack briefly and exploded. The battle lacked all tension as the God was only a automaton. They couldn't even hold killing intent against it.

They thought about their master's words and his intentions in beginning the trial.

'The Quintessence Sword can only be mastered by slaughter, kill, kill, kill, chop, chop, chop.' Was that not what he said?

And so, his intention must be... to form killing intent willingly, or something like that.

The aura of fire around them seemed to withdraw, and they could sense three auras of water, wind and earth. The elements had the auras of the Immortal, Demon and the Buddha.

“““To hold killing intent even against the benevolent Buddha…””” The three disciples came to the same thought. Saying this, the three immediately departed to meet it.

Having met God, they killed God.

Now it was time to meet the Buddha.

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Upon a crystal ball, the victorious faces of his disciples glowed.

Heifeng Jiansui observed the battle of his disciples against the God. It wasn’t much.

“Your disciples aren’t bad.” As always, Nineorigin appeared out of nowhere. She had changed her wardrobe this time, wearing a white swordsman robe with a sword upon her back.

“Intruding on my dominion like that, I almost forgot to accept you through the formations. Ask before entering.” Heifeng Jiansui replied casually.

“That lecture about faith was a bit enlightening. You are a practitioner of Heavenly Fate?” Nineorigin spoke ignoring his last question.

“If you want your fortune cast, tell someone else. I don’t want to incur a tribulation, I haven’t even spent a decade in my life.” Heifeng Jiansui’s tone was wry.

“This might be easier, can you guess why I changed clothes today?” Nineorigin’s lips curled teasingly.

“Well, from the Sword World I can see surrounding you… wait, you condensed a Sword World?! And it is even a Supreme World at that?! And wait, that’s my Quintessence Swordworld! Didn’t you say you would find it extremely difficult to grasp my sword arts? How did you suddenly master them!” Heifeng Jiansui was completely flabbergasted.

“I had a sudden insight.” Nineorigin’s answer was like a herd of horses trampling on mud and grass. Sudden insight, what kind of bullshit sudden insight came like this?!

“Anyway, I have reached a bottleneck. I need to link the Swordworld to the Nine Origin Elemental Supreme Worlds that I had comprehended as virtue of my birth.” Nineorigin smiled at him, which made him realize that he had concealed his reaction deftly.

“How interesting. I coincidentally used Nine Origin Elements to cast nine swordlights into one intent as well.” Heifeng Jiansui’s smiled in response as well.

“I notice you have a Sword Supreme World as well.” Nineorigin’s teeth showed in her smile.

“But you don’t have sword techniques and you will be suppressed in my domain. You might be facing a disadvantage.” Heifeng Jiansui’s tone was somewhat disappointed.

“This chaosworld is my domain and sword techniques are overrated anyway. That said, battling a 7 year old is a bit shameful.” Nineorigin’s smile was predatory.

“Well now, I really want to draw my sword. But alas, I have a duty to guide my disciples in their trial first.” Heifeng Jiansui’s response caused Nineorigin to deflate.

“Yeah… As their grandmaster, I should guide them as well.” Saying this, Nineorigin tapped on the crystal ball that she had summoned to her side. “Huh, I think this much difficulty would be enough for them…”

Heifeng Jiansui hurriedly rushed to the crystal ball before tapping on it. Seeing it, he gave a confused look. “Nineorigin… What are you trying to teach them?”