True Solution of the Sword Dao

"Jiiiiiii ~~~ Douuuu ~~~!!" Li Dengyang sang out loud.

As his voice resonated, the surrounding air seemed to vibrate, waves of sound spread out in all directions like the tide. It was as if the very space itself was trembling.

Behind Li Dengyang, halos of five colors continuously emitted rings of light, red, yellow, green, blue... and so on, circles of light of different colors rapidly dispersed.

A mist of intertwined black and blue colors vaguely emerged around Lin Fei. This was a superficial phenomenon produced by the Golden Armor Sword Art. He intended to test the true defensive power of the Golden Armor Sword Art. Since the Golden Armor was cultivated to the point of great achievement, he naturally had also achieved great accomplishment, which meant the peak, and the power he used would also be at its strongest.

Wave after wave of these colored circles of light kept shrinking towards Lin Fei, as if Li Dengyang was continuously transmitting the rings of light.

But for Lin Fei, each and every circle of light that shrank and converged upon him felt like an extremely heavy collision.

Thump thump thump!!

After three consecutive hits, the mist of the two colors around Lin Fei was almost completely destroyed.

"That’s about it, the strength of this type of attack, each impact is equivalent to Ye Yuhua’s full-force strike from before and has reached the level of B-grade. The Golden Armor Sword Art can withstand three consecutive hits, indeed very impressive." Lin Fei estimated in his heart.

"Fellow Daoist!" Li Dengyang called out loudly from across.

"This is my Ji Dou domain, as long as you fight with me here, you have to withstand not only the impact of the light circles but also beware of my attacks. This is the signature Sword Technique of the Five-Colored Sword Mountain. How about it? Are you tempted? Such a powerful Swordsmanship is unique to only our Five-Colored Sword Mountain." He reached out his hand to Lin Fei, "Come, join our ranks!"

Lin Fei looked silently at the man opposite him, thinking they were still trying to recruit people at such a time. How desperate must Five-Colored Sword Mountain be to be this idiotic?

His figure flickered, and he immediately withdrew from the range of the Ji Dou domain. The mist around him was also nearly exhausted. The True Force inside him moved, and the Golden Armor Sword Art revved up again. The black and blue mist wrapped around him anew.

"I’ve expended about ten percent of my True Force." Lin Fei silently assessed, reaching this stage now; the Sword Moves and Sword Techniques he used were consuming more and more True Force than before. It was no longer something to be ignored.

"The techniques I currently control, Star Shattering uses up about twenty percent of my True Force with each execution. With my current total amount of True Force, I can only use it four to five times. The Golden Armor Sword Art, on the other hand, can be used continuously eight to nine times. These two, one offensive and the other defensive, can be considered the most powerful Swordsmanship I currently possess. As for Extreme Shadow, it requires the Power of the Divine Artifact and the Blue Flame for propulsion and consumes about ten percent of True Force, but using it once would require a great deal of time for recovery. It can only serve as the ultimate move in battle."

Besides these, Lin Fei really didn’t have any other powerful Swordsmanship to use.

"Fellow Daoist, are you really not ready to see reason?" Li Dengyang said helplessly.

"We’re not finished yet." Lin Fei gripped his swords, "Star Shattering!"

Swish!

A silver light suddenly shone on the Black Demon Sword, the silver light orb flashed and was gone, and the space within dozens of meters around it seemed to converge on this one strike.

Lin Fei’s sword vibrated as he delivered an upward slash.

Boom!!

The immense Sword Pressure pulled the vibrating rings of light and roared towards Li Dengyang.

"Good form!" Li Dengyang drew his treasured sword across his front and made a horizontal swipe. A silver arc instantly turned into a transparent ribbon that curved toward the Sword Pressure from Star Shattering.

Without a sound, the two forces neutralized each other.

Lin Fei felt his physical state, and thanks to the Golden Armor Sword Art, the execution of Star Shattering hadn’t injured his body in the slightest. Only an extra half percent of True Force had been consumed. In other words, with the Golden Armor Sword Art, the total consumption for Star Shattering had increased to one and a half percent, but it had become a Sword Technique that could be used freely without self-injury.

However, despite his joy, facing Li Dengyang, Lin Fei found it somewhat troublesome.

This guy was just like a hard-shelled colorful egg, as tough as a turtle’s shell. These light rings, each strike had nearly the power of half a Star Shattering. The reason Li Dengyang had effortlessly dissipated the previous Sword Pressure with a single stroke was ultimately due to the constantly dispersing rings of light.

The power of Star Shattering was designed to force the opponent to intercept, and of course, the strongest would be the direct physical sword strike, but in reality, the power of the Sword Pressure was already close to half of that strike.

If the Sword Pressure didn’t work, even if Lin Fei went forward and executed Star Shattering completely, he would only be repulsed.

He pondered briefly.

All remaining True Force suddenly condensed into a True Force node. In this situation, the first move of the Heavenly Net Bright Moon Sword was the best way to intercept. It was, after all, the only move he had learned from Yuan Yicheng.

An invisible True Force node with immense pressure slowly emerged in front of Lin Fei. He lifted the Black Demon Sword and made a slight cut. The node abruptly flew towards Li Dengyang in the distance.

Li Dengyang seemed to realize something was amiss, but still failed to detect the incoming node of the first Sword Art.

Swish!!

Only when a layer of light in the sky was breached did his expression slightly change.

"Excellent Swordsmanship! Such strong concealment! Such remarkable power!"

Layer upon layer of light in the sky kept being breached. The True Force node slowly but steadily flew toward Li Dengyang. However, it was quickly disrupted by the numerous rings of light and completely dissolved.

"But why does this feel so familiar to me?" Li Dengyang pondered, then suddenly slapped his thigh. "Ah! Isn’t this the mysterious sword technique created by our ancestor, the Revered Heavenly Heart?" His face changed dramatically, pointing at Lin Fei, he exclaimed angrily.

"You scoundrel!! How dare you secretly learn our sect’s swordsmanship? If you kneel and beg for mercy now and hand over our Sword Manual, I can still spare your life! Otherwise, do not blame me for showing no mercy with my sword!"

Lin Fei was utterly speechless.

This was clearly the Heavenly Net Bright Moon Sword, which was from a completely different world than what this Taoist priest was discussing. Lin Fei couldn’t be bothered with this fool’s nonsense any longer. The True Force within him began to circulate slowly in accordance with the Extreme Shadow.

A faint blue fluorescence emanated from Lin Fei’s eyes. A vast Sword Pressure began to release from his surroundings, blowing the grass on either side outward in a radial pattern. The unleashing of the Extreme Shadow was led by the Power of the Divine Artifact. Naturally, it carried the pressure of the Divine Artifact.

Li Dengyang’s Calculation Domain was also compressed by this pressure, gradually shrinking to a diameter of only about ten meters.

"How dare you!!" Li Dengyang pointed at Lin Fei with furious eyes, "You’ve even secretly learned our sect’s supreme Sword Art, the Ruyi Sword Art and the Azure Cyclone Sword Eye!! You are unforgivable!! But, if you sincerely hand over the swordsmanship and truly repent, I, Li Dengyang, can show great mercy..."

Fssht!

Lin Fei’s figure suddenly vanished.

When he appeared again, he was already behind Li Dengyang, an indistinct shadow bombarded by densely packed rings of light. His speed was clearly slightly restricted.

Buzz!!

Li Dengyang turned for a sword strike. A transparent ribbon flew up again, trailing behind him.

Lin Fei dispersed directly, instantly flashing to a space above Li Dengyang, within a gap created by the deflection of the light rings.

"Star Shattering!"

Immense Sword Pressure instantly condensed, and the silver flash was fleeting. With both hands on his sword, Lin Fei fiercely pressed down from above. At this moment, because he needed to continuously ward off the bombardment of light rings, the True Force in his body was nearly depleted. This sword strike could be considered his last one, using the speed of Extreme Shadow to evade Li Dengyang’s attacks and to break through the barrier of light rings. If this failed, it would only mean defeat.

The two collided abruptly.

A dazzling burst of light exploded in an instant.

The roar of Li Dengyang, the clash of twin swords, mixed together.

On opening his eyes again, Lin Fei had already exited the space.

The surroundings were still a green grove, with not a soul in sight.

With a thought, he entered the space once more.

Li Dengyang was no longer there, and the ground changes caused by the previous attacks had completely returned to their original state. It was as if nothing had ever happened.

"What’s the result?"

"Trial failed, victor: Li Dengyang," the voice of the Sword Canon conveyed.

Lin Fei nodded; the outcome was within his expectations. From the moment Li Dengyang had appeared, his aura had seemed somewhat similar to Sis’s level. Clearly, he had the presence of a B-level fighter. For Lin Fei, who had just entered the B-level, to go up against him was bound to result in more losses than victories.

With a thought, he re-entered the testing space.

"Test the strength of Li Dengyang."

"Li Dengyang: 257-268."

"As expected," Lin Fei realized. Indeed, he was stronger than his current self by a margin.

"Test my strength."

"Sword Master: 232-232."

Lin Fei was stunned. What did this mean?

"Didn’t I test just now at 232? Why is it still the same? Logically, with the continuous increase of my True Force, my strength should have increased accordingly," Lin Fei said, puzzled.

But soon he considered one aspect. It seemed that the sword techniques he was using now and the increase in True Force didn’t have much impact. No matter how much the True Force increased, the Golden Armor Sword Art, Star Shattering, and Extreme Shadow all consumed a fixed amount of True Force. The impact on Combat Power was not significant; at most, the increase in True Force affected endurance in battle, but not the overall intensity of Strength.

"If that’s the case, then to improve my strength I can only rely on elevating my swordsmanship. However, if I want to enhance my Sword Techniques and Swordsmanship, and I cannot break through on my own, what if I directly learn from Yuan Yicheng or from wearing Gold, letting them pass on their swordsmanship? Could that bypass this limitation?" Lin Fei pondered.

"But there’s no point in avoiding it like this. I defeated Gold outright and obtained all of her Golden Armor Sword Art’s realms, as well as the Sword Moves, which is much faster than that kind of cultivation. Furthermore, it’s uncertain whether it could even bypass the restriction." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The highest realm and strongest power of the Golden Armor Sword Art was to cover the whole body with defensive power, while the previous levels were gradual, defending from arms to localized body parts, and then expanding bit by bit to full-body, all-around defense. It was a step-by-step process. Having mastered the full-body defense, Lin Fei naturally had no interest in using low-level moves like partial defense. Thus, amongst the entire Golden Armor Sword Art, practically the only move applicable was the strongest one, which is the highest realm of the Golden Armor.

As for the Brilliant Light move that Gold had used, it wasn’t part of the Golden Armor Sword Art. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian to vote for recommendation and Monthly Ticket, your support is my greatest motivation.)