After beginning to comprehend the sword intent, Yun Jin raised her eyebrows slightly.
This time, the sword intent was clearly more difficult than any she had encountered before.
Previously, the second and fifth stages had also been sword intent trials.
Those sword intents had originally only been mid-tier sword intents.
Through fusion, she had mastered two high-tier sword intents: a fire-attribute high-tier sword intent—Fire Dragon Sword Intent, and a metal-attribute high-tier sword intent—Blade Edge Sword Intent.
Both of these sword intents happened to possess certain group-attack properties, directly compensating for Yun Jin's shortcomings in that regard.
Upon reaching the eighth stage.
This time, the sword intent required no fusion at all, its innate level was already high-tier sword intent.
This was.
A high-tier Swift Sword Intent.
Even though it's still Swift Sword Intent,
Different levels produced completely different speed amplification.
A high-tier Swift Sword Intent already represented the speed limit that the vast majority of people could possibly reach!
Directly comprehending a high-tier sword intent was also a first for Yun Jin.
However.
The Windwalk Sword's space seemed as if it had been created specifically for this sword intent.
Within the trajectories of those small tornadoes, the true meaning of speed was naturally embedded. Combined with this uniquely advantageous wind-attribute environment, Yun Jin found it impossible not to comprehend it quickly.
After roughly two hours, she had already grasped the low-tier Swift Sword Intent.
Five hours later, she comprehended the mid-tier Swift Sword Intent.
Finally, after ten more hours, the high-tier Swift Sword Intent came as naturally as water flowing into a channel.
Yun Jin had only just finished comprehending the sword intent and hadn't even had time to test it before she was instantly expelled from the Windwalk Sword's space.
Cool wind swept around her.
Yun Jin felt her heart turn just as cold.
She let out a deep sigh.
"Forget it, forget it. I guess I'm just annoying, unlike others who are more loved by you."
She sighed again, "Fine, I'll leave. I'll leave, okay?"
She complained out of habit, and inside the sword-domain space, the swords all grew uneasy.
What? You're leaving?
How could that be allowed!
This was the precious treasure they had waited a thousand years for!
They had forced her out for reasons of their own, but Yun Jin didn't know that. From her perspective, it did seem rather unfair.
Once they realized there was a strong chance she could clear everything, the swords naturally developed boundless affection for her, and suddenly felt that this child hadn't had it easy either.
"Boss, did we make the child misunderstand?" Azure Wood Sword said with guilt on its face.
The great sword fell silent for a moment.
Azure Wood Sword grew slightly nervous.
The boss was always the strictest, had he gone too far in doting on her?
Yet the next instant.
The great sword moved slightly, and flowers suddenly bloomed along the road before Yun Jin.
The blossoms stretched all the way toward the ninth stage, with petals faintly drifting down from the air.
This caused the originally cold and desolate sword tomb to suddenly gain a touch of gentleness.
Huh???
Yun Jin blinked.
The people watching the water screen outside also changed their expressions.
Especially Yu Lin, the unease in his heart instantly swelled to its peak.
For a thousand years, the sword tomb had been opened many times.
Yet this was the first time such a strange phenomenon had appeared.
Previously, even when Ma Yuanwu reached the ninth stage, nothing like this had happened.
Yun Jin had only cleared the eighth stage, so why did this occur?
Could it be because… her clearance speed was too fast?
Speaking of speed, Yun Jin's performance was indeed astonishing.
She cleared the eighth stage in less than two days.
And at this very moment.
Ma Yuanwu had only just emerged from the seventh stage!
At the seventh stage.
Ma Yuanwu left the sword-domain space in high spirits, a brilliant smile still on his face.
This time, he had performed better than in the previous attempt, and the time spent should've also been shorter.
Ma Yuanwu glanced to the side and saw that Yun Jin was nowhere to be found.
He smiled faintly.
As expected, the seventh stage was her endpoint, this woman must've been eliminated.
So now, the people remaining on the ranking were...
Ma Yuanwu raised his head to look. Then disbelief flashed through his eyes, and the smile at the corner of his lips instantly vanished.
"This is impossible!" Ma Yuanwu's pupils shrank sharply.
He instinctively searched for his own name at the top of the ranking.
But now.
At the very top, there were clearly two characters written, Yun Jin.
And those two characters were even edged in gold, gleaming brilliantly and painfully conspicuous.
What made Ma Yuanwu collapse even more was that when he had been ranked first before, he hadn't received this kind of treatment.
What's going on, did the sword tomb also have differential treatment?
Ma Yuanwu's face darkened.
Yun Jin had actually rushed ahead of him, could it be that she had also cleared the seventh stage?
Calm down!
The problem wasn't that serious.
Even if he had fallen behind, it's only by a small margin.
The last two stages were extremely difficult. She's attempting them for the first time, there's no way she would pass so easily. He would soon catch up.
Ma Yuanwu comforted himself, then looked at Yun Jin's current progress.
"Yun Jin: Eighth Stage, Cleared."
Eighth stage…
Cleared…
Ma Yuanwu stared fixedly at the word 'cleared', to the point where he almost stopped recognizing the characters themselves.
Then he rubbed his eyes. And rubbed them again.
After a moment, he took out a bottle of spirit liquid and carefully washed his eyes before looking again.
The eighth stage is still cleared!
Ma Yuanwu's lips began to tremble.
He had only just cleared the seventh stage.
Yet she… had already cleared the eighth?
Don't underestimate the difference of a single stage.
No one understood better than Ma Yuanwu how terrifying the difficulty of the final two stages truly was.
Yun Jin's clearance speed completely exceeded his imagination!
At that moment.
Ma Yuanwu heard some movement and quickly turned his head.
He saw Yu Songnian walking over calmly.
Yu Songnian had just cleared the sixth stage and had now arrived at the seventh.
From the seventh stage onward, the two paths converged, and all following stages were the same. Yu Songnian thus happened to encounter Ma Yuanwu.
Ma Yuanwu narrowed his eyes.
Yu Songnian nodded lightly toward Ma Yuanwu and went straight to the tombstone.
Ma Yuanwu's expression became ugly.
He said coldly, "What methods did your junior sister use? The two of you, your clearance speeds are abnormal. Are you cheating? Speak!"
He truly couldn't control his emotions anymore.
Years of preparation.
He had even planned on how to promote himself after becoming famous.
And now.
A nobody had run ahead of him.
Once this spread, where w=could he show his face?
Yu Songnian looked at Ma Yuanwu with some confusion, "Is there a way to cheat in the sword tomb?"
Ma Yuanwu sneered, "Naturally, ordinary people can't, but you and Yun Jin may not be the same."
Yu Songnian nodded, "I understand."
Ma Yuanwu frowned, "What do you understand?"
A smile appeared at the corner of Yu Songnian's lips, "You were suppressed by my junior sister and feel unwilling. So you can only use loud accusations to conceal the panic in your heart."
After speaking, he added calmly, "I can understand you."
"You!" Ma Yuanwu's expression sank. "Useless trash of the Yu Family is quite sharp-tongued!"
Yu Songnian smiled, then turned back to read the tombstone.
This attitude only made Ma Yuanwu even more furious. Yet the sword tomb prohibited mutual combat. No matter how angry he was, he couldn't do anything to Yu Songnian.
Ma Yuanwu suppressed his anger and was about to head for the next stage.
Suddenly.
A drastic change occurred to Yu Songnian.
He froze in place.
Then, starting from his hair, the change spread downward bit by bit. Before long.
His entire body turned into stone, even his expression was frozen exactly as it had been.
Ma Yuanwu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing.
Yu Songnian had actually suffered a stone-transformation attack at this moment.
Useless trash really was useless trash.
Even when given a chance, he couldn't seize it!
Being petrified at such a time, he should be eliminated immediately!
Inside the sword domain space.
The swords grew tense.
What's wrong with this Yu Songnian?
Why did he suffer an attack at such a moment?
This seemed to be that girl's senior brother.
If they directly threw him out, would that girl start muttering again?