The sixteen words on the stone door were more of a warning than a reminder.
“Take one step forward and you will die; take one step back and you will still have a way to live. But, do I have a way back?”
Ye Qiu had no way to retreat.
When he woke up, there was only one way forward, and that was forward, if he retreated at this moment, then he would face only one result – waiting for death!
Ye Qiu had never been a sitting duck, so it was impossible for him to return the same way.
Without much thought, he grabbed the bronze ring on the stone door and directly knocked.
Dang dang dang!
“Rumble-”
The stone door slowly opened and a dusty, musty smell hit his face, choking Ye Qiu and making him cough several times.
Inside was a passageway.
Ye Qiu was vigilant and used his Heaven’s Eye to take a look to make sure there was no danger before stepping into the passageway.
Then, he followed the passageway all the way inside, and after about thirty metres or so, a stone wall blocked the passageway.
The stone wall was four-square, three metres high and three metres wide, and in the very middle, a grass was carved.
Other than that, there was nothing else, not even a single word.
Ye Qiu stared at the grass on the stone wall and saw that it was ordinary, not surprising at all.
But the more this happened, the more puzzled he felt.
“Why did you carve a grass here? What is the intention?”
Ye Qiu thought for a while and couldn’t figure it out, then he looked around the stone wall for an exit.
After spending several minutes, the result was a big disappointment.
There was no exit at all.
Afterwards, Ye Qiu’s eyes were fixed on the grass on the stone wall again.
He believed that that super expert would never be able to carve a grass on the stone wall for no reason.
Ye Qiu’s eyes stared tightly at the grass, and after looking at it for a while, he couldn’t see anything because the grass was just too ordinary.
Just as Ye Qiu was about to withdraw his eyes, he suddenly noticed that the grass seemed to have turned into a sword.
“Huh?
Ye Qiu let out a shocked eep and fixed his eyes on the grass, the grass was still grass and nothing had changed.
“Could it be that my eyes are blurred?”
Ye Qiu continued to stare at the grass and watch, gradually, he realised that the grass had turned into a sword again, and the thin blades were releasing a strand of sharp sword qi.
But when Ye Qiu withdrew his gaze, he now found that the grass on the stone wall was motionless and unchanged.
“What the hell is going on here?”
“Am I hallucinating, or is that grass hiding a mystery?”
Ye Qiu simply sat down on his knees, both eyes staring at the grass on the stone wall, not moving a muscle.
Not long after, the scene that appeared earlier appeared again.
This time, he could see it more clearly.
The grass had turned into a sword, while the blades were releasing wisps of sword qi.
Not only that, slowly, the sword moved as if someone was holding it and dancing.
Ye Qiu didn’t withdraw his gaze this time, he wanted to take a look.
Soon, he fell into it wholeheartedly, and now the sword moved faster and faster.
The blade of the sword was sharp, giving off an aura that it would rather bend than bend, and was invincible.
However, after a while, the complicated sword strokes gradually became simpler and simpler, with each sword stroke giving off a feeling of invulnerability.
Ye Qiu unconsciously began to imitate these sword moves.
In an instant, he realised that it was an extremely terrifying sword stance, filled with a killing aura.
In no time, Ye Qiu’s forehead was covered in sweat and his body began to tremble slightly.
Steeply, Ye Qiu saw that all of the sword moves were merging into one, stabbing towards his heart.
Ye Qiu immediately raised his fist and blasted out, however, the sword Qi was too sharp and directly pierced through his fist and did not enter his heart.
“Pfft…”
Ye Qiu opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, immediately waking up.
He looked down and saw that there was a bloody hole in his fist that was bleeding out, shocking to the eyes.
Strangely enough, the heart was fine.
“So close, I almost went off the deep end just now.”Ye Qiu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with a palpitating heart.
Then, he quickly drew a Stop Bleeding Charm to heal the injury on his hand.
After doing this, Ye Qiu’s gaze fell back on the stone wall.
“I finally understand why that super expert, would leave sixteen words on the stone door.”
“Although this grass looks ordinary, it contains an incomparably terrifying sword intent, and a slight carelessness when imitating it will cause you to go off the deep end if you are not careful, or die if you are not careful.”
“I also wonder, who exactly is that super expert?”
“To be able to incorporate one’s sword intent into a blade of grass, and after so many years, the sword aura still lingers on, it is evident that it must be a world-defying powerhouse.”
“If I can learn his sword stance, my strength will definitely increase greatly, and I will have one more card to play when facing enemies in the future.”
Ye Qiu gathered his mind and stared at the grass on the stone wall with full concentration, immersing himself once again.
Sure enough, after only two seconds, he saw the grass turn into a sword again and move in front of his eyes.
Ye Qiu’s eyes were wide open, fearing that he would miss a single detail, and he forcefully memorised every move.
The longer he watched and the more he remembered, the more he could feel the extraordinary nature of the sword moves.
At first, the sword moves were complicated, then they became simple, and in the end, all the sword moves were united into one sword.
And this one sword had the power to cut through heaven and earth.
Ye Qiu watched while he joined his fingers into a sword to imitate it, over and over again.
Every time he practiced to the end, Ye Qiu was unable to combine all the sword moves into one, no matter what he did, he always failed.
Ye Qiu stopped and meditated.
“Where exactly is the problem?”
“Why can’t I combine the sword moves into one?”
“Is my practice method wrong, or did I remember the sword moves wrong?”
Just as Ye Qiu was puzzled, a strange stream of images appeared in his mind.
He only saw a magnificent figure, with his back to the crowd, chopping out a sword.
When the sword came out, heaven and earth trembled.
The piercing sword light seemed to pierce through the stars above the nine heavens.
In the next moment, a grand voice echoed between heaven and earth: “The sword is also sharp! Holding a long sword in hand, one should go forward, kill God in God’s way, kill Buddha in Buddha’s way, as long as one has courage in one’s heart, even a blade of grass can chop the sun, moon, and stars.”
Boom!
Ye Qiu’s heart shook.
He finally understood why he had failed so many times after practising, the reason was that he was too cautious and careful, instead, he was a bit wary and lacked courage.
After understanding this, Ye Qiu let go of his mind and practiced his sword moves once again.
Not long after, the aura on his body immediately changed, as if it was an indestructible sword that went forward.
Ye Qiu practiced his sword moves with ease this time, and when he reached the end of his practice, he managed to bring all of his sword moves into one.
It was not until this moment that Ye Qiu clearly felt the power of this sword.
“Swoosh!”
The sword qi burst out from Ye Qiu’s fingertips and struck the stone wall, and with a “boom”, the stone wall shattered on the spot.
