Free Web NovelChapter 125: Chapter 124: Dao Foundation
BEEP... BEEP...
In the First High School hospital’s Blood Gate Transformation Chamber, the atmosphere was thick with an agonizing silence.
Yan Sea’s face was pale, his thoughts growing bleak. The nurse stared intently at the data on the screen, her expression tense as she periodically changed the IV bags.
Yu Fei’s aura was growing weaker and weaker. The activity in his blood had dropped to a dangerously low level. At this rate, his Blood Gate Transformation might fail at any moment.
Yan Sea couldn’t understand why this was happening. Yu Fei had followed the requirements of the Sword Nurturing Skill to perfection. Even his own master, when he was alive, had never trained such an outstanding Tribulation Sword apprentice. freewёbnoνel.com
Su Yue had poured so many resources into this, even using up more than three taels of twenty-year-old Enlightenment Tea.
Besides, Yu Fei already had the foundation of a prodigious Martial Artist.
There was no reason for him to fail, no matter how you looked at it.
Yan Sea sank into deep self-doubt.
’Could it be... I was really born under a cursed star?’
He couldn’t help but think this way. He had been an orphan since childhood, never knowing his parents. The grandfather who adopted him died in an accident when he was ten. His master and fellow apprentices were brutally killed on the battlefield. He had failed Su Yue for ten years, and now it had become her obsession. Once he was gone...
And now Yu Fei, a youth of such immense talent, was about to fail his breakthrough because he’d been dragged down by him, and would suffer the backlash from his Dao Foundation...
How cruel the heavens were...
Within the lake of his heart, a blood-colored dragon opened its eyes. In an instant, a third of the iron chains binding it snapped, and Yan Sea’s own eyes began to glow with a bloody light.
’Fate, is it?...’
On the rooftop, the hidden figure of Su Yue wavered, as if about to awaken. A worried frown creased her brow...
Yu Fei was oblivious to all of this. Although he had used his Illusory Sword Intent to evade the countless streams of Lotus Sword Qi, his instincts told him that dragging this out any longer would be a bad idea.
Fortunately, after lying in wait for a long time, he finally discovered the core of the Primordial Qi Sword Lotus Seed’s will.
It was a flickering flame of will, formless yet refracting into a thousand points of light.
The mote of dust containing Yu Fei’s Sword Intent and consciousness drew ever closer. After finally crossing a certain threshold, he unleashed all his power. His silvery sword light transformed into a sharp, snow-white beam, piercing into the Lotus Seed’s Will in a flash.
The nascent will became even more bewildered. Everything happened too fast. Before it could even react, a sword was hanging over its head. Then, an undeniable will descended, brutally forcing its way into its body.
"Submit! Or die..."
The little thing sensed the aura of Sword Intent emanating from this will—its Sharpness, its resilience, its mystery...
Such a Sword Intent instantly captivated it.
Without waiting for Yu Fei’s next move, it voluntarily melted into the essence of his Sword Intent.
The will of the Primordial Qi Sword Lotus Seed naturally submits to a fundamentally powerful Sword Intent, instinctively yearning to merge with it. However, finding its ethereal flame of will is an extremely difficult task.
The method Mr. Lanren left in the Heart Furnace Lotus Planting Skill was to strike down each stream of Lotus Sword Qi one by one. Faced with a life-or-death crisis, the little thing’s flame of will would surely appear, at which point one would use their own Sword Intent to threaten it into submission.
But Yu Fei, leveraging the unique properties of his Sword Intent, had hidden himself by slipping into the void, located the opposing will’s light, and went straight for the heart of the matter to subdue it.
He never imagined it would be so smooth. Without using any of the techniques from the Heart Furnace Lotus Planting Skill, he had completed the third step simply and directly.
The Sword Lotus Will possesses only instinct. An external force would immediately trigger its animosity—a survival instinct. The problem is, its perceptive abilities are extremely weak, making it completely unable to discern the characteristics of that external force. freewebnoveℓ.com
That’s why Mr. Lanren’s method was to force it into a life-or-death crisis, compelling it to reveal itself. Then, depending on the quality of one’s own Sword Intent, one would either threaten or entice it into merging.
This was the conventional method. He could never have imagined that a junior in the future would possess an ability as game-breaking as the Illusory Sword Intent, allowing them to complete the third step so smoothly.
The moment the Sword Lotus Will merged with him, Yu Fei immediately noticed a difference.
Sensing the aura of the Lotus Seed Will on him, countless multi-colored streams of Lotus Sword Qi flowed into his consciousness and Sword Intent, like All Swords Returning to the Root.
In his dazed state, Yu Fei suddenly felt as if he’d eaten his fill, an indescribable sense of satisfaction washing over him.
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In the outside world, the deathly silence, previously broken only by the BEEP-BEEP of the high-energy blood reactor delivering active substances into his bloodstream, was suddenly shattered by a piercing buzz from the sensors.
Yan Sea’s heart lurched. The bloody light in his eyes deepened. He thought Yu Fei’s transformation was about to fail. If that happened, the Tribulation Sword Dao Foundation would undoubtedly be a failure, and Yu Fei would suffer a backlash. The outcome was self-evident.
The nurse looked shocked and frantic. "Quick, disconnect the high-energy blood reactor! Get Yu Fei into the cooling pod! I don’t know why, but his Qi Blood has suddenly gone wild! Hurry!..."
Yan Sea froze for a moment, then snapped into action, quickly following the nurse’s instructions.
"Hurry, we’re out of time! His internal temperature is over 65°C! It’s going to cause irreversible damage to his internal organs! Quick!..."
Yan Sea erupted with all his strength, tossing Yu Fei into the cooling pod in under a second, then attached the support instruments and sealed the hatch.
The bloody light in his eyes had yet to fade as he asked the nurse in a hoarse voice, "What’s the situation now?"
The nurse had no time for him, her full attention fixed on the monitor.
"It’s strange. So strange. Nothing like this has ever happened before. I don’t know what kind of Secret Technique you people are practicing, but based on Yu Fei’s condition...
"First, when a Martial Artist’s blood activity drops and stays low for a period of time, the Blood Gate Transformation will fail. But in that case, they still have a chance to try the breakthrough again. However, the period of time Yu Fei’s blood activity was low far exceeded the safe range, yet his transformation didn’t fail.
