Chapter 194 Because You Don't Like Me That Much Yet
Yu Sui only saw the crimson crystal flower that had fallen from the black skull's wrist. The sound of a sword breaking had just reached his ears when he heard the black skull's sharp roar. The white smoke carrying scalding heat seemed capable of burning others.
Black Skull and Mei Liangyu set off at the same time.
Mei Liangyu retreated, moving the battlefield away from Yu Sui, with Black Skull following closely behind.
The skeleton gripped the black longsword tightly; the blade seemed to have a subtle curve, appearing and disappearing intermittently.
Mei Liangyu's killing intent remained undiminished, but his target shifted to the black sword spirit before him. Using the words of a master, he swiftly summoned his sword again, clashing it several times with the black sword in the black skull's hand, each time sending sparks flying.
Blade & Soul's moves are brutal, relying entirely on the clash of the five elements. However, it is precisely this simple and straightforward approach that is most effective.
Under the suppression of absolute power, any tricks are futile.
The scalding white smoke emanating from the black skull brushed past Mei Liangyu's face, bypassing his protective aura and causing a burning pain to his skin.
The dust and sand that were stirred up were refined by the heat around the black skull, turning into shattered sparks, just like the crimson flame crystals that kept growing off his body.
Mei Liangyu was the closest person to the black skull at this moment, so he could sense the almost violent killing intent emanating from it. The resentment and anger that came from the deepest part of its master's heart and had been suppressed for many years had materialized into it.
At this moment, it is silently and frantically clamoring to destroy everything.
Black Skull gripped his sword with both hands and slashed powerfully, severing the longsword Mei Liangyu had held in front of him. In an instant, Black Skull changed his move, slashing vertically towards Mei Liangyu's forehead. The sword light was icy cold, and the wind mixed with white smoke broke through his protective aura.
The blade grazed Mei Liangyu's brow, just a hair's breadth away from cleaving him in two.
The Black Skull's killing moves were even more intense than Mei Liangyu's before, and it never stopped, its purpose being to cut the person in front of it in half, which made Yu Sui's eyelids twitch.
In an instant, Mei Liangyu waved his hand and drew a circle. The five elements materialized into a golden halo that landed behind the black skull, like a rising sun. Countless sword shadows flew out from within the halo.
The black skull was forced to dodge, and with a flick of his sword, the black sword circle he drew swallowed the pursuing sword shadows.
Even during the fight, the sword spirit remained hunched over, making its hands, which could touch the ground, look very strange, like the long arms of an ape. In the high-speed swinging of its arms and the movement of its shadow, the charred sword spirit sometimes looked like a thin, long line, and sometimes like a jumble of dark, messy lines.
The black longsword, its true nature indistinguishable from the real thing, mingled among them, appearing and disappearing intermittently, making it impossible to see clearly and defend against.
The black sword circle drawn by the black skull returned all the pursuing sword shadows to Mei Liangyu.
Two sword shadows clashed. Mei Liangyu had just formed a hand seal when he felt a gust of hot wind rush towards him, and a wisp of white smoke drifted past his eyes. At that moment, time seemed to stand still. Mei Liangyu's eyes moved, and his gaze swept downwards:
The black longsword held across Mei Liangyu's neck was like a clear mirror, flashing a glimpse of his lowered eyes.
Black Skull learned the two killing moves that Mei Liangyu had used earlier and used them on him in the same way.
Both of them were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they had already clashed several times.
Mei Liangyu did not dodge, but turned his head to the side in the direction of the black skull holding the sword, moving along the blade. When the long sword cut his shoulder, Mei Liangyu was already facing the black skull.
The two clashed swords again, sparks flying high into the air and shockwaves shaking the ground. Even Yu Sui, watching from a distance, couldn't help but turn his face away.
Mei Liangyu was almost face to face with the black skull. If one were to inhale the scalding hot air coming from it, it would probably melt one's nasal cavity and throat.
The deep, dark, and empty eye sockets stared straight at him, like an abyss hiding countless evil thoughts. Mei Liangyu also stared straight into this abyss, unafraid of evil thoughts.
Until a faint golden light appeared in this abyss.
Yu Sui had a bad feeling and couldn't help but call out, "Senior Brother!"
She now understood that Mei Liangyu's previous killing intent was meant to force the sword spirit out.
She didn't want to kill her senior brother.
As soon as Yu Sui finished speaking, a burst of golden light erupted ahead, filling the entire space and obscuring everything. Neither side showed any intention of stopping; whoever did so at this moment would face a fatal blow.
The five elements within the military formation were thus out of balance, causing the formation to collapse.
Yu Sui's heart skipped a beat, fearing that the armored formation would disappear and others would see the sword spirit after she went out. With a slight thought, the black figure turned to ashes and disappeared in the golden light.
The battle winds, thick with blood and fire, swept over Yu Sui from the Nine Military Schools. Hearing the commotion of other disciples, Yu Sui was momentarily dazed. When he looked up and saw Mei Liangyu standing opposite him, he was somewhat surprised.
Mei Liangyu no longer held his sword. He was wiping the sword wound on his cheek, dabbing the blood on his fingertips, and then looked at himself, raising an eyebrow in surprise.
"Senior brother." Yu Sui took two steps forward and walked towards him.
You can see the tear in Mei Liangyu's shoulder by the black skull sword, revealing the rolled-up wound, and that part of his clothes is soaked with blood.
Looking at Mei Liangyu's hand again, because of his close combat with the Black Skull several times, the scalding white smoke from its body and the falling crimson crystal flowers had all landed on Mei Liangyu's hand, leaving several ugly burn marks.
“Your sword spirit…” Mei Liangyu looked at Yu Sui and chuckled softly, “is quite interesting.”
Yu Sui stretched out his hand, indicating to Mei Liangyu that he wanted to see his injured hand, so Mei Liangyu handed over his hand.
She said, "Did you force me like that just to get it to come out?"
Mei Liangyu hummed in agreement. A commotion broke out nearby, so he leaned closer to Yu Sui and said, “The spirit of a sword is inherently an extremely fierce creature, and it is born from the temperament of its master. Those who cultivate the way of the sword must have fierce and violent energy in their hearts. When this energy is channeled into the sword, it takes the form of a sword spirit.”
“I heard you say before that your second brother taught you swordsmanship in Qingyang, and you actually spent a long time practicing swordsmanship.”
Yu Sui began to learn about these skills starting with the riding and archery classes at the National Academy.
Later, the eldest brother left the capital, the third brother went to Taiyi, and only the second brother, Su Feng, knew about many things that happened to Yu Sui in Qingyang.
Only the second brother, Su Feng, spent the most time with Yu Sui.
“The sword spirit is a projection of killing intent.” Mei Liangyu’s voice rang softly in Yu Sui’s ear. “So I tried to force it with killing intent to see if it would respond.”
The moment when Yu Sui feels a life-threatening killing intent that makes him unable to retaliate is when the sword spirit appears.
Yu Sui also understood from these words that the materialization of the sword spirit must have started after she realized how to use the unowned energy.
"What if it doesn't respond?" Yu Sui said.
“It will,” Mei Liangyu said. “It will appear whenever you have murderous intent.”
Yu Sui's eyelids twitched upon hearing this, feeling an embarrassment as if her thoughts had been bluntly exposed, and she even paused for a moment to breathe softly.
Mei Liangyu seemed oblivious and continued, "Your sword spirit is a little different from others. When Zhong Lishan and Kong Yiyi's sword spirits fought against me before, they both said that at the beginning of the sword spirit's birth, because of the fierce and violent energy, they needed to increase their own energy to suppress the sword spirit's energy in order to tame the sword spirit."
"But from what I see of your sword spirit, it doesn't need you to tame it; it's very obedient to you."
That's a rather subtle way of putting it.
After fighting the Black Skull, Mei Liangyu realized something: the ferocity and malice hidden deep within Yu Sui's heart were even greater than that black mass.
Such a powerful and bizarre sword spirit has only one reason for taking form: to destroy everything.
Therefore, it possesses extremely strong destructive power, a scalding aura, white smoke that burns everything at all times, and crimson flame crystal flowers that constantly grow and fall off from the charred bones, turning into sparks that burn everything.
In Mei Liangyu's view, Yu Sui's sword spirit is a standard military sword spirit, a personification of the fierce and malevolent energy projected onto the sword body, driven by the master's killing intent.
However, he believes that the Black Skull may also be the strongest sword spirit among the military strategists.
Mei Liangyu pondered and said, "It should be the strongest power that you can quickly master right now. Whatever it learns, you will also learn."
Yu Sui held Mei Liangyu's hand in her palm. Her senior brother's hand was icy cold, and the coolness it left on her slightly hot skin disappeared in an instant.
She slightly raised her head to look at Mei Liangyu, who was looking down, and asked softly, "How can you be so sure that I would be misled by your first two attacks and really have murderous intent?"
Mei Liangyu seemed to let out a low laugh, replying with a slightly nonchalant tone, "Because I am not the happiest person in the world."
Because you don't like me that much yet.
The image of the person reflected in Yu Sui's eyes was so clear that she firmly memorized that face.
At this moment, Mei Liangyu was very close to Yu Sui and could see the fleeting smile in her eyes. Yu Sui didn't speak, but tiptoed and gently touched Mei Liangyu's forehead. Mei Liangyu's heart trembled heavily. Before she could savor the feeling, she saw the butterfly hairpin holding Yu Sui's hair in place break, and she caught it for her with quick eyes and hands.
Yu Sui glanced at it and saw that the cut of the broken hairpin was very clean. It was cut by a sharp weapon at an extremely fast speed, or it was affected by the wind of the sword, which caused it to maintain its complete shape even though it was broken, because of the aura around Yu Sui.
As Yu Sui had just made that move, the butterfly hairpin finally lost its balance.
Yu Sui reached out and touched the half-broken gold hairpin in her hair. She felt the cut, pulled it out, and then looked at the broken half in Mei Liangyu's palm. She looked up at Mei Liangyu and said, "Senior brother, you cut it off."
Because he had to use murderous intent to force Yu Sui into battle amidst the ranks of soldiers, this was arguably the most serious moment of Mei Liangyu's life.
Every bit of power was controlled perfectly.
But looking at it now, it's still somewhat unexpected.
Mei Liangyu said without changing his expression, "I'll buy you another one."
Yu Sui touched the other hair accessories. A piece of the purple six-pointed star gemstone hair clip had fallen off, several tassels on the gold hairpin had broken off, and cracks had appeared on the purple jade hairpin, and so on.
She removed all the broken ornaments and placed them in Mei Liangyu's palm.
As Yu Sui removed one ornament after another that had been affected by the sword energy, Mei Liangyu's expression became increasingly subtle. She asked her, "Are you angry?"
Yu Sui did not answer.
Mei Liangyu was pondering how to explain when he saw Yu Sui place the last purple jade hairpin in his palm and then turn to leave.
"Junior sister?" Mei Liangyu was taken aback.
Yu Sui kept moving.
Mei Liangyu followed and called out, "Junior Sister!"
Yu Sui didn't even turn his head.
Mei Liangyu rarely showed a helpless expression: "Sui Sui."
Yu Sui then stopped and turned to look at him.
Neither of them seemed to see the other military disciples who were arguing and fighting around them. The military disciples, who were arguing so fiercely that their faces turned red, also couldn't see these two ghostly Taoist siblings with a subtle atmosphere.
Yu Sui glanced back at him once before continuing to walk away. Mei Liangyu could only clutch the broken pieces of jewelry in his hands and hurry after her.
[Author's Note]
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