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Chapter 53 - 53 Can you perform it once for us to see?
Chapter 53 - 53 Can you perform it once for us to see?
Chapter 53: Chapter 53 Can you perform it once for us to see?
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As Yang Xiaotian approached Lin Yong and Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan excitedly embraced Yang Xiaotian, choking up with emotion, “My boy, thank you!”
How fortunate was the Divine Sword Academy to have such a student as Yang Xiaotian!
Yang Xiaotian, however, said, “Dean Chen, you’re squeezing me too tight.” Everyone around them fell over in a heap.
Overcome with excitement, Chen Yuan hurriedly released Yang Xiaotian, scared he might have hurt him.
“Dean Lin, doesn’t the academy have a rule that those who comprehend more than ten Stone Swords can meet the five Great Elders of the Sword Hall?” Yang Xiaotian asked Lin Yong.
Lin Yong was taken aback, then said with a smile, “Yes, we will take you to meet the five Elders right now.” With that, he and Chen Yuan led Yang Xiaotian into the Inner Court.
The Divine Sword Academy’s Outer and Inner Courts.
Only after passing numerous assessments could an Outer Court student become an Inner Court student.
Generally, only faculty and Inner Court students could enter and exit the Inner Court.
Along the way, Inner Court students looked at Yang Xiaotian with complex expressions.
The Inner Court, with its ancient trees and many buildings, exuded an aura of age-old history.
On these buildings, traces of the sword were everywhere: Sword Techniques, Sword Runes, and cuts left by Sword Qi.
Yang Xiaotian saw several tall statues.
“These four were the most talented swordsmen in our academy’s history,” Lin Yong introduced the statues to Yang Xiaotian, saying, “Each of them comprehended sixty Stone Swords!”
“Sixty Stone Swords,” Yang Xiaotian marveled.
For academy students, comprehending a single Stone Sword was already impressive, ten was the mark of a prodigy, but these four had comprehended sixty!
“Indeed,” Chen Yuan said with a smile, “Anyone who comprehends sixty Stone Swords can have their statue erected here for all students to admire. This person is none other than our second Academy Head, Lord Guo Jia.” He pointed to one of the statues, “He comprehended seventy-seven Stone Swords!”
Yang Xiaotian was astonished.
Seventy-seven Stone Swords!
Lin Yong looked at the statue of Guo Jia, filled with emotion, “He is also the person who comprehended the most Stone Swords in our academy.” The most in the academy?
That meant that no one had ever fully comprehended all one hundred Stone Swords of the Hundred Swords Plaza.
“I wonder how many Stone Swords Elder Chen Changqing has comprehended?” Yang Xiaotian suddenly asked.
Chen Changqing, currently the top expert of the Divine Sword Academy, was someone Yang Xiaotian was very curious about in terms of how many Stone Swords he had comprehended.
“Elder Chen Changqing has comprehended fifty-seven Stone Swords,” Lin Yong proudly stated.
In the several hundred years of the Divine Sword Academy, only four people had comprehended sixty Stone Swords.
And Chen Changqing, having comprehended fifty-seven Stone Swords, showed the height of his Sword Dao.
“Fifty-seven,” Yang Xiaotian mused quietly.
That meant he was just three swords short.
At that moment, Chen Yuan said to Yang Xiaotian with a smile, “However, if you can comprehend thirty Stone Swords, you can become a Sword Hall Elder.
Xiaotian, you must strive hard.”
Lin Yong also said with a smile, “That’s right, if you can become a Sword Hall Elder, your status would be equal to mine as the dean. You would enjoy many resources that other students of the Divine Sword Academy can’t access, including freely browsing the secret tomes on the highest level of the Book Pavilion.”
The highest level of the Academy Repository, housing numerous secret tomes, was not open to teachers and students of the academy; only Lin Yong and Chen Yuan had access.
Of course, if Yang Xiaotian became a Sword Hall Elder, he could freely enter the highest level of the Repository.
Yang Xiaotian nodded.
A Sword Hall Elder, huh?
If he truly could become an Elder of the Divine Sword Academy’s Sword Hall, that wouldn’t be bad at all.
Bearing the identity of a Sword Hall Elder of the Divine Sword Academy, things would be much more convenient, and in the future, people like Hu Xing and Cheng Beibei would all have to pay respects to him as an Elder.
After a while, Lin Yong and Chen Yuan brought Yang Xiaotian to the Sword Hall.
The Sword Hall was located in the deepest part of the Academy.
The entire Sword Hall, from the outside, looked like a mountain.
The entrance was at the foot of the mountain.
“Lin Yong has something to discuss with the five Elders,” Lin Yong announced loudly at the entrance after arriving.
Inside the Sword Hall, Chen Changqing and the other four were studying a Sword Array when they suddenly heard Lin Yong’s interruptive voice, which made them somewhat impatient.
He Le was even more upset, rebuking, “Let it out if you’re going to fart.”
Lin Yong gave a wry smile, but he was well aware of Elder He Le’s foul temper and was not angry, he straightened his tone and said, “There’s a student in the Academy who has comprehended all ten Stone Swords. Lin Yong has brought him to meet the five Elders.”
Chen Changqing and the others immediately stopped what they were doing.
“After decades, a student has finally comprehended all ten Stone Swords,” spoke Chen Changqing from within, his voice filled with gratification. He asked, “May I know which Inner Court student it is?”
“He’s not an Inner Court student, but a first-year freshman from our Academy,” Lin Yong quickly said.
“What, a first-year freshman?!” Chen Changqing and He Le exclaimed in unison, and almost at the same time, five figures burst out from the Inner Hall, bringing with them a terrifying surge of sword waves.
Yang Xiaotian just felt a flash before his eyes, and the five elders had already appeared in front of them.
The five of them, four men and one woman, all looked at Yang Xiaotian with an incredible gaze.
“Do you mean to tell me this child took a little over a month to comprehend all ten Stone Swords?” Chen Changqing asked Lin Yong.
It had been a little over a month since the term started, and Chen Changqing and the others assumed that Yang Xiaotian had taken that time to comprehend all ten Stone Swords.
A little over a month, ten Stone Swords! Such speed left Chen Changqing and the others utterly shocked.
Chen Changqing prided himself on his unparalleled swordsmanship but had taken seven years to comprehend all ten Stone Swords back in his day.
Lin Yong shook his head and said, “No, Xiaotian only took four days to comprehend the ten Stone Swords.”
Four days!
Chen Changqing, He Le, and the others seemed to stiffen as if struck by the Nine Heaven Divine Thunder.
“No, impossible!” He Le trembled as if he had had a stroke, his hands shaking.
“Four days? Did you say four days?”
Despite knowing that Lin Yong would not joke about such a matter, Chen Changqing and the others still found it preposterous.
“Child, can you demonstrate the Stone Sword Technique you’ve comprehended for us?” Chen Changqing asked, looking at the exquisite boy in front of him. He tried to sound calm, but despite decades of composure, his voice just couldn’t settle.
Yang Xiaotian nodded and walked onto an open space in front of the Sword Hall, swinging out with his long sword in hand.
All at once, the sword qi was as the sun.
What Yang Xiaotian was exhibiting was precisely the “Fiery Sun Sword Technique”; from a distance, the utterly masculine sword qi seemed to carry a sun that was rising and setting within it.
Witnessing Yang Xiaotian’s Fiery Sun Sword Technique, Chen Changqing and the others were astounded: “Great Accomplishment Realm!”
Initially, they thought that even if Yang Xiaotian could comprehend the Stone Swords, it would have been just the basics.
Now, Yang Xiaotian’s Fiery Sun Sword Technique was actually at the Great Accomplishment Realm!
Even Lin Yong and Chen Yuan were taken aback, not having expected that Yang Xiaotian would be able to cultivate the Fiery Sun Sword Technique to the Great Accomplishment Realm in just a few short days.
Soon, Yang Xiaotian finished displaying the Fiery Sun Sword Technique, and then he began to exhibit the “Cold Moon Sword Technique.”
Suddenly, snowflakes began to drift out of nowhere.
Amidst the crisscrossing sword qi, it seemed as if a cold moon hung high.
Chen Changqing and the others were so stunned they were at a loss for words; it was another Great Accomplishment Realm!