Baby with Daoist Monarch System

As if swinging a sword could overturn mountains and fill seas!

"Hmm?"

Xu Ran’s initial attention was on the middle-aged man, but behind him was a mass of people.

He turned his head to look.

Xu Ran noticed that the faces behind the man looked very familiar.

"Isn’t this... the people who first appeared in the village?"

"These people, at the beginning, didn’t have any cultivation at all!"

"And yet, how long has it been, and their cultivation is already so high?"

Xu Ran’s eyes were full of shock.

Those ordinary people who first appeared in the scene had no cultivation whatsoever, not even the potential for cultivation.

Yet...

How short a time it has been, and these people not only can cultivate, but their cultivation isn’t low either?!

Xu Ran was shocked for a moment, his gaze returned to the man.

"How many resources must this have cost?!"

Xu Ran looked at the man with great admiration.

Although Xu Ran had not been cultivating for long, he was well aware of the immense effort required to bring someone unable to cultivate onto the path of cultivation.

Just the treasured items needed to awaken them are incredibly rare.

Many people might spend a lifetime and not find a single one of those treasures.

Not to mention bringing nearly a hundred people who couldn’t cultivate onto the path of cultivation!

And.

Entering the path of cultivation was just the beginning; growing to the point of levitating, with everyone having significant cultivation, requires even greater resources!

"You are amazing!"

Xu Ran gazed at the man and uttered a compliment!

How much determination does it take to accomplish such a feat!

Even though.

These people, before he grew up, had helped him, even if it was just a bowl of rice, half a field mouse’s body, a few cabbage leaves...

These things could be said to be valueless.

But precisely because of this, it highlights why this man’s sword intent is so pure!

"Is this the process of forming his sword intent? So pure, full of a child’s heart!"

"Never forget the original intention, that’s the initial reason for practicing swordsmanship!"

Xu Ran pondered for a moment.

Suddenly.

The Silver Light Iron Sword in his hand suddenly burst forth with a dazzling light.

In this scene, only Xu Ran could see this light.

However.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the middle-aged man suspended in mid-air turned his head to look this way, with an unstoppable smile on his face!

It seemed... he had seen Xu Ran.

Before Xu Ran could think clearly.

Suddenly.

He felt an uncontrollable sensation of weightlessness, falling from the sky.

As his vision was restored, he found himself again in that dueling arena.

In front of him was the same bald man with bronze-toned skin.

"Back...?"

Xu Ran looked around in a daze, speaking words that no one could understand.

"Little kid, want to go home?"

The bald man heard Xu Ran’s mumbling and immediately taunted.

Even so.

In fact, the bald man’s expression was not pleasant.

But.

In that instant, Xu Ran, standing before him, seemed invisibly sharper.

Facing Xu Ran felt like facing a Supreme Divine Sword—so sharp that it was hard to meet his gaze!

"What is Xu Ran saying?"

The young junior sister observing from outside the trial heard Xu Ran and felt perplexed, unable to understand what he was saying.

It’s not just the junior sister; the other two also couldn’t understand why Xu Ran would say such words out of the blue.

Could it be.

Xu Ran really missed home?

However.

This is normal; he’s just a child less than two years old who spent so much time in the Nine-Layered Giant Tower, it’s normal to feel homesick.

Although the senior brother and second senior brother were puzzled by Xu Ran’s words.

They knew full well that Xu Ran did not say that because he was homesick.

"Hmm?"

The second senior brother, carefully observing Xu Ran, suddenly made a puzzled sound.

"Xu Ran’s body has become like a sword, as if...."

He stopped halfway through, not knowing how to describe Xu Ran at that moment.

"Casting the body as a sword!"

Four words from the senior brother immediately elicited a response from the second senior brother.

"That’s right, exactly!"

The second senior brother agreed repeatedly.

"Now, Xu Ran’s body seems like a sharp sword, constantly emitting a fierce sword intent!"

"This is... Great Success in Sword Intent!"

As the second senior brother spoke, he couldn’t believe what he was saying!

Great Success in Sword Intent!!

These four words meant many things.

It meant that your attainment in the Sword Dao had reached an entry-level mastery.

It meant you could declare yourself a sword cultivator.

It meant your talent surpassed 99% of people!

...

But.

Let’s not forget.

Xu Ran only learned the most basic swordsmanship today.

Previously, when using the Immortal Sword Skill, he relied on nearly endless Innate Qi to decisively defeat others.

Sword intent?

That was merely a feature of the Immortal Sword Skill, not something Xu Ran cultivated himself.

So.

Saying Xu Ran only just started learning swordsmanship is not wrong at all.

Yet.

In this very situation, Xu Ran’s sword intent already achieved Great Success in an instant!!

Bear in mind.

Xu Ran skipped straight past the introductory stage of sword intent to achieve Great Success!

If the three of them hadn’t witnessed it, they wouldn’t have believed it.

However.

Such an incredible event happened right before their eyes.

"What on earth just happened?"

The senior brother stared at Xu Ran, puzzled.

He couldn’t fathom what transpired to make Xu Ran bypass all the basics and directly reach the stage of Great Success in Sword Intent!

After pondering for a moment, the senior brother shook his head.

"I don’t know how Xu Ran, this anomaly, achieved it."

"But there’s one thing for sure."

The senior brother’s words instantly grabbed the attention of the second senior brother and the young junior sister, who asked in unison.

"What is it?"

"Xu Ran will pass the swordsmanship trial!"

...

In the dueling arena.

The bald man, as the gatekeeper of this trial, especially the swordsmanship test, was acutely aware of the significant change in Xu Ran.

"Achieved Great Success in Sword Intent?"

The bald man’s expression grew serious as he fixed his eyes on the Silver Light Iron Sword in Xu Ran’s hand.

"It must be this sword!"

Before long, the bald man guessed the truth.

"Hmph!" he snorted dismissively, "A Sword Immortal, as expected, isn’t ordinary!"

After speaking.

The bald man straightened his posture, and the near hundred-zhang-long Blood-Red Iron Sword moved with him.

Even though Xu Ran achieved Great Success in Sword Intent, as the gatekeeper, he must give it his all.

"Since you’ve achieved Great Success in Sword Intent, let me test its substance!"

The bald man focused on Xu Ran, his eyes fearless and full of battle intent.

"Great Success in Sword Intent?" Xu Ran, hearing the bald man’s words, felt puzzled and looked down at his Silver Light Iron Sword.

"Is this Great Success in Sword Intent?!"

"But when did I acquire sword intent?"

Xu Ran’s voice was one of confusion, yet he made no effort to hide it, speaking it aloud for everyone to hear.

For a moment.

The four who heard Xu Ran’s words were filled with helplessness!

What kind of world is this!

Xu Ran didn’t even know he had achieved Great Success in Sword Intent; if it weren’t for the bald man pointing it out, he might not have known it symbolized greatness in sword intent!

"Pretending, are you?" the bald man retorted upon hearing Xu Ran.

"Then I’ll make it so you can’t!"

The bald man roared in anger.

Immediately.

He formed a hand seal, and countless blood-red lights danced at his fingertips, slowly forming a blood-red rune in front of him.

As this blood-red rune appeared.

The blood-red iron sword, which hovered above, a hundred zhangs in size, began to vibrate intensely.

"Whoosh!"

A sharp sound of breaking through the air arose, and in an instant, the massive blood-red iron sword shrunk to the size of the Silver Light Iron Sword, gripped in the bald man’s hand!