[Automatically Learned: Eight Forms of God-Slaying, Fourth Form, Strange Sword Form (Progress Value 0/10000)]
[PS: When facing a master, no matter how fast your moves are or how chaotic your attacks are, a master can always see through them easily and kill you in one strike. So when facing a master, speed and chaos are already useless. Only the path of unpredictability, striking when they least expect it and making it impossible to guard against, gives you a chance to win.]
"Strange Sword Form? What kind of sword style is that?"
Ethan looked at the description of the Strange Sword Form but still couldn't figure it out.
Fast, he understood. Chaotic, he understood too. But this "strange"...
'How am I supposed to use it?'
"I'll try it!"
Ethan casually spun the sword in his hand.
Actually, he didn't know when he had learned to do the form either, but somehow he just could.
Ethan guessed it was probably because he had used swords so much that some reflexes had slowly formed.
Or maybe his understanding of swords had deepened, so some things no longer needed deliberate practice and he could naturally grasp them on his own.
"Strange Sword Form!"
Ethan slashed toward the Blade Tree with a Strange Sword Form attack.
Actually, he didn't know what the Strange Sword Form was supposed to look like when used, but because all the petals the Blade Tree had fired at him had already been turned into experience points by him, at this point, Ethan had stripped all the petals clean from the Blade Tree, so he could only attack the trunk.
Whoosh!
However, the moment Ethan's sword strike came out, he saw the sword light vanish strangely in midair.
Yes, a streak of sword light shot out with a "whoosh," then disappeared halfway through.
Not because it ran out of force.
It just vanished for no reason.
Like a soap bubble. You know in your head it could still float for a long time, but then, it suddenly disappears, without even seeing any droplets burst out.
"So this is the Strange Sword Form?"
Ethan stood there in confusion and muttered, "If this can hit someone, I'll be damned!"
BANG!
But just after Ethan finished complaining to himself.
A streak of sword light suddenly swept across the trunk of the Blade Tree. It even crossed more than ten or twenty meters just like that and slashed into the trunk out of nowhere.
"WHAT!"
The giant tree, two to three meters thick, was cut clean in half by Ethan.
Then the huge tree slowly tilted and collapsed to one side.
RUMBLE!
"So this is the real... Strange Sword Form?"
Ethan stared at the collapsed Blade Tree with a blank look.
On the other side, the moment Nana and Idris saw the strange tree collapse, they were stunned.
"Did any of you see what happened just now?"
Idris looked shocked.
Of course, besides shock, there was also a trace of complicated admiration and excitement in his eyes.
People might choose the wrong name, but never the wrong nickname.
Idris was exactly his nickname. He was born loving battle, but unfortunately he didn't have much talent himself, so he admired the strong.
Before, back at the mountain sect, the person he admired most was the Mountain Lord.
But only after leaving the sect and meeting Ethan did he finally understand what "there's always someone stronger" really meant. At this moment, he realized that the so-called strongest Mountain Lord was actually far behind compared to others.
The man before him still looked so young, yet his swordsmanship had already reached such a level.
If he reached the Mountain Lord's age one day, how strong would he become?
"No," Nana also shook her head. "I only saw him swing his sword once. Aside from the way he swung it being different from when he was cutting petals earlier, there didn't seem to be anything special about it, but then the tree suddenly fell."
"Could this be the legendary... sword intent?"
The admiration in Idris's eyes became even stronger.
But Nana shook her head and said, "Probably not. If it were really sword intent, it should leave traces behind."
"I once saw a strand of sword intent on Sky Mountain Peak in the sect. It was supposedly left behind by the founding ancestor. How should I put it... it looked like the ground had been plowed. There was a groove cut into the surface, and that was on a massive boulder."
"So if that person had used sword energy just now, there should've been a trench carved into the ground."
"That would be the trace left by the sword energy passing through."
"But look at the ground. It's flat and untouched. Even the fallen flowers along the path don't show any signs of being cut."
"So I think this isn't sword energy."
"If this isn't sword intent...", Idris asked back, "Then how do you explain what just happened?"
"I don't know either..."
Nana shook her head.
But Nini suddenly spoke up, "I saw it."
"You saw it?", Nana and Idris asked at the same time, "Nini, what did you see?"
"I saw..."
Nini copied Ethan's move as she spoke. "A light shot out like this, then the sword light entered a black hole, and came out from another black hole. The other black hole just happened to be beside the big tree, so then... it hit it."
"Black hole?", Nana frowned, "You mean the kind of black hole I'm thinking of?"
"I don't know. Something like this..."
As Nini spoke, she gestured through the empty air. The next second, a black line appeared in space. It flickered on and off, looking extremely unstable.
But as Nini kept thinking while controlling it, the black line gradually became steadier.
"What is this?"
Seeing the scene in front of her, Nana was shocked and reached out to touch the line.
But Nini hurriedly stopped her, "Sister Nana! Don't touch it. This is a closed gate. If the other side doesn't open another connecting gate, then once you touch it, your hand might get cut off by the closed gate."
"You're saying this is a spatial gate?", Nana stared in shock, "How do you know this?"
"The last time I treated the Young Sect Master's back injury, I saw him reading a scroll. This was written on it," Nini honestly explained, "But back then I didn't understand what it meant. Only after seeing the Hero use that sword move that tears open space did I finally understand. So the connecting gate and closed gate mentioned in the Young Sect Master's scroll meant this."
After saying that, Nini lightly touched the gradually stabilized black line floating in the air.
The moment her hand touched the black line, it split open strangely, turning into an olive shape with pointed ends. Inside was complete darkness, so black that even light couldn't reflect from it.
Then Nana watched as Nini reached her hand into it.
And then, a strange scene appeared.
Nini's hand stretched out from behind Nana and lightly patted her shoulder.