The rest of the day went smoothly, and Lin Ran stayed in this space on weekdays to cultivate.
Since Tianxuanzi had opened the space for him alone, no one disturbed him.
Apart from practising with the Amethyst Puppet, Lin Ran spent most of his time here contemplating the Three Character Sword Tablet.
As the Sword Tablet was the Sword Immortal Sect’s greatest treasure, it did not just teach sword techniques.
The various sword intent auras on it were also very helpful to Lin Ran’s sword dao.
After three months of hard training at the waterfall, his realm had already vaguely reached the middle stage of the Dao of Enlightenment realm.
And at this time, his enlightenment of the Three Character Sword Tablet within the sect had actually allowed his realm to break through and stabilise at the middle stage of the Dao Enlightenment Realm.
According to Lin Ran’s feeling, his own cultivation speed on the Sword Dao only was already fast, and there was hope that he would reach the peak of the Dao Enlightenment Realm before the sect’s Grand Competition.
Bai Chang was at the early stage of the Three Dao Realm, so even if he broke through to the middle stage at the sect competition in half a year’s time, the gap between himself and him would not be too great.
Only on this extra two dao was a real headache for Lin Ran.
“If I had Heavenly Lightning within my Divine Lightning Transformation, I wouldn’t be afraid of him, but if I go out to find Heavenly Lightning now, I’m bound to delay my sword dao!”
Lin Ran whispered softly to himself, the Heavenly Lightning was also very important to him, but to sacrifice his sword dao cultivation and run off to look for Heavenly Lightning just to defeat Bai Chang was somewhat more than worth the loss.
“Even without the Heavenly Thunder, I wouldn’t necessarily lose, if I could fully practice the second form of the Lancang Sword Technique, it would be enough!”
Lin Ran thought in his mind, and without further ado, he continued to cultivate.
Time pa*sed day by day.
Nothing more happened.
However, those who knew about Lin Ran’s problems with Bai Chang knew that although Bai Chang had never made a move, his follower, Bai Wolf, had been walking around the Sword Immortal Sect from time to time.
And all of them were near Lin Ran’s residence.
It seemed that he was looking for an opportunity to clean up Lin Ran.
This was because as a follower, one was not qualified to directly challenge a disciple.
So he could only find a way to anger Lin Ran, thus achieving the goal of making Lin Ran take the initiative to find him in trouble.
However, Lin Ran had been cultivating at the waterfall before, so he didn’t have much of a chance.
After returning this time, the Buji Swordsman had also talked about it, but Lin Ran didn’t give it a second thought.
His goal was to defeat Bai Chang.
The encounter with the Amethyst Puppet had made Lin Ran gradually realise what the problem with his sword technique was.
The Amethyst Puppet was far stronger than him, so as soon as Lin Ran struck his sword, the opponent would be able to see his intentions.
He would have prepared himself in advance and even defused Lin Ran’s attack.
At first Lin Ran thought that this was mainly because he was inferior in strength.
But it wasn’t until one day, after he had proposed a simple sword fight without using his strength, that he was still abused by the amethyst puppet.
Only then did he realise that what he lacked was not strength, there was even a gap in his sword strokes.
He even used the Chaotic Qi Spiral and Divine Thunder Transformation later, but he was still beaten by the Amethyst Puppet and could not fight back.
Only then did Lin Ran understand how important Master’s phrase of returning to the basics really was.
It was said that strength was the root of a cultivator, for no matter how powerful a swordsman was, he would still be crushed in front of absolute strength!
But the person who said this had obviously never seen a more powerful swordsman.
A true swordsman, if he can achieve the degree of unity of man and sword, where man is sword and sword is man.
Then his swordsmanship would be strong enough to compete with the mighty!
Cultivating a path is supposed to be a path that is thought to be fumbled, and you cannot say that no one has reached this point in the mere path of the sword.
Because after all, no one has ever tried.
It’s like when everyone couldn’t cultivate, who knew that human strength could move mountains and break the heavens with their hands!
Two months had pa*sed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Ran had gradually gained more and more insight in swordplay only, and his understanding of the realm of returning to the basics had gradually become clearer.
Every time he struck his sword, his sword technique could have thousands of variations, making it gradually become difficult for the amethyst puppet to deal with it.
After another month, Lin Ran’s swordplay had clearly become even more powerful by a few points.
There were even several times when the amethyst puppet was unable to see Lin Ran’s intentions and thus suffered several losses!
Just when Lin Ran was already completely immersed in the joy of this improvement in his swordplay.
Suddenly, Bu Er Swordsman brought news that Leng Qiu had come looking for him and was outside the sect.
At this moment, he was at the bottleneck of his cultivation, and it would not be long before he could reach the realm of returning to his true self.
After thinking about it for a while, Lin Ran declined and asked Bu Er Swordsman to tell Leng Qiu that he was in seclusion!
The Bu Er Swordsman had no choice but to go and relay the message, which resulted in Leng Qiu stamping her feet in anger.
“That B*****d! How dare you not come to see me, huh! Next time don’t let me hear you come out, or you’ll be in for a treat!”
Leng Qiu snorted coldly and left.
Lin Ran was also speechless when he heard the result relayed by Bu Er Swordsman back.
However, he still had to cultivate, so he was soon relieved.
It was just that this had caused a commotion in the Sword Immortal Sect, Leng Qiu was a member of the Leng Family of East Flag City.
Moreover, he was also the favoured disciple of the Royal Thunder Sect, but he had actually come to Lin Ran, something that really puzzled many people.
There was even some envy and jealousy.
Lin Ran naturally didn’t care about what these people thought, and remained immersed in his own cultivation.
Time pa*sed day by day, and it was another day a month later.
Lin Ran was standing in the space that Tianxuanzi had independently opened up, while in front of him at the moment the amethyst puppet was also standing, and at the moment there was an additional sword in his hand.
The sword looked very ordinary, but it had a vaguely sharp aura emanating from it that shook people’s hearts.
“I am ready! Let’s strike!”
The Amethyst Puppet looked at Lin Ran and said in a calm voice.
“Good!”
Lin Ran replied, and then without any nonsense, he quickly slashed out with the Frost Condensation Sword in his hand, and instantly three sword maces charged straight towards the Amethyst Puppet.
“This time it’s this one!”
The amethyst puppet roared angrily, and immediately stabbed towards one of the sword shadows.
“Bang Bang!”
In the next moment, the longsword in the Amethyst Puppet’s hand had collided with the sword shadow.
An explosive sound also came out.
However, the smile on the Amethyst Puppet’s face froze almost instantly as soon as it appeared.
Although the sound had come out, the sword shadow had also scattered out of thin air.
“It’s a fake again!”
The Amethyst Puppet was instantly shocked, and his entire head instantly turned towards the other two sword shadows and slashed them.
“Bang Bang!”
Yo were two loud noises, and instantly those two sword mangles actually shattered away instantly as well.
“Why are they all fake!”
The amethyst puppet was instantly stunned.
“Who told you they were all fake!”
Lin Ran smiled blandly, followed by a wave of his palm, and several more sword mists flew out of thin air from the shattered sword mists, instantly blasting at the amethyst puppet.
The sword mangles, which were originally bland and unexceptional, exploded with terrifying power the moment they touched each other, actually blasting the amethyst puppet back several steps!
“You!”
The Amethyst Puppet looked at Lin Ran with shock in his eyes.
“Your sword dao, you’ve become!”
“Not quite… it’s just a slight accomplishment!”
Lin Ran laughed, a profound light in his eyes.
