Chapter 93: Born with Sword Bones

When Yu Yaoguang drew that sword, it was like an endless, bleakly cold gleam cutting through the vast white mist of Jiangnan in the third month, revealing the austere chill beneath.

Cold enough to bite.

Lin Yuchu stood inside the pavilion without moving, his gaze fixed unblinkingly on Yu Yaoguang, who was practicing sword outside the pavilion.

Countless flashes of sword light and sword shadows rapidly passed through his eyes.

Senior Brother Jin stood beside him and reminded him in a low voice, “Watch carefully.”

“It would be best if you could remember all of it,” Senior Brother Jin said.

That was what he said, but Senior Brother Jin did not actually expect him to memorize it after watching only once. He could not do such a thing himself, so why make things difficult for a newly arrived junior brother?

Lin Yuchu did not answer. He only kept his eyes focused on Yu Yaoguang practicing sword ahead.

Seeing this, Senior Brother Jin did not disturb him.

The sword dance ended.

Yu Yaoguang stopped and sheathed his sword.

He lifted his eyes. In those clear, bright eyes, his gaze was as cold as a thin layer of ice over a lake in early spring. Expressionless, he looked at Lin Yuchu before him.

Under that one glance, Lin Yuchu felt a cold shiver run through his heart. It was as if he had choked on a mouthful of ice, freezing him from the inside.

“How much of the sword moves just now did you remember?”

Yu Yaoguang put away his sword and stood in front of him, looking at Lin Yuchu as he asked in an indifferent voice.

He looked as though he could demonstrate the sword dance again at any time, just to deepen Lin Yuchu’s memory.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu hesitated for a moment, then said, “I more or less remembered all of it.”

“Nonsense!”

Before Yu Yaoguang could react, Senior Brother Jin, who was standing beside Lin Yuchu, was the first to lose control and blurted out.

He looked rather nervous as he glanced at Lin Yuchu beside him and hurriedly said, “Junior Brother, don’t force yourself. Just tell the truth.”

Who could possibly remember everything after seeing it only once?

Little Martial Uncle’s sword technique was tricky and fierce, with extremely high requirements for a sword cultivator. Ordinary people could not execute it fluidly from start to finish.

Even Su Hui had to watch it several times before he could barely perform the full set of sword techniques.

So when Lin Yuchu claimed that he had remembered it after watching only once, Senior Brother Jin did not believe it. He did not believe it. It was impossible.

He only thought Lin Yuchu was overestimating himself, unaware of the danger and difficulty involved.

That was why Senior Brother Jin immediately spoke up, forcibly explaining and salvaging the situation for Lin Yuchu.

He was the one who had brought Lin Yuchu here, so Senior Brother Jin felt that he still needed to take responsibility for this new junior brother, lest he be struck down by Little Martial Uncle, lose all confidence, begin doubting himself, and sink into negative, gloomy emotions.

Lin Yuchu was destined not to understand this well-meaning effort of his.

After hearing his words, Lin Yuchu gave him a strange look and said, “I’m not forcing myself.”

“...” Senior Brother Jin.

Hearing this, Senior Brother Jin immediately looked at him and opened his mouth.

His face was full of, “Impossible. I don’t believe you. Don’t trick me.”

Before he could say anything to rescue this junior brother, who in his eyes was already terminally ill and walking straight toward death, Yu Yaoguang, who stood in front of them, glanced at Lin Yuchu. Then he nodded slightly and said, “If you remembered it, then follow what I demonstrated just now and perform this set of sword techniques once.”

“!!!!” Senior Brother Jin.

When he heard this, his eyes snapped wide open. He turned his head and stared at Lin Yuchu beside him with an expression that said, You are already dead.

Junior Brother, I’m the one who harmed you!

“...” Lin Yuchu, who was being looked at by him with eyes full of hot tears, as though Senior Brother Jin were gazing at a martyr.

He was completely baffled.

His head was full of confusion.

Was there something wrong with Senior Brother’s brain?

So weird.

…

Since Yu Yaoguang had spoken, Senior Brother Jin could not say anything more. He could only watch helplessly as Lin Yuchu carried his sword and walked forward.

His face wore an expression of unbearable sympathy, his eyes filled with bitterness and pity as he watched Lin Yuchu in front of him.

Junior Brother was still too young. Too naive!

You think you know it, but in truth... you don’t know anything at all!

Looking at the present Lin Yuchu, Senior Brother Jin seemed to see his past self.

Back then, he too had been this naive, this simple, foolishly thinking that Little Martial Uncle’s sword moves were just like that, so easy, learned after a single look!

In the end...

He was taught a lesson in life.

Sigh!

Senior Brother Jin sighed deeply in his heart, wondering how he should comfort Junior Brother’s cracked self-esteem and shattered confidence once this was over. He only hoped Lin Yuchu would not be left with psychological trauma.

Just as Senior Brother Jin was racking his brains with such painstaking concern, ahead of him—

Lin Yuchu had already carried his sword and stood in the open training ground.

He gripped the sword with one hand. With a turn of his wrist, the sword moved like a roaming dragon, and like a streak of light, it instantly cut through the sky before him, leaving behind only a cold, clear line of sword light.

Yu Yaoguang, who was standing ahead, saw this, and his eyes immediately lit up.

The expression on his face came vividly alive in an instant.

His brows and eyes took on a trace of expectation and focus as he watched Lin Yuchu’s movements.

Lin Yuchu’s hands never stopped. His body movements and footwork were smooth and profound, perfectly matched to the sword in his hand. Without the slightest pause or awkwardness, he executed the entire set of sword techniques Yu Yaoguang had just demonstrated.

Not a single move was missing.

“...” Senior Brother Jin.

He was dumbfounded on the spot.

Originally, he had been worried that because Lin Yuchu was overconfident and thought he could do it when he actually could not, he would fail to remember the moves as he claimed. Or even if he remembered them, he would be unable to perform the full set of sword techniques Yu Yaoguang had just demonstrated, and would then be scolded and struck down by Yu Yaoguang without mercy.

In the end, he was simply stunned now.

“He-he-he actually!”

Senior Brother Jin’s face was full of disbelief. He stared at Lin Yuchu in front of him, dumbstruck, as though he were looking at a fake person. “He actually really did it!”

“How did he do that?” Senior Brother Jin could not help blurting out. “Could he be the reincarnation of a sword god?”

Was there any other explanation?

Lin Yuchu’s performance shattered everything Senior Brother Jin had always known. His entire worldview was about to explode. Little Martial Uncle’s sword technique had always been called a demonic sword technique, a demon that tortured people. In all of Lonely Sword Peak, aside from Su Hui, no one could meet Yu Yaoguang’s requirements and perform his full set of sword techniques.

But even Su Hui...

could not watch it once, remember it, and then execute it completely!

This kid...

Just what was his background?

At this moment, it was only because the many Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance were not here. If they had been present and seen Senior Brother Jin react like this, they would certainly have disdainfully said, “What a fuss over nothing.”

What did this count for? One had to know that at the very beginning, the Rain Emperor had relied on a tattered sword manual to teach himself, stubbornly working out an overpowered sword technique capable of slaughtering gods and slaying immortals from a damaged manual with only one-third of it remaining. With it, he swept through the cultivation world without equal and became emperor and sovereign.

Even though Divine Capital, the Immortal Alliance... all the forces of the cultivation world were enemies of the Rain Emperor, locked in a struggle to the death, they still had no choice but to admit that the Rain Emperor’s talent in the Sword Path was rarely seen across all ages.

It was simply that the Rain Emperor had never properly cultivated the Sword Path.

Otherwise, who would be the ruler, emperor, or tyrant of the Sword Path would truly have been hard to say.

In short, the Rain Emperor was a Sword Path genius delayed by the path of imperial sovereignty.

Since this had been brought up, one had to mention that this time, through a strange combination of circumstances, Lin Yuchu had walked onto the path of the sword cultivator.

This made the Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance, who had single-mindedly wanted to work hard to push him onto the path of a soft, delicate, easily pushed over medical cultivator who healed the world and practiced medicine, practically spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Their feelings were extremely complicated, because although the Rain Emperor’s Sword Path was overpowered, in all of his previous lives, Lin Yuchu had never cultivated the Sword Path. His Dao was the imperial Dao, or perhaps the Dao of the sage.

On this point, the cultivation world did not share a unified opinion.

The fair, objective, and broadly accepted view was that the Rain Emperor’s Dao was the imperial Dao. This could be considered the more conservative statement.

The Rain Emperor’s followers and believers held that what the Rain Emperor cultivated was the supreme Dao of the sage.

His opponents believed that what he cultivated was the Dao of a Demon Emperor.

Therefore, Lin Yuchu’s past achievements and titles were the Supreme Human Emperor, the World-Saving Sage, and the World-Destroying Demon Emperor, three sides of one whole.

…

Senior Brother Jin had been shocked into wooden stillness by Lin Yuchu’s extraordinary operation.

Yu Yaoguang, however, looked thoughtful as he watched Lin Yuchu demonstrate the sword technique ahead.

Once Lin Yuchu finished performing the set and sheathed his sword,

Yu Yaoguang walked forward and came before Lin Yuchu. Looking at him, he said, “Hold out your hand.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu glanced at him.

Though he did not understand what Yu Yaoguang wanted to do, he still obediently held out his hand.

Yu Yaoguang took the hand he extended and felt the bones of his hand. Then he felt the other hand, and after that, he touched around his body, as though confirming something.

“...” Lin Yuchu, whose entire body had been felt all over by him.

His delicate, pretty brows furrowed.

His expression was one of restraint.

If Yu Yaoguang had not been refined and handsome, with a bamboo-like bearing that was elegant, distant, and cool—in simple terms, if he had not been good-looking—

Lin Yuchu would absolutely have suspected him of harassment, all right?

“As expected.”

After feeling Lin Yuchu all over inside and out, Yu Yaoguang released him.

Then he raised his head, looked at him, and said with certainty, “You possess the born sword bones, a constitution rarely seen in ten thousand years.”

“You have a natural advantage in the Sword Path,” Yu Yaoguang said.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, his expression immediately showed a bit of confusion.

Born sword bones?

What kind of setting was that?

When did I gain this extra setting?

How did I not know about it before?

Senior Brother Jin, who was off to the side, was instead shocked when he heard this and blurted out, “Born sword bones!?”

“The legendary born sword bones?” Senior Brother Jin said incredulously. “They actually exist?”

“I always thought they were fictional!” Senior Brother Jin could not help muttering. “They’re actually real?”

The way he looked at Lin Yuchu changed. That curious, eager gaze, full of exploration and thirst for knowledge, made it seem as though at any moment he might dissect him and observe him like a specimen.

“Born sword bones naturally exist,” Yu Yaoguang said. “In this world, there are a very small number of people who are blessed by heaven from birth. Their bones and meridians are born in harmony with the Sword Path, as though they were born for the Sword Path itself.”

“In the Sword Path, things ordinary people cannot do are effortless for them,” Yu Yaoguang said.

After saying this, he glanced at Lin Yuchu before him.

He had held something back in his words. He suspected that Lin Yuchu did not merely possess born sword bones. Perhaps he also possessed a sword heart.

A born sword heart.

If sword bones represented aptitude, then a sword heart represented comprehension.

The youth before him had just displayed not only his terrifying aptitude in the Sword Path, but also the comprehension that allowed him to remember a sword technique at a glance, instantly understand it, commit it to memory, and learn it.

Such comprehension was very much like the legendary born sword heart.

It was only that the heart was such an important core lifeline that Yu Yaoguang could not probe it. He could only restrain himself.

But regardless of whether Lin Yuchu possessed a born sword heart or not,

the powerful aptitude and comprehension in the Sword Path that this youth before him possessed were enough to move Yu Yaoguang’s heart.

Facing the youth before him, Yu Yaoguang’s heart, which had always been cold and calm, began to beat fiercely. Surging heat spread from his heart through his entire chest, then extended throughout his whole body.

It was so intense it seemed about to set his entire person ablaze.

He lifted his eyes, his gaze burning as he stared at Lin Yuchu before him. Because of his excitement, even his originally clear, pleasant voice was tinged with a touch of hoarseness as he said, “From now on, follow me.”

“...” Senior Brother Jin.

Oh no!

Hearing this and seeing the situation, Senior Brother Jin immediately cried out inwardly that things were bad.

At this exact moment, only one thought remained in his mind...

Su Hui got NTR’d by someone I brought here!

I brought someone here and got Su Hui NTR’d!

Next Chapter >