Singing with a Sword

The following is the main text of the novel "{?$article_title?}" ({?$jieqi_title?}) provided by {?$jieqi_sitename?}. Please enjoy! "Yiranxiao, you're asking for death!" A strong killing intent flashed in Xu An's eyes. The tip of his silver spear trembled and suddenly thrust towards Yiranxiao, who was five steps away!

A cold glint flashed in Yiranxiao's eyes, and he thrust out a sword!

The first move of the Divine Thunder Sword Technique is as swift as lightning!

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The azure sword transformed into a streak of azure light, piercing the sky and instantly arriving in front of Xu An!

The green sword struck first, arriving in the blink of an eye! This sword was so fast that no one could even catch a trace of it! This sword pierced Xu An's body the moment the spear was thrust out!

Puchi~

Xu An's left shoulder was pierced through!

"What?!" Everyone Xu An brought gasped in shock. How... how could that sword strike be so fast?! Even Xu An, a senior brother at the mid-stage of the fifth level of the Transcendent Realm, didn't react at all, and was stabbed by the opponent just like that?

This is absolutely unbelievable!

Xu An was also filled with terror, coughing up a mouthful of blood, and exclaimed in horror, "You...when did your sword become so fast?" This Yi Ranxiao had given him too many shocks!

"Hmph!" Yi Ranxiao drew his green sword, but did not kill him. He simply smiled and looked at the members of the Vanguard Hall, saying, "I told you, I am very strong! Xu An, you are no match for me!"

That sword strike contained Yuan energy. Although it pierced a non-vital area, it caused immense damage to Xu An's body. As soon as Yi Ranxiao withdrew his sword, Xu An collapsed to his knees, powerless. Looking at the tall and imposing Yi Ranxiao, Xu An felt a pang of fear.

The people from Xianfeng Hall fell silent. They could tell that Yi Ranxiao was much stronger than Zhong Bugui, the senior brother from Shenfeng Hall.

The disciples of Shenfeng Hall were equally silent! They looked at their senior brother with admiration and surprise. Their senior brother had actually defeated Xu An, who was of a higher cultivation level, with a single sword strike! They were genuinely proud of Yiran Xiao! Yiran Xiao's stature in their eyes had instantly increased! In Yiran Xiao, they saw the hope for the rise of Shenfeng Hall!

At this moment, Yi Ranxiao glanced at the disciples of the Vanguard Hall and said, "Not only am I very strong, but our Divine Wind Hall is also very strong! Therefore, we must continue the hall battle! Six months later, I will personally lead the disciples of the Divine Wind Hall to pay a visit to your Vanguard Hall!"

Only through battles within the main hall can the branch hall's ranking be improved!

For a moment, the disciples of the Vanguard Hall were intimidated by Yi Ranxiao's imposing aura. Only Xu An, whose entire body was wracked with pain, remained conscious. "You, Yi Ranxiao, have indeed become stronger, but do you think you can defeat our Vanguard Hall with just this much strength?"

"Hmph, Yiran Xiao, let me tell you, our Vanguard Hall is incredibly powerful! Our senior brother, Zhang Qiang, is at the eighth level of the Transcendent Realm! And you are nothing in front of him! Hmph, you want to defeat our Vanguard Hall? You're overestimating yourself!"

Yi Ranxiao looked at him earnestly and said, "People can improve! In six months, I will definitely be stronger than Zhang Qiang!" Yi Ranxiao was not a reckless person; he was a rational one. Having cultivated the Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture these past few days, he felt his strength improving rapidly. He was confident that in six months, he could defeat Zhang Qiang.

Moreover, during this period, the system might even identify new experts for him and give him new rewards! Therefore, he firmly believed that he could lead the Divine Wind Hall to defeat the Vanguard Hall.

"Haha, Yiranxiao, you're too arrogant! But if you want to humiliate yourself, then we'll see you in six months!" Xu An clutched his shoulder wound and slunk away with his men.

Xianfeng Hall is located to the east of Jianling City. The group headed east, cursing as they went.

"Damn it, I didn't expect this new guy to be so capable! Senior Brother Xu, we really miscalculated!"

"That's right, I don't know where this Yiran Xiao came from, his swordsmanship is so strange and fast, it's really a headache!"

"But with his meager cultivation, he dares to challenge our Vanguard Hall? That's just wishful thinking, utterly arrogant. Our Vanguard Hall has countless cultivators at the sixth level of the Transcendent Realm, and our Senior Brother is an eighth-level Transcendent Realm expert. No matter how powerful that brat Yi Ranxiao is, how could he possibly defeat our Senior Brother?"...

As they passed a noodle stall, a boy overheard their conversation, especially the name they mentioned: Yiranxiao.

"It's my elder brother!" The young man's face lit up with joy. "Xiao Huan, that's great! We finally have news of my elder brother! Let's go to Shenfeng Hall to find him!"

This young man was none other than Xiao Fan. After he and Xiao Huan escaped from the Hehuan Sect, they entered Su Shui City, only to witness the Su Shui City cultivators besieging their elder brother. However, he couldn't step in to "help," as his strength was limited and coming out would only be a burden to Yi Ran Xiao. So he remained hidden until Yi Ran Xiao was taken away by Shen Fanba and his group. He then secretly followed them, but the group was too fast, and he lost them. However, he remembered the general direction. So Xiao Fan brought Xiao Huan to Jianling City, where he finally heard news about Yi Ran Xiao.

"Come on, Xiao Huan, let's go find him!" Xiao Fan grabbed Xiao Huan's hand. Xiao Huan whispered, "Okay, husband." The two young men then asked for directions and headed towards Shenfeng Hall.

It turned out that the two of them had developed feelings for each other while spending their days together. At night in the wilderness, out of fear, they clung to each other and physical intimacy became inevitable. Before long, they had become one person and a young married couple.

After becoming husband and wife, Xiao Huan became even more restrained, obediently following her husband and listening to his every word, which is why she always stayed with him. As for Xiao Fan, he was focused on cultivation. After telling his sister Ke'er, he went to find his elder brother.

The two found Shenfeng Hall and explained their purpose to Ji Yuantao. Ji Yuantao then went to inform the thief, and Yi Ranxiao was overjoyed and immediately came out to greet them. Seeing Xiao Fan, he couldn't help but be happy, but seeing Xiao Huan beside him, he learned that the two had become a couple, and couldn't help but sigh! Xiao Fan was only sixteen years old and already had a wife, while Yi Ranxiao was already twenty-one and still a bachelor…

Yi Ranxiao arranged accommodations for Xiao Fan and Xiao Huan. Since there had never been any female disciples in Shenfeng Hall, and they were all men, Yi Ranxiao specially arranged for the couple to stay in a small courtyard in the northwest corner of Shenfeng Hall.

As for Xiao Fan joining the sect, Yi Ran Xiao couldn't make that decision herself; she could only ask Xu Jingyi for help. So, Yi Ran Xiao was going to Si Guo Cliff to see Xu Jingyi and also to visit him. After all, her master was in confinement, and how could a disciple ignore that?

However, Xu Zhongwen firmly disagreed with Yi Ranxiao going there. At this time, Xu Jingyi was still sickly, and the injuries from forcibly increasing his Yuan power had not yet healed. Therefore, Xu Zhongwen made up a reason for not letting Yi Ranxiao go, saying that his father had told him personally that he needed peace and quiet and should not let his disciples come to visit. If anyone was to come, it could only be Xu Zhongwen.

Left with no other choice, Yi Ranxiao could only send Xu Zhongwen alone. A month later, he returned and handed Xiao Fan a sect token, officially making Xiao Fan a sect disciple.

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On this day, Yiran Xiao stopped practicing the Divine Thunder Sword Technique and went to the library of the Divine Wind Hall. He wanted to learn a spell, since it would be strange to enter the Transcendent Realm without spells.

Spells all utilize the internal energy of the body to control the energy of heaven and earth, directly forming attacks. For example, Ji Yuantao's Great Fireball Technique uses fire-type energy to directly condense into a fireball; another example is the earth-type spell "Earth Spear Formation," which uses earth-type energy to control earth spears to suddenly emerge from the ground for attack.

Inside the Divine Wind Hall's library, the books were tattered and contained only basic spellbooks. Yi Ranxiao glanced through them and casually learned a few basic spells, but their power was too weak. Some of the lightning spells were even less powerful than the lightning released directly from the lightning orb in her dantian. Therefore, Yi Ranxiao decided to return to cultivating the Divine Thunder Sword Technique.

As Yiran Xiao passed by the training ground, she stared at it for a long time. The training ground was so empty it looked almost unrecognizable. Yiran Xiao was deeply worried. In fact, the senior brothers were in charge of the various branches of the sect, and they bore the heavy responsibility of strengthening their branches! The dire state of the Divine Wind Hall made Yiran Xiao feel an immense pressure.

You should know that the Vanguard Hall in the same city has thousands of disciples! But the Divine Wind Hall only has... only a few dozen people! This made Yi Ranxiao feel ashamed.

Apart from that, Shenfeng Hall has no elders at all!

Although the elders of those branch halls were all senior cultivators in the sect, most of them were immersed in cultivation and hardly cared about the daily affairs of the branch halls, their presence at least made the sect look much better.

The current Shenfeng Hall is lacking in three aspects: firstly, it has no pills for cultivation; secondly, it has few disciples; and thirdly, it has no elders! Strengthening the sect and leading Shenfeng Hall to become the sect's number one branch is a difficult task! However, Xiao still clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, "No matter how difficult it is, we must strengthen the sect!"

For a cultivation sect, the most basic necessity is elixirs! But Shenfeng Hall has no money! How can they obtain elixirs?

Still lost in thought, Xiao suddenly remembered a group of people.

In the Divine Wind Hall, besides the original disciples, there is another group of people who are special; they were exiled here. Among these people, there are a few who were originally the pride of heaven, either with profound cultivation or skilled in alchemy and medicine, but later they were exiled to the Divine Wind Hall by the main hall because of certain mistakes.

Most of these people, upon arriving at the Divine Wind Hall, chose to degenerate, spending their days listlessly and without ambition. If we could awaken them, help them rediscover themselves, regain their former glory as chosen ones, and then have them help us strengthen the Divine Wind Hall, then…