Chapter 6: The Broken Sword

  The next morning, dawn quietly arrived.

  Lin Yun's eyes slowly opened, his face twisted in pain, as if his entire body, including his head, was wracked with wave after wave of agony, as if he was about to be torn apart.

  What happened? Was I bullied by a dream while sleeping?

  As for last night's events, Lin Yun could be said to be completely unaware. With both hands propping up his entire body, he slowly crawled out from the broken stone slab, but after just one glance, he was shocked to discover that there were no clothes on his back at all, and his bare body was exposed outside.

  What's going on? Lin Yun kept asking himself in his heart, after all, he was wearing clothes before he went to sleep last night, but why did all the clothes on him disappear when he woke up this morning, could it be that someone had done something to him last night?

  Shaking her head, Lin Yun was unwilling to believe that she had been deceived. She immediately flipped out the small broken box under the stone slab and found a tattered piece of clothing to change into temporarily.

  At this moment, Lin Yun's right eye suddenly swept to a small notebook beside the stone pillow, with curiosity, he reached out and took the small notebook over.

  The entire notebook exuded an ancient feel, the yellowed cover was unknown what era's product, most importantly, on the notebook's cover were written three words, three blood-red big characters seemed to have endless magical power, deeply attracting Lin Yun's eyes.

  "Is this broken sword really an extraordinary secret book?"

  Looking at the three big words "Sword Remnant Chapter" on the cover of the book, Lin Yun brought a hint of expectation and doubt, slowly opening the first page of the small book. The dense text was probably written in several hundred words. At a glance, he finally recognized that this was indeed an internal skill mantra, the internal skill mantra that every martial artist dreamed of. As long as he possessed this "Sword Remnant Chapter", he could continue to cultivate from there, allowing his originally stagnant peak martial arts skills to continue to rise steadily.

  With a suppressed excitement in his heart, Lin Yun continued to open the second page of the book. From the second page to the eighth page, they were all sword moves. He only took a glance at them, and was deeply attracted to the sword moves recorded on the pages. As for the last two pages of the book, there were two kinds of divine arts: one was the Soul Devouring Technique, and the other was the Puppet Art.

  He didn't bother with the two divine abilities, directly reopening the first page and preparing to start cultivating the sword-remaining chapter's inner skill mantra. However, just as he started cultivating, Lin Yun was stunned on the spot, his face filled with incredulity, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

  "Grass, when did I become a congenital martial artist? Is my character really that awesome? Can even sleeping improve my cultivation?"

  Suddenly, he felt that there was ample spiritual energy of heaven and earth in his dantian. Lin Yun had already realized something - after all, his previous cultivation was only at the peak of acquired mastery, and to break through to the realm of innate martial arts, one must first thoroughly purge the impurities from within the body, thereby elevating it to the state of acquired perfection. From then on, he could begin to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Once he had drawn in this energy and stored it in his dantian, it would signify that his cultivation had officially entered the realm of innate martial arts.

  Under normal circumstances, he wanted to improve his cultivation from the peak of Houtian to Xiantian Wu Zhe, with the premise of having internal skills and heart methods. At least one year was needed, or even longer. But now? He just slept for a while, and in an unprepared situation, he broke through in such a muddled way.

  Lin Yun had already thought of it, his cultivation breakthrough to the Xiantian Wu Zhe realm, and there was a sword fragment placed beside his pillow, there must be a connection between the two. Who was secretly helping him? He thought about it repeatedly, but he really couldn't figure out who was secretly helping him.

  Helpless shaking his head, since he couldn't figure it out, Lin Yun also didn't continue to think about it. No matter what, this person had no malice towards him, and even gave him such an important Sword Fragment, and helped him break through his cultivation. From these two aspects alone, it was enough to show that this person had no malicious intentions.

  Looking at the sword manual in his hand, Lin Yun didn't know what level this skill was. However, it's worth noting that the internal skills of the Tian Dong continent are divided into four levels: human-level skills, earth-level skills, heavenly-level skills, and imperial-level skills. The imperial-level skills have long been lost, and no one has seen an imperial-level skill in all these years. As for the other three types of skills, except for the rarely seen king-level skills, the remaining two are very common.

  "If this broken sword skill of mine were an imperial-grade technique, it would be great, but never mind that for now, let's just cultivate it first."

  He glanced at the time and found that it was still early before departure, so he took advantage of this period to sit on the stone slab and start practicing the sword residual chapter. According to the records in the sword residual chapter, this inner skill had a total of seven major realms, which were divided into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. And what he needed to cultivate first was the first realm of the sword residual chapter, the Red Star Realm.

  Lin Yun had been cultivating for a whole two hours without realizing it.

  Outside the thatched hut.

  Ye Mei'er pouted, her face showing discontent, and hummed: "Teacher Tong, why do we have to bring that stinky rogue with us this time when we go to the Heavenly Punishment Forest?"

  "Mei'er, you should know that this time helping you to obtain your innate martial skill, the journey is still quite far, along the way, we will have many inconveniences, bringing Lin Yun with us will make things much easier."

  "Why can't we bring others even if it's inconvenient? But instead, you insist on bringing that stinky vagrant?"

  "Alright, Mei Er, I've told you before, don't keep calling him a stinky rascal on the left and right. The previous thing was just a misunderstanding. Lin Yun is already quite pitiful, I suspect his brain was affected last time, so we should be nicer to him."

  Is something wrong with your brain?

  Upon hearing this, not only was Ye Wei'er somewhat surprised, but even Lin Yun, who was hiding behind the grass door and eavesdropping, had an unpleasant expression on his face. He didn't continue to hide, or else who knows what other ridiculous things he would say about him being dim-witted or having a short circuit in his brain.

  Opening the grass door and looking at the two stunning beauties standing at the entrance, Lin Yun smiled mischievously and said: "Beautiful teacher, Mei'er sister, you're up so early."

  "Shut up, you stinker! Who is your sister?"

  He glared at Ye Wei'er fiercely, and Tong Yu seemed to be used to the beautiful teacher, saying indifferently: "It's already this late, if you don't want to go, you can say so now."

  Mr. Tong glared at her, and Ye Wei'er instantly recalled what she had just said. This person used to be a honest and well-behaved person, but now? It's simply shameless to the extreme, if nothing unexpected happens, it must have been affected by the brain, and being petty with someone who is not normal in the head, she is not that kind of person.

  "It's just if you don't want to go and pull it."

  "Who says I'm not willing? For this trip with two beauties, I specially wore a new set of clothes," Lin Yun said, and then he deliberately shook his body, but this shake was not okay, as a greyish-black underwear fell down from somewhere on his clothes.

  Seeing the pants that had already fallen to the ground, Tong Yu and Ye Mei'er's faces changed instantly, their two small red faces were like ripe apples, making people want to go up and take a good bite.

  "Scoundrel," she gave a fierce stare, and Tong Yu Zeng had never been so embarrassed before. He didn't dare to linger any longer, and with a push of his feet, he sprinted forward. Ye Mei Er was no exception, cursing "stinky scoundrel" as she also quickly left in a dejected manner.

  Lin Yun couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time as he looked at the two beauties who had just rushed away, and then at the underwear that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. He thought to himself, "Underwear brother, why did you have to come out now? You've really made things difficult for me with both beauties present."

  He picked up the pants from the ground and stuffed them back into his clothes. Lin Yun also didn't continue to linger, in case the two beauties got angry and didn't take him to the Heavenly Punishment Forest, wouldn't he be greatly disappointed?

  All the way.

  No matter whether it was Ye Mei'er or Tong Yu, they directly isolated Lin Yun and explicitly stipulated that he was not allowed to enter within three feet of the two of them. If he did, they would use force against him, and he would have to bear the consequences himself. However, Lin Yun didn't seem to care at all about not being allowed to enter within the three-foot range. "I can still move around freely even if I'm outside the three-foot range."

  Tian Fa Forest, about a thousand kilometers to the left of Tian Fa City, is a natural barrier. However, Tian Fa Forest is the main base of spiritual beasts. Every few years, countless spiritual beasts in Tian Fa Forest will run out and wreak havoc, causing widespread anger and resentment.

  However, for warriors, the Heavenly Punishment Forest is a paradise. After all, as long as one's cultivation reaches the level of Pre-Heavenly Warrior or above, they will want to obtain their innate martial technique. The so-called innate martial technique is actually the skills possessed by the spiritual beast itself.

  A warrior, once possessing a unique martial skill, is equivalent to having even greater strength. Now, Tong Yu and Ye Mei'er, one breaking through as a warrior and the other breaking through as a martial artist, both need to acquire their unique martial skills.

  However, everything has its pros and cons. Tian Fa Sen Lin is a paradise for warriors, but it's also a hell for them. After all, weak warriors will inevitably encounter powerful spiritual beasts, and the outcome can be imagined.

  Heavenly Punishment Outside the Forest

  The three of them rushed for three days and three nights, finally arriving at the Heavenly Punishment Forest. However, before entering, Tong Yu called the two to his side and said: "The Heavenly Punishment Forest is fraught with danger, you must follow closely behind me, not a single step can be taken back, do you understand?"

  "Got it, Teacher Tong."

  "Beautiful teacher, don't worry, I will definitely stick close to you and won't leave your side even for a step."

  "I'm not in the mood to joke with you now, wait until we enter the Heavenly Punishment Forest, first find a suitable first-level spiritual beast for Mei'er, and after Mei'er successfully obtains her innate martial skill, the two of you can leave the Heavenly Punishment Forest and wait for me here."

  "Teacher Tong, why is this?"

  Lin Yun was also surprised that the beautiful teacher did not leave with them and wondered what she wanted to do by staying behind.