Heart

"This is quite annoying," mumbled Xu Yue as she examined her body.

Even though an entire day had passed and Xu Yue had taken several pills, she still had not fully recovered.

"Let's see" said Xu Yue as she started going through the healing pills in her spatial bag.

She then took out a single pill from it. Compared with the last ones, this pill was completely different, as she took it, the energy from it started going through her body, completely healing it from that last divination.

As she began to examine her body, Xu Yue couldn't help but think about how many spirit stones she had just squandered.

"Heaven-ranked healing pills truly are both efficient and expensive" said Xu Yue, as if she could see her mountain of spiritual stones becoming smaller and smaller.

"I should take a few days to rest and recover my soul " thought Xu Yue.

Ordinarily, the soul does not recover on its own, but since Xu Yue's was not injured but rather exhausted, because of the extremely high concentration of spiritual energy inside of the sect, Xu Yue did not even need to use special treasures to speed it up.

A few days later.

After three days days of rest, Xu Yue felt extremely refreshed.

As her soul was recovering, her intuition picked up something. Xu Yue then exited her cave abode and went to her masters abode.

"Master " said Xu Yue, bowing to her teacher.

"You know you don't need to bow, you should stop doing it " said Feng Shuchun, looking at her disciple. Right now, Xu Yue had already caught up with her senior sister in height, being almost one hundred and eighty centimeters tall.

"Why did you come to see me?" asked Feng Shuchun.

"Can't I just come, because I miss you?" asked Xu Yue shamelessly.

"You don't usually do so " responded Feng Shuchun extremely bluntly.

"I'm entering seclusion to enter the Soul Enlightenment realm " said Xu Yue, not having any pretenses anymore.

Feng Shuchun frowned. As seclusion did not have any effect on entering that realm, she was unsure why Xu Yue would do this.

"I have a feeling I will succeed" said Xu Yue confidently.

"I understand" said Feng Shuchun, breathing a sigh of relief. As someone with talent in the Dao of Fate, Xu Yue's intuition was much more accurate than other cultivators, as long as she was confident Feng Shuchun felt that her chances of breaking through were quite high.

After talking a bit with her master, Xu Yue exited her abode. She then started going to her senior sister's abode.

Xu Yue spent around thirty minutes inside her senior sister's abode before exiting it.

As she exited her abode and was thinking about her senior sister, both Xu Yue and Yue couldn't help but lick their lips at the same time.

Even though they do not want to admit it, heart demons are representations of the cultivator's innermost desires.

As she entered her cave abode, Xu Yue went to sleep, before waking up and starting that same monotonous cycle once again.

This time, though, Xu Yue could only spend twenty hours training with the sword, as two hours would be used for either training Divination, reading those Taoist books, or just spending some time pondering about Karma.

Most of the time, doing that was completely useless, but every time she gained a minuscule insight about karma, Xu Yue felt the world around her transform.

Fifty seven days later

As she reached Grand Completion in the first sword art since entering seclusion, Xu Yue knew that her intuition was right, she would reach the Soul Enlightenment realm soon.

Six months later

A feeling of exhilaration hit Xu Yue once again. She had hit Grand Completion in another sword art.

After six months, it seemed as if Xu Yue had hit a growth spurt, she started growing at an exaggerated speed.

"It stoped, as expected " mumbled Xu Yue. At the beginning, the speed at which she comprehended sword arts was growing fast, but right now it had stopped. Except for some variations in sword techniques, it seemed as if her speed would not increase any longer.

Looking at his descendent, Xu Ming once again felt the difference between geniuses and ordinary people, back then it had taken him a decade to reach grand completion in a Heaven Ranked sword art, but even so he was hailed as a genius.

"I shouldn't make comparisons between people " mumbled Xu Ming as he felt the mentality that he had created through tens of millions of years collapse in a few years.

One year later

Having just finished comprehending a Sword art, Xu Yue was sitting crosslegged on the bed, reading one of her taoist books.

"A man can never be as boundless as Heaven and Earth " as she read this, something stirred in Xu Yue's heart.

"This is wrong" said Xu Yue. This was the first time Xu Yue had directly talked to the book while she was reading it.

"My sword will be boundless, if Heaven and Earth dare stand against me, they will be destroyed as well " the moment Xu Yue said this, she realised something and fall into a trance.

A transformation seemed to occur in Xu Yue's sword intent. After a moment, the sword intent seemed to begin fusing with Xu Yue's soul.

A few moments later, a few words escaped Xu Yue's mouth.

"Boundless Sword Heart"

As she said this, something seemed to happen in Xu Yue. The Heaven Slashing sword will could not escape the Boundless Sword Heart and was absorbed.

As it absorbed the sword will, the Boundless Sword Heart seemed to become somewhat stronger and more whole.

A moment later, all the Heaven Rank sword arts that she had mastered appeared in Xu Yue's mind. Looking through them once again, Xu Yue felt like she could comprehend something new.

As Xu Ming was feeling the power of Xu Yue's sword heart, he was shocked to feel more than a dozen sword wills begin emanating from her.

A moment later, all of the sword will disappeared, seemingly being absorbed by the Boundless Sword Heart.

Still under the effects of the enlightenment, Xu Yue monotonously walked to the canvas, before painting a single brush stroke.

Looking at what Xu Yue was doing, Xu Ming cautiously activated the Heaven Shrouding formation.

On that one brush stroke, the aura of the Boundless Sword heart seemed to transform.

"Heaven and Earth" mumbled Xu Yue. As she said this, a peculiar aura, similar but different to that of the Heavenly Dao, started emanating from the painting.

Xu Yue's painting intent started stirring, before fusing with her sword, similarly to the sword intent.

"Heaven and Earth Painting Heart " mumbled Xu Yue under her breath.