5th Trial

"Congratulations." Bai found himself in the usual Sword God mental space. "You passed your test in 18 months, with great achievement in sword art and body refining."

A wave of energy surged towards Bai. He could feel an increase in his mental strength, increasing his sword comprehension a little bit. Moreover, his spirit rank increased becoming a rank 83 spirit douluo.

"You already demonstrated being a worthy successor of us." the Sword God said "Now it's time, for you to adapt your body to our power." A gray-colored light fell over Bai "This is your 5th Trial."

Bai closet his eyes assimilating the new information, at the same time was pushed outside the mind space. Bai was again on the platform at the top of the mountain. The rich energy around had completely disappeared following Tao Yi's death. The only proof that Tao Yi had been there being the perfect plain platform created.

Bai sat and started meditating about what he learned in his last fight, at the same time indulging in his new spirit ring. This spirit ring was different than others, it had a spirit skill, but also the accumulative experiences of Tao Yi, making Bai able to use some of his techniques, and directly stepping in the All Sword realm of Wind. Nevertheless, this was part of Tao Yi's strength, it would require time and practice before Bai could make it his own.

"You must control the power, not the power control you." Bai continued meditating some days before opening his eyes. These shining with a light-green glow. Bai stood up, wind was created with each of his movements, even helping to do them more swiftly.

Bai slowly blinked, his eyes returning to his usual color, his right golden and his left black. Bai inspected his body, stretching it "I already consolidated my new realm, at least mentally. I will need some actual fighting before I get used to my new strength."

Bai turned to the south, looking at the distance. His next trial was the first one to have a specific location as he supposed that Tao Yi's trial was more of a special case, one not prepared. He should go towards Giant Sword Mountain. Bai already had known about it, it was a mountain situated at the frontier of Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire that had a form similar to a sword, resembling a giant sword piercing the ground. There were some rumors about it, of a weapon left by gods or the aftermath of some powerhouse battle. Nevertheless, never had been discovered anything special or important about it, but it seemed that it was wrong.

To go to Giant Sword Mountain, Bai would need to cross all Heaven Dou Empire, more than 2000 km. "It would be another long trip." Bai sighed, wings surged from his back. His wings had transformed, they grew bigger and stronger, with an eternal visible flow running across them. Rather than the previous bat's wings, now resembled more to an eagle's ones, similar to the windman of the 5 meters mark of Tao Yi. It seems that Tao Yi's ring evolved his external spirit bone.

The wings glowed with yellow and light-green light as he flapped them, quickly flying to the south. His speed was faster than before, but the best improvement was his agility. Bai could feel his body lighter, being able to move better around, change directions, and maneuver, making it a great increase in his aerial fighting.

As Bai flew crossing the sky, the wind and air were reflected for him, almost reducing the air resistance to zero, increasing his speed and reducing his energy consumption. Even with his great velocity, there wasn't any shock wave, he swiftly crossed the sky.

After some days of traveling, he finally reached the vicinity of Giant Sword Mountain. Just as he could see the mountain at the distance, Bai stopped still. He quickly changed direction landing on the ground. He had sensed some weird sword qi from the mountain. Because the great distance, he wasn't able to detect what was or the power behind it, but he could sense his spirit resonating to it.

It could be something normal about the trial, but his intuition said it wasn't. Bai preferred to play it safe, slowly approaching and investigate the situation before acting.

Bai invoked his twin swords at each hand, the left one took a translucent glow while the right one a light-green. Bai swung crossing his swords. The Wind Intent eliminated any sound or scent from him and the Space Intent hid his presence.

Once in stealth, Bai carefully ran towards the foot of the Giant Sword Mountain as stealthily as possible. Finally seeing the situation around the mountain, Bai knew that his intuition had been correct. More than 1000 people stood near the mountain, all of them wearing combat clothes with the medal identity showing that they were part of Spirit Hall's combat force

Bai carefully observed Spirit Hall's army, his eyes unconsciously going a leading figure. Due to the distance, he could only see a blond woman wearing a white dress, but he instantly recognized who she was, Qian Renxue.

"Fuck!" Bai couldn't help to curse.