Chapter 1211: Sword Fighting and Arduous Cultivation
"Young friend Ye Chen, from now on, you are the master of our Ancient Sword Village!"
"You can command our entire Ancient Sword Village!"
The elder's words echoed across the Sword Stele, resounding through the heavens and the earth.
"Young friend Ye Chen, we all heed your commands!"
The other two elders, at this moment, also saw clearly the Ancient Sword Command in Ye Chen's hand. They seemed to have realized something and, without any hesitation, also spoke out to Ye Chen!
The three Supreme Star Lords all chose to acknowledge Ye Chen as the master of Ancient Sword Village.
This situation fell into the eyes of Wei Xuan, Star Lord Ning Luo, and Chining Xiaoxiao, and all three were filled with disbelief.
Especially Star Lord Ning Luo.
She originally invited Ye Chen to Ancient Sword Village just to witness its wonders. But no matter what, Star Lord Ning Luo couldn't have imagined that as Ye Chen ventured forth, he would become the master of Ancient Sword Village!
That he would make the three esteemed elders of Ancient Sword Village choose to submit to him!
This situation is way too surprising!
With the three most powerful elders of Ancient Sword Village recognizing the Ancient Sword Command in Ye Chen's hand as valid and acknowledging him as the master of Ancient Sword Village, how could anyone else in the village not also acknowledge him?
The Jiu Yi Star Lord, who was maintaining order, hesitated for a moment before he too chose to recognize Ye Chen. He bowed towards Ye Chen in the void and directly said, "Greetings to the new master of Ancient Sword Village!"
"Greetings to the new master of Ancient Sword Village!" Other Star Lords, likewise, respectfully bowed to Ye Chen.
Of course, there were still many in Ancient Sword Village who couldn't accept Ye Chen.
After all, they had never seen Ye Chen before. Suddenly, someone appeared claiming to be the master of Ancient Sword Village. Even with the Ancient Sword Command recognized by the three elders in Ye Chen's hand, many people still found it hard to accept.
At this moment.
Gu Xiaozhao stepped forward.
She looked towards the thousands of Sword Cultivators in Ancient Sword Village in the sky.
Then, Gu Xiaozhao raised her voice and said, "Big brother Ye Chen's ability to hold the Ancient Sword Command and become the master of my Ancient Sword Village, to command our village, may not be a bad thing for us."
Gu Xiaozhao was the recognized first prodigy since the founding of Ancient Sword Village and the idol of the young Sword Cultivators in the village.
In the eyes of the young Sword Cultivators, in some respects, Gu Xiaozhao's words carried more weight than the three elders.
At this time, hearing Gu Xiaozhao speak, everyone in Ancient Sword Village, especially the young Sword Cultivators in the village, listened intently.
"If you know the achievements of big brother Ye Chen in breaking through the three passes of the village, you will understand my words."
Saying this, Gu Xiaozhao flipped her wrist, and an image of the Void Heaven projection was directly cast into the void!
The Void Heaven projection displayed the scene of Ye Chen breaking through the three village passes!
Gu Xiaozhao was the gatekeeper of the three village passes. Although she was not directly present at the start of the first pass, during Ye Chen's first trial, she received a transmission from the Little Child and went to the Wooden Bridge Pass, witnessing Ye Chen's trial firsthand. She even reproduced the scene of Ye Chen breaking through.
Originally, Gu Xiaozhao intended to preserve this invaluable record of crossing the passes for Ancient Sword Village, but unexpectedly, it was now coming in handy!
When the projection in the void showed Ye Chen breaking through the first Wooden Bridge Pass, shattering Gu Xiaozhao's record of sixty-six wooden boards, the surrounding Sword Cultivators of Ancient Sword Village exclaimed in surprise.
These Sword Cultivators had nearly all attempted the Wooden Bridge Pass and, of course, knew its difficulty, and the terror of Gu Xiaozhao's sixty-six wooden board record!
Could this young man actually surpass Gu Xiaozhao?
The Sword Cultivators of Ancient Sword Village could hardly believe their eyes.
But the surprises didn't end there.
As they saw Ye Chen crossing the sixty-six wooden boards and still not stopping, continuing his challenge, and eventually reaching the eighty-ninth wooden board and successfully crossing it, stopping only at the last ten boards.
The record of the Wooden Bridge Pass was suddenly raised by Ye Chen to the achievement of eighty-nine wooden boards!
This outcome drew countless gazes back to Ye Chen.
"This young man, how terrifying is he?!"
"The Wooden Bridge Pass requires extraordinary instant Comprehension Power; he actually comprehended the Swordsmanship to such strength!"
Even the elder Sword Cultivators in the village, even those ten-odd Star Lords, were showing expressions of astonishment.
At this time, the scene in the Void Heaven projection shifted, beginning to show the situation of Ye Chen taking on the second pass.
The second pass, Flying Waterfall Pass.
As they saw Ye Chen enter the tenth cave in one fell swoop and retrieve the tenth-ranked Divine Sword, the crowd erupted into another round of commotion.
With just this first move from Ye Chen, retrieving the tenth-ranked Divine Sword, he once again broke the record of Ancient Sword Village!
No one in Ancient Sword Village had ever retrieved a Divine Sword ranked in the top ten!
What was even more terrifying lay ahead.
As they saw Ye Chen proceed after retrieving the tenth-ranked Divine Sword, advancing upwards again, and retrieving the ninth-ranked Divine Sword as well, the crowd inhaled sharply...
When Ye Chen subsequently retrieved the eighth, seventh... all the way up to the fourth-ranked Divine Sword, everyone in Ancient Sword Village was completely stunned.
And when Ye Chen entered the third cave, triggering the Divine Light manifestation of the first, second, and third caves, especially when only the top-ranked cave's Divine Light was shining at the end, as many exchanged transmissions and confirmed the sword retrieval rules for the top three Divine Swords, everyone in Ancient Sword Village knew that this young man was attempting to retrieve the top-ranked Divine Sword!