Chapter Forty-Four: Breaking Through the Limit

  Xiao Fan's expression turned grave, and he pulled out a long sword from his storage bag with his right hand. At the same time, he also took out several flying knives with his left hand for backup.

  The wolf's speed is extremely fast, and they are in a group. Xiao Fang is not familiar with the use of heavy sword, so he can't exert his maximum speed. Therefore, choosing to use an ordinary long sword is the best approach.

  "Without experiencing a real fight, one will never know how powerful their swordsmanship is. Today, I'll use you wolves as my testing ground." Looking into the eyes that shone with a greenish glow, Xiao Fan didn't feel any fear, but instead felt a thrill of excitement.

  Xiao Fan held a sword in his right hand and ate flying knives with his left hand, standing quietly, his whole person immersed in the realm of emptiness, vigilantly watching the wild wolves around him.

  The sky was dark and all that could be seen were the wolf's eyes glowing green, a glance revealed that the entire valley was densely packed with wolves, at least several hundred.

  "Ahh..."

  At this moment, a wolf howl echoed through the sky, followed by a strange movement that came over, and the wolf pack quickly rushed towards Xiao Fan. The wolves in the front row jumped into the air from afar, jumping towards Xiao Fan.

  A wolf in the air, its bloody big mouth had already opened, a drop of stinky saliva dripping down, looking at Xiao Fan, as if it had already seen a sumptuous dinner.

  "Come on..."

  Xiao Fan let out a cold laugh, his eyes condensed, and a killing aura flashed. When the first wolf rushed over, the long sword in his hand quickly swept across, a dazzling sword light suddenly appeared like lightning in the dark night, instantly sweeping across the neck of a wild wolf.

  "Hmm..."

  Suddenly, a wolf fell to the ground with a howl, blood spraying wildly.

  A sword was handed over, and Xiao Fan already knew the result. He didn't have time to look at the fallen wild wolves, his long sword danced quickly, with a series of cold sword lights flashing in the dark night, one by one, the wild wolves fell to the ground.

  "Ahh..."

  "Kill, kill, kill..."

  The loud howls of the wolf pack and Xiao Fan's cold voice intersected continuously, as Xiao Fan's long sword transformed into a series of sword lights, beheading one wild wolf after another.

  But in an instant, Xiao Fan's surroundings were piled up with countless corpses of wild wolves. However, the number of dead wolves was only a small part of the entire wolf pack, and more wolves continued to rush forward.

  "The wolf's speed is fast, I will be even faster." Xiao Fang's long sword swung with increasing speed, at first still able to see the sword light, later only able to see dense and numerous sword shadows.

  As Xiao Fan killed more and more wild wolves, the number of wild wolves surrounding him also increased, as if they could never be killed off.

  Xiao Fan looked puzzled: "I've killed so many wild wolves, yet the number doesn't seem to have decreased by a single bit. Could it be that this wolf pack is really that massive, numbering in the thousands?"

  For a period of time, Xiao Fan had already killed at least over a hundred wild wolves, however, looking around, there were still dense and numerous emerald green eyes. If the number of this pack of wolves really reached several thousand wild wolves, then it was truly too frightening.

  "No way, if there really are that many wolves, even if I'm not killed by the pack, I'll be exhausted to death." Xiao Fan's face showed a look of horror, his eyes scanning around, wanting to find a safe place to hide, but sadly discovered that he was already surrounded by a dense circle of wolves, with no way to escape.

  Fortunately, the weather was not bad. The good weather was the only thing that made Xiao Fan feel lucky. If it had rained heavily, the waterfall would have surged and the mountain flood would have rushed down, and they would have been done for.

  Rumble...

  However, what Xiao Fan did not expect was that as soon as he finished muttering to himself, a loud rumbling sound started up, and then pitter-patter rain came pouring down.

  "This weather is really weird, it's raining all of a sudden, I'm really jinxed..."

  Xiao Fan was so angry that he wanted to slap himself twice. What was supposed to be auspicious didn't work, but what was inauspicious took effect immediately, it's really strange and bizarre.

  "It won't work, we can only get rid of these wolves as soon as possible and run into the cave, otherwise even if we don't get exhausted to death, we will be washed away by the mountain flood."

  Facing the danger of wolf packs and torrential floods, Xiao Fan had to speed up his sword drawing, one sword faster than the other, each sword taking away a wild wolf's life.

  "Faster, faster, even faster..."

  Xiao Fan's heart was extremely anxious, the long sword in his hand transformed into a series of sword shadows, and whenever he saw him sweep his sword horizontally, several wild wolves had already died.

  Rumble...

  The rain was getting bigger and bigger, with pea-sized raindrops pounding on Xiao Fan's body. Xiao Fan felt as if he had been pounded by the water of a waterfall in the depths of the day, just like being hit by the waterfall.

  Rumble...

  "Waaaah..."

  "Kill..."

  The rumbling thunder, the howling of wolves, and Xiao Fan's shouting intertwined with each other. From time to time, a flash of lightning cut across the sky, illuminating the entire valley for an instant. Blood, rainwater, and Xiao Fan's sweat were all mixed together, forming a red torrent that surged forward.

  Xiao Fan's feet had already piled up a layer of wolf corpses as high as a person, at this moment, Xiao Fan was standing in the center of the wolf corpses, like standing on a small hill, around him, wolves were pouncing from all directions.

  Xiao Fan's sword speed had already reached an extreme, making it hard for the naked eye to discern.

  In the blink of an eye, the past five or six hours have passed, and the torrential rain is still continuing. The pack of wolves has not diminished, but the small hill composed of the corpses of wild wolves under Xiao Fan's feet has already reached a height of tens of meters.

  Blood flows like rivers, and even endless torrential rains cannot wash away the bloodstains.

  Xiao Fan's eyes were bloodshot, his forehead was tense with blue veins, and the hand holding the sword was already numb and aching. During this time, Xiao Fan constantly changed hands to hold the sword, his whole body felt weak and soft, and his hands had an unparalleled aching feeling.

  "Kill..."

  The torrential rain continued, the slaughter was still ongoing, Xiao Fang's consciousness had gradually become blurred, his whole body was weak and powerless, the speed of drawing his sword also slowed down, relying solely on his strong spiritual power and willpower to persist.

  "I can't stop, once I stop, I will be torn apart by the wolf pack."

  "I don't want to become food for the wolf pack."

  "I've just arrived in this world and I haven't become a true strongman yet, I won't die!"

  Xiao Fan's mind was constantly encouraging himself.

  "Kill..."

  After persisting for another two hours, Xiao Fan's hands had lost all feeling, mechanically dancing as if they were not his own.

  Fortunately, the mountain flood that Xiao Fan imagined did not occur.

  "Whoa..." A wild wolf broke through Xiao Fan's defense, its paw grasping at Xiao Fan's chest, and in an instant, a streak of fresh blood spurted out.

  Injured by the wolf, the pain spread to his consciousness, Xiao Fan's whole body shook, and he suddenly became much more spirited.

  "Heh heh..."

  His already exhausted body, coupled with the loss of fresh blood, caused Xiao Fang's condition to plummet even further. However, in an instant, two more wild wolves broke through his sword aura and left two gashes on his body.

  "Ah..."

  Xiao Fan let out a furious roar, feeling extremely stifled, and never thought that he would be in danger of losing his life as soon as he arrived at this mountain valley to cultivate.

  "No way, I won't give up, I'll keep going, as long as it's dawn, I'm not afraid."

  Wild wolves only appear at night, and if it's daylight, they should retreat. Xiao Fan was waiting for dawn.

  "I must break through the limits..."

  At this thought, a gleam of insight seemed to flash through Xiao Fan's mind. "Right, isn't the purpose of cultivation to break through one's limits? Isn't my imitation of the waterfall sword practice also for breaking through my own limits? Now is an excellent opportunity."

  "'Mind Sword Body'... At this moment, only 'Mind Sword Body' can help me..."

  Xiao Fan barely managed to muster a thread of spiritual energy, activating the "Mind Sword Body" technique's method for refining his sword body. Instantly, countless heavenly and earthly energies slowly gathered towards Xiao Fan, continuously merging into his body.

  "This is... too good..."

  After the essence of heaven and earth merged into Xiao Fan's body, Xiao Fan only felt his fatigue gradually dissipating, and a new vitality was rapidly growing.

  "Haha, heaven won't abandon me, heaven won't abandon me..."

  Half an hour later, Xiao Fan burst out laughing. Although he was bitten by the wolf twice during this process, it didn't matter much. On the contrary, after half an hour of cultivation, Xiao Fan's fatigue disappeared and his energy fully recovered.

  "Kill..."

  A loud shout, like a thunderclap, rang out as Xiao Fang struck out with his sword. Instantly, countless raindrops formed a sword aura that swept across the area, killing over a dozen wild wolves in an instant.

  "Hahaha..."

  Xiao Fan's long sword danced in his hand, one sword cut out, the power that was fast to the extreme could actually cut out the rainwater with it, transforming into a sword energy to kill the wild wolf.

  While he was killing the wolf pack, he did not stop operating the 'Intentional Sword Body', and countless heavenly spiritual energies continued to enter his body to refine his physical body.

  At this moment, the wolf pack no longer poses a threat to Xiao Fang.

  Before long, the sky gradually brightened, and Xiao Fan's face showed a joyful expression.

  "Ding ding ding..."

  However, at this moment, a pleasant sound of the guqin entered Xiao Fan's ears. At first, Xiao Fan only felt that the sound was very moving and good to listen to. However, immediately afterwards his face changed greatly, he became dizzy, lost consciousness, and fell softly to the ground.