10: My swordsmanship blossoms only for him.

Yun Qingci frowned slightly as she held her longsword and scanned her surroundings, but she found nothing unusual.

Just now, she had clearly felt a gaze fall upon her.

However, by the time she turned to investigate, she could no longer find the source of that gaze.

Perhaps it was just her imagination, Yun Qingci thought as she shook her head gently.

The tuft of ahoge atop her head swayed along with her movement.

After all, as the Disciple of a Sword Immortal, her appearance and background were both exceptional.

Every time she went out, she would inevitably attract all sorts of attention.

Yun Qingci had long since grown accustomed to this.

Even now, many Cultivators in the vicinity were watching her, both openly and secretly.

Yun Qingci paid them no mind; she simply pursed her lips and let out a soft sigh.

She looked toward the Immortal Burial Cave ahead, and her mind couldn't help but drift back to her Revered Master.

As the Sword Immortal of the Liyue Sword Sect, her Revered Master had always been cold and indifferent.

Furthermore, as the current Sword Immortal of the Liyue Sword Sect, her Revered Master's beauty was beyond question.

Previously, some busybodies had compiled a list of beauties in the Qihuang Continent, and her Revered Master was ranked in the top three.

However, her Revered Master was cold by nature and had always been completely uninterested in such things.

Or to put it another way, her Revered Master simply didn't care about any of it.

To her, the Sword Dao was everything.

Yun Qingci herself had always believed that her Revered Master would spend her entire life with only her sword as a companion.

After all, to her Revered Master, the sword was her world.

Until that day, Yun Qingci had always believed this to be true.

But after that day, Yun Qingci felt as though her Revered Master had become a different person.

Occasionally, she would see her Revered Master dazed, sometimes even revealing a... well, a very sweet smile.

Yun Qingci had only ever seen this kind of state in storybooks, specifically the romantic ones.

But if anyone were to say her Revered Master had fallen in love with someone, she would never believe it.

After all, for someone like her Revered Master, no man could possibly be worthy of her.

If it were only that, it might have been fine, but a while ago, when her Revered Master returned to the Liyue Sword Sect again, she seemed to have lost her soul.

Moreover... Yun Qingci bit her lip; she wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but she even felt that something had gone wrong with her Revered Master's Sword Heart.

One must know that her Revered Master possessed the purest Sword Heart the Liyue Sword Sect had seen in a thousand years.

Yet, for such a Revered Master, her Sword Heart had actually become clouded, which left Yun Qingci completely bewildered.

She had asked her Revered Master many times, but her Revered Master consistently refused to tell her anything.

After investigating through various channels, she learned that the last place her Revered Master had visited was this Immortal Burial Cave.

Therefore, Yun Qingci chose to come here; she only wanted to know exactly what had caused her Revered Master's Sword Heart to become clouded.

"Revered Master, I am about to enter the Immortal Burial Cave. I... I will definitely find the reason. I don't believe anything could make you become like this!"

Yun Qingci recalled the scene of her meeting with her Revered Master before her departure.

After she had said those words, her Revered Master gave a soft sigh.

"Qing Ci, you needn't do this. My Sword Dao has never been lost."

When her Revered Master spoke those words, her tone was very strange, and the Sword Qi surrounding her was something Yun Qingci couldn't understand at all.

Her Revered Master's Sword Heart had clearly encountered a problem, so why did she say she had never been lost... At the time, she was simply stubborn about coming to the Immortal Burial Cave to seek answers and hadn't looked deeper into it.

Her Revered Master couldn't dissuade her, so she eventually agreed.

"Fine, consider it a form of tempering. You may go."

What Yun Qingci didn't know was that after she left, the Sword Qi around this Sword Immortal of the Liyue Sword Sect surged violently.

That Sword Intent, pure to the extreme, was actually even more potent than before.

"Qing Ci, a clouded Sword Heart does not mean the Sword Dao will regress a thousand miles..."

"From now on, my Sword Heart blooms for him alone. How can any other Sword Dao in this world be purer than mine?"

The Sword Immortal murmured to herself, her beautiful eyes shimmering with a cold sense of parting.

Yun Qingci bit her lip, pushing these thoughts aside, and then resolutely stepped into the entrance of the Immortal Burial Cave... Hmm... With my current strength in the God Summoning Realm, I should first test the waters around the outer foothills of the Immortal Burial Cave... Gu Yuan made his decision in his heart after entering the cave.

The strength of the Magical Creatures in the outer foothills of the Immortal Burial Cave was roughly at the fourth or fifth rank, equivalent to the strength of Cultivators in the Purple Mansion Realm and the Spotless Realm.

For his current self, it was the perfect level for practice.

Gu Yuan looked at the vast mountain range ahead and couldn't help but reveal a smile of anticipation.

Everything ahead is my experience points!

Thinking of this, Gu Yuan no longer hesitated and charged directly toward a magical spider ahead with his sword in hand.

This Rebellious Disciple, why is he so impulsive... Dongfang Yingxue, who was hiding her presence nearby, couldn't help but purse her lips at the sight.

Although the Magical Creatures here were trivial to Gu Yuan.

When one was away from home, one had to be careful at all times no matter what.

However, after seeing Gu Yuan easily resolve that Magical Creature, Dongfang Yingxue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Well, the Rebellious Disciple's strength is still decent, and it's true that one cannot grow without combat.

Unless absolutely necessary, she would not intervene; she would see how far he could go.

Hmm...?

Dongfang Yingxue suddenly frowned.

She saw that after the Magical Creature died, a streak of white light flew out from its corpse and then merged into Gu Yuan's body.

This... could this be the ability Gu Yuan gained after his strange Physique awakened?

It was truly inconceivable, and it seemed that the white light could provide him with some sort of enhancement.

Interesting... Gu Yuan naturally didn't know that his Revered Master was watching him in secret.

He happily sensed his own condition.

As expected, after he used the Great Freedom Heaven Derivation Method to absorb the spiritual energy left behind by the death of that magical spider, his own strength indeed increased slightly.

Even though it was only a little bit, Gu Yuan was extremely excited.

One must know that the Magical Creature just now was only a third-rank creature!

And in this mountain range, the thing that was least lacking was Magical Creatures.

Gu Yuan felt as if his eyes were about to glow.

He swung the longsword in his hand and then chuckled.

My great blade—ah, no, my great sword is already thirsty!

..."Immortal Burial Cave... What is Dongfang Yingxue doing here?"

Outside the Immortal Burial Cave, Nether Moon looked at the continuous mountain range ahead, feeling somewhat puzzled.

However... Nether Moon suddenly gave a light laugh.

This is fine too. The Immortal Burial Cave... Heh, there's just the place here to implement my plan.

Regarding the Immortal Burial Cave, Nether Moon was confident that no one understood it better than she did.

After all... As if remembering something, Nether Moon let out a deep sigh.

The connection between this Immortal Burial Cave and the Boundless Demonic Domain is anything but shallow.

Nether Moon shook her head gently, no longer thinking about those ancient matters.

Then, with a flash of her body, she also entered the Immortal Burial Cave.