It wasn't accurate to say that it fell on his body, as the whetstone was only slightly tilted, allowing its head to touch Lu Yin's arm.
Lu Yin looked at the whetstone and felt an indescribable feeling.
It was like a child who had been away from home for a long time, seeking comfort.
It had found its parent.
"The Divine Swordmaster often brushed off the dust for you back then," Lu Yin said as he thought of something.
Just whetting the stone with a sword wasn't enough to create a charm. The charm came from the sword's will and the emotions of the sword user.
If not for the Divine Swordmaster's affection for the whetstone, the stone wouldn't have developed such a sense of dependence. After the Divine Swordmaster disappeared, it still sharpened its own sword and turned itself into the Divine Swordmaster to protect humans.
It didn't know if the humans it was protecting were traitors.
It only knew that it should protect.
Protect a being like the Divine Swordmaster.
Lu Yin didn't expect to feel dependence from a stone.
How long had it waited?
Even if it didn't have a concept of time, it had been a very long time.
To a stone that had been a whetstone for so long, it might really be a child.
To a child, the most important thing was companionship.
The stone recognized Lu Yin and was no longer as cold as before. It protected him like a machine, and the way it sharpened its sword had also changed.
Lu Yin had seen it sharpen its sword before, and it had used a single point to form a sword. That sword had once beaten up Ol 'Six, but although it was powerful, it was easy to dodge. Its only specialty was its power.
Now, it had created a second sword technique, one that it had used in its battle with the toad. It could be called Sword Observation.
Sword Observation was a technique that used the Way of the Sword to form an invisible world that sealed off an area.
A range.
It used the Way of the Sword to sharpen its body within that range, and more importantly, it had enveloped Lu Yin, forcing him to resist the sword.
Fortunately, his white bone clone had been sharpened by the Myriad Metal Qi, and its defense was extremely strong. Even the Butterfly Ancestor couldn't break it that easily. Although the stone was powerful, its greatest strength was its defense. It could resist the sharpening of the Divine Swordmaster, but its Way of the Sword wasn't strong enough to break through Lu Yin's defense.
It had become active.
Lu Yin could clearly feel it becoming active.
It seemed to have been asleep before.
The excessive activity had allowed Lu Yin to see a third sword technique. He had accidentally touched one of the sword marks on the stone, and the stone had shrouded him with Sword Observation, allowing him to feel the sword technique.
That sword mark was definitely not made by the Sword Testing Stone. It must have come from the Divine Swordmaster.
At the moment of contact, Lu Yin felt as if he had seen a sword intent descend from the sky. In that moment, he had become the Divine Swordmaster's test.
Unable to dodge, he could not move even if he wanted to. He could only watch as the sword flashed past and left a sword mark on his body.
He loosened his grip and looked deeply at the mark on the stone. He had not been able to dodge that attack, and it was no wonder he was called a Divine Swordmaster.
The Ninth Base had a War God and a Divine Swordmaster.
His Sword Dao was unparalleled.
He had also trained in the Sword Sect's Thirteen Swords, obtained Wu Tian's Way of the Weapons inheritance, the Three Firmament Sword Intent, and even the unknown Sword Nurturing, Sword Planting, and so on. His accomplishments in the Way of the Sword were quite high, even if they were somewhat mixed.
On the other hand, the Divine Swordsman's sword gave him a feeling of purity. A sword was just a sword. There was nothing else, including the power of cultivation, the control of time and space. There was nothing else. It was as if that sword only represented that sword.
But it was that sword.
Because he couldn't avoid it.
Lu Yin could not understand that sword, so he raised his hand again and touched the mark.
The Sword Observation Stone once again enveloped the area. The Sword Testing Stone had experienced the sword moves of the Divine Swordmaster too many times. Only by using the Sword Observation Stone could it recreate that sword.
Otherwise, it would be useless even if he touched the mark.
Lu Yin tried to feel that sword again and again, trying to see it clearly.
But it was just a mark, and he could not see it clearly.
That sword had a feeling of returning to its original state, stripped of all fanciness. This was what Lu Yin wanted.
Thus, decades passed, and he continued to feel that sword. The stone did not become impatient and continued to observe it to help him.
Until one day, Lu Yin suddenly leaned to the side and avoided the sword.
He looked at the mark on the stone and avoided it, but not with his own strength. It was instinctive.
That's right, he had relied on instinct to avoid that sword.
It was an instinct that had been left behind after years of observing that sword.
Without those decades of observation, it would have been impossible to avoid it.
Everywhere he looked, there was sword intent. This was that sword.
Heaven and earth could become a sword.
How did the Divine Swordmaster do it?
It was just that his sword intent had been forcefully cultivated into an invisible world that had nothing to do with laws. What he saw was that this sword would definitely descend, and it would be difficult to avoid it.
This was a sword that was purely for killing.
There were no legends of the Divine Swordmaster in the universe, and he knew too little about them.
He had experienced the Merciless Path, witnessed the wonders of the Celestial Eye, experienced powerful mental techniques, and confirmed the Invincible Starry Fist.
The Divine Swordmaster gave him a feeling that was not inferior to any of these.
Even his original body would find it difficult to avoid this sword. Of course, what would the result be?
He would only know when he faced it, but Lu Yin predicted that even if he avoided it, it would only be a casual attack from the Divine Swordmaster.
The difference was still too great.
"I really want to see that Divine Swordmaster's style. If he appears, how powerful will that sword be?" Lu Yin muttered to himself as he looked at the mark on the stone.
The stone suddenly turned around and stared at Lu Yin. It raised its stone arm and slashed down.
As the arm was raised, the Ocean of Death was cut open, and when the arm fell, the entire world seemed to split apart.
Lu Yin was shocked. Not good, the stone had taken it seriously. Where did it get such a powerful sword from?
"Don't."
The sword slashed down.
Lu Yin only saw a flash of light before his body disappeared. The world was silent at that moment.
There was nothing in his eyes except for that sword and that cold light. It seemed to have come from the distant past, and it clashed with him through time and space.
He stood there in a daze, suffocating. There was only a feeling of suffocation.
Even the Ocean of Death had not given him such a feeling of suffocation.
Heaven and earth ceased to exist, and only that sword remained eternal.
The entire Abyss of the Ocean of Death had been cut open. Lu Yin slowly turned around and looked out of the abyss. It was his first time seeing the stars here.
Countless abyssal skeletons were terrified and hid.
Beneath the Ocean of Death, the dead creatures of the universe were silent.
That sword seemed to have descended from the heavens.
Lu Yin retracted his gaze and looked at the stone. How could it have unleashed such a terrifying sword?
It was definitely a sword that only a Divine Swordmaster could unleash, but why did it come from the stone?
Also, how would he explain the Ocean of Death's pressure when it returned?
Complicated thoughts flashed through his mind, but Lu Yin did not have time to think too much about it. His body had changed in that instant.
The pressure from that sword had caused his godly power and deathly still power to intertwine. Even though it was only for a moment, Lu Yin saw the possibility of these two powers fusing together.
He had never known how to fuse these two powers, not even the Thousand Trickeries.
But in that instant, the Divine Swordmaster's sword seemed to have torn open some kind of gap. Even though it had not attacked him, his life's desire to live had caused a breakthrough in the power within his body.
This was not something he could do; it was a miracle of life itself.
When death descended, the desire to live could cause a living being to do unimaginable things.
Lu Yin was like that at this moment.
Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for such a change to occur. The terror of that sword had caused his own life to react.
The stone stood there quietly and did not move, just watching Lu Yin.
Days passed by.
Lu Yin kept trying to fuse his godly power and deathly still power. As long as the Dead Sea's pressure did not return, it would be fine. Other than the Dead Sea's pressure, no one else could see him clearly.
After a while, Lu Yin opened his eyes and looked at the stone. He smiled bitterly. "Next time, take it easy. I almost died in your hands."
The stone did not move, as if it did not understand.
"Speaking of which, how did you manage to unleash such a terrifying sword?"
Lu Yin was curious. That was not something the stone could have done. It could be said that it had given Lu Yin a sense of terror. Even Soft Devouring Xue Xun and Life and Death Calamity, who were at the pinnacle of two universal laws, could not do it.
That was an extremely powerful sword.
Seeing that the stone did not move, Lu Yin smiled. "Don't worry, I'm fine."
He looked at his body. His godly power and deathly still could not fuse, but he found the feeling he had just now. It was not a fusion, but a binding.
It was as if his life was facing a desperate situation, and these two powers had temporarily cooperated and entangled together, instinctively feeling that this could save him.
Lu Yin found that feeling and could try to use it to bind the two powers together.
He did not know how strong this binding would be, but since it was an instinctive reaction, it should not be bad.
The only problem was that the binding time was too short. It was only for a moment, and it would be troublesome for him to use it against the enemy.
It was only for a moment.
The most suitable was an archery skill.
Thinking back, he was most proficient in the sword. Although he had dabbled in other weapons, he was not proficient in them.
The knowledge of weapons that Wu Tian had given him was too far behind at the Eternal Realm. He needed an archery skill that could unleash destructive power beyond the limit before fusing his godly power and deathly still power.
He stayed in the Ocean of Death for more than ten years until Stygian Immortal Prison Bone arrived. Lu Yin knew that it was time for him to leave.
Stygian Immortal Prison Bone grabbed Lu Yin without any hesitation. Just like when he brought him to the Ocean of Death, he was instantly sent to the abyss of a thousand trickery.
Then, he threw Lu Yin down.
Lu Yin spun around and easily landed on the ground.
Stygian Immortal Prison Bone did not say a word and disappeared.
Lu Yin saw Play of Thousand Trickery.
"Senior."
"You cannot move in this battle."
"Junior understands. Senior has already said so."
Play of Thousand Trickery looked deeply at Lu Yin. "I hope you really do not move. There are some things that you should understand. The less you interfere, the better it is for you."
Lu Yin bowed deeply and then entered the abyss.
Play of Thousand Trickery watched Lu Yin disappear and did not do anything to seal him. It seemed that he trusted Lu Yin.
Lu Yin stayed in the abyss and looked up. It was as if he was separated by a thousand trickery.
Play of Thousand Trickery looked at each other.