"Cloud-Casting Iron Sword?" Gu Han remembered, Song Hamma's ancient sword-level sword maiden in the game was indeed that somewhat rugged sword maiden, Cloud-Casting Iron Sword.
"So, your first target is the sword maiden Cloud-Casting Iron in the game, right?" Gu Han thought for a moment and, from the standpoint of a close friend, advised, "Have you really thought it through? Although you have successfully synchronized in the game, in reality, your chances of success are only three times higher than those of other natural sword maidens. Are you really sure you want to choose a sword maiden with a failure rate of over 90%? This is your third chance; you know the consequences if you fail again."
"There's no other way!" Song Hamma looked like he was being forced by reality, but his expression was unusually determined. "I have already promised Cloud-Casting Iron in the game. In reality, I must save her from her endless slumber."
"I understand!" Gu Han smiled. "Since you've made the promise, please continue. I won't try the Cloud-Casting Iron; you go ahead."
"Hehe, to be honest, Cloud-Casting Iron is strong and domineering, and I really don't want to be with her in reality!" After saying this, Song Hamma stepped up to Cloud-Casting Iron, placed his hand above her, and was about to bring it down.
"Lord Song Hamma, please wait!" At this moment, the guide responsible for Song Hamma spoke up. "I need to confirm one last time: Have you decided to synchronize with the natural sword maiden, Cloud-Casting Iron? Even knowing that the success rate is no more than 10%, will you not regret or complain?"
"Ah! Actually, I do have some regrets! But now that you ask me this, how can I back out? You should have reminded me earlier!" Song Hamma shook his head.
"Frog, do you have an overwhelming desire to obtain her right now?" Gu Han decided to give one last piece of advice. "If you don't have that feeling, it's best to give up."
"Ha! Sour popsicle, you're talking about the sword affinity, right!" Song Hamma nodded, touched his chest, and said in a deep voice, "From the first time I met her, I was already overwhelmed."
"Sorry, I was wrong!" Gu Han's apology was sincere. Song Hamma had a true bond with the sword maiden. But what about himself? Whether it was the Qingping Sword or the King Goujian's Sword, he probably approached them with the intention of using them.
"Then, Cloud-Casting Iron, here comes this stinky frog!" Song Hamma shouted, gathering his courage, and finally, without hesitation, he brought his hand down and firmly grasped the hilt of Cloud-Casting Iron!
Instantly, a brilliant light shone!
Radiant light burst forth from the blade of Cloud-Casting Iron, like the flying celestial maidens of Dunhuang, swirling around Song Hamma. When these maidens gathered in sufficient numbers and density, they seemed to receive an order and simultaneously flew into the ten orifices of Song Hamma's body.
(PS: The ten orifices include the seven orifices of the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, plus three others... apparently, girls should have eleven, but don't worry about these details.)
"Oh! What a coincidence, to see someone who just succeeded in synchronization!" Lin Lin, who had entered the sword pavilion earlier, walked up to the motionless Song Hamma. It seemed she had not yet decided which sword maiden to synchronize with.
"Hey, isn't this Brother Gu Han?" Lin Lin seemed to have just noticed that the person standing there was Gu Han, with whom she had cheated happily.
"It seems this lucky friend came with Brother Gu Han." Lin Lin moved closer to Song Hamma, touched his iron-hard skin, and looked at the empty box and the sword maiden's label beside it.
"Tsk tsk! I didn't expect it to be a natural sword maiden. Brother, your friend's luck is really good!" Lin Lin said with a smile.
"You'd better not touch him!" Gu Han said coldly. "Didn't your teacher tell you that synchronized sword wielders should not be touched? What if it affects him?"
"That's just an old man's worry!" Lin Lin seemed indifferent. "I just touched him; he won't lose any flesh."
"On the contrary, you, after receiving such a precious gift, still speak to Lin Lin in such a harsh tone. Can you really live with yourself?" Lin Lin said, feigning sorrow.
"..." Gu Han decided not to waste his time talking to this woman.
However, Gu Han's decision not to talk to Lin Lin did not mean that Lin Lin did not want to talk to Gu Han.
"Hey, have you decided which sword to synchronize with?"
"Do you know which sword Lin Lin wants to synchronize with?"
"What level have you reached in the game?"
"Do you know which level Lin Lin has reached in the game?"
"Do you want to go out for a meal later? Lin Lin really likes men like you!"
"Do you want to go out for a room later? Lin Lin also wants to contribute to the survival and development of humanity."
"Do you want to go into the game and clear a dungeon together tomorrow? Lin Lin knows a super strategy for an SS-level dungeon!"
"..." Lin Lin, like a chatterbox that can't be shut, kept asking questions, almost making Gu Han lose his temper and punch her in the head.
Fortunately, when Gu Han had this impulse, Song Hamma's synchronization was almost over.
At this moment, just like what happened in the game dungeon, Song Hamma's belly had swollen to a size much larger than a full-term pregnancy, about as big as a water vat. From the front, his protruding belly completely obscured his upper body, leaving only half of his head visible.
"Can it get this big!" Seeing Song Hamma's water-vat-like belly, Lin Lin was speechless.
"Probably because of Cloud-Casting Iron!" Gu Han, uncertain, touched his nose. "I heard that unsharpened heavy swords like Cloud-Casting Iron require a particularly large purple mansion space! The second-best legendary sword, the Black Iron Heavy Sword, can expand the belly to twice the size of the body!"
Lin Lin had no words. Thinking of a belly twice the size of a person, she felt a chill.
"Alright, it's coming out!" When Song Hamma's belly reached its maximum size, a strong light burst forth from within, and a baby, pushed by the light, slowly floated out of Song Hamma's belly.
"Is this the true yuan infant?" Gu Han had seen a yuan infant once in a dungeon and once in his purple mansion, but this was the first time he saw a sword maiden's yuan infant in reality.
"So beautiful! No matter how many times I see it, it's always so beautiful!" Lin Lin also looked entranced. Indeed, at the moment of the sword maiden's birth, everything was so beautiful.
From the moment of birth, Cloud-Casting Iron's yuan infant began to grow and change, a process known in biology as metamorphosis.
In less than thirty seconds, the originally radiant yuan infant had completed its metamorphosis, becoming a beautiful young woman, no, a muscular, over 2 meters tall, strong enough to crush a bull, beautiful young woman.
"Comrade! Cloud-Casting Iron has finally waited for you!" The newly transformed Cloud-Casting Iron, standing on the ground, immediately hugged the still soft Song Hamma with great excitement and enthusiasm, and directly called him "comrade," skipping the initial stage of addressing each other by name. It was unclear what story had transpired between Song Hamma and Cloud-Casting Iron.
"Cloud-Casting Iron! Although I'm happy to be... hugged... by you, can you... please... put me down... first..." Song Hamma's expression was terrifying, his eyes rolling back. "I'm about to... suffocate... to death."
Cloud-Casting Iron's embrace of Song Hamma looked like a cat lover hugging their master, rubbing their face against it... At 1.6 meters tall, Song Hamma in the hands of the 2.1-meter-tall, muscular Cloud-Casting Iron was like a cat lover hugging a cat.
"Ah! Sorry, comrade, Cloud-Casting Iron was too excited!" Cloud-Casting Iron quickly put Song Hamma down and looked at his messy hair with a shy gaze. "Comrade, if you can call Cloud-Casting Iron 'Little Yun,' that would be great!"
"Ugh..."
"Ugh..."
Gu Han and Lin Lin, for once, acted in unison.
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"Brother Gu Han, do you know which ancient sword is ranked first in the 'Ancient Sword Record'?" Lin Lin, walking with Gu Han again, suddenly asked.
"It's the Yixian Sword!" Gu Han instinctively answered, then thought of something. "Could it be that the Yixian Sword is in the sword pavilion in Yuzhang City?"
"That's right, that's why I traveled all the way from Yanjing City!"