"Che, to actually be scared unconscious!" It was clear that Rin's sword skills were also very advanced. The moment she noticed Gu Han had fainted, she effortlessly retracted her sword, not touching Gu Han's body at all.
"It seems Rin's sword skills have become even more refined. A mere sword movement was enough to scare this guy, who isn't weak, into fainting! Uncle Gai Nie actually said that Rin's sword skills haven't even reached the level of mastery, which is really too much!" Rin said with a smug look. "But, where did this guy come from, to actually be able to exchange a few moves with me! Forget it, no matter. From now on, this guy will be my follower. I'll also have four swordsmen followers like my ancestors, to make Uncle Gai Nie furious!"
Rin pouted and said angrily, "Right, I've seen on TV that you must confirm if the enemy is faking their death; too many big villains have been tricked this way!"
Thinking this, Rin kicked Gu Han a few times, felt his pulse, and checked his pupils. Only after confirming that Gu Han was truly unconscious did she feel at ease enough to throw away the broken sword in her hand.
"Wait, why do I feel like I'm the villain?" Rin shook her head, discarding this strange question, and walked back to the Yixian Sword. She wiped away all the floating sand covering the sword, revealing the four small Chinese characters "For the Public Good" clearly etched on the blade. Yes, this was the ancient Yixian Sword, the first and foremost!
"Yixian Sword, Yixian Sword! After three hundred years, you have finally returned to the hands of the Liunian family!" From Rin's mouth, a shocking fact was revealed: this Rin was actually the descendant of the world-renowned first family, the Liunian family!
It was no wonder that the staff treated Rin with such flattery, and that Liu Lei, the master of the Sword Pavilion and a Xianjian-level swordsman, allowed Rin to act recklessly and even brought her to the Sword Pavilion's forbidden ground, the Sword Burial Ground, to take away the Yixian Sword, which the Sword Committee had explicitly sealed and forbidden from ever being released again.
It turned out she was a descendant of the Liunian family. With the prestigious name of the Liunian family, it was likely that, except for the powerful Xianjian-level swordsmen, everyone else would have to give way to Liunian Rin.
Liunian Rin was Rin's full name. Her ancestor, Liunian Li, was the one who was gutted and killed by Gu Han in the game. In real history, Liunian Li's strength soared, becoming the first savior of humanity and the first Imperial-level swordsman, the revered leader of all swordsmen, leading humanity through one crisis after another.
Among the eight super base cities, three were created by Liunian Li, an unparalleled record. The other five cities were created by the other five Imperial-level swordsmen, and no other swordsman had ever created a second base city, let alone a third.
After Liunian Li's death, his son also became an Imperial-level swordsman. The glory of two generations of Imperial-level swordsmen established the Liunian family as the world's first Imperial family. To this day, the Liunian family has reached its 28th generation, with a total of six Imperial-level swordsmen and 58 Xianjian-level swordsmen, and countless others below the Lingjian level.
Liunian Rin was the 29th generation descendant of the Liunian family and the only direct descendant, the pre-determined future head of the Liunian family. Her high status and the heavy expectations placed on her by the family were evident.
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Liunian Rin closed her eyes, her hand reaching into the sand pit, slowly gripping the hilt of the Yixian Sword. In Liunian Rin's mind, successfully synchronizing with the Yixian Sword should be a sure thing, a matter of certainty.
For ordinary people, the probability of successfully synchronizing with a natural sword maiden was only a few percent. But as a direct descendant of the Liunian family, the success rate was 100%. For 28 generations, there had never been a failure, and the worst they had ever been was Lingjian-level swordsmen. With such a bloodline, failure was simply impossible for Liunian Rin.
Moreover, for a certain period, the Yixian Sword was almost the exclusive domain of the Liunian family. From the second generation head to the 20th generation head, their ancient sword maidens were all the Yixian Sword. The successful bloodline of generations added to Liunian Rin, making her never doubt that she would fail.
However, Liunian Rin inexplicably failed.
She held the Yixian Sword in her hand for a full ten minutes, but this ancient sword maiden, which had been with their family for 19 generations, showed no reaction, like a piece of scrap metal, remaining completely unresponsive in her hand.
Liunian Rin began to panic. She couldn't understand why something her ancestors could do, she couldn't. This was a sword that 19 generations of ancestors had successfully synchronized with, and it was only because it had broken into two pieces that it was no longer owned by the Liunian family, and had been placed in the Sword Burial Ground to recover its strength and prepare for revival.
Actually, Liunian Rin didn't place too much importance on the Yixian Sword's power. After all, it was just an ancient sword. How could it be stronger than a treasure sword, a famous sword, or a Lingjian?
The key was the family legacy behind the Yixian Sword! If the sword that generations of the family had successfully synchronized with failed in her hands, it would mean that her bloodline was no longer pure, and she was not worthy of being a direct descendant of the Liunian family! Over a thousand years, countless branches of the family had been eyeing the position of head of the Liunian family. If this news got out, while she might not lose her position as the heir, her prestige would definitely be severely damaged, leading to a series of negative consequences.
Therefore, when Liunian Rin realized she couldn't synchronize with the Yixian Sword, she was almost in a state of collapse.
On the other side, Gu Han, who had fainted, had slowly regained consciousness. Perhaps because he had already experienced an explosion, the agitation in his heart was much lighter than before he fainted. After regaining some focus, he noticed Liunian Rin holding the Yixian Sword, standing there in a daze, silent and with a strange expression, as if she were in a daze.
"Luckily, it seems this girl didn't succeed!" Gu Han smiled bitterly. If he had known that Rin would fail to synchronize, he wouldn't have fought with her. Given her extraordinary status, if she held a grudge and found an opportunity to harm him, he would be in deep trouble. Gu Han had no idea that Rin was a descendant of the Liunian family; otherwise, he wouldn't have thought he had a chance to cry.
"Hey! Wake up! Wake up!" Gu Han held his chest, walked to Rin's side, and waved his hand in front of her eyes. "Miss Rin, since you failed, can you let me try the Yixian Sword?"
Gu Han noticed that Rin had no reaction to him, so he decided to take the sword from her hand himself.
"What are you doing?" Rin reacted quickly, slapping Gu Han before his hand could touch the Yixian Sword.
"Miss Rin, I just want to try it myself. You've already failed!" Gu Han explained again.
"Bad guy! You want to bully Rin, don't you?" For some reason, tears started streaming down Rin's face. "Bad guy, Rin is crying, Rin is actually crying. Rin has never cried in her life, even her tears are bullying her. Rin doesn't want to live anymore..." Rin said a string of strange, illogical words, and her tears flowed uncontrollably, like the Niagara Falls!
"You... I... You..." Gu Han didn't know what to do. Although he could forcibly take the Yixian Sword from Rin, he was a kind and righteous protagonist and couldn't bring himself to do it to a girl who was crying so much.
Forget it, let her cry. Since she couldn't synchronize successfully, she would eventually have to let go of the Yixian Sword. He would take it then.
Thinking this, Gu Han gave up on the idea of immediately taking the Yixian Sword from Rin and started observing the broken swords around him, passing the time while waiting for Rin to finish crying.
However, as he looked around, Gu Han noticed something unusual.
At the bottom of the sand pit they had dug, there was a faint glimmer, as if something was reflecting the light from the fluorescent lamp!
Could there be another sword buried under the Yixian Sword?
Gu Han's curiosity was immediately piqued. He squatted down, ready to dig further, when the agitation in his heart, which had calmed down, suddenly intensified, even more strongly than before the explosion!
Could it be that the Yixian Sword was calling to him, telling him not to dawdle and to quickly free it from this woman's hands?
Gu Han speculated, but at the moment, Liunian Rin showed no signs of stopping her crying. After some thought, Gu Han decided to dig out the sword in the sand pit first.
Unlike the Yixian Sword, which was lying flat in the sand pit, this sword was standing upright, buried in the sand, with only the tip exposed. The hilt was at least 70-80 centimeters deep, making it a difficult task to dig it out.
As the hole deepened, the agitation in Gu Han's heart grew stronger and more unbearable!
Suddenly, Gu Han had a new idea!
Could it be that the true cause of his sword affinity was not the Yixian Sword, but this deeper buried sword!
With this idea, Gu Han became even more determined to dig out the mysterious sword. He dug for ten minutes, creating a hole 80 centimeters deep, and his palms were completely raw and bloody from the sand.
When he saw the back half of the sword, Gu Han had a vague idea. When the entire hilt was exposed, he knew exactly what he had dug up.