CHAPTER 504: CHAPTER 391: THE PATH AHEAD AND INSPECTION_2

He slowly walked up to Xia Yuying, gazed into her eyes, and said, "Consider this short sword a gift from me."

He placed the short sword in front of the girl and continued, "Of course, I don’t want to force your will, so the choice of what to do with the sword is entirely up to you."

"But if you change your mind, you can find me tomorrow at 3:15 PM in the fifth row and fourteenth column of the eastern section of the graveyard."

The girl was slightly startled; she remembered that this was where they had met earlier that day.

Lin Xing then said, "I will wait there for you for 15 minutes."

The girl was about to refuse again when she realized that the man who had just been standing in front of her had disappeared without a trace.

Only the blood-red, crystal-like short sword quietly lay on the ground, confirming that what had just happened was not Xia Yuying’s illusion.

Xia Yuying certainly didn’t plan to meet someone in the graveyard; she picked up the blood-colored short sword, considering whether or not to call the police.

"Could this be some new kind of scam?"

Suddenly, as she examined the surface of the blood-colored short sword, she noticed shadows moving within it.

"This is..."

In the next moment, an endless flood of memories surged from the short sword into her mind.

Xia Yuying cried out, then felt her entire body’s flesh slightly swell.

A sharp pain erupted throughout her body.

Before she could react, she completely fainted.

During the process of her fainting, her body burst out with a series of explosive sounds, as if her flesh and bones were rapidly growing.

And a formidable presence also unfolded from her.

At first, this presence was merely at the extent of a Second-level Taoist, but it quickly grew to the peak of that level, then directly broke through to the Second-level Taoist state and continued to rapidly grow stronger.

...

After what seemed like forever, Xia Yuying slowly woke up, her head feeling heavy as if it had been struck by something.

She tried to get up, but as soon as she thought about it, she found herself floating mid-air.

A surging spiritual power, acting like an extension of her own limbs, held her aloft.

Feeling the immense spiritual power she now possessed, she was completely shocked.

"Is my spiritual power this strong?"

But the next moment, seeing her hands and feet, noticing her muscular body had grown larger, she became even more bewildered.

"Is this my body?"

While she was continuously shocked in her mind, she was already sensing her current state through her own understanding.

Strength: 4.2

Agility: 4.3

Endurance: 4.5

Spiritual Power: 6.1

"This... have my abilities increased several folds? How could I have become this much stronger all at once?"

As Xia Yuying felt bewildered, she discovered that her mind seemed to possess many more memories than before.

Divination, talisman, Array... She didn’t remember ever practicing these skills before, but now they continuously surged forth, and she easily mastered them.

Looking at the flames blazing at her fingertips, Xia Yuying felt the Taoist power contained within them was as familiar as if she had cultivated it thousands of times.

She murmured, "Second-level Taoist... I actually broke through to a Second-level Taoist?"

A real, undulating power flowed back and forth inside her, but Xia Yuying still felt a sense of unreality.

Suddenly, she remembered what had happened before she woke up.

"That short sword, I fainted after touching it, then when I woke up..."

Xia Yuying quickly lowered her head to search, the room, less than five square meters, was clear at a glance, but the sword shadow was nowhere to be found.

At that moment, her mind flashed like a lightning bolt, and the memory of the mysterious man emerged again.

"If you change your mind, tomorrow at 3:15 PM, you can find me in the fifth row and fourteenth column of the eastern section of the graveyard, and I will wait there for you for 15 minutes."

Xia Yuying thought to herself, "Was it that man? Did he really... really enable me to break through to the Second-level all at once? It’s incredible, a miracle!"

In that moment, Xia Yuying’s heart seemed to clear the gloom, and the path of a strong warrior, which had been abandoned and even desperate, opened up to her again.

Unable to contain her excitement and surprise, she instinctively felt her life was about to undergo earth-shattering changes.

And she immediately made up her mind, she had to find that man again to understand what exactly had happened.

She grabbed her phone to check the time and found it was already 2:50 PM the next day; she had slept straight through to the next day.

"Oh no! It’s going to be too late... it would take over an hour to get to the graveyard even if I take a taxi..."

But Xia Yuying quickly realized that she now possessed enough power, enough to be faster than a car.

With a flicker, she dashed out of the building.

Her entire figure faintly brought up a trail of flames, and with both her physical body and spiritual power bursting forth simultaneously, she shot towards the graveyard.

"Quicker!" Feeling the minutes and seconds slipping away, Xia Yuying anxiously thought, "I need to be quicker... please don’t leave."