A Man Like None Other

Chapter 5242

He was also skilled with the sword, and the Dragon Slaying Sword was a divine weapon. Naturally, he was curious about a city dedicated to sword cultivation.

“Let’s go in and take a look,” David suggested.

Nan Batian gazed at the towering walls of Sword Saint City, his brows furrowed slightly, and he shook his head. “I won’t go in. I’ll wait for you outside.”

“Hmm?” David paused and turned to look at him. “Why? Is there something wrong with Sword Saint City?”

Nan Batian’s eyes flickered, avoiding David’s gaze. He said vaguely, “Nothing, just… I’m not used to the city’s rules. You can go in and gather information. I’ll meet you outside, it’s safer.”

His aura seemed tense, clearly more than just a matter of unfamiliarity with the rules.noveldrama

Seeing he was reluctant to discuss further, David didn’t press his questions.

After spending so much time together, he knew that Nan Batian, despite his rough exterior, was actually a meticulous thinker. If he’d chosen to remain outside the city, he must have had his reasons.

Perhaps it was some past conflict in Sword Saint City, or perhaps there was someone in the city he didn’t want to see.

“Alright,”

David nodded. “We’ll get out as soon as possible. Be careful outside the city.”

“Don’t worry,”

Nan Batian grinned, revealing his snow-white teeth. “Even if an eighth-grade Earthly Immortal comes and I can’t defeat him, won’t I just run?”

David said nothing more and led Hu Mazi towards the city gate.

As soon as they reached the gate, Hu Mazi was captivated by the scene atop the towers.

Standing on either side of the gate were two figures.

On the left was a swordsman in green, his face stern and expressionless, a longsword slung over his back, his eyes slightly closed, as if in a trance.

On the right was a woman in white, slender in figure, her sword pointed diagonally at the ground, her eyes ethereal, like an ethereal being, untouched by the mundane world.

The two stood facing each other, motionless, like two statues.

“What are these two people doing? Standing here as punishment?”

and muttered quietly, “The posture is quite standard, but you’re just so motionless. Isn’t it tiring?”

David narrowed his eyes, his gaze moving between the two.

He could sense an invisible sharpness interweaving and colliding between them.

The blue-robed swordsman was surrounded by a domineering and sharp sword intent, like a sword unsheathed, ready to sever everything in the world;

the white-robed woman’s sword intent was as gentle as water, yet extremely flexible. It seemed gentle, but it could dissolve any attack.

“They are sword fighting,” David said slowly.

“A sword duel?” Hu Mazi was even more confused. “I didn’t see them fighting?”

“This is a competition of sword intent,”

David explained. “It’s a test of understanding the way of the sword, the control of power. It’s more dangerous than a real fight.

If one side’s sword intent is broken, at best their Dao heart will be damaged, at worst their cultivation will be completely destroyed.”

Hu Mazi suddenly realized and exclaimed in amazement, “Wow, they can fight without fighting? The people of Sword Saint City are really different.”

David stopped paying attention to the two and was about to lead Hu Mazi into the city when a piercing animal roar suddenly rang out.

“Get out of the way! Get out of the way!”

A young man in brocade clothes, riding a beast resembling a lion with three eyes, rushed towards the city gate.

The beast was enormous, and its hooves stomped the ground, kicking up clouds of dust. It moved at an extremely fast speed. Pedestrians on the road screamed and dodged, fearing they would be hit.

Seeing the beast about to charge at David, Hu Mazi subconsciously tried to pull David away, but David held his hand.

David stood still, his face calm, neither dodging nor retreating, just quietly watching the beast and the man in brocade clothes rushing towards him.

“Looking for death!”

Seeing David dared to block his way, the man in brocade clothes had a flash of anger in his eyes. Instead of slowing down, he patted the beast’s head and said, “Hit him!”

The beast seemed to understand the command, opened its bloody mouth, revealing sharp fangs, and rushed towards David.