chapter 2 Sword Child canonization ceremony

"Alright!" Ethan mustered his courage and agreed.
With that, both of them lunged towards Noah at the same time.
"It's easy to deal with you two." Noah sneered.
He stepped forward, his left and right hands instantly forming into claws, grabbing the throats of William and Ethan at the same time.
"As disciples of the Sword God Sect, yet willingly becoming the lackeys of James, you're not worth pitying!" With a cold voice, Noah exerted force with his hands.
With a crisp sound, he easily snapped the throats of the two.
At the beginning of martial arts, one must sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refine the skin, bones, and marrow, collectively known as the Body Refining Realm.
To reach the Spirit Moving Realm, one must absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, nurturing the meridians, forging the dantian, and transforming the spiritual energy into spiritual power.
When spiritual power gathered and formed a wheel, it was the Spirit Wheel Realm.
Above that, there were the Spirit Sea Realm, True Essence Realm, Heaveny Human Realm,
From that sequence, there were even more powerful realms like Dao Realm and Saint Realm.
Despite having his dantian shattered and unable to mobilize spiritual power, Noah still had the strength of the ninth stage of the Body Refining Realm.
William and Ethan, both at the first stage of the Spirit Moving Realm, were no match for Noah in terms of combat power.
When Noah released his grip on the two, they immediately slumped to the ground.
Dang!
At this moment, the distant sound of a bell rang out.
Noah's sharp gaze turned towards the direction of the bell sound.
There, the Sword God Sect's Holy Bell Square was located.
Liam's ceremony for being designated as a Sword Son was about to begin.
Without time to change into clean clothes, Noah's feet trembled as he hurried towards the Holy Bell Square.
At this moment, the area around the Sword God Sect's Holy Bell Square was filled with crowd.
On the high platform ahead, the Sect Master of the Sword God Sect and a group of elders sat upright.
Their gazes were focused on the center of the square, where a young man stood proudly next to the ancient bell.
There was no doubt that the young man was the protagonist of today's ceremony, Liam, hailed as the number one genius of the Sword God Sect.
As for the ancient bell, it was the sect's sacred artifact, the Chaos Bell.
Dang!
Another bell rang out!
"The eighth toll! I didn't expect that after so many years, our Sword God Sect would produce another peerless genius capable of ringing the Chaos Bell eight times!"
"If I'm not mistaken, the last time the Chaos Bell rang eight times was over seventy years ago, right?"
"Liam has rung the Chaos Bell eight times and is worthy of being named the Sword Child of our Sword God Sect!"
The elders on the high platform couldn't stop praising Liam.
James, sitting among the elders, wore a proud expression on his face.
Beside the Chaos Bell at the centre of the square, his son, the glorious young man was his pride and joy.
To secure the position of Sword Child for his son, he had spent two years preparing.
He used a great deal of resources.
He even transplanted the sword bone from Noah's body into his son's body three days ago.
Which now successfully made his son ringing the Chaos Bell eight times.
"Master, I think it's time."
After Liam withdrew his hand from lightly touching the Chaos Bell, James smiled and looked at Benjamin, the Sword God Sect's Sect Master, who was sitting beside him.
"Alright." Benjamin nodded slightly and stood up slowly.
The crowd around the Holy Bell Square suddenly quieted down.
All the disciples of the Sword God Sect looked towards the high platform in the square, their faces filled with respect.
"Liam, with his outstanding talent, has rung the Chaos Bell eight times. With the ancestors looking down upon us, we now appoint Liam as the 52nd generation Sword Child of our Sword God Sect, and grant him the Sword God Token!" Benjamin's voice was loud and clear, echoing throughout the square.
The disciples of the Sword God Sect were excited to witness the birth of the new Sword Child of the Sword God Sect.
Liam stood tall and proud.
He was enjoying the wonderful feeling of being showered with so much glory.
"Wait!"
Benjamin had just taken out the Sword God Token when a voice suddenly sounded in the quiet Holy Bell Square.
"Hmm?"
He furrowed his brows slightly and looked in the direction of the voice.
"Who dares to cause trouble at the Sword Child Enfeoffment Ceremony?" James's face filled with anger as he coldly rebuked.
This moment was undoubtedly the most important moment in his son's life.
He would not allow any accidents to happen!
Everyone in the Holy Bell Square turned their heads to look.
They saw a figure covered in blood slowly pushing through the crowd and appearing in front of everyone's eyes.
"Isn't that person Noah?"
"I heard that a few days ago he was practicing and accidentally went into a demonic state, his dantian shattered, and he was almost dead. How come he looks fine now?"
"No, I can't sense any spiritual power fluctuations from him. It seems like his dantian is really shattered."
"How dare he cause trouble at the Sword Child Enfeoffment Ceremony with his shattered dantian?"
Recognizing the figure covered in blood, the entire Holy Bell Square immediately stirred, with discussions rising and falling.
In the Outer Sect of the Sword God Sect, Noah's reputation was no weaker than Liam's.
In fact, it was even greater than Liam's.
Noah joined the Sword God Sect at the age of sixteen, stepped into the Spirit Moving Realm at seventeen, and had reached the ninth level of the Spirit Moving Realm at eighteen.
In terms of cultivation speed, no one in the entire Sword God Sect could match him.
He was originally the strongest competitor for the Sword Child position!
However, three days ago, bad thing happened.
His cultivation went into a demonic state, and his dantian shattered.
Naturally, he was removed from the list of Sword Child candidates.
"What's wrong with William and Ethan? How can they not even deal with a waste whose dantian is shattered?"
Seeing that it was Noah, Liam's face darkened.
However, Benjamin and the other elders of the Sword God Sect showed curiosity.
Although Noah was in the Outer Sect, his reputation was loud.
Even though they were in high positions, they had heard a little about him.
So they were very curious.
Why did Noah come here today?
Could it be that he was not convinced?
What was there to be unconvinced about for someone with a shattered dantian?
At this moment, under everyone's gaze, Noah had already arrived in front of Liam.
After casting a cold glance at Liam, his gaze turned to Benjamin and the other elders on the high platform ahead.
"According to the ancestral teachings of the Sword God Sect, only those who can ring the Chaos Bell nine times are qualified to become the Sword Child of the Sword God Sect!"
"Liam, you've only rung the Chaos Bell eight times, and yet you think you deserve to be the Sword Child of the Sword God Sect?"
Noah's voice was strong and powerful, but the elders secretly shook their heads upon hearing it.
Indeed, the Sword God Sect had a ancestral teaching that to become the Sword Child, one must ring the Chaos Bell nine times!
However, in nearly three hundred years, the Sword God Sect had not produced anyone who could ring the Chaos Bell nine times.
Therefore, this condition had been relaxed accordingly.
Ringing the Chaos Bell had gradually become a formality in the ceremony for appointing the Sword Child.
"Noah, the appointment of the Sword Child is clear in the hearts of the Sect Master and the elders. It's not your turn, a useless person, to meddle in!" Seeing Noah causing trouble, Liam immediately rebuked him.
"A useless person? If it weren't for you digging out my sword bone and integrating it into your own body, how could I have become useless?"
Noah looked at Liam, his eyes full of coldness.
"No, you're mistaken."
Upon hearing Noah's words, Liam suddenly smiled with interest. "The sword bone was originally mine, possession. It's just that my father and I kept it in your body before, and now that the time is right, I've retrieved it. Otherwise, why do you think my father would spend so many resources to cultivate you?"