"Hey, close your third eye, it's not fair otherwise," Qin Yan walked towards the ape-like Zhenjun with his black sword. He knew that Zhenjun's third eye could predict his movements in advance. Since he wasn't proficient with the heavy sword and knew it wouldn't be a match for Zhenjun, he said so.

"Alright!" Zhenjun immediately closed his third eye.

"Okay, here I come." Qin Yan controlled the gravity direction of the sword, combined with the force of his arm, to swing the sword towards Zhenjun, aiming for his chest. Zhenjun effortlessly sidestepped the strike.

"Although this sword can be controlled by gravity, it's still too heavy. It's not as agile and quick to use as lighter weapons..." Qin Yan thought as he tightly gripped the sword handle and continued to swing the sword towards Zhenjun.

However, the sword was too heavy, making the swings less fluid and with longer intervals between attacks compared to lighter weapons. Zhenjun's movements were extremely agile, easily evading all of Qin Yan's attacks while occasionally striking him with the trident spear, leaving cuts on his body.

"I can't go on like this, just taking hits. I need to come up with a plan." Unable to touch Zhenjun and getting wounded by him, Qin Yan pondered a strategy. He thought that since the sword was known as the Emperor's Sword, a rare treasure, it should have some special abilities. If he could learn to utilize these abilities, he might have a chance to defeat Zhenjun. With this in mind, he said to Zhenjun, "Wait, let's pause for a moment."

"What are you planning?" Zhenjun cooperatively stepped back upon hearing Qin Yan's words, sheathing the trident spear and standing still, ceasing his attacks.

Qin Yan gripped the sword handle with both hands, focused his mind, and attempted to use his anomaly to activate the special abilities of the black sword.

Suddenly, a dark black light emanated from the sword's blade, enveloping the entire sword body except for the handle and guard, appearing eerie.

"What is this black light? Could it be the special ability of this sword? Alright, let me try..." Qin Yan thought as he walked to a nearby large tree, wielding the sword with the black light and struck at the tree trunk. The sword blade hit the tree trunk, stopped abruptly without making a sound, and didn't even scratch the tree's bark.

"What's going on? Why did the sword stop when it hit the tree trunk, and why is the tree undamaged?" Qin Yan was puzzled. Normally, such a heavy sword striking a tree should at least create a deep cut, but now the sword couldn't even pierce the bark, which was indeed strange.

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"Let me try again..." Qin Yan continued to swing the sword with full force at the tree trunk, but no matter how hard he swung, the result was the same. The sword would stop upon contact with the tree trunk, making no sound, and the tree's bark remained intact.

"It's really strange, as if something is absorbing the impact force between the sword and the tree trunk." Qin Yan thought to himself, feeling the temperature around him dropping, with icy cold winds blowing towards him.

"Shiqi, are you using magic to lower the temperature around me?" Qin Yan asked Lin Shiqi nearby.

"No, I haven't done anything," Lin Shiqi replied, surprised.

"It's strange, could it be because of the power of this sword that the temperature around me is dropping?" Qin Yan pondered carefully, lost in thought for a while. Seeing Qin Yan standing still in contemplation, Zhenjun grew impatient, "Alright, stop dawdling, let's continue our fight."

"Just wait a moment," Qin Yan was still trying to figure out the special abilities of the sword.

"Wait for what?" Zhenjun charged towards Qin Yan, swinging the trident spear and releasing a blade of Qi towards Qin Yan.

Startled, Qin Yan quickly raised the black sword to block. The silver Qi blade struck the black sword blade, silently disappearing without a sound.

"Could this sword have the power to neutralize anomalies? But wait, if it nullifies anomalies, it wouldn't lower the surrounding temperature or fail to cut a tree, right?" Qin Yan continued to ponder.

Zhenjun rapidly closed in on Qin Yan, relentlessly striking with the trident spear. Qin Yan hurriedly used the black sword, emitting a dark aura, to block the attacks.

The trident spear repeatedly struck the black sword, with each strike causing the spear to stop automatically upon contact with the sword, making no sound. Qin Yan felt no impact from the spear, as if it hadn't even touched the sword.

"It seems like the sword is absorbing the impact force. Could its special ability be energy absorption?" After some hard thinking, Qin Yan began to piece things together.

Suddenly, Zhenjun opened the third eye on his forehead. A dazzling golden-red beam shot out, hitting Qin Yan's left shoulder. The area hit by the beam instantly emitted black smoke and visibly melted at a rapid pace.

"Ouch, that hurts..." Qin Yan felt the intense pain in his left shoulder and quickly raised the black sword to block.

The golden-red light hit the black aura-covered sword, disappearing instantly. The sword remained unchanged, not heating up. Simultaneously, Qin Yan felt something strange growing within the sword, as if the energy from the golden-red beam had entered the sword and been stored.

"I understand now. This sword can absorb the energy of any substance it comes into contact with and store it within itself!" Suddenly, Qin Yan had a realization. His mind raced as he understood that the reason the sword couldn't cut the tree trunk was because it absorbed the energy generated upon impact. The drop in temperature around him was due to the sword absorbing the surrounding heat. Even the energy from the golden-red beam emitted by Zhenjun's eye had been absorbed by the sword.