Chapter 33 Trouble on the Return Journey

Inside the courtyard, the disciples of the Nameless Sword School quietly waited for the enlightenment period to end.

Most of the team members participating in the competition stayed in the side hall, eating snacks and drinking beverages.

Bai He, on the other hand, watched his Eldest Brother standing alone in the courtyard, gazing up at the sky.

Huo Qingkong's aura faintly flowed and rose, as if he had undergone another significant change.

"Eldest Brother seems to have gained another insight," Bai He said, also looking up at the white clouds in the sky, completely failing to understand what was so interesting about the clouds.

He glanced back at the others. Zhao Yuan was healing her injuries, meditating with her eyes closed.

Qiu Chen was flipping through a book of unknown content, occasionally letting out cheap giggles.

Several senior brothers and sisters from the Great Group were gathered around grilling beef, the meat fat dripping down and sizzling.

"This return journey may be troublesome. Don't panic if something happens. Follow Qingkong and me in critical moments. The Great Group will follow me, and the Qingying Group will follow Qingkong. If we get separated, find your own way back to the Sword School."

Elder Yun Ling was slowly wiping a cyan longsword in her hand, her voice low and沉重.

"Yes," everyone responded quickly.

Bai He also responded, but he noticed something strange. The Great Group should be much stronger, right? Letting the Great Group follow Elder herself, while the Qingying Group, which needed so much care, followed Eldest Brother.

Did this mean that Elder Yun Ling herself didn't have confidence in herself?

Bai He frowned slightly in his heart.

This competition seemed strange, according to what the senior sister from the Great Group had said.

In previous competitions, the organizers would arrange a dedicated escort team to escort the various schools back to their residences.

But this time, the Jade Balance Sect had no arrangements or preparations whatsoever.

Watching Qiu Chen and Zhao Yuan, who were already bickering again without a care in the world, Bai He felt even more worried.

'I wonder how Bai Lu is doing?'

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Li Cheng颐 was quietly looking at the stone tablet in front of him.

Countless vortex-like mysterious patterns rapidly appeared and disappeared before him. Looking at these patterns, he seemed to understand something, yet he also seemed to understand nothing.

The information in his mind was rapidly resonating, but before the resonance could be completed, new vibrations came, disrupting the previous trend.

The powerful comprehension boost from the Snow Lotus was playing a role in strengthening his understanding.

The progress of Li Cheng颐's Nameless Sword Manual and Seven Intent Saint Spirit Art in his mind began to improve rapidly in this state.

The things contained in those countless mysterious traces could help him take the two cultivation methods a step further.

Not only that, but the Yuan Imprint of the Phoenix King's Tears, which had not yet been completely condensed, was also rapidly beginning to grow under the scouring of these primordial traces.

The Sky Leap Stele itself was also desperately burning its lifespan, releasing a white mist of unknown composition, amplifying Li Cheng颐's comprehension ability at this moment.

A quarter of an hour passed.

Two quarters of an hour passed.

Three quarters of an hour.

Li Cheng颐 suddenly opened his eyes wide, and streaks of colored light flashed rapidly in his eyes.

The massive amount of primordial traces contained countless complex and even chaotic information. This information was irregular. Much of it was the experience that the Sky Leap Stele had comprehended and collected on its own. Naturally, some of it was right and some was wrong.

But even so, this Sky Leap Stele, which had a history of at least ten thousand years, still saved him at least several years of hard work.

Moreover, most of the primordial traces were chaotic information that was of no help to the cultivation of the cultivation methods. Li Cheng颐 stored this information in his consciousness for the time being. It seemed useless for the moment, but perhaps it could provide some help at some point.

He completely categorized the large amount of chaotic information in his mind and condensed it into a special black book.

The Black Book also stuffed all of Li Cheng颐's previous messy knowledge and information into it, forming a special image that was enough to solve many phenomena and things.

At the same time.

Inside Li Cheng颐's clothes, a series of imprints emerged.

The Nameless Sword Manual first broke through to the fourth level.

An imprint that resembled a black longsword condensed and was located at the bottom of all his imprints.

A brand new imprint was successfully condensed.

Not only that.

With the substantial blessing of comprehension, the Yuan Imprint of the Phoenix King's Tears also closely followed the Black Sword Yuan Imprint, accelerating its condensation and transforming into a round, fiery imprint of a phoenix spreading its wings.

But the Sky Leap Stele's help didn't stop there. Soon, a third Yuan Imprint appeared again.

The Nameless Sword Manual directly rushed into the fifth level, condensing the second Black Sword Yuan Imprint.

Li Cheng颐's body was also undergoing a tremendous transformation at the same time.

Essentially, Yuan Imprints and Imprints were the same product, except that Yuan Imprints were gentler, more systematic, and had a lower difficulty. Imprints were more barbaric, provided greater amplification, but were more scattered.

And the biggest advantage of Yuan Imprints was that they could freely choose a direction within a certain range.

Having condensed two cultivation method Yuan Imprints in one breath, Li Cheng颐 felt warm all over, as if he were soaking in a huge hot spring.

And an inexplicable force was hovering in front of him, waiting for him to choose a direction.

He immediately understood that this was the critical moment for the Nameless Sword Manual to choose what Yuan Imprint to condense.

As the most basic foundation-building sword technique of the Sword School, the Nameless Sword Manual had a huge effect.

The Yuan Imprint it condensed could go in three directions.

First, increase the speed of the blade, making it faster to erupt, faster to fly, and faster to strike.

Second, increase the penetration sharpness of the blade after being hit. Mental strength could enhance the blade's sharpness and lethality.

Third, increase the number of swords that can be nurtured at the same time and the speed of nurturing. Mental strength was sublimated to the point where any sharp object could be nurtured, without the need for a sword-nurturing pouch. Of course, having a sword-nurturing pouch would be better and faster.

'All three directions are improvements in killing.'

Li Cheng颐 knew that this was the time to choose his future direction.

He thought about it. The opponents he would face in the future were likely to be mostly monsters with immortal bodies, so instant kills were unrealistic.

'Then... I choose the third! Better adaptability!'

He didn't need to kill the opponent quickly. What he wanted was to nurture blades with different functions, and then use them to deal with different environments and threats.

After making up his mind.

The mysterious force hovering in front of him suddenly rushed towards him like a spring breeze, pouring into his body.

Sizzle.

His body was changing, his flesh was growing and strengthening, driving his mental strength to also undergo a completely new qualitative change.

Li Cheng颐 unconsciously closed his eyes, and two black sword-shaped Yuan Imprints rapidly condensed on his chest.

Yes, he chose the third direction for both Yuan Imprints. That was, to increase the number of blades nurtured, as well as the speed of nurturing.

After the selection was completed, he clearly felt that his consciousness was rapidly expanding, growing larger, and becoming denser under the integration of that mysterious force.

At the same time, the Righteous Thought Yuanshen in the depths of his consciousness also changed with the expansion of his consciousness.

Two slender blades with silver scabbards gradually condensed behind Yuanshen, carried on its back.

It was still a vague black humanoid shape, but at this time, it was cross-legged and suspended in the depths of consciousness, faintly possessing a trace of vitality that it did not have before.

The nurturing and strengthening of the Phoenix King's Tears seemed to have given him a special change that he had never had before.

A trace of rare life.

Li Cheng颐's heart moved.

Suddenly, the perspective in front of him turned black.

He lost all sensation of the outside world. In this instant, all of his consciousness contracted and entered the Yuanshen's body deep in the consciousness space.

The body seemed to have become an outer shell, and Yuanshen was the main body.

The three separated evil thoughts, formed by three strange heads, were releasing ferocious malice towards their surroundings at any time.

And the two Yuan Imprint swords that had just been condensed provided them with amplification and weapons.

Hu.

Li Cheng颐 gently exhaled a breath.

Together with the other three heads, four mouths exhaled breath together, and the breath converged into one, tumbling and shaking in the dark space, transforming into a pure silver shining sword light.

The sword light was engraved with three Righteous Thought patterns and characters, as well as a simple pattern belonging to his White Deer本体.

Whoosh!

In an instant, this Yuanshen Qi Sword suddenly decomposed and turned into countless silver threads, flying into the surrounding dark consciousness space.

The space rapidly brightened at this moment.

Strands of silver threads began to outline traces around them.

Transforming this desolate space into another appearance.

A large number of silver traces were layered on top of each other, like paintbrushes, and soon transformed this place into a vast and empty silver hall.

'Success!! Fifth Level of the Nameless Sword Manual! Yuanshen Sword Palace completed!'

The Consciousness Sword Palace was the complete mark of the fifth level of the Nameless Sword Manual.

It was also the initial foundation for the sixth level.

Reaching this step meant that he could officially begin cultivating the sixth level.

Later on, practicing the sword would no longer require dancing around in reality, but rather sitting quietly in one's own Sword Palace to practice.

Completing this step would also increase the power of the three major killing moves of the Nameless Sword Manual exponentially with the blessing of the Sword Palace.

Usually, the Wisdom Sword was nurtured in the Sword Palace to increase its power, and it could be used instantly when needed. It was the same principle as nurturing a physical blade with a sword-nurturing pouch.

It was just that in the previous levels, the purity, strength, and even nature of mental strength were not enough to build the Yuanshen Sword Palace. Now, it was being completed step by step.

Sitting cross-legged in front of the Sky Leap Stele, Li Cheng頤 breathed a long sigh of relief, and the content of the sixth level of the Nameless Sword Manual flowed through his mind.

The sixth level was the core purpose, which was to practice the Affection Thread Sword Web. The so-called "extreme in affection, extreme in sword" was this step.

The so-called Nameless Sword Manual was to refine everything about oneself into a sword step by step.

First, purify the malicious thoughts, then build the Sword Palace, and then refine all the emotions in one's consciousness into blades as well.

Finally, the seventh level was to refine instincts into swords, in order to determine the Bright Light Sword Intent and reach the Nameless Realm.

Of course, the Nameless Sword Manual itself was only used for foundation building. Most elders and deacons had only barely completed the entry-level steps, and it was already very difficult.

If you really wanted to cultivate each level to the peak and achieve the ultimate, it was almost impossible.

Just like the Yuanshen Sword Palace at this time, this thing itself only needed to build a simple small secret room.

If you really wanted to build a miniature palace of hundreds of square meters like Li Cheng頤, it would be a fantasy for others.

Li Cheng颐 had heard that in Kui Ling's Yuanshen Sword Palace, the Yuanshen did not have four heads, because the evil thoughts were all given to the Saint Infant, so the Yuanshen naturally only had one head.

And the size of her Sword Palace was only like a small bedroom of a dozen square meters at the beginning.

Unlike him, who had an area of at least three or four hundred square meters from the beginning.

After completing the breakthrough of the Nameless Sword Manual, Li Cheng颐 was satisfied and looked at the Sky Leap Stele again.

But he found that cracks had appeared on the surface of the stone tablet.

The originally mysterious and wonderful feeling had faded a lot at this time.

Thinking that many powerful knowledge sources were unique and belonged to forbidden knowledge.

In this way, it was likely that the forbidden knowledge in the Sky Leap Stele had been transmitted to him, which caused the mysteries it contained to be greatly reduced.

'...' Li Cheng颐 was speechless.

Before he came, he had imagined how powerful the +2 Flower Language luck would be, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful!

'If I leave this dead end now and use the +2 Flower Language luck that has been stacked many times, can I completely solve the huge threat of the Death Angel King?'

Suddenly, an idea that was difficult to suppress rose in Li Cheng颐's mind.

But then, another even more terrifying thought came.

'Since the Flower Emperor's Royal City in those years had such a powerful ability to influence luck, how did they end up being completely exterminated in the end?'

Li Cheng颐's heart tightened, and he instantly thought of an answer.

The answer was actually very simple.

It was very likely that the Flower Emperor's opponent also possessed a similar ability!

In this case, how could one detect whether one was being affected by a similar ability?

Li Cheng颐 fell into deep thought.

Crack.

At this moment, just as he fell into deep thought.

The Sky Leap Stele completely revealed more cracks.

"Master... it is a pity that I could not follow you. If the Sky Leap has an afterlife, I will definitely..."

Clatter!

With a crisp sound, the entire Sky Leap Stele completely shattered into stone pieces all over the ground, without any sound.

"..." Li Cheng颐 looked at the scattered stone debris in front of him, and for a moment, he didn't know how to react.

'Will the people of the Jade Balance Sect be so ashamed that they will kill me!?'

This was the first thought that jumped into his mind.

But this thought flashed by and was covered by a more important piece of information behind it.

(End of chapter)