"Master, that move was amazing. Teach me, quick, teach me."
Yu Ke Wei pulled herself out of the ground and, ignoring her injuries, flew back to Yang Hong, pleading urgently.
"That is Sword Intent. It cannot be taught; you need to cultivate sword techniques extensively and then comprehend the artistic conception within them.
Everyone's artistic conception is different, and it cannot be taught."
"Is that so? What a pity."
Yu Ke Wei looked regretful, but she didn't give up immediately. She continued,
"Master, teach me all your sword techniques. I want to comprehend Sword Intent.
This Sword Intent is truly too powerful. *Pfft*~"
Before she finished speaking, Yu Ke Wei spat out a mouthful of blood.
She was already quite injured.
"Alright, I will teach you all my sword techniques, but you must recover from your injuries first.
Your current condition is not suitable for learning sword techniques."
Yang Hong was very satisfied with this strike.
Using half of his true essence, the Clear Wind Sword Intent directly heavily injured Yu Ke Wei, who was at the mid-stage of the sixth rank.
She fought across two major realms.
Although he couldn't use it continuously now, once his cultivation improved, continuous use would be normal.
After all, Yang Hong was only at the Golden Core realm with ten thousand years of cultivation, and there was still great room for improvement.
"Then it's settled. I'll go and recuperate now."
"Go ahead."
Yu Ke Wei's injuries exceeded the expectations of both Yang Hong and herself.
It took her two full months to recover completely.
This was because the sword qi, amplified by Sword Intent, had been lingering within her body.
In the end, it was only with Yang Hong's direct infusion that she recovered so quickly; otherwise, it might have taken another two to three months.
"Master, teach me sword techniques quickly."
As soon as her injuries healed, Yu Ke Wei placed Yang Hong's hand on her chest and began to act spoiled.
She had personally experienced the power and difficulty of Sword Intent and now wholeheartedly wanted to learn sword techniques and comprehend Sword Intent.
"You, be more steady. Otherwise, comprehending Sword Intent will be very slow and very difficult."
"Mhm, mhm~ I will be steady."
Yu Ke Wei nodded her head incessantly, promising profusely.
As for what 'steady' meant?
She didn't care at all.
Yang Hong shook his head and wasted no words, directly using over a dozen [Spiritual Light Impartation] techniques to transmit his more than 2,000 sword techniques to Yu Ke Wei.
He did not transmit the cultivation sword techniques.
One must walk step by step, and eat one bite at a time.
"Ke Wei, all sword techniques have been passed on to you. When you have mastered and become proficient in all of them, you should be able to comprehend Sword Intent.
If, at that time, you still cannot comprehend Sword Intent, I will then teach you the cultivation sword techniques."
"Master, teach me the sword techniques too."
Hearing that Yang Hong still had some trump cards up his sleeve, Yu Ke Wei began to act spoiled again.
"Learning the cultivation sword techniques before fully understanding and mastering the sword techniques will only hinder your comprehension of Sword Intent.
Sword techniques are the most basic and practical key."
"Alright~"
No matter how Yu Ke Wei acted spoiled, Yang Hong remained firm. She could only obediently stop.
The next day, she left Jade Stream Island by controlling water.
Meanwhile, Yang Hong focused on cultivating fifth-grade spiritual plants while studying and deducing formations.
He first began by studying concealment formations, hiding Jade Stream Island.
...
As time passed, in less than a year, Yang Hong's cultivation reached its limit again.
[Yang Hong: Sixth Prince of the Great Sui Dynasty.
Daily Infusion Count: 10/10
Lifespan: 34/800
Cultivation: Ten Million Years of True Essence (Golden Core Realm): Strength 9.99 Million Jin, Divine Sense 2999 Li]
Cultivation Method: Top-tier Breathing Technique 280 layers, Advanced Body Tempering Technique 263 layers
Martial Skills: Casual Punch, Casual Saber, Casual Sword
Magic: Minor Rain Dispelling, Salvation Demon Sound (Mastered) ...
Artistic Conception: Fist Intent: Fearless and Brave (98%)
Sword Intent: Clear Wind
Special Abilities: Eidetic Memory, Farming Mastery.
Ten million years seemed to be a limit. Yang Hong's Golden Core realm could only cultivate up to ten million years.
However, his strength had increased greatly. His physical strength of 9.99 million jin was the upper limit of a martial cultivator at the Nascent Soul realm; his divine sense of 2999 li was the Nascent Soul realm limit for spirit cultivators.
This meant that Yang Hong, at the Golden Core realm, already possessed the strength of an ordinary Nascent Soul realm cultivator at their limit.
And he was only 34 years old!
Even in the Central Divine Continent, cultivators who reached the Nascent Soul realm before the age of one hundred were rare prodigies seen once in ten thousand years.
If those great immortal sects knew of Yang Hong's cultivation speed, they would break their so-called agreements and rush to take Yang Hong as a disciple.
As for the seal of the Five Regions?
They could simply use more heavenly treasures to reinforce the seal.
Unfortunately, Yang Hong was now far from the Taiyuan Continent, and the war between good and evil on the Taiyuan Continent was raging.
Besides cultivation, Yang Hong focused all his energy on learning formations.
"Now that my cultivation has reached its limit, I can begin the renovation of Jade Stream Island."
His divine sense spread out, and he looked at the over a thousand fifth-grade spiritual plants on Jade Stream Island, then calculated the formations in his mind.
"The 'Idiotic System' is truly not good. Formations, alchemy, artifact refining, and other hundred arts of cultivation cannot be returned and cultivated through the system.
Bad review!"
As he was calculating, Yang Hong suddenly complained.
"If it weren't for my Eidetic Memory special ability, I'm afraid learning these skills would be even more difficult."
In over a year, Yang Hong had studied all the formation jade slips and had initially comprehended the protective formation of Jade Stream City. He had only barely reached the rank of a third-grade formation master.
Compared to his cultivation, this progress was too slow.
"Sigh, it's barely enough. Let's get to work!"
Giving himself a grand send-off, Yang Hong stood up.
"Thousand Miles~ Wood Escape."
A flash of green light, and Yang Hong disappeared from his spot. When he reappeared, he was already at the beach on the south shore of Jade Stream Island.
Looking at the coast with ordinary coconut trees, he began to form hand seals, and his true essence surged.
An earthy yellow light gradually enveloped Yang Hong.
"Fifth-Grade Secret Art - Mountain Moving!"
With a shout from Yang Hong, he pressed his hands onto the ground in front of him.
The land within a radius of 200 li slowly rose, continuously elevating.
This land, with a diameter of 200 li, was raised by 2 li before separating from the foundation below.
"Go!"
Yang Hong shouted again. Under the shroud of his true essence and guided by his divine sense, this land flew into the depths of Jade Stream Island.
"Rumble~~"
Amidst the rumbling, dust filled the air, like the end of the world.
"Holy cow! Just lifting 200 li of land consumed all my true essence.
The Mountain Moving Art is truly a super mana-consuming skill."
Yang Hong, who had just completed his world-altering feat, muttered in dissatisfaction.
If other cultivators knew this, they would probably beat him to death.
To move a mountain of 200 li would require at least the late stage of the sixth rank, the Soul Separation realm, and it would have to be a cultivator with an earth spiritual root who had mastered earth-elemental magic.
He, at the Golden Core realm, was unreasonably powerful.
After moving a mountain, Yang Hong only needed to find a fifth-grade spiritual plant for infusion to essentially restore all the consumed true qi.
In just 10 days, Yang Hong transformed Jade Stream Island into a nearly circular island with a diameter of only 1700 li.
Then, he began using fourth and fifth-grade spiritual plants to set up formations.
[Water-Wood Concealment and Trace Hiding Formation], a third-grade low-grade concealment formation.
It absorbed water and wood spiritual energy to hide everything within the formation.
The insanely ambitious Yang Hong used fifth-grade spiritual plants as the formation cores and fourth-grade spiritual plants as the formation bases, setting up 810 small formations.
These 810 small formations, with the consumption of a significant amount of his true essence, combined through the techniques of moving mountains and overturning seas to form a grand formation.
The moment the grand formation was formed, Jade Stream Island directly vanished before his eyes.
If it weren't for Yang Hong's true essence aura within the formation, his powerful divine sense would have simply overlooked it.
"Perfect! Now, let's see who can find Jade Stream Island."