Chapter 505: Chapter 505, Twelfth Layer
Low Level Secrets Martial Arts, to some extent, are equivalent to Celestial Tier Martial Techniques. However, Low Level Secrets Martial Arts are created by combining a martial artist’s own secrets and martial arts, which is akin to creating their own Celestial Tier Martial Techniques.
Boom!
In the shattered space, both the blade light and the sword light extinguished simultaneously. Chu Ming’s expression remained unchanged, but the look on the face of the Dark Wind Blade Elder became slightly ashen, and his eyes showed a brief lapse.
Chu Ming had a white light plate in his Sea of Souls, so the Black Ice Wind had little effect on him. However, while defending against Chu Ming’s attack, the Dark Wind Blade Elder had to constantly guard against the Black Ice Wind as well.
At this moment, the fight with Chu Ming had consumed a great deal of his mental strength, allowing the Black Ice Wind to infiltrate his mind.
Pfft!
In the moment when the Dark Wind Blade Elder was momentarily distracted, Chu Ming moved again. With his right hand, he lightly flicked the Star Trace Sword towards the sky. His entire body quickly shot into the air, and a round slaughtering sword light filled the sky, transforming into a vast river of sword light, shooting towards the Dark Wind Blade Elder with countless palm seals.
Boom!
Boom!
In the blink of an eye, the distraction in the Dark Wind Blade Elder’s eyes vanished, replaced by a flash of horror, and a sudden urge to retreat bloomed in his heart. With his right hand, he slashed forward wildly, the fierce blade light cutting through everything in its path, bursting forth.
Pfft, pfft, pfft...
The fragments of blade light and sword light scattered, gray turbulence roiling through the air. Amid the unseen chaos, a terrifying sword light tore through the white waves, heading straight for the Dark Wind Blade Elder’s left arm.
Pfft-ch!
A streak of blood splattered through the air. The hot blood hadn’t even had a chance to spray out before it was evaporated by the searing heat of the sword light. The Dark Wind Blade Elder’s body flickered, turning into a phantom. When he reappeared, he was already a thousand meters away.
Whoosh!
The Dark Wind Blade Elder’s cloak was torn, his right hand clutching his left arm as he looked at Chu Ming in the distance, his gaze icy cold.
"You wait for me. I will not let you go."
The Dark Wind Blade Elder spat out angrily and flew away before Chu Ming could respond. Chu Ming did not stop him. Although the Dark Wind Blade Elder was injured, an emaciated camel is still larger than a horse. Chu Ming couldn’t be sure he could withstand the Dark Wind Blade Elder’s desperate counterattack.
Moreover, Chu Ming had an Enlightenment Fruit in his storage ring. If he could refine it, he could deduce the Twelfth Layer of the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique, rendering the Dark Wind Blade Elder almost no threat to him.
Whoosh!
Chu Ming didn’t return to his original cave but turned and left, looking for a new place to rest. That place was no longer safe.
Black Wind Valley returned to tranquility, but the shattered ravines on the ground bore silent testimony to the intense battle that had just taken place.
Chu Ming flew for a dozen miles. Beside a broken palace, he found a cliff and dug out a new cave to enter again.
Seizing the moment before the third Enlightenment Fruit’s effect wore out, Chu Ming began to deduce the Twelfth Layer of the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique. According to his estimate, the Twelfth Layer of the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique should fall into the category of Earth Level Top Tier Cultivation Technique.
A series of auroras flashed through Chu Ming’s mind. It felt as if he were surrounded by countless sword lights. The Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique was intricately connected to Sword Dao. In such a state, he felt as though he too had transformed into a sword light soaring through the sky.
"No, the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique is too convoluted at the beginning. It must be simplified!"
In just a moment, Chu Ming discovered the problem. Sword Dao techniques are not the better the more complex; in fact, the more complex the technique, the more it drained his mental strength, making his Sword Dao even more flawed.
For now, the first thing he had to do was to strip away the dregs of the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique, transforming it into the purest form of Sword Dao technique.
With the help of the Enlightenment Fruit, Chu Ming’s thoughts sped up dramatically. Countless electric clusters flashed through his mind. Gradually, the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique became increasingly purified, a white sword light flickering intermittently on his body.
...
Pfft!
The space flashed, and the Dark Wind Blade Elder emerged from it, staggering as he landed on the ground, his face pale and eyes full of uncertainty. A purplish hue began to spread across his lips.
"Damn it! Even if I turn into a dried corpse, I won’t let him go!!!"
The Dark Wind Blade Elder’s heart was filled with obsession. The soul will in his mind suddenly shattered, and the light in his eyes quickly extinguished. A black substance completely occupied his Sea of Souls. At this moment, his mind was filled with only one thought: Chu Ming.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Beneath the Dark Wind Blade Elder’s skin, it seemed as though countless purple worms were writhing, and a dark purple light enveloped him, emanating a sense of fierce battle intent.
...
Time for a martial artist always passes very quickly. On the second day of deducing the cultivation technique, Chu Ming swallowed the last Enlightenment Fruit. Now, he had reached a bottleneck in deducing the technique.
Within his body, a hundred and eight acupoints glowed brightly like small suns, greedily absorbing the surrounding spiritual power. Red lines connected these meridians, and faintly, they seemed to become a unified whole.
Chu Ming never expected that the deduction of the Twelfth Layer of the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique would relate to the body’s acupoints.
There are 108 acupoints in the human body, including six Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Apertures and twelve Fallen Soul Spiritual Apertures. Acupoints are easy enough to deal with, but the Heaven-Reaching and Fallen Soul Spiritual Apertures aren’t something even ordinary Life and Death Realm Kings would touch lightly.
These eighteen spiritual apertures contain immense potential for a martial artist but are also the body’s fatal acupoints.
In fact, each spiritual aperture contains vast potential for a martial artist. However, there are great differences between them. One Fallen Soul Spiritual Aperture contains three to four times the potential of an ordinary spiritual aperture, while a Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Aperture holds ten times that of an ordinary spiritual aperture.
Boom!
A terrifying red light shot from Chu Ming’s body. A diagram slowly unfolded above his head. With careful observation, one would find it to be the distribution chart of Chu Ming’s inner spiritual apertures.
Crack!
In the blazing red light, Chu Ming felt a slight pulse of the earth, loud and clear. The spiritual power in his Sea of Spiritual Power rapidly condensed.
The Twelfth Layer, boom!
A resounding roar echoed through Chu Ming’s mind as his cultivation technique rapidly broke through to the Twelfth Layer, driving his spiritual power into a frantic operation, swiftly approaching the Guiyuan Realm Fifth Layer.
Without hesitation, Chu Ming took out two Upper Grade Spirit Stones from his storage ring and began cultivating as his mind worked at high speed.
In less than half an hour, under the dual impetus of spiritual power and the Twelfth Layer of the Pure Essence Sword Qi Technique, Chu Ming felt the opportunity for a breakthrough.
Boom!
Guiyuan Realm Fifth Heaven!
The berserk spiritual power created chaotic disturbances all around, the ground shattered, and terrifying cracks spread madly from Chu Ming as the center.