Chapter 130: 105. Try Again Tomorrow (4.3K Words - Subscription Requested)
The Library Pavilion on Copper Sparrow Island is clean and bright, though usually bustling with people, it’s quite empty at the moment.
The inheritance of the Southern Wu Sword Sect is much like the disposition of its disciples, open for the most part, except for some special secret techniques, personal inheritances, and supreme ultimate techniques. Other spells can be found here.
However, no matter what spell you need, you must comply with the regulations and register it with the Tower Guard before you can delve into reading it.
This is the iron rule of the Library Pavilion.
Those who violate this rule are considered to have "taken without asking", subject to penalties and investigation at best, and expulsion from the Sword Sect for heavy offenses.
After Meng Po left, naturally, a new Tower Guard arrived.
This Tower Guard is dressed in a brocade robe and jade belt, kindly-faced and smiling, surprisingly an old acquaintance of Song Yan.
This was the Elder Sun—Sun Haofeng, who once showed a merchant-like face trying to "morally blackmail" him to get the Divine Face Hundred Defenses from him for nothing in the Cold Pool Valley.
It was this person who single-handedly changed Song Yan’s perception of the Southern Wu Sword Sect back then.
However, it later turned out that this person was indeed an outlier in the Southern Wu Sword Sect.
Song Yan thought silently: This is typically seeking benevolence and obtaining benevolence, those afraid of death need not die...
The Southern Wu Sword Sect’s bravest and most spirited went to the front lines, while hypocrites like Elder Sun, who talk of righteousness yet are the most cowardly, managed to stay behind.
The Grand Elder was skilled at employing people.
Knowing that if they perish in battle, the Sun Family needs groveling to increase the chances of survival, then relying on hypocrites like Elder Sun to kneel would be necessary.
But this... obviously didn’t serve him well.
He didn’t need a Southern Wu Sword Sect that kneeled to the Puppet Sect or the Mountain and Sea Demon Country, as this would completely eliminate the buffer between him and the enemies.
Song Yan’s thoughts flashed quickly, he raised the Passage Order casually and swiftly stepped into the building, started examining various spells.
After inspecting all day, he found that the Library Pavilion’s most precious item was indeed the Profound Sword Scripture.
Beyond some supreme ultimate secret techniques that he was still unaware of in the Southern Wu Sword Sect, the strongest were indeed the "Transforming Profound Qi into Sword Qi" described in the Profound Sword Scripture and the "Special Sword Qi nurtured by the blood of the Crimson Palace."
He already possessed these.
However, the "Special Sword Qi" was merely a one-time use, requiring continuous nurturing afterwards.
In real magical battles, sword system spells were still necessary.
As for Song Yan’s currently strongest sword system spell, it was the Black and White Double Evil, which underwent two perfect mutations, deduced from the White Snake Sword Technique.
The cultivation threshold for the White Snake Sword Technique is Refining Profound Fifth Layer.
’What’s the highest threshold then?’
Song Yan searched swiftly.
At the Crimson Palace Level, he found only one sword system spell in the Library Pavilion on the fifth floor, a spell with an entry-level threshold at the Crimson Palace Level—Sleeve Universe.
This spell also has a prerequisite condition for cultivation, requiring at least twenty percent of the total Profound Qi around to be transformed into Sword Qi via the Profound Sword Scripture because it is purely a spell for controlling sword qi.
The cultivation of the Profound Sword Scripture, on the other hand, requires understanding the "My Sword" from the Profound Transformation Sword Manual and unraveling the secret of Human Sword Unity as a premise.
It is a series of interconnected inheritances.
Song Yan decisively grabbed this handwritten booklet and quickly flipped through it.
A cursory glance showed it was indeed profound, but the gist was: Use the closed nature of two sleeves to accumulate sword qi, let the sword qi circulate continuously until the sleeves are full, and at that point, when a sleeve is flicked, the concealed nature and power surpass even a flying sword.
Song Yan immediately understood: charging, laser.
As for why it’s not a Jade Scroll, he didn’t know, nor did he care for the time being.
...
With the Sleeve Universe in hand, a Crimson Palace Manual, he glanced at other sword system spells and found they were not much different from the White Snake Sword Technique, similar in principle. Even if he cultivated them, they wouldn’t be particularly special, much like completing the Simulation One Test Paper and then going on to do the Simulation Second Set of Papers.
Song Yan pondered slightly.
Sword technique, sword system spells, he already possessed them.
But his spell system actually had a considerable flaw, which was—escape technique.
Sword control is fast, but that’s only in the eyes of ordinary cultivators.
In battles with those of the same level, escape techniques become very important.
Whether it’s entering, fleeing, or fighting while fleeing, escape techniques are indispensable.
But escape techniques are extraordinarily rare.
One could understand if Song Yan didn’t obtain any from the Puppet Sect, but even later at the Cold Pond City, nothing was found, indicating the rarity of escape techniques.
Song Yan searched back and forth, and again found a corner of the fifth floor where a Secret Box labeled Kan Water Escape was located, but the box was locked and required the Tower Guard’s assistance for unlocking.
...
Song Yan brought Sleeve Universe and Kan Water Escape to Elder Sun’s place and presented his token.
Elder Sun looked at him in amazement and said, "These are meant for the Crimson Palace Realm cultivation, especially Sleeve Universe. Will it be of any use to you? And Kan Water Escape, this escape technique is indeed precious."
Song Yan displayed the token again, asking, "Can I see them then?"
Elder Sun glanced at the token, hesitatingly saying, "It’s possible..."
Song Yan said, "Then may I trouble you to register them?"
Elder Sun replied, "I... I can’t decide on the matter, perhaps wait until the Grand Elders return to discuss further."
Song Yan asked curiously, "Is this token useless?"
Elder Sun replied, "It’s useful."
Song Yan asked, "Then can they be borrowed?"
Elder Sun said, "It’s possible, but you... you’re only at Refining Profound Sixth Layer, why do you need them?"