Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint-Chapter 1372 - 228: Break Limit, Sword Dao Talent Enhanced! (Part 2)
His gaze then swept towards the panel.
The experience value of the Yin Yang Soft and Hard Sword had reached perfection at this moment.
And all the conditions for a breakthrough were already met.
His gaze moved down again.
[Skill]: Seven Star Demon Suppression Sword+ (Seven times limit-breaking 8000/8000) (Trait: Sword Heart Clarity (light purple) Evil Expulsion (dark green) Turning Calamities into Blessings (dark blue) Seven Star Lamp (light purple))
The Seven Star Demon Suppression Sword was the same.
"The Source Energy Points needed for the breakthroughs of both sword techniques total forty thousand."
Thoughts flashed through his mind as he glanced at the Source Energy Points section.
[Source Energy]: 178585
"With accumulation of seventeen thousand Source Energy Points, there’s no need to save them!"
"Now that I have stepped into the Second Grade Grandmaster rank, to quickly increase my combat strength, I still need to rely on the Taixu Yin Yang Sword!"
"If the breakthroughs in these two sword techniques can enhance my swordsmanship talent, it would be an unexpected delight, allowing for a rapid advancement in the Taixu Yin Yang Sword!"
"Even if they don’t enhance my swordsmanship talent, the increase in swordsmanship mastery will slightly improve the progress accumulation efficiency of the Taixu Yin Yang Sword!"
"In any case, it will be beneficial to me in some way."
Various thoughts rapidly flashed in his mind.
In just an instant, he had already made up his mind.
The next moment.
With a thought.
Source Energy Points poured down like a waterfall.
What followed was the breakthrough of the Yin Yang Soft and Hard Sword.
Air currents circled around him at the moment, the dust on the ground rose, and the Tai Chi Yin Yang Fish pattern gradually appeared in the courtyard.
Then.
Strands of air currents like countless streams gathered towards his body.
A few breaths later.
His figure was engulfed by those air currents.
The intertwined air currents transformed into a perfect circular gas surrounding him.
Around the circular gas was a blade-like sharpness, and further out was the continuously swirling Tai Chi Fish shadows.
...
After half a cup of tea.
Whoosh——
Strong winds howled.
Countless air currents scattered in all directions like headless flies.
At this moment, tables, chairs, and benches, as well as the buildings, all reflected a bright white light.
Visible array patterns appeared on the ground.
In the courtyard.
With a gentle breeze, Su Qingying, in a light blue long dress, appeared in the corner.
As the wind blew.
Her long hair scattered in chaos, dancing in the wind.
The loose long dress billowed with the wind, revealing a pair of slender and smooth legs like jade.
Su Qingying squinted her eyes slightly, looking at the man in the violent air currents.
The man’s long hair danced chaotically, eyes slightly closed, while the sword intent around him was majestic, and the energy sharp.
Just then.
The man opened his eyes, as if a sharp gleam flashed across, the void instantly trembled, and invisible ripples spread.
"Congratulations, My Lord!" Su Qingying’s clear and youthful voice rang out.
Jiang Ning revealed a slow smile at this moment.
"Didn’t damage your home, did I?"
"No!" Su Qingying shook her head, as the scattered air currents gradually calmed, her fluttering dress slowly fell back down, covering her slender legs like chopsticks, and her disordered hair naturally draped over her lower back.
Then she added, "The mansion is all reinforced with arrays, normal disturbances can’t cause any damage!"
"Then I’m relieved!" Jiang Ning laughed.
After a simple exchange, Su Qingying left again at Jiang Ning’s dismissal.
After Su Qingying left, Jiang Ning then glanced back at his panel.
[Skill]: Yin Yang Soft and Hard Sword (Eight times broken limit 67/8000) (Trait: Union of Hard and Soft (light green)...Sword Seed (deep purple↑)...)
"Is it the Sword Seed trait?"
His gaze focused slightly, landing on the deep purple Sword Seed text.
[Sword Seed (deep purple)]: Body contains a Sword Seed, of peerless talent.
"Body contains a Sword Seed, of peerless talent." Reading the description on the panel, he muttered in his heart again.
"This must have enhanced my swordsmanship talent!"
Thinking of this, he felt a sense of contentment in his heart.
The gain alone was worth the Source Energy Points he spent.
The next moment.
His heart stirred again, thinking of something, he quickly closed his eyes.
As his heart spirit sank into his body.
In an instant, in his dantian, beside the Immortal Seedling, he saw a seed that had just broken the earth.
"Is this the Sword Seed?"
Looking at the newly emerged silver-white seed, his heart suddenly moved.
At that moment.
He felt the roots of the Immortal Seedling deeply pierced into the Sword Seed.
Sensing the life activity within the Sword Seed slowly fading away.
He saw that at the tip of the Immortal Seedling, a small bud of Lu Yi was emerging.
"This is..."
He noticed the changes within, feeling a bit surprised.
In his mind, Shen Yueru’s mention of the sword seed echoed again.
According to Shen Yueru, after becoming the leader of Red Flame Cave Heaven, she was fully nurtured by it, refining a sword seed left from Ancient Times.
The sword seed took root and sprouted, and as a result, her sword Dao talent also reached a new height.
"Is there some kind of similarity between the two?"
He pondered silently in his heart.
As he contemplated, he saw the silvery-white seed losing more of its vitality, showing signs of wilting.
From the Immortal Seedling, a small, silvery leaf slowly emerged.
The leaf was covered in vein patterns, looking like tiny swords.
Seeing the changes, he continued to observe.
After thirty minutes.
The seed completely withered, while another leaf unfurled from the Immortal Seedling.
The new leaf was of a light silvery color.
The most striking feature was the stem patterns resembling tiny swords scattered across the new leaf.
He didn’t open his eyes until there were no more changes.
At this moment.
As he opened his eyes, he felt a stirring in his heart.
When he opened his palm, he was surprised to find a withered seed the size of a soybean.
Sword seed!!!
Seeing the soybean-sized seed in his hand, his pupils contracted sharply, revealing an utmost incredulous expression.
Staring intently at the withered sword seed in his hand for a long time, he looked up at the sky.
"An illusion turns into reality!"
"Is this world truly real, or is it..."
As he closed his eyes, the world plunged into darkness, as if nothing existed.
When he closed his eyes, all things in the world seemed non-existent.
Only he himself was real, solid.
Besides that, everything was illusory.
"Is it an illusory world?"
He thought to himself.
Layers of mist swirled in his heart, obscuring his path forward.
After a long while.
He sighed softly and opened his eyes.
The more he witnessed, the denser the mist in his heart became.
"These matters are not necessary to consider now; it is crucial to focus on the present!"
He steeled his resolve and, with the eruption of Demon Suppression Sword Intent, he cut off all the distracting thoughts sprouting in his mind.
His heart regained peace and emptiness, became clear and untainted.
His gaze flickered, landing on the panel.
[Source Energy]: 158585
[Skill]: Seven Star Demon Suppression Sword+ (Seven times limit-breaking 8000/8000) (traits: Sword Heart Clarity (light purple) Exorcism (dark green) Fortune Amidst Peril (dark blue) Seven Star Lamp (light purple))
"I hope I’ll have good luck this time too!"
He thought to himself.
Then, with a shifting thought.
The Source Energy Points rapidly decreased once more.
...
Observatory.
On the empty rooftop.
A figure suddenly appeared on the platform.
The person was small and stooped, slightly hunchbacked, with long gray-black hair that was dull and without luster.
"Unusual movements of the Seven Stars under the daytime sky."
The blind old man looked with pitch-black eye sockets at the azure sky.
Upon close observation, pinpoints of starlight occasionally flickered on the sky as blue as a wash.
Altogether, there were seven points of starlight.
The blind old man looked at the sky for a little while, then turned towards the direction of the National Master Mansion.
"Is it her?"
Thinking of the National Master who seemed like a young girl of sixteen, his expression grew solemn.
Although Su Qingying faced a fierce defeat against Fu Yuan Saint last time.
He knew that now Su Qingying was merely suppressing herself.
By cutting off her own divinity, the strength she could exert was less than a tenth.
If she stopped suppressing and let divinity dominate her being.
Even Fu Yuan Saint could not be her match.
Throughout the Royal Capital, those who could rival her were few and far between.
He recalled how, a few years ago, Su Qingying emerged out of nowhere to become the Great Xia State Preceptor.
The old Emperor back then showed Su Qingying immense respect.
And to this day, no one in the Royal Capital has found out where this young National Master who seemed sixteen actually came from.
Even he, too, found not the slightest clue.
As if she had sprung from a stone.
As for divining her origins with heavenly algorithms.
He had attempted it before.
But the final result remained an enshrouding mist.
Even because of forcefully trying to divine her origins, he suffered a counterstrike from the Heavenly Dao, worsening his five deficiencies and three shortcomings.
