Although Lu Ping was not a Sword Cultivator, he knew that a good sword had to be nurtured with the Origin Qi as early as possible. Only then would the quality of the sword be higher and the chances of success would be greater. Moreover, this was a Flying Sword refined from the Horn of the True Spirit.
The reason why Lu Ping had not summoned the Thunder Tribulation was because of a legend that had been passed down from ancient times.
The cultivators who had listened to Jiao Daoren's teachings had advised Jiao Daoren to not refine a good sword. This way, he would not be suppressed by Peng Daoren. The followers of Jiao Daoren had this idea. Many of them had even searched the cultivation world for all kinds of rare spiritual materials that could be used to refine a Flying Sword for Jiao Daoren.
However, Jiao Daoren had always lacked interest in refining a Flying Sword. It was not until one time when Jiao Daoren gave a lecture that Jiao Daoren helplessly explained that a Sword Cultivator needed to become one with the sword, cultivating both life and death. Jiao Daoren once had a Natal Flying Sword, but it was later destroyed because of a dangerous encounter.
With his current cultivation base, unless he could use a rare treasure that came from the same source as him, he might not be able to restore eighty to ninety percent of the power of his Natal Flying Sword. Otherwise, with his great divine power at that time, there was almost no difference between an ordinary spirit treasure and a pure Yang spirit treasure in his hands.
At that time, the cultivators and followers immediately asked when the Natal Flying Sword would be completed. The other asked about the rare Heaven and Earth Treasures of the same origin as Jiao Daoren.
Jiao Daoren's answer to the former was that he would at least need to welcome the first Thunder Tribulation and refine the Pure Yang Qi to upgrade his Natal Flying Sword to the peak of a Spirit Nurturing Treasure. This way, although it was still a little late for a real Sword Cultivator, he could make up for it through the Thunder Tribulation. The way to make up for it was to begin the Thunder Tribulation together with the Natal Flying Sword when his Dharma Power summoned the first Thunder Tribulation.
This was basically a suicidal method. Most Dharma Cultivators in the cultivation world did not die from various accidents or from the exhaustion of their lifespan, but from the Thunder Tribulation!
Every Lightning Tribulation was a test of life and death for a cultivator. Even the most talented cultivator with the greatest accumulation of knowledge would not have a 100% success rate when facing a Lightning Tribulation. Needless to say, there were other factors involved in overcoming the Lightning Tribulation.
When the Dharma Power and the treasure went through the Thunder Tribulation at the same time, the Thunder Tribulation that was summoned was not as simple as one plus one. In the past tens of thousands of years, there had been people in the cultivation world who had done this, but the conclusion was that those who had done this were people who did not want to die fast enough!
Of course, this wasn't to say that no one had ever succeeded. However, those who were able to achieve such a feat were all top-notch figures in the cultivation world. Moreover, half of these people who succeeded had to pay the price of having their origin damaged and their cultivation stagnated. As for the other half who succeeded, they would definitely become characters who could summon the wind and summon the rain in the cultivation world.
In the past two thousand years, the only person in the cultivation world who had done this was the Sky-Splitting Sword Sage, Xiao Baiyu!
His Natal Flying Sword was not damaged, but Laozu had enough luck. When he had just entered the Dharma Manifestation stage, he had found the Flying Sword that was broken and abandoned when Jiao Daoren opened up the cultivation world of the East Sea when he was exploring the ruins.
Although Jiao Daoren did not have a decent Flying Sword, and several of them were broken during the process of opening the sky, that was only in comparison to the other six Laozu's Heaven-opening Artifacts. For the cultivators or followers of Laozu, even these broken Flying Swords were comparable to top Pure Yang treasures that had gone through three Thunder Tribulations. Moreover, these Flying Swords that were used to open the sky also contained the mark of sword essence that Jiao Daoren had left behind when he used them!
This Xiao Laozu was also bold enough. After returning to Skyrend, he resolutely fused the Natal Flying Sword that he had nurtured for two to three hundred years with the broken Flying Sword and refined it again, creating a Celestial Slaying Sword.
After that, this Laozu and the Celestial Slaying Sword attracted the Thunder Tribulations at the same time. After narrowly escaping death, he took it back as his Natal Flying Sword. After that, this Laozu could not be stopped. With his mid Dharma Manifestation cultivation, he killed the great cultivator of the Kun Fish clan and forced the Kun Fish clan to retreat thousands of miles from the East Sea. This shocked the entire cultivation world. It was then that people called him the number one cultivator of the second generation.
There was no need to talk about what happened after that. Xiao Baiyu did not lose a single time when he tested the sword. After passing the second Thunder Tribulations, he killed his way to Zi Yang Palace. He challenged Zi Yang Palace's Pure Yang Sword Immortal, Lv Taiqing in a one-on-one fight and escaped unscathed. At that point, his status as the number one cultivator of the second generation was completely established. No one in the entire cultivation world, human or demon, had any objections. The Celestial Slaying Sword also became famous and became one of the top flying swords in the cultivation world!
Of course, using both the Dharma Power and the magic treasure to face the first Thunder Tribulations was only a way for a sword cultivator to remedy the situation. It did not mean that every time a cultivator passed through the Thunder Tribulations, they would have to use their Natal Flying Sword together.
Otherwise, even if Xiao Baiyu was more talented than the heavens, he would not dare to let his Dharma Power and Celestial Slaying Sword go through the second and third Thunder Tribulations at the same time. At least when Xiao Baiyu passed the third Thunder Tribulations and became a Pure Yang Sword Immortal, the Celestial Slaying Sword in his hand was still a Second Tribulation Spiritual Treasure. It had not gone through the third Thunder Tribulations yet.
Lu Ping wanted to take the risk of having the Thunder Tribulations multiply and pass the first Thunder Tribulations with the Sword of the True Spirit. First, he had to completely refine the Horn of the True Spirit into a flying sword at the peak of the Spirit Cultivation stage.
At that time, Jiao Daoren's level of cultivation was already far beyond that of a Dharma adept. Hence, this method of using both the Dharma Power and the magic treasure to face the Thunder Tribulations was not something that Jiao Daoren could use.
The only remedy he could use was the second method, which was to refine a flying sword with a rare treasure of the same origin. Naturally, there was no more suitable item of the same origin than Jiao Daoren's own Horn of the True Spirit.
Unfortunately, Jiao Daoren was not good at refining weapons, and Taoist Hu obviously had some misgivings. Hence, this method did not work in the end. Jiao Daoren had to settle for the next best thing. He tried to figure out a way to refine a flying sword by himself. Thus, he came up with the "Divine Will Carving Technique" and the Nine Treasured Prohibitions that were formed by combining formations and prohibitions with his lifelong study of formations.
At this time, the so-called Divine Will Carving Technique was more appropriate for Lu Ping to call it the "Divine Will Torturing Technique"!
If Jiao Daoren had used this Divine Will Carving Technique, he might have been able to do it with ease. But after all, Lu Ping was just a Minor Repairs in the Early-stage of the Dharma Realm. Even if his Divine Will was far superior to ordinary people, he could only be on par with a Grand Practitioner at most.
Moreover, Jiao Daoren's so-called "not good at refining weapons" was only relative to Taoist Hu. Lu Ping really knew nothing about refining weapons.
Fortunately, Jiao Daoren had left nine Treasured Prohibitions condensed by formations, and Lu Ping only needed to use the Divine Will Carving Technique to imitate them.
It took Lu Ping half a year to be able to use this secret method skillfully. But of course, he could not be mentioned in the same breath as Jiao Daoren. The prototype of the magic weapon he needed to carve was the Horn of the True Spirit, which was a treasure from Jiao Daoren's Horn of the True Spirit. Naturally, this speed could be described as terrible.
Fortunately, Lu Ping still had the Cloud Sail!
This first-calamity defensive spirit treasure not only had a miraculous effect on protecting a practitioner's Divine Will, but it also had a good effect on enhancing a practitioner's Divine Will. Thus, when Lu Ping was carving this Sword of the True Spirit, he could finally increase his speed a little.
There was a small copper furnace beside him, which was burning with the most precious Soul Incense, one of the three great incenses in the cultivation world. From time to time, Lu Ping would throw a Soul Nourishing Pill refined from the Soul-devouring Crystal of the Devil into his mouth to replenish the Divine Will that he had consumed.
This was a long and painful process. Using the Divine Will Carving Technique was not only to use the Divine Will to carve the magic weapon and imitate the Treasured Prohibitions. More importantly, during the process of using this secret method, one would have to concentrate their mind as a knife to carve. While carving the Divine Will Knife on the Horn of the True Spirit, it was also carving on the Divine Will. This pain accompanied the whole process of the Sword of the True Spirit.
Ten years to refine a flying sword!
The Soul Nourishing Pill had already been used up, and the dozens of Soul Nourishing Incense had also been used up. He had no choice but to use the Calming Incense as a replacement. As for the Calming Incense, it was practically useless to Lu Ping.
Even so, when he saw the amount of Calming Incense decreasing rapidly, Lu Ping had no choice but to summon Lu Taohua from Kongming Island. He had her return to the House of Gold to cut down a Frightening Spirit Tree and dig out its roots to make the Soul Nourishing Incense.
Perhaps it was because Lu Taohua was from the Spirit Demon Clan, but she was very good at this!
Ten years later, Lu Ping finally used his Divine Will to carve the Horn of the True Spirit into a one-meter-long flying sword. On the body of the sword, the Nine Talismans coincidentally formed a strange dragon with the body of a snake, the legs of a crocodile, the claws of an eagle, the tail of a fish, the ears of a cow, and the mane of a horse. However, the horn on its head was missing.
At this moment, the last stroke of the Nine Talismans gathered at the eyes of the strange dragon. As long as Lu Ping finished the last stroke, the Nine Talismans would instantly connect and be activated at the same time.
This was the uniqueness of the Sword of the True Spirit. Jiao Daoren's Nine Talismans were not like other magic treasures, where the Nine Talismans were stacked one by one. Instead, the Nine Talismans had to be carved at the same time and be activated at the same time. This would allow the Sword of the True Spirit to step into the realm of a Spirit Nurturing Magic Treasure.
Lu Ping took a deep breath. After ten years of perseverance and suffering, at the last moment, his Divine Will burst forth like a flood. The last stroke of the Nine Talismans was immediately completed, and the strange dragon on the body of the sword moved. The spirituality of the Spirit Nurturing Magic Treasure was activated at the same time. Although this newly formed flying sword had not been tested by the Lightning Tribulation, the spirituality of the sword was so strong that Linglong, the Cloud Sail, and the other Spirit Treasures avoided it.
The Seven Thunder Gem Calabash was surrounded by lightning and once again turned into a lightning cocoon. The Thin Water Sword and the Waterserene Sword of Incorporeal Sword vibrated at the same time, as if they were welcoming the birth of their own kind, and also as if they were paying respect to their king.
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