Unknowingly, it was already late at night. The moon was bright and the stars were sparse.
The hook-like moon hung high in the sky, emitting a faint white brilliance. This brilliance was like water, faintly spreading across the earth. It was as if everything on the ground was covered in a layer of gauze, giving it a hazy sense of beauty.
Even so, one's line of sight was greatly affected. Looking into the distance, one could only see vague shadows.
After absorbing another four strands of second-grade void energy, Chu Mu's body transformation cultivation rose once more. He finally reached the first level of the Second Layered Heavens, possessing 22,000 jins of strength.
After absorbing the blood of the Ironback Wolf, the red color of the Scarlet Blood Sword became even more vibrant. The light it emitted was even more pure and demonic.
"Perhaps the Scarlet Blood Sword will complete its first evolution here." Chu Mu sat on a boulder, his sword fingers stroking the Scarlet Blood Sword's body. He could feel the traces of icy coldness as he thought to himself.
The strength of a swordsman was composed of many aspects. Swords were one of them.
If two swordsmen were similar in all aspects, but one wielded an ordinary sword and the other wielded a treasure sword, there would be a difference in strength. Just think about it. If someone else's sword could break your sword, leaving you with no sword to use, wouldn't your strength drop by a level?
Even if your sword wasn't broken, then if your ordinary sword struck your opponent, you would only be lightly injured or heavily injured. But if you were struck by your opponent's sword, you would definitely be heavily injured or even die on the spot.
If the Scarlet Blood Sword could evolve into a third-grade void spirit sword, then it would be much easier to deal with the Ironback Blue Wolf. Perhaps it might even be able to injure the Ironback Wolf King.
Hunting void beasts to obtain void energy was important, but other aspects were also important.
After experiencing the ups and downs of these past few days, Chu Mu vaguely grasped some of the intentions of the Azure Sky Void World. It wasn't purely for those who entered to increase their cultivation. Instead, it looked at a person's innate talent, potential, and so on. To put it bluntly, it was composed of various aspects. For example, cultivation, perception, battle talent, and so on.
Thus, increasing one's cultivation wasn't the only way. Instead, it was the combination of various aspects that was the way to go.
Chu Mu was currently at the entrance to the inner valley. Because of Chu Mu's hunting, there were no Ironback Blue Wolves roaming around here. It was relatively safe, which was conducive to Chu Mu's comprehension.
First, he reflected on today's battle. Then, he practiced the Intermediate Footwork and Intermediate Swordsmanship a few times. Then, he combined the Intermediate Footwork and Intermediate Swordsmanship. After that, he tried to add the Gold Force and the Fire Force to his sword.
When he tried, Chu Mu discovered that they could coexist for an extremely short period of time.
He was pleasantly surprised by this discovery.
Chu Mu didn't know if it was because he had broken through to the 2nd Celestial Layer, or because he had mastered the Intermediate Sword Art, or both.
Seeing hope, Chu Mu worked even harder.
He continuously swung his sword, and the Scarlet Blood Sword flashed with a golden light, as well as a red light. That wasn't the red of the Scarlet Blood Sword, but the red of fire energy.
In an instant, the golden light and the red light both dissipated. The time they could coexist was too short.
After all, the Gold Force and the Fire Force were different kinds of energy. They didn't have a relationship with each other. In fact, the Fire Force countered the Gold Force, so it was even harder to fuse them.
No matter how difficult it was, Chu Mu still had to try.
After trying for an hour, he still didn't succeed. The night deepened.
Chu Mu put down the Scarlet Blood Sword and rested for a while. He raised his head and looked at the sky. The white moon shone with a pure white radiance that was as cold as water. The sparse starlight flickered like a blink of an eye.
The sky was vast, and the scenery was distant. Chu Mu relaxed his mind. Unknowingly, he lay down and leaned against a slanted rock, using his left hand as a pillow behind his head.
Since entering the Azure Sky Ethereal World, this was the first time he was so relaxed and carefree.
In the distance, wolf howls came one after another. However, they gradually faded away, as if they were drifting, as if they were in a dream.
As Zhang Xuan watched on, a streak of light suddenly appeared and streaked across the sky, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
That was a meteor.
Not long after, another meteor streaked across the sky.
After a few dozen breaths, a third meteor streaked across the sky.
Tonight was like the time of a meteor race.
Meteors streaked across the sky one after another. In less than fifteen minutes, Chu Mu actually saw ten meteors streaking across the sky.
As he watched, Chu Mu became intoxicated.
The sky seemed to have disappeared, leaving only the meteors flashing by. Perhaps it was because he was focused on watching, but the meteors seemed to be magnified in front of him, and their trajectories became clearer.
It was burning with raging flames. Those flames were golden-red in color and had a terrifyingly high temperature. It was as if it could burn everything into ashes. Within that golden color, there was a terrifying sharpness that seemed to be able to cut through everything. There was nothing that could not be broken.
As he watched, Chu Mu's eyes widened. His eyes did not move, as if they were frozen.
After a long time, when there were no more meteors in the night sky, Chu Mu's eyes trembled and regained their vigor. He quickly stood up and muttered to himself, as if he was in deep thought.
"In essence, meteors are actually fragments of meteorites or planets. They contain metal and streak across the sky at high speed. The intense friction with the air will generate heat, producing a terrifyingly high temperature flame …"
As he muttered to himself, the thoughts in his mind gradually became clearer.
"Since it is difficult for me to add the power of metal and fire to the sword at the same time, why don't I imitate this method and try it out?"
Carefully comprehending and constantly simulating, eliminating all kinds of drawbacks, he headed in the right direction.
When he was almost done comprehending, Chu Mu once again raised the Scarlet Blood Sword, circulated his energy, and stabbed out.
This time, with the power of metal, the sword produced friction with the air. However, due to the speed limit, the temperature produced by the friction was not very high.
After thinking for a while, Chu Mu stabbed out again. This time, the speed of the sword was much faster. This was because Chu Mu had used the power of vibration. It instantly surged into his arm, producing a huge driving force, causing the speed of the sword to increase. At the same time, the vibration of the sword body at a high frequency increased the friction between the sword body and the air.
In an instant, a pale red flame appeared on the sword body, swaying.
However, before Chu Mu could activate the power of fire, the flame had already been extinguished.
At least Chu Mu knew that he was going in the right direction, but his control was not enough.
He continued to cultivate, swinging out sword after sword. After each swing, he paused for a while to think, allowing his strength to gradually recover.
The night gradually faded, and a ray of dawn jumped out from the eastern horizon, announcing the arrival of a new day.
Every day, the geniuses were improving. On the Galaxy Genius List, Zhu Tiantong and Chen Gang's talent points had reached six thousand.
On the Heaven Ascension List, Su Yuexi's talent points had reached eleven thousand, the same as Chu Mu. However, because she was one step slower, she was still ranked eleventh.
Until dawn, Chu Mu still had not succeeded in achieving his goal because it was too difficult.
However, after repeated attempts, he became more and more familiar with it. As long as he continued to work hard, it would not take long for him to succeed. At that time, not only would he be able to make every swing of his sword carry four types of power, making ordinary sword techniques stronger, he was even confident that he would be able to create a new sword technique that contained three types of power, a third-grade sword technique.
At dawn, Chu Mu stopped cultivating, picked up dry food and water, and ate a full meal. Then, he recovered the energy he had used to practice the sword.
Today was the fifth day in the Azure Virtual World, and the food was almost used up. Tonight, he had to return to the Night Tribe.
However, before he returned, he wanted to kill more Ironback Wolves to obtain more Virtual Qi. If possible, he wanted to see the might of the Ironback Wolf King.
He jumped down from the boulder, took a step, and ran quickly toward the depths of the valley.
The night passed, and the Ironback Wolves came out of their berserk state. Their strength returned to its original level, and they posed no threat to Chu Mu.
As if he had entered an uninhabited land, he moved forward. Wherever he passed, no wolf could stop his sword.
Not long after, Chu Mu killed another ten Ironback Wolves and absorbed ten strands of second-grade Virtual Qi to strengthen his body and increase his strength to twenty-three thousand catties.
The higher one's cultivation, the harder it was to improve, because more resources were needed.
From nothingness to the First Celestial Layer, and then from the First Celestial Layer to the Second Celestial Layer, it was only ten thousand catties. However, from the Second Celestial Layer to the Third Celestial Layer, it was twenty thousand catties, and from the Third Celestial Layer to the Fourth Celestial Layer, it was forty thousand catties.
Another Iron Back Blue Wolf. This Iron Back Blue Wolf that didn't go berserk didn't take more than two or three strikes before it was cleanly killed by Chu Mu. Chu Mu, who had mastered intermediate footwork and sword arts, was even more agile and his sword arts were even sharper.
Unfortunately, this Ironback Wolf only provided four strands of second-grade Virtual Qi, and did not provide any light balls.
Four strands of second-grade Virtual Qi was better than nothing. After absorbing them, Chu Mu continued to move forward.
Now, when he used his sword to kill Ironback Wolves, he would often try to find a better way to combine the power of gold and fire. Fortunately, the strength of the Ironback Wolves was low, and could not pose a threat to him. This allowed Chu Mu to be more relaxed and try.
Although he hadn't succeeded, Chu Mu was able to create a sword technique by chance. It was a first rank sword technique based on the power of fire. Unfortunately, he didn't obtain any talent points. Chu Mu guessed that it was because he had created a second rank sword technique that he couldn't obtain any talent points for sword techniques lower than second rank. If this was true, then after creating a third rank sword technique, he wouldn't be able to obtain any talent points for creating a second rank sword technique.
Using this first-grade sword art as a foundation, Chu Mu integrated the power of vibration. After dozens of attempts, he successfully created a new second-grade sword art.
"Self-created second-grade sword art successful, received two thousand talent points." The fleeting voice sounded again.
Then, on the Heaven Ascension List, Chu Mu's ranking directly rose, squeezing the ninth place down. He had the same number of talent points as the eighth place, 13,000 points.
When this sword was slashed out, the sword seemed to transform into a flame bombardment. Then, there was a second bombardment, which Chu Mu named Double Flame Kill. As the name suggested, it was a sword attack with two layers of flames.
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