Wang Wei took out 10,000 high-grade origin crystals and 100 Fairy Points to give to Chu Mu and said coldly, "Don't be complacent. In a battle to the death, I'll kill you like a dog."
Chu Mu took the origin crystals and Fairy Points. He didn't react to Wang Wei's words.
In a battle to the death, one could only know who would be killed like a dog.
"Don't talk about a battle to the death. You won't be so lucky in the next Hundred Battle Stage," Sun Yuan said coldly.
"Chu Mu, this isn't over," Xuanji Wuyue said with a cold expression.
"One day, I'll sweep through the Soaring Heaven Court with my sword. Go back and wait," Chu Mu retaliated.
"Very well. I hope you have the courage to do so when the time comes," Sun Yuan said angrily.
After being defeated by Chu Mu, the two of them didn't have the face to continue staying. Xuanji Wuyue had brought people to teach Chu Mu a lesson, but instead, they were taught a lesson. No matter how thick one's skin was, they couldn't be invulnerable. The three of them glared hatefully at Chu Mu. Their gazes were as sharp as swords, as if they wanted to pierce through Chu Mu. They coldly snorted and quickly left.
They left as quickly as they came.
"Senior Brother is too strong. Even the Soaring Heaven Court's disciples weren't his match."
"I know. Those two are Wang Wei and Sun Yuan. They're ranked third and fourth in the Soaring Heaven Court. Even they weren't a match for Senior Brother."
The Soaring Heaven Court's disciples became even more excited.
When everyone's emotions gradually calmed down, Chu Mu told everyone to leave and return to cultivate. He also returned to his own Stone Tower.
"Defensive Sword Technique …" Sitting in the building, Chu Mu didn't immediately train. Instead, he thought back to the previous fights. The fight with Xiao Ling, the fight with Sun Yuan, and the fight with Wang Wei. The three of them had a common point, and that was the Defensive Sword Technique.
The Imperial Sword Art was a secret sword art unique to the Flying Heaven Pavilion.
Each of the West Tiger Region's five major powers had their own unique cultivation techniques.
Naturally, each major power wanted to learn the cultivation techniques of the other major powers. Unfortunately, it was very difficult.
In the hands of different swordsmen, the power of the Imperial Sword Technique was different.
Xiao Ling was inferior to Sun Yuan, and Sun Yuan was inferior to Wang Wei.
"From the looks of it, Liu Ye, who's ranked second in the Soaring Heavens Court, is definitely stronger than Wang Wei. As for the chief disciple of the Soaring Heavens Court …" Chu Mu fell silent.
The leader of the Soaring Heavens Academy was usually much stronger than the leader of the Soaring Heavens Academy. Without witnessing it with his own eyes, it was impossible to determine the strength of the leader of the Soaring Heavens Academy.
However, Chu Mu's intuition told him that he wasn't a match for the Soaring Sky Academy's chief disciple if he didn't use his Nine Revolution Sword Intent and Profound Meaning.
Wouldn't that be more motivating?
Even though he was determined to enter the Soaring Sky Court, there was no need to rush it. Chu Mu still planned to cultivate according to his original plan.
He needed to use the four Intermediate Sands of Time. He needed to improve his alchemy skills, the Elemental Sword Art, the Wind Lightning Sword Art, and the Cloud Sword Art. He needed to cultivate the Eye of the Sword as well as the Divine Desolate Sword Art.
The competition between the three academies was ultimately just a small matter. Chu Mu's vision wasn't limited to this. The real stage was the Ancient World outside the Flying Heaven Pavilion's pocket world. However, small matters were still a type of tempering that he had to go through.
After doing some calculations, Chu Mu had a total of one thousand one hundred and thirty flying points. It was enough for him to comprehend the murals twice.
However, Chu Mu didn't plan to comprehend the murals right away.
Instead, he took out his alchemy cauldron and various herbs from his Stone Pavilion. He recalled the various pill recipes in his mind and found the ones that would help him improve his alchemy skills. He first simulated them in his mind before extracting the essence of the herbs.
With the Earth Core Desolate Flame, extracting the essence of the herbs was very smooth. The purity of the essence was also above ninety percent.
After extracting the essence, he started to refine the pills. He first refined the Mortal Grade pills to consolidate his attainments and realm as an alchemy grandmaster. He would strengthen his foundation before accumulating more.
One month in the outside world was four months with the Intermediate Sands of Time.
During these four months, Chu Mu spent half of his time refining pills and the other half cultivating his sword arts. After four months, the Elemental Sword Art, the Wind Lightning Sword Art, the Cloud Sword Art, and the others were still at the eighth move. His alchemy skills had the most obvious improvement.
In the second month, Chu Mu used another Intermediate Sands of Time and spent another four months.
The third month was a month where Chu Mu focused on enlightenment. He further consolidated his foundation, making it even more stable and accumulating potential.
In the fourth month, Chu Mu used the Intermediate Sands of Time again, turning the one month into four months.
When Xiao Chen opened the cauldron, the fragrance of the medicinal pills wafted out. This was a Mortal Grade medicinal pill, the highest grade of Mortal Grade medicinal pills. It also directly displayed Chu Mu's progress in alchemy.
"Next, I will consolidate my alchemy attainments at this level. After that, I will try to refine Earth Grade medicinal pills."
Earth Grade medicinal pills corresponded to the attainments of an alchemy grandmaster. Right now, Chu Mu was only one step away from becoming an alchemy grandmaster.
While consolidating his alchemy skills, he also continued to cultivate his sword arts. When the energy of the third Intermediate Sands of Time was exhausted, Chu Mu mastered the Elemental Sword Art, the Wind Lightning Sword Art, and the Cloud Sword Art's ninth move.
After mastering the ninth move, Chu Mu immediately felt his understanding of the eight profound meanings of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and cloud rise to a whole new level. His grasp and application of these eight profound meanings also rose to a whole new level.
The improvement in his grasp and application of the profound meanings allowed Chu Mu's understanding of the various sword arts to deepen to a whole new level.
In the fifth month, the last Intermediate Sands of Time was used by Chu Mu.
He first used a month to consolidate his alchemy skills as an alchemy grandmaster. After that, he would try to refine Earth Grade medicinal pills.
Earth Grade medicinal pills were superior to Mortal Grade medicinal pills. The requirements for alchemy skills were also higher. The various medicinal herbs needed were of higher grade, better quality, and more valuable.
Fortunately, Chu Mu had a large collection of medicinal herbs in his interspatial ring. A portion of them were precious medicinal herbs for refining Earth Grade medicinal pills.
He found the most common Earth Grade medicinal pill recipe in his memory. First, he simulated it in his spiritual world. Then, he started to refine it.
First, he extracted the medicinal herbs' essence. With the help of the Earth Core Desolate Flame, even with the basic extraction method, he was still able to extract the medicinal herbs' essence to above ninety percent purity.
After extracting the medicinal herbs' essence, Chu Mu rested to recover the energy he had expended. Then, he started to refine Earth Grade medicinal pills.
By now, the Earth Core Desolate Flame had grown to the size of two fists. Its entire body was bright yellow and its temperature was extremely high. If hit directly, even a King Stage expert would find it difficult to withstand the burning of the Earth Core Desolate Flame.
Of course, with Chu Mu's strength, if he wanted to use the Earth Core Desolate Flame to burn a King Stage expert, the King Stage expert would have to be unprepared and stand still to be burned by the Earth Core Desolate Flame.
Using the power of the Earth Core Desolate Flame consumed Sword Energy. Using the power of Divine Sense to activate it was the same as using Sword Energy as fuel.
Fortunately, Chu Mu's cultivation had reached the limit of the God Condensation Realm. His Sword Energy was pure and powerful. It could support the burning of the Earth Core Desolate Flame for a period of time. In addition, he had many high-grade Origin Crystals to absorb and replenish his Sword Energy.
The first batch of Earth Grade medicinal pills ended in failure.
"Earth Grade medicinal pills have a higher requirement for alchemy skills. The control is more subtle and there are more variations. It's not something that can be satisfied with basic alchemy skills." Chu Mu recalled the process of alchemy and concluded the reason for failure. "It seems that basic alchemy skills can no longer satisfy my needs. I need to find a more advanced alchemy skill …"
What Chu Mu regretted was that in the alchemy grandmaster's memories, there was knowledge of countless medicinal herbs, many alchemy recipes, basic alchemy skills, and basic alchemy skills. However, there was no advanced alchemy skill or advanced alchemy skill.
He didn't know what the alchemy grandmaster who left behind the alchemy legacy was thinking. No matter what, he had to find a more advanced alchemy skill. It would be best if there was a matching alchemy skill for alchemy.
"The Flying Heaven Pavilion should also have alchemy skills." Chu Mu thought to himself. He felt a headache coming on.
When the Sand of Time was used, its range was fixed.
In other words, Chu Mu, who had used the Sand of Time, could only stay here and cultivate. Once he left, the power of the Sand of Time would dissipate.
The Sand of Time was very precious. This was the last grain. There were still three months left. No matter what, Chu Mu couldn't waste it.
"Since that's the case, I'll use these three months to cultivate my swordsmanship and sword skills." Chu Mu could only think to himself helplessly.
Casting aside all distracting thoughts, Chu Mu wholeheartedly cultivated his swordsmanship. Although he had cultivated the last move of the Five Elemental Swordsmanship, the Wind and Lightning Swordsmanship and the Cloud Swordsmanship to the ninth move, this wasn't his limit. There was still potential to develop the ninth move.
As his cultivation deepened, he became more proficient and perfected the ninth move. His understanding and mastery of the profound also deepened. In terms of application, he improved and became more flexible.
While cultivating his swordsmanship, Chu Mu didn't neglect the cultivation of various sword skills. He even put in some time to cultivate a grade one sword skill.
Strictly speaking, there was no useless sword skill.
Even a grade one sword skill could sometimes be relied on to turn the situation around. Moreover, a deeper mastery of a grade one sword skill would be helpful to a grade two sword skill. A deeper mastery of a grade two sword skill would be helpful to a grade three sword skill. Similarly, a deeper mastery of a grade three sword skill would be helpful to a grade four sword skill.
One step after another, increasing layer by layer. None of the steps could be ignored.
A ten thousand zhang tall building had to be built from the ground. First, it had to have a solid foundation. Then, it had to be built layer by layer. Only then would it be stable and could be built even higher.
Swordsmanship was the foundation. A grade one sword skill was the lowest level, a grade two sword skill was one level higher, a grade three sword skill was one level higher, and so on.
If one wanted to create a higher grade sword skill, the foundation and the building at the bottom were indispensable. They had to be very stable.
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