White clouds filled the sky, and the sun and moon flew past.
On a flat land amidst the mountains, a huge wooden house had appeared out of nowhere. There seemed to be an invisible barrier around the house, preventing some low grade demonic beasts from entering.
Inside the house, Ye Chen sat cross-legged on the wooden floor, cultivating.
With the upper grade spirit stones, reaching the peak of late Astral Reaching realm was only a matter of time, which would save Ye Chen a lot of trouble and time.
After absorbing the Yuan Qi of the two upper grade spirit stones, Ye Chen slowly opened his eyes.
"Worthy of being an upper grade spirit stone! The Yuan Qi's purity is several times that of a mid grade spirit stone. There's no need to refine it, as it can be directly transformed into Zhen Yuan. The total amount is also dozens of times that of a mid grade spirit stone. Although its effect is not as good as the Earth Astral Pellet, the remaining upper grade spirit stones are enough for me to reach the peak of late Astral Reaching realm. Moreover, there's still more to go.
One month … I only need one month to temporarily complete my cultivation base. "Cultivation base was different from other things. The peak of late Astral Reaching realm was complete, and the next step would be the Sea of Soul realm. Martial skills and sword soul embryo both had room for improvement, as they could allow a martial artist to have the strength to challenge those with higher cultivation levels.
Kacha!
The weather of the Star Regional Lake was constantly changing. A moment ago, the sun was shining high in the sky, and the next moment, dark clouds covered the sky. The lake water was filled with raging waves as if it was the end of the world.
One after another, silver snakes tore through the dark void, followed by a torrential rain, pouring down like water from the heavenly river. Such a heavy rain would only need a moment to turn a person into a drowned rat. In a short moment, it could fill a depression in the ground with rainwater.
"It's time to comprehend sword arts."
During these days on the island, apart from cultivating, Ye Chen was comprehending, regardless of rain or shine. He had already experienced this kind of thunderstorm several times.
Opening the door, Ye Chen arrived at the open space in front of the house and raised his head to look at the sky. When the rain reached thirty meters above his head, it would slide down to the side, where there was an invisible barrier.
Without any hesitation, Ye Chen took a step out of the protective layer.
Leaving the protective shield, the rain vented its anger on Ye Chen, instantly turning him into a man who had just been fished out of the river. His clothes clung tightly to his body, outlining the curves of his strong muscles.
The corner of Ye Chen's mouth curled up. In fact, if he slightly circulated his Zhen yuan, not to mention the pouring rain, even the rain formed by thunder and lightning would not be able to touch him at all. However, since he wanted to comprehend sword arts, he had to be in close contact with nature. If the first of the three layers of sky, the Surprising Sky, could allow Ye Chen's thunder mentality to reach its limit, then the natural weather would be the best time to comprehend sword arts. The mysteries of nature were not that simple.
The coldness of the rain and the flickering silver snakes in his eyes allowed Ye Chen to enter the best state of comprehension.
"My state of thunder evolved from the state of cloud. Now, I need to completely cut off the connection and form a complete system. Only then can I improve further."
Crackle!
A faint purple bolt of lightning streaked across the sky. It was dozens of miles long, breathtaking, domineering, and filled with a lingering sense of shock.
The center of Ye Chen's eyebrows swelled. His soul power instantly radiated onto the faint purple lightning, feeling its unique vibration.
He could not see anything from the first one.
The second one!
The third one!
The fourth one!
Each lightning strike would fall into Ye Chen's soul power's perception, allowing him to carefully comprehend the changes within, extracting the essence and discarding the impurities.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the lightning was getting more and more destructive.
Ye Chen took a deep breath. As he inhaled, the rain in the sky gathered together like a long dragon, attacking towards Ye Chen.
"Break!"
With his tongue on his palate, Ye Chen yelled as the Thunder Sword was taken out of its scabbard, slicing through the air.
Ting!
The shocking sword sound resonated in the sky. A sword light without any lightning lit up the whole world. With an unstoppable momentum, it sliced out horizontally. Wherever it went, the mountains were cut into deep valleys. The rain was shattered by the invisible power, and a rainless area appeared. Swish! Swish!
Swish! Swish!
Endless electric currents flashed on both sides of the valley, scorching the surface.
This sword attack!
So tyrannical!
This sword attack could be said to be Ye Chen's strongest sword attack.
One could see the extreme changes of lightning within it. Only one step away from touching upon the profound of thunder.
"Finally done!"
Half a month of accumulation, half a month of hard work, and today, a door had finally been opened for him, a door to the thunder profound.
If this sword art was a top rank Earth Realm sword art passed down from the ancient people, then Ye Chen would have already trained it to completion. It should be known that even a lot of Sea of Souls Realm warriors could not reach this level. They would have to train two or three top rank Earth Realm martial arts to completion before they could learn the profound.
"This move has no connection with the cloud mentality. It shouldn't be called Sky Shattering Clouds. I should think of a name related to lightning."
Letting out a breath, Ye Chen started to ponder.
After thinking for a while, he decided to name this move Sky Thunder Cut. The first word was related to Sky Shattering Clouds. After all, it was derived from Sky Shattering Clouds. The second word didn't need any explanation, but the third word represented the sharpness of this move. It was even more tyrannical than slashing.
"Sky Thunder Cut … Let's call it Sky Thunder Cut then."
Ye Chen was very satisfied with this name.
"With the Sky Thunder Cut, the power of my sword attacks would be equivalent to comprehending twenty percent of a low rank profound martial skill. If I manage to train the ninth movement of the Green Lotus Sword Art as well, then I would have two low rank profound martial skills with twenty percent comprehension. One would be close to the thunder profound, while the other would be close to the wood profound. As for the cloud mentality and the water mentality, I would have to give them up for now."
It was not unreasonable to give up the cloud mentality, since it was learned from the Earth Realm low rank Sky Cloud Sword Art, which was much weaker than the peak rank Earth Realm sword arts. If he trained the Sky Cloud Sword Art to perfection, would he be able to comprehend the profound? Of course not. Therefore, the cloud mentality would not be able to reach a high level, and the water mentality would also be the same. It was a supporting mentality of the Green Lotus Sword Art, and its main mentality was still the wood mentality. Therefore, the ninth movement did not have the water mentality, only the wood mentality.
Putting the sword back into the scabbard, Ye Chen's body shook. All the water on his body, clothes, and hair had been shaken into nothingness, and he looked clean and fresh again.
Back in the wooden house that was covered by the protective layer, Ye Chen jumped into the bath.
The water in the bath was hot water. As for boiling water, Ye Chen did not need to think about it. With the mid rank soul stones as the power source, everything inside was automatic. In terms of the essence of wisdom, this place was way more advanced than the world that Ye Chen came from. At least, there was no need to generate electricity here.
On the second day …
Ye Chen did not leave immediately. Although the Sky Thunder Cut had been completed, he had not fully mastered it yet. Knowing it was one thing, but using it to its extreme was another.
On the summit, Ye Chen's figure flickered like lightning. The Thunder Sword in his hand slashed out with every step he took. There was no sword light, as the true might was restrained. However, the aura of the sword ripping through the void gave off an incomparably shocking feeling. It was a restrained eruption, like a bolt of lightning striking down from the pitch-black sky, shaking one to the core.
"Sky Thunder Cut, nothing it cannot cut!"
Throwing out a mid rank artifact, Ye Chen slashed at it.
Clang!
A blazing flame shot out, tearing a huge hole in the extremely hard mid rank artifact. It should be known that without the attack power of Sea of Soul realm experts, almost no one could destroy a mid rank artifact. Even the light beam in the death tunnel could not shatter a mid rank artifact in one go. It would take many times.
At this moment, if an Astral Reaching expert saw Ye Chen casually destroying a mid rank artifact, they would certainly be heartbroken. There were so many Astral Reaching experts in True Spirit Continent, and sixty percent of them had a mid rank artifact. The remaining forty percent didn't even have a suitable weapon, using low rank artifacts. A mid rank artifact was worth at least thirty thousand mid rank soul stones. How could they not feel heartache when they lost it just like that?
Of course, if they knew that Ye Chen had destroyed one or two mid rank artifacts in the Puppet School's ruins, they would probably be in a state of panic.
However, if they had Ye Chen's wealth, they probably wouldn't care about mid-grade weapons either. Two million mid-grade spirit stones could already buy seventy or eighty mid-grade weapons. Moreover, these mid-grade weapons weren't bought by Ye Chen, but taken by those people who wanted to kill him. Before returning to the Windy Nation, he had left a few mid-grade weapons for the Sky Cloud Martial School and the Ye family, and the rest of the mid-grade weapons were all on him.
"Sky Thunder Cut can tear apart mid rank artifacts at close range, but it probably won't work if it's a bit further."
Ye Chen was very clear about this. Only a real attack would be the most powerful attack. Two people with similar strength would not use a long range attack. After all, without overwhelming strength, the power of the attack would be limited by such a long distance.
Distance was the law of nature, and could not be ignored.
Clang Clang Clang Clang!
After tearing a hole on the mid rank artifact, Ye Chen's sword art became faster and faster. In the blink of an eye, he had already slashed out dozens of times.
The mid rank artifact had been completely shattered into thousands of pieces.
"It's time to go to the Extreme Yin Region."
After successfully completing the Sky Thunder Cut, Ye Chen naturally would not stay on the island any longer. His next destination was the Extreme Yin Region between the Wavy Cloud Region and the Misty Snow Region.
The Extreme Yin Region was very low in altitude, and the earth qi there was very rich, so much so that it had even formed a black mist. The sky was Yang, and the earth was Yin. That place was the place with the densest earth qi. It was also the most chaotic place. There were no sects there, only countless gangs. It was a very cruel place, and if one wanted to survive there, one must have enough strength.
Of course, going to the Extreme Yin Region was not because one had nothing better to do. Precisely because the Extreme Yin Region was extremely chaotic and lawless, treasures that couldn't be found in the market would often appear. Some of these treasures had unknown origins, and couldn't be sold through normal channels. They could only be bought in the Extreme Yin Region.
Several hundred years ago, the skeleton of a Life and Death King appeared in an auction in the Extreme Yin Region. The Life and Death King's Zhen Yuan and body had fused into one. Even a drop of blood had its martial imprint, not to mention a complete skeleton. It was simply a priceless treasure. Later on, it was won by an extremely mysterious Sea of Soul realm Master. After that Sea of Soul realm Master left, he was besieged by numerous Sea of Soul realm experts. The source was the Life and Death King's skeleton. As for the final result, nobody knew.
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