"Welcome to the Skyhill Museum of Sabers and Swords. The Skyhill Domain is the largest production base of sabers and swords in the Flying Star Sector. The Skyhill Museum of Sabers and Swords is also one of the most professional museums of melee magical equipment in the entire Flying Star Sector. I am your narrator. You may call me 'Sword Lady'!"
It was three days before the annual Skyhill Sword Seminar. Countless tourists and sword lovers had arrived at the Skyhill Domain.
Most of them would visit the renowned Skyhill Museum of Sabers and Swords. For some of them, it was even a kind of 'pilgrimage'.
The spacious and bright museum was packed to the brim. Li Yao was mixed in the crowd and drifted along with the crowd. He was a bit dizzy. Fortunately, the image of a cute girl wearing a red dudou and carrying a long sword was floating everywhere in the sky. She was the virtual guide of the museum.
"As we all know, since the collapse of the ancient Cultivators and the great counterattack of mankind, the sabers and swords of the modern Cultivators have passed through four phases. The True Qi Sword Hall that you are in right now is the first phase.
"More than ten thousand years ago, the modern Cultivation theories had just sprouted, and the Cultivators' understanding of spiritual energy was still very shallow. Most of the Cultivators were still in the Refinement Stage. Therefore, the True Qi Sword that was driven by high-pressure air currents was born. Please take a look. The most awesome True Qi Sword at that time could compress one part of the standard spiritual gas to one percent and unleash its power instantly. It could also carry the Refinement Stage Cultivators who were not good at flying into the sky in the form of a 'jet' so that they could engage in a more flexible battle.
"The next hall is the second phase. Sword Machine Hall!
"Based on the True Qi Sword, the refiners studied and finally melded spiritual energy with machinery perfectly. All kinds of unbelievable weapons were developed. The melee magical equipment that we are familiar with such as chainswords, vibration sabers, and so on were basically produced in this period! The feature of the melee magical equipment in this period was that spiritual energy was only used as the source of energy to drive the machinery and to create the effects of rotation, vibration, cutting, and so on. It was not actively involved in the attack.
"Next, we will enter the hall of composite sabers and swords. Composite sabers and swords are the most mainstream solutions adopted by the current sabers and swords.
"Compound melee magical equipment usually boast mechanical attack abilities such as chainsaws and vibration blades. In the meantime, the spiritual energy can be directly transformed into sword auras and blades. This dual attack mode greatly increases the range of the attack, and at the same time, it also makes it harder for the enemy to defend against. "
"At present, in the world of cultivation, there are already many close-combat magical equipment that are purely made of spiritual energy, such as the Light Energy Sword, the Spirit Particle Battle Saber, and so on. These are the fourth generation of sword-type magical equipment. There were still many problems with the psionic model and activation structure, but the advantages of pure psionic weapons were gradually becoming apparent, perhaps in the near future. It will become the mainstream of the cultivation world! "
"Other than the famous sabers and swords of the modern Cultivators, a lot of scraps of ancient flying swords have been collected in our museum. Now, please follow me into the 'Ancient Sword Hall'!"
Li Yao spent the whole morning following the "Sword Lady" around the Museum of Swords and Sabers.
After a month and a half of cruel training, this was a rare moment of relaxation.
"Rumble …" His stomach unwillingly began to growl. It was quite loud, too.
Many people in the surroundings glanced at him strangely. When they saw his appearance, it was as if he had just finished farming. Their eyes were even weirder.
Li Yao was not pretending. He was faced with an embarrassing problem: he was out of money.
A month and a half ago, he had been filthy rich. He had looted a fortune from Fengyu Ming. Later, Lei Dalu had given him another fortune, which was enough for an ordinary person to live a comfortable life for several years.
However, Cultivators could spend a lot of money. Li Yao had improved his level of training to the maximum in order to prepare for the Skyhill Sword Seminar.
Not to mention the cost of the training room and refining workshop that he rented, the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that he consumed in the training room, and the marvelous pills that he took every day, in order to keep his hands sharp, he had to apply a special 'Green Water Ointment' on his hands every day. It cost him tens of thousands of Flying Star Coins!
After spending millions of Flying Star Coins, he might only be able to improve the sensitivity of his ring finger by 0.1%.
But it couldn't be helped. In a competition between experts, the difference of 0.1% could be the difference between the 'Sword Master' and those who were not in the top fifty.
Li Yao had carefully studied the videos of the previous twenty Skyhill Sword Seminars. He discovered that the top thirty contestants were all very skilled, especially the refiners from the noble families of refining. They all had immeasurable skills. None of them were easy to deal with.
The Skyhill Sword Seminar did not forbid the contestants of the previous Skyhill Sword Seminar. Therefore, many of the experts of refining could be his opponents.
There were not many opportunities to compete with the heirs of the noble families. Li Yao cherished them very much and decided to fight in his best state. Therefore, he spent a lot of money on his training.
For Cultivators, knowing how to spend money was also an ability. If a Cultivator could absorb Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures worth tens of millions of Flying Star Coins in three days without wasting any of them, they would certainly be a formidable expert.
With Li Yao's capability, he certainly had a lot of ways to make money. However, the competition was around the corner, and he did not want to waste a single second. He thought to himself that the last few days were mainly for the recovery training, which would not cost him much. After a brief calculation, he went straight to the Skyhill Domain.
All his money was spent on the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Naturally, he did not pay much attention to his appearance. His clothes were already full of holes because of the high-intensity training. He had to make do with them for now. Thankfully, a uniform refining suit would be issued after the competition started. There was no need to worry about it.
Should I go to a pawnshop and pawn a couple of scraps of ancient magical equipment?
Li Yao still had a lot of scraps of ancient magical equipment and rare crystals inside his Cosmos Ring. He was an out-and-out magnate in terms of wealth.
However, refiners all had a shortcoming. Once the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were in their hands, they would feel that they had grown on their body. If they were forced to trade them away, it would be as painful as cutting their nose.
Li Yao hesitated for a long time and thought of ten thousand uses for the scraps of ancient magical equipment. Eventually, he gritted his teeth and dropped the idea.
The organizing committee would start the reception work tomorrow. There would be standard accommodation and food. There was no need to waste a piece of ancient magical equipment at such a critical moment.
Let's go out and see if there's any cheap food that can fill my stomach.
Li Yao rubbed his belly and thought to himself.
…
Xie Anan was holding an imitation bamboo sword manual that could automatically transform into three-dimensional patterns. It was a souvenir from the museum of sabers and swords.
She bulged her eyes and cheeks and jumped up and down like a rabbit. Whenever she saw something good, she would immediately dash to a tall woman and shout, "Sister, Sister Long Long!
"Sister Long, Sister Long, come and take a look, it's the 'Sky Dragon Fang Sword', we've learned about it in class, and we even tested its structure in the last exam, I made a mistake, but here it is!"
Long Yunxin frowned and pinched her bottom. She said angrily, "Xie Anan, can you keep your voice down? You are a student of the Refining Department of Flying Star University after all. The Xie family is somewhat famous in the circle of refiners. Don't act like a bumpkin who has never seen anything before. Will you?"
"Yes. Yes. It hurts!"
Xie Anan nodded quickly.
She was not experienced enough and capable enough. Therefore, she could only work as a volunteer of the Skyhill Sword Seminar. She was responsible for the registration in the beginning and the reception work later.
Long Yunxin, on the other hand, was from the Long family, a very awesome family of refining. In the circle of refiners, the Long family was only slightly weaker than the Mo family and the Huangfu family, the two thousand-year-old families of refining.
Long Yunxin had participated in the Skyhill Sword Seminar last year and secured the 21st place. She was confident that she would make it to the top ten this year.
The Long family and the Xie family were long-time friends. Xie Anan had been following Long Yunxin everywhere since she was little. Of course, she had to listen to her elder sister!
But after only two seconds of obedience, Xie Anan bulged her eyes again. "Sister Long, Sister Long, look. That seems to be Zhou Xiaoyu, the young master of the Snowfield Sword Village. Even such an expert has come to the Skyhill Sword Seminar! No. Let's go and ask for his autograph! "
"Come back here right now!"
Long Yunxin was gnashing her teeth in hatred. Her younger sister was an out-and-out sword maniac who was obsessed with sabers and swords. However, she was not very talented. It was already her best that she could be admitted into the Refining Department of Flying Star University. Therefore, she had to focus all her attention on famous swords and celebrities. Whenever she saw someone who was somewhat famous in the circle of refiners, she would exclaim and attract other people's attention.
"It's just Zhou Xiaoyu. What's so great about him? He was only two places higher than me last year. This year, I will definitely cut him into pieces!"
"Okay …"
Xie Anan retreated, feeling wronged. But her big eyes were still rolling. Two seconds later, she shuddered and almost jumped to her feet. "A mysterious expert!"
Long Yunxin was greatly shocked. She followed her sister's eyes and saw a young man in his twenties. His hair was messy, his clothes were ragged, and he was wearing a pair of big and ridiculous gray gloves. He was rubbing his stomach hard, as if he were starving.
Long Yunxin was dumbfounded. "Xie Anan, how did you know that he was a mysterious expert?"
Hardly had she concluded her sentence when Xie Anan jumped out!
A month and a half ago, she had not forgotten the mysterious expert she had met in the virtual registration point on the Spiritual Nexus, who had passed the test perfectly in only one minute. She did not expect that he would look exactly like that in reality, except that he was thinner than before. She recognized him after only one look!
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