Within a radius of one thousand meters, there were shining four-edged sword pillars that were as thick as thighs, pointing straight to the sky.
Every sword pillar was two meters tall, and there was no hilt, only a four-edged sword body standing upright on the ground. The edges were sharpened, emitting a faint cyan light, looking extremely sharp.
At a glance, there were hundreds of such terrifying sword pillars. They were densely distributed, and the distance between each sword pillar was less than half a meter.
Chen Zong stood at the entrance. Seeing this scene, he was very surprised, and then his eyes shone brightly.
"I hope this place can help me master this body movement in a short period of time," Chen Zong said to himself.
A few days ago, Chen Zong bought a body movement technique in a treasure house in Ascending Sky City. It was a Heaven Level body movement technique that lacked the last level.
Nine Phantom Light Steps
This was a combat footwork, unlike the Sweeping Eight Directions technique that was used for long-distance running.
Chen Zong stepped into the range of the sword pillars. With a buzzing sound, the sword pillars seemed to come alive, and started to rotate slowly. The terrifying sharpness became even more threatening, like sword Qi soaring into the sky, which made people's hearts palpitate.
Taking a step forward, Chen Zong crossed the first sword pillar and entered it. Immediately, the rotating sword pillars began to move. They moved back and forth, left and right. Their speed was not fast, but when they intersected, they sealed off all possibilities of dodging.
Chen Zong's figure flashed, and his feet seemed to be wrapped up in a ray of light. His figure then followed with astonishing agility, dodging the attack of a sword pillar. However, at the same time, a few more sword pillars attacked. The terrifying rotating sharpness seemed to want to tear Chen Zong apart, and nothing could stop it.
At this critical moment, Chen Zong did not use his sword to block. Instead, he took another step forward, and with light under his feet, he dodged again. It was a close call.
It was as if he was walking on a tightrope, and below him was a bottomless abyss. The cultivation of these sword pillars brought Chen Zong enough pressure, which made him more focused and easier to cultivate.
For example, cultivating this sword pillar required ten substandard spiritual sources a day, which was quite expensive.
The complete Phantom Nine Steps Technique was divided into three stages, but Chen Zong had only bought the first two stages. If it was the complete Phantom Nine Steps Technique, it would be a Heaven Grade Peerless Art. Usually, it would be taken by the big Sect and would not be circulated outside.
The first level was called Shadowless Illusory Light. As the name implied, once one reached the pinnacle of this technique, one would be unable to see one's figure, only a ball of illusory light. It would cause one to be dazzled, difficult to capture, and difficult to attack.
The second stage was called Nine Revolutions, Thousand Revolutions. It was based on the first stage and was even more profound.
Now, Chen Zong was practicing the first level of the Shadowless Phantom Light. Light shone under his feet.
Time flew. For a few days, Chen Zong had been practicing the Phantom Nine Steps Technique in this sword pillar. His comprehension was amazing, and under the hard work, he made rapid progress.
When he took a step forward, the illusory light suddenly rose from his feet, as if it had swallowed his legs and reached his waist. The lower half of Chen Zong's body turned into an illusory light. His feet could not be seen, and his body seemed to be several times lighter. He was incomparably agile, and he calmly avoided the attacks of the sword pillars.
Cultivate, cultivate, cultivate. Every time he performed the Phantom Nine Steps Technique, the illusory light would spread further on his body, to his chest, and then to his neck.
When the illusory light covered his whole body and became one, it meant that the first level of the Shadowless Phantom Light had been cultivated to the pinnacle.
"Today, I'll cultivate it to the pinnacle," Chen Zong thought to himself.
With a bit of obsession and amazing talent, the first level of the Shadowless Phantom Light continued to move forward. Between the hundreds of sword pillars, a ball of illusory light moved quickly. It was as light as the wind, and as nimble as the floating clouds.
With a swoosh, the ball of light became one, and it shuttled through several extremely dangerous sword pillars without touching them. Immediately, the illusory light rushed out of the sword pillars' range and appeared outside of them. When the light disappeared, Chen Zong's figure also appeared.
"I've finally cultivated the first level. Although my combat strength did not directly increase, it has become more flexible." Chen Zong thought to himself, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes. "After I've cultivated the second level, I'll go challenge the Sky Tower."
Chen Zong had not made any progress in the cultivation of the third level of the Change of Will. He knew very well how to cultivate the third level, and he also knew the reason why it was so difficult for him to cultivate it. However, there was no way to solve it now. He had searched in many treasure pavilions, but there was no suitable way to cultivate spiritual power.
This kind of cultivation method was even more precious than a peerless Heaven Grade Secret Art or Martial Art. Only a small number of powerful forces possessed such a method.
Since this was the case, if he wanted to become stronger, he would have to break through to the peak of the True Martial Realm. Currently, he had no clue how to do so, and with half a year's time, Chen Zong had no confidence he would succeed.
The other option was to break through to the Pseudo Transcendent Realm. However, after breaking through to the Pseudo Transcendent Realm, his combat strength would greatly increase, but if he went to challenge the Sky Tower, the difficulty would become as high as a Pseudo Transcendent. At that time, whether or not he could reach the ninth floor was still unknown, let alone the tenth or eleventh floor.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Zong really could not find a way to continue improving his combat strength in a short time, so he chose this incomplete peerless Heaven Grade Movement Technique. After cultivating it, his combat strength would not directly increase, but it would significantly increase.
At that time, it would be time for him to challenge the Sky Tower.
Striking while the iron was hot, Chen Zong continued to cultivate inside the sword pillars the next day.
This time, Chen Zong wanted to cultivate the second stage of the Nine Revolutions Phantom Light Nine Steps, Nine Revolutions Thousand Revolutions.
The mysteries of this stage were at least several times more profound than the first, so naturally, it was more difficult to cultivate, but Chen Zong had already comprehended it, so all that was left was to cultivate and master it.
Ta ta ta ta
Taking one step after another, the light under Chen Zong's feet surged upwards, engulfing his entire body, transforming him into a mass of illusory light, as light and agile as the wind.
Amidst the intense buzzing, the rotation and movement speed of the sword pillar more than doubled, becoming even more terrifying. As it rotated, it even emitted waves of astonishing suction force. The crazy suction force seemed to mince everything in the surroundings into powder. Its rotation speed was extremely fast, and as it moved, it rubbed against the air and emitted an astonishing high temperature, turning into strands of flames that burned fiercely.
In an instant, the entire sword pillar field seemed to be engulfed in a raging inferno, becoming even more terrifying.
Compared to before, this kind of power had increased by at least ten times.
Chen Zong's expression changed. He never imagined that the sword pillar's difficulty would be so terrifying when raised to the highest level.
At this time, some people walked into the sword pillar field, preparing to cultivate with the help of the sword pillar. There were a total of three people, and as soon as they stepped in, they were greeted by a sea of fiery red, as if they had walked to the edge of a sea of fire. The blazing heat made their mouths dry and their bodies hot.
"What's going on?"
"Who activated the sword pillar's highest difficulty?"
The three people were all horrified, their eyes widening as they stared at the blazing inferno in front of them, their ears echoing with a terrifying momentum, making them feel very small.
It was too terrifying.
"I can only see a mass of light, I can't see who it is."
"The person who can cultivate at this highest difficulty should be a pseudo-Transcendence."
The three of them directly defined Chen Zong as a pseudo-Transcendence master.
In fact, in terms of speed and agility, Chen Zong was indeed not inferior to an early Seven Star pseudo-Transcendence, and even faster than those who were not proficient in speed. Now that he had cultivated the more advanced Phantom Light Nine Steps, his speed had been further enhanced, so it was not surprising that he was regarded as a pseudo-Transcendence master in this aspect.
Chen Zong did not know what the others were thinking. The pressure he was under right now was too great. He felt that the terrifying sword pillar was strangling him, as if it would grind him to dust at any time, and the terrifying heat was constantly rising, as if it would burn him to a crisp.
The light around his body flickered, becoming thinner and thinner.
Chen Zong's footsteps seemed to gradually slow down, and his figure seemed to become more hazy.
The four sword pillars madly strangled him, and the terrifying flames surrounded Chen Zong from all directions, leaving him with nowhere to run. Even if he had reached the consummate first layer of the Phantom Light Nine Steps, he could not escape.
Just as Chen Zong was about to be strangled and burned to ashes by the four sword pillars, Chen Zong took a step forward.
This step seemed to be accompanied by endless smoke, as if he had crossed over from another world. The moment his foot landed, Chen Zong's figure was astonishingly distorted, as if he had been torn apart by an unknown power. It was as if ripples of light were surging in his body.
At the same time, four terrifying sword pillars with blazing flames shot out and struck the shattered light figure, causing it to disappear completely. However, Chen Zong's figure appeared outside the four sword pillars, safe and sound.
"That's the feeling," Chen Zong thought.
The feeling just now was very mysterious and difficult to describe in words, but it was the mystery of the Nine Steps, Thousand Revolutions.
Of course, it was just the first layer of the Nine Steps, Thousand Revolutions.
Chen Zong continued to cultivate, but the consumption of the second layer was many times more than that of the first layer. Even with Chen Zong's terrifyingly pure True Force, he could not support it more than a few times.
When the energy was almost exhausted, Chen Zong left the sword pillar formation, and the sword pillar formation gradually quieted down.
"It's him."
"Who?"
"Chen Zong, the first person to reach the tenth floor of the Sky Tower in a hundred years."
"Isn't he in the Real Martial Arts Realm?"
"Yes, he is in the Real Martial Arts Realm. He can cultivate at the highest level of the sword pillar and still be intact. How terrifying."
The three people looked at Chen Zong's back as he left, and their eyes widened in horror.
After that, Chen Zong came to the sword pillar formation every day to cultivate the Nine Steps, Thousand Revolutions. Every day, he made progress and gradually improved.
First layer.
Second layer.
Third layer.
Fourth layer.
Improvement, improvement, and improvement.
In the blink of an eye, one month had passed, and Chen Zong had cultivated the Nine Steps, Thousand Revolutions, to the last layer.
But this was not the end, but a new beginning. Because the Phantom Nine Steps was a footwork that was driven by True Force, Chen Zong's strongest strength was the strength of his body and the sword energy formed by the True Force, so he had to try to use the sword energy to perform this footwork.
Using the sword energy to perform the Phantom Nine Steps was more difficult than Chen Zong had imagined. The first layer was okay, and it took Chen Zong ten days. The second layer was really difficult. One month had passed, and there was only progress, but it was not complete.
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