At the beginning of every year, after the end of the new year's enrollment, the Nanming Academy would hold a Promotion Competition.
The Promotion Competition would be held in the Nanming Academy's lower house, and the top ten students of the Nanming Academy's lower house would be directly promoted to the upper house.
The top 100 students of the Promotion Competition had the right to challenge the bottom 100 students of the Nanming Academy's upper house. The winner would remain in the upper house, and the loser would be demoted to the lower house.
Seeing that the Promotion Competition was approaching, Chu Xingyun had no choice but to start making preparations.
Although Chu Xingyun would absolutely be able to easily pass the Promotion Competition this time if nothing unexpected happened, in reality, accidents would always accompany him.
Not to mention anything else, just take the Nanming Academy's upper house's 100-person trial as an example. Didn't Chu Xingyun encounter the obstruction of five great outstanding figures, and in the end, he was defeated at the hands of Dongfang Tianxiu?
After rushing to the underground world once more, Chu Xingyun once again entered closed door cultivation when there was still over a month before the Promotion Competition.
In the underground space, Chu Xingyun once again appeared in the forest of stalagmites, and with a wave of the Skysplitter Sword in his hand, a strand of alternating red and gold sword qi whistled out.
Whoosh!
Amidst the violent whistling sound, the alternating red and gold sword qi whistled out as it slashed out, and everywhere it passed, all the stalagmites would break in response.
With just a strand of sword qi, over a dozen stalagmites in a fan-shaped area with a radius of ten meters were slashed apart.
If one looked carefully, the broken parts of those stalagmites were smooth and bright, and emitted spirals of smoke and fire. Very obviously … Chu Xingyun's sword qi was absolutely extraordinary.
In merely a year, Chu Xingyun's sword qi was already incomparable to the past. The might of the sword qi was a hundred times stronger than last year.
A hundred times!
You didn't see wrong. In fact, even a hundred times wasn't enough to describe the difference.
On this day last year, Chu Xingyun's sword qi was only able to slash a white mark on the stalagmite, and it was utterly unable to cause any substantial damage to the stalagmite.
But now, within the effective range of the sword qi, all the stalagmites broke in response, and they were completely unable to resist.
In just a year's time, how could Chu Xingyun's sword qi improve so much?
In fact, the reason was very simple. Although Chu Xingyun's Sword Dao was still in the Qi Sword Realm, one shouldn't forget that Chu Xingyun's seven great chakras were inlaid with seven eighth-grade golden soul bones.
With the enhancement from the seven golden soul bones, Chu Xingyun was as good as equipped with an imperial weapon even though he was bare-handed. Therefore, the strength of Chu Xingyun's sword qi was a hundred times stronger than before.
With a casual wave of his hand, streaks of golden sword qi danced in the air, and swaths of stalagmites were cut apart.
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.. After a year of development, the Demon Spirit Clan had changed.
With the end of the war and the continuous promotion and research of rune patterns, the entire Demon Spirit Clan advanced by leaps and bounds in just a year's time.
It could be said that the Demon Spirit Clan's development in the past year was faster than the previous ten thousand years.
After entering the underground Demon Spirit World, Fei Xiang could only see a dense cloud of bamboo birds in the sky.
Upon closer inspection, the bamboo bird had a bamboo tube as its main body. A wide main piece passed through the bamboo tube as a pair of wings. The tail of the bamboo bird was like a Demonic Spirit Rocket, with several bamboo pieces standing upright as tail fins.
It sounded complicated, but the structure of the bamboo bird was very simple. It was made of bamboo tubes and bamboo pieces inlaid. The key parts were fixed by metal. The shape was very simple, but the structure was very strong.
These bamboo birds were very small, as big as human toys. But for the Demon Spirit Clan, this size was enough. After all … the Demon Spirit Clan was only a dozen centimeters tall.
In the abdomen of the bamboo birds, there were various rune arrays, some of which were wind and some of which were fire.
Now, the Demon Spirit Clan, who had studied rune patterns to the third level, could adjust the array level and control the output of the array power.
For example, when taking off, they first had to activate the first level array. After increasing the speed to a certain extent, they could activate the second level array.
When the second level array pushed the speed to the limit, it would switch to the third level array. Under the huge thrust, the bamboo birds soared into the sky and flew into the air.
Under the impetus of the array, the bamboo birds could fly in the air like real birds. They could be slow or fast, but they were very flexible and swift.
Not only could the bamboo birds fly in the sky, but they could also run on the ground. The bamboo birds had become the Demon Spirit Clan's transportation tool. Not every person had one, but every family had one.
Although the bamboo birds consumed a lot of spirit stones, the Demon Spirit Clan was counting on the Demon Spirit Clan to discover and locate the spirit stone reserves in the underground world, as well as organize their forces to mine them.
With the bamboo birds, the Demon Spirit Clan's work efficiency doubled. Places that were difficult to reach before could now be reached very quickly.
Chi la …
In the Demon Spirit World, a Dimensional Gate shone, and in the next moment … Chu Xingyun's Demon Spirit Body stepped out.
Sensing Chu Xingyun's appearance, the Demon Spirit Empress and the Demon Spirit Marshal immediately rushed over.
They looked at Chu Xingyun with incomparable reverence. They knew very well that Chu Xingyun wouldn't come here if there was no reason.
In fact, in order to cultivate sword qi, Chu Xingyun had to find a suitable target.
If it was purely to cultivate the power of sword qi, it would be fine. But in fact, the accuracy of sword qi was the most important.
Sword qi that had power but no accuracy was very useful to deal with weak opponents, but it was very difficult to defeat a real expert.
As the saying goes, the slightest difference makes a difference of a thousand miles. When facing a real expert, if the sword qi couldn't accurately hit the opponent's vital point, it would be impossible to effectively cause damage to the opponent.
Although Chu Xingyun's sword qi was incomparably tyrannical, as long as the opponent was in the realm of a Martial Emperor and wore a set of Emperor-level armor, his sword qi would be powerless.
If he wanted to rely on sword qi to defeat the opponent, he had to cut through the gaps in the armor or the combination of the helmet and armor. Only then could he effectively kill the opponent.
If he wanted to train accuracy, he had to have materials that were hard enough for Chu Xingyun to train.
If it was just cutting some rocks and other materials, it wouldn't be enough.
Under Chu Xingyun's inquiry, the Demon Spirit Empress quickly gave an answer. If there were no surprises, black gold ore should meet Chu Xingyun's requirements.
Black gold ore was a hard ore that could be refined into black gold. Its hardness was not inferior to ordinary King Artifacts.
Originally, the Demon Spirit Clan didn't store black gold ore, but … after Chu Xingyun took over the Demon Spirit Clan, all kinds of precious minerals became the resources that the Demon Spirit Clan collected and stored.
Black gold ore was one of the rarest and most precious ores. Naturally, the more he had, the better.
Soon, under the guidance of the Demon Spirit Empress, Chu Xingyun arrived at the underground warehouse where the black gold ore was stored.
After choosing a dozen oval-shaped black gold ores with a diameter of one meter and a height of two meters, Chu Xingyun left the Demon Spirit World and returned to the secret cultivation room to continue cultivating.
After entering the Reincarnation Space and looking at the huge black gold ore standing in front of him, Chu Xingyun drew the Sky Slashing Sword from his waist.
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