Lu Qingshan stood by the lakeside, facing the gentle breeze and the morning dew. He stared at the black carps in the small lake.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Strands of fine sword energy no different from swimming fish swam about in the small lake.
These black carps seemed to treat the sword energy as their companions, and began to happily play around with it.
This was inconceivable in the eyes of onlookers.
Sword energy was the sharpest object, and its sharpness radiated in all directions. Right now, it was actually so gentle that even the swimming fish didn't fear it. This level of control was simply terrifying.
"Not bad. Your sword intent is restrained like a swimming fish." A soft voice of praise sounded from behind Lu Qingshan.
Lu Qingshan's mind shook. All of the strands of sword energy in the lake suddenly shot up and entered his body.
Then, Lu Qingshan turned around.
A green-clothed figure appeared before his eyes. She was standing just a few steps behind him.
The woman had vermillion lips and a jade-like face. Her brows were like distant mountains, but there was a hint of exhaustion on her face.
"Master." Lu Qingshan called out respectfully.
Xia Daoyun glanced at the six hundred and fifty strands of sword energy that had entered Lu Qingshan's body. She nodded slightly and explained, "I was delayed by some matters, so I came back a bit late."
Lu Qingshan naturally didn't have any objections.
"Your sword intent has improved quite quickly." Xia Daoyun's eyes were filled with gratification. "You seem to have reached a higher level."
With a wave of her sleeve, a simple and unadorned piece of green spiritual jade flew over to Lu Qingshan.
Lu Qingshan caught the green spiritual jade with a bit of astonishment.
An unimaginably profound dao pattern was engraved on the spiritual jade, and the aura of dao flowed out from it.
"This is?"
"The reward for being the champion of the Seven Regions Dao Discussion. The Void Refining chapter of the Da Xia Kingdom scripture you chose," Xia Daoyun said. "The spiritual jade contains the aura of the Da Xia Kingdom scripture.
After you send your divine sense into it, the aura of dao will simulate the various transformations of the scripture in your soul. Then, the aura of dao will disappear.
Besides that, you can only cultivate this scripture by yourself, and you can't teach it to anyone else, including the members of the Sword Sect. "
"Of course." Lu Qingshan understood.
He didn't expect that the Da Xia Kingdom's Sutra of the Da Xia Kingdom, which was said to be delivered to him personally, was actually entrusted to him by his master.
However …
Lu Qingshan narrowed his eyes and thought of a problem.
The Da Xia Kingdom possessed such an important inheritance. How could the Da Xia Kingdom hand it over to Xia Daoyun so casually?
Was it because he trusted that Xia Daoyun wouldn't pry into his secrets?
Or was it that even if Xia Daoyun saw the Da Xia Kingdom's cultivation technique, she wouldn't be affected?
He then thought of Xia Daoyun's surname.
Without a doubt, the latter was more likely …
However, if Xia Daoyun really did have the bloodline of a Dao Ancestor, and was a member of the Da Xia Kingdom's imperial family, why would she cultivate in the Sword Sect, and even become the Sword Sect's Sword Cometh Peak Master?
When Lu Qingshan thought of this, he immediately felt that there must be an extremely interesting reason behind this. However, he had already put the Da Xia Kingdom's Sutra of the Da Xia Kingdom into his storage ring.
"Do you know why I told you to raise the Myriad Sword Technique to a certain level before teaching you anything else?" Xia Daoyun asked.
"It is so that I can have a better understanding of my own sword intent, as well as better control over it," Lu Qingshan said.
Xia Daoyun nodded slightly. "Then do you know why I value sword intent so much?"
Lu Qingshan shook his head.
He actually knew a bit about it.
Intent was related to the path of cultivation.
However, what he knew was too shallow. That was why he still wanted to hear more about it from Xia Daoyun.
"There are a total of ten realms on the path of cultivation.
In the human race, only Dao Ancestors have reached the tenth realm. Let's not talk about it for now, but let's call it the ninth realm.
The Void Refinement realm is the fifth realm of cultivation. Even though the number of cultivators who can reach this realm is already extremely small, in reality, only after reaching the fifth realm can a cultivator's path of cultivation be considered to have truly begun.
The first four realms are only the foundational stages.
The most important transformation of the fifth realm is the formation of the Dao Seed.
What is the Dao Seed formed from?
It is formed from intent. The stronger the intent, the more vigorous the Dao Seed will be.
That is why in the Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul realms, you have to do your best to comprehend and raise your intent. This is related to your future path of cultivation. "Xia Daoyun explained in great detail.
"Ji Chuan has reached the great circle of the Nascent Soul realm a long time ago, and is known to be invincible in the four realms.
If he wants to break through to the Void Refinement realm, he can do it with a single thought.
However, he has been suppressing his cultivation this entire time. In reality, it is because he wants to raise one of his higher intents to Essence True Intent, and then condense a Dao Seed. However, he hasn't accumulated enough, so he can only do this. "Xia Daoyun directly used Ji Chuan as an example.
"That is why it is definitely not a bad thing to start cultivating intent a bit earlier," Xia Daoyun said as if it was a matter of fact.
As for the Golden Elixir Daoist, comprehending intent was an extremely difficult task. Normally, only after reaching the Nascent Soul realm would one be able to do so with a bit of ease. Xia Daoyun had never done so before.
This was because her cultivation was already like this. She had already comprehended Essence True Intent in the Golden Elixir realm.
That was why, from what she knew, there was absolutely no problem for her to start cultivating intent in the Golden Elixir.
"I understand." Lu Qingshan said.
"Take out your sword talisman," Xia Daoyun said.
Lu Qingshan hurriedly took out his Willow Catkin Sword Talisman.
Xia Daoyun reached out with her index finger, and with a light tap, a streak of spiritual light entered the sword talisman.
"I've added ten days to your sword talisman to comprehend the Sword Stele Secret Realm. Now, you can make a trip to the Sword Stele," Xia Daoyun said indifferently.
When Lu Qingshan heard this, he was moved. He said respectfully, "Thank you, Master."
"Intent is a matter of personal experience. I cannot teach you too much. Most of it is up to you to figure it out yourself." Xia Daoyun floated away.
… …
After she left, Lu Qingshan turned his gaze towards his sword talisman.
It was actually the Sword Stele Secret Realm!
Ji Chuan had once introduced this place to the six new disciples.
This was the most important secret realm in the Sword Sect for disciples below the Void Tempering realm.
The Sword Stele Secret Realm was established not long after the Sword Sect was established.
At that time, there was a Seventh Level sword cultivator in the Sword Sect who had reached the end of his life.
Because his cultivation hadn't reached the level required to establish a main peak, he wasn't able to accept disciples and pass on his sword dao.
However, he wasn't willing to let the sword dao he'd cultivated his entire life quietly die, nor was he willing to casually pass on his sword techniques to a mediocre disciple just so he could pass them on.
After pondering for a while, he came up with an idea. He took out a stone stele, and left behind countless sword scars that contained his own sword intent and sword techniques, unconditionally allowing future disciples of the Sword Sect to comprehend them.
These sword scars were cryptic and difficult to understand. Only truly talented cultivators would be able to comprehend something from them.
This way, he would be able to use a clever method to pass on his sword techniques forever.
His actions gave the cultivators of the Sword Sect a great deal of inspiration.
Countless sword cultivators who didn't have the fortune to establish a main peak all followed his example, and left behind a sword stele that contained all of their comprehension and experience for future disciples of the Sword Sect to comprehend.
Over the past tens of thousands of years, there were more and more cultivators like this. This was a virtuous cycle, and the number of sword steles also increased.
In the end, the Sword Sect simply gathered all of these sword steles together, creating a forest of sword steles for the disciples of the Sword Sect to comprehend.
These sword steles that contained all of the experiences of previous sword cultivators were extremely useful to lower level sword cultivators.
Xia Daoyun hoped that Lu Qingshan would be able to comprehend one or two suitable intents in the Sword Stele Hidden Realm.
The effects of intents on one's battle prowess were obvious, and it was also related to one's future path. Lu Qingshan was naturally happy to see this happen.
In addition, there was another reason why he hadn't reached the peak of the Golden Elixir yet.
The Daoist Scripture technique he cultivated had an additional effect:
When the Daoist Scripture's Golden Elixir was cultivated to the peak, one would comprehend a divine ability.
The exact form and power of this divine ability depended on the cultivator's comprehension of intents.
To put it simply, the deeper one's comprehension of intents, the more powerful the divine ability would be.
That was why he wanted to grasp as many sword intents as possible, as well as raise the level of his intents, before increasing his cultivation. From there, he could comprehend more powerful divine abilities.
Xia Daoyun's thoughts just so happened to coincide with his own.
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