Chapter 18: The Eightfold Path of Martial Arts (Part 2)

  "After cultivating the Xiantian Gong to the fifth layer, my strength has increased by at least several times compared to when I was in the Seventh Layer of the Martial Path. Now, even if I encounter a martial artist who is in the Tenth Layer of the Martial Path, I have confidence that I can fight them."

  "The medicinal effect of this Qihuang grass is indeed powerful, and my cultivation has been upgraded by one realm. However, nearly half of the Tian Di Yuan Qi still remains in my body and hasn't been fully absorbed and refined. If I can absorb and refine the remaining Tian Di Yuan Qi, the time it takes for me to enter the 9th level of the Martial Dao Realm will be greatly shortened."

  "What a pity! Although the Kui Huang grass is good, it only takes effect when used for the first time. The second time will be immune. Otherwise, with these five leaves of Kui Huang grass, wouldn't I be able to forcefully raise my cultivation to the tenth level of Wudao? However, the remaining four leaves are also treasures and can be left for others. Giving one leaf to Huang Shi, who is only at the third level of Wudao, should be enough to raise his cultivation by several levels."

  "The remaining leaves can be exchanged for spiritual medicine to treat injuries, and used to repair Father's meridians. If Father's strength is restored, what need we fear from the Niu, Cheng, and Zhang families? Not to mention all of Beidao County, even the entire Shendao Wang Dynasty, Father will be able to dominate with a single hand."

  "Now that I'm on a roll, even though my cultivation has broken through, it's still rash to leave the Yin Wind Mountains abruptly, and there might be danger. This place is deep within the Yin Wind Mountains, where martial artists rarely come. As long as it's not a third-level demon beast or a second-level demon beast overlord, with my current strength, I can handle it. Why don't I just continue to fight against the demon beasts here and stimulate the potential within my body? Let me fully absorb and refine the Heavenly Earth Origin within my body as soon as possible, and break through to the ninth level of the Martial Dao Realm."

  "The tenth-level disciples of the Tiānjiàn Sect's martial path are much more formidable than ordinary Jianghu vagrants, as they cultivate the most powerful Huang-stage superior techniques. Only when I entered the ninth level of the martial path did I have a 100% guarantee to sweep through the entire outer gate and seize first place. The cultivation at the eighth level of the martial path still carries some risk."

  "In that case, there's no need to rush back to the sect for now. I'll continue to cultivate here. The location where I hid the demon core is very secluded, so it shouldn't be lost. When I leave the Yin Wind Mountains, I'll retrieve it then."

  Xuantian thought for a moment in his heart and soon made up his mind.

  Leaving the tree hole, Xuan Tian left the dense forest about ten miles away and began to look for the footprints of the demon beast.

  Just like when he first entered the Yin Wind Mountains, Xuan Tian Bai Tian fought fiercely with the demonic beasts during the day and retreated to a tree cave at night to meditate quietly, rest and recover, and reflect on the gains of the day's battle.

  Xuantian's swordsmanship became increasingly refined, a set of mid-grade Yellow Tier Wind Chasing Sword Technique in his hands was executed with divine inspiration, compared to the high-grade Yellow Tier sword techniques practiced by other warriors, it was even more formidable.

  The only pity is that Xuan Tian still hasn't created a suitable mental technique for the Xuanjie Sword Technique, "Absolute Shadow Sword Law".

  Learning and creation are two completely different fields. Xuan Tian can easily learn any skill or technique, but creating something new is extremely difficult, especially when it comes to creating a mental method for a sword technique that someone else has already created.

  Xuan Tian was not in a hurry, now he relied on the Pursuing Wind Sword Technique, which was enough to resist any warrior below the Pre-Heavenly Realm. The Absolute Shadow Sword Technique was a Xuan-level sword technique, if it were that easy to create a matching heart method, it wouldn't have been left in the Martial Techniques Pavilion for so many years without anyone paying attention to it.

  Even the master and elder of the Tianjian Sect couldn't create a matching heart method, let alone Xuantian, who wouldn't be disheartened or humiliated by this matter.

  Time passed day by day, and during this period, Xuan Tian's luck seemed to be exceptionally good. Every day, he went out to hunt and kill demon beasts. Xuan Tian still used the method of attracting them with demon beast blood and flesh, but for more than half a month, not even one third-grade demon beast was attracted.

  This place is very close to the territory of third-level demon beasts, and it's normal for them to occasionally come here to be active. Not having encountered a single third-level demon beast in over half a month is indeed extremely lucky.

  Even if a third-level demon beast doesn't come, as long as it's a second-level demon beast overlord, under the Xuantian Sword, it will still be defeated.

  Xuántiān is now not only the Wind Chasing Sword Technique, but also the Spirit Snake Step and Leopard Shadow Technique have reached the level of being out of this world. The same sword techniques and light body skills, Xuántiān's display is vastly different from ordinary people.

  It's said that there is no strongest martial art in the world, only the strongest person, perhaps this is what it means.

  For more than half a month, Xuan Tian has been extremely cautious, discovering warriors and avoiding them from afar, trying not to encounter them. He killed the demon beasts, didn't want their fur or materials, only digging out their demon cores.

  After more than 20 days, the demon core of Xuantian has increased by a large margin, with as many as 500 to 600 cores, and most of them are second-level upper-tier demon cores, or even the demon cores of second-level demon overlords.

  In the blink of an eye, another month has almost passed. The Heavenly Origin Qi in Xuan Tian's body has been fully refined after nearly a month of fierce battles with the demon beasts. His cultivation has reached the 8th layer of the Martial Dao Realm, and it seems that his cultivation will break through again soon.

  The Outer Disciple Ranking Competition of the Tianjian Sect is only more than half a month away, and Xuantian plans to practice for another two or three days before setting off back to the Tianjian Sect. This time when he returns, he must make all the outer disciples look at him with new eyes.

  What's wrong with Zhang Long? Brother Yang, we must beat them until they're picking their teeth off the ground.

  On this day, Xuan Tian went out to hunt and kill a demon beast, walking more than 50 miles before finding the first one.

  Second-level upper-tier demon beast, Golden Wind Python.

  With Xuan Tian's current strength, dealing with a second-level upper-stage demon beast was easy and effortless. Soon, the Golden Wind Python was cut into two segments by Xuan Tian, its head split open, and the demon core fell into Xuan Tian's hands.

  Then, Xuantian lay in wait nearby, waiting for other demonic beasts to come and deliver themselves to death after smelling the bloody aura.

  Whoosh! Bang!

  Just as the Dark Heaven had been lurking for less than five minutes, suddenly a skyrocket burst forth from the northwest direction. The firework exploded high in the sky, forming a huge "sword" character that could be seen for hundreds of miles around.

  "Sky Sword Sect's signal flare? Is a Sky Sword Sect disciple in danger?" Xuan Tian's eyes narrowed.

  Xuantian immediately got up, his body transformed into a residual shadow, like a cheetah rushing towards the location where the signal bullet was fired, and quickly rushed over. When fellow disciples are in trouble, not rescuing them is not Xuantian's character.

  The location of the signal flare was only a dozen miles away from Xuantian, and in just ten minutes or so, Xuantian arrived at his destination.

  Looking at the scene in front of him, Xuan Tian took a deep breath.

  In front of us was a long, narrow valley, about 100 meters long and 30-40 meters wide. At this moment, the valley was filled with a loud humming noise, and the sky was densely packed with giant bees the size of an adult's head, numbering at least tens of thousands.

  This is the giant needle bee, notorious in the Yin Wind Mountains. The stinger at its tail is thicker than a human thumb and as long as two middle fingers. It shines brightly in sunlight but sends chills down one's spine.

  Jūzhēn fēng is a rare group of demonic beasts in the Yīnfēng mountain range, their strength is not high, they are first-class upper-tier demonic beasts, and their strength is roughly equivalent to that of a martial artist at the third or fourth level of the Wǔdào realm.

  However, the giant needle bees move in swarms, and once they attack, there are at least tens of thousands of them. Even a top-tier third-class demonic beast would be powerless against their assault, ultimately meeting its end with its blood and flesh drained by the giant needles.

  Among the dense giant wasp, there were two girls about fifteen or sixteen years old. Their sword energy stretched out for hundreds of feet, and with each strike, at least a dozen giant wasps were cut in half. The mountain valley was littered with the corpses of thousands of giant wasps.

  However, the number of giant wasps flying in the air is more numerous, and the giant wasps are fearless of death, continuously rushing towards the two girls, even if the two girls have extraordinary strength, they gradually become exhausted and unable to withstand the desperate attack of the giant wasps.

  "Is he a congenital master, an inner disciple of the Tianjian Sect?" Xuantian immediately judged as soon as he saw the sword energy released by his two masters.

  The sword energy is unrestrained for a hundred steps, and only a master of the Innate Realm can display it.

  The sword auras of the two female masters were incredibly fierce and powerful, probably not even novice Pre-Heavenly experts, at least they were Second or Third Order existences.

  Save people first!

  As the two female masters gradually showed signs of defeat, Xuan Tian was like a hunting leopard, charging into the giant needle bee swarm.

  A long sword in hand, a sword energy of over 50 feet long, burst out.

  Seven or eight giant wasps dodged too late and were split in half by Xuán Tiān's sword energy.

  Buzz buzz buzz... Seven or eight giant killer bees died, seven or eight hundred giant killer bees rushed towards Xuantiān.

  He has been fighting against the demonic beasts for almost two months, and no matter how ferocious they are, they cannot shake his heart. However, the giant needle bees that come pouring in like a deluge, fearless of life and death, have left him utterly astonished.

  Sword energy bursts and flashes, traversing all directions.

  Xuantian unleashed the Wind Chasing Sword Technique, his speed reaching an extreme point. His entire being was surrounded by sword lights flashing in all directions. In the blink of an eye, over a dozen giant needle bees were sliced to death and fell to the ground.

  However, even more giant hornets came flying over.

  Xuān Tiān was shocked, his sword energy slashed out, killing a giant needle bee. A counter-shock force transmitted back, if not for his cultivation of the Pre-Heavenly Technique, with deep internal energy, over ten successive counter-shocks transmitted back, he feared that the sword in his hand would have been shaken loose, and his entire person would have been knocked to the ground.

  At this time, Xuan Tian finally knew that the strength of the two female masters was terrifying. Each sword they cut out had more than a dozen giant bees split in half. Their sword speed was very fast, and at least three swords were cut out in the blink of an eye.

  In the blink of an eye, they would be subjected to more than thirty aftershocks. From the moment the signal was sent out until now, more than ten minutes had passed, which means that they were constantly under the impact of continuous aftershocks, yet they remained steady and calm.

  Xuan Tian's finger snapped, and the long sword almost fell out of his hand. The distance between them was now clearly visible.

  Xuan Tian had just charged into the giant bee swarm when he found himself surrounded, and at this moment, it was not to mention going to rescue the two female masters, but facing the giant bees' overwhelming attack, he could hardly protect himself.

  "Junior brother, hold on, come towards us!" At this time, a pleasant voice sounded in Xuantian's ear.

  Xuantian took a glance and saw two female masters, their sword energy sweeping past, giant needles falling from the sky, as they charged towards his location.

  Xuān Tiān was shocked, his spirit greatly shaken, and his strength also increased significantly. With a fierce battle, he broke through the dense swarm of giant needles and rushed forward, soon reuniting with his two sisters.

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