Chapter 32: Refining and Tempering, Hammering the Sword! (Urgently seeking recommendation votes)

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  Back at the Zizhu Residence, Lu Qing instructed the disciples in charge of daily chores to leave food outside the door, and then returned to his ascetic state. With less than two months left until the year-end competition, Lu Qing wanted to use the recently harvested 900-year-old top-grade silver ginseng to further improve himself.

  He took out a white jade box from his bosom, and Lu Qing looked at this exquisitely carved jade flower white jade box. It was indeed luxurious. In the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, in order to facilitate trade between various sects, five thousand years ago, the Sword God Temple supervised the casting of the first batch of coins. The coins used jade as their raw material, so they were called jade coins. They were also divided into three grades according to the number of mining veins discovered: the lowest was the Qingyu coin, followed by the Baiyu coin, and finally the Ziyu coin, which was only used for large-scale transactions in the market. The difference between each adjacent grade was a hundredfold.

  Looking at this white jade box again, it can be melted into jade liquid and cast into more than 50 white jade coins. One white jade coin is enough for a family of three to live a simple life for a month, as Lü Qing knows. Not to mention that there is also a purple jade small knife with the box, which is even more valuable than the jade box itself.

  As soon as the jade box was opened, a strong ginseng fragrance wafted out, and Lu Qing couldn't help but take a deep breath. Suddenly, it seemed like his spirit was satisfied, and his energy was revitalized. Looking beside him, there was a lingzhi mushroom with a purple-red body and four leaves of ganoderma, which was the same four-product purple lingzhi that Lu Qing had taken out earlier. It was finally given to Lu Qing by Nie Qingtian because its medicinal properties were too high, and any medicine under 500 years old would no longer be effective.

  After careful consideration, Lu Qing used the purple jade dagger to divide the silver ginseng into thirty pieces and the purple fungus into sixty pieces. He recalled the incomplete pharmacopoeia in his mind, took two pieces of purple fungus and one piece of silver ginseng, and put the rest back into the jade box.

  Not even chewing, all three pieces are extremely rare, and even the silver ginseng in today's ten thousand mountains can be said to be a precious treasure that is hard to come by. As soon as it enters the mouth, it melts into three clusters of clear fragrance, flowing down the throat to the abdomen, suddenly turning, the cool feeling instantly turns into a fierce heat, as if it wants to burn the belly. However, before it can take action, another icy airflow starts to churn, with both sides evenly matched and each occupying one side.

  At this time, Lu Qing's body was extremely strange. Half of his body was sweating profusely like fire, while the other half was as pale as dead earth. The third style of the Sun Heart Scripture was operating at full speed, and the Soul Refining Technique was also activated, carefully exploring the changes in his own body.

  Until the two streams of cold and hot air in the body began to merge, a pure and warm grassy aura was born, accompanied by the rotation of the Heart Sutra, it was gradually absorbed into the meridians, and merged into the Purple Electric Sword Aura. Every time it merged, Lu Qing felt that the sword aura had grown stronger, and the places that were not fully consolidated before were slowly filled with this pure aura. Even Lu Qing felt that as the cold and hot air flows alternated, even the physical strength had a significant increase.

  Time slowly passed, and before long, night fell. Outside the window, the moonlight filtered through the purple bamboo, casting dappled shadows on the ground. The rustling of the bamboo leaves sounded softly in the autumn breeze. On the bed, Lu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes, revealing a look of surprise and delight.

  I still underestimated the effect of combining these two medicinal materials, and just once it made up for my half-month of arduous cultivation without any gains. Lu Qing lowered his head to look at the inch-long purple electric sword energy emanating from his fingertips, smiled, and said, "It seems that taking medicinal materials in moderation is still quite beneficial. I'm afraid even those so-called geniuses from various sects may have some water mixed in with their abilities."

  According to the effects of these two medicinal materials, Lu Qing estimated that if everything went smoothly in half a month, the external sword energy could grow to three inches long. At that time, he could try to break through to the middle rank of Sword Holder, and as for the annual grand competition two months later, perhaps he could reach the standard of entering the Sword Pond a year earlier.

  But soon Lu Qing thought of Nie Qingtian again, after getting the silver ginseng, he should make great progress too, after all, in this world, those who can make progress are not just him alone, time is fair to everyone.

  Ten days passed, and in the cave behind the Mingyue Pool waterfall, where the Lei Jing Beast Dan was hidden, Lu Qing sat quietly with his legs crossed. A purple sword aura swirled around his body, with purple electric lights crackling on top. The purple light emanating from his body was at least three inches thick. On his legs, a beast dan the size of a human head flashed with purple electric lights, and strands of pale purple gas flowed into his skin, giving off an aura of powerful energy that was hard to describe. His purple hair was blown back by the sword aura emanating from his body, flying wildly around him.

  Hmph!

  As soon as his eyes opened, the Heart-Refining Sword that was inserted on one side suddenly struck out. The sword body wrapped in a fierce purple electric sword energy hacked down violently. In an instant, Lu Qing's heart moved abruptly, and his entire body suddenly bent into a large bow. The trajectory of the sword changed instantly to an arc shape, and a layer of purple-red light flashed across his right arm.

  Boom!

  Mingyue Pool, three feet below the waterfall, seemed to have encountered a sudden cliff, and with a loud crash, it split open from both sides. A dazzling purple sword aura flashed by, and a figure enveloped in purple sword aura flew out from within, plunging straight into the pool water, standing still as if on flat ground without any shaking.

  He looked at his arm with some confusion, Lu Qing was shocked. Just now, he had a sudden idea, using the first hammer method of the family's traditional Da Yuan 36 hammers to wield his sword, but he didn't expect it to produce such great power. According to his estimate, even if it were the Purple Energy East Coming, one of the three ultimate moves of Xuan Ri Thirteen Swords used by Duan Qingyun in the past, its power would only be equivalent to that of the sword he just used. At that time, Duan Qingyun was at the peak of the Tian level among swordsmen.

  Isn't there some secret to it? Why would the family's traditional hammer technique, when converted into a sword technique, have such great power? With a sudden movement in his heart, Lu Qing changed the flow of the sword energy running through his arm into the route of the Da Yuan 36 Hammer Techniques. Instantly, a layer of eerie, purple-red light burst forth from his arm, reflecting the fine network of veins and blood vessels, like flashes of lightning entwining and advancing forward.

  When breaking through the palm of the labor palace and entering the Lian Xin, it still only extends the three-inch sword energy that has been reached so far. However, the next discovery made Lu Qing surprised, because when he used the Lian Xin sword to perform the first six hammers of the Dà Yán 36 hammers that he had realized now, a loud wind and thunder sound started, and the hammer method was even more magnificent when performed with a sword. The big sword danced with energy in all directions, and the sword tip could even compress the air in front to form a sharp wind blade.

  For a time, the Mingyue Pool was like being hit by a landslide, with huge waves rising one after another, and the pool water flying everywhere. Even many wandering snow fish were rolled up by the turbulent air and fell to the shore. The wind blades flew wildly, and even on the nearby mountain rocks, there were traces of deep cuts.

  After dozens of breaths, Lu Qing stopped, his face slightly pale. The Purple Electric Sword had already disappeared after just the fourth move, and he returned to the waterfall to meditate and recover. In his mind, Lu Qing kept recalling the previous moves, slowly absorbing and understanding them. He had practiced this family's hammer technique for over four years, and now that it had transformed into a sword technique, it was also easy to understand. After half an hour, his cultivation recovered, and Lu Qing had almost fully understood it.

  It was not discovered before, and today it is also a moment of heart and blood. For the first time, Lu Qing found that the sword technique transformed from the 36th hammer of Taiji actually had such depth and mystery. From the third move onwards, he even needed to incorporate his understanding of "heavy as light" in order to perform smoothly. As for the fifth move, it's likely that one would need to break through to the middle heaven level before having enough cultivation to perform it.

  What kind of powerful force would it be if the hammer techniques he had learned later could all be transformed into sword techniques and displayed? Lu Qing couldn't help but wonder.

  What kind of swordsmanship is this? Lu Qing became more and more confused, now that he had smoothly executed it, he was basically certain that the family's traditional Dahuan 36 Hammers was a set of swordsmanship, but why did his ancestors not leave any records behind, even his father Lu Yun didn't have such swordsmanship, and even the complete Dahuan 36 Hammers he remembered now didn't have a single hammering method name, this was really unbelievable.

  Is it a profound swordsmanship? Or the rumored soul sword technique, in Lu Qing's view, the basic swordsmanship that Sword Slaves and Sword Servants can learn is not counted, and the high-level swordsmanship that Sword Holders initially grasp does not have such power. Then there is only the profound swordsmanship that can be practiced by the Sword Origin Realm or the soul sword technique created by the master of the Sword Soul Realm. Or it's the Soul Sword Way, which Lu Qing has never really seen before. So now it can be inferred that it is a very superior and profound swordsmanship, Lu Qing thought with some certainty.

  Lu Qing couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, for now such a discovery didn't mention any hidden dangers, but for himself at the moment, it could be said to be a timely help. With such great power, Lu Qing was now even confident that he could rely on it to go all out with Duan Qingyun without falling behind.

  Looking at the water droplets on his Lian Xin, Lu Qing suddenly swung out a sword with a whooshing sound, and instantly a transparent wind blade about one foot long formed in front of the extended sword energy, making a whistling sound as it cut through the air and struck a tree stump as thick as a thigh. With a thud, the tree stump was split into two segments, splinters flying everywhere.

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