Chapter Eighty: The Purple Emperor's Sword Body Scripture

  As soon as his body recovered its mobility, Lu Qing prepared to take his hand out of the liquid in the pool. The feeling was not very pleasant, like a sword cutting through the air.

  "Don't move, kid."

  "What!" Lu Qing was taken aback upon hearing this.

  "This is where my jade sword absorbed the primordial energy of heaven and earth, naturally giving birth to the purest essence of the hundred-year-old sword. Although it was polluted by that madwoman's blood condensation of nearly 100,000 people's fresh blood, for you who cultivate the Purple Emperor Sword Body, this is the best foundation-building essence. Insert both hands into it, activate the first layer of the technique, and wait until these blood evil spirits stop invading me. I have a way to let you take them all away."

  He didn't dare to slack off, so Lu Qing immediately inserted his left hand as well. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his wrist, and the razor-sharp Mutated Sword Essence sliced open his left hand once again. Just as the bright red blood was about to merge with the Sword Essence, Lu Qing's prepared Purple Emperor Sword Body began to circulate through the first layer of Heart Method.

  Only to see the Wind and Thunder Sword's essence surging out of Lu Qing's palm, slowly forming a strange purple-green vortex in his Labor Palace acupoint. The blood-red sword essence liquid seemed to be attracted to it, being sucked into the vortex. In an instant, Lu Qing felt his palms itching and stinging as if bitten by ants. However, visible to the naked eye, his originally bare right hand, which had exposed its finger bones, began to rapidly grow flesh after absorbing the blood-colored sword essence liquid. Meanwhile, the wound on his left hand healed instantly.

  A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and at the same time, Lu Qing felt that as this sword yuan liquid mixed with countless blood evil entered his body, the fresh blood that had been flowing out of his body was actually replenished after a few breaths, and his whole body's energy was strengthened several times. The whole person was filled with a sense of spiritual fullness.

  And as the Lu Qingzi's Purple Emperor Sword underwent its first cycle, the blood evil that was originally attached to the Jade Sword seemed to be attracted and slowly retreated from the sword body.

  "Ah, that damn thing has finally come off my body. If I hadn't been circulating the source wheel, with all my strength in circulation, this small evil sword array would have been unable to do anything to me!" The voice of the old man from the Jade Sword came into his mind, and Lu Qing also knew that everything was going smoothly at this moment. He then sank all his thoughts into the operation of the first layer of the heart method of the Zi Huang Sword."

  Can't help but say, this Zi Huang Sword Body Technique is indeed powerful. Although it's unknown why there would be a sword technique that doesn't cultivate the sword yuan, its ability to devour all essence and spirit objects is unheard of. According to the scriptures in Lu Qing's mind, as long as one's own realm is sufficient, the Zi Huang Sword Body Technique can infinitely devour essence and spirit objects to temper the body's meridians, and combine with the original sword yuan technique to enhance cultivation. It's truly a heaven-defying extraordinary technique.

  Moreover, Lu Qing saw many unbelievable and powerful sword techniques behind him, but unfortunately, time was pressing, and he didn't have the chance to take a closer look. At this moment, he was trying his best to operate the first layer of the foundation.

  According to the explanation of the first layer, this first layer is the initial forging and tempering, and it is also the most basic foundation. To cultivate this first layer, at least a thousand years or more of spiritual materials are required, such as Thousand-Year Golden Ginseng, Ten-Leaf Purple Emperor's Mushroom, and other rare and precious medicinal materials. Alternatively, some spiritual essences that have been accumulated for over a thousand years, such as the Heart of the Earth's Milk, Tree Heart Spring, etc., can be used. Moreover, the essence requires absorbing the spiritual blood of a Thousand-Year Spiritual Beast or the refined essence of a Sword Master's entire body.

  Not to mention the spiritual blood of the spirit beasts, but just for them to live over a thousand years, they must at least advance to the fourth stage. Only fourth-stage spirit beasts can live up to two thousand years, and even the most ordinary fourth-stage spirit beasts possess the strength of a Sword Master of the Great Heavenly Rank. That is already infinitely close to the power of a Sword Soul Realm Sword Dao Master. Moreover, the powers possessed by the spirit beasts are extremely strange, with unfathomable divine abilities. Generally speaking, if one wants to escape, even the lowest-level Sword King in the Sword Soul Realm would find it very difficult to hold them back.

  And as for the strong sword masters, it goes without saying that even a sect like the Purple Mist Sect, which is at the top of the Qingfan level, only has six Sword Soul Realm grandmasters. The sword master can be said to be the standard for measuring the strongest combat power of a sect, apart from the Sword Soul Realm grandmaster. Among them, any one of them may become the next Sword Soul Realm grandmaster. Like the Purple Mist Sect, there are not even thirty strong sword masters in total. Who has the courage to kill a sword master and absorb their essence to build their foundation?

  Can't help but say that Lu Qing is now so lucky, the white-haired witch spent a hundred years collecting nearly 100,000 people's essence blood and merged it into a small amount of blood evil, which was injected into this small pool, less than two feet wide and three inches deep. The concentrated essence of nearly 100,000 people's bodies can imagine how powerful these blood evil essences are, and there is also the jade sword that has been pregnant with the sword yuan liquid for a hundred years.

  Although Lu Qing's body and dantian qihai were sealed at the beginning, his divine consciousness could still feel that the water in this pool seemed to be a pure sword yuan without any attributes. The degree of its purity was not something he could reach even if he tried his best, let alone the quantity. The Fenglei Sword Yuan in his dantian qihai was like a small cluster of purple-blue liquid the size of a goose egg, and even one layer of this pool was far more than that.

  It can be said that the combination of these two is almost comparable to some spiritual essences that have been refined for tens of thousands of years. This will bring Lu Qing's first layer of tempering and bone refinement to what kind of level? According to the description of the first layer, after building the foundation, the vital energy is abundant, the skeleton is like jade crystal clear, the whole body skin, flesh, tendons, and bones are exceptionally tough, not afraid of being cut by a fifth-grade sword. The physical body can possess the strength of a thousand catties.

  As Lu Qing absorbed the Blood Evil Sword's Yuan Liquid into his body, with the rotation of the first layer of Heart Method being converted into the most refined and pure Wind Thunder Sword Yuan Force being absorbed into Lu Qing's Dantian, it was assimilated by the Wind Thunder Sword Yuan and transformed into clusters of egg-sized, extremely pure Wind Thunder Sword Yuan, rapidly spreading throughout Lu Qing's entire body.

  Sweat beads the size of beans slowly seeped out on his face, as this mass of wind and thunder sword energy spread throughout his body's muscles, bones, and skin under the guidance of the first layer of Zi Huang Sword. Lu Qing felt that every bone, muscle, and skin in his body was aching all over, as if he was being pulled straight from both sides, and it seemed like countless large iron hammers were pounding his entire body from all directions. Slowly, Lu Qing's entire body gradually emitted purple electric light and green whirlwind.

  Electric light and whirlwind revolved around Lu Qing's naked body, tempering his originally strong physique. However, the Blood Evil Sword Essence in this pool contained too much essence. Despite Lu Qing's efforts to absorb it, there was no sign of decrease. As he operated his heart method, the blood evil on the jade sword dissipated by more than half and returned to the pool liquid, only to be absorbed into his body through the vortex in his palm.

  Lu Qing held his breath, enduring the endless wind and thunder sword energy that tempered his flesh and bones. His entire body emitted a sizzling sound in the midst of the purple-blue wind and thunder sword energy. At the same time, many fine meridians on Lu Qing's body surface burst open, and black-red impure blood flowed out from within. After a moment, Lu Qing became a bloody person, with a pool of stinky impure blood spreading around his body for several feet in diameter.

  Even if Lu Qing was forced out of the hidden dirt and black blood in his body at this moment, the extremely abundant Blood Slashing Sword Yuan Liquid still quickly entered from the Laogong acupoint on Lu Qing's palm, and the lost fresh blood essence was instantly replenished. This cycle repeated itself over and over again. In Lu Qing's body, with the flushing of the Wind and Thunder Sword Yuan, the meridians burst open one after another, and were quickly repaired again.

  Slowly, even the inner and outer walls of the meridians began to flash with a purple-blue light, becoming more and more tenacious. The meridian channels expanded by several times, and Lu Qing believed that once this first layer of cultivation was completed, his sword yuan's rotation speed would increase by at least several times.

  At this moment, Lu Qing's entire body was undergoing a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering transformation with the help of the Blood Evil Sword's yuan liquid. Countless impurities were expelled from his body, making it increasingly pure, just like an unpolished jade stone gradually radiating a warm luster.

  If someone were here right now, they would find that Lu Qing's body was growing at an incredibly fast speed, and his height had increased by a few inches in just half a short time. His entire skin was beginning to show a perfect streamline, although it didn't have the muscle bulges of before when he used force, but it gave people a feeling of containing infinite power.

  It took a whole hour for Lu Qing's hands to be withdrawn from the liquid, but the liquid had been drawn out and gathered around him, seeping into his skin from every part of his body. At this point, Lu Qing was like a large whirlpool, as if he would swallow and merge everything that approached him into his body.

  In the original pool, there was nothing left, only the old man's soul dwelling in the jade sword standing alone, with a green glow flowing on its surface. The blood evil that had entwined the sword body had also completely retreated, and at this moment, it was completely attracted by Lu Qing's purple imperial sword body.

  Now, Lu Qing's face had regained its calm expression, and his entire body was filled with a strong aura. This was a purely physical aura, with a faint purple-blue glow circulating on his body. Compared to the original Wind and Thunder Sword Yuan of Lu Qing, this purple-blue color was even more rounded, looking like the two colors were harmoniously combined as one, indistinguishable from each other.

  At this moment, Lu Qing's heart was filled with confidence and strength, as if he had never felt such power before. It seemed that with every move he made, his body could split mountains and rocks, filled with infinite energy and vitality.

  Opening his eyes, a sharp purple-blue sword aura flashed through Lu Qing's eyes.