Ch 244: Spirit Sword Forged! Thunder Spirit Root

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, another twenty-odd years had passed.

The refining of the Two Elements Spirit Sword was very smooth, and the spirit patterns on it became increasingly profound.

With the current sacrifice and refining speed, Li Qian deduced that he would soon be able to completely refine the Two Elements Spirit Sword.

During this period, Lin Qingping only returned once, saying that she had already contacted the survivors of the Heavenly Sword Manor.

There were also two Longevity Realm cultivators who escaped in the last catastrophe.

However, the Netherworld Hall is now powerful, and coupled with the Netherworld Hall’s alliance with other forces, they have been pursuing and suppressing the remaining forces of the Heavenly Sword Manor.

These years, several Return to Void attempts have also encountered some setbacks.

The Oasis Camp became dangerous.

According to observations… a highly dangerous creature appeared around the oasis. Although it has not yet invaded the camp, traces of the creature have been found many times around the camp.

Obviously, this creature has its eyes on the camp.

This also created a sense of urgency in Li Qian.

He must improve his strength in the Return to Void state.

Ideally, he should complete the refining of the spirit sword, so that he can carry it with him even during Return to Void.

With or without a spirit sword, the combat power is vastly different.

According to his observations, none of the Return to Void cultivators in the camp should possess spirit tools.

From this, one can see the rarity and preciousness of spirit tools.

One day, Li Qian was refining the Two Elements Spirit Sword.

Above his head, two sword lights, one red and one white, hovered before him, intertwining and circling, chasing each other.

As he opened his mouth and spat out, a stream of spiritual energy, like fire, merged into them.

Suddenly, the Two Elements Spirit Sword violently trembled, and unexpectedly released a strange light, gradually evolving into a strange red and white Taiji diagram.

With a movement of his thoughts, the red and white Taiji diagram formed by the Two Elements Spirit Sword suddenly rose into the air, measuring tens of zhang in diameter. With a point of his finger, a strange red and white sword light slowly extended from the Taiji diagram, then fell into his palm, transforming into a red and white spirit sword.

「Whoa, the Two Elements Spirit Sword is considered preliminarily refined.」

Li Qian looked at the intertwined red and white spirit patterns on the spirit sword, a smile appearing on his face.

The next moment, the red and white spirit sword violently trembled, transforming back into two spirit swords, one red and one white, before sinking into his body.

With the Two Elements Spirit Sword refined, the next step is to continue refining, allowing the spirit sword to advance further and develop a second spirit pattern.

This cannot be achieved in three to five decades; it requires an extremely long time.

However, this first-grade Two Elements Spirit Sword is already sufficient.

He estimated that in the Longevity World, most existing spirit tools should be first-grade spirit tools.

As for second-grade spirit tools, there may be some, but they are definitely extremely rare.

「After I accumulate some spiritual energy, I can rebuild the Heavenly Sword Manor for Fellow Daoist Qingping.」

Li Qian thought to himself.

In order to refine the Two Elements Spirit Sword, he had almost depleted all the spiritual energy accumulated in the Chen Bell.

There was no way; in order to refine the Two Elements Spirit Sword sooner, he had to do this.

Otherwise, he estimated that even after several decades, he might not be able to successfully refine it.

Ultimately, the most important thing for refining spirit tools is sufficient spiritual energy.

Without sufficient spiritual energy, it is simply impossible.

「However, in the future, when I’m in the Return to Emptiness state, I will bring the Two Elements Spirit Sword to the Upper Realm and use the Upper Realm’s spiritual energy for refining. The efficiency will definitely be greatly improved.」

Li Qian thought to himself.

At this time, Li Qian suddenly felt his Primordial Spirit tremble, an invisible Pure Yang aura diffused, and then permeated the Two Elements Spirit Sword.

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Only to see that on the Two Elements Spirit Sword, a strange layer of thunder actually diffused.

「This?」

Li Qian’s eyes widened, a look of shock appearing on his face.

Immediately, he hurriedly summoned the system interface to check the latest information.

Host: Li Qian（Ascension 26/100）（..：：.）

Longevity Realm（Initial Stage 93/100）.

Yang Spirit（Perfection）【Enlightenment】【Return to Void】【Thunder Spirit Root】.

Chen Bell（Spirit 93103/100000）.

Divine Firmament Fifth Sword（Void Piercing, Armor Piercing, World Piercing, Soul Piercing, Thunder）.

Zhou Tian Star Sword Art（Longevity Level）.

Spirit God: Tiangong（49/100）, Xuanyang（49/100）, Zhuyin（49/100）, Jiaoli（13/100）, Kangjin（12/100）, Shigen（11/100）, Tianfang（12/100）, Xinshu（11/100）, Weiji（11/100）.

Sword Dao Rhythm（Entry Dao 4/100）

Divine Ability: Body-Fixing Divine Pearl.

Qian Yuan Formation Classic（Twelve Base 19/100）.

Fox Puppet（…..）

Li Qian looked at the information on the panel, a look of ecstatic joy appearing on his face.

Because his Yang Spirit had finally reached perfection.

It had even given rise to a third state.

Thunder Spirit Root.

According to the information he had obtained.

This Thunder Spirit Root allows him to possess amazing affinity within the thunder attribute domain.

Moreover, the Thunder Spirit Root, unlike Enlightenment and Return to Void, does not require a specific time period to activate, but is a permanent state.

In other words, in the future, his comprehension of thunder attribute secret techniques, etc., will have advantages beyond ordinary people.

「It seems that after the Yang Spirit reached perfection, it completely enhanced my spirit root.」

Li Qian’s face was full of joy.

Moreover, the Divine Firmament Fifth Sword had also reached perfection, giving rise to the Thunder Profundity.

He guessed that the reason why his Yang Spirit reached perfection and then the Thunder Spirit Root state appeared was probably related to the Divine Firmament Fifth Sword reaching perfection.

Not only that, but the Yang Spirit reaching perfection and the Divine Firmament Fifth Sword reaching perfection were both related to the completion of the Two Elements Spirit Sword.

Before this, the progress of these two had been stuck at 99,

and his Two Elements Spirit Sword had also given rise to thunder, which should be directly related to the Thunder Profundity of the Divine Firmament Fifth Sword or the Thunder Spirit Root state of the Yang Spirit.

「It’s really a triple blessing!」

Li Qian smiled.

Not only that, but the Chen Bell’s refining progress has also reached over ninety-three thousand days.

Only twenty years remain, and the Chen Bell can be upgraded.

This is what he looked forward to the most.

Once the Chen Bell is upgraded, how much benefit will he gain?

In these years, he has cultivated six more Spirit Gods using the Divine Aperture Treasure Opening Art.

The reason for this is that after the progress of the original three Divine Aperture Spirit Gods reached 49, they could no longer advance.

It was as if they were stuck.

He guessed that in the Return to Emptiness state, the maximum progress is 49. To advance further, one must truly ascend to the Upper Realm.

So he could only turn to cultivate other Divine Apertures.

These six Divine Apertures are also known as the Azure Dragon Six Constellations, and they have an astonishing amplifying effect on the offensive power of the Divine Firmament Nine Swords.

Another thing is the Qian Yuan Formation Classic, which has finally reached the Twelve Base level.

In previous years, he used the power of the Chen Zhong Domain to gradually erode the restrictions in the jade slip and obtained a Twelve Base formation from the jade slip, the Du Tian Formation Classic.

According to the jade slip, this formation classic came from the Du Tian Formation Sect in the Longevity World.

This sect has existed for an unknown number of millennia and is considered the ceiling of the Longevity World in the Dao of Formations.

Moreover, the Du Tian Formation Sect adheres to the principle of accepting all regardless of background. Its disciples include members of the Human Race, Demon Race, Barbarian Race, and other races. As long as their formation talent is high enough, they can join the Du Tian Formation Sect.

This leads to the Du Tian Formation Sect’s formation inheritance being widely distributed.

For example, Xin Lin, the formation master from the Xin Family whom he killed last time, once came from the Du Tian Formation Sect. However, even with his formation attainment, he could only be considered an ordinary disciple in the Du Tian Formation Sect.

According to Xin Lin’s records, the Du Tian Formation Sect’s true foundational formation classic is called the Du Tian Ancestral Array, and it is said to have been refined to a terrifying level of sixteen bases.

And those who reach the attainment of a thirteen-base formation master possess the ability to arrange teleportation arrays.

If one reaches fourteen bases, the teleportation array they arrange can perform cross-realm teleportation.

For example, traveling between the Longevity World and the Human Realm… requires the level of fourteen bases.

As for fifteen-base and sixteen-base… teleportation arrays, how powerful they are is unknown.

However, the lifelong goal of the Du Tian Formation Sect is to be able to deduce a teleportation array that can lead to the Upper Realm, so that everyone can ascend…

As for how many bases are needed, that is unknown.

「I must visit the Du Tian Formation Sect someday.」

Li Qian thought to himself.

It is said that the Du Tian Formation Sect also allows formation masters to join… as long as they pass the corresponding formation assessment.

However, to join the Du Tian Formation Sect, he would have to leave the Chen Zhong Domain for a long time… he was still quite hesitant.

But if he wanted to reach a higher level, the Du Tian Formation Sect was his best choice.

「Forget it, I’ll make a decision after my formations reach the limit of twelve bases.」

Li Qian thought to himself.

At present, the formation classics left behind by Xin Lin are still sufficient for his formation research and cultivation.

A few months later.

Li Qian hovered in the air above Yiling Town.

He suddenly waved his hand, and numerous strange formation pillars emerged, a total of twelve.

Except each one was extremely large.

As a twelve-base formation master, he could now integrate various base formations. In this way, the entire large twelve-base formation only required twelve formation pillars to complete.

Of course, the number of base formations integrated onto each formation pillar was very large.

When he was still an eleven-base formation master, he could not achieve such a high degree of integration; it would probably require ten times more formation pillars to complete.

Although the number of formation pillars seemed to have decreased, it would also make the formation more stable and reduce loopholes in its operation.

Li Qian smiled. Under his control, the twelve formation pillars suddenly fell, landing in twelve positions in Yiling Town.

The entire process did not produce any noise.

Even the top Great Saints in Yiling Town would not notice anything at all.

At his level, coupled with the existence of the Chen Zhong Domain, it was effortless for him to shield all the sounds.

After the twelve-base formation was set up, as he activated it, it operated normally. Although it seemed to have no changes, the space in Yiling Town was actually affected.

All beings entering the formation space would be marked by the formation.

As long as Li Qian wished, those marked would be affected by the formation, resulting in various restrictions.

「Yiling Town is set up, next is the Divine Sword Sect.」

Li Qian smiled slightly.

Not to mention Yiling Town, the twelve-base formation is not absolutely safe.

After all, the Du Tian Formation Sect can refine the Du Tian Ancestral Array to the level of sixteen bases, so they must at least have fifteen-base formation masters.

In comparison, his twelve-base formation master status is really nothing.

The next moment, he moved, and disappeared.

Human Realm.

Divine Sword Sect.

Li Qian’s figure appeared.

In these years, he rarely returned to the Divine Sword Sect.

After all, the Human Realm was very stable, and the Divine Sword Sect had the Dao Sect backing it up. Its development speed was needless to say; its influence had begun to radiate throughout Chang Country.

Except for leaving garrison personnel on Treading Cloud Peak, the Dao Sect’s other experts had almost all withdrawn.

Therefore, this led to the Divine Sword Sect being the sole dominant force within Chang Country.

Especially with Yang Lian, a Martial Saint-level expert, and more than a dozen Celestial Phenomenon-level Celestials in the Divine Sword Sect, making the Divine Sword Sect the actual ruler of Chang Country.

「They’re all stuck at the peak Celestial Phenomenon-level Celestial stage.」

Li Qian shook his head.

He was also helpless about this.

He could only pin his hopes on the Chen Bell upgrade.

Suddenly, Li Qian looked towards the Cloud Dragon avatar.

This avatar, after hundreds of years of cultivation, had now reached the peak Wild Beast level, its length exceeding that of its mother.

Its huge body was hidden in the clouds. Unless a Supreme Saint arrived, it would be impossible to discover such a huge wild beast.

In fact, the White Fox avatar had also reached the peak Supreme Saint level.

But it could not break through to the Longevity Secret Realm.

This was directly related to his main body still being in the Longevity Secret Realm.

Unless he advanced to a higher level.

But this was simply impossible.

This meant that his two avatars could at most reach the peak Supreme Saint level.

But this was temporarily sufficient.

With the two avatars stationed within the Chen Zhong Domain, they could replace him in mobilizing the power of the Chen Zhong Domain.

Therefore, Li Qian also began to arrange a twelve-base formation in the Divine Sword Sect’s territory.

The entire process was completed secretly.

Without alarming anyone.

No, one person did notice something amiss,

Li Qian’s disciple, Lin Qi.

As Li Qian’s only formation disciple, he had been a disciple for 180 years, and his cultivation had barely reached the Celestial Being level, this despite the consumption of a large amount of cultivation resources.

However, his formation attainment was not bad, reaching the limit of eight bases.

But to step into the realm of nine bases, with his talent and comprehension, it was extremely difficult.

Of course, an eight-base formation master is already considered quite good in the Human Realm.

The Martial Alliance Formation Sect’s highest level is only ten-base formation masters.

Even the Dao Sect’s formation masters are only at eight bases.

「What’s going on? The formation fluctuations in the sect seem to be abnormal?」

Lin Qi was studying formations when he suddenly looked up, a surprised expression on his face.

But his mental detection did not find any abnormalities.

It seemed that the abnormality he had just felt was an illusion.

At this time, a figure landed in the Formation Valley.

It was Li Qian.

Seeing his master arrive, Lin Qi hurriedly stood up and bowed, 「Greetings, Master.』

「My disciple has upgraded the Divine Sword Sect’s mountain-protecting formation to a twelve-base formation. Here is the control flag—one main and twelve auxiliary—and the formation jade slip. Study them carefully yourself.」

Li Qian waved his hand, and a jade slip and thirteen formation flags flew out.

「Yes, Master.」

Lin Qi hurriedly replied.

Only then did he understand that the previous abnormal formation fluctuations were not an illusion, but that his master had upgraded the mountain-protecting formation.

A twelve-base formation.

This meant that his master’s formation skills had already reached the terrifying level of twelve bases.

This level of formation attainment, in human history, is probably unprecedented, right?

「Master, my formation attainment has been stuck at eight bases and cannot break through. Do you have any way to help?」

Lin Qi couldn’t help but ask.

In recent years, his master has been elusive and rarely seen.

This was finally an opportunity to see him, and he definitely had to ask for advice.

「Wait a little longer.」

Li Qian said indifferently.

Lin Qi’s problem was not a lack of foundation, but a matter of talent.

Unless external force intervenes.

We can only wait for the Chen Bell to be upgraded.

Perhaps it can solve Lin Qi’s talent problem.

Lin Qi is like this, and the other disciples of Heartless Peak are the same. Many people in the Divine Sword Sect are like this.

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