<h4>Chapter 257: The Real Leading Temte?</h4>
Trantor: Subudai11 Editor: Chrissy
"Very good, you have mastered eighty to ny percent of this Nine Yang Heaven Burning Sword, Sword Spirit Root truly deserves its reputation. This is the only time I ever see someone with such a level of sword art perception. Even in my heyday, I’m not as good as you."
On an ind in a boundless ck tide, a piece of golden light formed into a sphere. Within that sphere, Sword God was slowly doing a sword dance using a in sword. Beside him, the Big Sister of Spirit Sword Sect Zhu Shiyao followed his move. Their actions were exactly the same, however, her Great Sun Golden Brilliant Sword bloomed nearly as bright as the sun.
While Sword Demon and Wang Lu were stepping up his cultivation, Sword God and Zhu Shiyao were not idle either.
Although from the point of view of strength, this group upied the absolute superiority, Sword God remained vignt. He spent every moment passing on the methods he learned during his life to Zhu Shiyao.
What he was imparting her now was the immortal level sword art Nine Yang Heaven Burning Sword.
"What Sword God of Bai Li excelled at the most is Primal Chaos Heaven Splitting Sword, which, although powerful, does not fit with the sword path that you took. Moreover, your Ster Sword Method is also an immortal level ancient inheritance method, and its power is not below that of Primal Chaos Heaven Splitting Sword, so there’s no need for you to change it. However, in addition to the core method, a brilliant sword cultivator must also learn many other knowledge."
"You possess the Sword Spirit Root and Ster Divine Eyes, so every time you learn a sword art, you will reap benefits far more than the others. Unfortunately, currently, there are very little immortal level methods left in Nine Regions, and I’m afraid even your Spirit Sword Sect has only gotten the Ster Sword by chance, and it doesn’t have the second part. Thus, although your sword art is extremely refined, it’s not broad enough. Right now, what I teach you are a few sets of immortal level and quasi-immortal level sword art. If you can learn and understand them, even if they won’t cause your cultivation base to advance rapidly, but in the actual fight, you would progress by leaps and bounds."
Sword God then revealed a faint smile. "For a sword cultivator, the so-called Stage is meaningless. If you have an immortal sword in your hand, you will only have two categories of opponents, one is those that you can beat, and the other is those that you can’t beat, that’s all."
Zhu Shiyao felt deeply in agreement with this.
From the beginning, her immortal cultivation path was very different than the others. Among the few Sessor Disciples of Spirit Sword Sect, except for the one who was deliberately treated with low key because of a special reason, she was the one who entered the sect the earliest, and also the most legendary one.
She was taken back to the mountain by her Master when she was not yet old enough to remember. Only when she was about ten years old did she hear her story from her Master.
Twenty years ago, when Daoist Master Feng Yin was wandering out, asionally he saw devil cults that indiscriminately killed innocent vigers as sacrifices to build devil treasures. Their means were extremely vicious. Unexpectedly, they even used dismemberment and chopping people into pieces. However, when Feng Yin rushed in to intervene, thousands of households in the viges and towns have already been ughtered. Later on, Feng Yin wiped out these devils. At that time, the present hundreds of devil cultivators were frightened out of their wits when they saw two Deity Stage baby-eating old devils were in by him, and they immediately broke ranks and tried to flee. However, they didn’t even have the chance to do that. After wiping out these devils, when Feng Yin was defusing the blood spell that imprisoned the area, he actually discovered that someone was still alive within the vige! Guided by that person’s breath, he was amazed to find that a four-year-old girl was still alive! She was quietly standing, wrapped in the dust of the remains of the dead devil soldiers.
Daoist Master Feng Yin was puzzled by the fact that she was still alive. How could the raging devils in the vige let her off… At that time, he felt that there was no life in this ce, so he swept clean of this ce using his ster sword qi, reducing the several hundreds of devil soldiers that wreaked havoc in the vige into ash. However, ster sword qi didn’t differentiate between friend and foe, so how could she manage to survive? Then, when Feng Yin carefully looked at her, he was shocked speechless.
The girl, in the chaos of the rampaging devil cultivators, through fortuitous circumstance and surrounding, unexpectedly activated the legendary Sword Spirit Root! When this activated, it protected her from having sword injury, which guaranteed her life.
Despite Daoist Master Feng Yin being well known in the Nine Regions for his amazing divination through his Ster Diffraction Technique, he actually couldn’t calcte such a miracle. At the most critical moment, this child actually activated the never-before-seen-in-thousands-of-years top rated spirit root. It was as if there was an invisible hand that manipted the fate, which produced this incredibly great miracle.
Later on, Daoist Master Feng Yin immediately took the girl back to the Spirit Sword Mountain and trained her with the highest method avable. However, her method of cultivation greatly differed from the other cultivators. He didn’t let her cultivate immortal cultivation method first but consolidated her root through a secret method, sparing no expense in refining innate panacea to stimte her innate magical ability from its dormant state, the Ster Divine Eyes.
After her foundation was solid, only then did she officially begin to cultivate the Ster Sword Method. During this period, she spent most of her time in istion. Daoist Master Feng Yin himself never told her about stage and rted things. Were it not for the asional exchange with her Junior Uncles or fellow apprentices, she would not even know what were the Stages and what they meant!
At that time, when she asked about it, her Master probably told her: Pure sword cultivation is based on sword, but sword is also a murder weapon. Therefore, for a sword cultivator, the immortal cultivation is a path of battles, and in a battle, no one cared about stage or level. In a battle, there are only two kinds of people, the winner and the loser. Thus, you only need to divide your opponent into two types, those that you could not beat and those that you could.
During her twenty years of cultivation, the path that Zhu Shiyao tread into was indeed full of thorns and thistles. Although a few years ago she wasn’t allowed to descend the mountain for the experiential learning, her cultivation life on the mountain was not so simple either. Her Master often brought her formidable matches for her to practice her sword, and most of the time, she ended up badly bruised and injured… Later on, when one of her Junior Uncle identally met her and exchanged blows with her, Zhu Shiyao finally realized that all of her opponents that her Master brought before her have cultivation base far higher than her.
However, so what? For a sword cultivator, there were only two types of opponent, the one that she could beat and the one that she could not. She never has to consider about cultivation base.
However, her immortal cultivation was not always smooth. The biggest difficulty was when her Master tried to awaken her dormant innate magical ability, the Ster Divine Eyes… This supreme level magical ability was well-known in history. It was one of the few innate dormant magical abilities. It was even rare for the possessor of Sword Spirit Root to be able to activate it. However, the time and way to activate it were difficult to predict. The power of a magical ability could be limitless, but they were also difficult to control. And Ster Divine Eyes was well known as one of the most difficult to control magical abilities. Within the history book, the most famous cultivator who managed to activate the Ster Divine Eyes dates back into the past Sect Leader of the Ster School. Relying on his pair of Ster Divine Eyes, he swept the entire Nine Regions, bing undefeated. Unfortunately, until he died, he was still unable to fully control this magical ability. Up until he died, he was still deeply affected by its side effect, and that was when the surrounding spiritual energy was still very rich and cultivators were still nearly omnipotent!
Prior to the Sect Leader of Ster School, there were also people that stimted the Ster Divine Eyes, but none of them could truly ovee this magical ability. Many of those were able to activate the Ster Eyes when they were still amoner. Later, when they were discovered by cultivators, they have already missed the best time to cultivate. Some of them were promptly discovered, but the training method was not right, therefore, they thoroughly couldn’t suppress the side effect of this magical ability. The higher their cultivation, the stronger the side effect…
Zhu Shiyao’s condition was unique. When her Sword Spirit Root was activated, Feng Yin concluded that it was likely that she could arouse the Ster Divine Eyes. Therefore, he simply artificially induced it through innate panacea. Also, there was the record of many valuable experiences of the Sect Leader of Ster School, as the possessor of Ster Divine Eyes, among the ancient inheritance of Ster Sword Method. Based on this record, Daoist Master Feng Yin formted a set of strategy to improve the innate magical ability of Zhu Shiyao.
To this end, Daoist Master Feng Yin did not even hesitate to sacrifice his own immortal cultivation to nurture the magical ability Ster Divine Eyes and improve Zhu Shiyao’s training program ording to his experience. This selfless sacrifice actually allowed him to find a way.
The regret of his predecessor was mostly because the power of the Sters Divine Eye and its side effect alwaysplemented each other, so it was very difficult to separate in order to suppress the side effect but also strengthen its power. Previously, no one was able to do that. After careful weighing, Feng Yin decided to find another way.
After the Age of Chaos, on individual cultivation, the present people were inferior to the ancient people. However, there have been unprecedented progress and breakthrough in fine skill and technique. The path chosen by Feng Yin was exactly based on that background. Simply speaking, he made a pair of wonderful sses.
The side effect of the Ster Divine Eye was its ability to discern the future, inevitably seeing myriad of future possibilities, resulting in the blurred vision. This blur could not be removed by any ability. Under the effect of the Ster Divine Eye, the person’s five senses were also affected. Whether it was seeing or hearing, it was very difficult to find any useful information.
All of the efforts of the predecessors were unable to suppress this powerful side effect. However, in Feng Yin’s hand, this side effect has actually been alleviated through Kunlun Mirror, which was an ancient immortal treasure. It has the same ability of seeing the future. Through the invention of prization method after the Age of Chaos, Feng Yin managed to transform Kunlun Mirror into a sses, eliminating a lot of useless virtual image in one fell swoop, achieving a never before seen brilliant breakthrough.
If it had not been for the sake of the protection of the disciple, this method would’ve been made public and won Daoist Master Feng Yin an important seat in the Academic Committee of Union of Ten Thousand Immortals.
Of course, based on her cultivation base, it was still unknown when Zhu Shiyao would be eligible to use an immortal treasure like Kunlun Mirror. However, she has the innate magical ability, meaning that her path was different than that of Feng Yin. From a very young age, she has already begun to wear different sses. All of them were, of course, imitations of Kunlun Mirror handcrafted by Daoist Master Feng Yin. Their grades were not high, which exactly matched the cultivation base of Zhu Shiyao.
With the aid of these sses, Zhu Shiyao was finally able to sessfully control her Ster Divine Eyes, but also has an awe-inspiring divine swordsmanship. However, there was still a sliver of regret—her dependence on the external object, the sses. Although her divine swordsmanship was invincible, her sses were not…
She remembered that the first time she wore her sses was when she was ten years old. At that time, her Master gave her a mysterious white ape as her opponent. The white ape has monstrous strength and could easily knock over dozens of Zhu Shiyao, who at the time has justpleted her body refining stage. However, Feng Yin seemed to have full of confidence of Zhu Shiyao. He put Zhu Shiyao and the white ape together on the mountain and then confidently descended the mountain to wander. The result of the battle was also quite a surprise.
On the first day, when Feng Yin caught the white ape and brought it to the Ster Peak, it was still in shock. Although only the ape and the seemingly harmless Zhu Shiyao were left in the mountain, it never dared to move. Until nightfall, when it smelled the fragrant dishes in the bamboo room. It could not hold itself back anymore and break into the hut. However, the girl, holding a bamboo stick, ended up beating the sheet out of it that it could not even disy its strength.
On the second day, the white ape came prepared. It also held a bamboo stick; its method was actually extremely exquisite. However, the girl was not afraid, still with the same bamboo stick to face the opponent. At that time, she has yet to even officially begin practicing swordsmanship. However, she was still able to break the white ape’s stick method, beating it until its skin cracked.
On the third day, the white ape held two short bamboo sticks, which made its offensive ferocious. This time, the girl dealt with her with ease, poking it in the stomach until it nearly sheet itself.
On the fourth day, the white ape rode a deer, turning it into a white ape knight. The girl lightly tapped with her bamboo stick and that night’s dinner was braised deer meat.
On the fifth day, the humiliated white ape stole the girl’s sses in the middle of the night.
Three monthster, Zhu Shiyao slowly woke up from the sickbed. At this time, her fractured legs, broken wrists, and joints have already been healed. The scars on her face have been eliminated, and the blindfold on her right eye has also been taken down. At the same time, this lifetime’s lesson would forever stay in the deepest part of her heart.