In the Sword Cave Heaven of Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion, Li Yuanba and Tang Xue Ning completed another mission. This time, the mission was to kill four mid-Nascent Soul cultivators for Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion.
This consolidated Li Yuanba's reputation and improved his ranking among the talented cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage in the Zhongzhou Continent.
"Yuan Ba, I have something to talk to you about!" Old Jian sent a voice transmission spell.
When Li Yuanba was about to reply, the figure of Old Jian appeared beside him.
He sighed helplessly in his heart. It was good this time because he finally gave a heads up in advance.
Although there is no difference between this greeting and no greeting, Master Jian's attitude is indeed changing.
"Master Jian, is there anything I can do for you?" Li Yuanba asked while bowing.
"Originally I would have to wait another hundred years before telling you this, but now I'm telling you in advance!" Old Jian looked at Li Yuanba and said with admiration in his eyes.
Li Yuanba's growth rate is really too fast. Although Li Yuanba's own realm has not improved much, his mastery of the 'Breaking Void Sword Intent' has reached an improvement that even Sword Master is surprised.
Now, Li Yuanba's 'Breaking Void Sword Intent' can be infused into the entire blade of the fourth-grade Xingyi Sword, and no longer needs the supplement of 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent'.
Of course, it doesn't mean that the 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent' is useless. In terms of attack power, the 'Breaking Void Sword Intent' has a power far exceeding that of other sword intents.
But in some special occasions, like when fighting against evil, the 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent' is more appropriate. The 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent' is the nemesis of all evil.
Li Yuanba didn't know what Master Jian was going to say. He stood respectfully with his hands behind his back, waiting for Master Jian's next instructions.
"The Sword Cave is the inherited cave of the Jian family. It is not just the space where we live. You are now qualified to enter the trial space for challenges, and you can get special rewards in the trial space." Old Jian said with a smile.
Originally, based on the time when Li Yuanba joined Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion and his realm, he was not qualified to enter the trial space.
However, after he killed many mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, he was able to enter the list of early-Nascent Soul geniuses in the Zhongzhou Continent, and was also qualified to enter the trial space.
"Trial space? What rewards can I get?" Li Yuanba asked curiously with his eyes lighting up.
"In the trial space, there are spiritual objects that can improve your cultivation, as well as materials for refining flying swords. There are even magical inheritances as well. It all depends on how you perform in the trial space!" Old Jian replied with a smile.
Li Yuanba was tempted. Even though he now had enough fourth-grade auxiliary elixirs for the early Nascent Soul stage, the speed of cultivation in the early Nascent Soul stage was too slow.
Without some rare and precious spiritual objects that could increase his cultivation level, it would be unrealistic for him to improve his realm in a short period of time.
Even if one consumes fourth-grade cultivation-assisting elixirs at full capacity in the early Nascent Soul stage, and they are all fourth-grade high-level elixirs, it will still take at least a hundred years to cultivate to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.
The reason why the original body Li Shiming was able to advance to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage in such a short distance was that it was achieved at the cost of consuming rare treasures from heaven and earth.
"Thank you, Master Jian!" Li Yuanba understood that Master Jian must have helped, otherwise, how could he, a swordsman without any foundation in Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion, have such an opportunity.
"You only have one chance to enter the trial space. If you want to enter again, you need to make great contributions to the pavilion, so you must seize this opportunity.
Once you die in the trial space, you will be kicked out of the trial space. Remember to survive no matter what. The longer you live, the richer the rewards you will get!" said Master Jian.
Li Yuanba nodded heavily. He understood the value of this opportunity.
"I'll send you into the trial space!" When Old Jian saw that everything that needed to be explained had been explained, he waved his hand and Li Yuanba's figure disappeared.
Li Yuanba's eyes blurred, and when he appeared again, he appeared in a dark void.
He released his spiritual sense, but there was nothing within the range of his spiritual sense, and the place where he was was just nothingness.
Just as he was imagining what the trial was, a sword light shot out from the void and shot towards his body.
Li Yuanba was well prepared. He swung his fourth-grade sword to meet the attack and chopped the sword light into pieces with one blow.
He breathed a long sigh of relief. It could be seen that the sword light was not very strong, probably only at the middle or early Nascent Soul stage.
Although the early to middle stage of the Nascent Soul was still a little short of his realm, his fourth-grade Xingyi Sword was a top-grade fourth-grade innate flying sword. Combined with the cultivation of the previous sword cultivator, it had been contained in his body for more than four hundred years. Its power had long surpassed the innate flying sword of a sword cultivator in the early stage of the Nascent Soul.
There are very few sword cultivators who can actually upgrade their natal flying sword to the fourth-grade top quality in the early stage of the Nascent Soul. If one wants to upgrade his natal flying sword to the fourth-grade top quality, he must reach the middle stage of the Nascent Soul or even the great monk level.
He didn't even use the 'Void-Breaking Sword Intent', and only used the 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent' to shatter the sword light.
Before he could relax, two sword lights shot out from two voids, targeting him as well.
Li Yuanba's mind moved, and the fourth-level sword split into two sword lights, which met the two sword lights respectively.
Among them, the sword light transformed from the fourth-grade sword's body shattered the sword light with one sword, just like before, while the other energy-transformed sword light only slowed down the speed of the opposite sword light.
With this delay, the sword light transformed from the fourth-grade Xingyi Sword has time to fly to the second sword light and chop it into pieces after chopping off the first one.
“Will there be three sword lights next?” Li Yuanba guessed in his heart and made preparations. The sword intent bestowed on the fourth-grade sword was strengthened a little.
Unlike what he had guessed, this time there were four sword lights.
This gave him a fright. If the sword light was twice as strong each time, then after not many times the number would be extremely terrifying.
He didn't know how many rounds the other sword cultivators could hold out, so he put all his energy into it.
This time he still split the sword light, splitting the fourth-grade sword into four sword lights, which blocked the four trial sword lights respectively.
He also understood that the more sword lights that were differentiated from the Fourth-Rank Sword, the power of the other differentiated sword lights would decrease proportionally, except for the Fourth-Rank Sword itself.
This is also the reason why sword cultivators rarely use differentiated sword light. They will only use differentiated sword light to increase attack efficiency when facing weak enemies.
Due to the enhanced sword intent infusion into the fourth-grade Xingyi Sword, when it split into four sword lights, the three energized sword lights still had the power to resist the trial sword light.
The main reason for this is the effect of the 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent'. Although the 'Supreme Yang Sword Intent' is not as powerful as the 'Breaking Void Sword Intent', it is also a very strong sword intent.
The fourth-grade main body chopped the first sword light into pieces with one sword, and then chopped the other three trial sword lights into pieces one by one.
As Li Yuanba's mind moved slightly, the sword intent on the fourth-grade sword was changed to the 'Void-breaking Sword Intent'.
He even activated the 'Divine Eyes'. The visual range of the 'Divine Eyes' was limited to the range of the two eyes, but the 'Divine Eyes' allowed him to see the sword light that appeared in front of him, allowing him to make a clearer judgment.
"Split!" Li Yuanba shouted softly, and the fourth-grade sword split into eight sword lights, and the 'Void-Breaking Sword Intent' contained in it was also split into eight parts.
At this time, eight sword lights appeared in the void and flew towards him.
This time he was slightly startled, because the eight sword lights actually flew towards him in the form of an eight-direction formation.
This was much more difficult to deal with than the eight ordinary sword lights. What frustrates him most was that the power of the eight sword lights was not affected in the slightest because they were divided into more parts.
The power of this sword light is still at the middle level of the early Nascent Soul stage. It seems that dividing the sword light will not reduce the power of the sword light.
He even suspected that the power of the sword light of this early to mid-stage Nascent Soul was given by the trial's judgment of his realm.
These eight sword lights were almost equivalent to eight sword cultivators in the early to mid-level Nascent Soul stage attacking him at the same time. Moreover, these eight sword cultivators in the early to mid-level Nascent Soul stage were all proficient in formations and maintained their attack formations during the battle.
"Kill!" A fierce light flashed in Li Yuanba's eyes. The eight sword lights he controlled turned into an anti-Eight Direction Formation and rushed into the Eight Direction Formation.
He used the method of breaking the formation to deal with the Eight-Direction Formation composed of eight trial sword lights. Of course, the final breaking of the formation still required his sword light to shatter the trial sword light.
However, if he didn't have a way to break the formation, even if he wanted to use his own flying sword to meet the trial sword light, he would not be able to come into contact with it.
The eight trial sword lights and the eight 'Breaking Void Sword Intent' sword lights intersected with each other, and the 'Breaking Void Sword Intent' cut the eight trial sword lights, and the eight trial sword lights turned into broken light spots and dissipated.
Li Yuanba exhaled slowly, and he took out the 'Wanjian Peak'.
There was no way. He could not continue fighting like this. Even if he could continuously differentiate his sword light, after these differentiated sword lights were divided into sixteen, they would definitely not be able to compete with the sword light of the middle level of the early Nascent Soul stage.
He didn't know how other sword cultivators did it, so he chose to use the 'Wanjian Peak'.
As his mind moved slightly, forty-eight energy-generated flying swords flew out from the 'Wanjian Peak'. There were no fourth-grade flying swords among them, all of them were second- and third-grade energy-generated flying swords.
Although it is a second or third grade energy flying sword, the sword intent contained within it carries a trace of the sword intent of the early Nascent Soul stage, and its power can barely be considered to be at the edge of the early Nascent Soul stage.
At this time, sixteen sword lights appeared in the void of the trial space, and this time they were flying towards him in two eight-direction formations.
He waved his hand, and forty-eight energy-generated flying swords, under the control of his spiritual consciousness, attacked with two anti-eight-direction formations.
Each ray of trial sword light is blocked by three energy-transformed flying swords, and the three energy-transformed flying swords respond to the enemy in the form of a Three Talents Formation.
With his spirit, without having to consider other enemies and without other attacks, he could divide his spirit into up to a hundred channels to control the hundred energy flying swords.
This kind of spirit division into hundreds of paths is absolutely not advisable in a Nascent Soul level battle, because when the spirit is divided into hundreds of paths, the spirit contained in each energy-transformed flying sword will be too little.
If in a battle with a cultivator, if the opponent has spiritual skills, he can use spiritual attacks to disperse Li Yuanba's spirit in the energy flying sword in one go.
But this is a trial, so there is no need to consider this aspect, so Li Yuanba felt at ease and boldly divided his spirit.
Forty-eight energy-generated flying swords used the Three Talents Formation to fight against a ray of trial sword light, but they were still unable to truly resist it. They could only delay for a moment at the cost of being shattered themselves.
A moment of time was enough for Li Yuanba to use his fourth-grade sword to cut all sixteen trial sword lights into pieces.
"Thirty-two trial sword lights!" Li Yuanba spoke slowly, reminding himself.
He once again summoned out ninety-six energy-transformed flying swords from the 'Wanjian Peak'. This was still within the range of the one hundred energy-transformed flying swords. He could also use his mind to precisely control them to form a formation, using the Three Talents Formation to fight three against one.
His fourth-grade Xingyi sword split into eight sword lights, all of which were blessed with the "Void-Breaking Sword Intent".
He passed the thirty-two trial sword lights very easily when he exerted his full strength.
But his expression became more serious, as he knew that the next trial was just the beginning of trouble.
"Sixty-four trial sword lights!" he said slowly.
Sixty-four energy-generated fourth-grade flying swords flew out from the 'Wanjian Peak'. Each of these energy-generated fourth-grade flying swords had the true power of an early Nascent Soul.
Even the trial sword light could not repel the fourth-grade energy flying sword in a short period of time. This was already the second-level energy flying sword in the "Wanjian Peak".
Sixty-four trial sword lights shot out from the void, also in the form of a formation.
The fourth-rank sword had the fastest speed and struck a node of the sixty-four trial sword lights first, breaking the formation formed by the trial sword lights.
At this time, the sixty-four energy-transformed fourth-grade flying swords each found a ray of trial sword light. The sky became lively, with a fourth-grade energy-transformed flying sword fighting against a ray of trial sword light.
Obviously, the sixty-four energized fourth-grade flying swords were much weaker in comparison, but the fourth-grade Xing Yijian was able to kill all around. With the blocking of the sixty-four energized fourth-grade flying swords, it was enough for the fourth-grade Xing Yijian to clear out the sixty-four trial sword lights.
Li Yuanba sensed the situation of the sixty-four energy-transformed fourth-grade flying swords. They had consumed about one third of their energy and it seemed that they would not be able to sustain it for more than one or two times.
'Wanjian Peak' is not a magic weapon for long-term battles, at least for now.
The most terrifying thing about 'Wanjian Peak' is that tens of thousands of swords are fired at once in an instant, impacting the enemy with numbers. Coupled with the 'Poxu Sword Intent' of the strongest great cultivator, it forms an extremely terrifying explosive destructive force in an instant.
However, if you want Wanjian Peak to be able to fight for a long time, it will need a longer period of nourishment.
The energy-transformed fourth-grade flying sword in the 'Wanjian Peak' has been in the 'Wanjian Peak' for too short a time, and there is not enough time to nourish it.
"One hundred and twenty-eight sword lights!" Li Yuanba said slowly.