It had been a long time since the Sky Quake Overlord’s massacre. The humans and demonic beasts had already gradually forgotten about the incident.
Be it the demonic beasts or humans, their numbers were just too many. The number of newborns far exceeded the number of deaths.
It was especially so for saints who had lifespans of more than 100,000 years. They were already used to seeing life and death. This disaster wasn’t something they would worry about.
Autumn Leaf City…
In a manor that was over a few kilometers in size, Li Fuchen12Li FuchenMain Protagonist slowly opened his eyes.
“The Primary Extreme Sword Technique is now at the middle state of 42nd rank.”
Two years passed since the massacre. During these two years, Li Fuchen made progression again, allowing the Primary Extreme Sword Technique to reach the middle state of 42nd rank.
It might only be a small progress within the same rank, but Li Fuchen knew that this small improvement would bring about huge changes.
After all, the closer it was to extremity, the harder it was to improve. Correspondingly, the strength increase would be significant.
Take the difference between the top 10 rankers and the top few hundred rankers of the Great Emperor Rankings. Everyone was close to extremity, but the strength difference was more than ten times.
At this moment, Li Fuchen’s sword dao strength finally caught up to his body refinement strength and were evenly matched.
Li Fuchen walked out of the house and went to the training ground of the manor.
On the training ground, Wu Zhuo and Wu Xi were sparring with sword arts.
After a few years, Wu Zhuo was now 11 years old while Wu Xi was now 16 years old. The two of them had already cultivated to the 3rd level of Battle Spirit Realm. This cultivation speed would be astonishing to people on the Emperor Sky Continent.
Clang Clang Clang…
Both sword arts were exquisite. When regular mystic class sword arts were used by them, they were comparable to earth class sword arts.
During the past few years, Li Fuchen had let them cultivated at least a thousand different kinds of sword arts, allowing them to have a deep sword dao foundation.
“Master!”
Wu Zhuo and Wu Xi clashed one last sword and were just about to stop.
“Continue. Wu Zhuo don’t just search for your opponent’s flaw single mindedly. If there are no flaws, you can create one.”
“Wu Xi, your sword is too elegant. After learning so many sword arts, did you only learn how to be elegant? You can be elegant, but you must build upon the concept of being more dangerous as you are becoming more elegant.”
Li Fuchen didn’t teach them how they should cultivate, he would only give them pointers on how to fight during their spars. The rest was up to their fate.
After some pointers, the spar became more intense
Li Fuchen didn’t stop as he continued giving pointers, seemingly trying to push them to the limits.
“Wu Zhuo, your sword must be faster. Do you know why your sword isn’t fast enough? Because your heart isn’t sincere. Only after you are sincere towards sword dao, you will then have a sword dao that can do anything you desire.”
Li Fuchen noticed a flaw about Wu Zhuo. Perhaps it was due to Wu Zhuo superior sword dao talent, allowing him to learn sword arts very quickly, it gave Wu Zhuo the feeling that sword arts were nothing much. His sword dao foundation might be firm but it wasn’t deep enough.
Of course, Li Fuchen’s expectations might be too high too. After all, Wu Zhuo was only an 11-year-old child. On the East Unicorn Continent, children of this age were just starting on the path of martial dao.
This sparring session lasted for two hours. By the time the siblings were done, their backs were drenched in blood, while their faces were pale.
Li Fuchen’s pointers felt as though they were magical, as the siblings unknowingly extracted their potential. But the side effect was the energy exhaustion.
…
Autumn Leaf City was a flourishing major city.
They were residing in the Autumn Leaf City not because of Li Fuchen’s increase in strength, which allowed him to ignore class 9 low-tier arrays.
In fact, Li Fuchen’s strength was still inferior to a class 9 low-tier array.
Li Fuchen dared to enter because this city was a Swordsmen Guild’s city.
The so-called Swordsmen Guild was an organization established by swordsmen. From top to bottom, it was filled with swordsmen.
Even the Sword Emperor and the Sword Sovereign were members of the Swordsmen Guild.
According to strength and also contribution to the Swordsmen Guild, the members were sorted into nine grades. From a grade 1 swordsman to a grade 9 swordsman.
In order to become a grade 1 swordsman, one would need to reach the Law Phase Realm and pass the guild’s grade 1 swordsman exam.
To become a grade 2 swordsman, apart from the grade 2 exam, one hundred guild points were needed.
500 guild points were needed to become a grade 3 swordsman.
It carried on to the higher grades.
It was said that the Sword Emperor and the Sword Sovereign were grade 8 swordsmen and were honorary elders of the Swordsmen Guild.
The status of honorary elders were equivalent to the guild’s branch masters.
It was a known fact that members of the Swordsmen Guild had plenty of benefits.
Firstly, when one was being pursued, one could hide in the Swordsmen Guild and seek protection from the guild. Many cities didn’t have branches of the Swordsmen Guild, but there were plenty of cities that did. As long as a member hid in the Swordsmen Guild branch, even if a formidable ranker on the Great Emperor Rankings wouldn’t dare to barge in. Otherwise, they would be hunted to death by the Swordsmen Guild as enemies of the guild.
Secondly, when purchasing in the guild’s city, there would be discounts. The higher the grade, the greater the discounts.
Thirdly, guild points could be used within the guild to buy resources.
Fourthly, once a member became a grade 6 swordsman, the member could issue missions in the guild.
In short, the higher the grade, the better the benefits. Many of the swordsmen who didn’t have any background found it an honor to join the Swordsmen Guild.
Li Fuchen was currently a grade 4 swordsman. He couldn’t go to a higher grade because he didn’t have any guild points. If he had enough guild points, it wouldn’t be difficult for him to become a grade 8 swordsman.
“It is time to go earn some guild points.”
Li Fuchen wasn’t so confident to think he didn’t need any backers.
In the Saint Spirit Continent, any saint could kill him easily. If he had the Swordsmen Guild to back him, many would hesitate.
However, the requirement was for him to have a high grade.
The Swordsmen Guild wouldn’t possibly put too much effort into a grade 1 swordsman. When hiding in the guild, the Swordsmen Guild would only provide protection and no other help.
There were two methods to earn guild points. Completing guild missions or exchanging guild points with high-grade spirit stones.
However, the exchange ratio was very high. 1000 high-grade spirit stones were only enough to exchange for 1 guild point. 10 million high-grade spirit stones would be 10,000 guild points, and it wasn’t enough to become a grade 5 swordsman.
Li Fuchen reckoned that this exchange ratio was set for those formidable members who didn’t wish to take low grade missions. After all, the grade of missions that could be taken would be dependent on the swordsman grade. If one was a grade 1 swordsman, then it wasn’t possible to take high grade missions.
Li Fuchen was able to become a grade 4 swordsman because he slent 3 million high-grade spirit stones.
Of course, he didn’t wish to spend too much high-grade spirit stones to exchange for points.
After all, 20,000 guild points were required to become a grade 5 swordsman. 150,000 guild points were needed to become a grade 6 swordsman. It wasn’t a small sum and even Li Fuchen might feel the pinch.
Arriving at the Autumn Leaf City’s Swordsmen Guild branch, Li Fuchen entered and headed for the mission hall.
There was traffic entering and exiting the mission hall.
This place had missions issued by the guild and also by swordsmen above grade 6.
Generally speaking, missions issued by the guild would be rewarded with guild points.
Private missions would have rewards that were a mix of guild points and high-grade spirit stones.
Li Fuchen ignored the low grade missions and arrived at the mid grade mission area.
As a grade 4 swordsman, he could take mid grade missions.
“Ten hearts from demon rulers, 3000 guild points.”
“Sword tooth from sword-toothed demonic beasts, 2000 guild points.”
“1000 liters of lake water from the Sword Qi Lake, 5000 guild points.”
…
Li Fuchen didn’t look at private missions and was only glancing through guild missions.
“This mission at the Sword Qi Lake looks okay.”
Li Fuchen nodded. He required missions that rewarded plenty of guild points. As for the difficulty, he wasn’t worried at all. After all, mid grade missions shouldn’t be a problem for his strength level.
After tearing off the mission slip, Li Fuchen left the guild branch.
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The Sword Qi Lake was one of the dangerous places on the Saint Spirit Continent.
Legends stated that the Sword Qi Lake was originally a normal lake. Afterwards, the corpse of a sword dao saint fell into the lake, causing the lake to produce a willpower. The willpower was inexhaustible, therefore the sword qi in the Sword Qi Lake was also inexhaustible.
From far, Li Fuchen could see the Sword Qi Lake. It wasn’t too big and was only a few miles2miles1 Chinese mile = 500 meters in size.
The lake water of the Sword Qi Lake was shining with cold light. It didn’t look like lake water, it looked more like the formation of countless sword edges.
There was a white fog above the Sword Qi Lake, but if one looked carefully, it was actually sword qi.
“It is rather peculiar.” Li Fuchen thought to himself.
There were plenty of swordsmen collecting the lake water by the side of the Sword Qi Lake.
But the sword qi from the lake was too violent as there would be swordsmen that got killed from time to time. Some of the formidable swordsmen who successfully obtained the lake water, but their bodies were also drenched in blood, as though they were sliced a thousand times.
” The Sword Qi Lake is too dangerous. I spent one month collecting this small bottle. I can’t take it anymore.” A 7th level Law Phase Realm swordsman with short hair sighed.
“It is normal, even a sword dao great emperor could only collect a small bottle of lake water with one day, let alone you.” His friend commented.
The short-haired swordsman said, “I heard that the Sword Sovereign came here once to obtain the lake water too. He collected 1000 liters in a single day, I wonder if it is true.”
1000 liters would be equivalent to one water jar. The short-haired swordsman would be able to collect that much in a century.
“He is the Sword Sovereign, one of the most fearsome sword dao great emperors. We cannot compare ourselves to him.”
“That’s true.”
While the duo was speaking, Li Fuchen arrived at the edge of the Sword Qi Lake.
“Friend, be careful, don’t get injured by the sword qi.”
The duo gave a warning to Li Fuchen when they saw Li Fuchen walking over.
Li Fuchen said, “Thanks for the warning, I know my limits.”
Cling Cling Cling Cling Cling…
Just as Li Fuchen was approaching the Sword Qi Lake, a white bundle of sword qi surged over and sliced on Li Fuchen’s sword energy protection.
“No wonder these people have such a hard time collecting the lake water. The sword qi’s lethal power is indeed powerful.”
An idea flashed in Li Fuchen’s mind as he bent over to collect the water.
The Sword Qi Lake’s water required a special container. Li Fuchen’s container was a jar which had complicated patterns on the surface. Those patterns obviously formed an array.
However, Li Fuchen didn’t dare to submerge the jar straight into the lake. The jar probably wouldn’t be able to withstand and might shatter. Therefore, Li Fuchen plunged his right hand into the lake and produced a suction force before pulling a water sphere to toss into the jar.
“He is actually using his hand to directly collect the water?” Everyone in the surroundings were dumbfounded.
Normally, everyone would use a ladle made with heaven class metal to scoop the water. Furthermore, the scooping speed must be extremely fast, otherwise, the scoop might be destroyed. Despite them being very careful, most of the time they would spill half the scoop of water, preserving only a few drops. It wouldn’t be realistic to use a bigger ladle as more sword qi would be stirred up when more lake water was collected. If anyone dared to collect a huge amount of lake water at once, the sword qi would slice them up into a blood mist.
