Chapter 120

Ten days later.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged, holding the flowerpot, his internal power circulating endlessly, constantly nourishing the tiny branches of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Since taking the Blue Gold reagent, his aptitude has greatly improved, and the efficiency of nourishing and tempering his meridians is extremely high; he can feel that in at most a few days, he will be able to achieve the Lesser Heavenly Cycle of the Young Eagle.

After routinely taking the time to glance at the monitor of the Golden Knife Sect, he continued to cultivate.

In these days, many martial artists have moved upon hearing the news, and a large number have headed to the mountains and wilderness hundreds of miles southeast of Yuejing, the suspected location of the Seven Profound Secret Cave, and the entire Yuejing has become much quieter.

Public security has improved, and he has rarely encountered petty thieves wanting to enter the Sword-Casting Manor.

As for his neighbor, his Internal Qi Perfected guard is also gone, replaced by an ordinary Internal Qi Minor Accomplishment warrior; he assumes his family has already participated in the Seven Profound Secret Cave.

Pat...

A very slight sound, like a fruit shell cracking a small slit.

"It germinated!"

Jiang Ding was overjoyed, stopped cultivating, and his internal power passed through the spirit-gathering flowerpot, surging into the sword seed whose connection was becoming stronger and stronger.

The pattering sounds gradually increased and became dense; now even ordinary people approaching could hear this kind of sound similar to breaking a shell.

Jiang Ding continued to input internal power, his expression becoming increasingly solemn.

Under his perception, the metal seed shell constantly cracked, and particles of powdery debris fell, mixing into the soil; gradually, two leaves were exposed, truly coming into contact with the soil and the spiritual energy in the air.

It was as if a growth switch had been triggered.

The seed consumed all the nutrients it had accumulated for a long time without hesitation; the two leaves stretched, twisted upwards, broke through the soil, and the two deep blue leaves with sharp edges came into contact with sunlight for the first time.

"Little guy..."

Jiang Ding watched the newborn life, and a feeling of flesh-and-blood connection welled up.

After coming into contact with sunlight, the growth speed of the Thorn Blue spirit wood seedling surged again!

The leaves rapidly grew larger, half the size of a finger, sharp and oval-shaped, with veins cast from metal clearly visible, spontaneously drawing sunlight from the sky and the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth to transform into nutrients.

Immediately after, a greater change occurred.

The tree trunk, the size of a wire, pushed aside the soil, visibly becoming larger and thicker, and three pure blue metal buds differentiated below the two sharp oval leaves.

As soon as the buds appeared, they began to grow, stretching out tender little branches, and the curled little tender leaves unfolded, revealing a leaf surface full of metallic luster, spontaneously absorbing the essence of the Great Sun and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

One branch differentiated into two, two branches differentiated into four, four branches...

In a short period of time, a small tree about thirty centimeters high appeared before Jiang Ding's eyes.

Pure blue in color, lush with foliage, as if cast from metal, spontaneously absorbing the sunlight and spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of several meters, incomparably dazzling and gorgeous.

"Is this my... sword?"

Jiang Ding hesitated, suddenly giving birth to some kind of instinct.

The Thorn Blue spirit wood, which was growing with all its might by absorbing Great Sun essence and spiritual energy, suddenly saw its brilliant light disappear, revealing its blue-gold tree body; the lush branches and leaves shook and actually began to shrink, constantly becoming smaller.

It was not just the branches and leaves above ground; even the root groups underground, which were much wider than the tree crown, also began to shrink and gather, with dense and tiny lateral roots clinging tightly to the main root, the metallic luster flowing, actually fusing together to form a sharp and intimidating sword tip.

The branches of the tree crown also gathered and fused to form the latter part of the sword body.

In the blink of an eye, the lushly growing metal-attribute spirit plant was gone, and there was a large hole in the middle of the spirit-gathering flowerpot, with dense tiny holes inside the hole.

Appearing in its place was a deep blue flying sword thirty-three centimeters long and three centimeters wide!

"Come here!"

Jiang Ding beckoned, and the flying sword flew into his hand instantly at twice its original speed; immediately, a warm current was born from the sword body and surged into his body.

This was a power homologous to his own, and much purer; it was just a small stream that surged into the tiny meridian groups of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians he was tempering.

Nourished by this power, the tiny meridians that were calculated to require several more days to temper and nourish were actually tempered and completed in just a few minutes.

Crack~

In the dark, Jiang Ding felt that he had broken through an important barrier, his aura suddenly rising by a large margin, and the speed of internal power circulation in the Twelve Regular Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Meridians accelerated by more than a fold.

The Twelve Regular Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Meridians were each tempered to one thousand, the Lesser Heavenly Cycle of the Young Eagle!

"Finally, completed the cultivation of the Lesser Heavenly Cycle..."

Jiang Ding was full of joy, carefully sensing the changes that occurred after the talisman sword was promoted to a wooden sword.

With a turn of his internal power, as an object connected to his heart-blood, there were no secrets, and he quickly learned the newly born abilities of the wooden sword.

The Tier 1 Great Sun Spirit-Gathering Array was completely integrated into the Thorn Blue spirit wood, becoming one of its innate instincts, and the ability of the spirit plant itself to photosynthetically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the Great Sun was greatly enhanced.

In addition to gaining a faster growth speed, every seven days, the Thorn Blue spirit wood transformed by the wooden sword would feed back a homologous power to the sword master, improving cultivation speed.

"Once every seven days, on average..."

Jiang Ding calculated for a moment, his eyes revealing shock: "It's equivalent to tempering 80 more tiny meridians every day, plus the doubled cultivation speed of 480 per day after breaking through the Lesser Heavenly Cycle of the Young Eagle, that's 560 tiny meridians per day."

"The Great Perfection of the Young Eagle Heavenly Cycle requires tempering 108,222 large and small meridians; for me to achieve the Young Eagle Primordial Realm and give birth to the prototype of a special Dao body, I still need..."

Most people in the immortal sect need to temper about 108,000 meridians to achieve the Young Eagle Primordial Realm; the specific number varies from person to person, but the difference is not large.

"One hundred and fifty-seven days! Five months!"

Jiang Ding was stunned by his own cultivation speed: "Damn! In just five months, I can achieve the Young Eagle Primordial Realm and give birth to the prototype of a special Dao body!"

"This is not counting that the 'Young Eagle Taking Off Sword Art' is already (Great Accomplishment 78.7%); if it breaks into Great Perfection, the cultivation speed will increase further."

"Genius!"

Jiang Ding said happily.

"Whoever says this genius has poor aptitude again, I will beat him to death on the spot."

It took him a long time to press down his pounding heart and continue testing other data of the wooden sword.

Whoosh!

A blue shadow flew out instantly, already reaching the speed of sound; if not for the sword qi factor, a sonic boom would have appeared immediately, far exceeding the speed of strong bows and crossbows, and ordinary Internal Qi Realm warriors could no longer see the appearance of the flying sword in a state of motion.

The blue shadow swept across the middle of an iron ore the size of a human head from tens of meters away and returned to his hand in the blink of an eye.

The iron ore was unscathed, without any changes.

Jiang Ding came close and fanned a breeze with his palm.

In an instant, powder flew, and the seemingly complete iron ore the size of a human head collapsed into fine powder, with a large portion being blown away by the wind.

"The sharpness and speed of the flying sword and sword qi have been enhanced again." Jiang Ding made a judgment: "Primordial Realm warriors like Wan Qianyu, if they are not genius-level Qi Condensation mid-stage cultivators, are not my opponents, and Qi Condensation late-stage cultivators should also be able to be fought."

"As for the Qi Condensation peak..."

He thought and calculated for a long time and shook his head.

"Cannot judge; it is best not to contact, as a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall."

(End of chapter)