Chapter 156: Ancient Trees Rise from the Ground, Piercing the Firmament

May 27th,

There were twenty-nine days left until the college entrance exam on June 25th, less than a month.

Anyone who looked like a student on the street was mostly in a hurry, infected by the ubiquitous tense atmosphere.

Jiang Ding, who often came to the library, clearly felt that there were several times more people than usual.

The single-person reading rooms had long been booked out.

Jiang Ding squeezed into the crowd, found an empty computer, sat down, and entered a few keywords.

"Martial Dao Will, Intent, Sword Intent."

He was certain that his talent of three times the soul strength must be related to this; the sword-shaped phantom in his mind had never condensed into reality, which was due to a lack of understanding in this aspect.

'Martial Dao Will: Among mortals, martial artists have a tiny chance of developing a kind of minor soul specialization, which can amplify the power of internal power and true qi, improve the speed of moves, etc.'

'The cause of formation is unknown; complex life experiences, profound knowledge reserves, a certain quality of internal power, and a certain soul strength can all influence the birth of Martial Dao Will.'

Below, a row of books was listed, such as "Research on Martial Dao Grandmaster Zheng Danian of the Canghai Minor Realm," "Conjectures on the Origin of Martial Dao Grandmasters," etc. There were relatively few, only ninety-eight pages.

"Is this the power that grandmasters like Daoist Qing exceed martial artists? It is my shallow knowledge."

Jiang Ding was somewhat disappointed; he had thought it was a breakthrough martial dao study, and after figuring it out, he would get a city-level scientific progress award or something.

"Cultivators outside the realm have more exploration in this regard."

"Intent, there is Dharma Intent, Sword Intent, Hammer Intent, Water Dharma Intent, etc. The principles are roughly the same; they are all soul specializations of cultivators that have occurred to varying degrees far exceeding martial artists, thereby producing amplification in a certain direction, and having special attacks on soul and spiritual sense imprints."

"The principle of generation is unknown."

"According to statistics, the more talented, the more firm in mind, and the more pure in soul a cultivator is, the easier it is to be born; the level of cultivation is not the main reason affecting its birth."

"This kind of intent appears very, very rarely among Immortal Sect cultivators. Among the nine great immortal sects outside the realm, only the most talented young cultivators can touch the threshold of intent."

"Among the many immortal dao explorations of 'Intent,' pure sword dao sects have walked at the forefront, so much so that Sword Intent is often singled out from many intents."

"Among the currently known sects, the destroyed Great Sun Sword Pavilion possesses the highest sword intent immortal dao scientific technology."

"In its heyday, the sect possessed ninety-nine Nascent Soul-level and above sword dao peak masters, often exhibiting phenomena of exceeding levels to challenge that exceeded common sense."

"Within the Sword Pavilion, upholding extreme and crazy concepts such as 'Only by the sword do we live, only by the sword do we die,' 'Apart from this sword, there is nothing else,' 'Everything needed is taken from the sword,' etc., they often launched wars against other sects simply because of a pure desire to fight, and were resented by many sects, including the eight great immortal sects."

"History proves that such extremely stupid concepts will eventually lead to self-destruction."

"..."

Jiang Ding felt somewhat uncomfortable.

But he finally found the direction; searching for the two keywords "Great Sun Sword Pavilion" and "Sword Intent," they were professionals in this aspect.

There were two complete cultivation techniques successfully excavated and rescued by the Immortal Sect.

"'Blood Slaughter Sword Dao': Challenge cultivators of the same tier whose strength is similar to your own, kill them, and repeat continuously. After killing ninety-nine people whose strength is always similar to your own, there is a great possibility of comprehending Killing Sword Intent."

"Sure enough, it's crazy enough."

Jiang Ding shook his head.

Fighting to the death with people of similar strength, ninety-nine times in a row—this was like drawing a lottery ninety-nine times in a row, and he had to win all of them to succeed.

This was tired of living, seeking death.

"'Rescue Excavation of 59 Types of Sword Intent in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion Sword Tomb Ruins' by Zhang Junsheng, Hu Lin, Qingfeng University Cultivator Newspaper, August 1st"

"The work of rescue excavation of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion ruins was fraught with difficulties and took a long time. Fortunately, our team found the direction and successfully found one of the most important buildings of the former Great Sun Sword Pavilion, the Sword Tomb."

"This is the burial place of the sword cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion through the ages; only those peerless sword cultivators who have comprehended sword intent are qualified to be buried here."

"According to the records of the data excavated previously, accumulated over countless years, there once existed 11,972 different types of sword intent here, including Life and Death Sword Intent, Fire Sword Intent, Reincarnation Sword Intent, Wind Sword Intent, Great Sun Sword Intent... etc., in different directions, exploring this kind of soul specialization science to a degree unimaginable to the Immortal Sect."

"Being here, Great Sun Sword Pavilion disciples could more easily comprehend sword intent and more easily create new sword techniques. It is a pity that in the end, everything was destroyed by the Immortal Sect's forbidden nuclear weapon, 'Shoot Immortal'... I mean, this is of course very good, but it has brought huge trouble to our excavation and rescue work. If the Immortal Sect could have been stronger back then, it would have been better."

"After thirty-two years of continuous work, we have excavated and restored 59 types of sword intent structural models, such as Great Sun Sword Intent, Reincarnation Sword Intent, Fire Sword Intent... although it is pitifully small compared to the more than 10,000 types of sword intent inheritance in the heyday of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, it is indeed a huge progress in the Immortal Sect's exploration in this aspect."

"The appendix is as follows..."

Jiang Ding's gaze was attracted by the wonderful soul structures projected by the array spirit.

Exquisite, beautiful, complex, seemingly containing endless mysteries within, one could vaguely see scenes such as the six paths of reincarnation dying out in sequence, the great sun falling from the high sky, etc.

Very magical; this kind of top-tier science of the soul, many Jin Dan cultivators might not be able to understand.

But for him, this didn't seem to take much effort.

"This is the direction of my talent of three times the soul strength of the same tier..."

Jiang Ding had a sudden realization.

Looking at one soul structure after another, reincarnation, great sun, fire, wind, earth, sky, water flow... all things in the world seemed to be able to be part of the sword; the sword dao was mysterious and unpredictable, all-encompassing, and omnipresent.

Clang!

"No."

A sword sound rang out within Jiang Ding's soul, the azure brilliance shining over the sea of consciousness, shattering reincarnation, shattering the great sun, earth, fire, wind, and water dying out in sequence under the sword.

"Sword dao contains nothing; there is only me, just slashing away everything that blocks the path."

All illusions in the soul disappeared, leaving only the endless brilliance of the sword dao, condensing into a sword shadow of reality.

Clang!

At this moment,

Within a hundred miles of Rong City, all living beings with souls, regardless of the level of cultivation, heard a clear sword sound in their ears, feeling cold all over, as if falling into an ice cellar.

Yet they didn't know where it came from, looking around in a daze.

The next moment, they were terrified.

In the endless sky, a huge azure ancient tree rose from the ground, towering into the firmament, as if to tear the sky apart. The canopy rustled, broken leaves drifted in the air, endless sword qi was scattered, and the void was pierced with chaotic black holes.

"Suffering unknown soul attack!"

"Requesting support!"

All the Foundation Establishment cultivators in Rong City turned pale, communicating with the Rong City array spirit warning without hesitation, and Sky-Sky fighter jets placed in the airport began to take off, entering the highest wartime state.

Unexpectedly, they did not get a swift and accurate response as usual.

"Array spirit, what happened?"

After waiting for a long time, just as the Foundation Establishment cultivators became increasingly anxious, a mechanical voice finally came.

"There is no foreign enemy invasion, it is a naturally occurring sword dao phenomenon."

"Sword dao phenomenon? What is a sword dao phenomenon?"

Hua Zhengtian was full of doubt, but did not get a response again.

"This is my sword intent."

Jiang Ding closed his eyes slightly, his three-times-same-tier soul having a core for the first time, an azure sword shadow, carrying the intent to destroy everything and slash everything.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 157 =====