Chapter 42: Jiang Ding

Jiang Ding opened the new version of the sword refining method.

The requirements remained unchanged: the top-tier version uses Law-Breaking Immortal Gold and Taiqing Divine Iron, while the monkey version uses Millennium Soul-Nurturing Wood and No. 21 Synthetic Gengjin. The core Tier 1 Spirit Gathering Array, which is unique to the Dari Sword Pavilion, remains the Dari Spirit Gathering Array, with no changes.

However, the content within had undergone some changes.

"Talisman Sword, Wooden Sword, Iron Sword—three levels..."

Jiang Ding's heart stirred. This used the logic of the Seven Profound Sect's "God-Heaven Hundred-Step Flying Sword," but the content was completely different, far more refined and complex.

"Legend has it that the heavenly treasures of a certain realm and the refining techniques of that realm have a mutually promoting effect. Could it be that the Array Spirit deduced this based on that?"

Looking closer, it was extremely complex, exceeding the likes of the "God-Heaven Hundred-Step Flying Sword" and the "Song Family Hundred-Step Flying Sword" by dozens of times over.

Yet, there was a strange sense of familiarity. Many profound problems he had previously thought impossible to understand suddenly became clear after pondering them a few times.

"After all, since it is already 'naturally compatible with the Immortal Dao,' where is the need for effort?"

【Novel first published on..., please go to... to read!】

"Not only that, the quality of my internal power is also improving bit by bit. It will be even more efficient in the future."

This was a special cultivation technique leaning towards the wood attribute. It had a certain healing effect, and the technique was upright and peaceful, making it difficult to suffer from qi deviation. It involved 1,080 meridians.

Jiang Ding was noncommittal and casually took the book handed over by the other person.

The more Jiang Ding watched, the more he marveled: "If there were many such techniques, even a dull person could reach the level of a genius in cultural studies through analogy, right?"

Jiang Ding searched the library and, sure enough, found a paper describing this phenomenon.

Between breathing, walking, and resting, internal power flowed naturally through the meridians without needing any conscious effort to mobilize it.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard a 'Crack!' sound.

"Green Origin Technique."

Jiang Ding's heart tightened. He returned his gaze to the technique, reading it carefully, striving to memorize it all and ponder it at every moment.

Jiang Ding pondered.

Internal power surged into it, a glimmer of spiritual light flashed and vanished, and the talisman paper actually floated slightly in the air.

The small courtyard, the midday sun spilling under the tree shade.

Academically, it is called—Dao-Enlightenment Poison.

"Tier 1 Levitation Array, finally completed."

At a square table, a youth in green robes carrying a sword held a talisman brush, writing and drawing on paper. Soon, a large circle of dense, twisted diagrams spread out.

For such persecuted grassroots commoners, he held full sympathy; if he could help with a wave of his hand, he certainly would.

"Proprietor, I obtained an internal cultivation technique, but no matter what, I cannot get started. I ask for your guidance..." Han Lin's face turned even redder, his voice as thin as a mosquito's, not daring to look at anyone.

Jiang Ding explained carefully, while a technique structure surfaced in his mind.

Jiang Ding glanced at the time. Very good, it was past twelve, not working hours.

Cultivating while pondering the technique, Jiang Ding did not leave the library until past eleven at night, feeling reluctant to part.

"The power of a Talisman Sword is equivalent to the impact of a flying bird. If replaced with a Tier 1 top-grade metal-attribute talisman paper, the sharpness and speed would increase, making it usable." *Dong dong dong! * Jiang Ding showed a look of surprise.

"One way is to follow the visualization diagram provided by the technique, visualizing an invisible 'Qi' existing within the body. This is the Qi-Sensing Realm. With long-term visualization, it becomes increasingly profound, and finally, one can turn the false into the true, truly giving birth to internal power in the blood and qi."

This method is mainstream in the Immortal Sect.

The technique was not difficult; there were some special terms he hadn't seen before, but combined with the context, it was easy to understand.

He himself felt it was hard to speak of. Others took you in, allowed you to practice martial arts, and on top of that, you were pushing your luck—it was truly lacking in decorum! "Speak."

This could already be considered a top-tier internal cultivation technique in the Yue Kingdom. Jiang Ding said slowly: "One way is to temper the human body, refining the tendons, bones, and skin. Upon reaching the extreme, the essence overflows, giving birth to internal qi, naturally giving birth to internal power. This method is top-grade, and its internal power is more compatible with oneself."

This guy is really lucky.

Jiang Ding didn't ask him what he didn't understand, but explained it one by one from beginning to end.

"The 'Green Origin Technique' follows the latter. Behind the technique is a 'Green Cloud True Immortal Dao-Enlightenment Diagram.' This is also a viable path. Compared to the former, it carries certain risks, but it is not impossible to do better..."

After spending ten minutes flipping through it from beginning to end, he had a bottom line in his heart.

"Enter."

Jiang Ding was like someone waking from a dream, only feeling internal power flowing spontaneously throughout his body. The speed was more than twice as fast, the qi vortex in his dantian became faster and more stable, tempering the quality of his internal power bit by bit with higher efficiency.

"Too magical. This is creating a Son of the Immortal Dao favored by heaven and earth in a certain direction in a short time!"

The door opened, but it wasn't the short, fat figure of Huang De. A youth with an ordinary face walked in, feeling uneasy, head bowed, not daring to look at anyone.

It was as if... this technique was naturally born for him!

"Next is the Tier 1 Dari Spirit Gathering Array unique to the Dari Sword Pavilion, the Tier 1 Flight Array, plus the special Sharp Metal Array I have already mastered. Four arrays in one, folded—that is the Talisman Sword in the 'Dari Sword-Planting and Refining Method'!"

"Hmm, there are also hidden dangers. If one relies on it too much, cultural studies grades will grow explosively for a period, and then completely stagnate, losing all motivation and instinct to explore the unknown. One must have a deeper deduced technique."

"At most twelve days, I can reach the 'Small Heavenly Cycle' realm."

"Take a look."

"Proprietor, I have a request." Han Lin gritted his teeth and said.

It also existed in the internal cultivation technique "Wild Wolf Strength" obtained from Long Shi. One was earth-attribute, the other wood-attribute; both utilized the spiritual energy naturally absorbed by spiritual roots to convert into internal power.

The grades of the two techniques were different, but this point was exactly the same.

Jiang Ding glanced at the honest-looking youth in front of him.

Jiang Ding was invigorated, carefully sensing the changes in his internal power: "The efficiency of internal qi production has increased, and the efficiency of warming and tempering meridians has increased. Now I can temper more than forty small branch meridians a day, doubling it."

Jiang Ding felt his internal power drop by six-tenths, and then it continued to recover under the qi vortex of the Great Accomplishment-level technique realm, feeling very happy in his heart.

Most of them appear in youths from large families, or they covet the title of genius, or they are too lazy to work hard, or for other messy reasons, eventually stopping forever at a certain early realm.

What surprised him was that Han Lin actually had the ability to never forget what he saw. He remembered it after being told once, and in turn, asked him about certain key points he hadn't understood.

Without needing to cultivate, he reached the state of great harmony required by the technique. Every word and action naturally conformed to the highest realm of the technique, returning to simplicity.

"'Young Eagle Takes Flight Sword Art' technique realm Great Accomplishment!"

Spiritual root-to-qi structure!

These two arrays were naturally much harder than the Sharp Metal Array and the Levitation Array, but with his understanding of the sword refining method, he had the confidence to engrave them one by one.

"Internal power has two ways of being born."

!.

Those with four spiritual roots will cultivate one or two tenths faster, three spiritual roots will be four or five tenths faster, and two spiritual roots will be twice as fast! If all internal cultivation heart techniques had this structure, then the better the spiritual roots, the faster one would cultivate.

"This... could it be that some Immortal Sect deliberately released it to use as a selection for disciples?"

Jiang Ding guessed.

His heart tightened greatly. In the future, he should act more cautiously and not easily expose the artifacts from the Immortal Sect.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 43 =====