Chapter 22: No Mine at Home, No Training

Could you destroy a puppet doll like this?

What a concept!

Even when Yao Mengzhen gave it his all, it only barely left a white mark on the puppet doll.

Even so!

Yao Mengzhen can still rank as high as eleventh on the Four Peaks Wind and Cloud Ranking!

Even…

Yao Mengzhen even dares to assert that even if the top three demonic prodigies on the ranking go all out.

They might still not be able to tear the puppet apart into its current state!

However…

All of this was actually accomplished by a secular world teenager who had just broken through the Six Grade Lian Qi Realm and had joined the Ziyang Sect for less than a week?

"Goo-dong…"

Thinking of this.

Yao Mengzhen only felt his throat dry and involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

If…

Li Mu's true combat power is comparable to the Concentration Realm!

Then the contest on the back mountain yesterday, I wouldn't have fainted.

And I would have actually died there!

However, Li Mu ultimately didn't do that; he only knocked himself out with the back of his blade.

This can no longer be called going easy!

This is clearly flooding the sea, right!

Yao Mengzhen's heart, while feeling unprecedented shock, was more filled with shame, unable to face himself!

Li Mu has already shown such mercy, yet I still committed such an arrogant sin.

What are you saying…

"I will beat you back to reality."

"I will make you bow and apologize."

"I will finish you!"

"It's only because there was no need to use it, so I never had the chance to display it."

"Then let us duel within your strong suit!"

"What combat style will you use to please me?"

"I look forward to it!"

Every time I think of my own arrogant and nonsensical boasts.

Every time I think of the blade I thrust into Li Mu's chest.

Yao Mengzhen truly wishes he could just find a crack in the ground and crawl into it!

I am simply…

Being completely crushed by Li Mu both in strength and martial virtue!

It is only now that Yao Mengzhen deeply understands!

What a true genius is!

A true genius should be like Li Mu.

While being modest as a valley, he must also make everyone who has sparred with him feel the awe of gazing at the vast ocean.

Take the last battle as an example.

When I naively thought this was Li Mu's entire strength.

I thought it was a truly exhilarating battle, and I only suffered a narrow defeat!

But inadvertently I discovered that the opponent clearly possessed the ability to instantly kill you.

Everything you see is merely the tip of the opponent's iceberg.

Everything the opponent does is just downward compatibility.

Thinking of this, Yao Mengzhen's little head almost wants to bury itself in his chest.

"……"

Just as Yao Mengzhen was still shocked by the puppet doll that had been taken apart into pieces.

Li Mu at this moment was immersed in an ocean of knowledge, unable to extricate himself.

"Racing beyond dust, thunder ten thousand tons, lightning merged, First Form: Pure and Clear…"

Li Mu, holding a long blade, saw the moves of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique floating in his mind, earnestly contemplating their profound mysteries.

To truly master the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, one must have a prerequisite.

That is, your own true Qi must draw the thunder-type spiritual energy of this world.

Introduce the thunder-type spiritual energy into yourself, integrating it into the Purple Thunder Sword Technique's moves.

Though it sounds easy, in practice it is extremely difficult.

First.

The spiritual energy between this world is incredibly tangled.

If not encountering a thunderstorm, thunder-type spiritual energy is quite scarce and rare.

It heavily depends on luck.

Of course, besides drawing the thunder-type spiritual energy of the world, the Qian Kun Realm also contains many Heavenly Treasures that naturally carry various attribute spiritual energies.

It's like the jade set pendant that Yao Mengzhen wears at her waist, which is forged from spatial stones that contain spatial attribute Qi.

However, these Heavenly Treasures are all priced astronomically.

Unless one's family has a mine, one simply cannot afford them.

For a civilian player like Li Mu, whose pockets are cleaner than his face, without generous support from a wealthy woman, it would never even be considered.

Li Mu, holding a long blade, while the moves of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique shift, his internal true Qi also begins to circulate slowly according to the technique's mantra.

The Purple Thunder Sword Technique is divided into two parts.

The first is sensing, the second is merging.

Li Mu now must, through the technique's key points, sense and attract the thunder-element Qi of heaven and earth into his body.

A moment later.

Li Mu's expression flickered slightly.

A look of astonishment surfaced.

"No way?"

"Did it really sense it this quickly?"

"Today is a clear, cloudless sky; logically, thunder-element Qi should be extremely scarce, right?"

"Could it be that my luck is overflowing?"

"Or perhaps..."

"Sister Zi Yuan arranged this cave residence with favorable wind and water; could it truly be a personal blessed land?"

He didn't think further.

Li Mu steadied his mind and continued to immerse himself in absorbing the thunder-element Qi of heaven and earth, during the process of utilization.

In the Qian Kun Realm, the most difficult to control and predict force is none other than 'thunder'!

Because thunder is a technique of the Nine Heavens, a might of the heavens!

Its divine power is vast, causing not only ordinary mortals to fear it, but also cultivators must treat it with caution!

Hence the saying of a Thunder Tribulation!

Although the Purple Thunder Sword Technique that Li Mu is currently practicing, as a Xuan Tier Middle-level Technique, can only mobilize a very limited amount of the heavens' thunder power.

Yet even so, it is still beyond what Li Mu can currently endure.

A slightest misstep would inevitably lead to demonic fire.

Therefore, even with Qin Siwu as a sacrificial scapegoat for himself.

But Li Mu still does not dare to be careless, proceeding from shallow to deep, advancing step by step.

At the beginning, Li Mu only absorbed the weakest thunder-element Qi from heaven and earth, resonating with the Purple Thunder Sword Technique.

After the Purple Thunder Sword Technique reaches a minor completion, Li Mu can further mobilize the great thunder power of heaven and earth.

One hour later.

Li Mu finally managed to integrate the thunder-element Qi drawn from heaven and earth into the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, and between the moves a faint wind‑thunder aura began to appear.

"It's done!"

Li Mu sheathed his blade.

Looking at the violet electric arcs swirling over the blade's edge, a look of delight flashed in his eyes.

Incorporating the thunder-element Qi into his body and merging it into the Purple Thunder Sword Technique turned out to be far simpler than he initially expected.

Of course, this is mainly thanks to Li Mu having already cultivated the Seven Absolute Blade Method to a great perfection!

As the saying goes.

"One method opens, ten thousand methods illuminate."

Both the Seven Absolute Blade Method and the Purple Thunder Sword Technique belong to blade arts that counter killing with killing, and violence with violence.

Moreover, the cultivation processes of the two share a similarly ingenious effect!

The essence of the Seven Absolute Blade Method is to comprehend the Seven Absolute Blade Qi through continuous killing, while also ingesting that Qi into the body.

As for the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, it also shares similarities with the former.

Similarly, it senses the thunder-element Qi of heaven and earth, absorbs it, and merges it into the eighteen forms of the technique.

Because Li Mu possesses the great perfected foundation of the Seven Absolute Blade Method, he can achieve twice the result with half the effort when comprehending the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, the eighteen forms shifting as if guided by his own fingers, smooth in release and retraction.

"Sss…"

"Having already cultivated the Seven Absolute Blade Method to the seventh layer of great perfection, I further augment it with the identification of the Heavenly Dao."

"It took a full incense stick's worth of time from start to finish, barely reaching the initial insight stage of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique."

"No wonder the Mysterious Rank Martial Art is so hard to train..."

"Besides testing a cultivator's own comprehension, there is also the limitation of resources."

"If one wishes to continuously cultivate the Purple Thunder Sword Technique at high efficiency!"

"Leaving other factors aside, just the expense of the thunder-element spirit stones alone would be an astronomical figure."

"Only someone like Yao Mengzhen, born of a cultivation family with a mine, a wealthy woman, could afford such huge costs."

"If it were an ordinary cultivator, even if given the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, they couldn't learn it."

Li Mu couldn't help but feel moved.

At the same time.

A Byte Entry flashed before Li Mu's eyes again!

【Ding!】

【System has identified that the host has comprehended and cultivated Purple Thunder Sword Technique, successfully triggering Hundredfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】

【Congratulations host, obtained Hundredfold Gain!】

At the moment the Byte Entry surfaced.

Li Mu only felt.

In this heaven and earth, the lightning-attribute spiritual energy that had originally been flowing toward him like a thin stream instantly increased a hundredfold.

It directly turned into a violent torrent rushing toward him, while the thunder true qi inside his body was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

At the same time, layers of varied light and shadow began to appear in Li Mu's mind.

These were the scenes of Li Mu practicing the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, and the sword technique's realm directly rose from initial entry to the Small Achievement Realm!

Accompanying the breakthrough of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique, Li Mu's body also underwent a considerable change.

As the lightning-attribute spiritual energy of this heaven and earth frenziedly poured in, Li Mu's body also underwent a drastic change!

With the pouring of the lightning-attribute spiritual energy, Li Mu's body turned into a world of thunder.

Dark-purple lightning turned into clusters of electric pythons, coiling and ravaging through Li Mu's extraordinary meridians and five viscera and six bowels!

His entire flesh, blood, and bones were tempered and struck by the purple lightning, becoming more resilient and solid with every moment.

"Hiss..."

"Another hundredfold?!"

Li Mu came to his senses.

Surprise instantly appeared on his face!

A hundredfold is equivalent to Li Mu continuously drawing lightning-attribute spiritual energy into his body a hundred times over!

This caused Li Mu's mastery of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique to directly surpass proficiency and reach the Small Achievement Realm!

Moreover, this breakthrough has not yet ended; instead, with the continual influx of lightning-attribute spiritual energy, it is increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"I've finished reading!"

Li Mu sheathed his blade, casually tossed the Jade Slip in his hand to Yao Mengzhen, who was still in a daze, and spoke.

"Let's start the lesson now!"

"Are you ready?"

"Ah? Ah... ah!"

Yao Mengzhen widened her watery peach-blossom eyes, for a moment hardly believing her own ears.

"So fast?"

Yao Mengzhen stared for a moment, then came to her senses, asking in a tone still filled with disbelief.

Immediately, Yao Mengzhen stood up and said, "All right!"

"I will now give you a complete demonstration of the eighteen forms of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique."

Yao Mengzhen simply treated Li Mu's glance as a cursory look, and after a rough once-over, wanted to get a general sense of her own foundation.

"No need for all this trouble!"

"Clang!"

Li Mu directly drew the long blade at his waist, then looked at Yao Mengzhen and spoke in a flat tone.

"Directly go to real combat!"

"Attack me with the Purple Thunder Eighteen Forms you currently master!"

"Only in actual combat is the best way to hone sword technique and comprehend the will of martial arts!"

"Of course..."

"Except with the cheat on!"