Chapter 280 - 205: Five Poison True Understanding

Gao Hai said guiltily, "Master Qin, I couldn’t recall a single trace of the Sword Talisman’s markings. I only found a faint wisp of its aura..."

"It’s fine. Come, use your sword. Follow the runes I just showed you, circulate the Bloodthirsty Sword Scripture to gather your Qi Mechanism, and try to draw it. Don’t worry about speed; focus on precision."

Qin Xuan sheathed his sword and explained patiently, "The purpose of the Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman isn’t to hack with Barbaric Power. It’s to find the target’s grain, invade its most subtle structures, and sever it from within."

"Your Divine Thought must guide your Sword Qi to simulate the concept of metal shattering and all things breaking down."

Gao Hai fell into a thoughtful state. Fine beads of sweat formed on his temples as he tightly gripped his Ancient Bronze Longsword.

He was clumsy at first, but he refused to be discouraged by failure, quickly steeling himself to try again each time.

Qin Xuan couldn’t help but be impressed.

’As expected of a Celestial Spirit Root. His comprehension speed is incredible!’

Ordinarily, it would be impossible to condense the power of a Sword Talisman without entering the Blood Pool Sword Tomb and drawing upon the Ten Thousand Swords Evil Qi.

Yet, with Qin Xuan’s demonstration, Gao Hai had managed to crudely imitate him and find a faint sliver of an opportunity.

A pity, then, that he could never truly succeed.

If the Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman were truly so easy to master, the sect wouldn’t have placed it in the Blood Pool Sword Tomb and charged such a high price for people to learn it!

"Let your Blood Qi flow more smoothly... Yes, that’s it, right there. Merge your Divine Thought with it..."

Qin Xuan was more than happy to have someone else cultivate the Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman and share the karmic burden of the Giant Spirit Blood Demon.

That was why he was teaching with such dedication.

’Master Qin is so magnanimous! He genuinely wants to teach me!’

Gao Hai was utterly astonished. His ancestor had invited other Altar Masters from the Holy Sect before, but all of them had just been there to swindle him out of Spirit Stones. None were willing to teach him even a sliver of their true skills.

After countless attempts, a faint, dark-golden rune flashed into existence and vanished.

BUZZ!

The sword’s glow pulsed, and it actually started to take shape. While far less condensed than Qin Xuan’s, it possessed a nascent sharpness.

"Fellow Daoist Gao, your aptitude is remarkable. In just over an hour, you’ve already grasped some of its secrets," Qin Xuan said with admiration.

Joy spread across Gao Hai’s face upon hearing this.

"However, having the form alone is not enough. We must test its essence."

Qin Xuan’s gaze swept across the bamboo forest, happening upon a Yellow Sheep drinking from a stream.

He flicked his fingers, sending a gentle breeze past the animal. Startled, the Yellow Sheep raised its hooves, about to bolt.

"Fellow Daoist Gao, use it as your target. Do not harm it; merely sever one of its horns."

"As you command. I’ll try now."

Gao Hai took a deep breath and locked onto the Yellow Sheep’s horn. His Ancient Bronze Longsword trembled, and a faint golden Sword Qi shot out.

SWISH!

The Sword Qi precisely grazed one of the Yellow Sheep’s long horns. The horn snapped off. The break was rough, with fine, sawtooth-like edges, as if it had been fractured from within rather than cleanly severed like it would be by a true Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman.

"Master Qin, I did it!"

Gao Hai couldn’t hide his excitement, but he quickly suppressed it and looked to Qin Xuan for his critique.

Qin Xuan nodded. "Your control over the force was precise, and you’ve got the basics of the rune’s application down. Not bad. Let’s stop here for today."

’Tutoring should feel effective, but it can’t yield real results too quickly...’

Qin Xuan understood the true essence of tutoring.

At this rate, another forty-plus hours of tutoring should be enough for him to grasp one ten-thousandth of the Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman’s mysteries. That would be sufficient for Gao Hai to enter the Blood Pool Sword Tomb and draw upon a true Giant Spirit Blood Sword.

Qin Xuan wasn’t faking his teaching at all.

There was just one tiny deviation in how the Sword Talisman was drawn.

Even if Gao Hai truly obtained the Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman in the future, he would just assume any discrepancies were due to differences in comprehension between cultivators.

’Master Qin is a generous and brilliant teacher! I have to recommend him to the other Blood Demon Descendants!’

Gao Hai was completely won over by Qin Xuan’s power.

Blood Demon Descendants, those with the bloodline of a Demon Monarch... these princelings of the Holy Sect, whether second or third generation, all had their own little cliques.

Qin Xuan had no idea that, through a strange twist of fate, his reputation as a brilliant teacher was already beginning to spread.

"Master Qin, could you demonstrate the Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman one more time? There are still some parts I’m not clear on..." Gao Hai asked, eager to learn.

Before he could finish, a cyan Demon Wolf at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, drawn by the scent of blood from the Yellow Sheep’s broken horn, suddenly lunged from the woods!

"ROAR!"

The cyan Demon Wolf opened its massive jaws, unleashing a foul, gusting wind.

Its foul-smelling saliva nearly splattered across Gao Hai’s face.

"A Tier Two Great Demon?"

Gao Hai trembled from head to toe, his face ashen.

He was frozen in place, paralyzed by the oppressive Demon Qi of a Foundation Establishment beast.

Qin Xuan’s brow furrowed slightly.

’Logically, Ten Thousand Poison Peak is my territory now. A Tier Two Demon Beast should never be able to appear here.’

’Which means... the only explanation is that someone let it in on purpose!’

"Vile beast! You dare!"

A sword light flashed, and a dark-golden rift appeared in midair!

PFFT!

A thin line spread from its shoulder blade to its abdomen, and its massive body crashed to the ground.

"A-wooo..."

The cyan Demon Wolf let out a pained whine as its lunge came to an abrupt halt.

Dark-golden light flickered from the wound. Not only was its flesh severed, but even its Skeleton showed signs of being forcibly "broken." In an instant, it was reduced to a pile of withered bones.

Staring at the dead cyan wolf on the ground, Gao Hai’s legs trembled, yet his eyes were filled with excitement.

Seeing Qin Xuan strike just now had deepened his understanding of the Blood Talisman even further!

"Hehe, what an impressive Golden-Breaking Blood Talisman. Master Qin’s Lifebound Golden Sword has truly been an eye-opener for me," a bewitching voice rang out.

A Female Cultivator in a red dress appeared, swaying her slender waist. Her skin was as white as snow.

Her Cultivation was actually at the Star Mansion Realm Fifth Level!

The red-robed Female Cultivator extended a forked tongue and lightly licked her crimson lips. "I am Miao Hongrui of the Mystic Womb Corpse Cliff. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Master Qin."