Chapter 96

"Transmission Jade Slip!"

Looking at the crystalline jade plaque, Chen Mu took a deep breath and slowed his breathing.

Then, he pressed the jade plaque to his brow and focused his spirit.

Hum~~

His brain swayed slightly, and there was a faint stinging pain between his brows.

The next moment, a large mass of complex and profound information surged from his brow into his mind.

He didn’t know how much time had passed; it seemed like an instant, yet it also felt like a year.

Chen Mu came to his senses in a trance, calmed his heart and spirit, and sat in meditation for a while to restore his composure.

Looking at the jade plaque again, the crystalline texture had disappeared, leaving only a withered gray-white.

Thump~

He reached out and flicked it lightly.

"Crack!"

Clatter~~

The gray-white jade plaque shattered into countless pieces at the sound.

"A one-time Transmission Jade Slip?"

Chen Mu clapped his hands, shaking off all the fragments and powder, his mouth curling up slightly.

"One-time is good, one-time is wonderful!"

The use of a Transmission Jade Slip can be read multiple times or once, depending on how the recorder sets it.

The "Heaven River Sword Venerable" set it for one-time reading.

The jade slip recorded the key content of the "Heaven River Sword Canon."

The "Heaven River Sword Canon" contained three things: the internal cultivation method "Heaven River Formula," the martial technique "Heaven-Fighting Sword," and the visualization method "Star Transformation."

The "Heaven River Formula" had ten levels in total; the first to ninth levels corresponded to the first to ninth stages of the Innate Realm, and the tenth level was the Earth Altar Realm.

The "Heaven-Fighting Sword" had eighteen forms in total, but the variations were in the hundreds.

This martial technique was very special; to improve its level, one had to constantly fight.

Practicing at home, one wouldn’t even dream of entering the hall for decades or a hundred years.

It was created for battle!

Only through constant fighting and killing could the sword technique’s power improve all the way to the peak, where one sword could open the heavens!

Heaven-Fighting, fighting the heavens, wasn’t just a slogan.

With this special way of improvement, Chen Mu’s plan to take a shortcut and use Cultivation Cards wouldn’t work.

Unless there was a combat experience card recording the "Heaven-Fighting Sword" to be used in conjunction with a Cultivation Card!

The problem was that the "Heaven River Sword Venerable" had been dead for over two hundred years, and the "Heaven River Sword Canon" had also been missing for over two hundred years.

There was no one in this world practicing the "Heaven-Fighting Sword" anymore.

Chen Mu was the only successor.

As for the visualization method "Star Transformation"...

It was the core of breaking through to the Heavenly Palace Realm!

The martial arts realm is the foundation.

And martial arts include martial techniques, internal cultivation methods, and visualization methods.

Among them, the visualization method is the most special because it is content related to the spirit!

Martial techniques and internal cultivation methods, even if they cannot be understood, are ultimately text or pictures and can be copied and reproduced.

But the visualization method is a spiritual martial art, and it cannot be copied.

It can only be understood!

Unless the martial artist who created the visualization method imprints it on a dedicated vessel with their own spiritual power.

Disciples of large sects and forces observe and read through "Visualization Diagrams."

This thing is too dependent on talent.

After observing, if you get it, you get it; if you don’t, you don’t.

Therefore, martial arts containing visualization methods are called true arts.

They jump out of the concept of high, medium, and low grades, forming their own system, and belong to unique learning.

Peerless true art!

Such peerless true arts are basically only possessed by large forces with a heritage of thousands of years.

The Fang family, where Fang Yuanfu and Fang Yuanzuo are, despite being famous throughout the Hannan Province and having a heritage of hundreds of years, most likely doesn’t have a true art either!

This is also the reason why the brothers Fang Yuanfu and Fang Yuanzuo went mad for the "Heaven River Sword Canon."

Without a true art, one cannot step into the Heavenly Palace Realm!

Without a Heavenly Palace Realm expert sitting in charge, it is very, very difficult to maintain a heritage for thousands of years!

For this reason.

Chen Mu was determined to obtain the visualization method "Star Transformation" in the "Heaven River Sword Canon"!

The reason he said "determined to obtain" was because the "Star Transformation" was not imprinted on the Transmission Jade Slip, only relevant information was recorded.

The "Heaven River Sword Venerable" left a passage in the jade slip; his legacy mainly consisted of three parts.

Sword Formula, Sword Equipment, and Sword Soul!

The Sword Formula was the "Heaven River Formula" and the "Heaven-Fighting Sword," all recorded in the Transmission Jade Slip.

But the Sword Equipment was dismantled and scattered throughout the Great Zhou.

The high-grade profound weapon, the Heaven-Treading Cloud Sword, was one of the Sword Equipment, the sword itself.

The content of "Star Transformation" was imprinted on other parts of the Sword Equipment.

Collecting all the Sword Equipment would allow one to obtain the complete "Star Transformation"!

Although scattered in various places, as long as one practiced the "Heaven River Formula" to the introductory level, one could sense the various parts of the Sword Equipment.

The first level of the "Heaven River Formula" has a sensing range of one thousand meters.

The second level, four thousand meters. The third level, nine thousand meters...

Therefore, collecting all the Sword Equipment is quite difficult, but not without hope; at least there is a guiding direction.

Only the "Sword Soul" was not specified, with only a vague statement.

"Where the heart thinks, the soul resides."

What is this?

A complete riddle!

Thinking of "Sword Soul" in the heart, and the "Sword Soul" appears before the eyes?

It’s simply unrealistic.

But the power of the "Sword Soul" is beyond doubt.

The "Heaven River Sword Venerable" relied on this three-piece set to fight across great realms without being defeated!

Innate fighting Earth Altar!

Earth Altar fighting Heavenly Palace!

Heavenly Palace fighting Myriad Phenomena!

In the martial arts realm, above the Heavenly Palace Realm is the Myriad Phenomena Realm!

The "Heaven River Sword Venerable" did not explain in detail what this realm was about, only giving a brief introduction.

Because the "Heaven River Sword Venerable" himself only reached the Heavenly Palace Realm.

But his Heavenly Palace Realm could face the Myriad Phenomena Realm head-on!

"Sword Formula, Sword Equipment, Sword Soul..."

Chen Mu took a deep breath, calmed his state of mind, and whispered, "There is no direction for the 'Sword Soul,' let’s practice the 'Sword Formula' first!"

The "Heaven-Fighting Sword" requires battle, so put it aside for now.

The "Heaven River Formula" can be practiced first.

Fortunately, the "Green Origin One Qi Formula" and the "Heaven River Formula" do not conflict, and Chen Mu is currently only at the second stage of the Innate Realm, so switching cultivation methods won’t take too long.

Otherwise, there would be a lot of trouble.

Just as Chen Mu stopped the operation of the "Green Origin One Qi Formula" and switched to the "Heaven River Formula," the news that the "Tyrant Sword Gate" had been exterminated spread in Nanyun Prefecture, causing an uproar.

"Too ruthless! All the Tyrant Sword Gate members on Tyrant Sword Mountain died; the Fang family is too ruthless!"

"Shh~ keep it down! It is said that a young master of the Fang family also died on Tyrant Sword Mountain!"

"Serves them right! These young masters of great families are used to being high and mighty; I wish they would all die."

"Sigh, the 'Tyrant Sword Gate' also suffered an unprovoked disaster; was that profound weapon something they could get involved in?"

"Why did I hear that it wasn’t for the profound weapon?"

"It was for the profound weapon! I’ve inquired clearly; the July Altar Master of the Heavenly Alliance, Shi Kuangsheng of the Sword Worship Gate, Huang Keqin of the Nine Nether Sect, and people from other large forces fought fiercely on Tyrant Sword Mountain for the profound weapon, even punching a hole in the mountain!"

"Is that so? Then who ended up with the profound weapon?"

"This... it seems no one got it?"

"..."

Martial artists from various forces in Nanyun Prefecture discussed it one after another.

But in the Hero Building in the inner city, it was a different discussion.

"What profound weapon, Shi Kuangsheng, Huang Keqin, and Fang Yuanfu were fighting over the 'Heaven River Sword Canon'!"

"This is the peerless true art of the 'Heaven River Sword Venerable' from over two hundred years ago! Shi Kuangsheng, Fang Yuanfu, and the others fought for a long time, only to lose it!"

"Ah? This can be lost too? A true art, if someone picked it up, wouldn’t they soar to the sky?"

"Yeah, I wonder which lucky person got it cheap..."

"I know!"