Chapter 322

After finishing the fish and shrimps, Lin Shuangyu said: "I haven't seen such wind and rain for a long time. It's a good opportunity. Su Shidi, let me practice for a while. If I wait until the wind and rain are gone, I'll miss it."

As she spoke, a pair of swords flew out from her forehead. It was her natal flying sword that she had painstakingly practiced—the Twin Fish Blood Needle Swords.

This pair of Twin Fish Blood Needle Swords was half shorter than Su Jing's Tide-Watching Sword, but the whole body was dark purple. They inserted themselves beside the Tide-Watching Sword, vibrating a layer of sword qi that glowed with blood red.

This sword qi expanded to the edge opened by the Tide-Watching Sword and then stopped. The blood red dissipated and disappeared, no different from Su Jing's Tide-Watching Sword.

Liu Xiaolou saw Su Jing take a deep breath and retract the Tide-Watching Sword, with sweat beads faintly visible on his forehead. He closed his eyes, sat cross-legged on the spot to regulate his breath, and soon entered stillness.

Lin Shuangyu made a gesture to Liu Xiaolou, signaling him to let Su Jing rest for a while and not to speak and disturb him. Liu Xiaolou nodded and watched Lin Shuangyu get up to clean up the leftover bones and shells. That large palm leaf also disappeared in the blink of an eye in her palm, but he didn't know what kind of treasure it was.

At night, the wind and rain were more violent than during the day. Su Jing was still sitting cross-legged to regulate his breath. It had always been Lin Shuangyu who supported this calm world outside the Sword Hut.

Among them, a mast tip several zhang long blew over and hit Lin Shuangyu's Blood Sea Sword Qi, causing her cheeks to twitch.

The mast tip rolled and was bounced away by the sword qi, inserting itself into a hilltop dozens of zhang away, sinking most of it into the mud.

Liu Xiaolou was worried that her true qi would be exhausted and wanted to help, so he flew out his own Glazed Shield. The glazed light brushed down one after another, building a much smaller protective place.

Lin Shuangyu was not pretentious and immediately retracted her flying sword, letting Liu Xiaolou take over to block the wind and rain. She had supported it three or four times longer than Su Jing and was really a bit tired.

After retracting the sword qi, she hurriedly rushed into the wind and rain, returned in a moment, and told Liu Xiaolou: "It's not our boat, the boat is fine."

After Liu Xiaolou opened the Glazed Shield, he didn't feel it was difficult at first. Compared with fighting with others, the power of the wind and rain at sea was obviously much weaker. But after persisting for a long time, that endless, infinite, never-fading force would make people feel desperate. While silently experiencing it, he also realized some of the situations and mindsets of sword cultivators' cultivation.

The Glazed Shield blocked for half an hour, and the glazed luster showed signs of turning dim, so Liu Xiaolou retracted it. He simply sacrificed the Three Mystical Swords, injected true qi, and tried to imitate Su Jing and Lin Shuangyu, dealing with the wind and rain purely with sword qi.

He had been observing the two Foundation Establishment sword cultivators from the side for a long time, felt he had some small insights, pondered for a long time, straightened out the context, and planned to see the effect.

At the beginning, the five sword rays branched and rotated at high speed, forming a transparent umbrella-shaped sword qi. Although the coverage was a circle smaller than the glazed light supported by the Glazed Shield, it was successful after all. He faintly grasped two points of the sword intent of the Tide-Watching Sword Scripture, and it looked quite decent, successfully blocking the wind and rain outside.

But after a dozen breaths, a series of objects suddenly flew from the sea and hit the Three Mystical Swords' sword qi violently, clattering and being knocked away, with extremely fierce power!

He glanced over in a hurry and saw it was a group of three-foot-long sea fish. He didn't know where they were blown from. One by one, they trembled their fish tails and were rolled into the high sky by the messy hurricane, disappearing into the dark clouds.

After suffering such a fierce blow, Liu Xiaolou felt his true qi was in chaos, and the sword intent was hard to condense again. Several loopholes appeared on the entire sword qi, and the wind and rain invaded from there, instantly splashing his head and face.

Seeing that the Sword Hut was about to be broken into by this violent wind and rain, a sword qi rose again, which was Su Jing's Tide-Watching Sword.

Liu Xiaolou continued to observe from the side, experiencing the sword intent of the Tide-Watching Sword.

The storm lasted all night, and the next day it turned slightly smaller, but it still didn't stop. The three of them took turns in this order, protecting the Sword Hut. Su Jing's Tide-Watching Sword persisted for about an hour, Lin Shuangyu's Blood Sea Sword could persist for three hours, and Liu Xiaolou persisted for more than half an hour with the Glazed Shield, then practiced the Three Mystical Swords for a while.

Liu Xiaolou was intoxicated by such cultivation, experiencing the power of the storm and sea tide, observing the sword intent of Su Jing and Lin Shuangyu. After having some insights, he continued to practice, and after encountering problems, he continued to observe and experience.

At first, the Three Mystical Swords could only persist for a dozen breaths before the sword intent was interrupted. After three days of this, the time he persisted could increase from a dozen breaths to a stick of incense.

By the fourth day, the wind and rain gradually became smaller, the dark clouds gradually dispersed, the sky turned blue, and the storm passed just like that.

Lin Shuangyu sighed: "Such a big storm is truly rare."

Su Jing nodded: "The last time it was this violent was five years ago when I went to sea with the teacher to catch Ling Ghosts..."

Lin Shuangyu suddenly smiled: "I heard about it. Elder Bai is truly amazing. One sword cut three ghosts. I wonder what kind of heaven-destroying and earth-shattering ability it is to practice the Tide-Watching Sword Art to the extreme..."

As she spoke, she suddenly turned to Liu Xiaolou: "Daoist Liu, you are Su Shidi's brother-in-law, and I am older than you, so I will call you Xiaolou. These past few days, I observed your sword intent, and it seems to have quite a few similarities with Su Shidi's Tide-Watching Sword Art? Of course, I don't suspect Su Shidi taught you the sword art. I expect you wouldn't privately pass it on. In this..."

Liu Xiaolou hurriedly explained: "What I practice is the Mystical Truth Scripture passed down by my sect. Back when I was at Shenwu Mountain, I studied sword techniques with Shisanlang and indeed discovered that the Tide-Watching Sword Art he practiced had quite a few similarities with my family's Mystical Truth Scripture, and even before the fifth layer of Qi Refinement, the meridians practiced were extremely consistent."

Lin Shuangyu was surprised: "There is actually such a thing? I once heard Su Shidi mention that Xiaolou is from the Three Mystical Sect? But I don't know where the Three Mystical Sect originated? Does it have any origins with the various sects in Lingnan?"

Liu Xiaolou smiled bitterly: "To tell you the truth, perhaps there are indeed some origins. I came to Lingnan this time just for the cultivation technique."

The two people in front of him, one was Shisanlang whom he could trust, and the other seemed to be trustworthy for now. At this moment, he could no longer hide anything, so he stated his purpose one by one.

After listening, Su Jing immediately stated his position: "I will go and beg the teacher, and must make the teacher agree to pass the Tide-Watching Sword Art to brother-in-law!"

Liu Xiaolou said: "The Tide-Watching Sword Art won't work, the order is different."

Lin Shuangyu also shook her head: "Su Shidi, don't be anxious. If you can trust me, please tell me the general cultivation situation of the Mystical Truth Scripture technique, Xiaolou."

Liu Xiaolou said it on the spot.

Lin Shuangyu thought for a long time and said: "This technique is quite similar to a mental method in the Hidden Sword Pavilion. Um, I once saw the Little Ancestor practice that sword art back then, and he also told me about the refinement method of the sword art and asked if I was interested in practicing it. I remember that at least the order of the first eight meridians is exactly the same as your family's Three Mystical Scriptures."

The first eight meridians are exactly the same? Liu Xiaolou couldn't help but tremble in his heart: "May I ask what technique it is?"

Lin Shuangyu said: "It's called the Yellow Dragon Sword Art. I practiced this scripture for half a year that day, but later had doubts and asked the teacher for advice. The teacher immediately stopped me from continuing to practice, saying that this Yellow Dragon Sword Art is not a sword art of our South Sea Sword Sect. Forcibly practicing it would be contrary to the sword intent in the sect, and there might be accidents in the future. And there is one more thing, this sword art is a remnant, and the rest have been lost, so it can only be used for reference and comparison with our sect's sword art."

Liu Xiaolou was very disappointed: "A remnant?"

Lin Shuangyu said: "The sword art is complete, but this sword art belongs to a set of techniques. Our sect doesn't have the rest of this set of techniques, so it counts as a remnant."

A sword art needs a supporting basic technique to be practiced, otherwise even if it is practiced, it will at most remain on the surface and cannot be profound. Therefore, Lin Shuangyu's teacher did not let her continue to practice.

But Liu Xiaolou was different. The first eight meridians were all the same, so his own Mystical Truth Scripture was equivalent to the supporting basic technique of this Yellow Dragon Sword Art, which could be completely used for practice.

"Are there techniques for flying sword tempering, true qi condensation, and Golden Core formation?" Liu Xiaolou was very nervous.

Lin Shuangyu smiled: "Of course!"