Chapter 1003: The Ninth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Weiba turned her face away, feeling that Fang Yue's image in her heart had somewhat collapsed.

But soon, she recalled that Ye Ge never had any image to begin with!

From the first day she met Fang Yue, it seemed he had always been this way: he would loot corpses, fish for benefits, be happy, be angry, be annoyed, be shy, yet at the same time, he was not pedantic about trifles and could always stand out at critical moments to show his reliable side.

So, the scene before her eyes should be described as: Ye Ge, having endured all kinds of hardships, returned as the same youth, without the slightest change.

Weiba gave a wry smile and said.

"Ye Ge, those three are indeed the three Elders of the You Family. Since they are already dead, it means the remaining three royal-blood monsters of the Black Rain Tribe have achieved final victory."

"But we didn't encounter any Black Rain Tribe monsters on our way here, which means they left by a different path, confidently leaving the task of killing us to the Third Prince."

"In other words, we are currently in the 'dark under the lamp'—it is best to leave here immediately and reach the Spirit Tree as quickly as possible, provided we aren't discovered or entangled by those royal-blood monsters."

Weiba's analysis made Fang Yue's eyes light up.

It had to be said that in terms of analyzing the situation and other aspects, Weiba was much stronger than him.

Nodding slightly, Fang Yue scooped up Weiba and erupted with speed once more, rushing toward Qing Gao Lou.

Hanging on Fang Yue again, Weiba's cheeks felt slightly hot, but compared to before, she appeared much calmer and more "practiced."

Weiba looked up at Fang Yue, only to see the latter wearing a solemn expression, seemingly thinking about something important.

"My speed... seems to have become faster?"

"No! It's my Martial Arts realm that is improving!"

With Fang Yue's current realm, even the slightest change in his body could be perceived immediately.

So, he soon realized that it wasn't that his speed had increased, but that his movement technique had improved imperceptibly.

It wasn't just the movement technique; even the other Martial Arts of the Empty Ice Sword Canon had gained a chunk of progress after he had contemplated them slightly.

This shocked Fang Yue a little.

Being able to gain cultivation progress for other Martial Arts of the Empty Ice Sword Canon without actual practice? Plus being able to multitask... isn't this just AFK leveling?

Doing other things while multitasking could improve the Martial Arts realm of the Empty Ice Sword Canon; if he were to truly calm his mind and cultivate, the progress would be thousands of miles a day.

However, he really didn't have the time to calm his mind and cultivate right now.

Being able to improve his Martial Arts realm while rushing at high speed was already quite good, and Fang Yue didn't expect too much.

Fang Yue had originally thought the reason for this phenomenon was his super-high Comprehension driving the Martial Arts realm.

However, after actually studying it, he realized that it was the combination of high Comprehension and his Rain Grade strength realm that made the improvement of the Empty Ice Sword Canon become simple.

Regardless, this was ultimately a good thing; who wouldn't like being able to improve their strength while AFK?

Feeling Weiba in his arms suddenly hug him a bit tighter, Fang Yue didn't think too much about it and continued to charge toward the direction of Qing Gao Lou, distracted by cultivating the 【Empty Ice Sword Canon】.

When he was about to reach Qing Gao Lou, Fang Yue opened his attribute list.

"Name: Yese Liming."

"Spirit Value: 105."

"Monster Power: 105."

"Comprehension: 550."

"Talent: Night Breath 【?? Grade】."

"Monster Talent: Still World, Monster Ring, Monster Grinding."

"Technique: Empty Ice Sword Canon 【Ninth Layer】."

"Yang Lifespan: 1600 years."

The Yang Lifespan gained from killing the 【Black Rain Tribe Third Prince】 was completely consumed during the cultivation process, but the effect was also very obvious, directly bringing the Empty Ice Sword Canon to the 【Ninth Layer】!

The Spirit Value brought by the improvement of the Empty Ice Sword Canon was very limited for panel improvement, but the improvement to actual combat strength was very obvious.

The closer he got to the core of the Empty Ice Sword Canon, the more Fang Yue understood why Lord Han had carried a Wooden Sword specifically for killing monsters back then.

Because when the Empty Ice Sword Canon was cultivated to the Ninth Layer, the difficulty of cultivation was so high it was inhuman, as if it were an incomplete technique that had taken a side path or a crooked road. At first, one might not feel it, but the further one cultivated, the more crooked the path became, eventually reaching a point where one could not turn back from the wrong road.

And facing such an incomplete and side-path Ninth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon, the method Lord Han came up with was differentiation.

Dividing the complete Empty Ice Sword Canon into two forces: one force targeting humans and one force targeting monsters, using two different swords to carry these two different forces.

Adopting a double-helix method, putting in twice the effort of conventional Martial Arts to explore and improve at this layer.

Judging from the marked text left by Lord Han, Lord Han's 【Empty Ice Sword Canon】 had also only been cultivated to the Ninth Layer, but Lord Han was Lord Han after all; he had managed to write out the cultivation method for the Tenth Layer based on his own understanding, forcibly raising the upper limit of the Empty Ice Sword Canon.

And the content of the Tenth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon was, shockingly, to merge the two forces that had been differentiated and improved synchronously via the double-helix method back into one, making the Empty Ice Sword Canon complete again.

However, since they had been differentiated, the two forces were almost independent; wanting to cultivate them back to synchronization and, after becoming strong enough, simultaneously retracting them into the body for integration and unification—how could that be easy? Thus, Lord Han only created the Tenth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon and knew nothing about what the effects would be after cultivation or what troubles one might encounter.

After all, this Tenth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon was thought up after Lord Han was injured and his strength had declined, but Lord Han couldn't even recover his own strength, let alone the actual practitioner of the imagined Tenth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon.

Therefore, theoretically, Fang Yue was the first person to truly cultivate the Tenth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon.

According to the written notes in Lord Han's inheritance, the Tenth Layer Empty Ice Sword Canon had the possibility of breaking through the Spirit Root limitation, allowing one to reach the Xian realm directly.

However, this was only a conjecture of Lord Han's, and Fang Yue himself didn't hold much hope.

Because the Spirit Value panel numbers provided after the Empty Ice Sword Canon improved were too low; it didn't look like it could break through to the Xian realm, but rather more like it was consolidating one's own cultivation and raising the upper limit of 【Rain Grade Peak】, which was the same nature as everyone else's path.

Of course, this didn't mean it was bad; after all, not everyone had a Spirit Root, and if one wanted to break through that upper limit, one had to seek other methods.

Regarding information on the Rain Grade, Fang Yue had already learned quite a bit through Weiba's mouth.

Especially the matters concerning those old monsters at the Rain Grade Peak made Fang Yue's heart sink, and he felt anxious.

"Still not strong enough... I need to be stronger! The Xian realm—only by relying on a Spirit Root and reaching the Xian realm will I truly be qualified to contend for Jingcheng, suppress everything, and save everyone back!"

And if he wanted to reach the Xian realm, the 【Empty Ice Sword Canon】 Tenth Layer, which served as an aid, must also be cultivated.

Although it wouldn't allow him to reach the Xian realm immediately, it could become a stepping stone on the road to the Xian realm, turning into nourishment to provide him with assistance.

(End of chapter)