The Demon Cultivator of the Sword

Chapter 7 Ranking Jade
As the sword was sheathed, the young man muttered in his heart, "The benefits of persisting in practicing basic swordsmanship have gradually manifested themselves. If I had chosen to practice the Nine Swords of Swift Wind from the beginning, even if I could have mastered it, it would have taken at least two or three months, or even longer. This was when my soul had a stronger comprehension than that of an ordinary person. But after persisting in practicing the basic swordsmanship for two months, it only took me one month to master the Nine Swords of Swift Wind. Although I haven't truly comprehended the artistic conception yet, in the future, this advantage will definitely allow me to practice swordsmanship with twice the result with half the effort."

The young man was Gu Yuan. It had been a month and a half since he started practicing the Nine Swords of Swift Wind.

As early as the third day after obtaining the Nine Swords of Swift Wind, he broke through to the eighth level of the Qi Training Realm. One and a half months later, he obtained a bottle of Ice Heart Pill as a reward from the sect. His cultivation progressed even faster, and in just one and a half months, he raised his cultivation to the peak of the eighth level of the Qi Training Realm.

But that's where it ends. According to Senior Brother Ling who gave him the Bing Xin Pill, although the Bing Xin Pill is useful, taking too much will cause drug resistance. Generally, if a warrior takes more than six pills, it will no longer be of much benefit.

Even so, only a few outer disciples can obtain six rewards.

At this time, after another month of practice, Gu Yuan has completely mastered the "Phantom Step", and the Demonic Evil Art has also reached the fifth level of peak not long ago. With a move of his hands and feet, he can emit a cold aura and hurt people from a distance.

(ps: The skills have the first level, the peak of the first level, the second level, the peak of the second level, and so on. This is the setting of the original work.)
Now, he could casually use the 'Phantom Step' luck method to fly over a hundred meters away. This distance was already beyond the vast majority of warriors who had just entered the Condensation Realm. If he could advance to the Condensation Realm, this distance could be increased a lot, or even doubled.

"Now I can leap up to a hundred meters, and my attacks include the Nine Gale Swords and the Qi Light of the Demonic Evil Art. But I lack the corresponding means of protection. If I fight alone, it will be fine, but if I encounter a siege, I will suffer. Next, I will focus on breaking through the sixth level of the Demonic Evil Art."

The sixth level of the Demonic Evil Art can produce protective evil energy that is equivalent to protective true energy. You should know that protective true energy is a means only possessed by warriors above the Condensation Realm.

If Gu Yuan could practice the Demonic Evil Art to the sixth level, he would be almost invincible among the warriors in the Qi training realm.

In the blink of an eye, another half month passed.

That morning, a thin mist covered half of the Tianmo Peak. On a remote cliff, a hissing sound was coming from the sky, which was continuous, dense and rapid.

A breeze blew by, and the fog became thinner. A figure could be vaguely seen standing there. In front of him was a huge rock, three meters high and black in color.

The sound came from the figure, and if you look closely, the fog around him could not get closer than three feet, as if there was an invisible air shield. Not only that, all the fog that approached would be frozen into strands and wisps of ice chips by the cold evil spirit, and then blown away by the wind.

puff!
Stone chips flew everywhere, and a half-foot-long mark appeared on the surface of the huge rock, with the edge as sharp as a knife. Then, along with the stone chips, it was covered by a thin layer of frost. Ice chips flew everywhere.

Puff puff.
The previous ray of energy was already extremely sharp, and the following ray of energy was even more powerful. Each long and narrow ray of energy cut into the huge rock with a "puff puff" sound, leaving countless shocking marks.

At the same time, the internal energy in Gu Yuan's body was like flowing water, slowly accelerating, completing circle after circle of small and large circulations, and finally returning to the Dantian and flowing out from it, over and over again.

hum!
At a certain moment, Gu Yuan's dantian suddenly swelled violently, waking him up in shock.

"The ninth level of Qi training realm, the sixth level of Demonic Evil Art." The breakthroughs in both technique and cultivation were somewhat beyond Gu Yuan's expectations.

But when I think of Ye Chen, I can understand it.

In the original novel, although Ye Chen had a high level of comprehension and could learn any martial arts, his cultivation speed was not much higher than those of the sixth-grade sect disciples. The reason why he was able to surpass them in cultivation was largely due to the rapid improvement in the level of his martial arts.

The higher the level of the technique, the faster the efficiency of absorbing and refining the vital energy of heaven and earth, and naturally the faster the improvement of cultivation will be.

It's like a funnel, which is the same size at the beginning, but when the hole becomes bigger, the leakage rate will naturally be higher. Once the hole is large enough, even if your funnel is smaller than the other one, the leakage rate will far exceed the latter.

"Let's try the maximum power of the Qi Mang." Gu Yuan wanted to test the maximum power of the Qi Mang. He took a deep breath, straightened his right hand like a sword, and gently slashed at the huge rock.

Crack. A half-meter-long beam of light formed. In the blink of an eye, the half-meter-thick boulder was pierced through from the middle.

At the same time, Gu Yuan stepped towards the huge rock.

When the distance between the two was less than half a meter, the back of the huge rock exploded with a loud bang, and rubble fell and covered the ground.

On the other hand, there is a hairline-thin crack on the surface of the boulder. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell that it is a sign of damage.

“It’s pretty powerful.”

A satisfied smile appeared on Gu Yuan's face. The power of this aura was indeed quite powerful.

Although Gu Yuan had never fought with a martial artist at the tenth level of the Qi training realm, he had seen martial artists at the tenth level of the Qi training realm fighting in the outside world. Gu Yuan felt that this aura alone was enough to kill most martial artists at the tenth level of the Qi training realm in seconds.

"My cultivation and skills have just been improved. It is unlikely that I will get much improvement in a short period of time. Besides, the probation period has long passed. It is time to accept missions to increase my practical experience. I will also go and return the secret book."

Thinking of the sect's rules, Gu Yuan did not dare to neglect them.

The figure blurred for a moment, and the next moment, Gu Yuan had already flown to a big tree a hundred meters away. Then he flashed several times and disappeared in the sea of ​​fog.

The Spiritual Hall, where tasks are assigned, is not far from the Martial Arts Pavilion.

After returning the secret book of Nine Swords of Gale, Gu Yuan went straight to the Spiritual Hall.

Hundreds of disciples gathered in the magnificent Spiritual Hall, and other disciples came from time to time.

Stepping into the hall, Gu Yuan looked up and saw hundreds of people gathered in the hall. Although there were a lot of people, they were almost all inner disciples wearing black robes, and there were very few outer disciples.

On the front sides, there are eighteen towering stone pillars. They are white with a hint of black, and each one is carved with a black golem with wings on its back and a third eye on its brow.

And every thirty steps inside the stone pillar, there is a jade disk, which is hung with jade plaques.

This is a ranking jade disk used specifically to rank core disciples and inner disciples.

Gu Yuan took a quick look and quickly found the name of Mo Yan, the future chief disciple of the Feitian Demon Sect, who was already ranked third.

He is the youngest among the top five core disciples, nineteen years old, and has reached the Baoyuan realm.

(End of this chapter)