I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 333 The Swordsman (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"Hua Gu, close your eyes."

The stone in the center of the spirit field cracked open. Jiang Yi turned his back, and Hua Gu immediately turned around and covered her face with her sleeve to avoid looking.

"You guys tidy it up yourselves first."

When a demon first takes human form, it is completely naked. Some demons who are born with fur can use their fur to create clothes. Currently, only Hong Li has this ability. Hua Gu and Zhen Shan Duan Jin both have to put on clothes themselves.

"Lord."

Upon hearing the sound, Jiang Yi and Hua Gu turned around. Hua Gu slowly lowered the sleeve covering her face, and Jiang Yi's eyes suddenly lit up.

After emerging from the rock, Zhenshan stood nine feet tall, as imposing as a mountain rock, with bronze skin covering bulging muscles, and a heroic appearance as if carved by a knife and axe.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, his bright eyes under his thick eyebrows curved into a simple and honest shape, and when he grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, his imposing aura instantly dissipated.

Zhenshan stared blankly at Duanjin beside him and said in a deep voice, "Wife, you are so beautiful."

His voice was deep and resonant, yet it carried an undeniable air of naiveté, making him resemble a bear that had just learned to fawn over others.

Duan Jin glanced at him upon hearing this. His transformed figure was like a quenched, cold blade. His black robe, cinched at the waist, accentuated his breathtaking curves. His long, straight legs made his stature appear even more upright.

Her eyes were sharply upturned at the corners, like blades, and her gaze was cold and dark, like a deep pool. Her fiery red lips were tightly pursed, and her murderous aura was solid and unyielding. When she stood still, she exuded a coldness that kept strangers at bay.

Jiang Yi approached with a smile, staring intently at Duan Jin's striking and captivating face and sharp demeanor, her excitement palpable.

"She's more than just good-looking! She's a deadly beauty who can steal your life!"

Jiang Yi quickly took out the Green Vine Whip and the jade slip of the "Dragon Whip Technique" and stuffed them into Duan Jin's hand. "Learn the whip, Duan Jin. You are particularly suited to using a whip now."

The transformed form of Duan Jin is absolutely stunning; her aloof and mature demeanor completely captivated Jiang Yi's heart.

Duan Jin was flattered. In fact, she didn't care much about her appearance. Her transformation was just as Jiang Yi had said before: she emptied her mind and let nature take its course.

"Thank you, Lord."

Duan Jin took the whip and jade slip. Besides puppetry, she really should learn more techniques to enhance her abilities, as she had too few spells before.

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

Jiang Yi smiled with satisfaction, her eyes glued to Duan Jin.

Hua Gu tugged at Jiang Yi's skirt, pouting jealously. She secretly thought to herself that she needed to grow up quickly and be as tall as Duan Jin, since she wasn't even as long as Duan Jin's legs yet.

"Alright, you guys work hard and clean up the spirit field and the damaged areas around it. I'll go to the woods to the east to look for the Zhaoming Sword. Hongli, you get up quickly too. I'll ask my master later to help you find a way to fix it."

Jiang Yi called out to Hong Li, then couldn't help but glance at Duan Jin a couple more times. She rubbed Hua Gu's head and headed to the eastern woods alone.

Jiang Yi has not yet formally forged the Zhaoming Sword; he has only left a divine imprint.

According to the "Heavenly Gang Subduing Demon Sword Manual", the Heavenly Gang Magic Sword must be refined multiple times with essence blood and elixir fire after reaching the Golden Core stage.

Ancient Qi cultivators did not have the concept of a natal sword. A magic sword refined in this way could also exert considerable power and was one with the cultivator.

Moreover, after forming his golden core this time, Jiang Yi felt as if his soul and spiritual roots had been completely reforged. At this moment, the three spiritual roots of wood, fire, and earth in his golden core were integrated into one, and the three elements of true essence were perfectly balanced and evenly matched.

The Yaoling Sword can no longer be considered her natal sword; only the connection between her soul and the sword remains. She will refine it again, just like she refined the Tiangang Magic Sword.

Both swords must be treated equally; there can be no favoritism.

However, she could no longer continue practicing her original "Ninefold Phoenix Shadow Sword" technique, as it was a sword qi cultivation method and she had to switch to another one.

"If it weren't for the assistance of the Sleeping Immortal Technique, cultivating three different techniques with three spiritual roots and doing them all at the same time would really be exhausting."

Aside from single-spiritual-root and dual-spiritual-root cultivators, nine out of ten multi-spiritual-root cultivators will specialize in cultivating one spiritual root, abandoning the others, and striving to form their core as quickly as possible.

The lifespan of a Golden Core cultivator is five hundred years, providing ample time to compensate for deficiencies in other spiritual roots.

Jiang Yi calculated her current lifespan. Last time, it took her forty-nine years from birth to the formation of her core. This time, she started cultivating from scratch and it took her twenty years to form her core. Her real age is now sixty-nine, but she looks at most in her early twenties.

Both the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages have four realms, representing a process of upward breakthrough. The Golden Core stage also has four realms.

The illusory elixir, the real elixir, the gathering method, and the golden elixir correspond to the initial, middle, later, and peak stages of the golden elixir, respectively.

Take the superior Golden Core as an example. In the early stage of the Golden Core, the illusory core realm, the core embryo is not a physical entity and its structure is not yet stable. It is the first tangible 'core' formed after highly compressing and condensing liquid true essence, and there will be no core patterns or core fire.

While their overall strength will be significantly improved compared to the peak of Foundation Establishment, they are still not stable enough. They rely on the huge consumption of true essence to achieve high bursts of power, and they still need to use hand seals when casting spells.

Cultivators in the early stages of the Golden Core realm are generally reluctant to fight and tend to live in seclusion to strengthen their nascent core until it condenses into a solid core. At this point, they begin to develop core patterns and flames related to their spiritual root attributes, reaching the middle stage of the Golden Core realm.

By this time, the quality of cultivators' true essence has greatly improved, the power it contains is purer and more immense, its ability to sustain combat has been greatly enhanced, its refined control over true essence has reached a new level, and the form of true essence is closer to that of a physical object.

Spellcasting still requires incantations, but it is much simplified. Some lengthy incantations can be omitted, and only simple hand gestures or mental focus are needed in conjunction with the key incantations.

To fully unleash spells instantly from the heart, one must reach the late Golden Core stage of the Gathering of Magic realm, transforming true essence into 'magical power' that initially contains the power of the laws of heaven and earth.

Jiang Yi should be in the early stage of Golden Core at this moment, but her Heavenly Grade Golden Core has already reached the middle stage of Golden Core. The core is solid, with nine core patterns on it, and it is giving birth to core fire. The core fire is also the very special Mirror Heart Fire, which has the power of Heavenly Punishment.

Therefore, the total time of sixty-nine years for the Heavenly Grade Golden Elixir was absolutely worth it!

Jiang Yi pondered as she walked through the fallen leaves into the eastern woods, when she suddenly saw a familiar figure in the center of the woods and froze in place.

Bamboo Swordsman?
At first glance, he looks almost exactly like the Bamboo Swordsman in the Jade Bamboo Forest of the Azure Emperor's Palace, but this Bamboo Swordsman is clearly better at transforming.

His robes were tattered, yet they could not conceal his solitary and sharp edge. His bamboo hat hung low, and a black mask covered the lower half of his face. Golden bamboo leaf patterns flowed on the mask, as if sword energy lay dormant, ready to be unleashed.

His gaze was like a blade, hollow yet sharp, as if piercing through a thousand years. The youthful heroism and the swordsman's murderous intent intertwined, with a hint of loneliness amidst the sharpness.

Hearing Jiang Yi's footsteps, he looked up and his eyes seemed to flash with golden light. In an instant, his sharpness was revealed, but then he fell silent again, like a sword that had been sheathed, leaving only a dead silence like a dry well.

Isn't this the same bamboo swordsman from the Qingdi Palace?

so similar!
Jiang Yi held his head in his hands, incredulous. He quickly found the Demon Spirit Mirror and used his Heavenly Eye Technique to examine and analyze the bamboo swordsman before him.

……

[Bamboo Swordsman]: Lower Earth Rank
[Attributes]: Wood, Metal, Earth

[Cultivation Level]: Early Golden Core Stage
【talent】:
Sword Heart Clarity: The bamboo body contains the accumulated sword intent of ten thousand years, which can quickly analyze and reproduce the sword moves seen (up to Earth Rank). It automatically optimizes the sword path flaws in battle, and becomes stronger the more it fights.

[Spells]

Advanced Golden Leaf: The original body, a Gengjin bamboo leaf, leaves the body and transforms into an invisible sword net that automatically attacks any enemy that enters within a ten-zhang radius.

Advanced Black Jade: The bamboo-like body instantly transforms into jade for defense; shattered parts can be restored and regenerated using the Qi of the Wood element and the earth's veins (must be firmly rooted to the ground).

Super-Tier - Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword Formation: Centered on the Bamboo Swordsman, a hundred-zhang-tall azure-gold jade bamboo forest forms. Above the sword formation, bamboo leaves transform into sword energy, pouring down like a torrential rain. Bamboo roots pierce through the ground, entangling and controlling enemies.

The Bamboo Swordsman can transform any nine jade bamboo stalks within the bamboo forest into sword attendants, whose attack trajectories are synchronized with the swordsman's, resulting in multiple attacks. Alternatively, he can gather all the jade bamboo stalks into a hundred-foot-long giant sword phantom, unifying all bamboo into one for a single, decisive strike.

……

"My God, Master went to great lengths to elevate Xuanhui to the Earth Rank, but you were born at the Earth Rank, and you possess rare talents that other demon spirits don't have, as well as super-rank spells that I've never seen before. You truly deserve to be called the Black Gold Jade Bamboo, 'One black bamboo is born from ten thousand bamboos, and after ten thousand years it transforms into gold and jade'!"

The reasons why the Zhaoming Sword suddenly transformed into a demon are complex. It may be due to Danxi's ten years of sword forging, incorporating many rare and precious materials; it may be due to the Qingmu Cauldron infusing it with the azure energy of the Yi wood; it may be due to the fact that it shared the tribulation lightning of the demons' transformation; and it may be due to the Five Elements Grand Array within the Youxian Ferry...

It was too complicated for Jiang Yi to delve into, but in the end, she was the one who had gained a tremendous benefit.

One sword, two forms, and it can even transform into a demon spirit to fight for her—amazing!

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