The Primordial Path of Kong Xuanming

After completing the construction of the spaceship and the biological AI, Yan Nanfei realized that a breakthrough wouldn't be possible anytime soon, so why not delve into the rules of creation? With the life technology from outer space combined with his own understanding, he could achieve a new breakthrough by modifying a planet to prove his Undying Sword Body. After several days of consideration, he chose Mars as the target for modification. Yan Nanfei informed all the Emperor-level cultivators on Earth of his reasons and received their approval.

Using Earth as a model, Yan Nanfei employed extraterrestrial technology and cultivators' crafting techniques to create a cosmic energy conversion network system spanning the entire void. This system continuously absorbs cosmic energy and various harmful and harmless light substances, including solar energy, converting them into light and heat that humans and animals can withstand. It also uses supernatural powers to massively alter the Martian crust, continuously moving the ice formed deep underground at extremely low temperatures to low-lying areas to melt and form oceans, rivers, and lakes. Furthermore, it uses supernatural powers to transform countless tons of seawater into rain, scattering it across deserts and arid regions of the planet. After more than a decade of countless modifications, the temperature of Mars finally returned to normal. Cultivators began planting large quantities of plant seeds in mountains, plains, and fields, with each person responsible for ensuring the survival of plants on a designated area. Decades later, the Martian environment will be greatly improved, making it the first habitable planet outside of Earth.

After terraforming the planet and settling his affairs, Yan Nanfei began retraining the Undying Will Sword Body Technique on Earth's highest peak. The Undying Will Sword Body Technique cultivates pure spiritual energy. This technique was obtained by Yan Nanfei's ancestors, but no one before him had been able to master it. The Undying Will Sword Body Technique is divided into two levels. The first level: Pure swordsmanship techniques of "Refutation." The character "Refutation" (驳) has a horse radical on the left, signifying speed, and two "x" radicals on the right, signifying two swords. Refutation involves using two swords to refute and strike each other, changing the direction of the swords. This is the most basic martial art for learning superior swordsmanship.

Eyes focused on the nose, the nose on the heart, eyes closed in meditation, entering a state of stillness like a deep well. Even with Yan Nanfei's talent, relearning this most basic sword technique took him a month of meditation. Awakening from meditation, he opened his eyes, the light of a half-inch sword emanating from them. Using the sword techniques he had learned before in his left hand and the parrying sword in his right, he unleashed a double-edged sword technique, exchanging blows. The final result was obvious; the parrying sword technique's ranking as the ultimate sword art in the secular world was naturally justified. Even the slightest collision between the two swords could alter the trajectory of the swordplay. No matter how perfect a sword move was, under the ever-changing parrying sword technique, it would be vulnerable, resulting in a fatal blow.

The second level of mental cultivation is sword control. Sword control also has another name: controlling the sword with qi, the legendary art of sword immortals. Using qi to control the sword, one can take the enemy's head from a thousand miles away. This is not just a legend; Yan Nanfei has at least come into contact with this sword technique. The character "驭" (yù, control) is composed of a horse on the left, signifying the speed of the sword's flight, and an extra horizontal stroke on the right, representing the sword's use of qi. Essentially, sword control is still a method of altering the trajectory of two swords through mutual clashing. If one sword cannot overcome the other, the other is replaced by qi, using qi to change the sword's trajectory.

Practicing sword control requires extremely high levels of internal strength and consumes a great deal of true energy. Therefore, one must possess exceptionally strong internal strength to master sword control. Unfortunately, the inner cultivation method of the Undying Will Sword Body Technique does not include any techniques for enhancing internal strength. It seems the founder believed that those who practiced this method were already highly skilled martial artists.

Yan Nanfei possessed extraordinary talent, having been born with a photographic memory. He inherited his family's martial arts, possessed over 100,000 martial arts manuals from the Dragon Group, and countless Buddhist, Taoist, witchcraft, and demonic cultivation techniques, mainly divided into two categories: body-refining techniques and spirit-refining techniques. Buddhist and Taoist techniques focused on cultivating the spirit, while witchcraft and demonic techniques focused on cultivating the body. Spirit-refining refers to cultivating the primordial spirit, while body-refining refers to cultivating oneself! This is most similar to martial arts practitioners. The Undying Consciousness Sword Body Technique was extremely powerful, and Yan Nanfei deeply felt that without a strong physical body, he would not be able to withstand its impact if he continued practicing. After decades of constantly analyzing the countless texts he had read in his sea of ​​consciousness, Yan Nanfei finally created a complementary technique to the Undying Consciousness Sword Body Technique: the first two levels of the Nine Revolutions Undying Life and Death Profound Technique.