This is not an MMO game copy

After he successfully refined a flying sword, he experienced a qualitative improvement in all aspects, from his physical and mental state to his cognition.

He felt that even a giant wave-level afterimage like the Treading Light Beast, or even the level 120 red-named monster in the game, the Treading Light Power of the 'Giant Wave Peak Great Perfection Half-Step Raging Wave Level' of Mount Chengxiao, was nothing special.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan felt an urge to try, urging him to try the Light-Treading Beast that he had not dared to pull out the tiger's whiskers not long ago. If he won, he would go and see the power of the Light-Treading Beast, which was at the 'Giant Wave Peak Great Perfection Half-Step Raging Wave Level'.

But he didn't have time to put his idea into action.

Suddenly, two long cries were heard in the air.

Xia Yan looked over when he heard the sound.

He saw a green figure and a purple figure in the air not far from him, rushing towards him together.

Looking closely, they were two egrets, one blue and one purple, flapping their wings, one long and one short.

Those are the giant wave-class remnants of the Blue-winged Heron and the Purple-winged Heron.

The former was surrounded by green air currents, while the latter was splashed with purple electric light as they rushed over fiercely.

Xia Yan's expression froze.

I immediately understood what was going on.

Although some blue-winged herons and purple-winged herons may be alone, they usually gather in pairs. As mimic herons, a kind of bird-like remnant, they naturally have a strong sense of territory.

At the same time, among the remaining species in Chengxiao Mountain, only the blue-winged heron and the purple-winged heron are birds that can fly. Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, the sky above the Glimmerlight Beach is the territory that the blue-winged heron and the purple-winged heron, who are a pair in front of us, consider to be.

So, when he flew his sword and climbed high enough in the sky, he was discovered by the blue-winged herons and purple-winged herons living in the area of ​​​​Gap Light Beach. They thought he was an enemy and actively chased and attacked him.

After realizing this, for a moment, Xia Yan had the urge to turn around and run away, because ten days ago, on the way to Hong Town, he was chased by a purple-winged heron that swooped down and licked the ground to pick up French fries. Now, seeing another purple-winged heron, which was ganging up with a blue-winged heron to kill him, he couldn't help but want to retreat.

But timidity has only just begun to develop.

In the blink of an eye, it was dispelled by the passion in my heart.

Xia Yan stared at the two blue-purple egrets flying in from the sky not far away, with an upward arc at the corner of his mouth. Then, as if in provocation, he flew his sword in the sky in a very ostentatious swing, turned around and began to dive towards the ground.

At the same time, after hearing two long cries chasing closely behind him, Xia Yan stared at the ground approaching at high speed in the dive. He pinched out the sword finger technique with his left hand, and pointed it at the flying sword under his feet. He secretly circulated the Tai Chi energy in his body, and followed the memories that recalled the Qingyun Sword Technique that could only be performed after owning the flying sword. He used his own magic power to attract the spirituality of the flying sword to condense the sword energy.

Then, before hitting the ground, Xia Yan suddenly pulled up and swung out a U-shaped arc. His feet left the flying sword, and he leaped into the air, turning to face the blue-winged heron and purple-winged heron that were swooping down with great momentum.

A move of the right hand.

Get the flying sword.

Holding a sword in his right hand, he points towards the distance.

The left hand sword points downward.

Inspire the spirituality and sword energy of the flying sword.

A sword shadow appeared in the void and slashed down angrily.

【Raging Sword Duel】

The shadow of the giant green sword dragged the green lightning and fell through the air, hitting the Green-Winged Heron and the Purple-Winged Heron right on target.

There was a boom.

Mixed with two mournful cries.

The shadow of a giant green sword, carrying two egrets, slammed down from a height of a hundred meters and landed on a hilltop at the Gap Beach, stirring up a large amount of dust. The electric light of the debris mixed with the sword energy spread outward, sweeping away everything within a radius of more than ten meters.

At this time, Xia Yan used his lightness skills, with air currents surrounding his body, and he landed lightly on the ground. The moment his feet touched the ground, he jumped into the air again, controlling the flying sword with the sword control technique. He turned himself into a green rainbow with the sword in hand and headed straight for the crash site of the two giant wave-level remnants.

After a few breaths.

The egret fell with a sad cry.

Only two golden bird-shaped shadows remained on the nameless hilltop.

Xia Yan grabbed it and refined it in an instant.

Image: "Green Heron", Location: "Images/1735207530-100424595-112489189.jpg"

Image: "Purple Heron", Location: "Images/1735207569-100424595-112489189.jpg"

Image: "Broken Pig", Location: "Images/1735207823-100424595-112489189.jpg"

(PS: Because I saw a message in the background, I came back to mention it. It is not about refining the mind into the flying sword, but communicating with the mind and closely connecting with it when driving the flying sword. Please don’t force the setting on me. Read the text description carefully. The setting that the sword rider will suffer backlash if the flying sword is destroyed has been around for a long time. You can go and read the Seven Veins Martial Arts Chapter in the Zhu Xian novel)

First instance: 11. Ant Realm and Senior Realm (4k+)

How much of a boost can a flying sword bring to a cultivator?

In the underworld cultivation system, if you own a flying sword, you are a dangerous element among the independent cultivators, and the robbers will not easily target you unless it is necessary. If you also have sword techniques that are suitable for the flying sword, you will have the opportunity to transfer to a sword cultivator who can kill enemies above your level, and your future is limitless.

And under the classical system of cultivating immortals.

That is a leap in class and status.

Even if you are just a heretic, as long as you can obtain or refine a flying sword, you can remove the suffix "heterodox" from your name and call yourself a heretic sword immortal.

Moreover, ordinary unorthodox cultivators are nothing but a bunch of ants to you. As long as you don't provoke the second generation of righteous immortals and the old evildoers of the evil path, you can live freely in the world and live forever, and even establish a sect on some overseas islands and claim to be the ancestor.

This is the significance of flying swords to immortal cultivators.

It is more than just a symbol of identity and status.

It is also a qualitative change in one's own strength.

Xia Yan now has a deep understanding of this fact.

Before he refined this magical flying sword, although he could single-handedly kill a firefly, which was equivalent to a biochemical living grenade launcher, by using a branch to perform lightness skills and the Piercing Rainbow Sword Technique, and he could be regarded as a peerless swordsman like Dugu Qiubai in the low-level martial arts world, he was still unable to face multiple light wave-level afterimages.

After he picked up the three-star blue weapon [Xuguan Xundao-Zhenhai], ordinary light wave-level afterimages posed almost no threat to him unless they gathered in groups.

However, when facing the giant wave-class aftermath, only the thick-skinned and thick-fleshed stupid black creature like the Arrow Bear could be killed bit by bit by him in a one-on-one duel with his lightness skills taking advantage of his disadvantage. The other giant wave-class aftermaths that appeared in Chengxiao Mountain had chased him away before.

But now, he had just refined the [Xuguan Swift Blade-Zhenhai] into the flying sword Zhenhai. It was even his first time trying to fly with the sword, and it was also his first time to perform the sword technique that could only be performed after owning a flying sword.

He fought one against two and killed the giant wave-level remnant elephants, the blue-feathered heron and the purple-feathered heron.

The improvement is more than just one or two points?

Compared to before, one is in heaven and the other is on earth... This is not even a simple metaphor, but a literal description.

After all, he can really go to heaven now.

Such an abrupt change still made Xia Yan feel a little unreal, even though he had seen the images of the magic weapons (Sound Corpses) of the Blue-Winged Heron and the Purple-Winged Heron on the magic weapon page of the system.

He glanced down at the flying sword in his hand, and after a while he came back to his senses. He murmured, "So this isn't a dream!"

Then, he stretched out his magic power and injected it into the flying sword to carefully sense it. Especially because of the price of quick success through unconventional methods, he concentrated on checking every inch of the blade covered with irregular golden lines.

Xia Yan finally put his heart at ease when he realized that he didn't feel any serious trouble. Although the spiritual light in the flying sword was mottled and turbid, it didn't show any signs of attenuation or dimming.

Obviously, in the process of killing the Blue-Winged Heron and the Purple-Winged Heron with flying swords, the two giant wave-level afterimages could not cause wear and tear to the flying swords, let alone cause damage to them.

"Sure enough, it's still a magic weapon after all, and it was refined using the classical cultivation method... Even if it took an unorthodox shortcut and lost its potential for further advancement, it's still a magic weapon..."

After complaining with a wry smile about his anxiety and lack of confidence, Xia Yan summoned the flying sword Zhenhai and soared into the air again, overlooking the vast world in front of him and letting himself soar. His mentality changed a little.

From this moment on, he finally had a clear understanding that he had become an immortal cultivator.

Then, Xia Yan stood on the flying sword and looked back at the highest peak at the other end of Chengxiao Mountain, the top of Panlong Cliff, which was shaped like a dragon's head and towered into the clouds.

"No, it's not the right time yet, wait a little longer..."

After a moment, Xia Yan shook his head slightly and said to himself:

"...Completing the two steps of refining and gathering spirits only yields a basic flying sword. It still requires the third step of accumulating treasures and nurturing it for a period of time before it's even qualified to attempt to open it. Seventy to eighty percent of the time, it's because of this groove system on the body that Boss Zhou appears."

At the end of the Chengxiao Mountain plot in 1.1, the Lord of the Year 'Jiao' left Chengxiao Mountain and returned to Jinzhou City with Jinxi, who had inherited the power of time. The sound field of 'Jiao' was also clearly stated in the plot. Apart from 'Jiao', only the Emperor of Jinzhou himself had the authority to open it.

The first day Xia Yan was thrown into this "copy" world happened to be at the end of the Chengxiao Mountain plot in 1.1. On this real planet Solaris, there should not be a weekly copy that players can repeatedly play for the sake of gameplay.

In addition, based on the 'copy name' displayed on the copy interface, Xia Yan had reason to suspect that the copy he wanted to 'clear' was not the Sound Realm in the plot, but the Zhou copy in the game.

No matter which one it was, he didn't think that he could defeat a tsunami-level boss with his current ability, even if that boss might be the same as the copy space he was in (the Realm of Sound), and it would just be a disposable fake materialized out of thin air by the system using the real thing that existed in this world.

So, after taking a look at the highest peak of Panlong Cliff from afar, Xia Yan suppressed the arrogance and restlessness in his heart, and flew around the Gap Light Beach on his sword.

After killing the pair of egrets, the only remaining elephants on Guangguang Beach, where the number and quality of remaining elephants were already small, were the Light-Treading Beast that was wandering on the beach looking for food, and it could still pose a threat to him.

However, having just killed two Giant Wave-level after-elephants, the Blue-Winged Heron and the Purple-Winged Heron, and having only recently refined his flying sword, Xia Yan did not plan to cause trouble for the Light-Treading Beast for the time being.

Instead, he planned to go back and recuperate for a day, and by the way, think about the treasure-collecting spell instilled in him by the system, and see if it could be used, like the spirit-gathering spell, to make use of the peculiarities of the local species like the residual elephant, and then try some unconventional methods to shorten the time.

At the same time, I am also waiting to see the situation in Hong Town.

In the past few days, Xia Yan had not seen the Jinzhou Emperor in Hong Town, and he didn't even know whether he was a man or a woman.

But he has another way to confirm the whereabouts of the protagonist of the Long Aotian template.

That depends on when the entire Hong Town can completely settle down again.

As for why we should care about the whereabouts of the protagonist Long Aotian.

It was simple, Xia Yan didn't want to be beaten up... Who knew if the system in his body really materialized a fake sound field out of thin air to serve as a copy space, and a fake protagonist to serve as the boss, would the other party somehow sense it and come over, mistakenly thinking that he was the terrorist organization Canxinghui causing trouble.

Considering the protagonist's performance in the plot after Chengxiao Mountain, where he split something like a black hole with one knife, it is better not to provoke it if you can... You should be timid and hide when you should. The underworld cultivation method cannot be played unless you are possessed by the protagonist's halo.

Afterwards, Xia Yan did not choose to fly back to Hong Town directly on his sword.

Although he did have the thought of showing his divine power in front of others.

But after flying out of the Gap Light Beach on his sword, he still landed in a bamboo forest near Hong Town and then walked back to Hong Town.

On the one hand, this kind of showing off in front of others can only satisfy one's obsession with showing off, but it cannot bring much benefit to oneself.

On the other hand, there are too many unclear things in the darkness of the post-apocalyptic world of Solaris, so it is always better to be cautious.

Walking into Hong Town from the east, Xia Yan pretended to turn his head to the right casually, his eyes swept across a soldier standing guard on the roadside, and he glanced at the heavy automatic rifle of exaggerated caliber in the other's hand, then withdrew his gaze with a nonchalant look.

It has been ten days since he entered this 'copy' world.

More than a week is enough time for Jinzhou's regular army to send soldiers over after learning about the situation in Chengxiao Mountain.

To be precise, during the few days when he was tinkering with the unorthodox quick method of refining a flying sword, Jinzhou's Yegui Army had already landed on the island and settled in Hong Town. While they were working to restore local law and order, they were also launching a campaign to suppress the terrorists of the Canxing Society who still remained in Chengxiao Mountain.

This is also one of the reasons why he was unwilling to fly back to Hong Town directly on his sword.

After all, living biological grenade launchers like fireflies are not qualified to appear in the light wave sequence of the residual image tide that the Night Return Army faces.

It is conceivable that in order to fight against the large-scale afterimages of the Light Wave and Giant Wave class, ordinary human soldiers in the Night Return Army who are not Resonators need to be equipped with weapons of a certain caliber in order to harm the afterimages that are stronger than the Molten Fireflies.

Xia Yan didn't want to be treated as a flying aftermath. Even though he was no longer the same person after possessing a flying sword, he still had to avoid some troubles if possible.

What's more, he remembered that there was a place called the Heart Realm on Solaris.

Although it is just a roguelike map for players in the game, it is still related to the plot of Mingchao's protagonist. It is set as a dreamland similar to the Cthulhu mythology, reflecting and recording the dreams and collective subconscious space of all life in Solaris.

Moreover, this space has administrators who hold authority, and above the administrators there are higher-dimensional beings who are directly related to the protagonist.

Therefore, Xia Yan would avoid causing any big noise, which would cause his existence to be reflected by the locals into the dream space of the Heart Collection Domain.

In order to prevent himself from unconsciously visiting this place in his dreams, he didn't even dare to sleep in the past ten days. He relied entirely on the meditation and breathing skills in the MMO game that the system "initiated" him to master, which allowed him to recover health and mana on the spot after leaving the battle, and to use his skills to restore his mental and physical fatigue to withstand it.

Of course, this kind of "staying up late" was not pleasant at the beginning. Even though meditation, breathing regulation, and circulation of Tai Chi Yuan Qi magic of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao could soothe mental and physical fatigue, the serious violation of the body's biological clock still made Xia Yan very uncomfortable.

But now he has been suffering for ten days. Even though his nerves are stretched to the point of reaching the critical point at any time, he is unwilling to show off in front of people who have no practical significance and expose himself to that dreamlike realm of the mind.

Then, Xia Yan went straight back to his temporary residence in Hong Town.

--Thanks to the fact that he had been going out to clear out the remnant elephants near Hong Town and on the road from Hong Town to the Gaplight Beach Port in the past few days, even though not having an identity was always a problem, he would not be suspected of being a terrorist of the Remnant Star Society. He could even help clear out the remnant elephants in exchange for food, water and accommodation, even after the Night Return Army moved in.

After taking care of his physiological needs, Xia Yan sat cross-legged on a simple bed, summoned the flying sword from the independent space on the magic weapon page, and began to use his magic power to nurture this unconventional flying sword.

After nurturing it for a while, he turned to practice the magic spell of storing treasures, accumulating deeper spirituality for the flying sword, and trying to develop the power and potential of this magic weapon itself.

It was not until late at night when everyone was asleep that Xia Yan stopped, put the flying sword aside, closed his eyes and began to meditate and regulate his breathing to recover the Tai Chi energy that had been consumed by the warming of his own sword and the Yunbao flying sword.

After regulating his breathing, he looked down at the flying sword that had been re-sheathed beside him, and his brows furrowed.

The successful refining of the flying sword did indeed greatly increase his strength.

But just as expected, the mottled and turbid spirituality tempered by the quick and unorthodox method had no possibility of going any further, making the potential of this emergency flying sword extremely low, and not enough to help him pass through this "copy" world.

Fortunately, he also thought of a backup plan.

When he just performed the magic spell to store treasures, Xia Yan discovered the effect of this spell. In addition to allowing the magic weapon to accumulate spiritual energy, it could also change the "form" or "nature" of the spiritual energy little by little.

Simply put, the spirituality that is born and strengthened by the refining and gathering techniques can be regarded as a lump of clay. The treasure-containing technique is used to change the appearance of the clay, or to change the fundamental properties of the clay itself, just like making artistic ceramics, shaping, firing and coloring the clay called [spirituality] bit by bit.

The flying sword he refined lost its potential because too many impurities were mixed into the "clay" during the production process. Therefore, this "clay" could not be made into a high-quality work in any proper way.