In a certain bamboo house of the disciples of Jianzong's outer sect, Lu Yu was sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding a jade slip in his hand, looking at the contents of the jade slip with his eyes closed
After working for a long time, Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes, exhaled lightly, but his face was full of hesitation.
This Ten Thousand Swords Art was created by a monk named Wang Ling from Yujianzong. This person's spiritual root aptitude is similar to that of Lu Yu, and he is also born with a strong spiritual sense. However, due to his poor aptitude, his cultivation speed is very slow, and he has been stuck in the third level of swordsman. Therefore, when he was thirty years old, he gave up cultivation, collected all kinds of ancient books and classics, and definitely created a method suitable for his own cultivation. This man is also a genius of the sky. When he was eighty years old, he finally created the first level of kung fu, and by luck he broke through the realm of swordsman and reached the realm of sword spirit, and his life span was increased by two hundred years. Yuan. From then on, Wang Ling simply stopped practicing and concentrated on deriving the following cultivation techniques. When he was about to sit down, this technique had been deduced by him to the realm of the late Sword Emperor.
Later, this exercise was discovered by an elder of Yujianzong, who felt that the power of this exercise was huge after it was completed. Just let one of my descendants with average aptitude practice this exercise. With the full support of the Supreme Elder, this man quickly forged seven top-grade first-grade swords. Originally, this person had no chance to reach the sword spirit realm in this life, but he also broke through after practicing this exercise, and the power of this exercise is also among the best among all exercises.
However, the good times didn't last long, and when he cultivated to the middle stage of Sword Spirit, on a certain day, he went crazy and blew himself up to death. Later, after careful investigation, the Supreme Elder found out that his descendants were attacked by demons. Finally, after some discussion and research by several elders and sect masters. It is found that there is a huge flaw in this exercise, the consciousness itself has the function of controlling the mind. Once it is fused with mana, although the divine sense and mana can be shared to improve the divine sense and mana, but the divine sense will also lose part of the ability to control the mind. In this case, it is easy to go crazy during cultivation. Since then, this exercise has been placed on the third floor of the Sutra Pavilion by several Supreme Elders. Later, many people wanted to try to practice this technique, but they either gave up making so many swords without spirit stones, or they all went crazy and blew themselves up.
After reading these introductions, Lu Yu felt bitter. This exercise obviously seems to be tailor-made for him, but it has huge flaws. He didn't want to go crazy and blow himself up before he could practice well. But if he didn't practice this technique, although he could still cultivate to the tenth level of swordsman by relying on pills, he still needed to rely on the main technique to break through the bottleneck.
"Xia Lao, from your point of view, what do you think of this technique?" Lu Yu was still undecided, so he decided to listen to Xia Lao's opinion.
"Although I don't know how to practice, we can still see from the description that this exercise is very powerful. The person who created this exercise is really amazing. With the mere sword spirit realm, it can be deduced to the later stage of Sword Emperor, which is really extraordinary .” Xia Lao said via voice transmission.
"Then you mean to let me practice this technique." Lu Yu asked.
"I didn't say that. Although this exercise is powerful, it's even more terrifying to be attacked by the demons. One thought becomes a demon, and one thought becomes a Buddha. Once you are controlled by the demons, no matter how powerful you are, there is nothing you can do about it." Xia Lao said calmly. Said.
"Then is it really impossible to practice this technique?" Lu Yu said with some regret.
"It's not that there's really no way to practice." Xia Lao said lightly.
"Is there any way?" Lu Yu hurriedly asked when he heard that he could still practice.
"As long as you can find a method to cultivate the state of mind or a treasure that can restrain the demons." Xia Lao said.
"Where can I find these things?" Lu Yu asked hastily.
"The exercises for cultivating the state of mind can only be found in Taoist temples or Buddhist temples. As for the rare treasures, it depends on your chance." Xia Lao said calmly.
After listening to Xia Lao's words, Lu Yu felt cold for a while. There are many Taoist temples and Buddhist temples in this mortal world. But in the world of cultivating immortals, it is extremely difficult to find. At least the six countries surrounding Yue have never heard of such a sect. As for things like strange treasures, Lu Yu didn't dare to expect such illusory things. Lu Yu lowered his head and thought about his next decision, analyzed some stakes, and finally made a decision in his heart.
"Boy Lu, have you made up your mind?" Seeing Lu Yu raised his head, Mr. Xia asked immediately, knowing that he had already made up his mind.
"I decided not to practice this exercise for the time being. After two years, I have an agreement with the shopkeeper Zhou. Then I will stop by Lianhefang City to see if there are other suitable exercises, or to see if I can find something related to my mood. things." Lu Yu told Mr. Xia about the plan in his heart.
"Hey, I'm sure I saw the right person. I'm just afraid that you'll lose your head all of a sudden and want to practice this technique. If you go crazy, there will be no one to avenge my old man." Old Xia laughed road.
"Mr. Xia, you think highly of me too. However, this shopkeeper Zhou is also a difficult character. I have to practice hard in the past two years. Otherwise, I don't think I can even pass this test." Lu Yu shook his head and smiled wryly.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I seem to have some impressions. It's just that I was not fully awake at the time, so the impressions are also very vague." Xia Lao said.
"Mr. Xia, you can't teach other puppets. In this way, I will be able to protect myself a little more against Shopkeeper Zhou." Lu Yu said with a smile.
"Of course, but are you ready for the soul stone? The price remains the same before. As long as you have the soul stone, you can talk about the puppets." Xia Lao said in a businessman's tone.
"Soul stone, I have already inquired about it. Our Imperial Sword Sect doesn't have this thing. You can only buy it in the market controlled by the ghost domain gate. I can pay for some formulas in advance, otherwise I can't go to the ghost domain gate to get the soul Stone for you. Lu Yu has already calculated everything, just waiting for Xia Lao to jump inside.
"That makes sense. You are too weak now. You might be killed one day. I am a good-hearted old man, so I will teach you some puppet techniques and magic circle first." Xia Lao said lightly.
"Thank you for the gift of Xia Lao." Lu Yu said in a fake manner.
"I didn't give it for nothing. The number of soul stones must be increased by at least 20%." Xia Lao said with a smile. Then, six jade slips emerged from the void.
Lu Yu saw that Mr. Xia was really generous today, so he gave so many jade slips at once, and quickly put them away one by one.
A month later, Lu Yu was meditating in a secret room in the refining room to recover his mana. Xia Lao sat on a stone bench, staring at Lu Yu blowing his beard.
During this month, Lu Yu comprehended each of Xia Lao's six jade slips one by one. However, due to lack of foundation, Lu Yu still struggled to read these things, and couldn't understand many things. Xia Lao had no choice but to condense his real body and come out to teach Lu Yu these basic knowledge.
"Boy Lu, have you recovered your mana? I've never seen that refining a few puppets takes hours of meditation." Old Xia said dissatisfied.
"Old Xia, why do you need so much mana to refine the puppet taught by the old man? I am now a swordsman at the third level, and refining a puppet swordsman at the first level will consume all the mana." Lu Yu opened his eyes. Opening his eyes, he also said depressedly.
"Hmph, don't be cheap and act like a good boy. Although the puppets I taught you to refine have only one level of realm, each of them can use fire swordsmanship." Elder Xia snorted coldly.
"But one move costs a piece of low-grade spirit stone. I can't sell weapons now, so I can't afford such consumption." Lu Yu muttered softly.
"Who told you to refine more than a hundred." Xia Lao said angrily.
"What's the use of a few fire sword skills?" Lu Yu continued. "If there are more than a hundred fire swordsmen launching a sneak attack together, it is estimated that even a master of the tenth floor of the swordsman will be seriously injured."
"It's really worthless, why do you always think about sneak attacking. As immortal cultivators, we have to go forward and attack directly." Old Xia said disdainfully.
"Being able to control more than a hundred swordsmen to sneak attack is also a manifestation of strength." Lu Yu said.
"However, why is your divine sense so strong, boy? To be able to control more than a hundred swordsman puppets at the same time, at least someone in the sword spirit realm can do it. However, it's a pity that you haven't reached the sword spirit yet. Otherwise, just Let's see how strong your spiritual consciousness is." Mr. Xia looked at Lu Yu with interest.
"Forget it, I won't talk nonsense with you. Now you arrange the several magic circles I taught you before, and let me test them." Xia Lao said lightly.
"En." Lu Yu nodded, and with a thought, five little monkeys appeared out of thin air. Each little monkey carried a small stainless steel sword on its back and held a lot of equipment for formation in its hands. The five little monkeys rushed into the adjacent smaller secret room.
After about a cup of tea, Lu Yu asked, "Old Xia, what do you think this time?"
"The speed of your arrangement of this phantom array is not bad, but there are too many loopholes. The location of the killing array is too conspicuous. You have to attack suddenly inadvertently." Xia Lao put his hands behind his back, pointing out sharply. It solved the shortcomings of Lu Yu's magic circle.
"Then I'll continue to change..." Lu Yu continued to manipulate the little monkey to change the magic circle, and then asked Mr. Xia for any shortcomings.
Mr. Xia can point out a lot of flaws every time, and this magic circle becomes more and more perfect in the process of picking flaws and making up for them.
Two months later, Mr. Xia looked at Lu Yu who was still working on modifying the circle with some fatigue. He murmured in his heart: "It's been two whole months, this guy has been modifying the magic circle, constantly asking himself to find flaws. Don't you feel bored?"
"Xia Lao, how is this time?" Lu Yu's voice interrupted Xia Lao's thoughts.
General Xia invaded the magic circle with his consciousness, scanned it carefully, and said lightly: "This time it is already perfect. However, under the absolute strength, the magic circle will probably be reduced to ashes in a short while."
"I know that one's own strength is the most important thing. However, I also think it is very important to have one more means of assistance. In this way, you can be more flexible in the battle." Lu Yu knew that Mr. Xia was afraid that he would be too aggressive. Obsessed with the way of the formation, while ignoring the practice is the right way.
"It's good that you understand. Next, you should practice hard. I can also take a good rest. I have consumed a lot of soul power after teaching you for so long. Remember to make up for me when the time comes." Old Xia smiled Said. After speaking, he disappeared.
Afterwards, Lu Yu meditated cross-legged in the secret room again... In a certain bamboo house of the outer disciples of Jianzong, Lu Yu was sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding a jade slip in his hand, looking at the contents of the jade slip with closed eyes
After working for a long time, Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes, exhaled lightly, but his face was full of hesitation.
This Ten Thousand Swords Art was created by a monk named Wang Ling from Yujianzong. This person's spiritual root aptitude is similar to that of Lu Yu, and he is also born with a strong spiritual sense. However, due to his poor aptitude, his cultivation speed is very slow, and he has been stuck in the third level of swordsman. Therefore, when he was thirty years old, he gave up cultivation, collected all kinds of ancient books and classics, and definitely created a method suitable for his own cultivation. This man is also a genius of the sky. When he was eighty years old, he finally created the first level of kung fu, and by luck he broke through the realm of swordsman and reached the realm of sword spirit, and his life span was increased by two hundred years. Yuan. From then on, Wang Ling simply stopped practicing and concentrated on deriving the following cultivation techniques. When he was about to sit down, this technique had been deduced by him to the realm of the late Sword Emperor.
Later, this exercise was discovered by an elder of Yujianzong, who felt that the power of this exercise was huge after it was completed. Just let one of my descendants with average aptitude practice this exercise. With the full support of the Supreme Elder, this man quickly forged seven top-grade first-grade swords. Originally, this person had no chance to reach the sword spirit realm in this life, but he also broke through after practicing this exercise, and the power of this exercise is also among the best among all exercises.
However, the good times didn't last long, and when he cultivated to the middle stage of Sword Spirit, on a certain day, he went crazy and blew himself up to death. Later, after careful investigation, the Supreme Elder found out that his descendants were attacked by demons. Finally, after some discussion and research by several elders and sect masters. It is found that there is a huge flaw in this exercise, the consciousness itself has the function of controlling the mind. Once it is fused with mana, although the divine sense and mana can be shared to improve the divine sense and mana, but the divine sense will also lose part of the ability to control the mind. In this case, it is easy to go crazy during cultivation. Since then, this exercise has been placed on the third floor of the Sutra Pavilion by several Supreme Elders. Later, many people wanted to try to practice this technique, but they either gave up making so many swords without spirit stones, or they all went crazy and blew themselves up.
After reading these introductions, Lu Yu felt bitter. This exercise obviously seems to be tailor-made for him, but it has huge flaws. He didn't want to go crazy and blow himself up before he could practice well. But if he didn't practice this technique, although he could still cultivate to the tenth level of swordsman by relying on pills, he still needed to rely on the main technique to break through the bottleneck.
"Xia Lao, from your point of view, what do you think of this technique?" Lu Yu was still undecided, so he decided to listen to Xia Lao's opinion.
"Although I don't know how to practice, we can still see from the description that this exercise is very powerful. The person who created this exercise is really amazing. With the mere sword spirit realm, it can be deduced to the later stage of Sword Emperor, which is really extraordinary .” Xia Lao said via voice transmission.
"Then you mean to let me practice this technique." Lu Yu asked.
"I didn't say that. Although this exercise is powerful, it's even more terrifying to be attacked by the demons. One thought becomes a demon, and one thought becomes a Buddha. Once you are controlled by the demons, no matter how powerful you are, there is nothing you can do about it." Xia Lao said calmly. Said.
"Then is it really impossible to practice this technique?" Lu Yu said with some regret.
"It's not that there's really no way to practice." Xia Lao said lightly.
"Is there any way?" Lu Yu hurriedly asked when he heard that he could still practice.
"As long as you can find a method to cultivate the state of mind or a treasure that can restrain the demons." Xia Lao said.
"Where can I find these things?" Lu Yu asked hastily.
"The exercises for cultivating the state of mind can only be found in Taoist temples or Buddhist temples. As for the rare treasures, it depends on your chance." Xia Lao said calmly.
After listening to Xia Lao's words, Lu Yu felt cold for a while. There are many Taoist temples and Buddhist temples in this mortal world. But in the world of cultivating immortals, it is extremely difficult to find. At least the six countries surrounding Yue have never heard of such a sect. As for things like strange treasures, Lu Yu didn't dare to expect such illusory things. Lu Yu lowered his head and thought about his next decision, analyzed some stakes, and finally made a decision in his heart.
"Boy Lu, have you made up your mind?" Seeing Lu Yu raised his head, Mr. Xia asked immediately, knowing that he had already made up his mind.
"I decided not to practice this exercise for the time being. After two years, I have an agreement with the shopkeeper Zhou. Then I will stop by Lianhefang City to see if there are other suitable exercises, or to see if I can find something related to my mood. things." Lu Yu told Mr. Xia about the plan in his heart.
"Hey, I'm sure I saw the right person. I'm just afraid that you'll lose your head all of a sudden and want to practice this technique. If you go crazy, there will be no one to avenge my old man." Old Xia laughed road.
"Mr. Xia, you think highly of me too. However, this shopkeeper Zhou is also a difficult character. I have to practice hard in the past two years. Otherwise, I don't think I can even pass this test." Lu Yu shook his head and smiled wryly.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I seem to have some impressions. It's just that I was not fully awake at the time, so the impressions are also very vague." Xia Lao said.
"Mr. Xia, you can't teach other puppets. In this way, I will be able to protect myself a little more against Shopkeeper Zhou." Lu Yu said with a smile.
"Of course, but are you ready for the soul stone? The price remains the same before. As long as you have the soul stone, you can talk about the puppets." Xia Lao said in a businessman's tone.
"Soul stone, I have already inquired about it. Our Imperial Sword Sect doesn't have this thing. You can only buy it in the market controlled by the ghost domain gate. I can pay for some formulas in advance, otherwise I can't go to the ghost domain gate to get the soul Stone for you. Lu Yu has already calculated everything, just waiting for Xia Lao to jump inside.
"That makes sense. You are too weak now. You might be killed one day. I am a good-hearted old man, so I will teach you some puppet techniques and magic circle first." Xia Lao said lightly.
"Thank you for the gift of Xia Lao." Lu Yu said in a fake manner.
"I didn't give it for nothing. The number of soul stones must be increased by at least 20%." Xia Lao said with a smile. Then, six jade slips emerged from the void.
Lu Yu saw that Mr. Xia was really generous today, so he gave so many jade slips at once, and quickly put them away one by one.
A month later, Lu Yu was meditating in a secret room in the refining room to recover his mana. Xia Lao sat on a stone bench, staring at Lu Yu blowing his beard.
During this month, Lu Yu comprehended each of Xia Lao's six jade slips one by one. However, due to lack of foundation, Lu Yu still struggled to read these things, and couldn't understand many things. Xia Lao had no choice but to condense his real body and come out to teach Lu Yu these basic knowledge.
"Boy Lu, have you recovered your mana? I've never seen that refining a few puppets takes hours of meditation." Old Xia said dissatisfied.
"Old Xia, why do you need so much mana to refine the puppet taught by the old man? I am now a swordsman at the third level, and refining a puppet swordsman at the first level will consume all the mana." Lu Yu opened his eyes. Opening his eyes, he also said depressedly.
"Hmph, don't be cheap and act like a good boy. Although the puppets I taught you to refine have only one level of realm, each of them can use fire swordsmanship." Elder Xia snorted coldly.
"But one move costs a piece of low-grade spirit stone. I can't sell weapons now, so I can't afford such consumption." Lu Yu muttered softly.
"Who told you to refine more than a hundred." Xia Lao said angrily.
"What's the use of a few fire sword skills?" Lu Yu continued. "If there are more than a hundred fire swordsmen launching a sneak attack together, it is estimated that even a master of the tenth floor of the swordsman will be seriously injured."
"It's really worthless, why do you always think about sneak attacking. As immortal cultivators, we have to go forward and attack directly." Old Xia said disdainfully.
"Being able to control more than a hundred swordsmen to sneak attack is also a manifestation of strength." Lu Yu said.
"However, why is your divine sense so strong, boy? To be able to control more than a hundred swordsman puppets at the same time, at least someone in the sword spirit realm can do it. However, it's a pity that you haven't reached the sword spirit yet. Otherwise, just Let's see how strong your spiritual consciousness is." Mr. Xia looked at Lu Yu with interest.
"Forget it, I won't talk nonsense with you. Now you arrange the several magic circles I taught you before, and let me test them." Xia Lao said lightly.
"En." Lu Yu nodded, and with a thought, five little monkeys appeared out of thin air. Each little monkey carried a small stainless steel sword on its back and held a lot of equipment for formation in its hands. The five little monkeys rushed into the adjacent smaller secret room.
After about a cup of tea, Lu Yu asked, "Old Xia, what do you think this time?"
"The speed of your arrangement of this phantom array is not bad, but there are too many loopholes. The location of the killing array is too conspicuous. You have to attack suddenly inadvertently." Xia Lao put his hands behind his back, pointing out sharply. It solved the shortcomings of Lu Yu's magic circle.
"Then I'll continue to change..." Lu Yu continued to manipulate the little monkey to change the magic circle, and then asked Mr. Xia for any shortcomings.
Mr. Xia can point out a lot of flaws every time, and this magic circle becomes more and more perfect in the process of picking flaws and making up for them.
Two months later, Mr. Xia looked at Lu Yu who was still working on modifying the circle with some fatigue. He murmured in his heart: "It's been two whole months, this guy has been modifying the magic circle, constantly asking himself to find flaws. Don't you feel bored?"
"Xia Lao, how is this time?" Lu Yu's voice interrupted Xia Lao's thoughts.
General Xia invaded the magic circle with his consciousness, scanned it carefully, and said lightly: "This time it is already perfect. However, under the absolute strength, the magic circle will probably be reduced to ashes in a short while."
"I know that one's own strength is the most important thing. However, I also think it is very important to have one more means of assistance. In this way, you can be more flexible in the battle." Lu Yu knew that Mr. Xia was afraid that he would be too aggressive. Obsessed with the way of the formation, while ignoring the practice is the right way.
"It's good that you understand. Next, you should practice hard. I can also take a good rest. I have consumed a lot of soul power after teaching you for so long. Remember to make up for me when the time comes." Old Xia smiled Said. After speaking, he disappeared.
Afterwards, Lu Yu meditated cross-legged in the secret room again...