Chapter 62: The Birth Of A Sword Immortal
Yuan Zhu was attracted by the words “Sword Immortal” and crowded over to watch forcefully. Then he learned that the two reinforcement plans Meng Xi had previously proposed were both rejected by Zhou Chu with “Too radical!”
The angry university student finally proposed a plan that both sides could accept, which was the power of Buddhism.
Especially since the squad had just returned from Xihong Realm, in [Mao Mao King]’s special discount section, there were a large number of basic Buddhist Dharma introductions, not only cheap but also safe and harmless “Buddha Cocoon”s.
These Buddha Cocoons were all personally harvested by the Captain, ensuring the source was completely dead, with no blind box possession tests. Simply transplant them to quickly inherit the deceased’s mantle before death, with extremely high cost-performance, safe and reliable.
But Lu Rang, who had personally experienced [Buddha Tomato Terror Night], shook his head frantically, absolutely unwilling to enter Buddhism. He had a layer of Underworld filter on the Buddhist Dharma, which was inherently upright, peaceful, and compassionate. Unless this prejudice was broken, he would misunderstand Buddhist Dharma his whole life.
In the end, the three parties reached a consensus on the Sword Immortal supernatural system.
Lu Rang, who only had a mere 400 points in hand, couldn’t help but ask: “To become a [Sword Immortal], why endure pain?”
Meng Xiyue: “Good question. [Pain] is a necessary step in sword cultivators sacrificing and refining their Innate Flying Sword. In Space of Gods, for just 400 points, you can exchange for the basic blessing of Sword Dao introduction [Blessing of the Sword]. Obtaining this blessing allows you to consume spirit and stamina to generate invisible sharpness on the body surface, called ‘Sword Qi’. Sword Qi itself is a kind of supernatural power, which can protect oneself and adhere to all things, increasing sharpness. If Sword Qi is strong enough, even a chopstick can cut steel.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu felt that this [Blessing of the Sword] was extremely good and extremely cool, and it sounded very normal, so he couldn’t help but ask: “Then what are its flaws or price?”
“???” Meng Xiyue showed a puzzled expression, like ‘Why are you like this? Can’t you hope for the best for people?’, and explained, “[Sword Qi] itself has no side effects.”
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Yuan Zhu loudly refuted. How could there be power without price or pollution? “Isn’t Sword Qi a kind of pollution? Does it not require paying a price?”
Meng Xiyue retorted: “Why do you have this prejudice? Our Knowledge School also has no pollution, safe and environmentally friendly. [Sword Qi] is different from those innate Pollution Sourceheads that exist innately, tamed and mastered bit by bit by people, summarized into the ‘Innate Supernatural (Pollution) System’. [Sword Qi] is a postnatally created [Postnatal Supernatural System]. The ‘Wisdom School’ I belong to, and [Pale Great Law], are all postnatal great daos, even safer and more environmentally friendly.”
Miss Zhou Chu also nodded in agreement.
Meng Xiyue: “[Blessing of the Sword] is the blessing given by the ancestor of swords to all ‘sword cultivators’ in the world. The price is borne and paid by the Sword Ancestor itself. Once you receive the blessing, you formally step into Sword Dao and cannot turn back.”
Hearing this, Lu Rang was also excited and puffed out his chest. Compared to other [Innate Pollution Great Daos], this [Postnatal Sword Dao] was truly appealing.
Meng Xiyue continued: “However, for sword cultivators, reaching this step is basically the end. To continue growing and getting stronger, you must choose an Innate Flying Sword. Then it’s continuously extracting Sword Qi to temper and bless this ‘Flying Sword’, until interacting with it to produce spiritual sense, thereby elevating it to become an ‘external organ’, and finally life and sword cultivated together to form the Innate Flying Sword.”
“The most critical and important step in nurturing and tempering the Flying Sword is called [Pain Entry Method]. The method is simple: bless and nurture the sword body with Sword Qi, then cut oneself inch by inch, carefully savor and perceive the pain, and re-infuse this sensation into the Flying Sword to increase its spirituality and shape the sword soul.”
“The growth speed of sword cultivators largely depends on the intensity of ‘self-mutilation and self-torture’. At Taixi University, we have professional [Sword Cultivator Research Projects] and invite many great sword cultivators serving in the military. Don’t worry, I’m not lying to you. In cultivation and sword nurturing, the key is not the intensity of self-harm, but savoring the taste during the self-harm process. If you can infinitely slow down the process, amplify the sensations, and settle it with heart, the efficiency of sacrificing the sword will greatly improve.”
“If you fear pain and cut quickly with a knife, or blindly pursue sword nurturing speed with fast, accurate, and ruthless self-mutilation causing heavy injuries, it will greatly reduce the effect of sacrificing the sword. Remember, you must face the pain directly, perceive the pain, understand the pain, integrate into the pain, to comprehend ‘sharpness’ and bless it onto the Flying Sword.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu felt relieved and satisfied! I knew it, how could there be a supernatural system without paying a price? This [Postnatal Immortal Sword Great Dao] suits my taste perfectly! Yes, that’s the flavor, authentic!
However, Lu Rang was dumbfounded.
He hurriedly spoke: “Wait! Why nurture and sacrifice the sword like this?”
Meng Xiyue spread her hands: “The founder of Sword Dao stipulated it this way, all sword cultivators in the world can only cultivate this way, or you switch to another system. Afraid of pain? If afraid of pain, don’t become a Sword Immortal. Only by enduring the greatest bitterness can you become someone superior to others.”
Lu Rang: “I don’t understand, why must we feel pain and self-torture?”
Meng Xiyue: “I’m not a sword cultivator, so I can’t give you the correct answer. But our university has cooperative projects with the military to improve sword cultivator cultivation speed, enhance Flying Sword lethality, improve Flying Sword quality… so we’ve done many surveys and have some guesses. Sword cultivators sacrifice with their own bodies to better comprehend and understand the sword. Through pain, they can more clearly perceive and grasp the sword’s ‘sharpness’, then bless this concept onto the ‘Flying Sword’ to make it sharper! After all, compared to stabbing others with a sword, stabbing oneself better ‘understands the sword’.”
“But…”
Meng Xiyue: “No buts, Sword Dao is just like this. No why, only whether you cultivate or not? Every sword cultivator does it this way, this is the necessary path to becoming a [Sword Immortal]. And for just a mere 400 points, it’s insanely cost-effective. Do you know how much others at our university have to pay to become sword cultivators? 100,000 for basic training fees, 3 years of professional courses, plus military ideological education… and 10 years of service in the military.”
“I…”
Hearing that becoming a sword cultivator required paying so much, Lu Rang instantly equated 400 points with 100,000 yuan. So he was even more reluctant to give up: “400 points can only buy the blessing, but I don’t have a Flying Sword!”
He thought of the most important point: how can a Sword Immortal not have a Flying Sword?
Meng Xiyue smiled and raised one index finger: “Hey! This is the key reason I recommend you become a sword cultivator. The path of Sword Immortal is not picky about Flying Swords. [Sword Qi] can bless all things, so all things can become swords! The initial quality of a Flying Sword can be very poor, of course the more precious the better. No matter the quality, as long as you carefully sacrifice it, it can continuously grow and get stronger.”
“Our school has a survey report that sword cultivators have split into numerous faction ideologies. The biggest divide between [Sword Sect] and [Non-Sword] is whether non-sword forms should maintain sword shape? The report points out that traditional Flying Swords account for less than 20%, while the remaining 80% of sword cultivators are all [Non-Sword].”
Yuan Zhu: “Why is that?”
“That’s an internal matter for sword cultivators, we outsiders don’t interfere, participate, or evaluate. Besides non-sword or not, sword cultivators can also be divided into the three major factions: [Object Sword], [Phenomenon Sword], [Life Sword].”
Lu Rang: “What’s that?”
Meng Xiyue: “Object Sword is the simplest, refining tangible objects into Flying Swords, like metal and iron or wooden swords, all are [Object Sword]. Life Sword is also simple, refining flesh life or body organs into Flying Swords while maintaining activity. For example, chopping off one of your own arms, the sacrificing speed far exceeds peers, and the power is huge! The last [Phenomenon Sword] is somewhat abstract, some hard-to-classify ‘phenomena’ becoming swords, requiring the strong to refine.”
According to what Meng Xi said, Yuan Zhu understood why [Non-Sword] accounted for 80%; these ‘Life Sword, Phenomenon Sword’ clearly fell into the [Non-Sword] category no matter how you look at it.
After hearing this, Lu Rang was stunned with his mouth wide open, completely dumbfounded. Sword cultivation was indeed profound and vast; how was he supposed to choose?
“Dumbfounded already? Chop off an arm, refine it into a ‘Life Sword Non-Sword’, quickly form combat power, and achieve sword heart communion to speedrun the Innate Flying Sword!”
Yuan Zhu couldn’t bear to look at the scene of Lu Rang’s hundred-step flying hand taking the enemy’s head.
A sword light flashed, a severed arm directly pierced the enemy general’s head, then five fingers gripped the throat, sword light burst and circled, easily taking off the head, and flew back to Lu Rang’s side.
Huh? This ‘hand sword’ seems to have more functions, more flexible and convenient than traditional Flying Swords. It’s not impossible.
Lu Rang stood there in a daze, hesitating to refine his own limbs or organs into a Life Sword. Too fast, he didn’t understand what Sword Immortal was 1 minute ago? And 1 minute later, he had to face the option of chopping off an arm to sacrifice the sword?
Too fast, his brain couldn’t handle it; his mind was blank now: “I…”
Zhou Chu glanced at Meng Xi and warned: “Don’t listen to her nonsense, you can sacrifice multiple Flying Swords. First choose an item with special meaning to you to sacrifice the sword, then after familiarizing with the Sword Dao system, seriously prepare to refine your Innate Flying Sword.”
“Thanks for the reminder, Sister Zhou.” Lu Rang was full of gratitude; he was almost fooled by Meng Xiyue, got hot-headed, and removed some parts to make some weird Life Sword.
Yuan Zhu, who was listening on the side, had an idea, loving the drama, pointed at the pipe wrench stained with green blood beside Lu Rang, and said: “I think this thing has affinity with you, brought from Running, accompanied you through Buddha Tomato Night, and now brought back. Why not become a [Pipe Wrench Sword Immortal]!”
Meng Xiyue nodded repeatedly in agreement: “Sounds pretty good!”
Lu Rang: “Ah? Don’t I need to go home and prepare a saber and sword?”
“How can the sharpness of saber and sword compare to [Blessing of the Sword]? As long as you carefully sacrifice it, sooner or later you’ll surpass ordinary saber and sword. Moreover, this pipe wrench has solid metal quality, durable enough to far exceed ordinary saber and sword, no need for much maintenance, tough and reliable, a top-tier Flying Sword foundation!” Meng Xiyue analyzed expertly.
Lu Rang: “Really?”
“Of course! I’ve seen more sword cultivators than gods you’ve heard of!”
“Then… then I’ll do it!”
Having made up his mind, he no longer hesitated. He placed his hand on the stone pillar, consumed points, exchanged for [Blessing of the Sword], and decided to embark on the ‘Pipe Wrench Sword Immortal’ path from then on!
Yuan Zhu was also quite expectant; another research material and observation subject. He had always had a filter for ‘Sword Immortals’ who ride swords to the nine heavens. He didn’t know what the local ‘Sword Immortals’ of Du Ling were really like? Anyway, he wouldn’t cultivate it.
