Translator: jinzeffect
Two and a half days later, the speed of thought process was plummeting. Li Fuchen awakened from the meditative state.
“It is better than expected. The first six moves of the Skyline Sword Art have reached 2nd rate apex state. The seventh move might be barely touching the 1st rate apex state, but back then, I didn’t know the terror of the 1st rate apex state. However, the Primary Extreme Sword Art benefited the greatest.”
Originally, Li Fuchen didn’t plan on studying the Primary Extreme Sword Art as he was afraid that he didn’t have time.
However, the plan couldn’t catch up with the changes and there were things that he couldn’t control.
Just as Li Fuchen pushed the first six moves of the Skyline Sword Art to 2nd rate apex state, the Primary Extreme Sword Art’s first move, Sword Sea Horizon actually consumed the skyline sword intent and started to practice by itself. It forcefully progressed by two grades and reached 1st rate apex state. It was now much stronger than the Skyline Sword Art’s seventh move.
Li Fuchen reckoned that it was related to the original intention of the Primary Extreme Sword Art.
Primary extreme meant origin, therefore, the Primary Extreme Sword Art naturally pursued the origin of sword dao.
As for Sword Sea Horizon, it meant the sword dao sea. It didn’t have a horizon and could fit countless rivers. Those rivers naturally referred to the variety of sword daos.
In short, if Li Fuchen wanted to push the Primary Extreme Sword Art into a supreme rate sword art, he would need to learn more apex sword arts and absorb their sword intent. If he relied on himself to practice and comprehend, it would need a far longer time.
Huff!
After letting out a forceful breath, Li Fuchen stood up.
“With my current strength, I am able to contest with the Mystic Deep Sword Saint now. If I meet the Green Flame Saint, Zhu Nanshan again, even if I cannot defeat him, I will not be utterly crushed.”
Zhu Nanshan had a 1st rate apex cardinal artifact and plenty of trumps. He was already innately undefeatable. Li Fuchen was indeed not a match, but it wasn’t possible for him to be suppressed.
Firstly, an external force would never be as easy to utilize as one’s own strength, therefore, a flaw would ultimately be revealed.
Secondly, Li Fuchen was a body refinement saint and was much tougher than the Mystic Deep Sword Saint.
For the next few days, Li Fuchen had been familiarizing himself with the changes due to the 8th rank of the Primary Extreme Sword Technique.
He realized that once he circulated the 8th rank of the Primary Extreme Sword Technique in the Wind Cloud City, three days of cultivation would be the same as to absorb 5% of the spirit qi from a peak-grade spirit stone. It also meant that two months of diligent cultivation would be the same as to absorb an entire peak-grade spirit stone.
It might not be fast, but since Li Fuchen cultivated the Star Immortal Body, his lifespan was already more than 100,000 years. If two months of cultivation was the same as to absorb one peak-grade spirit stone, then a single year would mean six peak-grade spirit stones. 10 years would mean 60 peak-grade spirit stones, 100 years would mean 600 peak-grade spirit stones. 1000 years would be 6000 peak-grade spirit stones, and 10,000 years would be 60,000 peak-grade spirit stones.
Furthermore, Li Fuchen was only a half-saint now. Once he was a saint, his absorption of heaven and earth energy would be increased by at least 10 times. By then, 10,000 years of cultivation would be more than 600,000 peak-grade spirit stones.
Of course, this was an ideal situation without bottlenecks.
It was still hard to say if Li Fuchen would encounter any bottlenecks.
Apart from that, it wasn’t possible for a person to be cultivating constantly. It was already exaggerated to cultivation for 2000 years out of 10,000 years. It was probably hard to have any achievements by just cultivating and doing now. Furthermore, it was easy for a cultivator to produce inner demons.
In the next few days, Li Fuchen had a new discovery. As the Primary Extreme Sword Technique was pushed to the 3rd rate apex state, he discovered his cultivation hurdle had increased significantly. Originally, he would only need a dozen or 20 peak-grade spirit stones to reach the latter state of half-saint, but now, he estimated he would need at least 40 or 50 peak-grade spirit stones. His cultivation speed might have increased several times, but who knew what would happen at the later on? After all, the Primary Extreme Sword Technique had only reached the apex state for a few days, his body transformation might have yet to complete. Maybe after a period of time, he might need 100 peak-grade spirit stones to reach the latter state of half-saint.
“The stronger the cultivation technique, the higher the capacity of qi within the same realm. Therefore, more qi would be needed to make any progress.”
Li Fuchen wasn’t surprised. Prior to this, he had a feeling that he required way too many peak-grade spirit stones to reach half-saint and it was already unusual.
At that time, his Primary Extreme Sword Technique only had a noble intent, but it was only close to apex state.
Right now, the Primary Extreme Sword Technique had reached 3rd rate apex state and had the potential of a supreme rate sword technique. Therefore, it was impossible for it to not have any transformation.
“My cultivation realm might remain the same, but it isn’t important. In terms of qi quality, my sword energy isn’t inferior to any saints.”
Right now, Li Fuchen’s sword energy was a hundred times stronger than before. A saint’s qi was normally just a few dozen times stronger than a half-saint.
Therefore, even if Li Fuchen wasn’t a saint, there wasn’t much difference between him and a saint.
A saint possessed the saint soul and saint spirit, Li Fuchen possessed the same.
A saint had a lifespan of at least 100,000 years, Li Fuchen was the same.
A saint’s qi was powerful, Li Fuchen’s sword energy was also powerful.
Just as Li Fuchen expected, the Primary Extreme Sword Technique continued to bring changes for a half a month before settling down.
Li Fuchen required around 80 peak-grade spirit stones just to break through to the latter state of half-saint. If he relied on himself to cultivate, he would need at least a dozen years.
It was hard for him to imagine how many peak-grade spirit stones would be required for him to progress to a saint.
***
Time passed by and in just a blink of the eye, a few months went by.
Once Li Fuchen absorbed all the star energy within the star gemstone, his body refinement was already very close to the sub-completion level of Soul Merge Realm.
If Zhu Hairong knew this after his death, he would probably come alive due to anger.
The star gemstone was Zhu Hairong’s greatest treasure. But before he could exchange it for resources, he was killed and Li Fuchen took advantage of it.
If the Zhu Clan knew that Li Fuchen obtained a star gemstone from Zhu Hairong, they would risk everything to kill Li Fuchen.
The value of one star gemstone was at least 1000 peak-grade spirit stones. Even for the Zhu Clan, it wasn’t a small sum.
As Li Fuchen’s body refinement level was increased, the Hand of Moon had also reached the pinnacle and was one step away from the Hand of Sun.
Body refinement only cultivated the body and unlike qi cultivation, it didn’t put importance on the comprehension of law. Therefore, once Li Fuchen reached the Hand of Sun, his body refinement strength would reach an extremely terrifying level.
…
The Deep Blue Plane was peaceful like normal.
On this day, on an abandoned continent, a large number of demons were gathered. The leading demons were actually demon overlords.
“Sacrifice!”
One of the demon overlords waved the hand and activated a pitch-black array. Within the array, hundreds of millions of humans were turned into evil energy that fused into the array.
Bang Boom!
There was a burst of black thunderbolts. Within the thunderbolts, a gate of flesh slowly rose up in the center of the array.
When the gate of flesh opened, the first thing that could be seen was a sky of countless stars. Immediately after, an oval-shaped black egg appeared. Around the black egg, there were countless spots of light. Only those that were nearer could see that the spots of light were actually stars.
The starry sky distorted and a black whirlpool started to swirl in the gate of flesh.
Swish Swish Swish Swish…
Locust-like figures started to scuttle out from the black whirlpool. When taking a closer look, these figures were actually demons. There were all sorts of demons, from class 1 demons to class 8 demons.
As time elapsed, more demons arrived on the Deep Blue Plane. If it was a plague of locusts at first, then it was now a wave of black goo now. It surged frenziedly and in just a few days, the abandoned continent was filled with demons.
“Haha, it has been so long and you people finally found enough spatial crystals to set up the Gate of Flesh.”
A horrific demon overlord holding a gem scepter took a step out of the Gate of Flesh. Behind him were demon overlords that were obviously weaker.
“Greetings Lord Andri.”
The demon overlords that set up the Gate of Flesh quickly bowed and cupped their fists.
“All of you have done well.”
Demon Overlord Andri flew up to the sky and took a deep breath before saying with obsession, “Such refreshing air. As compared to this place, our world is simply like putrid sludge. We shall make this plane into our new home!”
With a wave of Demon Overlord Andri’s hand, countless demons rushed out of the abandoned continent. Those low-classed demons who couldn’t fly would be riding on demon animals or entering black metallic airships.
