Stellar River Saber Art

After looting Deng Rusong's equipment, you were about to leave.

Deng Rusong called out to you.

He pulled out a thick copy of the Pill Dao True Explanation and handed it to you.

Deng Rusong's copy of the Pill Dao True Explanation was more complete and comprehensive than Xie Huide's.

Xie Huide's copy was rather rough and unpolished.

Perhaps because he had devoted his whole heart to awakening Deng Wanshu, he had not put much care into writing a book for posterity.

Deng Rusong also told you something.

He and Xie Huide would spend a year preparing, then enter seclusion and use a month to refine the Returning Yang Paste.

During that month, Village Elder You Yun would temporarily oversee the Danxia Sect's affairs.

Deng Rusong also told you to keep your appointment as the next sect master secret for now. Announcing it too early would affect the sect's stability.

You did not care about such trivial matters and casually agreed.

After bidding Deng Rusong farewell, you returned to your own courtyard.

You were very excited now, because you had confirmed that you possessed the Insightful Observation talent.

As long as you entered the Insightful Observation state, you could perceive the earth source.

Before, you had been like an old eunuch holding a peerless beauty—willing but powerless, unable to even step through the gate.

Now, you were finally whole.

You were going to ruthlessly yank down that peerless beauty's underwear, pull out the rubber band inside, make it into a slingshot, and shoot out other people's windows.

You sat cross-legged in the small courtyard.

You took several deep breaths and calmed your mind.

Following the method Xie Huide had taught you, you began feeling your way into the Insightful Observation state.

Your first few attempts felt extremely difficult.

After many more attempts, you discovered that it really was extremely difficult.

But of course, you would not give up.

You carefully went through the notes Xie Huide had given you.

You read them closely for three days.

During that time, you also went to see Xie Huide several times.

He gave you a detailed explanation of the crucial points.

On the fourth day, inside your room.

You sat cross-legged on the cultivation couch, calmed your emotions once more, and began another attempt.

Your body and mind gradually became empty and clear.

Everything around you seemed to suddenly fall silent.

Your eyes were closed at this moment.

Yet the scene around you gradually became clear within your mind.

The walls around you, the tables and chairs in the room.

A cup of clear tea on the table, the tea stains left at the bottom of the cup.

All were plainly visible.

Most importantly, you saw the true qi surrounding your body.

The invisible true qi was revealed down to the finest detail before your eyes, with nowhere to hide.

At last, you entered the Insightful Observation state once again.

Your state was ethereal, and your whole body felt warm.

You knew you could only maintain it for fifteen minutes.

You immediately sent your consciousness into the Simulation Space.

Your invisible consciousness slowly clung to that cluster of white earth source.

While maintaining the Insightful Observation state, you saw the earth source gradually change.

The hazy mist on the earth source's surface dispersed.

Its true appearance was revealed.

You fixed your eyes on it.

At the center of the earth source, an illusory longsword quietly floated.

Though the longsword was illusory, the sharp sword qi it radiated still made your heart tremble in fear.

Your consciousness simply could not approach it.

If you forced your way closer, your consciousness would only be shredded by the sword qi.

Your consciousness transformed into your own form.

Standing far away, you carefully observed the sword, not daring to go up and profane it.

"This thing alone can turn a Grandmaster Realm expert into a Supreme Grandmaster?"

Your humanoid consciousness humanely furrowed its brows, looking unconvinced.

Besides, you were very puzzled.

You were a saber user, so why were you seeing a sword?

"Could it be that every earth source is a unique existence, and its nature is determined from the very beginning?"

You felt that was very likely the case.

You planned to ask Xie Huide about it later.

You carefully observed the earth source again.

Amid the streams of sword qi, you seemed able to sense that something was contained within.

But you had no clue what it was.

Fifteen minutes quickly passed.

You were forced out of the Insightful Observation state.

"Whew~"

You suddenly opened your eyes and gasped for breath.

Cold sweat streamed down your back, and your entire body trembled.

You had exhausted too much energy.

At this moment, you were even weaker than Bai Chen after spending three days and three nights in a brothel.

However, this exhaustion would gradually lessen as your proficiency increased, until it no longer affected you.

You took out a handful of nourishing pills and swallowed them.

Before long.

You immediately perked up and became a tough guy again.

But you would have to wait ten days before cultivating Insightful Observation again.

Over the next ten days, you carried out your usual cultivation.

Your cultivation at the peak of the Marrow Washing Realm advanced another step toward the Divine Organs Realm.

Ten days later.

You began cultivating Insightful Observation once more.

After more than twenty days of unremitting effort, you did not succeed even once.

"This thing is a little too mystical!" you muttered.

You could only temporarily give up cultivating Insightful Observation.

You resumed proper cultivation.

While cultivating the martial path, the confidence wounded by your Insightful Observation training recovered once more.

"I really am still that little genius!"

"He Yu, you brat, you're fucking amazing!"

You cultivated while encouraging yourself.

A month quickly passed.

That day, Deng Rusong came to find you.

He brought you something good.

The sect-guarding Grandmaster Realm technique, the Stellar River Saber Art.

It was the primary cultivation technique of a Supreme Grandmaster who had once been known as Great Qian Empire's Second Saber.

Why was he called the Second Saber?

Because that Supreme Grandmaster had said that if he acknowledged himself as second, no one would dare call themselves first.

That was just how domineering he was.

Though Great Qian Empire's Second Saber was rather hard-headed.

The brothers of the martial world sincerely acknowledged Great Qian Empire's Second Saber's strength.

They unanimously recognized him as the strongest saber wielder.

And precisely because of that, a small problem later arose.

Someone claimed to be Great Qian Empire's First Saber.

This made Great Qian Empire's Second Saber excitedly head over to challenge him.

But when he got there, he found only a mere bone tempering martial artist.

That bone tempering martial artist even admitted defeat on the spot.

Then he announced to the public that he had accepted Great Qian Empire's Second Saber's challenge.

He had only regrettably lost, so he was now Great Qian Empire's officially certified Third Saber!

That brother's move opened a new way of thinking for all the saber wielders.

So they all began claiming to be the First Saber and copying him.

Then over a hundred Great Qian Empire Third Sabers appeared, all tied for the title.

Among this Third Saber boy band, the weakest cultivation was even just a Skin Tempering Realm martial artist.

These saber wielders stopped studying saber techniques and started studying military strategy.

Great Qian Empire's Second Saber was furious enough to choke, and was taught a harsh lesson.

He never showed off again, honestly taking the position of Great Qian Empire's First Saber.

After listening to Deng Rusong finish, you objectively commented, "This truly is a story about a half-baked fool."

You even suspected whether this half-baked Supreme Grandmaster's technique was any good.

Don't tell me that after cultivating it, I'll become as brainless as he was too.