Azure Lotus Sword Body, the Good-for-Nothing Awakens

Leng Bingning saw Feng Qingyang's utterly unconcerned expression and found it hard to say anything more.

Feng Qingyang had no need to explain himself either. Once Azure Cloud Sect vied for supremacy in the Central Domain, the world would know just how powerful Azure Cloud Sect was.

Feng Qingyang then began examining the system interface.

The system rewards from the last time he had taken Lin Bai as a disciple had almost all been used.

The Silver Summoning Card had been used to summon an Outer Sect Elder at the Void-Shattering Realm Peak, and the Ten Thousand Swords Tomb had also manifested on Azure Cloud Sect Back Mountain.

He could sense that something had appeared on the back mountain. Powerful sword intent emanated from it, but with the Nine Cauldrons suppressing it, the sword intent was not leaking out too intensely.

It could serve perfectly as a treasured ground for tempering disciples in the future. As for which disciple might obtain a divine sword from within, that would depend entirely on their own fortune.

Now, only the cultivation method tailored specifically for his disciple remained.

"Lin Bai, come here."

"Sect Master," Lin Bai said. Still grieving, he hurried forward upon hearing the Sect Master call him.

"I have more or less figured out why you have been unable to break through, and I now know the reason."

"Our sect has something to pass on to you. It will solve your problem."

"From now on, like Shi Hao, you will be a Direct Disciple of our sect."

"Ah!"

Lin Bai had already been beside himself with joy upon hearing that the Sect Master could solve his cultivation problem.

But when he heard that the Sect Master intended to accept him as a Direct Disciple, his entire mind went blank.

"Thank you, Master!" Lin Bai hurriedly said once he came back to his senses.

Leng Bingning and Liu Xue, seated below, were also quite curious. They could not understand why the powerful and mysterious Sect Master Feng would accept a good-for-nothing as his disciple. This young man must have some great secret.

"Open your divine sense."

Lin Bai obediently did as he was told.

"System, begin."

A streak of purple light flew from Feng Qingyang's hand into Lin Bai's sea of consciousness.

"Your physique is the legendary Azure Lotus Sword Body. The reason you have never been able to break through is that you lacked a corresponding cultivation method to refine spiritual energy. Thus, all the spiritual energy you cultivated was absorbed by your sword body."

"With this Azure Lotus Sword Art, your sword body will be activated, and your cultivation will advance a thousand miles in a day."

"Azure Lotus Sword Body!"

"A legendary physique, born for the sword. When its cultivation reaches completion, a single sword can split open the heavens!"

Leng Bingning was shocked once again. The number of shocks she had suffered today was enough to shock her for ten years!

She had heard her master mention that during the Ancient Era, there had been an Azure Lotus Sword Body whose cultivation had reached completion. At the Saint King Peak, he had slaughtered an emperor against the heavens, and was later honored as the Sword God.

She had never expected to see such a divine body in the Eastern Domain today.

Before long.

Outside the main hall.

An hour later, Lin Bai, who had been sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes joyfully.

"Master, I broke through!"

Having just cultivated the first layer of the Azure Lotus Sword Art, his stagnant cultivation surged forth like a flood that had found a breach, bursting through its long accumulation and smashing through one realm barrier after another.

"Qi Refining Early Stage, middle stage, late stage, peak!"

"Foundation Establishment Early Stage, middle stage, late stage, peak!"

It did not stop until Foundation Establishment Peak.

"Foundation Establishment Peak!"

In the span of a single breath, he had risen seven realms in a row!

As soon as Lin Bai finished speaking, heavenly phenomena descended. Azure lotuses rose from the earth, gathering beneath Lin Bai's feet one after another and constantly cleansing his body.

The phenomenon and the azure lotuses soon faded away. At this moment, Lin Bai felt as though he had been reborn.

At this very moment, he felt inspired to recite a poem.

"For ten years, I stumbled through bitter wasted days."

"Enduring countless cold stares and curses."

"One day, my divine body finally awakened."

"Azure lotuses entered me, and my realm shattered through."

"Not bad. The sword body has been activated, and your realm has broken through continuously."

"Worthy of being a disciple chosen by the system. Breaking through realms is as easy as drinking water for him, though he is still a little lacking compared to me."

Just as Lin Bai was about to say something, a powerful sword intent came from the back mountain.

"Master, could some senior of the sword path from our sect be practicing swordsmanship on the back mountain?"

"What powerful sword intent!"

Senior Brother Shi Hao asked. He guessed that some senior of the sword path who had been traveling the world had returned.

Feng Qingyang swept out with his divine sense and discovered that the Ten Thousand Swords Tomb was stirring. Then he looked at Lin Bai, whose sword body had just awakened, and understood. He merely smiled without speaking.

While Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and the others were still marveling at that powerful sword intent.

A three-foot azure blade tore through the air. Its sharp sword intent arrived first, and after circling Lin Bai several times, it steadily landed in his hand.

"Master, this..."

So the powerful sword intent had been emitted by this sword.

"The Azure Lotus Divine Sword!"

The well-informed Leng Bingning cried out in surprise yet again.

She had seen this sword in a sword manual before. It was the Personal Sword of the Sword God she had mentioned earlier. But had this sword not vanished along with the Sword God's death in the Ancient Era? Why had it appeared here?

"Oh? Miss Leng recognizes this sword?"

Seeing that Leng Bingning had named the sword, Feng Qingyang asked.

He did not recognize the sword himself. He only knew that the system's introduction said the Ten Thousand Swords Tomb buried ten thousand swords of all heavens.

"Yes. I happened to see this sword in a sword manual once. It is called the Azure Lotus Divine Sword, and it was the Personal Sword of the Sword God from the Ancient Era."

"In the Sword God's hands, this sword slaughtered saints and beheaded emperors. It was ranked first in the sword manual!"

"That Sword God also happened to possess the Azure Lotus Sword Body, so he named his Personal Sword the Azure Lotus Sword."

"Indeed. Our Azure Cloud Sect happened to obtain this sword during the Ancient Era. It seems it is fated with my disciple, so it flew over of its own accord," Feng Qingyang said without even blushing.

"The Ancient Era! That was tens of millions of years ago. This Azure Cloud Sect truly is a reclusive grand sect, a great force with an inheritance spanning tens of millions of years! No wonder the sect possesses such profound foundations."

In truth, half of what Feng Qingyang said was real and half false. Azure Cloud Sect had indeed been passed down for tens of millions of years, but it could only be described with the words barely surviving. Who could speak of all the bitterness within?

"Disciple, you heard that too. Since this divine sword is fated with you, I shall give it to you as your master's gift for joining the sect."

"Thank you, Master!"

"Rest assured, Master. I will never disgrace this sword or the Sword God's great name!"

"The Azure Lotus Sword..."

"From now on, let you and me protect the sect and our own loved ones together."

Lin Bai ran his hand over the blade as he murmured softly.

From this moment onward, the story belonging to me, Lin Bai, began...

The divine sword had a spirit, and it began to ring out as well, as though responding to Lin Bai.

Ancestor Li Qingyun, however, was feeling rather depressed.

He had already grown accustomed to the heavenly phenomena that the sect produced every other day. One could say he had become numb to them.

Back when he cultivated, he had not possessed such exceptional talent. He had relied on hardship after hardship, fortuitous encounter after fortuitous encounter, fighting and struggling his way to the Great Emperor Realm.

He had sensed the sword tomb descending upon the back mountain the instant it appeared. At first, he did not know what it was, but he figured the Sect Master must have brought it in.

Yet as the powerful sword intent within burst forth, he was drawn over. He saw the many treasured swords buried inside, but no matter what he did, he could not approach them and could only stare in envy.

Then he saw the Sect Master's newly accepted disciple trigger such a phenomenon, after which the divine sword flew over on its own. He could no longer hold it in.

"Could it be that I, a Great Emperor Realm cultivator, am ultimately unworthy?..."