Quasi Spirit Sword, Return!

"Piaoxue, how are you?"

The Lin family arrived, and a middle-aged man with graying hair rushed to Lin Piaoxue's side, his face filled with worry.

This person was none other than the Lin family patriarch, Lin Zhengyuan.

"You're poisoned?"

Lin Zhengyuan's heart tightened. He quickly took out a pill and handed it to Lin Piaoxue. "Quickly take this Top-grade Pure Spirit Precious Pill to suppress the poison!"

Lin Piaoxue took the pill, put it in her mouth, and swallowed it.

She then sat cross-legged and circulated her energy to refine the pill's energy. After a full fifteen minutes, she spat out a mouthful of black, poisonous blood, and her complexion finally improved significantly.

Lin Zhengyuan finally relaxed. He said with lingering fear, "You child, I told you the Black Wind Bandits are cunning and difficult to deal with. You almost got into serious trouble this time."

"You're about to go to Azure Star Academy, what would we do if something went wrong at this critical juncture?"

Lin Piaoxue's expression was complicated. "Father, your daughter understands. I will be more careful next time I encounter such a situation. This time, I was actually close to committing suicide to avoid falling into the hands of the Black Wind Bandits and being humiliated by them, but at the last moment, a young master saved me."

Lin Zhengyuan was stunned when he heard this.

"A young master?"

"Who is he? To be able to kill the Black Wind Bandits, there aren't many young people with such strength in the Great Chu Dynasty."

Lin Piaoxue shook her head. "I don't know his name either, but he's very young, and I think he should only be at the Sea of Qi Realm cultivation!"

Lin Zhengyuan's eyes widened. "Someone at the Sea of Qi Realm cultivation could kill the Black Wind Bandits? That's impossible!"

Lin Piaoxue said with certainty, "Father, my perception has always been very keen, so I shouldn't have made a mistake. Although I had already severely injured that Black Wind Bandit, it couldn't overshadow the brilliance of that young master's formidable swordplay!"

"Unfortunately, he didn't tell me his name or origin..."

Lin Piaoxue's tone carried a hint of regret.

Lin Zhengyuan's eyes flickered, and then he said, "A young man, at the Sea of Qi Realm cultivation, with excellent swordsmanship. In this region, I do know of someone who fits these characteristics!"

Lin Piaoxue's face immediately lit up with excitement. "Father, you know who it is?"

Lin Zhengyuan nodded. "When I came to find you, I just heard that the second young master of the Xia family from the Sword Pavilion, Xia Wudao, has excellent talent and has just broken through to the Sea of Qi Realm cultivation!"

Lin Piaoxue: "Sword Pavilion..."

Lin Zhengyuan sighed, "The Sword Pavilion was indeed glorious in the past, even surpassing our Lin family. But the people of the Xia family in the Sword Pavilion have become worse with each generation, and it's now in decline. I didn't expect that the Sword Pavilion would produce such a genius now. It seems the Sword Pavilion's fortune is not yet depleted and is about to usher in a great resurgence!"

Lin Piaoxue hurriedly said, "Father, I want to go to the Sword Pavilion to meet Xia Wudao."

Although she had also helped Xia Wudao, she now realized that she had purely meddled. With Xia Wudao's strength in killing the Black Wind Bandit today, he could naturally have killed that Lightning Leopard. Lin Piaoxue didn't think their karma was cleared. She wanted to... rekindle this connection.

"But Azure Star Academy is urging you to depart..."

Lin Piaoxue shook her head. "It won't take much time. I just want to thank him in person."

Lin Zhengyuan thought for a moment and said, "Alright. With such ability, that Xia Wudao will surely be a remarkable person in the future. Our Lin family can take this opportunity to send a token of our appreciation to the Sword Pavilion to help them rise again."

Meanwhile.

Xia Wuji arrived at a quiet and secluded place. He held the Radiant Crystal Profound Stone and examined it for a few moments before tossing it into the air. Immediately, his spiritual power surged out, fixing the Radiant Crystal Profound Stone in mid-air. Xia Wuji formed hand seals and summoned flames to smelt the Radiant Crystal Profound Stone. It took nearly an hour to finish smelting it.

"The flames extracted from low-level fierce beasts are indeed not good enough. It's so difficult to smelt this Radiant Crystal Profound Stone," Xia Wuji lamented. For anyone else, using such flames would be impossible. Fortunately, the Sky Burning Art that Xia Wuji practiced was an extraordinary fire-controlling technique, and it was a top-tier inheritance for fire control, even in the Celestial Realm.

After the Radiant Crystal Profound Stone was smelted, Xia Wuji drew the Jinghong Sword and poured the refined crystalline substance into the sword body. During this process, Xia Wuji's spiritual power continuously flowed within the sword body. He used his spiritual power to control the crystalline substance, integrating it bit by bit into the Jinghong Sword, and then imprinted strand after strand of spirit patterns within the sword using his spiritual power!

The biggest difference between a precious sword and a spirit sword is that spirit swords have spirit patterns! The art of spirit patterns is vast and profound, and incredibly complex. Artifact refining, talismans, formations, and so on are all closely related to spirit patterns. If Xia Wuji's spiritual power couldn't leave his body, he wouldn't be able to do this.

As strand after strand of spirit patterns were deeply embedded within the Jinghong Sword, the sword's radiance became even more brilliant. Even without form, the world's spiritual energy actively converged towards the Jinghong Sword. This was the effect of spirit patterns! Precious swords were only sharp and hard. But spirit swords were sharper, harder, and could actively absorb the world's spiritual energy. Spirit swords of higher grades could even develop sentience...

A streak of rainbow light shot up into the sky.

Xia Wudao grabbed the hilt of the Jinghong Sword, and instantly, a sharp aura surged into his body.

The Sword Seed also flashed with a brilliant light, absorbing the sharpness belonging to the Jinghong Sword.

The Jinghong Sword was Xia Wudao's companion sword, unsuitable for direct consumption by the Sword Seed. However, with the Jinghong Sword in Xia Wudao's hand, its sharpness was actually nourishing the Sword Seed every moment.

Of course, the effect of this nourishment was extremely weak.

After all, even now, with the Jinghong Sword refined into the Radiant Crystal Profound Stone by Xia Wudao, it could not be considered a first-tier Spirit Sword. At most, it could only be considered a quasi-Spirit Sword.

Holding the quasi-Spirit Sword, Xia Wudao felt a surge of ambition. He immediately drew his sword, practicing his movement technique and swordsmanship in this quiet and secluded place!

All the techniques were already deeply ingrained in his mind. What he needed to do now was to adapt his body to them.

After all, the current situation was that he possessed a consciousness far superior to this body's.

He had realized it... but his body couldn't quite keep up.

The movement technique Xia Wudao was currently using was called the Cloud Soaring Steps, and the swordsmanship was the Overlapping Waves Sword Art. Both were classified as low-grade Profound tier.

Once the Overlapping Waves Sword Art's moves were unleashed, its power was like overlapping waves of water, with each move stronger than the last!

There were a total of nine moves!

If the ninth sword could be unleashed, with nine waves overlapping, its power could even rival mid-grade Profound tier sword techniques.

Fifteen minutes later.

Xia Wudao unleashed a sword strike!

In an instant, the sword light transformed into two layers of giant waves!

The sword light swept out, and wherever it passed, rocks, mountains, and vegetation were all pulverized!

"Two waves are stronger than the burst of the True Sun Swordplay's Three Suns Opening Auspiciousness, but not by much."

"With the amount of Sword Essence I possess now, I can unleash three waves."

"If I can unleash three waves, then compared to the True Sun Swordplay's Three Suns Opening Auspiciousness, there will be a significant increase in power!"

"Let's practice more!"

Xia Wudao continued to practice the sword techniques. Another two fifteen-minute periods passed.

Finally, when performing the Overlapping Waves Sword Art, this body could finally keep up with his consciousness.

Three waves!

Three layers of sword light instantly surged out from the sword's edge, vast and mighty, with astonishing power, directly pulverizing a large area of vegetation and rocks in front of him. The destructive power was practically doubled compared to the previous two waves!

Xia Wudao was quite satisfied with the results of this sword practice.

"Sword Pavilion Ancestral Worship Ceremony!"

"Xia Wudao..."

"I'm coming!"