Sun Swallowing Divine Art

Three days later, after his injuries had fully healed and he had readjusted his condition to its peak, you returned to Black Wood Cliff.

Half a day later, after battling Dongfang Bubai once again, you left injured once more.

Seven more days passed, and with your strength restored to its peak, you climbed Black Wood Cliff again and challenged Dongfang Bubai.

Thus, week after week, you climbed Black Wood Cliff every seven days to battle Dongfang Bubai.

Although every fight ultimately ended in defeat, you kept fighting and losing, while Dongfang Bubai was helpless against you.

She had once tried to kill you at all costs, but when you threatened her with Yang Lianting, she immediately became wary and could only let you leave.

Your true qi, swordsmanship, and progress in improving your cultivation methods all continued to advance through these repeated battles with Dongfang Bubai.

Although the progress was extremely slow, it never stopped.

In the fifth month of the twenty-fourth year, more than half a year had passed since your first battle with Dongfang Bubai.

During that time, aside from returning to Mount Hua around the New Year to visit your master, mistress, and parents, you spent almost all your time battling Dongfang Bubai.

Now that more than half a year had passed, your strength had long since become incomparable to what it had been.

First was your cultivation method.

You had successfully integrated the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, Star Absorbing Great Method, Yi Jin Jing, the inner-energy section of the Evil Warding Sword Manual, and many other innate-level internal cultivation methods, initially creating a superior innate-level cultivation method that combined their strengths.

You named it the Sun Swallowing Divine Art.

"Swallowing" corresponded to the characteristics of the Star Absorbing Great Method, "sun" to those of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, and "divine" to those of the Yi Jin Jing.

As for the extremely firm and intensely yang inner-energy section of the Evil Warding Sword Manual and the extremely yin and frigid Cold Ice True Qi, their power was considerable, but they were too extreme, so you merely drew on them for reference.

Unfortunately, your Sun Swallowing Divine Art was only newly created, and for now, it could open only seven of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Of course, even so, after you switched to the Sun Swallowing Divine Art, both the quantity and quality of the true qi in your body rose considerably, while the speed of its recovery more than doubled.

Especially under the sun, your true qi was practically inexhaustible.

Next was the Arrow Breaking Form of your Dugu Nine Swords.

Through your ceaseless battles with Dongfang Bubai, your Arrow Breaking Form had advanced by leaps and bounds, successfully reaching the perfected stage.

It was also the second of your nine forms of Dugu Nine Swords to reach the perfected stage, surpassed only by the Sword Breaking Form.

"Sun Swallowing Divine Art? That name is certainly grand enough..."

Looking at the subtitles that had just appeared before him, Zheng Qian's eyes lit up, and he muttered curiously.

However, he was curious only for a moment before continuing to watch.

After all, to him in the real world, anything in the simulation was merely a few lines of text as long as he did not extract it.

As your strength greatly increased, you could now slightly surpass Dongfang Bubai.

If you wanted, you even had the ability to take her life.

But you would most likely suffer serious injuries as a result.

Naturally, that was not something you wanted to see.

Moreover, you and Dongfang Bubai had no deep hatred between you.

On the contrary, she had helped you cultivate for so long, so you had no intention of killing her for the time being.

However, Dongfang Bubai was no longer of much help to your continued growth.

It was therefore time for you to leave.

In the sixth month of the twenty-fourth year, you removed every disguise and returned to the Mount Hua Sect.

No one knew that you, a Mount Hua Sect disciple barely in your twenties, were Zhang Wei, the successor of Ren Woxing who had stirred up a bloody storm across the martial world over the past two years.

Perhaps Linghu Chong could guess it, since both of you had cultivated Dugu Nine Swords.

Although he sometimes could not distinguish right from wrong, he valued promises above all else and would never expose your identity.

In the seventh month of the twenty-fourth year, not long after returning to the mountain, you urged your master, Yue Buqun, to send invitations to the other four sects of the Five Great Sword Sects, demanding a reelection of the Five Peaks Alliance Leader.

The reason was naturally that Zuo Lengchan, whose martial arts had been crippled, was no longer qualified to serve as the Five Peaks Alliance Leader.

After the invitations were sent, all three sects—Hengshan, Taishan, and Hengshan—agreed to reelect the Five Peaks Alliance Leader, with only the Songshan Sect opposing it.

With the minority submitting to the majority, the Songshan Sect had no way to stop it.

In the tenth month of the twenty-fourth year, the Five Great Sword Sects gathered at the Songshan Sect and officially began reelecting the Five Peaks Alliance Leader.

Because of your intervention, Linghu Chong had not been expelled from Mount Hua.

Moreover, everyone from Mount Hua had learned how to counter the sword techniques of the various sects found in the cave at Siguo Cliff, so the other sects were no match for your Mount Hua Sect.

In the end, your Mount Hua Sect reclaimed the position of Five Peaks Alliance Leader, and your master, Yue Buqun, saw his dream come true and became the new Five Peaks Alliance Leader.

During this period, your strength advanced slowly, with almost no improvement.

In the fourth month of the twenty-fifth year, although it had happened much later than in the original story, your junior sister Yue Lingshan and junior brother Lin Pingzhi still married as they had originally.

Before they married, you specifically sought out Lin Pingzhi and placed his family-inherited Evil Warding Sword Manual before him.

Seeing the eight large characters, "To practice this art, one must first castrate oneself!" Lin Pingzhi finally understood why his father had made him swear never to look through anything in the ancestral residence before his death.

His father had feared that the Lin family would become extinct!

Although he did not know how you had obtained the Evil Warding Sword Manual, that was no longer important.

You were both his senior brother and his savior, and you had even allowed him to personally kill his enemy.

You could be said to have given him a completely new life.

Thus, even if you gave him the Evil Warding Sword Manual, he would have no complaints.

In the end, after struggling for a long time, Lin Pingzhi decisively threw the kasaya containing the Evil Warding Sword Manual into the brazier and burned it to ashes.

Of course, that was only because you did not want it.

In the fifth month of the twenty-fifth year, Linghu Chong, who had always regarded his junior sister Yue Lingshan as his childhood sweetheart, could not accept her marrying someone else and left Mount Hua.

He wandered alone through the martial world, spending his days in a daze and drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

Because of this, however, he grew increasingly close to the Demon Sect's Saintess, Ren Yingying.

In the eighth month of the twenty-sixth year, after two years of effort, you finally perfected your Sun Swallowing Divine Art.

You successfully created the portion capable of opening the eighth of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the Yang Wei Meridian.

Your senior brother Linghu Chong, meanwhile, had quietly married Ren Yingying half a year earlier without telling anyone.

The two had joined hands and secluded themselves at Plum Manor beside West Lake, taking no further interest in worldly affairs.

Your master, Yue Buqun, somehow learned of this and angrily berated him for being disloyal and unfilial, but took no further action.

In the fourth month of the twenty-eighth year, after several years of effort, you finally accumulated enough Innate True Qi and officially began opening the eighth of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians—the Yang Wei Meridian!