King of Thunder and Lightning Qiu Changtian

After rejecting Purple Cloud Peak's recruitment and accepting Lou Zhizheng's duel challenge, Ling Yunpo's relationship with his Senior Sister was rapidly heating up.

Waking up from meditation by his Senior Sister in the morning, followed by high-intensity sword practice, then more high-intensity sword practice in the afternoon, and still more high-intensity sword practice at night.

It was just like reliving the days of taking endless practice tests during the college entrance exams in his past life.

But fortunately, Senior Sister An's charming appearance with her red sleeves and sword was truly captivating, making it not unbearably tedious.

After finishing the fundamental sword moves of the Qisha Sword Art, Ling Yunpo began learning the two-handed Sword Control Technique.

The two-handed Sword Control Technique currently circulating within Shushan primarily used the Destiny Sword Artifact, supplemented by a secondary sword. The two swords had to attack and defend in unison, inseparable.

However, the two-handed Sword Control Technique of the Qisha Sword Art lineage, after being improved by Su Jian, was truly about dual-tasking.

The two swords could attack and defend together, or one could attack while the other defended, each following a different path. It was like a single-core CPU suddenly becoming dual-core, naturally greatly enhancing combat capabilities.

To control two swords simultaneously with both hands required different Qi circulation routes in each arm. Since Ling Yunpo had not yet reached the Marrow Cleansing Stage, he tried many times without success.

An Zhisu was also troubled and planned to find someone to teach him in this regard.

Leaving Ling Yunpo's situation aside for now, as there was still some time before the duel, he decided to load into Qiu Changtian's body and ask the Ziwei Sect Master for his trump card.

On the Kunlun Taiqing Sect side, after the day's scripture lecture, everyone filed out of the Scripture Hall.

Qiu Changtian remained seated on the meditation cushion. Xu Yinglian, who had been about to rise, saw this and continued to sit to his right.

"What is it?" The Ziwei Sect Master asked with his eyes closed after everyone else had left.

"Reporting to Master," Qiu Changtian said respectfully. "A few days ago, while training outside, I encountered a Marrow Cleansing Stage cultivator from the Yin Ghost Dao. If not for the Taiyi Splitting Light Sword you bestowed upon me to save my life, I would have met an untimely end."

"Disciple wishes to ask Master, without the Taiyi Splitting Light Sword, how should one deal with an enemy at the Marrow Cleansing Stage?"

Xu Yinglian, standing nearby, heard this and was stunned:

Senior Brother has such great ambition! At the mere Qi Refining Stage, he's already seeking a way to defeat enemies at the Marrow Cleansing Stage?

The Ziwei Sect Master heard this but did not answer immediately. He merely pondered for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes and asked:

"Did you arrange a duel with someone?"

He can guess that too? Qiu Changtian was shocked inwardly, but he denied it verbally:

"It's just that I was thinking about the previous day's events and am still frightened."

"Hmph." The Ziwei Sect Master snorted and did not expose him. He simply turned to Xu Yinglian and said:

"Yinglian, you may go back first."

"Mm." Xu Yinglian got up and left.

Once Junior Sister left, only the master and disciple remained in the Scripture Hall.

Qiu Changtian looked at his Master. The Ziwei Sect Master waved his Fly Whisk and said clearly:

"Disciple of the two hundred and eightieth generation, Qiu Changtian, I now bestow upon you the Roaring Fate Wind Thunder method. May the Great Dao witness, listen carefully!"

His voice was deafening, like spring thunder erupting on his tongue.

Qiu Changtian instinctively sat up straighter, feeling cold sweat trickle down his back. The incense smoke wafted before his eyes, and he gradually lost sight of everything, as if he were in a small universe isolated from the world, with only the Sect Master's chanting echoing in his ears:

"Now, thunder is the pivot of heaven and earth. The pivot of heaven and the pivot of earth are called the two pivots, positioned east and west, commanding all seventy-two departments of thunder. Yang thunder and Yin lightning, the pivot is Yin, the mechanism is Yang; thunder is benevolent, lightning is malevolent. Thunder benefits from Qi, lightning benefits from Sha Qi. The two Qi, Qi and Sha, gather and have the fierceness of stripping and peeling. The marvel of thunder is that the east has three, the south has two, the north has one, the west has four, and the center has five, with Wu and Ji returning to the center..."

Under enlightenment, in a daze, his consciousness rapidly sank. He saw darkness all around, with only a speck of starlight in his Sea of Qi, flickering and unceasing.

A moment later, a light of fire ignited, gradually spreading throughout his body. Yet, he felt no unbearable heat, only as if bathing in warm springs, his limbs were warm.

Shortly after, the chanting stopped, and the firelight throughout his body quickly dissipated.

In a daze, someone patted his cheek:

"Open your mouth."

Qiu Changtian subconsciously opened his mouth. The Sect Master took a pill bottle from his sleeve, retrieved a pill, and placed it under his tongue.

The pill melted upon contact with his mouth, transforming into a warm current that entered through his throat, down to his Dantian, and settled into his Sea of Qi. It coalesced into a ball of purple-gold light, suspended uncertainly in his Sea of Qi, flickering on and off.

Qiu Changtian slowly woke up. He saw the Sect Master toss the pill bottle into his embrace and say with his eyes closed:

"This is the Thunder Seed. Take one pill every three days for nine consecutive days to consolidate your realm."

"Then go to the Scripture Depository and retrieve the Divine Firmament Jade Pivot Slash Investigate Five Thunder Great Law. Study it carefully."

"I don't care if it's for dueling or self-preservation, you must do it perfectly and without fault, so as not to disgrace the reputation of this Ziwei True Person."

Qiu Changtian was silent for a moment, then bowed his head in thanks.

Leaving the Scripture Hall, Qiu Changtian immediately went to the Scripture Depository to retrieve the scripture his Master had mentioned.

The elder in charge of the Scripture Depository was surnamed Xu (rumored to also be from the Xu Family of Tiannan). She was a slender, sharp-featured old woman who knew almost every one of the hundreds of thousands of scriptures in the depository by heart.

Upon hearing the name Divine Firmament Jade Pivot Slash Investigate Five Thunder Great Law, Elder Xu looked at Qiu Changtian suspiciously and asked curiously:

"What do you need a thunder method for? That thing... is not easy to practice."

"May I ask Senior, why is it not easy to practice?" Qiu Changtian asked respectfully.

"Mainly because cultivation is too difficult," Elder Xu explained in detail. "Thunder is the pivot of heaven and earth, the command of the heavens, and carries the heaviest killing intent."

"Thunder possesses Sha Qi, which specifically breaks evil and defilement, and has immense power against magic; it also resides in the Zhen position, breaking armor and dismantling defenses, making it difficult for flying swords and magic treasures to resist."

"Its power is so immense that it can easily harm others as well as oneself. If one is not careful during cultivation, they might injure their physical body and face near-death, or their disposition might change drastically, becoming irritable and prone to anger."

At this point, she paused to think for a moment before continuing, "You have the Clear Dao Heart constitution, so the risks of cultivating thunder arts are much smaller. If you can obtain Innate Thunder Crystal to use as a Thunder Seed, it will be twice the result with half the effort."

"However, because so few people have cultivated it throughout history, most of the thunder arts spells have been lost."

"To risk it all and painstakingly cultivate the general principles of thunder arts, only to find there are no corresponding spells available, wouldn't that be a joke?"

"Even in our Kunlun Taiqing Sect, we now only have the Divine Firmament Jade Pivot Slash Investigate Five Thunder Great Law, which can be used to cultivate Jade Pivot Thunder."

"It's just that with this effort, one might as well cultivate other Daoist traditions with complete spell sets..."

She rambled on, and seeing Qiu Changtian standing with his hands clasped at his sides, respectfully silent, she suddenly snapped back to attention and apologized with a smile, "What am I even saying! Since you've chosen the Jade Pivot Thunder spell scroll, you must have already made up your mind. Why do I need to comment so much?"

Retrieving a thin booklet from a bookshelf, Elder Xu handed it to Qiu Changtian and said, "This is the Jade Pivot Thunder you requested. Be extremely careful when you practice it."

"Thank you, Elder Xu," Qiu Changtian said with a bow.

"You're welcome. I pity that child; you'll have to take good care of her from now on," Elder Xu said kindly. "Well, as a congratulatory gift for you two becoming Dao Companions..."

She pondered for a moment, then took out a brush and ink from the side and wrote him a note:

"Besides Jade Pivot Thunder, our Scripture Depository originally had spell scrolls for Divine Firmament Thunder, but they went missing six hundred years ago."

"I've checked the records here and found that the inheritor of the Divine Firmament Thunder lineage was Chonghe True Person six hundred years ago. His last recorded departure from the mountain was to Yangzhou Kuaiji, and he never returned to the sect afterward."

"If you have time in the future, you could try looking for him in Yangzhou."