Great Freedom Sword Scripture [Seeking Investment, Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Jiang Ming had his own pride in the achievements and cultivation methods of his past life.

Great Freedom Sword Scripture!

In the morning, roam the North Sea; by dusk, reach Cangwu. Feed on morning dew and dine on rosy clouds. In idle moments, watch waves rise and clouds fade; a thousand ages of spring and autumn are but a dream.

When the heart was free, one was ever free!

Free and unrestrained between heaven and earth.

Just a few lines, yet they were the core tenets of the Great Freedom Sword Scripture.

This was the supreme sword-immortal scripture Jiang Ming had cultivated in his past life. It was not the sword art he had initially cultivated at Shushan, the Sword-Control Demon-Subduing Sword Art.

Later, while cultivating on the mountain, Jiang Ming had a dream. In it, a white-bearded old man taught him the Great Freedom Sword Scripture.

Back when Jiang Ming was on Earth, he had seen a claim that Laozi's Shushan Dao was part of ancient Chinese culture, referring to the story of the Daoist thinker Laozi cultivating at Shushan.

Therefore, Jiang Ming now guessed that this sword art had an extraordinary origin. The inheritance of Shushan sword immortals had always been shrouded in God's mystery.

The Great Freedom Sword Scripture Jiang Ming cultivated focused on forging a Life-Bound Sword.

It differed from ordinary Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core cultivation. The Dao it expounded was that one sword could break ten thousand techniques.

There were many types of immortal cultivators. Most drew talismans, refined pills, and forged magical artifacts, requiring enormous investments of time and energy, along with persistent practice day after day and year after year.

Naturally, they also needed vast amounts of cultivation resources.

The Great Freedom Sword Scripture focused on nurturing a single Life-Bound Sword with heavenly treasures and rare materials.

After he had fallen to demonic ways, he had used his Life-Bound Sword to slaughter all the elite disciples of the Shushan Sword Sect.

The Life-Bound Sword was usually nurtured within the dantian. When needed, it could turn into tiny particles and instantly appear in his hand or anywhere else, entirely at his will.

In the world of Shrouding the Heavens, the dantian seemed to be called the Sea of Bitterness. It was the starting point of another profound cultivation method, one aimed at opening the origin of the human body's universe and developing the gates of that universe, treating the human body itself as a universe.

Jiang Ming valued it greatly. Moreover, he knew that this cultivation system had been created by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, so naturally, he had to cultivate it.

The cultivation system of Shrouding the Heavens could perfectly complement the cultivation system from his past life.

That way, in the future, he could choose another artifact as his sole "vessel." He remembered that the Dao Scripture had such a record.

His sword would serve for offense.

Then he would refine a powerful defensive artifact.

Ye Fan had chosen a Cauldron.

Jiang Ming decided to take inspiration from the Primordial World.

Supreme Pure Laozi's Taiji Diagram.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi's Chaos Bell.

The Innate Five-Colored Flags.

The Heavens' Auspicious Cloud.

Oh, and the Twelve-Petaled Lotus Throne.

The Twelve-Petaled Golden Merit Lotus, the Twelve-Petaled Red Lotus of Karmic Fire, the Twelve-Petaled Black Lotus of World Destruction, and the Twelve-Petaled White Lotus of World Purification.

They all sounded incredibly awesome.

As inspiration struck, Jiang Ming thought of a lotus.

Originally, he had wanted to refine the Taiji Diagram.

Among the Emperor Armaments of the Shrouding the Heavens world, there simply was no Taiji Diagram.

Instead, the Azure Emperor of the Demon Race had possessed an Azure Lotus, one flower blooming into two stalks and bearing three leaves, representing that the Dao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things.

This Azure Emperor Armament was similar to He Xiangu's magical artifact, especially after it had later fallen into the hands of the Demon Emperor's descendant, Yan Ruyu.

As for the lotus artifact he would refine, he would choose "lotus"!

There was no rush now. The first thing he needed to refine was his Life-Bound Sword.

With a thought, Jiang Ming took out the spoils he had stored in his Sea of Bitterness. Not every cultivator's Sea of Bitterness could be used as a storage artifact; most cultivators' Seas of Bitterness were extremely fragile.

Only powerful constitutions like the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and the Heavenly Tyrant Body had special Seas of Bitterness that could be used as storage artifacts.

First, Jiang Ming took out a thumb-sized piece of Star-Pattern Iron, followed by a soybean-sized piece of Purple Copper—

Twenty-three bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid.

Magical artifacts: a golden awl, a purple net, a silver small shield, a bronze hammer, a blood-red spear, and a Green Wood Sword.

These magical artifacts were all the size of soybeans. Having undergone refinement, they were usually nurtured in the Sea of Bitterness and would enlarge after being activated.

Spirit medicines: one Jade Snake Orchid and one Purple Sun Grass.

This was everything Jiang Ming had on him. He had been miserable. During his escape, he had used up all the Hundred-Grass Liquid on him, while the Flame Grass he had originally treasured had been thrown out to lure away the savage beasts.

Even the small shield on him had been knocked away by a One-Horned Black Panther during his escape.

So, aside from what he had earned from the system, everything in his Sea of Bitterness now was spoils of war.

Oh, and his original Green Wood Sword.

When this Green Wood Sword had been refined, a thumb-sized fragment of Yimu Heartwood had been fused into it. That was why half of it had survived the lightning capable of killing Life Spring cultivators instead of being blasted into scraps.

Since that was the case, he would begin refining his Life-Bound Sword now. The strength of the Great Freedom Sword Scripture's method of refining a Life-Bound Sword lay in the fact that he did not need to choose supreme treasure materials or God metals from the start.

The Life-Bound Sword could grow from weak to strong, constantly devouring all kinds of heavenly treasures and rare materials as it developed, evolving little by little.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Jiang Ming closed his eyes and calmed his mind. He circulated the Great Freedom Sword Scripture and began absorbing the vital essence within his body from nothing. The general principle of Qi Refining Stage cultivation could be described as refining essence into qi.

This step was simply too easy for Jiang Ming. At last, he experienced the strength of the Heavenly Tyrant Body. Within his dantian was a surging purple ocean.

Whenever he cultivated, it was accompanied by majestic purple qi stretching three thousand li, as endless vital essence swept toward him.

With only one breath, he completed the cultivation of the first level of the Qi Refining Stage.

All things were difficult at the beginning?

This did not seem difficult at all.

Jiang Ming did not understand the condition of his Heavenly Tyrant Body and feared damaging its origin, so he quickly picked up a bottle of Hundred-Grass Liquid.

The Hundred-Grass Liquid was stored in a pristine little jade bottle. The instant he opened it, waves of rich fragrance wafted out.

The Shrouding Method explained that the Sea of Bitterness and Wheel of Life within the human body merged together, forming the Wheel of the Sea Secret Realm. To release the vast life essence contained within the Wheel of Life and prevent it from being worn away by time, one had to continuously excavate the potential of the Sea of Bitterness and open it up.

The Chinese Paladin Method described it as the dantian, located behind the navel and before the kidneys, also called the Yellow Court. It was the root of life's origin and the source of the body's vital essence, encompassing major life acupoints such as Guanyuan, Qihai, Shenque, and Mingmen. Refining essence into qi was a process of accumulating the body's true essence.

Within Jiang Ming's dantian—more precisely, it could probably also be called his Sea of Bitterness—the dantian was like a sea, and his vital essence was purple. It truly broadened his horizons. A person's dantian could actually contain such an immense amount of vital essence.

According to the Shrouding Method, life essence was actually stored within the Wheel of Life and was constantly worn away by time as a person grew.

During this process, Jiang Ming could sense the vast potential of the hazy purple qi within him. The purple qi shifted constantly, becoming a Kun Peng one moment, an immortal bell the next, then a True Dragon, then an Immortal Phoenix—

Breaking through the first level of Qi Refining took one breath.

The second level of Qi Refining took three breaths.

With a thought, Jiang Ming drank all twenty-odd remaining bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid in one go.

This was a supplementary spirit liquid similar to the True Essence Pills of the Immortal Sword World, capable of aiding cultivation.

When he had first begun cultivating in his past life, he would never have dared to do this. But he felt that his current constitution was terrifyingly powerful, and he personally experienced the vastness and strength of the Heavenly Tyrant Body.

Boom!

The immense medicinal spiritual power entered Jiang Ming's stomach and rapidly surged through his limbs and bones. Without an effective method of absorption, at best it would cripple him, and at worst it would cause him to explode and die.

However, the instant Jiang Ming circulated the Great Freedom Sword Scripture, his dantian seemed to transform into a black hole, swiftly drawing away the medicinal power within his body.

Only seven breaths later.

Jiang Ming had already entered the third level of Qi Refining.

Continue!

Jiang Ming's realm had long been sufficient. Even if he advanced rapidly through the Qi Refining Stage, it would not leave behind any aftereffects.

As for the methods from his past life, they were not without weaknesses. Their weakness was in the physical body, but their offensive power was absolutely top-tier. One sword breaking ten thousand techniques was not empty talk; it had been proven in actual combat.

The Shrouding Method, meanwhile, was enough to compensate for those flaws.

In that case, the Shrouding Method and the methods from his past life could instead be regarded as dual cultivation of technique and body.

Five hours later!

Jiang Ming had entered the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage.

Not only had he refined all the medicinal power of the Hundred-Grass Liquid, he had also directly swallowed the Jade Snake Orchid and Purple Sun Grass.

The Hundred-Year Jade Snake Orchid was a spirit medicine that an old serpent had gradually transformed and evolved into only after absorbing the essence of the sun and moon year after year for a full century. During this process, the old serpent would also transform into a Jade-Horned Snake. At its habitat, a rare accompanying spirit medicine would naturally appear, called the Jade Snake Orchid.

The Jade Snake Orchid was snow-white and crystalline, only the size of an adult's palm. It resembled a little snake carved from jade, gleaming with radiance as it stood upright. It had ten delicate white-jade leaves. Every ten years, it grew one leaf. After a hundred years, a white jade orchid flower would grow at its peak, shimmering with precious light. Swaying in the wind, specks of brilliance would flow across the Jade Snake Orchid, accompanied by wisps of fragrance.

The Purple Sun Grass was only half a foot tall and entirely purple. It preferred to grow in blazing, sunlit terrain. Its leaves were round like tiny purple suns, and its whole body emitted a purple halo. It was not as precious as the Jade Snake Orchid.

If one Jade Snake Orchid was equivalent to more than seventy bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid—

Then the Purple Sun Grass was only comparable to the medicinal power of more than fifty bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid.

The Qi Refining Stage had twelve levels in total.

Reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining was already enough for Jiang Ming to refine his Life-Bound Sword.

He had hidden here at eight in the evening, and it was only one in the morning now. He still had plenty of time.

Inside his body, violet-gold true essence had formed into a crystalline, translucent lake. Its quality was more than three times stronger than the true essence he had cultivated at the same realm in his past life. This was the boost and benefit brought by his constitution.

With a thought, Jiang Ming wrapped the broken sword in true essence and rapidly refined it. During this process, the charred fragments left behind by the Lightning Bird's thunderbolts were refined bit by bit and fell to the ground, having completely lost their essence.

The broken sword turned green. It no longer looked like wood, instead flowing with green radiance and possessing the crystalline texture of glazed glass.

Continuing the refinement, Jiang Ming drew the broken sword into his dantian and submerged it in true essence. It took only one shichen for the broken sword, originally more than a foot long, to become a green glazed sphere floating within his dantian.

The entire process was far faster than Jiang Ming's original plan.

This was the benefit brought by his constitution.

With another thought from Jiang Ming, the green glazed sphere shrank until it finally became qi too fine for the naked eye to see. It merged with his true essence, traveled through his meridians, and appeared in his hand.

Whoosh!

A green glazed little sword, half a foot long, appeared in his hand. At Jiang Ming's thought, the little sword left his palm and hovered around his body like a fish in water, darting about freely.

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