Vast Blue Sword Embryo, Complete!

"The highest good is like water: it benefits all things without contending. The utmost hardness becomes softness, cutting through thousand-foot cliffs without leaving a trace. Nine tribulations turn in succession, each tribulation an abyss; transcend tribulations with the sword—"

Ji Yuan recalled the guiding principles of the Azure Billows Nine Tribulations Sword Canon as spiritual energy coursed ceaselessly through his meridians according to its teachings.

He released his Divine Sense and clearly felt wisps of Water Fortune rising from Cloud-Rain Marsh. They gathered around him before the circulating spiritual energy drew them into his body.

After traveling through his meridians, they settled in his Dantian.

Gather Water Fortune and transform it into a flying sword.

According to the technique, if he fought near water, the flying sword could also draw upon the Water Fortune of heaven and earth to suppress his opponent.

The more Nine Tribulations Sword Embryos he had, the more Water Fortune he could draw upon.

The technique was wondrous indeed. Who could have created it?

As Ji Yuan pondered this, he continued drawing in Water Fortune from Cloud-Rain Marsh.

He guided it into his Dantian, where it condensed into a Sword Embryo.

At first, the Water Fortune was invisible. Later, as more and more of it gathered, it became a blue like water that the naked eye could see.

The Formation protected the island.

Ji Yuan sat motionless.

A full day passed. Only when he felt he could not absorb another trace of Water Fortune did he stop circulating the technique and look within his Dantian.

A blue flying sword hovered above it, its entire length radiating divine azure light as it slowly turned.

"Out!"

With a thought, he drew the embryo of his Life-bound Flying Sword from his Dantian, and it floated before him.

Even without