"Thunder Gate Sword Cultivation? There's a cultivation art like that?"
"There is! Legend has it that during the Age of Chaos, a Thunder Gate Sword Cultivation practitioner wielded countless bolts of heavenly thunder as swords and dominated Southern Heaven for an entire era. In terms of strength, he could even split the odds thirty-seventy against our Tianyuan Holy Land's ancestor—thirty for him, seventy for the ancestor."
"Thirty-seventy against the ancestor! Then he really was no ordinary figure! My knowledge was far too shallow."
"Unfortunately, the Thunder Gate Sword Cultivation art was far too unusual, with extremely demanding requirements for its practitioners. Without a Heaven Rank Supreme Thunder Spiritual Root, no one could master it. The Thunder Gate declined from then on, turning to the dust of history."
"To think a legendary cultivation art lost for over ten thousand years would be in Senior Brother Chen Yu's hands! And our young lord just happens to have awakened a Heaven-Rank Supreme Thunder Spirit Root. Heaven itself is helping our Tianyuan Holy Land!"
"A treasure like that would be worth a fortune even if no one could learn it. I really envy the brotherly bond between the young lord and Senior Brother Chen Yu. Unlike my older brother, who only has eyes for profit."
This Thunder Gate Sword Cultivation art was actually that powerful?
Hearing the onlooking disciples' exchange, Chen Mu felt a flicker of amazement.
The Tianyuan Ancestor had once blotted out the sky with one hand, an existence on par with a Heavenly Dao True God!
How terrifying must the Thunder Gate Ancestor's strength have been to stand thirty-seventy against such a figure?
After all, this was a heartfelt gift from Chen Yu. Refusing it simply would not do.
Chen Mu did not want it to drive a wedge between them.
They were family. There was no need to stand on ceremony.
Of course, he could not just take without giving anything back.
Chen Mu opened his system inventory and casually glanced through it.
He selected a top-tier movement art manual, "Light as a Swallow," along with a Saint Rank Heavenly Abyss Sword, and took them out.
With the manual in one hand and the Heavenly Abyss Sword in the other, he held them out to Chen Yu. "I happen to have two things that suit you very well. I'm sure they'll help you on your path of Sword Cultivation."
Chen Yu had intended to refuse.
A top-tier Heaven Rank movement art! A Saint Rank divine weapon?!
"..." But when he got a clear look at the two treasures Chen Mu had produced, the words on the tip of his tongue...
He swallowed them back with an audible gulp.
The movement art Chen Yu currently practiced was not bad. It was Heaven Rank, but it fell short of the top tier.
His sword was called the First Sun Sword, and it was Mid-Grade Heaven Rank.
"These are the cultivation resources the Holy Land gave you, Cousin. I..." Chen Yu trailed off.
Seeing what he was worried about, Chen Mu grew more forceful and pushed the movement art manual and Heavenly Abyss Sword into his hands. "If you really think of me as your older brother, just take them! We grew up together from when we were running around bare-bottomed. Why are you standing on ceremony with me?"
Besides, keeping these would cost me far more than giving them to you.
Ever heard of a hundredfold rebate?
He could think that to himself, but he certainly could not say it aloud.
Otherwise, the entire Great Cang World would probably be shaken, its people thrown into panic, with not even chickens or dogs left in peace!
The system was a mysterious, powerful force they had never even imagined.
"If you really feel bad about it, then take them without a fuss and cultivate like your life depends on it. If I ever run into trouble, you must be the first to step forward!"
"All right! Anyone who wants to make an enemy of you will have to step over my corpse, Cousin!" Chen Yu's gaze was resolute.
He finally accepted the movement art manual and Heavenly Abyss Sword from Chen Mu.
[Heaven-Rank Cultivation Technique successfully gifted! Hundredfold rebate triggered. Congratulations, host! You have received the Heaven-Rank Cultivation Technique Light as a Swallow +100!]
A hundred copies of the cultivation art? All exactly the same? That feels... a little like chicken ribs—too little meat to enjoy, too much to throw away.
Chen Mu had barely finished grumbling when he saw the text on the system panel being deleted, character by character.
It changed to: [Heaven-Rank Cultivation Technique successfully gifted! Hundredfold rebate triggered. Congratulations, host! You have received top-tier Heaven-Rank movement technique manuals +100. Note: (random, with no duplicates)]
[Saint Rank divine weapon successfully gifted! Hundredfold rebate triggered. Congratulations, host! You have received Saint Rank divine weapons +100!]
"..." What could Chen Mu possibly complain about when the system corrected its mistakes as soon as it recognized them?
"In that case, I won't disturb you any longer, Cousin." Chen Yu bid Chen Mu farewell, then turned to leave.
He intended to spend the entire night practicing Light as a Swallow and mastering the Heavenly Abyss Sword so he could fulfill his promise to Chen Mu.
Simply stepping forward would not be enough. He needed the strength to back it up.
He, Chen Yu, would never be cannon fodder!
Meanwhile, Chen Mu took a great leap and flew back onto the branch, leaving everyone below gasping in astonishment.
"A Saint Rank divine weapon! A top-tier Heaven Rank cultivation art! The young lord just gave them away?"
"That's only natural. I heard Senior Brother Chen Yu was withdrawn from childhood and never liked talking. It was only because the young lord went to find him and opened his heart that Senior Brother Chen Yu became willing to leave the house and took an interest in the sword."
"The young lord is so generous even to people like us. How could he be stingy with his own brother?"
"True enough."
Chen Mu had no interest in their remarks.
He glanced at the Thunder Gate Sword Cultivation manual in his hand and remembered the [Max-Level Comprehension] feature.
He decided to give it a try. He had nothing else to do anyway.
Opening the first page, he found that the supposedly obscure, difficult text had become as simple and easy to understand as 1 + 1 = 2.
It was a cultivation art that had taken even its creator over a thousand years to comprehend.
Yet Chen Mu needed only... a few breaths.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble...
Looking up, he saw the winds and clouds shifting, flashes of lightning like enormous pythons flickering incessantly within the black clouds!
"What's going on? Where did this Heaven-and-Earth Phenomenon come from?"
"No idea. Could an elder be breaking through?"
"That's the only possibility."
"A Heaven-and-Earth Phenomenon on this scale... could it be the human immortal realm?"
Speculation flew in every direction.
Even Chen Yu, who had only walked a few steps away, stopped and looked up at the sky.
Watching the lightning flash and thunder roll across the vault of clouds, he broke out in goosebumps and murmured, "What terrifying heavenly might!"
BOOM!!!
Then a bolt of heavenly thunder struck straight down, heading directly for Chen Mu.
"Cousin!" At the sight, Chen Yu panicked. He hurriedly activated his cultivation art, pushed his speed to its limit, and rushed over with sword in hand.
He had never imagined that the Heaven-and-Earth Phenomenon stirred up by a human immortal realm senior's breakthrough would accidentally send a bolt of heavenly thunder crashing down.
And that it would fall directly toward Chen Mu.
The power of that heavenly thunder was no joke. It could easily blast a person apart without leaving even a scrap of bone!
Even though Chen Mu's cultivation had already reached the Martial Master Realm, this was a human immortal realm Heavenly Tribulation. How could a Martial Master Realm cultivator withstand it?
It would be nothing more than a mantis raising its forelegs against a charging cart!
"Disciples, form ranks! Block the heavenly thunder for the young lord!" a quick-thinking senior brother shouted.
"Hurry! Form ranks!"
"Stop standing around! Form ranks! Form ranks! Every second we can hold it off counts!"
"Are there any senior or junior brothers who specialize in movement arts? Notify the elders immediately! Preferably one in the human immortal realm—tell him to hurry here and shield the young lord from the heavenly thunder!"
Everyone responded at once and sprang into action.
Seeing them make such a huge commotion, Chen Mu felt a little awkward. "Um, don't get the wrong idea. I'm the one who summoned this thunder."
He had simply wanted to try it out and satisfy his curiosity.
Once Thunder Gate Sword Cultivation was maxed out, what exactly did wielding heavenly thunder as swords entail?
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