Sword Qi Thunder Sound!

"Song Yixue, proprietor of the Song Clan Talisman Shop, Three Spirit Root. This woman is suspected of having a special physique. She was pursued relentlessly by Ji Yuan, the young master of the Ji Clan, for a long time before taking refuge in Azure Luan Immortal City."

"Mo Wen, a rogue cultivator and talisman master, Spirit Root unknown. He has reached Foundation Establishment and is on good terms with Song Yixue. This man is exceptionally gifted in the Talisman Dao, and all the talismans he makes are of excellent quality. He is suspected of having become a second-tier talisman master. Those Fire Phoenix Talismans may have come from his hand."

"The Song Clan Talisman Shop has released thirty Fire Phoenix Talismans over time. Judging by their drawing style, all were made by the same person."

As the various factions investigated, Mo Wen's identity became clearer and clearer. Recently, several of the immortal city's highest-ranked factions had paid him a visit, hoping to hire him as an attendant elder.

Mo Wen naturally would not join a faction on a whim, and he politely declined them all. He did not conceal his identity as a second-tier talisman master, however, and admitted it openly.

Thanks to Mo Wen, the Song Clan Talisman Shop became famous throughout the immortal city, and business was booming beyond belief.

During this time, Song Yixue used Mo Wen's name to establish cooperative relationships with more than a dozen capable first-tier talisman masters, solving the shop's supply shortage in one stroke.

The Song Clan Talisman Shop's fame soared, and its influence grew by the day. It was closely watched by numerous factions.

To maintain the city lord's manor's image, the Patrol Office also stepped up its patrols, no longer allowing idlers and other unwanted visitors to interfere with the Song Clan Talisman Shop's business.

Now that everything was looking bright, the Song Household seemed not to have received any news at all. Even its monthly supply of talismans had been cut off.

Seeing this, Song Yixue completely gave up on her lineage! Fortunately, the talisman shop's business was already on the right track and was not affected in the slightest.

In the days that followed, aside from drawing Fire Phoenix Talismans, Mo Wen devoted the rest of his time to cultivation.

He also set priorities in his daily cultivation, focusing most of his efforts on Limit Breaking and the Flowing Light Sword Technique.

At present, those two would do the most to improve his strength. Whether he truly achieved Foundation Establishment or brought the Flowing Light Sword Technique to perfection, Mo Wen's strength would surge!

Time flew, and more than four months passed in the blink of an eye. One evening, Mo Wen was practicing the Flowing Light Sword Technique in the courtyard.

Suddenly, many insights into the Flowing Light Sword Technique and a wealth of sword-practice experience appeared in his sea of consciousness. In an instant, his Flowing Light Sword Technique leaped to an entirely new level, and he fully grasped the essence of Sword Qi Thunder Sound.

"The Flowing Light Sword Technique has finally reached perfection!" Mo Wen sighed softly and opened his Attribute Panel:

Host: Mo Wen

Talent: Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence (every bit of work yields a harvest; effort will always be rewarded!)

Age: (63/134)

Spirit Roots: Four Spirit Roots (wood 42, metal 31, fire 25, water 11)

Cultivation: Qi Refining Limit Breaking (79245/100000)

Cultivation Methods: Azure Wood Instruction (perfection 21350/50000), Sun Essence and Moon Radiance Life-Praying Technique (proficient 34617/1000000), Hundred Transformations Heart Scripture Qi Refining Chapter (greater mastery 3028/10000), Ten Thousand Blood True Body Instruction (entry 2435/10000)

Law Techniques: Black Tortoise Armor (proficient 2975/5000), Fire Crow Technique (proficient 2546/5000), Meteor Arrow (proficient 1472/5000), Six Paths Killing Fist (proficient 358/50000)

Sword Dao: Flowing Light Sword Technique (perfection 1/100000)

Talisman Dao: second-tier low-grade (4683/30000)

Heavenly Demon Mysterious Talismans (not yet initiated 31/10000)

Only now did Mo Wen understand that Sword Qi Thunder Sound was actually a state of Unity of Man and Sword.

When an ordinary cultivator intended to attack, he first formed the thought of attacking, then activated his Law Power and controlled his Law Artifact to strike his opponent.

But a cultivator who had mastered Sword Qi Thunder Sound was one with his sword. When he entered a combat state, his thoughts and his sword moved in sync, allowing him to raise his reactions and attack speed to a level ordinary people could scarcely imagine.

As for the "thunder sound," it was merely a natural phenomenon produced because the sword's transitions between motion and stillness were so abrupt. It had no actual killing power.

Sword cultivators were already adept at attack. With reactions beyond imagination and extreme speed added to that, their killing power was unquestionably of "nightmare" level!

That was also the main reason cultivators who mastered Sword Qi Thunder Sound could proclaim themselves "invincible among their peers" and challenge powerful enemies at higher realms.

Since ancient times, sword cultivators in Yan Province who could fight up one minor realm had been too numerous to count!

In every era-a hundred years-at least one or two sword-cultivating prodigies appeared who could slay Foundation Establishment cultivators at Qi Refining, or False Core cultivators at Foundation Establishment!

After Mo Wen mastered Sword Qi Thunder Sound, his strength underwent a tremendous change!

Previously, his overall strength had made him a capable fighter at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, but he had still been slightly inferior to those top experts who had spent many years immersed at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Peak!

Now, he could definitely suppress ordinary Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators, and could even exchange a few moves with a False Core-level powerhouse! Of course, victory was impossible. He could only rely on his extreme speed to barely hold on for a few moves; he could not break through a False Core cultivator's protective mystic light at all!

Whatever the case, I'm strong enough to reign supreme at the Foundation Establishment level now! Mo Wen suddenly felt an urge to test his sword against the world, but forcibly suppressed it.

The path of the sword cultivator placed the greatest importance on real combat: tempering one's edge in hot blood and seeking the Great Dao through life and death! Only sword cultivators who advanced with the ferocity of mad demons, fearing neither life nor death, could ascend to the pinnacle of the Sword Dao!

At his core, Mo Wen could hardly be considered a sword cultivator. He sought longevity, and practiced the sword only to protect his own path. By rights, someone of his disposition could never become a sword cultivator.

But his Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence talent was so overbearing that he had ground out Sword Qi Thunder Sound through sheer practice of the Flowing Light Sword Technique. Now, even if he called himself a sword cultivator, no one could object!

"All that's left is Foundation Establishment!" Mo Wen estimated his cultivation speed and found that it would take at least another eight or nine months before he could possibly reach that goal.

"Soon. This time it really is soon!"

He had begun Limit Breaking at fifty-nine, and more than four years had passed since then. He had not slackened in the slightest along the way, cultivating hard day and night, intent on reaching Foundation Establishment sooner.

Over the past year or so, he had used the power of pills and the effects of the perfected Azure Wood Instruction to speed up his Limit Breaking progress considerably, allowing him to complete Limit Breaking in just over five years.

"On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is only halfway! The closer I get to success, the more cautious I must be!"

Mo Wen even gave up making talismans and devoted all his attention to secluded cultivation, striving to reach the end of Limit Breaking in the shortest possible time before finding a place to break through!