Kong Huanying and the Visitors from the Bi Household
Over the past five years, the Lineage's war to expand in Peacock County has been progressing very smoothly and is nearing its end. Meanwhile, Kong Wenxuan's own cultivation, particularly the refinement and enhancement of the "Azure Wood Divine Sword," has also been progressing quite well.
Over the past five years, he has used the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" to devour and refine five Fourth Tier "Red Pine" spirit woods. At this time, although the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" has not yet been promoted to the Fourth Tier Law Treasure level, it is already much stronger than Third Tier Treasure Artifact.
Kong Wenxuan estimated that if he were to use the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" to perform the sword technique of "One Sword Gives Rise to Ten Thousand Laws", it would definitely be able to bear more Power of Heaven and Earth, last longer, and unleash stronger power and destructive force.
Furthermore, the speed and progress of refining five Fourth Tier "Red Pine" spirit woods in five years was basically consistent with Kong Wenxuan's prior predictions.
If nothing goes wrong, it will take four years to devour and refine the remaining four Fourth Tier "Red Pine" spirit trees. In addition, it will take about a year to find and refine the "Wood Phase Earth Sha" Qi needed for the process.
Based on this calculation, the entire process of refining and upgrading the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" to advance it to the Early Golden Core Stage takes approximately ten years.
The refinement and upgrading of the remaining four "Five Elements Divine Swords" should also take about the same amount of time, barring any unforeseen circumstances.
All in all, the refinement and cultivation of the five "Five Elements Divine Swords" would take at least fifty years. In addition, there's the Fourth Tier Primordial Magnetism material that needs to be refined into the "sword formation," as well as the polishing and nurturing of the Golden Core, and so on.
It would take him at least sixty years to accumulate enough cultivation and power to break through to the Fifth Tier Nascent Soul Realm during his cultivation at the Golden Core Period.
Of course, these are all calculations based on normal circumstances, but in reality, abnormal situations often arise during spiritual practice.
Some of these anomalies can accelerate his cultivation progress. For example, during the expansion war, the Lineage will expand and develop the "Peacock Secret Realm," allowing the "Secret Realm" to refine a large amount of "Heaven and Earth Origin" power, so that the Spiritual Qi in the "Secret Realm" will be transformed into "Pseudo-Innate" Spiritual Qi, which can greatly accelerate the cultivation progress.
However, some abnormal situations can slow down his cultivation progress. For example, if the Demon Race and the martial arts practitioners of the "True Martial World" invade, he will have to temporarily stop his sword-forging cultivation and come out of seclusion to participate in battles and fights, which will greatly slow down his cultivation progress.
Therefore, Kong Wenxuan was uncertain at this point as to how long it would take to complete the Golden Core Period stage of cultivation and eventually break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
But at least one thing is certain: this process will continue for at least fifty or sixty years.
This time was almost as long as the time he had spent cultivating and advancing to the Golden Core Stage.
This clearly shows that the path of cultivation requires more and more time, energy, and spiritual materials as you progress. This is true for the Golden Core Stage, and the time, energy, and materials required for the Nascent Soul Realm, Spirit Transformation Realm, and so on will only increase, or even multiply.
At this moment, just as Kong Wenxuan had completely refined the fifth Fourth Tier "Red Pine" spirit wood and was preparing to continue devouring and refining the sixth "Red Pine" spirit wood, he suddenly sensed something and looked up at the foot of "Ancestral Spirit Mountain Peak".
Then he saw a figure climbing up. Kong Wenxuan recognized the person as Kong Huanying, a member of the clan who had been assigned here to handle his affairs and deliver messages.
He is the most talented and gifted member of the Huan generation in the Lineage, after Kong Huancai.
When the Lineage held the "Advancement Celebration Banquet" for "Seventh-Grade True Spirit," it was she who led the other five Qi Refining disciples to sweep away the Qi Refinement disciples from other families and seize the final victory.
Unlike Kong Huancai, who simultaneously forged four "Five Elements Divine Swords" to achieve victory through quantity, Kong Huanying only condensed a single "White Peacock Feather" when he awakened his bloodline, and therefore only forged one "White Metal Divine Sword."
However, Kong Huanying's mastery and application of the "White Metal Divine Sword," as well as his combat prowess, far surpassed that of the rest of the clan.
Therefore, after Kong Huancai, she was assigned to work by Kong Wenxuan's side, handling various small tasks and relaying messages for him, while also hoping to receive some guidance and training from Kong Wenxuan.
This was the case with Kong Huancai back then; Kong Wenxuan had once given him guidance on the refinement and enhancement of the "Five Elements Divine Swords."
The same is true for Kong Huanying today. Kong Wenxuan once instructed her on how to cultivate and master the divine power of the "White Metal Divine Sword" by Refining the Sword into Threads.
"Fifth Uncle." Kong Huanying approached, bowed to him, and said, "The Bi Household has sent someone. The clan leader asked me to invite you out of seclusion."
"The Bi Household?" Kong Wenxuan was slightly surprised upon hearing this, but quickly realized, "That's right. Five years have passed. According to what Fellow Daoist Bi Qingqing said back then, it would take the Bi Household five years to set up the ' Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array ' that covers the entire prefecture. It seems that it is almost completed now."
"The reason for coming here now is probably to connect the ' Peacock County ' sub-array into the main array, forming the complete ' Myriad Fires All-Encompassing Origin-Fortifying Grand Array '!"
Kong Wenxuan's mind raced, and he knew that the person who could come to preside over the project of connecting the "Peacock County" sub-array to the mother array must be at least a Golden Core True Person from the Bi Household, and it was very likely that he was True Person, the Bi Qingqing had presided over the arrangement of the "sub-array" back then.
Given that he is the only Golden Core True Person in the Kong Household now, it is indeed most appropriate for him to personally receive these Bi Household True Person.
He nodded and said, "Okay."
However, he didn't rush to leave seclusion to greet the Bi Household. Instead, he looked at Kong Huanying and asked, "Have you had any questions about your cultivation lately?"
He planned to take this opportunity to give the other person some more pointers on their cultivation.
Upon hearing his question, Kong Huanying's eyes lit up, and she bowed to him again, saying, "Fifth Uncle, I've recently been trying to cultivate with the ' White Metal Divine Sword ' and unleash the divine power of the ' Sword Light Differentiation ' technique, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet."
Kong Wenxuan nodded slightly upon hearing this. He knew that cultivating with different "Five Elements Divine Swords" and mastering different sword techniques was a direction that many members of the clan had been trying to cultivate and master in recent years.
For example, the "White Metal Divine Sword" can be used to perform Sword Light Differentiation, the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" can be used to perform "Sword Qi Thunderclap", and the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword" can be used to perform "Refining the Sword into Threads", and so on.
Theoretically speaking, this is feasible.
After all, whether it's the Sword Light Differentiation, Refining the Sword into Threads, Sword Qi Thunderclap, or Sword Momentum Like the Tide like a tide, these are all sword cultivation techniques. Some sword cultivators can cultivate and unleash these sword divine powers and sword cultivation techniques using only ordinary flying swords they have refined themselves.
Naturally, the descendants of the Kong Household family could also try to cultivate with the "Five Elements Divine Swords" and unleash different sword techniques and methods.
However, this is not something that can be easily achieved. In fact, it is more difficult for the disciples of the Kong Household to cultivate and master the different sword powers and techniques of the "Five Elements Divine Swords" than for ordinary sword cultivators.
After all, the "Five Elements Divine Swords" refined by the Kong Household disciples with their Bloodline Divine Ability, relying on the power of their Bloodline Divine Ability powers and the power inherited from the "Five Elements True Scripture", can naturally unleash various corresponding sword divine powers and techniques. This greatly enhances the power and lethality of the "Five Elements Divine Swords", allowing the Kong Household disciples to almost sweep away their peers.
This certainly brought them tremendous power and benefits, but it also brought enormous constraints.
For the descendants of the Kong Household to reverse and break the various sword powers and techniques inherent in the "Five Elements Divine Swords," and to unleash different powers and techniques with the "Five Elements Divine Swords," they naturally need greater strength, talent, and skills.
Even so, this remains the direction that many of Kong Household' descendants strive to cultivate themselves and pursue today.
After all, unlike Kong Wenxuan, most of these Kong Household members could only refine one or two different "Five Elements Divine Swords swords." Even those like Kong Huancai, who could refine four "divine swords," were extremely rare.
Therefore, they can often only master one or two sword techniques and methods. Although their destructive power is very strong, they are also often easily limited.
If they could use one or two "divine swords" to unleash all the divine power and techniques of swordsmanship, it would not only greatly enhance their combat strength, but also allow them to forge their own path and go further and more steadily on the path of cultivation.
Kong Wenxuan also largely agreed with this.
So, upon hearing Kong Huanying's words, he nodded. The "Azure Wood Divine Sword," which was currently being refined and upgraded, hadn't been put away yet, so he summoned it and said to the other person, "Watch closely!"
The next moment, he activated the "Azure Wood Divine Sword" and used the "Sword Light Differentiation" technique to envelop his opponent, allowing him to personally experience and witness the divine power and technique of "Sword Light Differentiation".