Chapter 462: Chapter 160: Blade Flows Like Honing the Sea Calm, The Invisible Ninety-Nine Breaks Body Qi

However, under great reward, there will be brave men.

Several martial artists still went in, but once inside, they never came out again.

To a Seventh Grade Martial Artist, the Eternal Night is like a desert to ordinary people...

Ordinary people who get lost in the desert will only die; martial artists lost in the cold Eternal Night will meet the same end.

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As for the situation in the Central Plains, it has temporarily fallen into a turbulent stability.

The Lotus Sect is "producing soldiers in large numbers".

And the actions of the Lotus Sect are known to the Five Elements Forces, after all, Li Yuan wrote down everything he knew in a letter and then had Xu Sheng deliver it to Gu Xuejian.

So now, although a large-scale war has not erupted between the two sides, there are surely continuous secret skirmishes.

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Xiaozhao’s reclusiveness has been slightly improved.

She wears a veil and a conical hat, sitting in a sedan, often going out with the direct disciples of Mrs. Tang to participate in various events...

And in the social world, this mysterious girl has been named the "Little Saintess"...

Various rumors have started to emerge.

Some people swear that the "Little Saintess" is actually Mrs. Tang’s granddaughter...

Others say that the "Little Saintess" is actually an old monster of the Sixth Grade...

Yet others say that the "Little Saintess" is actually a descendant of a prominent family on Cloud Mountain Path, and because of Mrs. Tang’s favor, possesses a transcendent status...

However, once people are drawn into the martial world, they grow rapidly.

Xiaozhao listens to these rumors and finds them incredibly fascinating, feeling eager to go out every day.

Li Yuan and Yan Yu, seeing her like this, both breathe a sigh of relief.

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Li Yuan continues his Enlightenment Blade.

In the blink of an eye, another month has passed.

It’s now August, during the dog days of summer.

The blazing sun hangs high in the sky, scorching the earth.

In the evening, Li Yuan was pushing his blade like a millstone under an old tree near the Tang Sect Forbidden Land...

His posture resembled an old man practicing Tai Chi in a park before his transmigration.

Amidst the red dust, he finally grasped the precision of the blade, clearly feeling the "Concealing Power".

A bird sang, and a flying bird swept through the air.

Li Yuan lifted the blade, the Sword Qi precisely shot forth, landing on the bird, shaving it bare...

The bird’s feathers scattered instantly, leaving only a bare body...

Then, that body fluttered its wings, confused, falling towards the ground not far away.

Seeing it about to crash, a swirl of Li Yuan’s blade light sent an invisible ripple extending out, gently supporting the bird to land on the ground.

"Got it."

Joy appeared in Li Yuan’s eyes.

Simultaneously, he delightedly found that there were finally two new pieces of information in his "Skills".

[Skill: ??? (Fifth Grade) (1/50)]

[Skill: ??? (Fourth Grade) (1/500)]

Li Yuan was taken aback, as the initial skill points had increased this time, clearly showing that starting from the Fifth Grade, skills had become quite different from before.

However, he glanced at his "29594" remaining points and chose to max them out.

In an instant, he directly invested "1549" points into the "Fifth Grade Skill", achieving Great Perfection.

As if years of accumulated insights rushed into his mind.

These insights made him indescribably happy, like enjoying a slice of honey.

The Fifth Grade blade, without "Domain Power" support, lay entirely within the blade.

The blade’s stroke would extend the Qi, while its retraction dispersed it.

This blade embodied Li Yuan’s philosophy — condensing ferocity into calm, like the sea, calm and wave-less, yet also capable of devouring everything.

Li Yuan spent a long time comprehending this blade, to only achieve stability.

This stability required his full concentration, with mental strain being the only way to maintain it.

Otherwise, a single slip would cause the Sword Qi to explode.

The recent bird feather cut was already his best state, his finest strike.

But now, with the skills’ proficiency soaring, what was once his best state has started to become a "casual stroke".

And with this new full-concentration stroke, fresh changes emerged.

The young man wielded the blade, deeply feeling these changes.

With a casual stroke, he sliced through a speck of dust in the air, with another casual strike left a ghost-like face on a snail’s shell by the tree, and yet another casual stroke cut a piece as thin as a cicada’s wing from an iron chunk over ten yards away...

Condensing his spirit, he gripped his long blade, walking toward the distant mountains. When he reached an uninhabited place, he slowly raised his hand, lifting the blade tip, steady and soundless...

And just as the blade tip touched the mountain wall, a terrifying blade force unexpectedly burst forth, like the long waves of the sea pounding in the deep sea, silently surging up, turning into a devil’s wave of fury...

Forward! Forward!

Bringing death and destruction ahead!

The mountain was instantly gouged into a huge pit over ten yards deep, everything inside turned to dust, drifting and swaying, rushing towards Li Yuan, but upon touching the boy, it explosively shot away at a terrifying speed.

"Able to accumulate more power,

yet also achieve seamless release and retraction,

The previous City Destruction was too flashy,

now that flashiness is all gone,

it has become this calm and serene strike."

Li Yuan thought for a moment, saying: "Let’s call it Sea Calm Blade."

With a thought, the line in the "Skills" immediately changed to [Skill: Sea Calm Blade (Fifth Grade) (800/800)].

Then, he looked at his fourth-grade skill marked with question marks.

He knew this was Sword Qi.

However, the point requirement for the fourth-grade skill had increased significantly, needing 14999 points to max out.

Li Yuan didn’t hesitate much, being able to obtain a fourth-grade skill while still at the fifth grade was already an unexpected trump card.

He directly invested "14999" points.