Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 214 - 213 The World Forges My Sword (Four more updates, please subscribe)

Zheng Wentian, who had originally been sitting in front of the sixth stele, couldn’t help but look up at Zhou Bai, his tone full of skepticism, "You’ve practiced the sword marks of the sixth stele already?"

He simply couldn’t believe it. Zhou Bai, who had been so far behind him, had managed to catch up so quickly—only a little over ten minutes of the allotted 72 hours had passed.

Especially since he had practiced the fourth and fifth steles himself, he had seen how long Zhou Bai had struggled with the first one.

So, he couldn’t help but strongly doubt whether Zhou Bai had actually mastered the previous steles.

However, Zhou Bai simply didn’t have the time to care about Zheng Wentian’s thoughts. Hearing the question, he replied nonchalantly, "It’s quite simple, any problems with that?"

Zheng Wentian snorted coldly: ’Don’t think you can disturb my focus.’ He put Zhou Bai’s actions behind him and concentrated on envisioning the sixth stele.

But just six minutes later, he could sense Zhou Bai standing up beside him, walking towards the seventh stele with an air of ease.

Seeing this, Zheng Wentian felt no surprise, only increasingly sure that Zhou Bai was putting on an act.

"Strange things fall apart upon familiarity." He completely ignored Zhou Bai’s subsequent actions, focusing all his attention on the sixth stele before him.

Not only Zheng Wentian was watching Zhou Bai, Liu Bingxin, who was still practicing at the first stele, also looked towards him, "Does Zhou Bai have such strong talent for the Sword Dao?" Glancing at herself still slowly pondering the first stele, she quickly refocused on the task at hand.

On the other side, Zhou Bai was advancing unstoppably. Each stele, signifying the convergence of myriad swords, took him no more than seven or eight minutes—at least four or five—to master directly.

’Is this how it feels to be a genius?’ Zhou Bai thought with joy: ’It’s so satisfying! It’s like being constipated for three days and nights, then finally getting relief.’

As he fully envisaged each stele after another, Zhou Bai felt his connection with a certain part of the void grow tighter, and countless pieces of sword knowledge flitted through it, passing by his eyes.

"Under normal circumstances, I should be facing some mental side effects by now, right? But the elder is shielding me from them, so I’m not worried."

Thus, Zhou Bai advanced bravely and diligently, leveraging the enhanced training effects bestowed by Yan Ya to reach the final, the forty-ninth stele, in merely five hours.

This time, as Zhou Bai envisaged the stele, the knowledge about swords in the void flung wide open toward him.

Zhou Bai felt as if his Primordial Spirit could directly touch the void, that by offering a portion of his Primordial Spirit’s power, he could exchange for knowledge of swordsmanship and sword artifacts.

The portion of his Primordial Spirit’s power that he invested would completely vanish into the void, never to be reclaimed.

To bring his Primordial Spirit’s power back up, he would have to cultivate it again.

This was the process of exchanging the burning of Primordial Spirit power for swordsmanship and sword artifacts knowledge through the convergence of myriad swords in the void.

Before the concept of the void existed, some pinnacle swordmasters, sensing this place, named it the Sword Realm—it was in fact just a part of the void.

And with this understanding, Zhou Bai realized he had mastered the convergence of myriad swords.

As he mastered it, the stele before him suddenly lit up with a soaring sword light, and Zhou Bai took a step forward, vanishing with the sword light and arriving in front of the next level of Twilight Taoist Skill.

Liu Bingxin watched this scene in astonishment, "He’s too fast. It would take me at least twenty more hours to master the convergence of myriad swords. How can Zhou Bai be so much faster than me? How is that possible?"

Zheng Wentian stared at the spot where Zhou Bai disappeared, unable to believe everything that had just happened.

"How is it possible?"

"Did Zhou Bai actually master the convergence of myriad swords?"

"It’s only been a few hours?"

"Is his talent… above mine?"

In that moment, Zheng Wentian’s sense of superiority in talent was completely shattered, as though he had been abandoned, the type where you couldn’t even see the car’s taillights.

"Ordinary people... these ordinary people... have surpassed me again?"

"And it’s Zhou Bai, that guy who left without even looking back? Does he look down on me?"

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A surge of resentment and hatred welled up in his heart.

When he turned back to look at the stele before him, he felt restless and distracted; Zhou Bai’s departing figure filled his mind, and he could no longer concentrate on his visualization.

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Zhou Bai stepped into the sword light and, when he opened his eyes again, he had already arrived at the second platform.

Before him were thousands of swords sticking out of the ground, forming a forest of blades.

These swords were of various lengths and sizes, as if encompassing the designs of swords from both ancient and modern times from all around the world, each one thrust into the ground and exuding a bone-chilling aura.

Zhou Bai walked up to a stele, which introduced the Twilight Taoist Skill of this layer: ’Heaven and Earth Furnace The Sword.’

"This ’Heaven and Earth Furnace The Sword’ is actually about connecting with the void, employing the convergence of myriad swords, and then sealing the acquired sword techniques into sword artifacts. The bearer of the sword can then wield the sword techniques contained within."

Zhou Bai read the content on the stele with amazement, "This Twilight Taoist Skill seems somewhat redundant with the convergence of myriad swords in terms of its effects. But considering it helps with this skill, ’Heaven and Earth Furnace The Sword’ must also be learned for the Twilight Taoist Skill that follows."

Now, along with past explanations from Jiaojiao, Zhou Bai was gradually understanding that the ten Twilight Taoist Skills under the Tianhe Star Explosion series were interlinked, step by step aiding the cultivator in mastering the Supreme Divine Power of the Tianhe Star Explosion Sword. Individually, each skill might not be that powerful.

So he continued reading:

"This ’Heaven and Earth Furnace The Sword’ originally has two realms: to become one with the sword and to become one with the Heavenly Sword."

Zhou Bai mused internally, "Next are the cultivation methods of this sword technique."

Reading the cultivation methods on the stele, diverse knowledge about Primordial Spirit movements, mental methods, verbal incantations, and Taoist incantations gradually filled his mind.

With the talent accumulated through the ugly levels and the training boost from Yan Ya, Zhou Bai’s comprehension greatly increased. Reading the content on the stele felt like a walk in the park; within a few short minutes, he grasped the general process.

Then, Zhou Bai spent half an hour sorting out the cultivation methods, repeatedly ensuring there were no issues, before he was ready to start cultivating.

He stepped into the forest of swords and casually pulled out a long sword.

The sword was crystal clear, as if made of frost, emanating waves of cold air.

Holding the frosty long sword, Zhou Bai wrapped his Primordial Spirit power around it, formed the Sword technique with his hands, and attuned himself to the sword’s size, shape, weight, temperature, and all other information.