Pursued by the Top Grade Saintess after Engagement Annulled-Chapter 456 - 452: Xia Tianming Comprehends the Void Sword Dao
Xia Feng is confident that if he encounters a similar situation next time, he definitely won’t exhaust himself to the point of fainting.
Li Qingxue took almost thirty thousand years to complete her devouring, and then she contemplated her sword techniques nearby.
The main focus was on communicating with the Sword Spirit. With the presence of the Sword Spirit, her Divine Sword showed faint signs of upgrading to an Upper Grade Divine Artifact.
From time to time, Li Qingxue would look over at Xia Feng’s comprehension progress, knowing he was practicing the Great Dao of Space-Time he had previously understood.
However, the previous two techniques consumed a lot of energy, so Li Qingxue always worried whether Xia Feng might faint inside the Dream Realm Pearl.
Fortunately, after the Dream Realm Pearl devoured the Infinite Pearl, the divine power inside was almost a hundred to a thousand times greater than the outside, so Xia Feng could replenish his energy in time, unlike outside where he might faint again.
As for Xia Tianming’s situation, it was somewhat peculiar.
He took ten thousand years to comprehend the Great Dao of Celestial Sword.
With Xia Feng and Li Qingxue available to guide him from time to time, and with the Sword Heart nearby to occasionally devour and comprehend, his progress was incredibly rapid.
After ten thousand years, once Xia Tianming mastered the basics of the Great Dao of Celestial Sword, he began to devour the Sword Heart freely.
Devouring the Sword Heart took about seventy thousand years, and then he began to ponder something with his eyes closed.
Xia Feng observed him casually pulling out a Divine Sword he had previously confiscated from the Dongfang Clan and began practicing with it.
Occasionally, he would glance at Xia Feng practicing that space-time traversing sword technique. Each time he finished watching, he would stand in place and contemplate for a long time.
Xia Feng knew he wanted to integrate the Great Dao of Space into the Great Dao of Celestial Sword.
After all, Xia Tianming had been accustomed to using the Great Dao of Celestial Sword for so many years, and suddenly switching made him still want to focus on the Great Dao of Space.
Especially since Xia Feng’s previous move was particularly formidable and looked quite impressive.
Xia Feng didn’t say much, only when Xia Tianming approached did he explain in detail the mental journey he went through when using that technique.
Xia Tianming listened thoughtfully, but he also knew that Xia Feng’s experience couldn’t be directly copied, especially since Xia Feng had the Great Dao of Time involved.
But in the last twenty thousand years, Xia Tianming still managed to integrate the Great Dao of Space, forming a technique called "Void Slash."
He tried it twice, and the results were quite satisfactory.
However, the space inside the Dream Realm Pearl was relatively solid, so his technique would likely be even stronger when used in a Secret Realm or Divine Domain.
With this in mind, Xia Tianming went to Xia Feng, "We’ve been in here for a whole day, it’s about time to go out."
"The Secret Realm changes almost daily now. We don’t know the activation method for the Secret Realm trial this time, so we need to keep exploring to find opportunities."
This was in line with Xia Feng’s thinking, and he also wanted to see how Xia Tianming’s sword techniques had progressed.
So, with a wave of his hand, Xia Feng directly took the two of them out of the Dream Realm Pearl.
Upon exiting, they startled a Sword Slave, who thought something was amiss.
After looking around for quite some time without finding any beasts, it confusingly slipped back into Li Qingxue’s shadow.
Outside, it was relatively quiet, with the Sword God Hall not far away.
Xia Feng and Xia Tianming exchanged glances, "Shall we give it a try?"
Xia Tianming gripped the long sword in his hand tightly and nodded solemnly.
The three of them successively lured out three First Grade Celestial God Realm Sword Beasts, and then Xia Feng and Li Qingxue stood a little farther away, leaving only Xia Tianming to confront the Sword Beasts.
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to lure more Sword Beasts, but this was Xia Tianming’s first time using this technique, and its exact power was still unknown.
Not only was Xia Feng worried about the Sword Beasts possibly injuring Xia Tianming, but Xia Tianming himself was a bit concerned that if he failed to fend them off, he would have to rely on Xia Feng to clean up the mess.
However, the Great Dao of Space in the Holy Sword Secret Realm was evidently much easier to tear apart than in the Dream Realm Pearl.
Almost as soon as Xia Tianming integrated the Great Dao of Space into his long sword, the surrounding space began to slowly rip apart.
Yet the Sword Beasts on the other side seemed mindless, entirely oblivious to the lethal spatial cracks surrounding them, and instead charged forward intrepidly.
Xia Tianming’s eyes flickered with void-like darkness, and he swung his sword forward.
Then the surrounding space suddenly collapsed, the space fractures rapidly expanded, directly swallowing the three First Grade Celestial God Level Sword Beasts into the void.
None of these three Sword Beasts even managed to escape from the cracks before their demise, not even letting out a scream, they were completely devoured.
Xia Tianming’s face was slightly pale, clearly indicating that the consumption of this technique was significant, but not to the extent of causing him to faint like Xia Feng.
Xia Feng stepped forward, handed Xia Tianming a bottle of Spiritual Supplement Pills, and only spoke after seeing his complexion improve upon consumption, "This technique consumes a lot, but its power is quite strong."
Xia Tianming’s expression was somewhat complex, it was hard to tell if he was happy or felt a bit odd, "I call this technique that integrates the Great Dao of Space the ’Void Sword Technique.’
"Although it looks powerful, its flaws are quite obvious."
"It consumes a lot, and all the loot gets swallowed by the void, those Sword Hearts that fell into the void are likely irretrievable."
Xia Feng paused, "We aren’t short on Sword Hearts, we can practice a bit along the way."
"This time it was against three First Grade Celestial God Realm Sword Beasts, so the consumption might have been a bit high. We’ll try its power next time against ordinary Sword Beasts."
Xia Tianming nodded and then stood there reviewing his technique.
This Void Sword Dao was different from the technique Xia Feng used that integrated the Great Dao of Space-Time; Xia Feng’s technique traversed space-time, making the entire world seem to come to a halt.
In contrast, Xia Tianming’s technique directly invoked the void around the enemy, a fundamentally different nature.
However, with this Void Sword Technique, the suppression on Xia Tianming’s cultivation in the Holy Sword Divine Domain was nearly nonexistent.
Xia Feng and his group spent half the day circling the Sword God Hall, with Xia Feng growing curious about the column with the Frenzy Stone embedded at the very center of it seen the day before.
Now noticing there weren’t any other people, the three entered the Sword God Hall directly.
The patterns on the original column seemed to have changed appearance.
Xia Feng initially thought it had transformed into something akin to the murals in the Divine Burial Hall, possibly allowing him to witness a projection of an Ancient God, so he spent half a day examining the column.
But no matter how he touched the column, he couldn’t trigger any illusion to emerge.
Instead, Li Qingxue spoke hesitantly, "The patterns on this column seem to have turned into a map of the Holy Sword Divine Domain."
Xia Feng was momentarily stunned, then promptly took out a Memory Stone to imprint the patterns from the column before carefully studying the directions on it.
