CHAPTER 220: CHAPTER 219: SWORD DAO INHERITANCE (THIRD UPDATE, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE)

In the world of cultivators, when crafting a lifebound treasure, the first choice is often a sword, the second a cauldron, the third armor, and the fourth and fifth choices are other items.

The first magical treasure a cultivator uses is often a sword;

The first divine technique a cultivator learns is often swordsmanship.

Firstly, cultivators using swords do so with elegance and extraordinary demeanor; the world has sword flight, but no cauldron flight, knife flight, or tower flight;

Secondly, swords have low material requirements; the lower limit for sword-type magical treasures is low, but the upper limit is high. With minimal materials, one can craft an ordinary magical treasure; with substantial materials, one can craft a top-tier treasure.

As for cauldrons, towers, palaces, and armor, the same grade consumes a lot of materials.

Only wealthy families can afford to craft such heavy armaments.

Half of the cultivators in the world use swords as weapons, even if they have poor aptitude or comprehension, or are not suited for sword training, they still take up a sword and swing it a few times, be it pretending to love the dragon or for the sake of elegance, they always end up using it somehow.

With a sword in hand, who dares to say I am not a sword cultivator.

Back then, at the third layer of Qi Refining, the first gift his father gave him was the Autumn Water Sword;

The first lifebound treasure he refined after Foundation Establishment was the Li Fire Sword.

Although later in tests, under Elder Jin’s guidance, he realized his sword dao talent was poor, akin to rotten wood, he still led battles with the Li Fire Sword.

Buzzing!

But after refining the artifact spirit soul, memories of sword dao surged like a tide, almost taking over all memory space.

Lu Xuanji could only choose to seal these, subconsciously forgetting many sword dao memories, leaving only a general directory.

Firstly, hundreds of sword dao techniques emerged, with the lowest cultivatable to Divinity Transformation, and three left by ascended immortals. Any of these could become a clan’s secret technique, passed down for thousands of years.

Next, there were many insights into sword dao, varying sword intents, Yin Yang Sword Intent, Four Symbols Sword Intent, Five Elements Sword Intent, Fast Sword Intent, Slow Sword Intent, Time Sword Intent, Space Sword Intent, Destruction Sword Intent, Life and Death Sword Intent, etc., about eighteen sword intents.

Receiving these sword intents, Lu Xuanji became a top-tier sword dao master overnight.

At this moment, if one were to host a lecture on dao, they could eloquently speak, sending flowers of rhetoric into the sky, making many sword cultivators kneel in awe, exclaiming them as celestial beings.

But that’s all!

These sword dao memories could change many people but couldn’t change his nature of being "rotten wood in sword dao".

The primary reason is his lack of sincere feeling, lacking piety and reverence for sword dao, lacking spiritual inspiration from sword dao.

"Sword cultivators resonate with the sword dao, obsessed with swords, living for swords, dying for swords. Like Ximen Chuixue, who abandoned women for his sword, as the saying goes, ’With no woman in the heart, drawing the sword becomes divine!’ But I can’t do it; playing with swords isn’t as joyful as playing with women. If ten women were here, I would toss the Li Fire Sword off a cliff right now."

"I lack spiritual inspiration for sword dao. It’s like a rich man spending millions on a Van Gogh painting, commenting on how great it is, but essentially just showing off, not truly loving it, but using it to package himself as an elitist weapon."

"Similarly, if a rich man donated millions after witnessing calamity in Africa, would he truly worry or feel sad for the Africans? Absolutely not, because it doesn’t concern him, they are unrelated, he won’t generate excess emotion."

Lu Xuanji sighed slightly.

Of course, he could force himself into self-hypnosis, conjuring spiritual resonance and inspiration, but that holds no meaning.

Clearing his mind, he headed to Sword Island, hoping to collect some treasures,

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Upon landing on Sword Island, Lu Xuanji began searching for treasures.

After a great battle, Sword Island was cleaved into two; the current scene is merely a larger fragment of the original island, yet still contains some abundant resources.

At its pinnacle, Sword Island had eight tribulation crossing cultivators, over twenty harmonization cultivators, five hundred refining void cultivators, eight thousand divinity transformation cultivators, thirty thousand nascent soul cultivators, and golden core cultivators were as common as ants.

This description pertains to the main sect; auxiliary forces and disciples were even more numerous.

At its height, Sword Island dominated the world, the head of righteous paths, forcing the demon race into hiding and terrifying the demonic cultivators, shocking all cultivators.

Yet at its apex, Sword Island ended up in a deadly fight with the old demon Hehuan.

At that time, Sword Island cultivators killed numerous demons and monsters, not fearing a mere demon.

But who would have thought, eventually, the old demon Hehuan would destroy Sword Island.

It’s said that at the peak of the battle, Sword Island cultivators employed the God Summoning Technique, summoning an immortal clone to suppress the old demon Hehuan, only for the immortal to be killed by the demon. Ultimately, Sword Island was split into fragments and disappeared into the chaotic void.

On Sword Island, remnants of arrays still exist, their power less than a ten-thousandth of their peak, yet still sufficient to suppress Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators.

Yet these posed no hindrance to Lu Xuanji.

In the artifact spirit’s memories lie comprehensive knowledge of Sword Island’s arrays, from weaknesses to operational flaws, as familiar as his own home.

Not simply reminiscent of his home, this truly is his home.

With these memories, Lu Xuanji easily bypassed the arrays, slipping through weak points towards the depths of Sword Island.

Walking further, a treasure vault gradually came into view.

At its peak, such a vault was heavily guarded, with harmonization cultivators stationed and guarded by a ninth-level grand array, impenetrable even to tribulation crossing great power. But after that great war, the array shattered, weathering time, only capable of suppressing namest soul cultivators.

With a secret incantation, flaws in the array appeared, allowing Lu Xuanji to enter.

The vault divided into six levels; upon entering the first, there lay treasure swords, elixirs, materials, talismans, array plates, and so forth.

But as Lu Xuanji approached, merely touching a flying sword caused the Fourth-Grade Spirit Treasure to shatter into powder; opening a medicine gourd, the Golden Core Pill inside released a rancid odor, utterly decayed and unusable.

Checking other treasures, elixirs, and so forth, they had all decayed beyond recognition.

Time is the greatest enemy; after tens of thousands of years, many elixirs became unusable, and treasures decayed to the point of shattering at a touch.