Chapter 96 - Martial Defense (1/2)

The elderly man dispersed the Black Tortoise Totem, and the totem carvings on his arm changed, it shifted into the sword totem of the Geng Jin Sword Qi on his palm. He gently waved his hand and the jade rock was sliced away like tofu, he smiled and said, "And it also works like this. Do you understand?"

Zhong Yue took in a deep breath of air, he said, "Yes I do! Thank you senior for guiding me!"

The old man stood up and before he left, he smiled and said, "No need to thank me, giving guidance to you is merely nothing, after all, there is a little fate between you and I…."

"This old man ... he is very strong."

Zhong Yue gazed at the elderly man as he left, all of a sudden, Xin Huo moved within his psyche ocean. Zhong Yue was overjoyed, "Xin Huo, you are finally awake!"

Xin Huo leaped out from his psyche ocean and answered, "I've already woken up just now, but I kept quiet as I sensed that old man and am afraid that he notices me in your psyche ocean. This old man, he is the strongest entity in the Swords Gate Mountain, I've noticed his aura quite a few times, appearing right there on the Golden Summit of Swords Gate!"

"Golden Summit of Swords Gate, the strongest entity?"

Zhong Yue's heart palpitated in shock, this elderly man with an ingenious appearance that lent himself well to the image of a harmless old man ... was actually the strongest of Swords Gate, the headmaster who held the vaunted appellation of Sword God!

Moments later, Zong Yue recollected his thoughts, he then realized it all, "No wonder Ta Wuyou and the others were looking for trouble with me, the sword token was carved by our Swords Gate headmaster; No wonder the elders' faces turned so weird when they saw the sword token. Hmm, I've heard people saying that the headmaster's secret technique is the [ Great Boundless Sword Qi ]. Could it be that the totem carvings of the [ Great Boundless Sword Qi ] are hidden within the sword token?"

When he was escaping with Jun Sixie in the Savanna Wasteland, she once told him that there was a secret technique in Swords Gate, dedicated only to the headmasters – the [ Great Boundless Sword Qi ].

Xin Huo corrected him and said, "It's Boundless Great Sword Qi!"

Zhong Yue's face turned solemn, he mumbled to himself, "Could it be that the headmaster had chosen me and intended to nurture me as the next headmaster of Swords Gate? No, I've only acquired the sword token by chance, it was given to me by Junior Martial Sister Qiu Jiner. Oh, that's why the headmaster passed the sword token to Junior Martial Sister Jiner so that she can remedy the excessive Wood Qis. While I have only learned the sword totem in the sword token through a moment of serendipity."

He heaved a breath of relief and said, "Furthermore, the sword token only has the art. Techniques are divided into arts and skills; arts for cultivation and skills for combat. The sword token only contained the art without the skill. I've only acquired half of the [ Great Boundless Sword Qi ]."

Xin Huo pondered and said, "Just now that old man is indeed one from the Feng Clan, the Fuxi bloodline in him is three times greater than yours, about the same as Feng Wuji. Even the bloodline of the Feng Clan has gotten so low and thin. It seems like there won't be any pure-blood Fuxi celestial race in the Great Wilderness…."

"Xin Huo, with my prowess now, can I purify my Fuxi bloodline already?" Zhong Yue suddenly remembered, he asked.

Xin Huo shook his head and said, "In actual fact, you've already been in the process of purification; just right when you started with the beast god essence, your bloodline was already being purified. But it is extremely slow, so slow that you can't even notice it. The Fuxi bloodline in you was thin, originally tens of times more dilute than the old man's, but now his is only three times more concentrated than yours. Your improvements are clear. Keep on purifying, give it a few months time and you will be able to catch up to him or even more, surpass him. Then at that time, I can teach you how to use the Fuxi bloodline and open the Fuxi Divine Eye!"

"Fuxi Divine Eye?" Zhong Yue was thrilled.

"The Fuxi Divine Eye sees through the illusions and reaches out to the truth amidst falsities. By just looking, you can perceive the abstrusity and profundity of the totems, you can see through all the myriad of transformations of the totems and delineate the flaws within."

Xin Huo smiled and said, "If you can open the divine eye, then why go through all the troubles of carving and sculpting in trying to comprehend the abstrusity? Your bloodline is still too thin; even if all of your blood is accumulated and purified, you would probably not even be able to distill a single drop of Fuxi blood from it. It is still insufficient to open the divine eye."

Zhong Yue took in a deep breath of air and mumbled to himself, "Another few more months and then I can open the Fuxi Divine Eye."

"Other than the Fuxi Divine Eye, you can still open the Fuxi Combat Body with the Fuxi blood. It can increase your prowess to more than three times your current prowess, but the burden it would impose on your body would be immense. With your current state, you would be immediately crushed under the strength of your own body the moment you open the Fuxi Divine Eye."

Xin Huo clenched his fist tightly and encouraged him, "Young man of the Fuxi Celestial Race, spare no effort and cultivate harder!"

Swords Gate Golden Summit – Elder Pu appeared behind the old man, he smiled and asked, "Headmaster, how is the Zhong Shan Clan member?"

"Not bad."

A smile filled the old man's face, he said impishly, "To see that he had taken me as a secret recluse in Swords Gate ... it is quite interesting. His expression must be quite a sight to behold if he were to ever find out my identity…."

Elder Pu was speechless and reprimanded, "Headmaster, the older you are, the more childish you act; but you are indeed right, I am also keen to see the look on his face when he finds out of your identity."

The two elderly man gazed at each other, their faces suffused with mischievous smiles. But what they failed to realize was the fact that Zhong Yue had already guessed his identity.

"Headmaster, Jun Sixie is now back, although she suffered some injuries, she has fully recovered now."

The old man pondered and said, "The four of them are fine and delicate young successors and innate spirit body holders. In addition to the little girl from Qiu Tan Clan, the five of them resembles the five celestial stars, it is a sign that the Swords Gate will rise. But there are some evil figures lurking around plotting sinistrous schemes. Jun Sixie was ambushed in the Savanna Wasteland, that can only mean that someone has already betrayed the Great Wilderness. All five celestials in Swords Gate ... it might turn out to be a fortune or a calamity. We will need to be cautious."