Volume 6: Wangchuan Chapter 12: Enlightenment
Lu Qingshan stared at the messy sword marks on the stele, and gradually his mind sank into them.
From these sword marks, he could feel a sinister and illusory feeling coming towards him.
Afterwards, light and shadow intertwined, and countless illusions kept flashing before his eyes.
There were dark changes and countless illusions, which combined together and finally many sword lights appeared faintly.
This sword monument contains an illusion-like artistic conception.
Lu Qingshan knew what was going on.
This was also not in line with his style.
What he pursues is either skills that are close to the Tao, or infinite power.
Although this kind of illusion with twists and turns was amazing, it was ultimately inferior in his heart.
He did not hesitate, stopped looking at the sword monument, and walked down again.
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"Resonance again?" Outside the secret realm, the old swordsman was watching this scene, muttering in daze.
The second sword monument, which was thought to be a setback for this Jindan boy, did not stop him at all.
Before the old sword cultivator could react, the Jindan boy actually gave up this monument again and walked towards the next sword monument.
The third sword monument had already flashed a faint light before Lu Qingshan got close enough, looking as if he couldn't wait.
It's like a signal.
A scene appeared that made the old swordsman unbelievable.
In the secret realm, the numerous sword monuments were emitting a faint glow at this time, actively showing their own mystery, as if they were longing for Lu Qingshan's choice.
Every sword monument resonated with Lu Qingshan.
"This boy is able to cause all the sword monuments to resonate... He has a pure heart and is a natural swordsman..." The old swordsman was stunned, and his cloudy eyes suddenly lit up.
In the secret realm.
The comprehension of the sword monument can help one comprehend both the sword intent and the sword style.
Of course, most of the time, sword intent is still the main focus.
at this time.
The sword intent is everywhere.
Those who are cold and yin are like maggots in the tarsal bones, making it impossible to escape.
There is something extremely strong and masculine, with an overwhelming sense of violence.
There is a breeze blowing, and there are waves rising;
Some are as heavy as a mountain, and some are as light as a bird...
There are nearly a thousand sword monuments, but the sword intent of few of them is the same.
But even if it is the same sword intent, it will show different styles due to the different perceptions of each sword practitioner.
Lu Qingshan was a little dazzled, and even had an inexplicable illusion that he was choosing a concubine.
His entire spiritual consciousness was completely immersed in the artistic conception, and he let his mind go to carefully experience and feel the sword intent.
He wanted to find his favorite sword spirit to comprehend.
After a while, in those chaotic artistic conception, Lu Qingshan felt a sharp and fierce sword intent, which seemed unstoppable.
The aspiration of a sword cultivator is to move forward courageously.
Lu Qingshan's heart moved, and following this feeling, he stopped in front of a stone tablet.
He raised his head and stared closely at the cold light on the sword monument, his eyes flickering.
Yes, the pattern on this sword monument is just a little cold light.
He was now so close to the sword monument that the sharp force on it, which seemed to penetrate everything, suddenly came towards him.
Even though Lu Qingshan's soul realm had reached the middle stage of condensation, his soul was solid and the surface was protected by divine light.
But under the invasion of this fierce intention, he still felt an inexplicable and unbearable pain in his sea of consciousness.
But he seemed unaware of it. The powerful spirit in his sea of consciousness suddenly rushed out from the Niwan Palace, went upstream, and actively merged into the cold light on the sword monument.
laugh!
The moment his spiritual consciousness swept into the sword monument, Lu Qingshan was in a trance for a moment, and then he felt that the scene in front of him began to change.
By the time he had calmed down completely, he discovered that a void of space had appeared in front of him.
An ancient and wild atmosphere arises spontaneously.
Cry!
With a long cry, between heaven and earth, a demon bird's wings covered the sky. It swooped down and circled, and its figure kept changing as if it teleported.
whoosh!
At this moment, a sword light came out across the sky and earth, slashing towards the monster bird, with an extremely sharp sword.
The demon bird trembled all over, as if it sensed the horror in the sword light. Mysterious ripples appeared all over its body, and a moment later, it appeared in a very distant area.
This is space teleportation.
Seeing this scene, Lu Qingshan murmured.
Then, he felt refreshed.
He wanted to know how to deal with the sword light in this situation.
The sword light paused, and then the sword light flashed like a comet across the sky, illuminating the entire empty space.
A powerful will and energy enveloped the sword light, causing the entire void space to tremble as if it was about to break into pieces.
As the sword flew out, all the strength suddenly gathered at one point, turning into a cold light, and then disappeared out of thin air. When the cold light reappeared, it had already smashed the demon bird's head.
A hint of cold light arrives first.
Lu Qingshan was shocked.
The artistic conception contained in this sword monument can actually restrain and kill the artistic conception of space.
The principle of the magical power of space teleportation is to open a closer channel between two spaces that are far apart, shortening the original extremely long distance, thereby achieving the so-called teleportation.
But even if you call it an instant, it still takes time.
The time required is just a moment.
This sword uses its ultimate penetrating power to directly break through two layers of space and achieve a speed that surpasses spatial teleportation.
If even space cannot block this kind of sword intent, what else can block it?
This is the most extreme offensive conception.
The scene before his eyes did not stop. One after another, extremely ferocious monster birds kept appearing, sword light swept across the sky and earth, and cold light continued to flash.
These scenes of killing evil birds with swords created infinite artistic conception in Lu Qingshan's consciousness.
And this insight is being infinitely magnified, allowing him to capture it better.
Lu Qingshan, who practices Taoist Canon, has an ability to comprehend artistic conception that is superior to that of ordinary people.
Not to mention, all these artistic conceptions are presented in the form of swordsmanship.
This is the area where his talent is most outstanding.
Like a fish in water.
Lu Qingshan was completely immersed in his thoughts and was unaware of the passage of time.
It was not until a long time later that his spirit suddenly shook and his whole body was filled with powerful aura.
Several lines of tiny, glowing words flashed before his eyes.
"Comprehension of artistic conception! ..."
[Sword Intent of Nirvana] (Weak): The true meaning of the origin: a branch of the sword intent of nihilism. Penetrating through everything, the ultimate offensive sword intent.
"Ability improvement! ... Your soul is enhanced (Spiritual Awareness +50)."
Lu Qingshan opened his eyes, his gleaming eyes were like a sharp sword that seemed to penetrate everything, and then he suddenly closed his eyes, and everything returned to calm.
The dark eyes are extremely deep.
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The purpose of coming to the Sword Monument Secret Realm this time has been achieved.
Although the Nirvana Penetrating Sword Intent is only a branch of the Nirvana Sword Intent, it is also a superior sword intent in terms of rank, on par with the Killing Sword Intent.
He is not planning to comprehend more artistic conception for the time being.
The comprehension of sword intent cannot be limited to one thing, but one must also not be greedy for more.
Because when a Nascent Soul cultivator breaks through to the Refining Void stage, the most important step is to condense the artistic conception into a Tao seed.
The most basic condition for condensing the Tao Seed is that the artistic conception comprehended by the cultivator must reach perfection.
Neither is indispensable.
If before this you were too greedy and gained too much power of artistic conception.
The combat power can indeed be greatly enhanced as a result.
But the consequence is that we will have to fill the holes frantically.
Improving the artistic conception is not something that can be achieved overnight. In order to improve all artistic conceptions to the perfect state, cultivators need to stagnate in the Nascent Soul stage for a long time, and may even lose hope of refining the realm for the rest of their lives.
The most correct philosophy should be to value quality over quantity.
Two to five artistic conceptions are the most appropriate number for beginners.
However, it is best if the artistic conception you comprehend is of a higher level.
Because the Dao seeds condensed by ten lower-level artistic conceptions are actually difficult to surpass in quality the Dao seeds condensed by two higher-level artistic conceptions.
As for Lu Qingshan, in addition to the killing sword intent that has reached the state of unity, he also contains the incomplete true meaning of cause and effect and the true meaning of immortality which has already taken shape.
This is also the reason why he has never deliberately pursued the true meaning of cause and effect.
What he was worried about was that once he really understood the true meaning of cause and effect, he would be in a difficult situation.
The strength of the original true meaning is beyond doubt.
But correspondingly, the difficulty of upgrading the original true meaning to the perfect state is countless times greater than the power of other artistic conceptions.
Therefore, before breaking through to the realm of refining emptiness, Lu Qingshan was not prepared to pursue the entry into the true meaning of cause and effect and the true meaning of immortality.
His idea was to elevate his most proficient and traceable killing sword intent to its corresponding original true meaning, the destructive sword intent.
Then, based on the true meaning of the origin of the sword intent of destruction, he condensed the original Tao seed.
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Lu Qingshan stood up slowly.
As soon as he thought about it, the Willow Catkins Sword Talisman flew out, and a rumbling sound suddenly occurred in the secret realm, and a crack appeared.
Following the crack, Lu Qingshan left the sword monument secret realm.
At Zhong Dao Peak, the old swordsman looked at Lu Qingshan who had just left the secret realm, and was somewhat moved.
Lu Qingshan at this moment is very different from before he entered the Sword Monument Secret Realm.
The whole person's energy and spirit have obviously become much sharper.
"You have only stayed in the Sword Monument Secret Realm for two days. The remaining eight days will be reserved for you. You can enter the Sword Monument Secret Realm again at any time." The old swordsman said slowly.
Just two days?
Lu Qingshan was a little dazed.
Because he seemed to have stayed in that empty space for a very long time.
"In the secret realm of the sword monument, when you comprehend the artistic conception of the sword monument, your mind will be clearer than ever before, and any thoughts will be infinitely magnified. Therefore, the flow of time also creates an illusion similar to slowing down, which is why it feels like a long time, but in fact it has only been a short while."
The old swordsman saw Lu Qingshan's confusion and slowly explained, "This is why our sect generally only gives disciples three days to comprehend. It's not because we're stingy, but because in this situation, if you can gain some enlightenment, three days is more than enough. If you don't gain anything, giving him another three days won't be of much use."
Lu Qingshan understood.
He bowed respectfully to the old swordsman, then turned into a ray of sword light and left.
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Lu Qingshan didn't know that just after he left the Sword Monument Secret Realm, a gray airflow suddenly appeared above the secret realm.
The airflow contained extremely pure spiritual power and the mysterious power of heaven and earth, which continuously flowed into the sword monument that had been touched by Lu Qingshan before.
Because Lu Qingshan had touched all the sword monuments in the secret realm before.
So at this moment, gray airflow continued to flow out, continuously entering the nearly one thousand sword monuments in the sword monument secret realm.
Among them, the cold sword monument that Lu Qingshan finally chose absorbed the most gray airflow.
The old swordsman felt extremely painful when he saw this scene. He seemed to recall something and muttered to himself, "This kid is just like his master, but he has caused our sect to bleed heavily again..."
The ancestors of the Sword Sect who left behind the sword steles were mostly sword practitioners at the seventh level.
Although they are at this level and can be considered powerful monks, if the sword monument they left behind during their lifetime was not maintained by special means, how could the meaning on it exist for thousands of years without being destroyed?
And these special methods naturally come from the Sword Sect.
In order to keep the sword intent on the sword monument from dissipating, the Sword Sect used a small realm to gather the overflowing sword intent, and asked the monks from the Jia Building to set up a formation to guard the intent.
In order to maintain the operation of the Guarding Formation, the number of spirit stones consumed every year is extremely terrifying.
This kind of loss is actually comparable to the value of the sword monument itself, and may even be greater.
But in this case, although the opportunity to comprehend the Sword Monument Secret Realm is extremely precious, it is so precious that only if the Sword Sect disciples meet certain conditions will they be allocated a very short period of comprehension time.
One of the conditions that Lu Qingshan already knew was what the old sword cultivator said, that any disciple of the Sword Sect who breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage will be granted three days of time to comprehend the secret realm of the Sword Monument.
But it should be noted that the time for contemplating the secret realm will also only be granted to the disciples of the Sword Sect in the form of this reward.
There has never been a situation where any disciple could enter the secret realm of the sword monument to gain enlightenment by paying spirit stones or spirit crystals.
Although there are restrictions, there are no fees.
In other words, the Sword Monument Secret Realm is a money-eating beast that only generates expenditures without bringing any substantial benefits.
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The most unique temperament of the Sword Sect is revealed precisely in this situation.
Since the establishment of the Sword Monument Secret Realm, tens of thousands of years have passed.
No one in charge of the Sword Sect has ever taken actions such as removing the Sword Monument Secret Realm or collecting corresponding spirit stones from disciples who entered the Sword Monument Secret Realm just because they felt that the existence of the Sword Monument Secret Realm was unreasonable or because they felt sorry for the loss of spirit stones.
Because, in the eyes of the Sword Sect monks, the reason their ancestors left behind sword monuments was to ensure that their sword skills and sword intent could be passed down .
All the leaders of the Sword Sect have always adhered to and respected the vision of their ancestors.
——Although we cannot allow you to open a main peak to teach swordsmanship and kendo, passing down the sword monument that contains your lifelong swordsmanship from generation to generation is something that the Sword Sect can and is willing to do.
Even though no one asked for it.
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After returning to Jianlai Peak, Lu Qingshan discovered that Xia Daoyun, who had just returned to the sect not long ago, had left the Sword Sect again within the two days when he entered the Sword Monument Secret Realm. He didn't know what he was busy with.
He stood by the small lake in front of the wooden building, recalling the experiences of the past two days while feeling the penetrating sword intent of silence that he had just begun to learn.
A hint of cold light appeared in his palm.
The moment the cold light appeared, the space seemed to stop for a moment.
It was as if infinite power gathered in a point of cold light and then penetrated everything.
The violent momentum surged out uncontrollably.
Puff puff puff!
The fish in the lake felt this terrifying aura and began to flutter in the water in panic.
Lu Qingshan frowned slightly, and flicked his right hand lightly, and the cold light immediately dissipated.
The violent aura died down, and the black carp returned to normal.
"I have just comprehended it, and I am not yet able to restrain my intention like the killing sword intent." Lu Qingshan murmured.
