Chapter 4: Out of the Sword
The items in Mo Yan's storage belt were also very rich, but unfortunately, Feng Ruo did not find the jade slip that recorded the mantra of the cloud-piercing spell.
For the power of that cloud-piercing spell, Feng Ruo still has lingering fears, and that kind of attack speed and fierce momentum are really worthy of being the strongest of the five basic spells.
In the previous battle with Mo Yan, if Mo Yan wasn't too conceited and didn't guess that Feng Ruo could still have the shield wall spell, then he only needed to concentrate all the five attacks on one point, instead of scattering the attacks, then even the powerful defense with the shield wall spell would be useless, and the result of the entire battle would be completely rewritten.
With a long exhalation, Feng Ruo put the Ben Thunder Sword in his hand into the storage belt, and now this four-grade sword weapon can't be seen yet, so he can only hide it first and take it out when the battle comes.
Now that Mo Yan's maggot with the bone has been solved, Feng Ruo can be said to be quite safe for a period of time in the future, and there are two options that he needs to seriously consider.
First, because he had the Wood Spirit Crystal in his hand, he would definitely live an incomparably nourishing life in this Dead Wood Sea, so he could hide in this Dead Wood Castle for ten years, and then return to Zhentian Sect after the exile period expired.
The second is to go out and hunt alone, while honing your attacking abilities in all aspects.
After thinking about it, Feng Ruo still chose the second option, the reason is very simple, if he wants to impact the foundation building period, it is not enough to rely on the wood spirit crystal, maybe the wood spirit crystal can provide him with enough aura, but it can't provide the slightest help in terms of experience and realm growth, if he relies too much on this thing, the final result may be to stop.
What's more, if you want to advance to the foundation building period, in addition to abundant aura and sufficient realm, you also need some necessary elixirs to assist, because the foundation building period is equivalent to officially stepping into the realm of cultivating immortals, so some congenital deficiencies cannot be made up for by penance alone, and must be made up for by some elixirs that can improve the body.
Especially if Feng Ruo only joined the Immortal Cultivation Realm halfway, he had great flaws in this regard, such as the various injuries he left on the battlefield before, those superficial scars may disappear with the increase of mana, but the inside of the body may not be able to be cured, which must be repaired by those precious elixirs.
If Feng Ruo is not exiled now, if he is still in Zhentian Sect, then he can accumulate sect contributions by completing various tasks, and finally pass the test of the sect to prove his strength and cultivation, so as to obtain several precious elixirs to improve his body.
It can be said that almost all the disciples in the late stage of Qi refining obtained those elixirs through this way, because the preciousness of this elixir is simply unimaginable, and it is said that only the cultivation of the golden pill stage can be refined.
But now if Feng has no way to improve his body through this way, he can't wait for ten years like this, after all, he is already older, and he has been seriously injured many times, and now every year passes, those hidden injuries in his body will be serious, if it really drags on, maybe he will never have the possibility of building a foundation in this life.
Therefore, Feng Ruo must go out to collect spirit stones and hunt spirit beasts like those people in Batian, so that he can buy some rare elixirs that can improve his body, and at worst, he has to delay his physical condition until ten years later!
However, Feng Ruo's various secrets now doomed him to be unable to cooperate with others, and all dangers must be faced alone!
"So be it!"
Feng Ruo calmly said to himself, he is not an adventurous and exciting madman, but sometimes he may not be crazy!
Once again, he took out the jade slip that recorded the basic sword technique, since he was going out hunting alone, of course, the more prepared he was, the better, and this sword technique was also a pretty good means of attack when necessary, although this was only a cultivator in the foundation building period who was qualified to use it regardless of mana.
This basic sword technique seems very simple, at least much simpler than the previous fragment of the sword technique that is as difficult as a book from the sky, in which there are only five sword techniques, which are sword, forward, backward, left, and right!
To be honest, when he saw it at first sight, Feng Ruo even had to wonder if this was a real swordsmanship, because it was too simple, as simple as a child learning the way.
But then he realized that this kind of simplicity was not ordinarily simple, because first of all, this imperial sword technique was not used to indulge with both hands, but with thoughts and mana, so that the range of the attack would reach a distance of a hundred feet.
But how to use your mind and mana to make that sword weapon that weighs at least more than 30 catties move?
According to the explanation in the jade slip, the mind is the divine thought, everyone will have it, but the strength is different, the divine thought of the cultivator is usually several times stronger than that of ordinary mortals, but there is one important point, that is, strong strength does not necessarily mean that the divine thought is strong, and the strength of the strong divine thought is bound to be strong!
And the stronger the divine thought, the more mana that can be invisibly controlled, the more refined it is, on the contrary, the weaker the divine thought, even if there is a mountain of mana, it is still vulnerable!
Although the sword art is nominally the sword, but from another point of view, the god is more appropriate, the practice of the sword is not only the cultivation of the sword, but also the cultivation of the mind, these two must be carried out at the same time, not biased, otherwise there will be a big disaster!
However, because this idea is ethereal, it can only be cultivated and strengthened through the sword technique, and the sword intent in it can only be experienced and comprehended by oneself, in other words, no one can teach it, everything can only be understood and not spoken!
It is precisely because of this that the sword trick of basic swordsmanship is the simplest, so simple that it is like walking with a person.
Feng Ruo memorized the five sword tricks, but he was silent for a long time, although the jade slip was clear, but he still felt at a loss, now he finally understood why he went to see the fragments of the sword technique as if it were a book from heaven, because what was recorded on it was not those so-called mantras, but sword intent!
"It's really hard!"
After a long time, Feng Ruo couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, no wonder many cultivators in the late stage of Qi refining had to spend most of their time cultivating even though they knew that they couldn't fully use the Imperial Sword Technique, because this thing was not something that could be realized in a short period of time at all, and he even doubted that some early stage cultivators could use the Imperial Sword Technique?
Feng Ruo naturally couldn't retreat in the face of difficulties, and after some sighing, he took out his previous Moon Reflecting Short Knife, because this Moon Reflecting Short Knife is only about six catties now, and there is not too much strengthening of the Five Elements Stone on it, so it is naturally the best to use it to practice the sword technique, otherwise if it is replaced by the Ben Thunder Sword, he may not even be able to complete the sword technique!
Placing the Moon Reflecting Short Knife flat on his knees, Feng Ruo quickly collected his mind, clear his distracting thoughts, and only after his heart was ethereal did he silently recite the sword technique, and at the same time focused all his thoughts on the Moon Reflecting Short Knife.
Due to the advantage of using his mind to depict the formation in the past, Feng Ruo easily took the first step and attached his mind to the Moon Reflecting Short Knife.
At this moment, another very mysterious scene suddenly appeared in Feng Ruo's mind, at this moment he seemed to have turned into a moon reflecting short knife, and this was just the beginning, he suddenly found that this moon reflecting short knife seemed to have a memory, although these memories were very messy, but they could still be seen clearly.
In these pictures, there are swords and swords everywhere, stumps flying, blood flowing all over the ground, and finally even the entire picture is covered with bright red blood, and at the same time, there seem to be countless unjust souls crying and screaming!
Some of these unjust souls were killed by Feng Ruo himself, and some were killed by the previous master, but at this moment, they rushed towards Feng Ruo!
"Oops!"
Feng Ruo was horrified in his heart, although he didn't understand why he could see these pictures, but he knew why these unjust souls existed, because in the mortal world, there is usually a legend that if a weapon kills too many people, it will become a murderer, and if the master is not a fierce person, he will be counterattacked by this murderer!
In fact, it was exactly like this, thinking that at the beginning, the long knife in Feng Ruo's hand only needed to be revealed, and it could scare some recruits into shame!
But Feng Ruo didn't expect that he would meet these unjust souls in such a strange way!
At this time, the picture in Feng Ruo's mind had already been shrouded in countless blood, and he could even feel that all of his body was bound by some kind of invisible lunar aura, and countless miserable howling ghost cries were also whistling in his ears!
"Hmph! I was able to kill you all back then! Why is it so difficult to kill you again now?"
After the initial panic, Feng Ruo calmed down, this kind of bloody scene he hadn't experienced, it was just that some of his subordinates were defeated, so why be afraid?
Almost subconsciously, Feng Ruo felt that he pulled out a weapon that was wrapped in countless flames, and roared and fought in that sea of blood!
This round of fighting was more hearty than any previous battle of Feng Ruo, until the sky was dark, even he forgot the time, and when he killed all the unjust souls in the sea of blood, the scene in his mind suddenly disappeared completely, and the quiet room where he was appeared again in front of his eyes.
Except for himself feeling extremely tired and having a splitting headache, nothing seems to have changed!
However, when Feng Ruo looked down at the Moon Reflecting Short Knife on his knee, he was taken aback, because where was there still a trace of the Moon Reflecting Short Knife, he hurriedly searched around, and soon found that the Moon Reflecting Short Knife was lying quietly a few steps away!
This strange situation made Feng Ruo stunned again, but then he understood that he had succeeded in casting the sword technique just now, but before he could rejoice in his heart, a deep tiredness suddenly came from his mind, and before he had time to think about anything, he had already fallen asleep!
When Feng Ruo woke up again, he didn't know what time it was, his whole body was still normal, only his stomach was extremely hungry, and in addition, he vaguely felt that he seemed to be a little more awake than before.
Regarding the hunger in his abdomen, Feng Ruo also understood that it was because he had not cultivated for a long time, and he would naturally be hungry without mana, but he was a little inexplicable when he was sober in his mind.
"Maybe he was starved?" Feng Ruo thought a little strangely, the strange battle before really made him feel incredible, he didn't expect that he was just practicing the most basic sword technique, and it would cause such a big movement!
"Fortunately, I chose the Moon Reflecting Short Knife, in which all the mortals were killed by myself, if I chose the Thunder Knife, wouldn't the ghasts in it be devoured alive!" Feng Ruo thought with palpitations, until now, those hideous-looking and extremely violent ghasts were still dangling in front of his eyes.
In fact, what Feng Ruo thought was not wrong at all, the most basic requirement for practicing swordsmanship is to be able to attach one's own mind to the sword, and there will be more or less some killed evil spirits among these sword weapons, if the idea is not strong enough, the mind will be damaged by these evil spirits, and the whole person will be completely reduced to a demon who only knows how to kill!
If Feng Ruo had used the Ben Thunder Sword with great joy at the beginning, the end would definitely be conceivable!
After thinking about it for a long time, Feng Ruo figured out the cause and effect of the matter, but at this time, he was already very scared.
"It seems that this path of cultivating immortals is really full of thorns, not only from the outside, but also from the inside!"
With a sigh, Feng Ruo first put away the moon reflecting short knife that fell to the ground, and then took out the iron pot and cooked a bowl of fragrant rice for himself to satisfy his hunger.
Just as he was eating with gusto, there was a knock on the door outside, and the cold sound of falling rain.
"Hey, is that kid still alive?"
Feng Ruo was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, he heard a sound of "bang!", and the positive and negative mountain formation was violently broken, and then the falling rain with a frosty face walked in.
The falling rain was also stunned after seeing Feng Ruo.
"Huh? It's been more than a month and you haven't died? This saves me from collecting the body, by the way, have you seen the other two people?"
"Uh, no, they may have gone out hunting!" Feng Ruo forcibly suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart and replied patiently, but at the same time, he was also surprised, could it be that he had fallen asleep for more than ten days before?
"That's dead!" said the falling rain very naturally, and then glanced Feng Ruo up and down, and suddenly frowned rarely.
"How long can you last? Just eat this, you will die sooner or later!"
"Uh-" Feng Ruo was stunned again, but he didn't expect that this cold guy would actually care about others? But it seems that her current state has made her misunderstood, right?
"If you can't hold on, come to us! It's better than losing all your mana, and in the end you have to have someone else collect the body!" After saying this, the falling rain turned around and walked out.
"Uh-" Feng Ruo touched his face very strangely, and after a long time, he said to himself with some doubts: "Could it be that he is actually very handsome?"
(To be continued)