SFS Chapter 71 Supernatural Powers and Spells
Chapter 71 Supernatural Powers and Spells
"The first level of the Soaring Cloud Sword Manual: Sword Control Technique."
After the sword light, more sword lights followed, one after another, like a torrential downpour.
Shen Qing stood still, as streaks of sword light pierced his brow.
Each time a sword light enters, a new sword technique is created in one's sea of consciousness.
Those sword techniques were incredibly profound, far surpassing any other cultivation manual he had ever read before, seemingly originating from the ancient and primordial source of swordsmanship.
Shen Qing sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes to comprehend the void.
The river of swordsmanship surged and washed through his soul, revealing the true meaning of swordsmanship that had been dormant for countless years, layer by layer.
The second inheritance followed, a disguise technique called "Illusionary Transformation Technique".
The moment the technique was transmitted into his sea of consciousness, Shen Qing understood its ingenuity.
It's not a superficial disguise, but rather a process of reshaping one's bone structure with spiritual power, altering one's aura with divine consciousness, and even imitating the aura of one's spiritual roots.
Once one has mastered the art, even cultivators of a higher cultivation level will find it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.
The Sword Sect Master left this technique in the Immortal Linglong as a backup plan for the successor to evade the pursuit of the Imperial Sword Sect.
Shen Qing felt that this method was somewhat similar to the Qi-gathering method from the system, but the former was indeed more refined.
Once Shen Qing had fully grasped this inheritance, the third inheritance followed immediately.
"Five Elements Escape Technique"
When the sword light entered his body, Shen Qing shuddered.
This escape technique resonated strongly with the five elements spiritual energy that had just reached its peak in his dantian.
The spiritual energy of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—circulates simultaneously in the meridians, flowing and surging along the path of the escape technique's mental cultivation method.
Shen Qing closed his eyes, completely immersed in comprehending the three inheritances.
The sword came from the void and returned to the void. Shen Qing floated and sank within it, oblivious to the passing of time.
When Shen Qing opened his eyes again, the sword formation in the void had dimmed considerably.
The once lifelike sword shadows became transparent, and some swords even began to shatter, turning into specks of light and dissipating into the void.
He didn't know how long he had been there, but the three supernatural powers in his mind had been deeply imprinted on his mind.
Sword control technique: using divine sense to control the sword and sword intent as the sharp edge, taking a person's head within a hundred paces is as easy as taking something out of a bag.
The Illusionary Form Technique can reshape bones and alter form, changing one's aura. When mastered, even cultivators of a higher cultivation level would find it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
The Five Elements Escape Technique allows one to escape into all things in heaven and earth by borrowing the energy of the five elements: metal escapes into mines, wood escapes into forests, water escapes into rivers, fire escapes into flames, and earth escapes into the ground, rendering ordinary encirclements ineffective.
Of these three supernatural powers, one is for killing and two are for self-preservation.
What the Sword Sect Master left to his disciples before his death was not the strongest killing move, but the ability to survive.
Shen Qing knelt in the void and bowed deeply to the dissipating sword formation.
"Disciple Shen Qing kowtows to express gratitude to the Ancestral Master for transmitting the Dao."
There was a moment of silence in the void, then the voice of Daoist Qingyun rang out.
The sound was much softer than before, like a candle flame about to go out in the wind.
"No need to thank me. Having received this inheritance, you don't need to feel indebted. The Sword Sect is a cause and effect that you don't need to bear."
"From this day forward, you are you, and the Sword Sect is the Sword Sect. If you have the opportunity, go and find the descendants of those three fellow disciples for me. If you don't, there's no need to force it."
He paused.
"It's time to end this."
Suddenly, a ball of light shone in the center of the void. The light was as warm and smooth as jade, neither dazzling nor scorching, but simply hung there quietly, like a miniature bright moon.
Shen Qing could see that in the very center of that ball of light, there was a very thin, almost transparent jade fragment slowly rotating.
Is that Xian Linglong's true form?
Under his gaze, the ball of light began to slowly shrink, and the delicate, cicada-wing-thin fragments of the fairy were gradually turning into dust.
With each fraction of light lost, the orb dimmed a little more.
"Shen Qing".
The voice of Qingyun Daoist came from the ball of light.
"Disciple is here."
"After more than two hundred years of waiting, there has finally been a result."
The Taoist Qingyun's voice was calm, a sign of true peace.
"The thing I regret most in my life is not my death or the destruction of my sect, but that I did not see Han Yan accept disciples and that he passed on what I taught him to his later disciples."
"I left too early, I'm sorry."
The voice of the Taoist Qingyun grew softer and softer, like the lingering sound in the wind.
"But I don't regret it. Because I know that one day, someone will come here, that person will lay a solid foundation, will achieve the ancient twelve layers of Qi Refining, and will summon the Immortal Linglong during the Foundation Establishment stage. He will bring the glory of the Sword Sect back to this world."
"And now, you are that person."
Shen Qing knelt in the void, without uttering a word.
"I have no regrets, it's time for me to go. I'll give you this last wisp of immortal energy, as my final gift to the next generation."
The dissipating light suddenly stopped shrinking.
The last wisp of pure immortal energy overflowed from the fragment of the Immortal Beauty, transforming into a thin beam of light that shot straight into Shen Qing's brow.
Shen Qing felt as if something had gently touched the depths of his soul, and then his entire sea of consciousness began to undergo strange changes.
It wasn't an increase in cultivation level or an improvement in spiritual power, but a deeper transformation. His soul began to be reshaped under the nourishment of that wisp of immortal energy.
The originally stable soul body became more refined under the influence of immortal energy, and even gained a crystal-clear texture.
The boundaries of the sea of consciousness expanded outward several times, and areas deep within the soul that had never been touched before were quietly illuminated.
Shen Qing felt his divine sense's range expanding silently, and the precision of his perception also rapidly improving.
That's not all.
After that wisp of immortal energy merged into his soul, Shen Qing vaguely sensed that the strength of his soul was breaking through some kind of limit.
That was not the level of spiritual strength that someone in the Foundation Establishment stage should have. He could even vaguely sense that the threshold for communicating with the laws of heaven and earth through his spiritual soul was slowly opening for him.
Ordinary cultivators can only achieve the separation of their soul and the completion of their primordial spirit when they reach the Golden Core stage. However, Shen Qing's soul, which has been tempered by immortal energy, may be able to glimpse the mysteries of that realm as early as the Foundation Establishment stage.
Is this the true aura of immortals?
Shen Qing was so engrossed in this rare opportunity that he didn't know how much time had passed before he slowly opened his eyes.
The void had completely dissipated. The last glimmer of Xian Linglong's light also went out, and that tiny world turned into countless specks of light, which danced around Shen Qing for a moment like fireflies on a summer night, before gradually disappearing into the four walls of the coffin.
The voice of Qingyun Daoist never rang out again.
Shen Qing remained motionless in the darkness for a long time.
He suddenly remembered that the first time he kowtowed in the ancestral hall, the tablet at the top of the offering table was inscribed with the four characters "Qingyun Daoren".
He recalled his master telling him about the deeds of the past patriarchs of Qingyun Sect. When talking about the founding patriarch, he was always vague, only saying, "The patriarch traveled here and, seeing the beautiful mountains and clear waters, built a hut to live in."
Shen Qing slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and opened his eyes in the darkness.
He silently calculated the time in his mind, estimating based on the number of times the spiritual energy circulated in his dantian and the frequency of the system drawing spiritual energy, that this enlightenment lasted about ten days.
Ten days is neither a long nor a short time.
Shen Qing closed his eyes and once again used his divine sense to perceive the entire Qingyun Mountain.
After being nourished by the immortal energy, Shen Qing's spiritual power increased significantly, and it was now able to cover the entire Qingyun Mountain.
Shen Qing could see that the Huang family's craftsmen were still working on the project, and the mansion was already taking shape.
In the academy, Sun Wenyuan led the children in reading, while Zhong Xiu and his two companions, who served as instructors, also listened to the lessons.
Shen Qing was somewhat surprised that Huang Yuanji was not on the mountain.