Chapter 56: The Weakness of the Treasure Sword

  Time flies in the mountains, and before you know it, another several months have passed.

  That day, Li Wenjun began to prepare for his cultivation. He prepared the herbs and poured them into a sand pot, then carefully opened a red cloth package. His movements were extremely gentle, as if he was stroking his lover's cheek.

  The cloth package was opened and what's inside was exposed. The thing is very small, roughly the size of an adult's finger joint. It's yellowish black in color.

  Li Wenjun looked at the small thing and let out a faint sigh, this was the last bit of Wild Mountain Essence. He had only discovered in the past few days that his decision to go into seclusion in the mountain cave was a bit too hasty. He had considered all aspects beforehand, but had overlooked one point - as a medicine catalyst, he only had one piece of Wild Mountain Essence.

  Wild mountain essence was originally the size of a palm, and each time it was used, only a small piece needed to be cut from the top, not too big or too thick, just like a fingernail cover. However, no matter how small the cut piece was, it couldn't withstand being cut every day.

  Ye Shan Jing was shrinking every day, and just a few days ago, Li Wen Jun suddenly realized this problem. However, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't find a solution. There must be medicinal herbs over 100 years old in the Five Peaks Mountain, but how to find them is a problem. Moreover, even if he encountered them, he might not be able to recognize them. His experience in identifying medicinal herbs was still a bit weak.

  Li Wenjun was preparing to use up the last bit of Wild Mountain Spirit, and then temporarily leave the cave, return to San Shan County county town, to see if he could find another piece of medicinal herb over a hundred years old. He wasn't short on money, even if someone wanted him to take out 10,000 taels of silver to buy a hundred-year-old medicinal herb, he would immediately agree, and wouldn't frown at all.

  Li Wenjun cut the last piece of wild mountain essence into two knives, dividing it into three equal parts. He mixed each part of the wild mountain essence with a portion of herbs and poured water into the sand pot to start brewing the medicinal soup.

  Looking at the bottom of the sand pot, licking the red flames at the bottom of the pot, Li Wenjun thought of the past one and a half months.

  During this period of time, Li Wenjun mainly did two things. One was to explore the law of the blade tip of the Longshou Yanfeng knife, and the other was naturally to cultivate himself.

  Every day, apart from sleeping and eating, the remaining time is basically divided into two parts. The largest part is cultivation. At first, he would decoct two doses of medicine, but later found that decocting two doses of medicine was not very effective. After gritting his teeth, he added another dose, making it three doses a day.

  Every time he sat in the pool to cultivate, he had a kind of meridian-breaking illusion, and the pain in his heart never stopped. He relied on his tenacious willpower to hold on, and at most, when the pain was unbearable, he would let out two loud roars, then cover his head and fall asleep, using the green light to recover from the internal injuries on his body. After waking up, he continued with the medicinal bath and bitter cultivation.

  Three medicinal baths, front and back, will take about four and a half hours. After these three times of ordinary ascetic practice, Li Wenjun will temporarily stop and study the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife instead.

  After such a long period of exploration, Li Wenjun had a very profound understanding of the Longshou Yanling knife and explored many rules.

  He found that when he grasped the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife and inputted his magical power into it, the more magical power he inputted, the more majestic the knife's blade became, and the greater the shaking force of the blade. When he swung the knife to slash out the blade, the damage caused by the blade was even greater. The magnitude of the blade's might was directly related to the amount of magical power he inputted.

  Li Wenjun also discovered that from the moment he infused his internal energy into the blade, to the moment he swung it and sent the blade flying out, the time could be shortened to almost negligible. In other words, as long as he slightly infused a bit of internal energy, he would be able to control the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife's blade release. However, doing so resulted in the blade having very little power, making it difficult to cause significant damage. If he wanted the blade to have more power, he had to spend relatively longer time infusing his internal energy into the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife.

  He infused his magic into the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife, and by the time he swept the knife out, the time spent between them was shorter than the preparation time for his Fireball Technique. He had carefully calculated this time, and the difference between them was roughly about one breath. Of course, if he didn't care about the size of the knife's power, this time difference would be even greater.

  In addition, Li Wenjun tried the knife several times, and a few times, he caught a glimpse of the silver-white gemstone inlaid on the hilt emitting an extremely weak light. Li Wenjun didn't know if there was any necessary connection between the light emitted by the gemstone and the blade, but he had an immature guess that perhaps the two were causally related.

  As for whether this guess is correct, no one can answer it anymore.

  The Longshou Yanling knife is not all advantages, Li Wenjun also found a shortcoming. If this shortcoming is not paid attention to, it may cause him some trouble at times.

  Li Wenjun discovered that when he channeled his mana into the Longshou Yanling Knife, he could no longer allow the output of mana to flow back into his body. In other words, the mana flowing into the Longshou Yanling Knife could only go in and not come out.

  If Li Wenjun wants to cause relatively minor damage, but the inputted mana is too much, then the final damage will definitely exceed Li Wenjun's intention. If he wants his intention to be carried out, the solution is to strike the blade elsewhere and then re-input the appropriate amount of mana into the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife, while the wasted mana cannot be recovered and can only be wasted.

  This is a very serious matter for Li Wenjun, who has relatively weak magical powers. However, Li Wenjun does not have a good solution to this problem, which is inherent to the dragon itself, unless he stops using this sword, otherwise, he will continue to be troubled by this issue.

  Li Wenjun didn't know that the Longshou Yanling knife was just a low-grade artifact, but all low-grade artifacts have some kind of problem. One of the more concentrated problems is that they can't return excess spiritual power to flow back. Artifacts that can solve this problem cannot be classified as low-grade artifacts.

  This Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife was originally a loose cultivator's weapon. He had no hope of making progress in his cultivation, so he gave up the idea of continuing to cultivate and instead married, had children, and started a family. However, none of his descendants had spiritual roots, and as time passed, the family declined. His descendants didn't even remember that they had an ancestor who was a cultivator. Many things left behind by the loose cultivator were sold to pawnshops by his descendants for money. In the end, only this Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife remained.

  Later, a descendant of the scattered cultivators got drunk and boasted outside that his family had a precious sword that could cut through iron like mud, which was overheard by Wang Yonggui.

  Wang Yonggui then took advantage of the scattered remnants of the family's bloodline and snatched away the Dragon Head Goose Feather Knife.

  The problem of Longshou Yanling knife has not been solved even before the scattered cultivation.