Volume 1 Chapter 22: Frosty Sword Aura Without Worries

  A faint blue light extended from the hilt of the sword, forming a layer of transparent halos in the golden sunlight. Countless points of light jumped and wandered on the cold blade, as if they were living spirits.

  This was the first time Fang Ruo had closely and carefully observed a sword. The sword was about three feet long, two inches wide, with a pale blue blade edge, and the words "Qingfeng" were engraved on it.

  Held in hand, one can clearly feel a thread of icy coolness emanating from the sword body, undoubtedly, this sword had been refined by a water-attribute Five Elements Stone, hence, it always carries this gloomy and cold aura.

  It can be said that this sword has far surpassed the Moonlight Short Sword of Fang Ruo. If the Moonlight Short Sword is barely usable by ordinary mortals, then this top-grade sword would harm even an ordinary mortal who dares to touch it with its cold and gloomy aura.

  Feng Ru definitely knew that if it weren't for his recent surge in magical power and the huge change in his condensation level, he wouldn't be able to hold onto this sword for such a long time.

  Slowly pouring magic into the sword, a low, clear hum suddenly came from the sword, and that blue light quickly turned into countless blue particles, rapidly rotating, just in an instant, with Feng Ruofei as the center, the temperature within three feet of the surrounding area dropped rapidly, and countless blue ice crystals danced in the air, while the grass on the ground was instantly frozen into sculptures.

  "Good sword!" Feng Ru couldn't help but praise, this top-grade sword could carry at least three times the amount of spiritual power as the Moonlight Short Sword! And this also meant that he could unleash three times the attack!

  "Break!" A low shout, and the sword in Feng Ruo's hand swiftly drew a semicircle in mid-air. Under the traction of her internal energy, countless blue ice crystals were set in motion by the sword, looking like a blue whirlwind!

  When these blue ice crystals were fully mobilized, Feng Ruo suddenly swept the sword in his hand towards a giant tree three feet away. In that instant, those countless ice crystals seemed like a dragon rushing out to sea, and they violently struck, instantly freezing half of the tree trunk!

  When the cold air completely dissipated, Feng Ruo slowly shook his head. He had just imitated Ma Yuan's Thunderbolt Sword from yesterday, which was also three zhang away and roughly the same thickness as the giant tree. However, Ma Yuan's sword not only easily cut the giant tree in half but also froze the entire tree solid.

  However, what he can do now is only to freeze nearly half of the tree trunk, and the sword energy has not even scratched the bark, let alone cutting it off at the waist. Although Ma Yuan used a second-rate sword, which had a great advantage, but from this we can also judge that Ma Yuan's magical power far surpasses his by a large margin.

  But this horse is just one of Chu Tian's subordinates, from which it can be inferred how terrifying Chu Tian is!

  "It seems I'm still too arrogant!" Feng Ruo slightly shook her head, if it were a direct confrontation, she's probably not even a match for Liang Shi, let alone Ma Yuan and Chu Tian. But now she has become the thorn in their eyes, the pain in their flesh. Although due to the relationship with the Heavenly Machine Institute, there's no need to worry about anything for the time being, but if she doesn't seize the opportunity to enhance her strength, she'll have nowhere to go!

  She casually slung the sword on her back, and then took out the Moonlight Short Sword to destroy the surrounding aura, before entering a nearby dense forest.

  Back in the space where the Wooden Spirit Stone was located, Feng Ruo did not immediately continue to strengthen the sword, despite his hand holding the Five Elements Stones that could completely bring out more than a dozen water-attribute ones, and the sword still had room for further refinement. However, he didn't do so because his magical powers were still relatively weak.

  Don't look at him now being able to continuously cast Flame Blade more than a dozen times, but based on the previous attempt, if he were to exert his full strength and cast Frost Sword Qi, he could only cast it four or five times in a row, which may not be truly safe.

  Furthermore, what troubles him is that the restored spiritual power from Huo Lüo San is not enough to support the deployment of Frost Sword Qi, which also means that when he encounters real danger, his spiritual power may be exhausted.

  So if he chooses to continue refining and strengthening, it's possible that the number of times he can wield Frost Sword Qi will be reduced. It seems this is also why Liang Shi didn't continue refining and strengthening.

  She let out a soft sigh, and took out the Snow Spirit Butterfly, letting it fly freely in this small space, while she herself began to cultivate according to the second layer of heart method of Qingyun Incantation that she had silently memorized earlier.

  In the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed. During this period, although he had the abundant spiritual energy of the Wooden Spirit Stone to aid him, Feng Ruo's cultivation did not grow as rapidly as it had before.

  He was very clear about this, because in the past six months, he had been practicing hard every day, but due to the lack of spiritual energy, he was forced into a bottleneck. With the help of the Wooden Spirit Stone, he would make rapid progress, but now, he must practice step by step, otherwise, if his foundation is unstable, the danger will be even greater!

  At this time, because the agreed date with Qu Yun and others was approaching, Feng Ruo also didn't plan to continue meditating. He brought Xue Lingdie and left this space. When passing through that dark cave, he deliberately looked around and found that the silver spider had actually run to the other side, as if it had already acknowledged his existence.

  This made Feng Ruo feel both amused and depressed. The amusing thing was that the spider was too clever, knowing it couldn't win, immediately retreated far away. What's depressing is, how can he collect spider silk like this?

  But now Fang Ruo has no way to force the silver spider to spit out silk, and he can't bear to kill it just like that, so for the time being, he won't bother with it, and wait until later when he has time to think of a solution.

  After completely sealing the gap and disguising it, he made sure it was hard to be discovered before leaving Xiaogu Valley, unsealing Bai Yuhe, and flying towards the main peak of Qingyun Mountain.

  As soon as he entered the main peak, a purple light flew over from the direction of the Qingyun Sect mountain gate and stopped in front of Feng Ru. When the purple light disappeared, a palm-sized, lifelike purple crane appeared!

  When he saw the purple crane, Feng Ruofu was stunned for a moment, and then carefully grasped it in his hand. He knew what this thing was - an item used by the higher-ups of the Qingyun Sect to transmit messages, but its range was limited to within the main peak of Qingyun Mountain, and it couldn't be used beyond that.

  But what made Feng Ruo feel strange was that the high-level officials of Qingyun Sect would find themselves? Moreover, they even used such a high-end communication method. You know, even if Chu Tian was arrogant, he didn't have the qualifications to use this thing.

  With some trepidation, she took out the paper strip from the purple crane's mouth and unfolded it to take a look. Feng Ruo immediately froze, as there were only two words written on it - "Pay back!"