Chapter Forty-Six: Refining the Sword

  As long as you're not dead, it's all good!

  This is Kong Zhan's point of view. For someone as afraid of death as he is, death is the most terrifying thing. However, as long as one hasn't died, no matter what kind of punishment it is, it doesn't count for much. As long as one can keep their life, they won't be afraid of not having firewood to burn. So, when Kong Zhan heard that Zhou Xue was locked up in Suotianfeng, his hanging heart finally put down.

  Before this, what he was most worried about was that Zhou Qing would get angry and slap Xiao Yazi to death in a fit of rage.

  "This might be the best outcome, but this time, Luofu can be said to have lost face all the way home. Who knows how he'll show his face outside after being scolded by Master Shi!" With such a faintly malicious thought, Kong Zhuo returned to his own residence.

  This time, although almost died outside, but the benefits gained are also great, mainly in the breakthrough of Mahavairocana's Golden Body Mantra.

  In the midst of the molten lava sea, he absorbed so much alcohol and the unparalleled true fire of the sun, causing his Mahavairocana Golden Body Technique to be elevated several times over. Naturally, this elevation was very difficult to discern on the surface.

  The Mahavairocana Sutra is essentially a mantra of the Wu school, and the most important aspect of the Wu school's practice is to refine the body. It emphasizes the attainment of sainthood through physical cultivation, so initially, the true teachings of the Wu school focus on refining the body, which is a long and arduous process.

  However, as a result of Kong Zhuan's accidental absorption of so much solar true fire, his body underwent earth-shattering changes under the effect of the self-operating witchcraft.

  Not to mention that after the physical body has been shattered and reorganized nine times, its strength has increased by more than a hundredfold. Just talking about his meridians, all over his body, the twelve regular meridians, the eight extraordinary meridians, each of the meridians, the first pulse has undergone earth-shaking changes.

  These changes may be felt by him alone.

  The meridians of ordinary people are very fragile and cannot hold too much true yuan. The cultivation process of practitioners is to accumulate true yuan in the body, and secondly, to use the accumulated true yuan to nourish the meridians, making them gradually stable, so that they can hold more and stronger true yuan.

  The process of warming up the meridians and making them strong and stable was extremely arduous, but now Kong Zhu felt that he could almost ignore this process.

  After being tempered in the solar true fire of the terrestrial magma, his meridians had been strengthened countless times, not only strengthening but also becoming extremely resilient, just like the rubber bands he played with when he was young, full of elasticity, and it seemed that he no longer had to worry about the problem of counter-attacking the meridians due to too much true yuan.

  So, although he didn't make any progress in his own True Yuan cultivation of the Innate Purple Qi this time, he laid an extremely good foundation for his future cultivation, which could even be said to be a freakish foundation. After this tempering, he even thought that even if he cultivated to the level of Unity with the Dao and entered the Heavenly Spirit's Dao, the True Yuan that his meridians could hold would still be more than enough. The path of cultivation in front of him was no longer like before, filled with thorns, unable to see the road ahead or the future. In front of him, a straight and bright great path was waiting for him to walk on it.

  Sitting cross-legged on his bed, Kong Yan's eyes stared intently at the spot in front of him, where his short sword was quietly suspended just three inches away.

  The congenital purple energy has reached the fifth layer realm, but the tenth meridian of the twelve regular meridians has not been opened up. This is the most depressing place for him. As the meridians are strengthened, the connections between the meridians have become extremely stable, and the amount of true yuan required to impact the meridian orifices has increased by more than tenfold!

  Looking at his own calculations, in the near decade, if there weren't any special encounters, he wouldn't be able to break through the fifth layer. So, he decided that from now on, he would place the focus of his cultivation on the sword. A Sword Immortal without a sword? What's the point of that?

  Although he was extremely confident in his swordsmanship, he also knew that he was still some distance away from the highest level of the sword. Therefore, he decided to focus his main energy on the sword.

  Sword!

  At this time, the sword was suspended in front of him, and the body of the sword, condensed from the Western Tai Bai Yuan Jing and the Tian He Xing Sha, revealed a python pattern. Kong Zhuo knew that this was the sword spirit transformed by the White Python Yuanshen.

  The sword's spirit was inside the sword body, surging and howling, as if it would burst out of the broken sword at any moment.

  Taking a deep breath, the true yuan inside his body circulated, and he slightly opened his mouth. According to the records in the manuscript given by Mo Xuetuo Chen Sen, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of true yuan towards that short sword.

  "Ah...... uh......?" The breath had just been released and hadn't even reached the sword yet, but Kong Zhuang was already frightened stiff.

  What is this?

  In his opinion, the cultivation he practiced was the most orthodox and correct method, the innate purple energy, and what came out should be filled with spiritual energy, the purple energy, but what came out of him was a pure green flame!

  The green, scorching flames just happened to be sprayed onto that sword by Kong Zhuo's unintentional movement.

  Heaven knows what happened.

  When the green flame came into contact with the sword body, Mo Xiu's short sword, which was said to be invincible and was condensed from the Western Tai Bai Yuan Jing and the Tian He Star Sand, actually began to show signs of melting.

  Kong Zhan was greatly shocked, and he couldn't care less why he had sprayed out this thing. According to the method described in the manuscript, he concentrated his mind and energy, and began to connect his primordial spirit with the short sword that was melting away.

  This sword was originally condensed at the beginning of his cultivation, and it had a close connection with his primordial spirit. At that time, Kong Zhuo could only put it into his primordial spirit to nurture it, using his primordial spirit to control it. He didn't have the ability to merge it with his primordial spirit like he did now, almost completely fusing it into his body, making it a part of himself.

  At least when his primordial spirit came into contact with the sword, Kong Zhuo felt that he had completely become a part of his own body. This feeling was very strange. According to the manual left by Mo Xiu, Kong Zhuo could clearly feel the sword body begin to disintegrate, and the Western Taibai Yuanshen and Tianhe Star Sand began to disperse into countless tiny particles, merging into the green flame he had just spat out. At the same time, the sword spirit sealed within the sword, that is, the white python's primordial spirit, began to become restless.

  It was not just unrest, when the Western Taibai Yuanjing and Tianhe Xingsha were refined into fine particles, the sword spirit that had lost its restraints seemed to have seen a free future, and suddenly broke through the original prohibition. However, at the moment it broke through the prohibition, the green flame had already wrapped it in three layers inside and out, and then began to refine it.

  The sword hilt began to emit a strange screeching sound, as if it wanted to resist the refining of the green flame, but where could it still resist?

  This unexpected green flame that had enveloped the sword spirit began to exhibit strange refining powers without any courtesy.

  Temperature!

  Extremely high temperature!

  Reached an extreme and at the same time converged to an extreme, all the heat was condensed to a point, which is essence, and also decomposed and vaporized in an instant.

  Yes, vaporized.

  The Western Taibai Yuanshen and the Tianhe Xingsha were both vaporized in this green flame.

  Jian Pu's primordial spirit was wrapped inside, and although he struggled with all his might, he couldn't shake it off. Under the extremely high temperature, signs of decomposition began to appear.

  However, things changed when they got here. The red internal elixir that was obtained from the white python's corpse and was being nurtured in Kong Zhuan's divine sense suddenly sensed something and jumped violently.

  Zi Kong Zhan's primordial spirit escaped from his body and jumped into the green flames.

  At this time, the green flame had become somewhat viscous after decomposing the short sword and the sword scabbard. After the inner elixir jumped in, it brought with it a breath of air from the ancient wilderness, which began to emanate outwards, stirring up the green flame and making it darker.

  The ancient wild aura, that is the aura from the distant Honghuang era, that is the most pure and ancient aura emitted by all living beings' ancestors, which is also the most noble aura, at this moment, it was emitted from within the inner elixir.

  After coming into contact with this breath, Kong Zhuan's primordial spirit began to become unstable.

  The primordial savage aura began to invade Kong Zhuan's yuan Shen, and the sword spirit also started merging with the inner elixir.

  At this time, the green flame grew even dimmer, as if it were about to go out.

  Kong Zhan was shocked, the True Yuan rapidly changed direction, and another mouthful of green flames suddenly spewed out, spraying directly onto the Yuandan and Sword Energy.

  The merging Yuan Dan and Sword Spirit began to tremble, meanwhile, the ancient wild aura started pouring out from the Yuan Dan, resisting the green flames spewed by Kong Zhuo.

  "Damn it, I don't believe it!" Looking at that extremely thin and weak, yet extremely stubborn and unrecognizable wild aura that was suppressing his true yuan green flames, Kong Zhuo suddenly felt a surge of anger.

  He opened his mouth and another burst of green flames spewed out.