After pondering Lin Qi's words carefully, Su Xing returned to Xiaozhu Peak as if he had lost his soul.
No matter which way you interpret it, Lynch's last words seemed to be threatening Su Xing not to go further on the road of testing the opponent's bottom line.
"It seems that Zhou Yue's matter is closely related to Lin Qi."
Late at night, Su Xing sat on his bed, leaning against the wall, and carefully recalled what happened today.
First, when everyone was waiting for Qin Zicheng to come to apologize, Lin Qi suddenly appeared and said that he had made good friends with Qin Zimo from Shenji Taoist Academy and accepted his apology.
Then, after Su Xing read the letter from the Law Enforcement Hall aloud softly, Lynch showed a somewhat impatient reaction. All signs indicated that there was a deeper conspiracy behind him.
But what exactly is Lin Qi’s hidden conspiracy? Who is involved in this conspiracy? Why didn’t Wang Yu give Lin Qi to the Law Enforcement Hall even at the risk of being revoked?
Mysteries emerged in Su Xing's mind one after another, making him look confused.
But there was only one thing that Su Xing was extremely sure of.
He wanted to bring Lin Qi out of the shadows into broad daylight, so that fellow disciples of Yuyang Taoist Temple could see his true face, and let the Law Enforcement Hall see the real culprit behind Zhou Yue's death.
The reason why he did this was because Lynch's approach of treating human life as nothing was contrary to his Taoist conscience.
This is not an easy project, and before the whole conspiracy can be destroyed, Su Xing must first gain a foothold in the Three Great Courtyards.
The ferocious aura that erupted from Lin Qi today made Su Xing know that there was still a huge gap between him and the perfect warriors of the Huayuan Realm. In less than five months before the year-end academy examination, he could only become more powerful than before.
Only by practicing hard can you realize the ideas in your mind.
After having the plan and goal in mind, Su Xing finally breathed a sigh of relief, fell on the pillow and fell into a deep sleep.
"Hoo, ho, ho."
After a while, the sound of Su Xing sleeping soundly came from the quiet bamboo house.
However, the two objects placed on the bedside wooden cabinet next to Su Xing's bed actually emitted a faint light at the same time.
The mysterious blue stone and the rusty unknown sword returned to its sheath, just touching each other, suddenly emitted a faint light.
Immediately afterwards, the blue shimmer on the crystal stone turned into strands of thread, slowly flying towards the rusty scabbard.
The blue silk threads first wrapped the rusty scabbard like silk, then flowed into the scabbard along the gaps in the scabbard, and then wrapped around the blade.
After the entire long sword was surrounded by blue silk threads, a ray of light suddenly appeared in the sky above Xiaozhu Peak and shot straight into the sky.
Inside the bamboo house, I saw that the traces of rust on the scabbard and blade began to disappear rapidly. In the end, although there were still some traces of rust, they were greatly improved compared to the original.
Looking closely, after the rust on the sword faded away, strange stripes appeared faintly.
There are nine stripes as thick as tree branches, starting from the hilt of the iron sword and converging into one point after reaching the blade.
And now, one of the nine stripes is emitting the same blue light as the stone.
Although these stripes look very similar to the spiritual patterns mastered by weapon refiners, there are obvious differences.
The spiritual patterns of the weapon refiner need to be stimulated by the vitality to make them appear. The patterns on the Wuming Sword are as if they were carved on the sword with instruments, leaving deep marks on the blade.
And fine carvings.
In the quiet bamboo house, the mysterious stone was burning like a small sun, but Su Xing, who was sleeping soundly, did not notice the changes around him at all.
For a moment, the light on the stone dimmed, and a few cracks and some impurities appeared on the originally crystal clear stone body. The Nameless Sword returned to normal after a flash of light, but most of the rust on the sword had faded.
…
When Su Xing discovered the strangeness on the Wuming Sword, it was already during sword practice the next morning.
As usual, he came to the quiet bamboo forest on the south side of Xiaozhu Peak to practice sword practice, but when he was about to draw his sword, he realized something was wrong.
"The rust seems to have...disappeared? And what's going on with this pattern? Is it a spiritual pattern?"
He stroked the notches on the sword's blade, a puzzled look on his face.
It was obviously the same before going to bed yesterday, why did it become like this after sleeping?
He used a few sword moves on the spot and found that there was no difference from before.
"That's all. It's always a good thing that the rust has faded. I'll go down the mountain in the future and find a better refiner to see how weird this sword is."
After that, Su Xing started a new round of practice.
After realizing the gap between himself and Lin Qi, Su Xing formulated a practice plan in his mind that was several times more intense than the original one.
He previously set a goal for himself to practice basic sword postures 5,000 times a day and perform sword skills 1,000 times a day.
But now, he decided to increase the practice of basic sword postures to 10,000 times and double the sword skills he learned.
The practice of swordsmanship is nothing more than three types: basic sword style, swordsmanship and state of mind.
The three are interrelated and there is no distinction between them.
Basic sword postures affect the speed at which a sword cultivator learns sword skills, and sword techniques affect a sword cultivator's ability in combat. The sword cultivator's state of mind is the key to whether Su Xing can quickly comprehend the sword's power.
After the daily practice of kendo is completed, there is training in martial arts.
With the help of the Devouring Creation Art, Su Xing could practice several secret books at the same time, achieving the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort in practice.
Moreover, because of the unique "unity" nature of the Secret of Creation, the secrets learned by Su Xing will echo each other and combine with each other when functioning, thus achieving a comprehensive understanding.
When using the Phantom Body, the Chaoyang Body also plays a role, as does the Qingxin Jue and Kaiyuan Jue.
Therefore, he doesn't have to worry about whether others will discover and suspect that he practices secret books with different attributes at the same time, because what he uses is a brand-new technique that is the integration of several secret books!
The secret book "Subduing Demons" he newly obtained is a required course for most fire practitioners in Shenji Taoist Academy.
Different from the phantom body that absorbs the energy of the beast core and the Chaoyang body that tempers its body with the yang energy of heaven and earth, the practice of the Demon Subduing Sutra is divided into nine heavens. Each heaven requires the cultivator to use the demon blood of a ferocious beast of the corresponding level.
As a material, it can temper the limbs and bones, nourish the meridians and acupuncture points, and strengthen the vitality of the Dantian.
The Demon Subduing Sutra practiced by different cultivators is also divided into strengths and weaknesses. When practicing the Demon Subduing Sutra, the stronger the demon blood absorbed by the host is, the better the effect of that level will be on improving the warrior.
In the next month, Su Xing began to lead a three-point and one-line life. Every few days, he would go to the Law Enforcement Hall to take a mission into the mountains, and while performing the mission, he would collect the demon blood of powerful ferocious beasts of various levels.
The depths behind Duanyang Forest are still inaccessible to him with his current strength, so in the end, he can only stop at the sixth level of the practice of the Demon Subduing Sutra.
For a month, there are always terrible phenomena in the mountains of Xiaozhu Peak accompanied by the roar of ferocious beasts.
The howl of the Claw Wolf when it rubs its sharp claws, the low cry of the Water Swallower when it releases its water cannon, the roar of the Heart-Eating Tiger when it intimidates its enemies...
These chilling sights and sounds frightened many sect disciples who flew over the mountain, thinking that monsters had entered the sect.
But after remembering that the mountain peak under their feet was called Xiaozhu Peak, people stopped talking.
…
Time flies, and as the year-end academy exams get closer and closer, news also spreads within the sect that the geniuses from various Taoist academies who have been in seclusion for a long time have appeared one after another.
Such news immediately reignited the competition between the three Taoist temples. For a time, the sentence "So-and-so brother and sister of such-and-such Taoist temple have finished their retreat, and now their strength is so-and-so" has become a hot topic among the disciples.
Enjoy talking about topics.
The figures of these geniuses who had not been born in seclusion for more than half a year began to appear in their Taoist temples again.