Asking about longevity

Arriving at the Demon Refining Mountain, the morning glow covered the mountain and the vegetation was lush.

Although it was a dangerous forest full of monsters, Mo Hua was like taking a walk, with a relaxed look, brisk steps, and humming a little tune.

When he reached the foot of a hillside, Mo Hua stopped and took out fruit wine, cakes, and dried meat from his storage bag. He ate them with relish while looking at the mountain scenery in the morning.

After a while, a figure came from a distance.

Mo Hua immediately stood up, waved his hand with joy and shouted:

"Situ, this way!"

A tall and handsome young man with the Lihuo Sword on his back also smiled and greeted him when he heard the voice, and walked towards Mo Hua.

The man who came was Situ Jian.

He was also found by Mo Hua, the "sparring partner" for flying swords.

In fact, both of them are from Lizhou, so they should be fellow villagers.

When Mo Hua was in Lizhou before, he had met the Situ family and knew many cultivators including Situ Fang, Situ Xiu, and Elder Situ Jin.

However, the Situ family was very large, and these people should be considered as branches of the Situ family, and they were probably not familiar with Situ Jian.

Mo Hua did not mention it.

The two of them were in the mountains, enjoying the morning glow and the mountain scenery, eating fine wine and delicacies.

After eating and drinking, they officially started practicing swords.

Before practicing sword, Situ Jian was still a little confused:

"Junior Brother, you are not a sword cultivator, right? Why do you suddenly want to fly a sword?"

Mo Hua looked serious and made up a story:

"The Duanjin Sect is stingy by nature and uses despicable means. Although it has temporarily stopped, it is possible that it will come back again in the future. Therefore, we must take precautions and study more about the method of flying a sword."

"And it's not just Duanjin Sect. There are so many sword cultivators in this Qianxuezhou. We must learn more to avoid being tricked by them in the future..."

"Know yourself and the enemy, so you can fight a hundred battles without danger."

"Oh." Situ Jian nodded slowly and praised, "You are worthy of being a junior brother, you think far ahead."

"Is it far?"

"Yes." Situ Jian said, "The real 'flying a sword' is a sword move that can only be learned in the late stage of foundation building and can only be achieved in the Jindan realm."

Mo Hua was stunned, "So far?"

Situ Jian silently Looking at Mo Hua, he thought to himself, "So, you, my little brother, don't know anything..."

Situ Jian sighed, found a big rock to sit on, and started to tell Mo Hua from the beginning:

"Any sword cultivator who practices sword must start with sword energy. Using spiritual power to transform sword is the foundation of swordsmanship."

"But when a sword cultivator first learns sword, the sword energy transformed by spiritual power is not strong, so it is necessary to use a spiritual sword to amplify the sword energy and enhance the killing power."

"The earlier the cultivation, the shallower the sword energy, the weaker the sword energy, and the more the sword cultivator relies on the sword."

"And in the later stage, the cultivation deepens, the sword energy strengthens, and you can do it without a sword in your hand. The body is the sword, and you are not particularly dependent on the sword."

"Of course, a sword cultivator with a sword will still be very strong."

"This is because the 'controlling sword' method that combines sword energy and sword has extraordinary lethality when the two are superimposed."

"How strong can it be?" Mo Hua was very curious.

Situ Jian shook his head, "I don't know..."

Mo Hua: "..."

Situ Jian was a little embarrassed and said, "Anyway, it's very strong... But I haven't learned the real 'Lihuo Yujian Jue' yet, so I don't know how strong it is."

"So, the Broken Gold Sword Jue we met before, used by the Broken Gold Yujian Jue, is not the real 'Sword Control'?"

"Which Broken Gold Sword?"

"The one who was stripped of his clothes, hung on a tree, and had a turtle drawn on him."

"Oh." Situ Jian remembered and nodded, "Yes."

Situ Jian explained to Mo Hua: "He did practice the Yujian Jue, but with his cultivation and sword attainments, It is not enough to perform the real sword control, so his sword control is still at the shallow level of sword energy..."

"Real sword control..."

Situ Jian's expression was stern, and his eyes were full of yearning:

"First, you must cultivate the sword energy to be very powerful."

"Then try to merge the sword energy with the sword."

"Then use the spirit consciousness to control the spirit sword that has merged with the sword energy, lock the enemy, and kill the enemy with the flying sword from a distance."

"Only this way of sword control, using the spirit consciousness to control the sword, and also merge the sword energy, the three are combined into one, and you can cultivate to a high level, and then you can cultivate the 'sword intent' step by step..."

"Sword intent?!"

Mo Hua's expression changed, and he was shocked.

Situ Jian was startled and asked in a low voice:

"Junior Brother, is there something wrong?"

Mo Hua then realized that he was a little excited, and immediately pretended to be calm, patted Situ Jian on the shoulder and said:

"No, you are right!"

"Go on..."

Situ Jian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "That's all..."

Mo Hua was stunned, "That's all?"

Situ Jian nodded and said: "The things after the sword meaning are too profound, my cultivation is still shallow, I can't comprehend it..."

Let alone the sword meaning, he hasn't even learned how to "control the sword".

"Okay." Mo Hua sighed.

Although it was a pity that he could not ask about the deeper "sword intention", he at least understood an important point:

The sword is controlled by the spiritual consciousness, and the sword energy, sword weapon and spiritual consciousness are integrated into one, so that the "sword intention" can be nurtured.

Controlling the sword is the culmination of the method of combining sword energy and sword weapon.

But at the same time, it is also the beginning of "sword intention".

This kind of thing is very critical, and it is a bit "out of scope", and the Taoist teachings of the sect will not teach it.

The method of controlling the sword...

If it can only be learned in the late stage of foundation building, it can only be achieved in the Jindan realm.

That is at least the next late stage of foundation building, and it may even be a method that can be taught after entering the inner sect.

As expected, there must be a teacher among three people. It is always good to ask for advice from fellow disciples when there is nothing to do.

Mo Hua nodded secretly in his heart.

"Then how to control the sword with spiritual consciousness?"

"Is it the same as controlling objects with spiritual consciousness?"

"Use spiritual consciousness to control the spirit sword and stab it far away?"

Mo Hua asked curiously again.

Situ Jian said: "The general process of flying a sword is to accumulate sword energy first, then inject the sword energy into the spirit sword, and then control the sword with spiritual consciousness."

"After the spiritual consciousness, the spirit sword and the sword energy are integrated into one, and the state of complete 'flying the sword' is reached, then use the spiritual consciousness to search for the enemy, fly the sword through the air, and kill the enemy from a distance..."

"Flying a sword is based on controlling objects. The stronger the object is, the better the foundation of flying a sword is."

"But flying a sword is more difficult than controlling objects, consumes more spiritual consciousness, and it is more difficult to search for the enemy..."

Mo Hua remembered every word.

However, he directly skipped the part of "accumulating sword energy and injecting it into the spirit sword".

Because his sword energy was too weak, injecting it into the spirit sword was useless.

He planned to directly use the "sword formation" instead.

If these two parts are omitted, there is no need for so much "foreplay". Simply and directly, search for the enemy with spiritual consciousness, break the air with the sword, and kill the enemy from a distance.

The rest can be left to the "formation".

"How to use the spiritual consciousness to control the sword and kill the enemy is actually a special method of using the spiritual consciousness. It requires learning a special method of controlling the sword..."

Situ Jian said this with a slightly apologetic look, and said to Mo Hua, "My Situ family does have a method of 'spiritual consciousness to control the sword'. Before I entered the sect, my father asked me to carry it with me and let me learn it in the future..."

"But this is a family inheritance and cannot be passed on to others. I can't tell you..."

Situ Jian was very frank.

"Yeah, it's okay." Mo Hua nodded.

He understood Situ Jian's intention.

But he actually had the method of controlling the sword.

The "Broken Gold Sword Controlling Technique" in the Broken Gold Jade Slip obtained from Boss Jiang, one part of which included the method of 'controlling the sword'.

Mo Hua had secretly studied it last night.

But some sword terms were obscure, and Mo Hua didn't understand them very well.

Now that Situ Jian started from the basics of swordsmanship and explained the methods of controlling the sword in a relatively comprehensive manner, Mo Hua gradually began to understand.

Mo Hua sighed slightly.

After all, his foundation in swordsmanship was too poor.

There were some things that Situ Jian didn't tell him, and he couldn't figure out by himself.

"There is also the issue of spiritual consciousness..."

Situ Jian continued, "Spiritual consciousness controls the sword. If the spiritual consciousness is not strong, it is naturally impossible to control the sword, so spiritual consciousness is also the key to controlling the sword..."

"As we all know, the external release of spiritual consciousness has a range."

"From the beginning of foundation building, one spiritual consciousness is roughly equivalent to a distance of ten feet. Generally, in the early stage of foundation building, the spiritual consciousness is about eleven lines, and can be released for more than a hundred feet..."

"When it reaches the peak of foundation building, the spiritual consciousness has nineteen lines, and the distance of the spiritual consciousness is more than a hundred and several dozen feet, infinitely close to two hundred feet, but will not reach two hundred feet..."

"If you break through the golden elixir, it will be directly four hundred feet..."

Mo Hua nodded slightly, "So generally, for late foundation building cultivators, the distance of spiritual consciousness controlling the sword is about one hundred and ninety feet?"

Situ Jian shook his head, "Not that far."

Mo Hua has A little surprised, a little thought and then understood:

"Will it still decay?"

"Of course," Situ Jian nodded, "When the spiritual consciousness is released freely, the range is naturally the farthest, but once it controls an object, the distance will decay."

"If it is a more difficult sword control, the decay will be even more severe."

"Generally speaking, when a foundation-building sword cultivator controls the sword with spiritual consciousness, the range of the spiritual consciousness released may even decay by more than half."

Mo Hua was slightly stunned, "So, even in the late stage of foundation building, the range of the spiritual consciousness controlling the sword is about a hundred feet?"

Situ Jian nodded slightly, "Excluding those gifted sword geniuses, the general sword cultivator is about the same."

"Genius sword genius? Do we have any in Taixu Sect?"

Mo Hua asked, and then silently looked at Situ Jian, whose name contained the word "sword".

Situ Jian was embarrassed by Mo Hua's look and sighed:

"Little Senior Brother, don't look at me... My talent is indeed among the best in the Situ family, or in the states near the Situ family..."

"But when I got to Qianxuezhou, I could only rank in the middle."

"As for Taixu Sect, although there are people with better swordsmanship than me, they are not much better."

Situ Jian paused, looked at Mo Hua, and said helplessly:

"Although this is a bit harsh, it is also true..."

"Generally speaking, a swordsman with such talent will join the Tianjian Sect, which is the best swordsmanship among the four major sects, and will also choose from the other three sects among the four major sects."

"Such a swordsmanship genius will not I have been worshipped by my Taixu Sect. After all, the sword tradition of my Taixu Sect is really unremarkable..."

"It can't be said that it is unremarkable. It's just some sword techniques. It's not as good as the best, but better than the worst..."

Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly and asked in a low voice:

"Situ, have you heard of 'Divine Mind Transformed Sword'?"

Situ Jian was stunned, "Divine Mind Transformed Sword? What kind of sword technique is this?"

Mo Hua saw that he had never heard of it, so he said, "Nothing, I heard it from a storyteller, I don't know if it's true or not."

Situ Jian felt helpless.

Can you believe the storyteller's words...

When the little brother is reliable, he is really reliable.

But sometimes he talks nonsense, which seems a little... naive and unreliable.

Mo Hua said again: "I have learned a little bit about flying a sword. Can you check for me if the technique is correct..."

"Yes." Situ Jian nodded, but he was stunned halfway through nodding, with a confused look on his face:

"Junior brother, where did you learn 'flying a sword'?"

"Besides, you are only in the middle stage of foundation building."

"Also, you are not a sword cultivator, you don't cultivate sword energy, the spirit sword and sword energy cannot be integrated, how can you fly a sword?"

Mo Hua "hushed" and whispered to Situ Jian: "I learned it secretly, don't tell others."

He said he "learned it secretly", but his expression was righteous.

Seeing Mo Hua being so "honest", Situ Jian nodded blankly.

"I don't cultivate sword energy, I just use my spiritual consciousness to fly the sword, try the effect, and practice for fun..."

As he said, Mo Hua took out a "broken sword".

It was a broken sword, but it wasn't that broken. It was just dirty and had been stuck in some corner for a long time. It was covered with dust and rust.

It was the first time that Situ Jian saw someone using a "broken sword" to practice flying the sword...

As expected of a junior brother, his thinking and behavior were different from those of ordinary people.

"Okay." Situ Jian sighed, "Then let's try the range of flying the sword first."

He looked around, then chose a direction, pointed to the hillside on the other side and said, "Junior brother, you stand here and fly the sword to the opposite hillside."

"Okay!" Mo Hua nodded.

Then he recalled the method of "Flying the Sword" in the Broken Gold Sword Art, and began to operate his spiritual consciousness to control the worn-out spiritual sword.

The method of flying the sword is a special method of "controlling objects".

Controlling ink with spiritual consciousness can also be considered as controlling objects.

However, controlling ink emphasizes the complexity and flexibility of spiritual consciousness control.

And flying the sword with spiritual consciousness emphasizes instantaneous strong pressure and extremely fast flying sword.

But as long as it is a method of spiritual consciousness, it is not a difficult task for Mo Hua.

No matter how difficult it is to control the sword with spiritual consciousness, it cannot be compared with the calculation of the heavenly secrets and the mysterious and unpredictable calculations in the spiritual consciousness method.

Mo Hua began to control the sword.

He concentrated his mind, held his breath, released his spiritual consciousness, and "grasped" the old spiritual sword in front of him tightly, achieving complete "control of the object".

Then he glanced at the opposite hillside, and his spiritual consciousness suddenly strengthened and flowed at a high speed, giving the spiritual sword a strong potential energy.

Then a golden light flashed.

Situ Jian only heard a "whoosh" sound, and the sword light in front of him flickered, drawing a golden line, which flashed and disappeared, and then the spiritual sword disappeared.

He didn't even react to what happened.

Too fast...

Situ Jian looked at the opposite hillside, his expression was a little dazed.

"Where's the sword?"

It was clearly flying towards the opposite hillside, how come the sword is gone?

Situ Jian looked far away, and suddenly his expression was slightly shocked.

Behind the hillside, there is a forest.

This sword...

seems to have flown over the hillside and disappeared into the opposite forest.

"No way..."

Situ Jian suppressed his surprise, performed a body technique, and arrived at the opposite forest in a few flashes. He released his spiritual sense and searched for a while, and indeed found a spiritual sword embedded in the forest.

The spiritual sword was worn out and rusty, and it was the broken sword of the junior brother.

Situ Jian looked back and estimated the distance, and a storm surged in his heart.

This is estimated to be...

One hundred and seventy or eighty feet? !

Situ Jian's scalp tingled, unbelievable.

This junior brother of his is a pervert.

Is it reasonable to fly a sword for one hundred and seventy or eighty feet in the middle stage of foundation building?

Situ Jian sighed, picked up the broken sword, returned to Mo Hua, and couldn't help asking:

"Little Senior Brother, how strong is your spiritual sense?"

Mo Hua said vaguely: "It's just the average... the consciousness of the middle stage of foundation building, maybe a little bit stronger, after all, I am a formation master, I draw formations every day."

Situ Jian was in a complicated mood.

Your "little bit" may be a little too strong.

He and Mo Hua are from the same sect, and they live in the same disciple house. They are together day and night. He knew that Mo Hua's consciousness was strong, but he never expected that it could be so strong.

No wonder the little brother can learn the formation so well.

No wonder Mr. Xun appointed him as the "little brother" in the formation.

Situ Jian didn't get to the bottom of it.

Because everyone's talent for cultivation is different, the little brother's blood and spiritual power are so weak, but he can be admitted to the Taixu Sect. In other aspects, he must have outstanding features.

Just like some people are born with thick blood, some are born with good spiritual roots, and some are born with high swordsmanship.

The little brother may be born with a strong consciousness.

Situ Jian didn't learn formations or cultivate his spiritual consciousness. He wasn't very sensitive to the realm of spiritual consciousness, and didn't quite understand what this meant.

He was more shocked by another thing:

"Junior Brother, the distance of your flying sword... didn't decay?"

Mo Hua was startled, thought for a while, and nodded slowly:

"It seems to be..."

His current spiritual consciousness is at the peak of the seventeenth pattern, just a little short of the eighteenth pattern.

And the distance of flying sword seems to be just stuck between 170 and 180 feet, which is the limit of his spiritual consciousness.

The distance of the spiritual consciousness is just the distance of flying sword.

There is no decay at all.

Mo Hua thought about it for a while, and understood it in his heart.

Spiritual consciousness qualitative change!

Because of the qualitative change of spiritual consciousness, the spiritual consciousness is extremely tenacious and the load it carries is also high, so the distance of flying sword will not decay.

Mo Hua's eyes lit up.

This means that the attack range of his flying sword is likely to be nearly twice as far as that of ordinary sword cultivators.

This is still compared with the spiritual consciousness of the same realm.

If compared with sword cultivators of the same level, I'm afraid it's even further.

Situ Jian was stunned and lost his mind, then exclaimed: "Little Senior Brother, you should also be considered a sword genius..."

Then he felt something was wrong, so he corrected:

"You should be considered a 'sword-controlling' genius."

Because Little Senior Brother is only good at controlling the sword.

Apart from that, his attainments in swordsmanship, especially sword energy, are not worth mentioning at all...

Situ Jian sighed and said with deep regret:

"It's a pity, Little Senior Brother, you can control the sword fast and far, you are a natural 'sword-controlling' genius, but if you don't cultivate sword energy, your sword has no power at all..."

Situ Jian sighed again.

You can only control the sword, but you don't have sword energy.

It's like a spear master, with unparalleled spear skills, but without the "spear head", you can't stab people to death.

It's such a waste of talent.

Situ Jian looked regretful.

Mo Hua smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm not a swordsman, I'm just practicing for fun..."