Longevity Gu Dao: Start From Refining Infatuation Gu

Chapter 297: Proficiency Level - Withering Glory Mysterious Light Technique, Sword Heart Realm

Five years later.

Xianxia Peak, inside a secret chamber.

Zhou Sui sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands forming hand seals. White and black light alternated on his body, resembling the cycle of life and death, containing the mysteries between life and death.

Vaguely, a Tai Chi Yin Yang pattern seemed to appear behind him.

"The grass withers and the flowers fade, one year's cycle of growth and decay. Wildfire cannot burn it all, spring breeze brings life anew."

"Not bad, not bad. Finally, I have cultivated this Divine Ability, Withering Glory Mysterious Light Technique, to the level of proficiency."

"The essence of this Divine Ability lies in the conversion and alternation of life and death."

"It's like an equivalent exchange, where life and death are the same."

"Only by understanding the essence of life and death can one comprehend this supreme Divine Ability."

Zhou Sui took a deep breath, his eyes revealing a terrifying brilliance. It seemed that the power of life and death integrated within him, and the power of withering and flourishing fluctuated within his body.

After five years of enlightenment, he finally reached the level of proficiency in this supreme Divine Ability, Withering Glory Mysterious Light Technique, which originated from the Withering Glory Sect. Even in the history of the Withering Glory Sect, few people could cultivate this Divine Ability to the level of proficiency.

After reaching this realm, he could exchange one year of his own lifespan for one year of the enemy's lifespan.

Compared to the entry level and the proficient level, the power of this realm had undoubtedly been greatly enhanced.

Although the price was still not small, it was completely sufficient. He was already close to entering the level of actual combat.

Of course, if he wanted to truly enter the level of actual combat, he still had to cultivate to the level of completion.

In this way, he could exchange one year of his own lifespan for one year of the enemy's lifespan.

Truly reaching the realm of exchanging life for life.

After reaching the level of proficiency, he had a clearer understanding of the power of this Divine Ability. It could convert the power of life and death, which was simply marvelous, pointing directly to the essence of the Great Dao, unfathomable.

To be honest, if he hadn't relied on the power of the Book Gu to greatly enhance his comprehension, it would have been impossible for him to cultivate this Divine Ability to the level of proficiency in just a few hundred years.

"No need to rush."

"Although my lifespan is now long, there is no need to exchange life for life with the enemy."

"Only when facing an irresistible enemy will I use this move."

"If I can kill them with a single slap, only a fool would use this Divine Ability."

That would be purely seeking death.

"Right, let's see how the virtual panel is doing."

Zhou Sui's heart moved, and he subconsciously activated the virtual panel on his body.

[Host: Zhou Sui, Cultivation: Nascent Soul Initial Stage (Progress: 13%), Lifespan: 105 (15,400) years]

[Talent: Second Grade Spiritual Root (20%)]

[Sword Dao: Rank Four Lower Grade (5%)]

[Rune: Rank Four Lower Grade (5%)]

[Formation Array: Rank Five Middle Grade (10%)]

[Pill Master: Rank Four Lower Grade (40%)]

[Refining Artifact: Rank Four Lower Grade (5%)]

[Phantom Demon Transformation Technique: Grandmaster (99%)]

[Five Elements Alchemy Technique: Grandmaster (99%)]

[Phantom Demon Heart Sutra: Demon Seed, Demon Summoning]

[Seven Orifice Exquisite Book: Insight, Perception, Communication]

[Withering Glory Mysterious Light Technique: Proficiency, Ancient Tortoise Technique: Second Layer, Void Soul Stab: Completion, Fireball Technique: Grandmaster, Wind Blade Technique: Grandmaster, Golden Light Technique: Grandmaster, Ice Cold Technique: Grandmaster, Spring Rain Technique: Grandmaster, Thunder Summoning Technique: Grandmaster...]

[Infatuation Gu: Rank Five Lower Grade, Clone Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Wine Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Gold Devouring Worm: Rank Four Lower Grade, Book Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Dream Soul Gu: Rank Four Middle Grade, Dragon Elephant Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Golden Light Myriad Poison Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Teleportation Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Formation Heart Gu: Rank Five High Grade, Item Seeking Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade, Calamity Thunder Gu: Rank Four Middle Grade, Medicine Gu: Rank Four Lower Grade.]

"My spiritual root talent has indeed advanced to the Second Grade level."

Zhou Sui was quite satisfied.

Obviously, the effect of the Rank Five spiritual medicine, Buddha Flame Root, is tremendous, helping one's spiritual roots to advance from the Third Grade level to the Second Grade.

Even to this day, its medicinal power is still not exhausted and continues to exert its effects.

It is estimated that after some time, it may be able to advance to the level of First Grade spiritual roots.

"But indeed, the cultivation of the Nascent Soul stage is extremely difficult."

"After five years of bitter cultivation, the progress is only 13%."

"No wonder Nascent Soul cultivators often require hundreds of years of cultivation."

"If not relying on elixirs, even if one lives to old age, it is impossible to advance to the realm of Soul Formation."

"The current cultivation environment is almost unable to produce Soul Formation cultivators."

Zhou Sui increasingly feels the difficulty of cultivating as a Nascent Soul cultivator, even though he has a Second Grade spiritual root. His daily cultivation progress is as slow as a snail, and without the virtual panel, he wouldn't feel any improvement in his cultivation.

One can imagine how other Nascent Soul cultivators feel.

Of course, he is not in a hurry because his Medicine Gu has already advanced to the realm of Rank Four lower grade after five years of cultivation.

In other words, with the power of the Medicine Gu, he can cultivate a large number of millennium spiritual medicines.

A Rank Four Medicine Gu that has reached the realm can produce drops of green liquid from its body. If these drops fall on a Rank Four spiritual medicine, it will grow for a year and possess a hundred years of medicinal power.

After ten years of growth, it can possess a millennium of medicinal power.

It can be imagined that if one obtains a Rank Four spiritual medicine seed, it only takes ten years to cultivate a large number of millennium spiritual medicines. This is the power of Rank Four medicine.

With the Medicine Gu, there is no need to worry about running out of lifespan and being unable to obtain millennium spiritual medicines.

It can even cultivate millennium spiritual medicines in large quantities.

Afterward, refining Rank Four elixirs will be an easy task.

"After obtaining millennium spiritual medicines, I should be able to attempt refining Rank Four elixirs."

"The scarcity of Rank Four alchemists is closely related to the scarcity of millennium spiritual medicines."

"After all, the profession of alchemist is closely related to practical experience."

"If one has never truly attempted refining elixirs, how can their cultivation progress?"

"So, the majority of Rank Four alchemists in the Canglan Sea Region are only at the lower grade level."

"It's difficult to make a good meal without good ingredients."

"If it were in ancient times, when millennium spiritual medicines were abundant, there would definitely be more Rank Four alchemists."

Zhou Sui rubbed his chin.

Currently, his alchemist cultivation is still at the lower grade level of Rank Four.

After all, he doesn't have much experience in refining Rank Four elixirs, so the growth of his cultivation naturally becomes very slow.

This is also to be expected.

But now it's different. After the Medicine Gu advanced to the Rank Four realm, it can produce a large number of millennium spiritual medicines.

By then, even if he casually wastes millennium spiritual medicines, he won't feel much heartache.

Next, he can continuously improve his alchemist cultivation, reaching the middle grade and high grade levels of Rank Four.

Perhaps it won't take long before he becomes the strongest alchemist in the Canglan Sea Region.

Of course, he doesn't need any so-called reputation.

After all, he only refines elixirs for the sake of his own cultivation and doesn't plan to sell many elixirs.

Obviously, the five years of cultivation not only improved Zhou Sui's cultivation, but also elevated his proficiency in various cultivation arts.

Among them, rune mastery, alchemy, and artifact forging have all advanced to the lower grade of Rank Four.

Only formation arrays have advanced to the middle grade of Rank Five, thanks to the power of the Formation Heart Gu.

Due to the continuous assimilation of Rank Five formation arrays on the Withering Glory Sect island by the Formation Heart Gu, his comprehension of Rank Five formation arrays has reached a higher level, already reaching the middle grade of Rank Five.

He doesn't dare to claim that his formation array cultivation is already the best in the cultivation world.

But there are definitely very few cultivators who can compare to his formation cultivation level, they can be counted on one hand.

"My sword cultivation has finally reached Rank Four Inferior Grade."

Zhou Sui clenched his fist.

The improvement in various cultivation techniques was only an enhancement of auxiliary abilities.

The improvement in sword cultivation was the real enhancement of combat power.

Especially for his clone's combat power, it was obviously tremendous.

After all, his clone didn't have the help of Gu worms, everything relied on himself.

So after the improvement in sword cultivation, the combat power of his clone became even stronger.

"It's actually quite simple to advance to Rank Four in sword cultivation."

"That is to further enhance Rank Three Sword Intent and advance to the realm of Sword Heart."

"Reaching this realm is the worship of ten thousand swords."

"The further transformation of Sword Intent is Sword Heart."

"Once you have mastered Sword Heart, you have mastered the power of the mind."

"Under the cover of Sword Heart, everything can be a sword."

Zhou Sui narrowed his eyes.

He originally thought that the power of the mind was his unique power, but he didn't expect that Rank Four sword cultivators also possessed similar power.

Only when Sword Intent is condensed to the extreme will it condense into Sword Heart.

Of course, the power of Sword Heart possessed by sword cultivators is incomparable to the insight of the Seven Orifice Exquisite Book that he cultivated.

This is a power of the mind that belongs to a higher dimension.

"The Sword Heart I comprehend is naturally the True Dragon Sword Heart."

"Under the power of Sword Heart, it is like being enveloped by the power of a true dragon, overlooking the world."

"All objects can be controlled and destroyed by the power of the true dragon."

Zhou Sui held a long sword in his hand and felt an invisible power of Sword Heart surging out from within him, spreading out to an area of hundreds of miles, as if forming a domain of the sword.

In the sky, it seemed as if a true dragon appeared, overlooking all living beings from the perspective of a deity, mastering everything.

As long as he had a thought, a sword qi could be unleashed, beheading enemies thousands of miles away.

Easily piercing through the bodies of enemies.

It can be said that under the cover of Sword Heart, the every move of the enemy is revealed.

Even able to anticipate the enemy's moves.

This is one of the reasons why Rank Four sword cultivation is so powerful.

Ordinary cultivators facing Rank Four sword cultivators are at a significant disadvantage.

"Of course, different Sword Hearts will have different powers."

"For example, my True Dragon Sword Heart possesses the power of dominance, control, unparalleled in the world, invincible, and unstoppable."

"There is also the Sword Heart of righteousness and justice, able to discern good from evil, perceive wickedness."

"The Sword Heart of slaughter, slaughtering the world, invincible, boiling with killing intent."

"The Sword Heart of demon-slaying, able to perceive demons, causing double damage to demons."

"And the power of Sword Heart is superior to the power of Sword Intent."

"Silent and invisible, without a trace."

"A sword strike can penetrate the enemy's defense, piercing through their soul and organs."

"So Rank Four sword cultivators are truly unrivaled in killing. Even if they wear defensive Spiritual Treasures, it is useless."

Zhou Sui carefully comprehended the power of Sword Heart within himself.

He increasingly understood why the Heavenly Sword Sect is currently the number one sect in the Canglan Sea Region. Even sea clan cultivators and demonic cultivators dare not provoke the cultivators of the Heavenly Sword Sect too much.

It is because every sword cultivator in the Heavenly Sword Sect possesses terrifying combat power.

Especially Nascent Soul-level sword cultivators, each of them possesses a combat power that surpasses their level and can challenge opponents of higher levels.

If an ordinary cultivator is careless for a moment, they will be pierced by sword qi and have no place to be buried.

In the past, when the cultivation world was invaded by demons, it was the sword cultivators who stepped forward. With one person and one sword, they don't know how many demons they have slain, earning great merits.

Sword cultivation is the number one profession in terms of killing and is not something to boast about, but something that is proven through killing.

"No wonder it was so easy for me to comprehend Rank Four Sword Dao."

"I have comprehended the True Dragon Sword Heart."

"It turns out that from the beginning, I have already comprehended the power of the mind."

"In this case, comprehending Rank Four Sword Dao will be even easier."

Zhou Sui rubbed his chin.

No wonder he felt that it was so simple when he comprehended the True Dragon Sword Heart, as if it naturally came to him without much effort.

To be honest, he heard that among the cultivators of the Heavenly Sword Sect, there are very few who can become Nascent Soul and comprehend Rank Four Sword Dao.

So far, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators in the Heavenly Sword Sect is the fewest.

Probably less than half of the Nascent Soul cultivators in other sects.

But their combat power is the strongest.

"For sword cultivators, the most difficult thing is not how to form the Nascent Soul, but how to comprehend the sword heart."

"Once the sword heart is comprehended, the tribulation of the heart demon is not a problem. With one sword, the heart demon can be torn apart."

"At the same time, the thunder tribulation is also not a problem."

Powerful sword cultivators are not afraid of the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation.

Therefore, reaching the realm of comprehending the sword heart is like a path to Nascent Soul for sword cultivators.

Comprehending the sword heart is almost a prerequisite for becoming Nascent Soul.

Zhou Sui narrowed his eyes.

Obviously, the path of sword cultivation is extremely difficult, but once it is successfully traversed, it is also extremely powerful.

There is no need to rely on external forces at all. Just relying on oneself can pave a smooth path.

However, he is not a cultivator who focuses solely on sword dao.

For him, sword dao is just a tool to enhance his combat power.

It would be great if he could continue to improve in sword cultivation.

But if his sword cultivation cannot continue to improve, it doesn't matter.

His foundation has always been the Divine Gu Sutra, controlling all the myriad Gu in the world.

"Oh, my Ancient Xuan Turtle Art has also made progress and reached the second level."

Zhou Sui smiled faintly.

In addition to his progress in sword dao and the Divine Ability Withering Glory Mysterious Light Technique, he has also made progress in the Ancient Xuan Turtle Art.

This is a defensive technique that can be considered unparalleled in the world.

After successfully cultivating it, one can condense the Ancient Xuan Turtle Shell and have all-round defense for the body.

After reaching the second level, he has already condensed two layers of the Xuan Turtle Barrier.

Compared to before, his defensive power has increased several times over.

It can be said that the aura he has condensed now is a true turtle shell.

Even if he stands still, he can withstand the bombardment of spells from Nascent Soul cultivators.

He can even withstand the power of sword cultivators.

This is the power of the strongest defensive technique, the Ancient Xuan Turtle Art.

After practicing for several hours, Zhou Sui consolidated his cultivation and walked out of his quiet room, feeling refreshed. Then he saw Ji Bingyu and others walking towards him.

(End of this chapter)