Chapter 260 Sword of Time
The difficulty of comprehending the Zhuzi Sword Art is too high.
After obtaining this unique skill, Zhou Heng has tried to comprehend it many times, but he has always gained little, and the increase in proficiency is basically equal to nothing.
According to the current progress, if he wants to learn this unique skill, he may have to continue to comprehend it for thousands of years, and he may not succeed.
Of course, this is based on the fact that his cultivation realm has not increased.
But the increase in the realm of cultivation is not a temporary achievement. With his current martial arts foundation, he is indeed unable to successfully comprehend this level of unique skills under normal circumstances.
Although he has learned other fourth-grade unique skills before, namely "Seven Purple Thunder Strikes", "Three Palms of Overturning the Sky", and "Golden Crow God-Slaying Method", these three unique skills he learned are actually special.
The reason why the Purple Thunder Seven Strikes is that the power and intention of the previous few moves are not very high, so the bonus of low-level martial arts to it is obvious, and it can be learned directly by comprehending.
The Three Palms of Heaven-Flipping is different. This is the foundation of the Heaven-Flipping Seal in the Yuanshi Golden Seal. Both its intention and power are extremely powerful. The first move alone has the power of "the world is overturned", so it is naturally extremely difficult to comprehend.
However, Zhou Heng had an epiphany at the time, so he directly learned the Three Palms of Heaven-Flipping and did not really experience the difficulty of this comprehension.
The difficulty of comprehending the Sword Art of the Word of Execution is even higher than the Three Palms of Heaven-Flipping. This is a unique skill involving the way of time. It is the basic derivative of the Sword of Execution in the Lingbao Jade Book and is very obscure and difficult to understand.
With Zhou Heng's current martial arts foundation, he naturally cannot comprehend it successfully.
He has been worrying about this.
It feels like guarding a treasure mountain in vain, but not being able to enter the door.
But just now, after seeing Li Qiyun's Time Stone and explaining its effect, Zhou Heng felt that his chance might have come.
So, he decisively used an identification card on the Time Stone.
The result was just as he expected-
This stone of time, which contained the rules of time and magic, could not only spy on the time fragments of others' past, but also help people practice time-related martial arts.
Just like when Zhou Heng first learned the Golden Crow God-Slaying Technique.
Because he had the fortune treasure of Tianren Cave Heaven, the interweaving law belonged to the way of the sun, and the difficulty of comprehending this martial art was greatly reduced, so he was able to learn it.
The stone of time helped him to comprehend the sword art of the word "Zhu".
It was simply a great opportunity tailor-made for him.
However, if he snatched the stone of time directly from Li Qiyun's hands, the danger would be too great.
Although she could not detect Zhou Heng in the invisible state, once Zhou Heng was a little slow in taking things from her, he might be caught directly.
After all, this was a great master of the fourth rank, and his speed of attack was definitely many times faster than Zhou Heng.
Therefore, Zhou Heng chose to wait until the stone of time was in Feng Shao'e's hands before stealing it. In the end, he took the stone of time from Feng Shao'e's hands.
Moreover, the moment Zhou Heng got the Stone of Time, he put it into the Heavenly Man Cave to block Li Qiyun's perception.
In this way, with Li Qiyun's fourth-grade cultivation, even if she made preparations in advance and put in place some tracking arrangements, she could not trace the whereabouts of the Stone of Time.
While putting the Stone of Time into the Heavenly Man Cave, Zhou Heng began to run wildly towards Huangtong City, so as to prevent Li Qiyun from getting angry and flying directly into the sky to start "carpet-style" bombing.
But he did not expect that he took the Stone of Time in the invisible state, and actually scared Li Qiyun, a fourth-grade top master, to run away on the spot.
He seemed to be treated as a great man.
However, this was also good, saving a lot of trouble and danger.
Zhou Heng quickly returned to Huangtong City, but he did not enter the city immediately. Instead, he lifted the invisibility in a secluded and deserted place outside the city, and pretended to look around.
On the way, he deliberately met some people to ask questions before returning to Huangtong City.
After all, when he went out before, he said he was going to track down Feng Shao'e, so he had to do the whole show.
After returning to Huangtong Prefecture, Zhou Heng simply described the process of tracking down Feng Shao'e outside the city, looking very sorry that he didn't find her.
Lei Xiuyuan, Lin Cang and others were not surprised by this. After all, they all noticed that the white tiger was at the level of the sixth level of the secret, so it was normal that Zhou Heng failed to catch up.
And this may not be a bad thing.
Afterwards, Yu He proposed to set up a banquet to welcome Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian. Lin Cang and Lei Xiuyuan naturally agreed, and Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian did not refuse.
So, the banquet was held in the restaurant of Yu He's family. All delicious dishes were provided free of charge, and fine wines were unlimited.
In the end, Yu He, Lei Xiuyuan, and Lin Cang were all drunk.
Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian had deep internal energy cultivation, and the level of their skills was far beyond ordinary. Even at the end, they were not very drunk. After settling Yu He and the other three, they returned home.
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The rental house in the far suburbs of Huangtong Prefecture was as usual.
The landlord had gone to bed early, and there was no light in the yard. Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian climbed over the wall and jumped in very skillfully, returning to this familiar courtyard.
Zhou Heng opened the door and was immediately hit by a gust of dust. After all, he had not been back for more than two months, and it was normal for the house to be covered with dust.
However, this dust could not hit Zhou Heng now. His internal energy was slightly exposed, directly wrapping the dust and transferring it to the yard.
Then, the two walked into the house, still familiar with it.
"I still have to thank you, sir, otherwise I would be injured by the ghost energy, and I am afraid it would be unpredictable." Cheng Jiangjian looked at the repaired roof and chuckled: "Speaking of which, do I still owe you a roof?"
When no one was around, she was still used to calling Zhou Heng sir as before, not junior master.
"Why, Jiangjian will compensate me for a roof?" Zhou Heng smiled.
"Well, it should have been counted in the rent I gave you at the time." Cheng Jiangjian smiled and blinked, saying: "The rent at that time was really not low."
"Ah this..." Zhou Heng laughed dryly twice and changed the subject, "Speaking of which, how do we plan tonight? Like before?"
He was referring to the situation when Cheng Jiangjian was injured by the ghost energy and could not move, so he could only stay here.
That is, Cheng Jiangjian was on the bed, and he was sitting on the chair.
"That's not necessary." Cheng Jiangjian shook his head gently and smiled, "You and I can now use meditation to replace sleep, and the young master's bed is also spacious."
"That's true." Zhou Heng looked at his bed. Although he usually slept alone, if he just sat cross-legged, it was definitely enough for two people, and it was still spacious.
So, it was settled like this.
Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian replaced sleep with meditation and spent the night quietly on this bed.
This is just a very normal thing.
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In the next few days, Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian often went to Chunyang Martial Arts Hall.
After all, Cheng Jiangjian came to Huangtong Prefecture this time mainly to see what the Chunyang Martial Arts Hall here looks like and the qualifications of the apprentices.
These apprentices may become disciples of Chunyang Palace in the future.
Occasionally, the two of them would personally guide some good seedlings, and the martial arts of the apprentices who were guided would make rapid progress and become the object of envy of others.
In addition to going to the martial arts hall, Zhou Heng also took Cheng Jiangjian to the Wang family, which had been sealed off, and stayed on the road in front of the Wang family mansion for a while.
This is where Zhou Heng and Cheng Jiangjian met for the first time.
In the following days, Zhou Heng took Cheng Jiangjian to some places in Huangtong City.
Both of them were outstanding, standing side by side, like a fairy couple, which made many people envious.
On the ninth day of the first month, it was snowing heavily. Cheng Jiangjian said goodbye to Zhou Heng and left Huangtong City. She was going to prepare for the upcoming Zhoutian Xunjiesi gathering and Chaoyang cocktail party.
And according to her, life in Huangtong City was too comfortable and peaceful. If she stayed too long, she was afraid that she would be immersed in this comfort.
So, she chose to leave.
Zhou Heng understood this very well.
Not to mention Cheng Jiangjian, even he himself sometimes had the idea of living in Huangtong City like this, and it seemed good to live comfortably.
However, the occasional thoughts were just thoughts. Zhou Heng had already made it clear in his mind what he was going to do next and what his real purpose was.
After Cheng Jiangjian left, he also began to concentrate his mind and restrain his mind. On the tenth day of the first month, he began to use the Stone of Time to assist in comprehending the "Zhu Zi Sword Jue".
Of course, he did not comprehend in the rental house, so as to avoid any strange phenomena after the successful comprehension, which would have any impact on the house and the landlord.
The place Zhou Heng chose to comprehend was a mountain outside the Huangtong City, from which he could overlook the panoramic view of the entire Huangtong City, with a wide field of vision.
He could also see the forest where he used to practice palm thunder.
At the top of this mountain, Zhou Heng withdrew his gaze from the Huangtong City and took out the crescent-shaped crystal from the Tianren Cave.
The Stone of Time.
At this time, the Stone of Time was absolutely safe.
There was a reason why Zhou Heng took several days to start comprehending the Sword Jue.
On the one hand, it was indeed inconvenient when Cheng Jiangjian was here, and on the other hand, it was because he had been using the power of the cave to purify the Stone of Time these days to prevent any traces of Li Qiyun's tracking arrangements from remaining on it.
After all, Zhou Heng could not enter the cave world in person yet. If he wanted to use the Stone of Time to assist in comprehending the sword art, he had to take the Stone of Time out of the cave.
Although Li Qiyun could not track the Stone of Time when it was in the cave world, as long as it was taken out, it would most likely attract Li Qiyun.
This was not the result Zhou Heng wanted to see.
Fortunately, after he broke through to the peak of the seventh rank, his control over this cave world had improved slightly, and he could use some of the power of the cave to purify a certain thing.
In this way, all possible arrangements on the Stone of Time could be washed away, making it a truly auxiliary treasure, rather than a disaster that would bring about a fatal disaster.
Zhou Heng sat cross-legged on a large bluestone, holding the Stone of Time in his palm, closing his eyes slightly, collecting his thoughts, and began to comprehend the "Zhu Zi Sword Art".
Sure enough, the feeling of comprehending with the help of the Stone of Time is completely different from before.
"You are comprehending the martial arts "Zhu Zi Jian Jue" [Fourth Grade]. Because you are holding a treasure that contains the laws of time, the difficulty of comprehending is greatly reduced, and the proficiency is +0.02."
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"You continue to meditate on the martial arts "Zhu Zi Sword Technique" [Fourth Grade], triggering the effect of 'Heaven Rewards Diligence', and receiving the assistance of time treasures, you suddenly have an epiphany in your heart, and your proficiency level +0.8."
"Congratulations! Your proficiency in the martial arts "Zhu Zi Jian Jue" [Fourth Grade] has reached 1, and you have officially acquired this martial arts!"
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"Congratulations! Since you have a foundation in swordsmanship before, your understanding of the martial arts "Zhuzi Sword Technique" [Jue 4th Grade] has deepened, and your proficiency is +3000."
"Congratulations! Because you have learned the martial arts "Zhu Zi Jian Jue" [Jue 4th Grade], your understanding of similar types of martial arts and Taoism has deepened.
"...Martial arts "Xiantian Wuxiang Sword Finger" [Secret Sixth Grade], Taoist "Sword Controlling Technique" [Secret Sixth Grade], proficiency +3000.
"The Taoist method "The True Art of Divine Sword Controlling Thunder" [Level 5], proficiency +1000."
As the number of reward tips increased, Zhou Heng felt as if he had glimpsed a mighty bright silver river, flowing in an unknown place.
The water in the long river is sparkling. In addition to the bright silver, it also has an indescribable brilliance, as if it contains everything in the world and connects the past, present and future.
This seems to be...a long river of time!
Immediately afterwards, he suddenly "saw" that the long river of time began to condense and change, gradually shrinking from the original vastness, and finally formed a light cyan light.
The light green light was no more than three feet away, but it was full of true killing intent.
This is a sword light!
The killing sword light!
In this sword light, Zhou Heng felt the flow of time.
Everything in the world cannot remain permanent and will eventually change under the erosion of time.
This is the first form of the Zhuzi Sword Technique, "The Impermanence of Time."
Immediately, Zhou Heng felt something come to his mind again. The light blue sword light he saw in his "eyes" seemed to contain other mysterious true meanings.
The originally flowing time seemed to be forcibly stopped by this sword light. It no longer flowed forward and could not go backwards. It seemed that it would stay at this moment fixed by the sword light forever.
This is the second form of the Zhu Zi Sword Jue, "Times will last forever".
Zhou Heng was enlightened in a state of concentration, and he did not know the years in the state of concentration.
Therefore, he sat on the bluestone on the top of the mountain for seven days and seven nights. In the early morning of January 17th, he slowly opened his eyes and woke up in a calm state.
Zhou Heng spread his palms and found that the brilliance on the Time Stone had become slightly dim, but his heart was filled with infinite joy and his eyes were sparkling.
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【Fourth Grade】Zhuzi Sword Technique: Third Level (1/3000)
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The word-killing sword technique is finally completed! !
This coding software is a bit rubbish. I didn’t synchronize it when I was out. I actually lost a 1,500-word manuscript. I updated it so late. I’m sorry~
Hey, I just realized that the chapter seems to be displayed with a delay of 50 minutes. This is too unlucky...