Traveling all the way to the northeast from the Wuxiang Sword Sect, on the flying magic weapon, everyone would often leave the guest room and go out to see the scenery, but Cheng Ling was the only one who never came out.
Time passed slowly, and after getting along for a while, everyone became familiar with each other. After all, they are all the younger generation. Except for Liu Qingyan, who is the elder, and Gu Youlan, who has a cold temperament, the juniors already talk about everything among themselves.
Especially Bai Yiyi, with her carefree temperament, got along with Xi Yan, Zhang Hu, Song Yingjie and others within a few days. Coupled with Wu Chenlong's jokes from time to time, the atmosphere of the entire expedition team was very harmonious.
On this day, Bai Yiyi, Xi Yan, Zhang Hu, and Wu Chenlong gathered together again. Even Gu Youlan sat aside and listened to them for the first time.
The conversation naturally revolved around Cheng Ling. Bai Yiyi asked Xiyan with interest, "Sister Xiyan, you said Cheng Ling is your eldest brother?"
Gu Youlan also pricked up her ears. Xi Yan's affectionate attitude towards Cheng Ling once made her feel uncomfortable, and she almost couldn't suppress the retrograde of her skills. Now that she knew about the relationship between the two, she became even more concerned.
Xi Yan shook her head slightly and said, "In name, he is my eldest brother, but we are not related by blood!"
"What's going on?" Bai Yiyi asked.
Xi Yan smiled and told Cheng Ling everything he had done in Luoye City, as well as his life experience.
Except for Zhang Hu, none of them knew that Cheng Ling had such an experience, and everyone listened with interest. By the end, I admired Cheng Ling's strategy even more.
Bai Yiyi shouted: "Brother Ling, this is too bad. With one plan, all the spiritual stones in Luoye City were looted. The city lord's mansion and the Chen family are only going to be slaughtered!"
Wu Chenlong has a great heart, and his brain is easy to use, and he doesn't make any corners. I really admire him!
Xiyan's expression dimmed and she said, "Sister Yiyi, it's not that Brother Ling is bad enough, it's because he was forced to have no choice. They hurt his most important relatives. Brother Ling is very affectionate, and he also has a lot of helplessness."
Everyone was silent. After getting along for a period of time, they all knew that Cheng Ling's personality did not like to compete with others, but the situation dictated that he had to be forced to take heavy action every time. And vaguely, I always feel that there are many secrets in him, full of mystery.
You can never tell where his trump card is, and you often feel that the situation has reached an irreversible point. Under his tactics, he suddenly becomes enlightened and opens up another world.
But with such ability, who can understand the effort and mental effort it takes? Just like in front of me, on the way to the Sword Tomb, almost everyone couldn't bear the loneliness and came out to chat and fight. Only Cheng Ling never left the guest room and didn't know what he was doing.
Cheng Ling was naturally studying the sword control technique, but this technique was too difficult. The top-grade sword replaces the sword type. To reach the realm of sword control, you need to imprint a trace of your soul on the sword.
This is not a simple job. Separating a ray of soul from the soul is like cutting off one's own soul. The pain was beyond words, and it took more than twenty days to finally separate it.
Thanks to the blessing of 80% of his sword power, his mind is extremely strong. If it were any other monk, the pain of dividing the soul would most likely lead to insanity, or even worse, the complete collapse of the entire soul, turning him into a cripple!
This is the gap in the realm. In the transformation stage, the soul is only initially formed. Only in the distraction stage, the soul is solidified and can leave the body for a long time, and even refine a clone.
. Ordinary monks cannot divide the soul at all until they reach the distraction stage.
It's just that Cheng Ling's Yuan Shen is dozens of times stronger than ordinary people, and it is very pure and solid, so he can separate a ray. This will be of great benefit to him in the future to advance to distraction, at least he will have the experience of dividing the soul.
After several days of adjustment, the separated ray of soul was stabilized so that it would not dissipate, and the damage to the soul was restored as before. He let out a sigh of relief. This feeling was too painful. If it weren't for the technique taught by the Golden Page, he really wouldn't want to practice it.
The next step is to imprint that ray of soul on the Pure Yuan Sword to establish a connection with your own soul, so that you can move at will. This process is not difficult and relies entirely on water milling skills.
Five days later, the soul was finally branded successfully!
Cheng Ling was very happy. The feeling coming from Yuanshen let him know that the Pure Yuan Sword had reached the level where he could fly with the sword. What's even more precious is that because of the purity of his soul, he can use the most preliminary sword attack in the first level of Feitian Sword Control Technique.
This is not a simple attack, where the heart moves, the sword lies! The key to the first level of sword control is to refine the sword type yourself. Within a certain range, as long as the mind moves, the sword can go where it wants to go.
For example, the two sides are fighting, the distance is hundreds of feet, and suddenly a sword attacks you, and you cannot defend yourself at all. This is completely different from the concept of releasing spells and long-distance attacks with sword energy. What is needed is a surprise and a fatal blow!
It's just that we don't know how big this range is yet. It has not been tested, and Cheng Ling has no confidence. But at least, this is a powerful killing move, and he has one more trump card.
He stood up and was about to leave the guest room and go out to do some experiments. Liu Qingyan's message came over, saying that the secret realm of Sword Tomb had arrived!
The flying magic weapon landed slowly, and everyone came to the ground. In front of you is a large stone forest, with piles of rocks standing like sharp swords. They look well-proportioned and seem to hide some unknown danger, so they dare not enter easily.
Liu Qingyan looked around and said to Cheng Ling: "Sect Master, is there any mystery in the stone forest in front of you?"
Jian Yinghao and others knew that his formation level was quite high, so they also focused their attention on him.
Cheng Ling nodded slightly and said, "Uncle, wait a moment, let me take a look first!"
Liu Qingyan remained silent and waited for Cheng Ling to observe.
Cheng Ling stood in front of the stone forest and walked back and forth for more than ten feet from left to right and then from right to left. There was no clue. He walked forward a few more feet and immediately felt a change.
These sword-like stone pillars seem to form a formation, but they are not. There was just a layer of sword energy lingering in mid-air. Those sword energy struck each other across the air, making the sound of gold and iron. The closer he gets, the more he feels the invisible sword energy impacting him.
The invisible sword energy was extremely sharp and seemed to cut him into pieces until he died. The sword energy condensed from thousands of stone forests was no joke.
Moreover, he also felt that surrounded by countless sword energies, his vision and soul power were confused. He could not tell the path forward simply by looking at it with his naked eyes and sensing it with his spiritual consciousness.
The sword energy in mid-air has different colors. It is one color at the outermost layer, turns into two colors as you go deeper, and forms three colors as you go deeper. Each additional color almost doubles the power of the sword energy.
According to his speculation, the closer you go to the center of the stone forest, the larger the area covered by the sword energy. When you reach the center, it is likely that the sword energy will cover everything from the ground to the air.
, all shrouded in sword energy.
Everyone watched Cheng Ling's actions quietly, and saw that his face became more and more solemn, and everyone's heart was lifted.
After Cheng Ling walked five feet, he didn't dare to move forward anymore. He turned his back and slowly stepped back. When he reached a distance of about three feet, he stretched out his fingers and released a sword energy.
The sword energy shot into the air, and it felt like it touched a layer of light, sending out a wave. Suddenly, Cheng Ling retreated sharply and returned to everyone in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, two sword auras, one gray and one white, came out in mid-air and bombarded the place where he was standing before.
laugh! laugh!
There were two soft sounds, and two three-inch deep sword marks were struck where Cheng Ling had been standing.
Everyone took a breath of cold air. The ground in front of the stone forest was very hard. They didn't know what kind of material it was. Zhang Hu had experimented with a long sword before. With his perfect cultivation of golden elixir, he could only penetrate two inches into the ground with the long sword.
Although he just did it casually and did not use his full strength, just two sword qi were enough to attack with the perfect cultivation level of Jindan. How much sword qi was there in front of him?
Let alone Zhang Hu, even if Liu Qingyan entered, how many sword energies could he block? This stone forest is really terrifying. I didn't expect that it was just the outer edge of the Sword Tomb Secret Realm, and there was such a powerful layer of protection. How could I enter it?
Wu Chenlong stuck out his tongue and said: "Boss, this stone forest is not simple. What should we do?"
Cheng Ling nodded slightly but did not answer. He sat down cross-legged, reached out and threw out a few formation flags, inserting them into the ground outside the stone forest. Mysterious lines flashed in his eyes, and he concentrated on the deduction.
Jian Yinghao glanced at Wu Chenlong, who immediately shut up and did not dare to speak anymore for fear of disturbing Cheng Ling.
After a long time, Cheng Ling stood up and glanced back. He saw everyone holding their breath and looking at him expectantly. Their expressions were as pious as Liu Qingyan's. in this way!
He smiled slightly and said: "The stone forest here looks like a formation, but it is not a formation!"
Jian Yinghao asked: "How do you say this? Is it a formation?"
"Although the layout of the stone forest has certain rules, it does not follow the arrangement of the formation. It is just because the sword energy in it is too strong. After countless years of accumulation and accumulation, a sword energy layer gradually condensed in mid-air."
"But the existence of these sword energy layers prevents us from entering the stone forest here, so what should we do?"
"The existence of these sword energy layers is indeed inaccessible to people, and gradually forms something similar to a natural formation. After my deduction just now, I thought of a way to take you through the stone forest."
"any solution?"
"Although the sword energy layer is very thick, it still has weak points. I will use a formation to open a passage in the stone forest. As long as I follow the weak points of the sword energy, the passage will be able to avoid the sword energy attack and enter the stone forest. .”
"Then open the passage quickly!"
Cheng Ling smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that easy to open the passage. You have to find the weak points first. After that, Brother Jian and Uncle Liu will have to trouble you two to help."
Jian Yinghao and Liu Qingyan naturally agreed.
Cheng Ling continued: "I will point out the direction. Brother Jian will attack according to my instructions and test the counterattack strength of the sword energy first. Don't make any mistakes. Remember!"
Jian Yinghao looked solemn, raised his true energy, stared at the stone forest in front of him, and waited for Cheng Ling to point out the direction.
