Demon Sword Sect’s Undercover
Chapter 349 - 349 348 Immersive Experience

349: Chapter 348 Immersive Experience 349: Chapter 348 Immersive Experience Hou Niao returned to Crab Claw Island and couldn’t help but marvel at the proliferation of life.

The entire stone hut was almost covered by plants, and traces of snakes and insects were everywhere, completely indifferent to the fact that someone had once been the master here.

Now in a completely different mood, Hou Niao no longer bothered to tidy up the stone hut; he let nature take its course.

By this point, he no longer needed to rely on the Earth Element Escape to save his life.

With his current strength, he didn’t fear any enemies and no longer needed to scurry into mouse holes.

He planned that, should he have the chance to return to Jin City, he would gather the Five Elements Cultivation Technique and focus on this area for his breakthroughs.

If one wishes to kill with the Thunder Skill, one must master the Five Elements Path, which is foundational.

However, this was not something to rush, for his main focus was still on the Three Night Thunder Skill.

Returning to Crab Island, the calm and uneventful environment was one aspect; more importantly, he could once again enter the Thunder Triangle.

Regarding the Thunder Skill, he constantly experimented, seeking to solve why such a sharp spell was seldom practiced by cultivators in the Tongtian realms?

A critical reason is that the Thunder Skill requires leveraging the power of heaven and earth, but for cultivators in the Tongtian realms, their grasp of the Dao is far from sufficient, remaining at the level of mere technique application.

Therefore, they must rely on external artifacts, hence few practitioners; their ability to communicate with heaven and earth is still quite limited.

Without forming thunderclouds or forming them too slowly, with power as fine as ox hair, these spells serve no practical use.

Some so-called Thunderstruck Warriors rely on magical items to unleash thunderbolts, but the power and effect are inadequate, making it difficult to kill with a single thunder strike; when the thunderbolt can’t cause incapacitating damage, the so-called speed of attack becomes almost laughable, all effort and time-consuming without even breaking through the opponent’s defenses.

Such combat methods are meaningless.

Hou Niao could not break through this principle either.

He also had a limited understanding of the Thunderbolt Path and had difficulty gathering thunderclouds.

The reason he went to train in the Thunder Triangle was not to learn how to injure with thunderbolts but to draw thunder into his body to enhance mana and cultivation.

This was the dilemma faced by nearly all Thunderstruck Warriors across the continent; at this stage, the power of thunderbolts could hardly aid them, with a fundamental change only occurring at the Golden Core Stage.

Hence, their only choice was to either remain in seclusion or to rely on artifacts.

Hou Niao’s application of thunder was different.

His current thunder power did not come from the accumulation of thunderclouds between heaven and earth but from the conversion of Primordial Magnetic Power within his body.

He didn’t need thunderclouds to release lightning flashes.

But such thunderbolts were not striking down from the sky but were either emitted from the body or from the sword artifact; due to the lack of guidance by the power of heaven and earth, the effects were rather difficult to describe.

It was more like a Flying Sword with its own attribute, for instance, a Sword Cultivator’s Flying Sword with the Gold Element would be sharp and fierce; if the Flying Sword had the Fire Attribute, then it would blaze fiercely.

An attribute can help a Sword Cultivator’s Flying Sword achieve a broader range of attack effects, but the true attack still lies in the sharpness of the Flying Sword itself.

Hence, in the Quanzhen Sect, many cultivators practice the Gold Element Cultivation Technique, as this choice is the most direct, appropriate, and easily effective, which complements the very nature of the Flying Sword.

His Lonely Sword was suited for thunder, and he had practiced the Three Night Thunder Skill, and by a fortunate coincidence had mastered the conversion between Primordial Magnetic Power and Thunder Power, thus granting him the rare ability to release thunderbolts independently of external objects.

Even if such an ability still couldn’t kill with thunder, it possessed the secondary effects of breaking defenses, removing obstacles, and causing paralysis; just like when he restrained Lu Shilun, it wasn’t that Lu Shilun was too weak, but that he was completely unprepared.

He had come to the Thunder Triangle again, where the Thunder Season had already passed for two months, but there were still several months left to make use of it.

While drawing thunder into his body to enhance his cultivation, he began the deconstruction of thunder attribute magic artifacts.

Yes, deconstruct!

If he couldn’t succeed in commanding thunderclouds and summoning thunderbolts, then he could only dig out potential from within his own body, an area where the Three Night Thunder Skill didn’t delve much into.

In the view of the Daoist, the rightful way of thunder indeed relies on the power of heaven and earth; otherwise, how could it be considered the foremost among techniques, the Judgment Spell?

Thus, in the Cultivation World, many temporary solutions emerged, using artifacts imbued with thunder power to wield thunder in battle;

Of course, such energy like thunder couldn’t be sealed directly due to its extremely unstable form.

The so-called thunder attribute magical items generally used more stable Five Elements Energy for conversion, and what he sought to explore was this very process of conversion.

It shared a clever parallel with the conversion of primordial magnetic power to thunder.

This method of learning was a shortcut, but it wasn’t entirely useless.

Aside from lacking a link in communicating with heaven and earth, all other steps were worthy of reference.

His goal was to fully utilize what he had gained at Blue Mountain Island, focusing on how to convert his cultivation of primordial magnetic attribute into the power of thunder.

In other words, he considered his own body a magic artifact, and he had a premonition that although the power of thunder thus generated might not match the true might of natural thunder, it would likely be much stronger than the power of thunder converted from ordinary Five Elements Power.

He had become much stronger than when he first came here four years ago—deeper cultivation, clearer application of thunder, and a more robust physique.

Progress in all aspects had made him a far cry from his former self.

Therefore, he was able to venture deeper into the Thunder Triangle, encounter more frequent and powerful thunderbolts, gain more cultivation, and directly experience the might of the thunder of heaven and earth.

The affinity of cultivation attributes is difficult to match; at Blue Mountain Island, he used thunder to decompose primordial power, and here he used the Three Night Thunder Skill to break down the thunder’s spirit.

With similar attributes, his progress in cultivation was meteoric.

In his cultivation journey, he had finally entered the fast lane.

His cultivation was improving at a rate visible to the naked eye, and other aspects rose correspondingly; his Sword Control Technique was faster, his body stronger, his Six Consciousness sharper…

His Flying Sword was faster, its strike range greater, and its control more precise.

The most noticeable change was that his Flying Sword, originally three feet long, had shrunk to two feet and was still reducing.

Concentration is the essence.

Within the Thunder Triangle, one could see a figure every day, moving through the stormy weather, diligently practicing without cease.

This was the best state of cultivation for a cultivator, for he could feel that he was on the right path, efficient, progressing, harvesting.

The years of a cultivator’s training were not always smooth sailing.

Every cultivator had to go through a phase of aimless confusion, spinning their wheels on the path forward, even regressing at times.

That is, they haven’t found their direction, haven’t entered the rhythm.

How to bring oneself out of such a state is a required subject for every cultivator.

Those with insight quickly emerge from the low points, while those who rely solely on brute force may spend their entire lives stuck in such a cycle.

Therefore, cultivation truly isn’t a profession that just requires time; efficiency is more important by comparison.

Hou Niao was fortunate.

Several years after advancing to Tongxuan, he finally found his rhythm.

…Wind through ancient pines creates a rhythm, water rushes in hidden streams, ringing clear and melodious.