Demon Sword Sect’s Undercover
Chapter 81 - 81 80 Dual Choices of Sword Escape

81: Chapter 80 Dual Choices of Sword Escape 81: Chapter 80 Dual Choices of Sword Escape The Dantian contains Qi, regulating all is fitting!

From this moment on, Hou Niao truly possessed a stable foundation to reasonably arrange his own consumption of Spiritual Power!

With Dantian infusion, in swordsmanship, one can stimulate Sword Energy based on the richness of the Dantian Spiritual Power; in Techniques, one can cast basic spells steadily, which is the foundation for stable cultivation and a guarantee for stable combat!

The biggest difference between storing Spiritual Power in the Dantian in the Essence Building Realm and the scattered distribution throughout the body during the Energy Induction stage is stability!

It provided the basics for precise control.

Only at this stage could one say that they had the ability to contend with real demons, instead of struggling against half-demon, half-mortal beasts in the Poplar Forest.

Therefore, once a cultivator reached the Essence Building Realm, Sects would send them out to experience real combat in various places across the Tian Feng Plain, continuously sorting through the ranks in such battles, a path that every Quanzhen disciple must take, even those from second or third-generation cultivation families had no privilege to avoid it.

Of course, choosing what kind of place one wanted to go to was manageable, as all systems have loopholes to exploit, nothing is absolute.

Hou Niao carefully felt the changes within his Dantian, feeling joy for having taken this step.

Just half a year ago, he thought he would spend his lifetime handling cases and catching fugitives in Fufeng, now thinking about it, aren’t worldly affairs unpredictable, rarely set in stone?

Standing up, he drew the Lonely Sword Nameless, infused Spiritual Power from the Dantian into it.

Though Sword Energy Shrinkage was not yet visible, a faint glow was clearly flickering on the sword.

With this enhancement alone, the power of his swordsmanship doubled.

In high spirits, he danced like the wind, growing faster and faster, until only the sword shadows were visible, not his form.

With the final slash, a stone bench in the courtyard was split into two, yet the blade remained undamaged.

He spent a sleepless night.

It wasn’t excitement keeping him awake, but rather the speculation of what he might encounter after progressing to the Soul Realm in morning practice.

Now in the Essence Building Realm, would the Purple Mansion Vortex still be present?

And would the Wandering Souls inside become stronger as his Realm changed?

These changes would impact his future cultivation, and with no precedents to follow, it left him quite worried.

The next morning, as the first ray of purple qi descended between heaven and earth, Hou Niao began his morning practices with a feeling of unease.

The Cultivation Techniques remained those of the Lower Dantian’s Dragon and Tiger Meeting, and the Middle Dantian’s Integration of Origin.

These two sets of techniques are the orthodox secret teachings of the Daoist Mystical School, usable all the way to the Tongxuan stage.

When both Dantians started operating normally, the Purple Mansion Vortex quietly appeared, as he had hoped!

Thanks be to heaven and earth, it was still there!

It also meant that Hou Niao still had an excellent place for sword practice, his assurance of becoming powerful.

Without it, he would be just another ordinary Quanzhen novice; probably, if he kept a low profile, even the Chong Ling Daoist would forget about him.

Upon entering the Soul Realm, there weren’t as many Wandering Souls as during the breakthrough of the walls the previous day; likely, they had been gathering there for a long time, and now that they were free, why would they remain in the same spot?

But their density was still quite considerable; they showed no spirit of fair play, and it was a brawl from the get-go.

In their eyes, was Hou Niao’s Soul Body somewhat different?

Hou Niao was hard-pressed, and quickly during the fight, he realized that these Wandering Souls were indeed stronger than the ones from the first phase before the breakthrough.

Not only were their Soul Body Energies much more robust, but their means of attack were also more diverse, their tactics more sound, and their coordination was taking shape.

Against some of the stronger Soul Bodies, he couldn’t even manage to extinguish them with one slash!

These newly emerged Wandering Souls varied in strength, yet proportionally speaking, they were not comparable to the first stage.

The overall level had ascended a new step and they were difficult to eliminate with ease.

There were even some among them that posed a great threat to him, Magic Souls; whereas in the first stage, the only real threats to him were merely Sword One and Sword Two.

As the difficulty increased, he was not disheartened, but on the contrary, he was secretly pleased; if such a situation could continue to accompany him, what would it mean for a Quanzhen disciple who places great importance on combat?

The Essence Building Realm, truly a realm of self-strengthening, the purpose of the entire realm process was how to fill the Dantian?

Of course, while others only need to fill one, he had to fill two.

When the Dantians are brimming, with no more room to fill, the inner secrets of the entire body have reached a critical point, a critical point of surplus energy; when such surplus energy exceeds a cultivator’s daily expenditure and can maintain the normal functioning of the body’s various organs automatically, this is known as Fasting.

That is to say, theoretically, cultivators no longer need to rely on food to maintain bodily functions, and this is his goal for the next stage, the direction of his efforts.

What he now needed to do was to figure out how to fill both Dantians!

This was not a simple process.

For three whole days, he did not step outside his door, nor did he venture beyond the second door.

None of the junior constable brothers came looking for him, because everyone knew the state each other was in, and to disturb at this time would be highly inappropriate.

During these three days, he thoroughly consolidated the state of his two Dantians and gained a preliminary understanding of the use of Spiritual Power in the state of having Dantians with Qi.

With this, he could now turn to other matters.

Time was of the essence, for he did not know when Mu Shuai’s official order would come, requiring him to travel to the surrounding towns to start his routine life of exorcising demons and subduing evil spirits, with few opportunities to return to Jin City.

It was still the Sword Storage Tower, and as the old gatekeeper looked at him, he pursed his lips: this little cultivator was not quite right.

Compared to his age and his current realm, he was much slower than others, yet he was obsessed with swordsmanship, oblivious to the most fundamental things, chasing the minor at the expense of the major, which boded ill for his future.

Hou Niao politely greeted the old man and stepped into the tower, very clear on his objective; he did not need to browse through the cultivation techniques.

One technique below the Tongxuan level was enough, and switching between them would only waste time and break the continuity needed for laying down the foundation.

His purpose was solely for the Escape Techniques on the second floor and the swordsmanship on the third.

He didn’t care how others would choose, but having reached a height in swordsmanship unattainable to others, why change?

The path of swordsmanship is like a vast ocean; the deeper one immerses oneself in it, the more one realizes how insignificant one is, and how far off from mastering swordsmanship one still is.

If the sword has not yet been mastered, why speak of other techniques?

This is his simple path to self-improvement.

He chose two Escape Techniques, “Sword Control Technique” and “Sword Yu Step.”

The Sword Control Technique is the foundation of a Quanzhen swordsman; this Escape Technique can be learned and used throughout one’s life.

No matter what your level is, even if you can fly and escape, roam the void, it remains the preferred choice of a swordsman.

Difficult to learn and even more difficult to master, one can simply gauge a Quanzhen swordsman’s strength and lineage by their Sword Control Technique.

The most adept Sword Control Technique is definitely that of the most gifted Extreme Sword disciple, beyond that, there’s no other.

The Sword Yu Step is, in fact, the Escape Technique he saw used by the four elders in Jiangyou Town.

The core idea is that one’s feet should never leave the ground, maintaining a state ready to respond and draw the sword at any moment.

It is derived from the ancient Yu Step, improved upon to appear unsophisticated and clumsy, yet carrying an imposing, immovable presence like a mountain.

The characteristic of Yu Step lies in its ease of learning but difficulty in mastering.

At the middle low rank of cultivators, it is an excellent complement to the Sword Control Technique, capable of forming combat ability in the shortest time.

Such a choice of Escape Techniques is actually also the choice of the vast majority of disciples within the Quanzhen Sect.

It may seem ordinary, but ordinary contains the wisdom of the sword; there are profound reasons why the Quanzhen Sect has revered these two basic Escape Techniques for thousands of years, not just the whims of any newcomer.

He, willingly followed the flow.