Chapter 286: Chapter 114: Helping My Junior Brother—“Breaking Through” the Soldier Lord Realm

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So, just how strong is the power of a cultivator?

This question directly turns into, how strong is a flying sword.

Li Xuan pondered for a while, suddenly looked at Feng Mengrou, and said, "Senior Sister, can you let me see your flying sword?"

Feng Mengrou, though surprised, still slightly raised her two fingers, and the longsword behind her began to unsheath.

Li Xuan said, "Hold on..."

Feng Mengrou: ???

Li Xuan asked, "Why does Senior Sister join her fingers? Is there any particular reason?"

Feng Mengrou said, "This is the Soldier Manipulation Skill, my Lingyi Sect’s universal ’Lingyi Swordsmanship.’

The changes in my fingers will guide the changes in Qi, further controlling the flying sword."

Saying this, her fingers moved slightly.

The sword chimed as it unsheathed, like a bird singing.

Feng Mengrou said, "The Qi upwards, it is called ’raising the sword.’

Li Xuan said, "Can’t it be done differently, right?"

He patiently asked again, "For example, can Senior Sister make the sword unsheath in a faster way?"

Feng Mengrou lowered the sword back, took a deep breath, but still slightly bent her fingers, and then upward.

Ching!!

The flying sword unsheathed again.

This time the speed was a bit faster, but only slightly, as if someone had "exerted all their strength, so it was just a bit faster," this wasn’t a breakthrough in speed but an individual difference.

Soon, Feng Mengrou began to demonstrate sword control techniques.

Thrust, cut, sweep...

The speed was normal.

Li Xuan rested his chin in thought for a while, and asked, "Senior Sister Feng, are there stronger sword control skills?"

Feng Mengrou said, "The lineage of Feiguang Peak is said to be sword control skills, but... Feng Xiongyi hasn’t mentioned anything to me about it."

Li Xuan said, "Can Senior Sister show me the flying sword?"

Feng Mengrou smiled and manipulated the flying sword with her fingers, slowly bringing it in front of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan brushed over the sword body, raised his hand to touch, only feeling the sword body was extremely cold, cold to the bone. The blood containing fire poison behind his skin rapidly cooled where his fingertips touched.

His mind stirred, and he discreetly let his spirit probe out from his fingertips, transforming into a spirit root, trying to take root in the flying sword before him.

However, a defensive force instantly appeared within the flying sword, isolating his spirit root from entering.

Feng Mengrou felt something, and looked at him.

Li Xuan withdrew the spirit root, understanding in his heart, "Qi makes the sword become an owned sword, and if he wants to seize it, he needs to completely overpower ’Qi and sword.’

Qi might not be formidable, but a sword imbued with Qi is quite difficult to seize.

It’s like someone piloting a fighter jet, even if the person is not strong, if you want to fly up and kick them out of the jet, you first need to defeat the jet, which is not easy.

Li Xuan handed the flying sword back, saying, "I tried a little trick, just testing, Senior Sister... you won’t blame me, right?"

Feng Mengrou was full of tender affection for him, repeatedly saying, "No, no."

Li Xuan again asked, "Senior Sister’s flying sword, how does it compare to Feiguang Peak Master’s sword?"

Feng Mengrou said frustratingly, "He may not draw his sword much, but I know, those Peak Masters have half a foot stepped into the High Tier Soldier Lord, they can use flying swords engraved with arrays."

After saying this, she continued, "A normal flying sword is mostly forged with gold and ice crystal as main materials, and the core part is added with high-tier spirit minerals.

Forging such swords is mostly about Sect Leader engraving alchemy and crystal transformation arrays first, and then forged by those blacksmiths who accidentally practiced Vajra demon form, unable to enter Soldier Lord.

After adding the properties of gold being indestructible and the severe cold of ice crystal, high-tier spirit minerals are added at the very end.

Tier Three spirit minerals, commonly known as disease gold, make common folk sick if they approach it, and this metal is very rare.

Now the Sect’s Spirit Veins have expanded, and the production of disease gold has also expanded."

Li Xuan asked, "What about the Peak Master’s sword?"

In Feng Mengrou’s eyes flashed seriousness and awe, then she said, "The Sect Leader masters two terrifying arrays, one called Spirit Absorption.

Spirit Absorption Array allows flying swords to devour certain treasures, even demon flesh, to gain strange properties.

The other one....."

She grew more contemplative, seemingly recalling something.

Li Xuan saw fear and invincibility in her eyes.

Like a small rabbit discussing a fierce tiger, the existence of lower ranks looking up at the higher ranks.

Feng Mengrou slowly uttered two words, "Soldier Stacking."

As these words left her mouth, Li Xuan inexplicably felt a storm of blood and sword clangs.

Because while speaking these two words, Feng Mengrou’s voice turned somber.

Li Xuan curiously asked, "What is Soldier Stacking?"

Feng Mengrou slowly said, "That array can store multiple auxiliary swords within the main sword. If one sword unfolds into seven, it’s like seven people simultaneously wielding flying swords, if it unfolds into a hundred swords..."

Li Xuan asked, "Are there a hundred swords?"

Feng Mengrou paused for a while and said, "There wasn’t before, but I inadvertently heard something from Feng Xiongyi.

The Sect seems to be forging a mysterious and frightening flying sword.

Once that sword unsheathes, it surely kills, the sword is in the furnace, forged personally by the Sect Leader."

Li Xuan asked, "How would Senior Sister fare against that mysterious and terrifying flying sword?"

Feng Mengrou said, "If the Peak Master truly wants to kill me, one move is enough."

Li Xuan squinted his eyes. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The situation is very clear now.

Cultivators and demons are likely opposites.

Cultivators don’t need physique, and too strong a physique is a burden.

Yet Li Xuan’s physique happens to be very high.

So this "Heart Flame Skill" for him, isn’t just hard to practice, it’s extremely difficult.

And the mysterious flying sword Feng Senior Sister spoke of, combined with the inherited swordsmanship, could likely kill him instantly.

No!

He’s completely unsure.

With such things, until you fight once, you’ll never know the result.

But this confrontation surely is about "deciding victory or defeat, also determining life and death."