Chapter 255: Chapter 123: Breaking the Limit of the Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber! A Storm Is Coming to Cyan Yang Ancient City!

"This kind of elixir..." Chu Fan got up, patting the dust off his clothes. "Can I buy it in Cyan Yang City?"

"Tch!" Xiaobai scoffed, rolling its eyes. "You’re a human, born and raised in Cyan Yang, and you have the nerve to ask me, a demon?"

Chu Fan didn’t answer. He walked to a corner, picked up the long saber he always carried, and headed for the courtyard.

"Huh?" Xiaobai’s eyes widened. "How dare you ignore me?!"

...

In the courtyard, the crabapple tree was lush and leafy, but in the darkness, it always gave off a sinister and terrifying feeling.

When the wind blew, the crabapple leaves rustled, adding a surprising touch of tranquility.

Chu Fan stood in the center of the courtyard, thinking, ’Rather than passively endure this, I should take the initiative and guide it.’

’I was going to Break the Limit of the Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber today anyway. This is the perfect chance to sort out the chaotic Primordial Qi in my body.’

[Technique: Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber (Perfection) Progress: (2453/2500) (Trait: None)]

Just forty-seven more points to Break the Limit.

’Today, I’ll push this Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber to the next level!’

BZZZ—

With a flick of his wrist, Chu Fan’s long saber left its sheath.

The body of the saber seemed to sense the surging Thunder Power within him, letting out a faint, trembling hum in response.

The patterns on the saber actually began to glow, faintly echoing the lightning patterns on his skin.

Chu Fan took a deep breath, his chest rising and falling slightly.

He stopped suppressing the rampaging power in his body. Instead, he focused his mind, calmed his breath, and guided the stream of Primordial Qi and Thunder Force along his meridians and into his arms.

At first, the power resisted, but as he circulated the Heart Method of the Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber, it gradually grew more docile. Like a tamed beast, it flowed down his arms and into the saber’s hilt.

After breaking through to the Entering the Realm of Strength, he still couldn’t circulate Primordial Qi directly. However, using his Qi Blood Power to guide it had become much easier than before.

Ultimately, the five stages of Foundation Establishment were all about building a solid foundation for Mortal Transformation.

"First Fold, Thunder Sting, Clouds Parting and Sun Shining!"

With a low shout, Chu Fan raised his arm.

A flash of the saber, and pale purple arcs of electricity coiled around it. It moved like the first bolt of lightning splitting the darkness, at least thirty percent faster than usual!

The saber’s edge sliced through the air, flinging off fine purple motes of electricity. When these motes landed on the bluestone tiles below, they erupted in tiny sparks.

The wind from the saber swept past, and leaves from the nearby crabapple tree rained down. The moment they touched the electric motes, they were instantly obliterated into dust.

His footwork shifted slightly as he used the Nine Palace Steps. His figure flickered under the moonlight, but the long saber in his hand never stopped, immediately flowing into the second technique—

"Second Fold, Dragon’s Roar, Cyan Dragon Emerges from the Water!"

"Third Fold, Cloud Collapse, Dark Clouds Overhead!"

...

[Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber Experience Points +2]

Chu Fan drilled the Sword Technique again and again.

Guided by the Sword Techniques, the Primordial Qi and Qi Blood Power within him seemed to find an outlet, gradually falling into an orderly flow.

Though still violent, it no longer crashed about aimlessly. Instead, following the Sword Momentum, it transformed into streams of incomparably sharp Sword Qi and Thunder’s Will.

In the courtyard, the saber flashed like a bolt of silk amidst faint rumbles of thunder and flickering sparks of lightning.

Chu Fan’s figure weaved and dodged among them, moving so fast he left a trail of residual images.

Time trickled by...

He lost count of how many times he’d practiced the forms.

Chu Fan felt he had reached an unprecedented peak state.

The rampaging Primordial Qi in his body had been mostly tamed, seeming to merge perfectly with his Qi Blood Power and transforming into the vast power driving his Sword Technique.

[Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber Experience Points +4]

[The Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber has reached the peak of Perfection. Consume 20 Spiritual Essence to Break the Limit?]

Without a moment’s hesitation, Chu Fan spent the twenty points of Spiritual Essence.

After refining the Demon Suppression Stele, his Spiritual Essence reserves had grown so large they felt inexhaustible.

The next moment...

That familiar feeling once again swept through his entire body.

In his mind, every saber strike, which fused multiple layers of Sword Force, replayed itself.

Chu Fan closed his eyes tightly, silently perceiving the changes in the Sword Technique.

After a good while, he opened his eyes.

[Technique: Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber (First Breaking Limit) (2/4500) (Trait: Zhong Yue)]

[Zhong Yue: The Sword Momentum is deep and powerful, as heavy as a mountain. Each strike contains a trace of a dense and weighty Mental Realm, doubling the oppressive force of your Sword Techniques. It can suppress an opponent’s Body Technique and weapon, and even rattle their mind, making them feel the crushing weight of the attack before the blade ever connects.]

’A new Trait...’

’Zhong Yue, the Trait from Breaking the Limit of the Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber, seems to be an advanced version of Sword Heavy as a Mountain.’

The Trait’s description didn’t specify exactly how heavy it was.

His gaze sharp as lightning, Chu Fan locked onto a stone lock to his front left.

With a thought, he unleashed the Nine Blood Soul Blades...

"First Blade, Blood Burning!"

With a mental roar, the Evil Qi and Qi Blood Power on his long saber intertwined, coalescing into a sharp blade of light that he unleashed in a ferocious slash!

BOOM—!!

The blade of light struck the stone lock, which instantly exploded!

Footsteps immediately sounded from outside the courtyard.

Cao Xingda and several other Entering the Realm of Strength Martial Artists on duty around the courtyard ran over in a panic, thinking that Cyan Snake Xiaobai was causing trouble again.

Only when they saw it was Chu Fan training did they all breathe a sigh of relief and withdraw. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Chu Fan walked over to the shattered stone lock.

He had nearly destroyed every stone lock in the courtyard.

’It’s completely different now...’ A sharp glint flashed in Chu Fan’s eyes.

A few days ago, at the Chu Family ancestral home, after he had Broken the Limit of the Nine Blood Soul Blades, he had struck a bluestone in the courtyard.

At that time, the Sword Gang had passed through the bluestone but didn’t completely shatter it, only leaving behind a gash about an inch deep.

But the terrifying Evil Qi that had surged into the bluestone had actually turned it a decayed, ashen color, as if it had been severely corroded.

The strength of Blood Evil Invading God, the Trait gained from Breaking the Limit of the Nine Blood Soul Blades, lay in its ability to ’imbue the Sword Gang with Fiend, to invade flesh and corrode bone, to slaughter the mind,’ rather than in direct destructive power.