Chapter 519: Secret Art (I)
In the morning, golden sunlight spilled across the courtyard. A gentle breeze drifted through, swaying flowers of every color as their light, refreshing fragrance spread through the air.
Within the vast courtyard, a chilling saber edge tore through the void, slashing out terrifying saber lights that inspired dread. Each saber arc sliced through the air with a hiss, carving thin spatial cracks into the void before they vanished in an instant.
Lin Zheyu practiced the Seven Absolute Sabers at a pace that was not merely slow but agonizingly sluggish. Every slash seemed to require the full force of his body just to execute, as though millions of pounds of pressure were bearing down upon him. Yet his hand remained incomparably steady, the saber edge not deviating in the slightest. Only the dense beads of sweat covering his forehead, along with his heaving chest and heavy, ragged breathing, revealed the terrifying pressure he was enduring.
Time slowly passed. More than two hours later, the familiar sensation of spiritual ascension emerged once more. His essence, qi, and spirit instantly twisted together into a single force, condensing into a mysterious energy that elevated his soul into a strange frequency of fluctuation. Lin Zheyu frantically pushed his perception to its limit, attempting to comprehend the mysteries hidden within that unique frequency. Yet just like before, he gained nothing at all.
Lin Zheyu gasped heavily for breath, using the long saber as a cane as he finally came to a stop.
"Still nothing," Lin Zheyu murmured softly between breaths, though there was little disappointment on his face.
This was not the first time he had studied and attempted to comprehend the mysterious fluctuation frequency his soul entered during spiritual ascension. Every attempt had ended in failure. After catching his breath for a moment, Lin Zheyu tapped his storage pouch with his right hand. Five low-grade demonic spirit stones appeared in his palm. Because these spirit stones contained dense demonic qi, they were extremely cheap and especially suitable as an energy supplement when using Origin Force for enhancement.
Lin Zheyu planned to depart that afternoon and leave the Martial Realm to carry out a mission. The main reason he had waited until today was to complete this training session and obtain Origin Force.
Use 1 unit of Origin Force to cultivate the Spirit Martial Universe Secret Art—Beginner.
A thought flashed through his mind, and Lin Zheyu's consciousness instantly blurred as he entered the consciousness space and began endless cultivation.
A vast surge of mysterious energy erupted forth, sweeping up the energy within the five demonic spirit stones in his hand and pouring it into Lin Zheyu's body. The Spirit Martial Universe Secret Art was the strongest soul-cultivation secret art within the Martial Alliance, without question.
Martial cultivation differed from the Immortal Dao. Martial cultivators focused on cultivating the physical body, while Immortal Dao cultivators specialized in the soul. The soul cultivation methods of the Immortal Dao were unsuitable for martial artists. The mainstream soul secret arts that martial artists could cultivate were techniques like the Sacred Evolution Spirit Nurturing Art, which used the physical body to nourish and strengthen the soul in return.