Nine Yang Sword Saint

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Yang Dingtian inserted his qi bit by bit into the secret scroll as time pa.s.sed by. It took him five hours before all his qi completed the route on the secret scroll.

“Swoosh…” All the qi returned to Yang Dingtian"s body. Right after this, a ball of blue flame slammed the secret scroll and burned it to ashes.

“Pow! Pow!” A few strikes of thunderbolts appeared in Yang Dingtian"s mind, and he instantly got into the world of thunder element.

Devil Heaven Split!

This thunder mystic skill was called the Devil Heaven Split, and it was divided into six layers. The first layer was the Mountain Split, followed by the River Split, the Earth Split, the Ocean Split, Heaven and Earth Split, and lastly, the sixth and final layer, the Devil Heaven Split.

The Devil Heaven Split was the highest level in this piece of thunder mystic skill, and it was also, without doubt, extremely powerful.

At this point, the five hours that Yang Dingtian spent was only on studying the first layer, the Mountain Split.

“Pow! Pow! Pow!”

Yang Dingtian"s spirit stood between Heaven and Earth as countless strikes of thunder slammed down furiously, and a powerful gush of electricity rushed into his body.

Of course, all of this was just an illusion. In fact, it was the qi that just returned from the secret scroll revamping his body. If Yang Dingtian were thunder gifted, then this gush of qi could trigger the thunder cells. However, if Yang Dingtian were not thunder gifted, then all of this would be useless.

Countless strikes of thicker thunderbolts continued to hit Yang Dingtian furiously, causing his meridians to swell and discolor inch by inch repeatedly.

This was an excruciating and dangerous process. If Yang Dingtian"s meridians were not gifted enough, it was very likely to burst directly and cause him to die. Therefore, it was useless for an untalented individual to get a high-level mystic skill scroll. Not only was the individual unable to master the skill, but it might also kill him.

Another five hours had pa.s.sed, Yang Dingtian"s body gradually recovered, that shade of terrible blue on him was finally fading away. Yang Dingtian slowly opened his eyes, and it was already completely dark all around. Learning this thunder mystic skill actually took him an entire day.

Now came the moment to see if Yang Dingtian were thunder gifted or not. He stared at a small tree in front and started to generate his qi in preparation to use the thunder mystic skill, Mountain Split.

If he were gifted with the thunder element, he would be able to generate a strike of thunder, and the power of the thunder would match with the level of gifts he had. But if he were not gifted with the thunder element, then there would obviously be no reaction at all.

In the meantime, Yang Dingtian was still trying to generate the skill. A mystic skill was different from a martial skill. A martial skill could be activated in seconds, but a mystic skill would require some time upon activation as more qi was needed.

Five seconds pa.s.sed.

Ten seconds pa.s.sed.

Fifteen seconds pa.s.sed.

Finally, Yang Dingtian brewed enough qi to generate the Mountain Split skill. His whole body"s meridians started to spin furiously, and the skill could be launched at any moment now.

“Mountain Split!”

Yang Dingtian roared as all the qi he had been brewing for the past fifteen seconds burst out together.

Time did not retain the suspense for too long as the strike of thunder instantly flashed from the palm of Yang Dingtian and sliced the small tree into two halves, and the remains of it turned into a pile burning charcoal.

“Yes!” Yang Dingtian shouted in joy as he looked at his hands in disbelief. He was actually gifted with the thunder element! This was one in a million probability, and he was really blessed with it!

Moreover, he was able to destroy this small tree with a large bowl in his first attempt of thunder mystic skill, which meant that his level of gift for the thunder element was actually very high! It seemed like G.o.d really loved him too much, Yang Dingtian was still looking at the small tree in disbelief.

The thunder element mystic skill was the rarest in the world, and also the most unguardable element! For the other four elements, the ice element clashed with the fire element, while the wind element clashed with the gold element. But not any of these four elements clashed with the thunder element.

After rejoicing over his newly discovered gift, Yang Dingtian realized that he had actually exhausted all his qi for that one skill just now. It was really shocking to realize that all of his qi was only sufficient to slice a small tree. Of course, this was only the most basic level of the Mountain Split, so it was normal that Yang Dingtian didn"t know how to utilize his qi effectively.

Therefore, Yang Dingtian had to continue to study and master the higher grades of the Mountain Split for the power of the skill to be greater with a lesser amount of qi used.

But how was Yang Dingtian supposed to proceed from this point? It was impossible for him to just repeatedly execute the Mountain Split over and over again, it would be a total waste of qi for him. No matter what, the first thing he should do was recharging his qi, or he would be in trouble if he were to encounter any enemy.

Yang Dingtian immediately went to the side of a pool and began to recharge his qi. Of course, the qi that Yang Dingtian was generating was for battle purposes. Therefore, the qi did not need to be thoroughly refined, and it only took one day and one night to fill the entire meridians and qi vessel.

However, this type of qi was filled with impurities and could only be used for combat, not for training. Only total refined qi could be used to break through the qi vessel. The reason why the Five Elements Hall was a good place for training was that the qi over there was dense and pure, and could be used to break through the qi vessel without refining directly.

Also, the impure combat qi might lead to swelling in the meridians if it stayed in Yang Dingtian"s body for too long. If that were to happen, his qi would take longer times to breakthrough, and eventually be unable to breakthrough. At that point, it was necessary to go through a thorough body cleanse to unblock the meridians.

Of course, master Dongfang Niemie had already cleansed Yang Dingtian"s meridians to the third layer in the snow world. But that was already awhile back, this time Yang Dingtian had to go through another cleanse, otherwise it would be tough for him to break through the Martial Mystic level.

Yang Dingtian gradually immersed himself into the qi general process, and his whole body and mind would go into complete rest.

“Child…” A familiar voice said in Yang Dingtian"s mind. Yang Dingtian"s body instantly trembled, and he immediately opened his eyes. He couldn"t believe what he had just heard, so he immediately tried to refocus to make sure what he heard just now wasn"t an illusion.

“Master, is that you?” Yang Dingtian trembled and asked.

“It"s me…” Dongfang Niemie replied. “You must have gone through a tough time lately.”

Yang Dingtian was over the moon and was on the verge of bursting out those tears of joy. He finally heard the voice of his master Dongfang Niemie after eight months.

“I almost lost my soul when I tried to control that vicious sword spirit the last time. It took me a long time to gradually regather the broken divine conscience together, and so I got extremely exhausted to the extent that I fell into sleep instantly. You triggered and woke me up while learning the thunder element mystic skill.” Dongfang Niemie said. “What happened during this time of my sleep? You actually managed to master a thunder mystic skill?”

The voice of Dongfang Niemie started to tremble as he continued, “You are already a five star Great Mystic Martial Master now. How long have I been sleeping?”

“It has already been eight months, master.” Yang Dingtian replied.

“You managed to break through the 20th level and become a five star Great Mystic Martial Master in just eight months?” Dongfang Niemie asked in disbelief. “How did you do it?”

Yang Dingtian replied, “I fell from the coal-seam fire disk after forging the youngling sword at the Fire Cloud Devil Cave and found a secret realm, Five Elements Hall. I was there for ninety-eight days and managed to transform into a five star Great Mystic Martial Master. In addition to that, I got a thunder talisman and this thunder mystic skill secret scroll through the infernal trials.”

“A thunder mystic skill, the first mystic skill you learned, was actually a one in a billion type of skill.” Dongfang Niemie said. “I really suspect G.o.d sent you, you are so lucky that even your master is getting jealous.”

Dongfang Niemie continued after the joke, “Tell me what happened in these months while I was asleep, child.”

“Yes! After I defeated Qin Shaobai in the duel trial at Cloud Heaven City, I was threatened by Ximen Ju to once again use the violent sword spirit in the Night Owl Strange Blade. And that almost caused your death and got you into a deep sleep, I nearly got swallowed by the sword spirit and was about to die. It was Yanyan who took me to the Sea of Hades alone…”

Yang Dingtian continued and took half an hour before he finished telling Dongfang Niemie everything that happened in the past eight months.

“It was really tough for you, kid. Yanyan is a good child, much better than Dongfang Bingling. She is the most suitable wife for you.” Dongfang Niemie said. “I will be alongside you throughout your journey from now on.”

“Great…” Yang Dingtian instantly burst in excitement.

“What are your plans now, child?” Asked Dongfang Niemie.

Yang Dingtian says, “Dugu Fengwu destroyed my s.h.i.+p, so I have to wait for a pa.s.sing s.h.i.+p to get me to the north west continent. Then, I will find a way to get the third tier of the Pig Slaying Sword Art in Cloud Heaven City and try my best to break through the Great Martial Mystic level within a month. After that, I will go and look for the Heaven and Earth Mystic Flame. There are still eight months to the battle of owners.h.i.+p for Cloud Heaven City, and my biggest opponent at that would be Ximen Ju. So I must at least break through the Martial Ancestor level to stand a chance against him. Therefore, my two biggest breakthrough opportunities would be learning the third tier of the Pig Slaying Sword Art and mastering the Heaven and Earth Mystic Flame!”

“Child, how are you planning to go to Cloud Heaven City to get the third tier of the Pig Slaying Sword Art?” asked Dongfang Niemie.

Yang Dingtian went silent for a moment and said, “I intend to go to Cloud Heaven City with a fake ident.i.ty of a Hidden Sect member again, and directly demand the sword art. Also, I want to see what happened to sister Ning Ning.”