Chapter 327: Chapter 293 First!
In the mid-stage Spirit Sea Sword Fighting Area.
Ye Chen didn't care about the countless gazes fixed on him, many of whom were seated nearby watching him condense the Void Heaven Sword Qi.
His entire attention was focused on the Xu Tian Sword Qi Light Group outside his body.
What no one knew was that as the quantity of Void Heaven Sword Qi outside Ye Chen exceeded forty million strands, a scroll of the "Beiming Secret Tome" that had been hidden within Ye Chen's Divine Soul, previously obtained from the Divine Artifact "Fallen Sword," began to slowly unfold of its own accord!
The Beiming Secret Tome was the Beiming clan's Sword Dao Divine Art, representing the ultimate secret technique for sword cultivation!
The first layer of the tome, the "All-Encompassing Divine Diagram," pertains to the cultivation of Sword Intent levels. After Ye Chen had completed this layer within the divine sword, practicing high-level sword formations became a breeze.
The second layer of the Beiming Secret Tome, known as the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu," is dedicated to cultivating an existence within the Sword Dao layers that transcends Sword Intent—the even more powerful Law Sword Seeds.
Ever since Ye Chen had completed the "All-Encompassing Divine Diagram," he had been studying the cultivation method of the second layer, the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu." According to the diagram, once someone masters this, they can directly condense the "Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth" five types of Law Sword Seeds within their body, possessing unimaginable Sword Dao potency.
Even when advancing to the latter stages of the Spirit Sea and making a breakthrough into the Rotating Pill Realm, one could use the five Law Sword Seeds to draw upon the five great Heavenly Void Laws, not only achieving the most perfect Rotating Pill formation of the five orifices but also stepping into the third level of Sword Dao cultivation—the "Law Sword Realm."
Seeing the sheer power of the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu," Ye Chen naturally continued his cultivation, but despite spending much time, he had not been able to fully comprehend this second layer.
It was only after arriving at the Immeasurable Mountain, clashing with warriors from the Western Wilderness, even confronting strong late Rotating Pill Realm cultivators like Bai Wuchen, and facing the saintly pressure of Uto from the heavens, that Ye Chen suddenly experienced an epiphany.
Then, in the three days before the start of the Sword Fighting Tournament, Ye Chen went into seclusion to cultivate specifically in order to step into the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu."
As a result of three days of enlightenment and intense cultivation, Ye Chen finally unlocked the cultivation method of the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu," truly beginning the process of condensing the "Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth" five types of Law Sword Seeds within his Divine Soul.
This process, as recorded in the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu," would take a long time, and it was very possible that it would only be successfully completed when the five great Heavenly Void Laws descended during the breakthrough into the Rotating Pill Realm.
However, once Ye Chen in the Sword Fighting Area had condensed over forty million strands of Void Heaven Sword Qi outside his body, he was amazed to find that within the light of the multicolored sword Qi, there seemed to be five dazzling seeds slowly being born.
Five types of Law Sword Seeds!
This was exactly what Ye Chen had been struggling to cultivate, the Law Sword Seeds that were even more formidable than Sword Intent!
Before entering the Void Heaven Sword Valley, Ye Chen had heard others say that Void Heaven Sword Qi was helpful for comprehending the five great Heavenly Void Laws. Ye Chen had never expected that after he had condensed enough Void Heaven Sword Qi, it would first greatly aid the cultivation of his "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu," bringing him a pleasant surprise!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The others were watching as Ye Chen's body continued to accumulate Void Heaven Sword Qi, but only Ye Chen knew that at this moment, those five dazzling seeds in the Void Heaven Sword Qi were flying towards his Divine Soul, and according to the cultivation method of the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu," they were starting to take real shape inside his body.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
When the Void Heaven Sword Qi outside Ye Chen surged over ninety thousand zhang high, almost reaching a hundred thousand zhang, everyone watching Ye Chen condense the Void Heaven Sword Qi had their mouths agape in shock, while inside Ye Chen, the five types of Law Sword Seeds were finally reaching the last stage of cultivation completion.
As the multicolored Void Heaven Sword Qi roared furiously outside of Ye Chen, the "Xu Tian Wu Ji Tu" within his Divine Soul also began emitting frenzied rays of light, and finally, under the combination of these two extraordinary forces, five shining sword light seeds began to form above the diagram within Ye Chen's Divine Soul.
These five sword light seeds were linked to the five great Heavenly Void Laws of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—Law Sword Seeds!
When these five Law Sword Seeds took shape, Ye Chen's entire Divine Soul seemed illuminated by the seeds. Instantaneously, Ye Chen even felt as if he could sense the five strange law forces above the heavenly void!
Although this feeling was fleeting, Ye Chen was certain that if his Qi was sufficient and he reached the extreme latter stage of the Spirit Sea, when he began to break through to the Rotating Pill Realm, with the help of these five Law Sword Seeds, he would definitely be able to summon the presence of the five great Heavenly Void Laws!
By completing this step in cultivation, Ye Chen not only elevated his swordsmanship combat power beyond the level of sword intent but also laid a solid foundation for his future ascent into the Rotating Pill Realm!
Within his Divine Soul, Ye Chen sensed the newly formed five Law Sword Seeds.
Outside his body, Ye Chen's Void Heaven Sword Qi converged, finally reaching the final stage, at last, its speed of condensation grew slower and slower.
Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!
As the last few streams of multicolored sword qi surged into the Xu Tian Sword Qi Light Group outside Ye Chen's body, and no more Void Heaven Sword Qi flowed towards him, Ye Chen had fully comprehended the five Law Sword Seeds and opened his eyes.
At the same moment that Ye Chen opened his eyes, in the void, the first name finally appeared on the Void Heaven Sword Ranking!
"Ye Chen, Southern Territory, has condensed 46,279,988 strands of Xu Tian Sword Qi!"
Ye Chen, in the first step of the Sword Fighting Competition, took first place in the Void Heaven Sword Qi condensation battle!
Wow!
When this result was displayed in the skies above the early, middle, and latter Spirit Sea stages of the Sword Fighting Area in the Void Heaven Sword Valley, and amidst the boundless peaks of Void Heaven where countless martial artists observed from outside the valley, a tumult erupted in all four areas, astonishing a myriad of warriors!
Ye Chen had condensed over two million more strands of Void Heaven Sword Qi than Jiang Yao, who had achieved an unbelievable second place!
This was, by far, the most unbelievable record in the history of the Spirit Sea Realm Sword Fighting Competition!
"Over 46,279,988 strands of Void Heaven Sword Qi!"
Gazing at the first-ranking name on the Void Heaven Sword Ranking, Elder Xiao Supreme Elder's eyes shone brightly, "Ye Chen's swordsmanship potential is this strong as well! Indeed, strong innate potential in the Divine Soul greatly aids swordsmanship talent!"
"Ye Chen, over 46,279,988 strands of Void Heaven Sword Qi, sister Jiang Yao, over 43,424,988 strands, the two of them combined have almost condensed more Void Heaven Sword Qi than the total condensed by the top hundred Sword Cultivators!" Mu Qingqing now had stars in her eyes as she spoke.
Although Elder Xiao Supreme Elder and others were surprised, they were not so shocked as to lose composure, but other martial artists had gone completely mad.
Especially the warriors from the Southern Territory, when the scores of Ye Chen and Jiang Yao clearly appeared on the Void Heaven Sword Ranking in the first and second places, all the more than two thousand warriors in the entire Southern Territory region let out sky-shaking screams!
"This... this..."
In the region of the ten Demon Sects of the Western Wilderness, individuals like Bai Wuchen and the other Demon Sect disciples, as well as the ascetic responsible for the Demon Sects' selections for the Sword Fighting Competition, all opened their mouths in stunned disbelief.
Within the Void Heaven Sword Valley, many powerful Sword Cultivators in the three regions, such as Lu Xiaojia and Mo Beiling, looking up at the Void Heaven Sword Ranking in the void, clenched their fists tightly!
"Ye Chen."
Jiang Yao, who had just finished condensing her Void Heaven Sword Qi and was conversing with Liu Qingmei, learned of the surrounding situation and then saw Ye Chen's score on the Void Heaven Sword Ranking.
Seeing that Ye Chen's score was better than hers, Jiang Yao smiled sweetly, "I knew it, Ye Chen is still that impressive!"