NOVPUB"Young Hero Su, you need not feel any psychological burden, it is my own will! Only when the Demon-Slicing Divine Weapon possesses a Weapon Soul does it truly gain life, a soul, and all sorts of miraculous abilities!"
Villa Owner Nangong hurriedly said.
Su Changkong frowned and looked at Nangong Ming, "Villa Owner Nangong, to me, people are the priority. Even if this Demon-Slicing Divine Weapon is soulless, it still has a spirit in my hands! It can still eliminate demon monsters. If you insist on performing a Blood Sacrifice, I won’t stop you, but you should find another master for this blade."
Su Changkong made it clear. He would accept the blade, but if Nangong Ming insisted on using his own blood for the sacrifice, he would refuse to accept it.
"Manor Lord, this Flame Prison Blade will surely shine brightly in Young Hero Su’s hands, and you do not need to sacrifice your own life!"
"Yes! Manor Lord, you don’t have any heirs. If you were to die, Divine Weapon Villa will be left without a successor!"
Lu Ya and the other two Elders also hastily advised him.
None of them wanted to see Nangong Ming die for the sake of a blade, but they couldn’t dissuade him. However, now that Su Changkong explicitly said he didn’t need Nangong Ming to perform a Blood Sacrifice, they immediately agreed with him.
"This..." Nangong Ming hesitated, but looking at the bodies of the monster warriors on the ground, he nodded, "With the Flame Prison Blade in Young Hero Su’s hands, it will certainly be extraordinary!"
Nangong Ming also realized that it was not the blade that was formidable, but the person wielding it!
Even without a soul, in Su Changkong’s hands, the Flame Prison Blade would surely unleash tremendous power!
Su Changkong was somewhat speechless in his heart. This Flame Prison Blade was a Demon-Slicing Divine Weapon but was actually quite demonic itself, requiring a living person to be used for a Blood Sacrifice. At least for Su Changkong, he was unwilling to sacrifice his own life to forge a blade.
The group then cleaned up the area, with Su Changkong extracting three demonic crystal cores from the hearts of the three monster warriors.
When martial artists merge demonic crystal cores into their hearts, the cores don’t actually stay in the heart but instead transform into a force that spreads throughout the body. Only in death will they recondense into crystals. Thus, once a martial artist has merged with a demonic crystal core, it cannot be removed unless the person dies.
Additionally, there were four strands of Innate Qi. From the bodies of the three monster warriors and that of Xie Fei, Su Changkong had refined a strand of Innate Qi using the Turtle Breath Technique.
Three days later, Su Changkong bid farewell to Nangong Ming and the others. His Forging Skill had achieved a breakthrough after studying the Flame Prison Blade for two days, reaching the 9th realm.
Su Changkong declined to have Nangong Ming escort him and left quietly on his own.
"This Su Tailai is truly extraordinary... a real monster talent! Could he be from a thousand-year-old family or top-tier sect?"
Nangong Ming, Lu Ya, and others couldn’t help but marvel at Su Changkong’s fearsomeness. Young in age, he had cultivated his Forging Skill to such a state, modest in demeanor, yet his strength was immeasurable. Slaying powerful monster warriors like those from Xiongshan seemed as easy as cutting vegetables.
They understood that in the future, Su Changkong was destined to become renowned throughout the Great Flame Empire, maybe even in the surrounding ten countries!
"What a great haul this time, Forging reached the 9th realm, Blade Technique broke through to the 10th realm solidifying Blade Intent, obtained three demonic crystal cores, four strands of Innate Qi, plus an unfinished half-completed Demon-Slicing Divine Weapon."
Su Changkong left Divine Weapon Villa quite satisfied with his current gains; after more than half a year, he returned with a full load!
Su Changkong traveled back to Spirit Taoist Sect.
The Spirit Taoist Sect was situated on top of the wonderfully feng shui Zhongling Mountain, and indeed it offered much better cultivation conditions than Divine Weapon Villa.
What Su Changkong needed to do now was to elevate his Martial Arts cultivation. Even though he had mastered Blade Intent, he had only opened one Heavenly Pulse for his own cultivation. If he faced a top expert among Innate Martial Artists, he might not be enough.
Therefore, he needed to open more Heavenly Pulses, strengthen his body, to increase his limit and unleash his potential.
"Directly refine the Spiritual Energy in the Spirit Stones to increase cultivation."
Su Changkong took out several stones emitting a faint luminescence, which were exactly Spirit Stones.
Spirit Stones are treasures formed when nature’s spiritual energy accumulates in stones over a long time. They’re useless to ordinary martial artists, but for Innate Martial Artists, they are treasures that aid cultivation, also serving as currency among them.
Most Innate Martial Artists can’t afford the luxury of using Spirit Stones to aid their cultivation, and relying on Heavenly Pulses to slowly absorb the spiritual energy scattered around the world is undoubtedly much slower.
Like the previous Zheng Feisha, who achieved the Innate realm for 20 years, it wasn’t just his own aptitude and talent that limited him, but also because he lacked the cultivation resources, which took him 20 years to open just two Heavenly Pulses.
In the past, after saving Mountain Master of Famous Sword Mountain, Su Changkong received 300 Spirit Stones as compensation. At Divine Weapon Villa, by helping those Innate Martial Artists repair and reforge their weapons, Su Changkong’s compensation after Villa’s share was a total of 200 Spirit Stones over half a year, making up about five hundred in total.
"Buzz, buzz!"
Su Changkong held a Spirit Stone in his hand, absorbing the Spiritual Energy within, the phantom of the Heavenly Pulse on his body surface emerged, filtering the violent Spiritual Energy into a form that could be absorbed by the body, flowing into Su Changkong’s limbs, making his meridians stronger, his strength greater, and his speed faster!
"Too slow... Far too slow!"
In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed, yet Su Changkong was frowning deeply.
Even with the aid of Spirit Stones for cultivation, since Su Changkong only had one Heavenly Pulse, the efficiency of refining Spiritual Energy was not much stronger than other Martial Artists of the same level.
Even with a sufficient supply of Spirit Stones for daily cultivation, at the current rate of progress, Su Changkong knew that opening the second main vein into a Heavenly Pulse would take at least 2 to 3 years!
