Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

The issues in Dishui County town were easily resolved.

Li Yongfeng brought the flying sword back to Qingshan Village the next day.

Despite the city’s bustle, he, who had grown accustomed to life here, found living in Qingshan Village a bit more comfortable.

Knowing that Wang Sheng had entered seclusion, he still wondered how to return the flying sword. Just as he entered the boundary of Qingshan Village, the flying sword flew off on its own, finding its way back to Wang Sheng’s house, sparing him any further trouble.

During his closed-door meditation, Wang Sheng felt the flying sword return and directly retracted it into his Dantian.

The refinement needed to continue; this kind would strengthen his connection to the flying sword, making it convenient to employ the Sword Transformation Technique in the future.

Wang Sheng wasn’t quite clear about the outside world’s state, but after several days of research on the final step of the Sword Transformation Technique, he had some inspiration.

And that inspiration came from the secret tome obtained in the Imperial City, a fragmented tome from Spirit Sword Valley.

Spirit Sword Valley’s Valley Master, Wu Qingfeng, had once used a secret technique during the struggle for the Fire Transformation Pearl, transforming Qi Blood Power into a sword, then launching an attack with countless such swords.

At that time, Wang Sheng thought it was interesting; he initially planned to eventually visit Spirit Sword Valley for reference.

But as fate would have it, he obtained that very technique in the imperial palace.

Of course, the Spirit Sword Valley secret technique in the royal Book Collection Pavilion was not complete, missing the core Cultivation Technique; even with the secret technique, one couldn’t unleash its full power.

Therefore, for the royal family, this tome from Spirit Sword Valley wasn’t significant enough to be placed in the secret archives.

Of course, this didn’t matter much to Wang Sheng.

All the secret tomes he took were for reference; he only intended to learn certain martial techniques.

This incomplete Spirit Sword Valley secret tome was very valuable to him, especially concerning the training for the "Sword Transformation Technique."

Initially, he believed that the Sword Transformation Technique would be successful not because of the tome, but due to the Fire Transformation Pearl, and the formed Divine Skills of "Summoning Wind and Rain" and "Heavenly Thunder."

Both Divine Skills involved using Wang Sheng’s power to transform into rain, wind, and thunder with offensive capabilities.

Such a transformation was thorough, even altering the very nature of the energy.

Wang Sheng didn’t take much notice at first, until he restarted his research on the Sword Transformation Technique.

The bottleneck of the Sword Transformation Technique was how to transform into a replica of the original flying sword. It was a problem that had stumped him for a long time, and even his trip to the Imperial City was partly in hopes of finding a tome that could help him break through this hurdle.

Unfortunately, despite all the issues he faced and the number of secret tomes he collected, none seemed particularly suited to overcoming this bottleneck.

Until he thought of the existence of the Fire Transformation Pearl.

"It’s hidden in plain sight!"

The "transformation" method researched from the Fire Transformation Pearl—couldn’t it also be applied to these aspects?

The Divine Skills "Summoning Wind and Rain" and "Heavenly Thunder" were the best corroboration.

Thus, Wang Sheng, utilizing the ideas that emerged from "Summoning Wind and Rain," tried to decipher the essence of the flying sword, intending to use what he deciphered to build a "model" and ultimately achieve the Sword Transformation Technique.

The idea was sound—if successful, perhaps he could directly manifest the Sword Transformation Technique.

"But reality is skinny indeed!"

He forgot an important aspect—the material of his flying sword was extremely unique, mysterious, and potent, capable of absorbing anything and assuming its properties while still growing.

Such a substance was even more precious than the Fire Transformation Pearl.

So, the final result was that he couldn’t decipher it.

The analysis showed the flying sword’s material as pure Chaos—nothing could be discerned.

"The theory works, but the practice does not!"

The material was too potent to analyze, leading to failure!

However, Wang Sheng didn’t give up. Even though the material couldn’t be fully deciphered, a partial analysis was still feasible.

He could work with just that portion.

Wang Sheng spent the following days studying this, and naturally, he succeeded in the end.

But this was just overcoming one bottleneck in the Sword Transformation Technique; a critical step remained, which was to replicate the information deciphered.

That’s when Wang Sheng took out the Spirit Sword Valley’s secret tome for reference.

The method described inside for transforming Qi-Blood into a sword was different from his Sword Transformation Technique, which was merely a "shape" without the sword’s "spirit"—the swords were fundamentally still Qi-Blood.

But Spirit Sword Valley’s method was extremely refined, appearing convincingly real.

Wang Sheng then used the contents for reference, beginning to construct the flying sword.

"The power of Qi-Blood, a form of energy, controlled by man..."

This was a step in the Sword Transformation Technique, very important.

With the help of Breakthrough "reading," he quickly understood the secret tome from Spirit Sword Valley, finally discovering something crucial.

"To construct a flying sword, first shape its form, then fill its spirit. Once both form and spirit are complete, it is known as the Sword Transformation Technique!"

This was a summary that Wang Sheng had come to, also outlining the steps needed to complete the Sword Transformation Technique.

Though he hadn’t yet tested whether it could succeed, his confidence was still quite strong.

Following this procedure, he directly began establishing the "form" of the flying sword.

This step, with the experiences recorded in the Spirit Sword Valley’s secret technique manuals, posed no difficulty.

Wang Sheng directly manipulated his own energy and then extended it outside his body. In the air, this energy was precisely deployed, strand by strand, constructing it.

At first, it was just a long shaft of something indistinct, but after Wang Sheng’s sculpting, it gradually took on the shape of a sword. Though the sword was somewhat rough, at least it was recognizable.

Then came the most important step in constructing the "form"—"sharpening the blade"!

Only a sword that had been "sharpened" could be a true weapon of murder; otherwise, it was just a stick for stoking fires.

Of course, "sharpening" the blade of an energy-constructed sword wasn’t about literally sharpening a sword but about the final detailed sculpting.

This step was quite troublesome. One had to be careful not to make a mistake.

However, for Wang Sheng, who possessed powerful Divine Thought, this step was not much of an issue. After a bit of effort, the "form" of the flying sword was successfully constructed.

At this point, one could say all steps from the Spirit Sword Valley’s secret technique manual were complete. If one were to construct more swords like this one and control them using methods that manipulate Qi Blood Power, it would be a replication of the martial skills Wu Qingfeng demonstrated last time.

Moreover, since his Qi Blood Power was even stronger, the final effects of its use would also be stronger.

Of course, Wang Sheng would not be satisfied with just this. What he wanted was the genuine Sword Transformation Technique, with both form and spirit. This was to become the core of his Flying Sword Divine Power, so he must learn it.

Therefore, after the construction of the flying sword’s "form" was completed, he proceeded to "fill" the spirit.

And this "spirit" was what he had analysed from the flying swords; filling it into the flying sword was certainly not a simple task.

However, with his experience in researching the "Calling Wind and Summoning Rain" technique, this step was not altogether hopeless.

The process of filling the "spirit" was like turning a "model" into tiny blocks, which were then gradually packed into the flying sword’s "form." This process had to ensure that the flying sword’s "form" didn’t collapse and maintained its complete appearance, or else all previous efforts would be wasted.

"Ten percent... fifty percent..."

Wang Sheng calculated the progress of the filling step by step.

During this process, a progress bar appeared!

"Flying Sword Construction..."

Even if there had been no progress bar, Wang Sheng would have been able to complete it. But with the appearance of the progress bar, he felt that constructing the flying sword had become much easier; at least he didn’t have to worry about making errors.

Time slowly passed, and the progress continued to increase.

It was unclear how much time had passed when the progress finally reached one hundred percent!

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A man-made flying sword, complete with both form and spirit, appeared!

At the moment of completion, Wang Sheng felt as if he could hear the sword’s hum!

"Success!"

Even Wang Sheng couldn’t help but feel excited. For this step, he had prepared many things and spent a great deal of time. If it weren’t successful, there would be nothing he could do!

Simultaneously, a new progress bar appeared.

"Sword Transformation Technique: 1 (1%)"

This indicated that his Sword Transformation Technique had indeed been successful, without any doubt.

However—

"Only at level one?"

Wang Sheng had thought that this Divine Skill, developed through his own research, would be high-level like "Calling Wind and Summoning Rain." It now seemed that this was not necessarily the case.

Of course, he had some guesses about this situation.

Without hesitation, he immediately summoned two physical flying swords for reference.

"As expected, not fully analyzed. Although the constructed flying sword possesses some traits of the flying sword’s physical form, it still falls far short in reality."

He then tried out the strength of the constructed flying sword.

"The power is surprisingly good, almost similar to the physical flying swords. How can this be?"

Wang Sheng hadn’t expected that the power of the constructed flying sword would be so close to that of the physical flying swords, with only a slight difference.

Although this slight difference might become an insurmountable gap in the future, at least it appeared rather promising at the moment. After all, the progress bar could be gradually perfected.

Looking at the three nearly identical flying swords and the new progress bar, Wang Sheng smiled.

"Regardless, it’s a success!"

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