Chapter 45 - Sword Token (2/2)

Another few moments later, the sword marks slowly disintegrated, and within it, various kinds of marvelous totem carvings emerged, this should be where one could truly learn the [Geng Jin Sword Qi]!

Zhong Yue focused his sights on the totem carvings, the more he looked at it, the quicker his heart thumped.

The totem carvings are the medium that contains the true quintessences of the arts and techniques. Every single art and technique is derived from the fundamental permutations of the totem carvings. For example, the [Spring Thunderbolt Sword Skill], its core totems are the thunder totems. Elder Pu taught me twelve different types of thunder totems and from those twelve totem carvings, formed the [Spring Thunderbolt Sword Skill].

He carefully observed the [Geng Jin Sword Qi]'s totem carvings. There were a total of 36 different totem carvings!

But as he focused deeper into it, he could slowly delineate an abstruse secret about the totem carvings. They all ostensibly appeared as such on the surface, but in truth, all of the 36 totem carvings were in fact, one!

The total of 36 totem carvings was only ancillary to this one totem carving!

This totem carving was like Zhong Yue's Dragon Blood Scabbard, if you place a sword in it, then it would be a sword scabbard, or if a blade then a blade scabbard.

This totem carving was shaped like a sword totem, it was the base of all and within it were incorporated thirty-six other totem carvings which ultimately formed the [Geng Jin Sword Qi] visualization totem.

If it wasn't for the fact that he was cultivating the [Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art], allowing his soul to take the form of the Sui Sovereign which had the third eye—divine eye, he would not be able to discern the hidden sword totem carvings within the chaotic jumble of sword marks.

"A sword art with only one totem carving?"

Zhong Yue was perplexed, the totem carvings of the [Geng Jin Sword Qi] were even fewer than the simple [Spring Thunderbolt Sword Skill]!

The [Spring Thunderbolt Sword Skill] was the art that the upper house disciples can only learn while the higher grades of thunderous lightning sword arts were in the hands of Lei Hu Qi Practitioners. Zhong Yue once heard Elder Pu, and Ting Lanyue say before, that the Lei Hu Clan had mastered 128 thunder totem carvings!

The standard intuition of cultivation was, the greater the number of totem carvings in the arts and techniques, the stronger it would be. Under this consensus, the twelve thunder totem carvings [Spring Thunderbolt Sword Skill] would be stronger than the one totem carving [Geng Jin Sword Qi]. But the truth was, the more Zhong Yue studied the sword totem carving, the more he could feel its immense strength. It was far more profound than the [Spring Thunderbolt Sword Skill]!

If he combined it with the Jiao Dragon totem, it would incite an incredible phenomenon between the two and form an incisive and brutal combat art, an art that would be far stronger than the [Jiao Dragon Winding Body Totem Art]!

Not only that, it seemed like the sword totem could fuse with any of the other totem carvings, opening up to him infinite possibilities in the way of cultivation!

The [Geng Jin Sword Qi] could be described as a boundless Sword Qi. There are no limits to it! With this Sword Qi, I can travel the world without fear!

Zhong Yue praised it greatly in his heart. He then immersed his whole body and mind in studying the sword totem, not even noticing that Qiu Jin'er had left.

The sword totem was too exquisite and marvelous to the point that he completely disregarded the 36 totems. In his eyes, only this one sword totem carving was the core; the other 36 totem carvings were merely accessory, it would not be necessary to practice them.

Junior Martial Sister Jin'er left?

Zhong Yue only stopped after his psyche and soul neared exhaustion, he said in his heart, It's fine, I will return it to her tomorrow. This sword totem is too profound, I can't study it thoroughly alone, Junior Martial Sister Jin'er is a Qi Practitioner, and she had practiced the [Geng Jin Sword Qi] for quite some time, she must have some precedent experiences that I can glean from.

Qiu Jin'er's soul returned to her body. The palace was empty as her mother had yet to return. She tried to stand up—Pu-tong—and unsurprisingly, she fell down from the wooden wheelchair.

The young maiden's psyche moved and lifted her up from the ground and placed her back onto the wooden wheelchair.

"Jin'er, your waist…"

The beautiful woman stood in front of the palace, and she stared blankly at Qiu Jin'er, her voice shuddered with fear, "Does it have no feeling anymore?"

Qiu Jin'er lowered her sights, a small part of her clothes were torn as she fell to the ground, revealing the livid bruises on her waist.

The beautiful woman's psyche lifted Qiu Jin'er and the wooden wheelchair wholly out of the palace, she hurried and said, "We can wait no longer, I will talk to the grand elder right now, no matter how I will have him suppress the wood element in your body!"

Qiu Jin'er's heart thumped, she quickly answered, "Mother, can we wait till tomorrow, I will tell Senior Martial Brother Zhong, and then we can go to the grand elder…"

"Not a single second will we delay!"

The beautiful woman brought her up to the golden summit of Swords Gate.

The next day, when Zhong Yue arrived at the lightning zone, Qiu Jin'er was unexpectedly absent, he waited and waited, but she did not appear.

Is Junior Martial Sister Jin'er entangled with some other matters? I was just thinking of asking her the about the sword totem.

The third day, Qiu Jin'er was still nowhere to be found, as well as on the fourth and the days following so forth. For a long time, Zhong Yue no longer saw the young maiden he had first found in the lightning.