Chapter 83 - Zither Without Strings (1/2)

Jun Sixie clenched her teeth, not long later the young man had disassembled the strings from her soul weapon. The strings were actually threads of sword silk that was continually by Jun Sixie countless of times whereupon it hid a formidable Sword Qi, allowing it to become extremely sharp!

Zhong Yue took down the zither string, he erupted his psyche into it and it slowly extended out. It grew to over three hundred feet long, continuing to grow longer and thinner with the continued inflow of his psyche where soon, it had reached a length of a thousand feet and was still stretching out!

"Senior Martial Sister Jun's zither string is quite similar to the Sword Cocoons."

Zhong Yue praised, and with a shift of thought, the zither string slithered in the air, fast as lightning and yet silent as the grave, it was nearly impossible for the opponent to ever guard against its assault.

"The Sword Cocoons of the Ten Malefic Weapons?"

Jun Sixie heard the mumbles and she sneered, "Sword Cocoons is just famous for being in the Ten Malefic Weapons, my zither can be used like the Sword Cocoons, and what's more, it can slay my enemies with an ear-soothing melody underneath which are hidden a myriad of deadly Sword Qi. It can also be used to place down a sword array. One day, my zither will be stronger than the Sword Cocoons!"

Zhong Yue smiled and said, "Sixty four Sword Cocoons are like sixty-four deadly assassins, it's not that simple. But senior martial sister, your zither really is something else, it might just be able to surpass the Sword Cocoons."

"You've seen the Sword Cocoons?" Jun Sixie asked curiously.

Zhong Yue nodded, "In the Lawless Battles of the upper house, I've fought with it."

Jun Sixie was stunned, she then rebuked. "Don't you boast!"

Upper house Lawless Battles? Didn't that mean that Zhong Yue had fought with the Sword Cocoons when he was not yet even a Qi Practitioner? How could it be?

Zhong Yue did not defend himself, he concentrated on controlling the zither string, familiarizing himself with the power of the string. He slashed and waved the zither string around in the air; if it was someone else controlling it, their thoughts would be addled by the seemingly unlimited variations of the zither string; but it was Zhong Yue, the zither string was soon meandering and twisting with an abstruse grace, casting a few profound sword skills along with the capricious permutations of its movements.

Jun Sixie took a look at it, her heart thumped in shock. The sword skill cast by Zhong Yue was indeed, the art to control the Sword Cocoons, but as he had not grasped the quintessence of the art, his method of casting it seemed a little ludicrous.

Can it be that he has really fought with the Sword Cocoons of the Ten Malefic Weapons before?

Zhong Yue played around with the zither string for an hour until he had entirely familiarized himself with the zither string. Because he was not properly taught in the ways of using one, it would be useless for him to practice it anymore as he would not see further improvements. Hence, the zither string could only be used as an ancillary weapon for ambush, rather than a primary weapon for frontal combat.

The zither string moved in tandem with the shift of his psyche and it wound around the hilt of the Fang Blade.

Jun Sixie's gazed at her zither string and then turned to look at her zither that was stripped of its strings in grief, her heart was dripping with blood.

Zhong Yue grabbed a steel fork in his hands, he thought to himself, Soul weapons of the monsters are useless to me, why don't I extract the Sword Qi from it. Xin Huo said before that once I have a spirit, I can then practice the Boundless Great Sword Qi, extract energy from the metallic items and form the Geng Jin Sword Qi. This soul weapon is made of metals, I suppose I can extract a strand of Sword Qi out from it?

Jun Sixie trembled as the Jiao Dragon slithered in the air, her wounds were aching in pain, After traversing a hundred miles of land, the young lady donned in green asked, "Zhong Shan Clan's member, do you have any Lingyu Paste? I've finished mine and my wounds are still bleeding."

Zhong Yue shook his head and answered, "Nope."

Jun Sixie was furious and she yelled, "As a Qi Practitioner, how can you not have any Lingyu Paste? The Lingyu Paste is the medicinal remedy for wounds, who doesn't bring it along with them?"

Zhong Yue responded, "I've just become a Qi Practitioner, I haven't had the time to return back to Swords Gate, so I don't have any Lingyu Paste with me."

Jun Sixie took inhaled a deep breath of air and calmed herself down, "Alright, zero Lingyu Paste, but you should at least have some Yuling Pellets or Lingyuan Pellets right? If I can just recover a little bit more, I will then be able to suppress the wounds and repel the residual poisons in me."

Zhong Yue shook his head again and said, "None at all."

Jun Sixie was now on the verge of losing her sanity, she shouted out, "You don't have any Yuling Pellets or Lingyuan Pellets? And yet, you actually have the guts to leave the mountain over to the monster land and disguised yourself as a monster Qi Practitioner? You know nothing at all, how can you be even called as a Qi Practitioner?"

"I simply don't need them."

Jun Sixie nearly passed out of rage and anger upon hearing his blunt answers, which Qi Practitioner never ever needed any medicinal pellets? This brat is totally a country bumpkin who even had the audacity to act like a noble dragon among the monsters!

She took a few moments to regain her composure, she saw that Zhong Yue was holding a steel fork in his hands and out of curiosity she asked, "What are you doing?"

"Practicing the Geng Jin Sword Qi to increase my strength. When in a combat situation later on, it might be useful. After all, the Geng Jin Sword Qi is stronger."

"Geng Jin Sword Qi with the soul weapons?"

Jun Sixie went speechless, she said, "What do you think you are practicing, the [Great Boundless Sword Qi] ? It's easy to cultivate the Geng Jin Sword Qi, exchange some Jinyuan Pellets from the Valley of Remedy, extract the Gold Qi in the pellets and use it to practice the Geng Jin Sword Qi. Which idiot told you that you can extract Gold Qis from the soul weapons after acquiring a spirit, you are dreami…."

Hua-la.

The steel fork in his hands crumbled like clay soils, and the energy in the soul weapon was siphoned away; Jun Sixie stared blankly right at him, her mind was going insane, this young man, this brat, he really extracted the Gold Qi from the soul weapon!

Zhong Yue chuckled and said "It's true! After becoming a Qi Practitioner, having the life essence, I can extract various energies from the world to cultivate the Sword Qi!"

He then took out another steel fork, the steel fork that had formerly emitted a metallic luster was patently fading away as the Gold Qi in it was getting extracted out from it.