737 A Tremendous Improvement! (2/2)
Nonetheless, the exact cultivation route, precautions to be taken and everything else still needed to be done accordingly. Otherwise, the foundation was hardly secure and there would be no hope of ascending into the sixth stage. The explosion of spiritual Qi from heaven and earth this time around and its forceful infusion into the body had fortified Yun Yang's cultivation base. Despite its purity and refined aspects, it was still distinctive from the Qi that he cultivated and ground with effort.
The cultivation method was the basic to cultivation after all. A fair cultivation base did not mean an upgrade of a realm, especially with a mystical cultivation method like the Endless Divine Art; there was not much room for skimping.
Of course, what Yun Yang lacked right now was a routine cultivation for a period of time. It would be fine with correction. It would not affect his actual combat power.
Actually, what Yun Yang was the most interested in among the benefits of the Endless Divine Art was the Saber Truth: Destiny Blade, specifically, the one form two styles that he was newly accustomed to. It had actually made him feel as if it was corresponding to his previous techniques.
Perhaps, it was too much of a coincidence!
The Destiny Blade's fifth form – first style, Door of Life and Death Opens; second style, Eighteen Levels of Hell.
”Keep karma in mind, the door to life and death opens with this strike; do not speak of the fickleness of heaven's will, the eighteen levels of hell invite your presence!”
Yun Yang could not help but fall deep in thought once he saw the maxim.
Right now, he was in close cooperation with the Concourse of the Underworld. Very possibly, they would continue working together and he did have plans to tell the ten Yama Kings about the Haunting Temple location that he had discovered.
It was at this subtly delicate juncture that he had a breakthrough to the fifth stage and came across such a maxim.
Although the description could be a metaphor for the saber's power, could there be such a coincidence for the maxim to appear so timely? Would it actually be some sort of reminder?
”Keep karma in mind, the door to life and death opens with this strike,” Yun Yang mumbled, ”The door to life and death opens… with this strike? The next line – do not speak of the fickleness of heaven's will, the eighteen levels of hell invite your presence… that means something else. It is a subject worthy to ponder upon.”
”A strike sends you to the underworld? Or the eighteen levels of the underworld invite me?”
Yun Yang felt as if there was a certain reason for that message, no matter how he formed the explanation. If so, his cooperation with the ten Yama Kings could very well branch into something else…
Unfortunately, everything needed more concrete evidence before it could be taken as truth. Yun Yang did not go slow, trying out his saber truth and practicing the newly acquired one form two styles. Just as he attempted the form, he felt inexplicably odd, like the styles did not match. They were not as smooth as when he had practiced the previous forms.
Yun Yang was silent for a moment before he continued practicing. After several attempts, it was still hindered. The indescribable sense of an obstruction remained. If he had used this form in a battle, the only result would be sending himself to death!
He stopped, no longer forcing the cultivation, and switched to thinking again.
Until now, the saber truth Destiny Blade had respectively acquired had a total of five forms and ten styles.
They were Merciless Blade, Merciless Dao, Saber Laic, Life and Death in a Thought, Upended River of Blood, Reincarnation under Saber, Wind Beyond the Sky, Mountain of Ivory Bones, and finally the recently obtained fifth form, Door of Life, Death Opens and Eighteen Levels of Hell!