Chapter 530 - 530: The True Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form

After conjuring the Earth Seal Sword.

Chu Qingyun began to ponder and practice the next part of his sword technique in the Illusion Realm, combining it with his own insights—a strike focused on "lightning" and "speed."

He swung his sword again and again, then stood still to comprehend his learnings.

Through Chu Qingyun's constant attempts and verification, the bottleneck holding him back finally seemed to loosen a little.

After swinging his sword an untold number of times.

Chu Qingyun finally succeeded once!

This time, as he swung, the Earth Seal Sword was enveloped in a layer of bright purple light, and the speed of his strike suddenly increased.

An extremely sharp edge flashed across the Earth Seal Sword, looking as if it would slice the very space of the Illusion Realm in two!

'It worked!'

Chu Qingyun's eyes lit up. He had finally managed to execute the sword strike of "lightning" and "speed."

Recalling the feeling from before, Chu Qingyun swung his sword again.

However, he failed to produce the bright purple light this time.

Having experienced cultivating the Thunder Sword, Chu Qingyun was not discouraged by this.

He knew that as long as he had succeeded once, the rest could be achieved through diligent cultivation, allowing him to gradually master this sword strike to perfection.

"The previous sword strike was called the Thunder Sword, so let's call this one the Lightning Sword!"

After naming the sword strike, Chu Qingyun exited the Illusion Realm.

The bottleneck in his Sword Dao had been broken. The next step was to cultivate this strike to perfection, but there was no need to rush.

After leaving the Illusion Realm, Chu Qingyun discovered that not much time seemed to have passed.

At the very least, the sky outside was still dark.

The assistance the Illusion Realm provided for cultivation was simply incredible.

Chu Qingyun had cultivated inside for several days, but only a few hours had passed in the outside world.

Since it was still dark, Chu Qingyun naturally didn't want to disturb anyone's rest.

After a moment's thought, he retrieved the blood-colored sphere from the Blood Sect ruins out of his Storage Ring and continued to use his Devouring Power on the crimson energy within it.

The stubborn crimson energy that had been resisting Chu Qingyun had already grown very faint.

After nearly two hours, during which he condensed more than a dozen palm-sized Crimson Crystals, Chu Qingyun finally devoured the last trace of the crimson energy.

All the blood-red color on the sphere vanished completely.

The fist-sized sphere lay quietly in Chu Qingyun's palm. Inside it, a soft mass of white light flowed and morphed continuously, looking incredibly mysterious.

'What... what exactly is this thing...?'

Chu Qingyun was still bewildered, but he didn't dare use his Devouring Power on it again.

His Devouring Power wasn't omnipotent.

Moreover, its primary function leaned toward destruction, and Chu Qingyun didn't want to accidentally destroy the sphere he had worked so hard to open.

After a moment of thought, Chu Qingyun sent out a sliver of Soul Power to probe the sphere.

Without the crimson energy blocking it, his Soul Power easily penetrated the sphere and quickly came into contact with the mass of white light inside.

The moment they touched, the mass of white light seemed to stir, swirling around the sliver of Soul Power.

Meanwhile, Chu Qingyun suddenly froze in place.

A massive amount of information flooded into his mind through that wisp of Soul Power.

About five minutes later, the information transfer was complete. Chu Qingyun jolted and came to his senses.

When he looked at the sphere in his palm again, the white light inside had completely vanished. Furthermore, two new cracks had appeared on its surface; it was now damaged.

'The Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form... Inner Chapter! This... this is the true Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form!'

An ecstatic expression quickly spread across Chu Qingyun's face.

In his excitement, he unconsciously clenched his fist, crushing the cracked sphere into several pieces.

It turned out that the blood-red sphere contained a Secret Technique.

And this Secret Technique was known by the people of the Blood Sect as the "Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form Inner Chapter," or simply the "True Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form"!

According to the information Chu Qingyun had received, the existence of this Secret Technique was one of the highest-level secrets within the Blood Sect.

Only the very few people at the highest echelon of the Blood Sect knew this secret.

And now, after more than two thousand years, it was likely that no one even knew this Secret Technique existed anymore.

The reason Chu Qingyun was so excited...

...was because this Secret Technique was fundamentally different from all the other secret techniques he had ever seen!

Normal secret techniques, like the Profound Celestial Divine Pattern Chu Qingyun cultivated, only provided a comprehensive burst of power when activated.

It was a temporary power.

But the true Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form's effect was to comprehensively improve one's physical strength—and it was a permanent improvement!

In other words, once the true Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form was cultivated to a certain level, one could enjoy effects similar to other secret techniques at any time, without needing to consciously activate it.

There were two obvious benefits.

First, he would no longer have to worry about not having time to activate a secret technique during a sneak attack.

Second, the Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form could be stacked with other ordinary secret techniques!

This meant that after cultivating the true Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form and receiving one boost, he could activate another secret technique to boost his power a second time!

'No wonder... no wonder that Martial Sect expert from the Blood Sect wanted to take this with him even as he was dying...'

'The value of this Secret Technique probably far exceeds all the Secret Manuals and Secret Techniques in the Blood Sect ruins, including the other Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form manual!'

'But it's true that passing it down this way would make it difficult to spread. If I wanted to teach this Secret Technique to someone else, I'd probably have to wait until I've cultivated it to Great Success before I could create a similar inheritance method...'

Chu Qingyun mused for a moment, calmed himself, and immediately prepared to begin cultivating this Secret Technique.

The Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form Inner Chapter had a total of ten layers.

Cultivating the First Layer would allow one's physical strength to reach the level of the Human King Realm.

In other words, with Chu Qingyun's current strength as a sixth-level Martial Spirit, as long as he could complete the First Layer, his physical strength would be comparable to that of a Human King Realm expert.

Of course, if a Human King Realm expert were to cultivate it, they could complete the First Layer with ease, but the improvement would likely be minimal.

Cultivating a Secret Technique always required consuming all sorts of expensive Celestial and Earthly Treasures.

The Ten Thousand Spirits Sacred Form Inner Chapter was no exception.

Cultivating this Secret Technique required only two things: one was called Blood Origin, and the other was Qi and Blood Power.

Unfortunately, Chu Qingyun had never heard of either of them...