Chapter 371 - 341: Void Nether Saber Scripture and Divine Fire Atlas

Chapter 371: Chapter 341: Void Nether Saber Scripture and Divine Fire Atlas

Standing in the Scripture Pavilion, gazing at the vast, ocean-like collection of Jade Scrolls and books, at this endless repository of knowledge, Chu Mu suddenly felt the conviction he had held for so long begin to waver.

Chu Mu was well aware of his own limitations. With his aptitude, a normal Cultivation path would essentially mean the end of his Immortal Path.

If he wanted to achieve anything on his Immortal Path, everything he did would have to revolve around "Spiritual Radiance."

He would use the quantum leap in Heaven-defying Thought Wisdom from the "Spiritual Radiance Blessing," turning knowledge into wealth to overturn his preordained fate.

And the most crucial element in all of this was knowledge.

An ordinary Cultivator could spend their entire life’s energy and still struggle to accumulate much.

But he was different. Under the Spiritual Radiance Blessing, what he learned in a single day would take an ordinary person tens of days, or even months, to achieve.

As such, what he lacked most was sufficient knowledge.

In the decades since he entered the Cultivation Immortal Realm, nearly all his struggles had been in the pursuit of knowledge.

Yet all those struggles, compared to the vast, ocean-like Scripture Pavilion before him, were perhaps nothing more than a drop in the ocean, not even worth mentioning.

’If I joined the Longevity Sect, with my abilities, turning this Scripture Pavilion into my personal backyard... shouldn’t be too difficult, right?’

The mere thought sent an irrepressible thrill of excitement through Chu Mu.

But when he thought of the current situation in the Great Chu Cultivation Immortal World, the idea vanished without a trace.

’Being ordered around by others, having no control over my own destiny...’

Back in Jingmen, he had witnessed such things countless times.

Bound by rules, people were sent to their deaths, powerless to resist!

Suddenly, Chu Mu couldn’t help but recall that sea of flames from the Earth Vein.

’There’s an undiscovered Tier Three Fire Attribute Spiritual Vein there...’

A Spirit Vein didn’t just represent a superior place for Cultivation; it also meant unimaginable benefits that came with it.

Chu Mu pondered silently as he walked along the shelves, his gaze sweeping over the plaques on them. One after another, Secret Techniques rarely seen in the outside world came into view.

He passed by shelf after shelf, but didn’t stop at any of them.

Three years had been more than enough time for him to think things through clearly.

And his choice was a result of those three years of arduous Cultivation.

He still lacked a Secret Technique to fully unleash the Mighty Power of his Great Sun True Flame, and he also needed a way to better apply his Saber Intent, as well as a method to cultivate it.

For these two types of Secret Techniques, he had almost no way of accessing them in the outside world.

His only volume, the Tai Gang Saber Technique, had come from that strange Residual Soul.

Even back in Jingmen, despite his extensive searching, he had found next to nothing.

In a little over an hour, Chu Mu had done a near-systematic sweep of the entire eighth floor of the Scripture Pavilion. He didn’t make a choice, but instead went straight downstairs and began another systematic search, floor by floor.

By the time he had finished a rough survey of all eight floors of the Scripture Pavilion, the countdown on the Jade Talisman showed less than half an hour remaining.

Chu Mu went straight upstairs. A moment later, when he came back down, he was holding two Jade Scrolls.

The Jade Talisman glowed faintly. After Chu Mu took the two Jade Scrolls, the guidance reappeared.

Following the Jade Talisman’s guidance, Chu Mu walked out of the Scripture Pavilion. As expected, a terrifying force enveloped him again, and by the time his feet were on solid ground, he was back at the foot of the mountain gate.

The Jade Talisman in his hand also seemed to have exhausted its power. The vibrant, life-filled energy was completely spent. The talisman was pure white, but faint cracks had appeared on its surface.

Chu Mu applied a little pressure, and the supposedly indestructible Jade Talisman instantly crumbled into a pile of dust.

Clearly, the Jade Talisman was just a temporary access token.

Chu Mu flicked his sleeve, sweeping the dust away, and his gaze fixed on the two Jade Scrolls in his hand.

One was a Saber Scripture, the other a Divine Fire Skill.

A method and a technique. The purpose of his trip had been perfectly fulfilled.

Chu Mu looked again at the Longevity Sect before him. Immortal Mountains towered high, pavilions and terraces stretched into the distance, and amidst the surging sea of clouds, figures in white Magic Robes darted about...

The grandeur of a great Immortal Dao Sect was on full display, even just from this surface view.

With just a single glance, that flicker of temptation rose in his heart once more.

Chu Mu stared blankly for a moment, but in the end, he forcefully suppressed the urge. He turned, summoned his Flying Boat, stepped aboard, and headed back toward Dubhe City.

On the Flying Boat, Chu Mu toyed with the two hard-won Jade Scrolls, a thoughtful expression on his face.

After a moment, he collected his thoughts and focused his gaze on the two Jade Scrolls in his hand.

He shifted slightly, leaning against the cabin wall, and extended his Divine Sense into the Jade Scrolls. A tide of information instantly flooded his mind.

One was the Void Nether Saber Scripture, the other the Divine Fire Atlas.

Lost in contemplation, he lost track of time. The Flying Boat hovered outside Dubhe City, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed.

It wasn’t until the end of the month that the Flying Boat, which had been floating motionlessly amidst the clouds, finally showed some activity.

A figure flickered, and a tornado of fire appeared. In an instant, it swept across the sky, shattering the clouds as the True Flame dyed a patch of the heavens red.

Immediately after, a blade of light flashed. A Flaming Blade tore through the sky, the figure following closely behind it as if in a state of Man-Saber Unity. The sharp Saber Qi, in the blink of an eye, shattered the spreading crimson flames to pieces.

The sudden commotion lasted only a dozen breaths before the flickering figure returned to the Flying Boat.

Chu Mu stood at the bow, his eyes slightly closed. Within his Divine Sense Perception, a continuous stream of sharpness swirled and swept through his physical body.

Each wisp of sharpness was like a smith’s hammer, and his physical body, Magical Power, Divine Soul—his entire Essence, Qi, and Spirit—was like steel being forged.

Under this circulating sharpness, he was hammered and tempered bit by bit, solidifying... just like the process of refining steel a hundred times.

This scene was clearly different from before.

Previously, although his Saber Intent would subtly temper his Divine Soul and Magical Power, this tempering was passive. Moreover, this passive tempering had never involved his physical body.

But now, this tempering had shifted from passive to active, and it even encompassed his entire Essence, Qi, and Spirit!

And all of these changes...

...stemmed from that one volume: the Void Nether Saber Scripture!

The Tai Gang Saber Technique he had once obtained from the Residual Soul was an Attack and Destruction Skill for Saber Intent. The Finger Snap Divine Techniques, Saber Intent Forges the Divine, and Man-Saber Unity all fell into the category of a *Skill*.

This time, however, the Void Nether Saber Scripture he acquired was different. It was a Cultivation Technique for Saber Intent, belonging to the category of a *Method*.

It used Saber Intent as its core, shifting its effects from passive to active to refine his Essence, Qi, and Spirit!

"Unrivaled Attack... it’s truly terrifying!"

After a long while, Chu Mu slowly opened his eyes, which shone with irrepressible excitement.

In the past, even with just the passive tempering of his Saber Intent, both his Divine Sense and his Magical Power were a great deal stronger than those of Cultivators at the same realm.

And when using the Saber Intent attacks he had figured out on his own, although it wasn’t true Unrivaled Attack, he had no trouble easily suppressing other Cultivators of the same realm.

But this Void Nether Saber Scripture had completely laid out the Cultivation System for Saber Intent before him.

It turned the passive into active, encompassing his entire Essence, Qi, and Spirit...

It was nothing short of terrifying!

Even with his Divine Soul and Magical Power, which had been tempered by Saber Intent for years, he could clearly feel the impurities being further purged and his power further condensed after cultivating this method and turning the process from passive to active!

His already formidable physical body was undergoing an almost daily transformation now that it was being actively tempered!

The slight instability in his physical body, which was caused by the forced transformation from the Blood Pool’s essence, had stabilized at a nearly visible rate in just over ten days.

With such a transformation, using the Void Nether Saber Scripture as his fundamental Cultivation Technique and the Tai Gang Saber Technique as his Attack and Destruction Skill, the so-called Unrivaled Attack...

...was now certain to become a reality for him.

"Void Nether Saber Scripture..."

Chu Mu muttered to himself. He suddenly thought of Xu Changqing. ’With his status in the Longevity Sect, he probably cultivated this kind of fundamental method long ago.’

’It’s even highly likely that he specializes only in this method, unlike me, who also cultivates a Cultivation Technique like the Great Sun Scripture.’

"The second-generation disciples of a Sect really have it good..."

Chu Mu felt a surge of emotion. He had formed the rudiments of Saber Intent while still in the mortal world, yet he had stumbled through the Cultivation Immortal Realm for decades to reach this point.

In fact, if not for that deal in the Chu Capital, he would likely have remained ignorant about this so-called Unrivaled Attack of Saber Intent, continuing to waste his natural gift.

’A single wisp of sharpness, refining one’s entire Essence, Qi, and Spirit...’

’How terrifying this method is!’

When an ordinary Cultivator faced a Sword Cultivator or a Saber Cultivator, they weren’t just facing an opponent whose Essence, Qi, and Spirit was a whole level stronger than their own. They also had to face the terrifying sharpness of Sword Intent or Saber Intent, which could directly attack their Magical Power and Divine Soul!

Faced with such a terrifying existence, anyone would likely fall into despair.

No wonder that back in Jingmen, a single Sword Dao Nascent Soul had slain one Nascent Soul, forced another to self-destruct, and ultimately scared two more into a frantic retreat!

"A fortuitous encounter..."

Chu Mu let out a long breath. With a hint of a sigh, he raised his hand, and a True Flame Saber materialized before him.

True Flame swirled around its sharp edge. Though it was clearly an illusory blade formed from True Flame, when Chu Mu reached out and gripped it, it felt completely solid.

Compared to the True Flame Saber he had created before, the difference was like that between heaven and earth!

All these changes were clearly thanks to the Divine Fire Atlas.

Although the Divine Fire Atlas belonged to the category of a *Skill*, it didn’t actually record any Magical Techniques or Divine Techniques.

According to its description, the Divine Fire Atlas originated from the Cultivation insights of a Golden Core True Master from ten thousand years ago, known in the Cultivation Immortal Realm as the Divine Fire True Master.

This True Master specialized in Fire Attribute Divine Techniques and had condensed a type of flame called the Earth Core True Lotus Flame.

The Atlas recorded this True Master’s many insights on the application of True Flame.

Although it didn’t record any Divine Techniques or Magical Techniques, Chu Mu had only one thought as he read it.

’This True Master really took playing with True Flame to a whole new level.’

For example, his idea of using True Flame to condense a vessel for his Saber Intent was just one of the many ordinary applications among the thousands of insights in the Divine Fire Atlas.

At the end of the Divine Fire Atlas, this True Master even attempted to undergo Refinement on his own physical body, trying to transform completely from a human into a Fire Spirit...

Whether he succeeded or not is unknown.

But after reading the entire work, Chu Mu felt a rare sense of admiration for this True Master.

Throughout the Divine Fire Atlas, this Golden Core True Master maintained a truth-seeking mindset from beginning to end, like an obsessive scientist exploring every facet of True Flame at any cost.

Reading the Divine Fire Atlas, with its countless brilliant ideas and incredibly detailed experimental records and insights, was a true eye-opener for Chu Mu. He found he could hardly bear to put it down!

"What a pity..."

Chu Mu sighed softly. With a wave of his hand, the True Flame Saber dissipated. He leaped into the air, and the Flying Boat vanished into his Storage Ring.

He led Wangcai as they floated down from the sky, and then walked straight into the city...