Chapter 73: "The Fragments of Ten Thousand Swords"

Not knowing the conversation between the two people in the room, Li Chuyi in the side room finally decided to eat another chicken leg after a fierce struggle and self-compromise.

After wrapping the rest of the chicken legs in paper again and putting them in the storage bag, Li Chuyi took the chicken legs and did not gobble them up like before, but bit them lightly and chewed them carefully. After making sure that the tender chicken meat was ground by teeth and covered the whole mouth, he slowly swallowed it. The way he savored it carefully made him look as pious as a pilgrim.

Slowly chewing the chicken leg, Li Chuyi casually took a book from the bookshelf. This room was specially used by Ye Zhichen to collect various martial arts books. There were books and jade slips. Although there were not as many as the Sutra Library in the Five Goats Tomb, it was by no means a small number. There were also many fine products in it that would cause countless cultivators to fight for them if they were placed outside.

Perhaps because Ye Zhichen specialized in swordsmanship, most of these collections were various sword manuals or related martial arts. Just like the "Ten Thousand Swords Fragments" that Li Chuyi pulled out, it is a flying sword sword manual made into a book.

In the past few days, in addition to "starving" Li Chuyi, Ye Zhichen also assigned another lesson, which was to break through the sword energy restriction at the door with his own strength and walk out of the yard. In order to enable Li Chuyi to do this, Ye Zhichen asked Li Chuyi to come here every day to read an introductory sword manual called "The Heart of Sword Art". Ye Zhichen promised Li Chuyi that after Li Chuyi finished reading and understood all of this introductory sword manual, he would teach Li Chuyi one of his unique sword techniques, which is also the sword technique for which he became famous, "Dust Heart Sword Jue". And "Dust Heart Sword Jue" is the key to breaking through the sword energy restriction at the door.

At the beginning, Li Chuyi did study the "The Heart of Sword Art" very hard, and he wanted to break the restriction and go down the mountain to eat meat. But since Xue Qing, the "accomplice", he has lost interest. That book, “The Essence of Swordmanship”, is an introductory book on swordmanship. It talks about some essentials and basic moves. Li Chuyi had long been tired of it. What he was really interested in were other advanced sword manuals that could fly with swords and hurt people thousands of miles away.

Whenever he thought of himself riding a flying sword in the future, holding a chicken leg in one hand and a beauty in the other, and being as happy as a fairy, Li Chuyi was overjoyed and felt happy. As for how big a flying sword would be needed to support his fat body, whether holding a chicken leg in his hand was something that a fairy would do, and whether the beauty beside him would be very annoyed with him, these were not his considerations.

Therefore, Li Chuyi, who had liked to read the seemingly endless “The Universe and All Things” since he was a child, immediately put aside the “The Essence of Swordmanship” that he had long been tired of, and instead picked up other sword manuals to read non-stop.

"Even if I can't practice, it's okay to just satisfy my curiosity. I'm free anyway, so I'll just read it as a leisure book. Now I'll memorize all these sword techniques, so that I won't have to look for sword manuals when I can practice in the future!"

With this idea in mind, Li Chuyi plunged into the sea of ​​books, picking up a high-level sword manual every few days and reading it carefully.

And the one he "favored" today was this "Ten Thousand Swords Art Fragments".

Rubbing his greasy hands on his body, Li Chuyi opened the book, tasting the delicious food in his hands while flipping through it.

I don't know if it was because I was in a good mood today, but this "Ten Thousand Swords Art Fragments" was read very smoothly. The content described in it was not as confusing as before, but he had a vague understanding. Not long after reading the first part, Li Chuyi was shocked to find that he actually understood most of it.

"Is it because I'm in a good mood?"

Li Chuyi scratched his head and smiled happily: "Being in a good mood is one thing, but at the critical moment, I am talented, smart, and have a high level of understanding!"

After praising himself, Li Chuyi pondered the contents of the first part. Unconsciously, the breath in his body began to circulate, and some meridians in his body were constantly opened up according to the contents of the first part. And because of the wounds and severe pain all over his body when he crossed the space crack before, Li Chuyi's tolerance for pain was actually improved a lot, so that he didn't even notice the slight tingling caused by the opening of the originally blocked meridians.

In this way, as the meridians continued to expand, when the breath in his body returned to the gathering place of the lower dantian, these breaths actually formed a complete cycle and began to circulate along these meridians.

"Oh my god, is it just like this?!" Li Chuyi, who realized it later, was stunned. After carefully checking several times, he found that the breath was indeed running as described in the book, and he finally convinced himself that he had really succeeded.

Li Chuyi thought for a long time and couldn't figure out why he succeeded in a muddle. He could only attribute it to his genius, and couldn't help but praise himself.

If other cultivators knew that someone had opened up a small Zhoutian so easily, they would probably take Li Chuyi to dissect and study him. When ordinary cultivators practiced the exercises and opened up a new Zhoutian, they were all very careful, breaking it down into several steps and completing it one by one. They wished they could stay awake at all times, fearing that they would lose their concentration and go astray, resulting in terrible consequences. How could Li Chuyi open up his meridians unconsciously while thinking about things, and complete it all at once?

Li Chuyi, who had been enjoying the beauty for a long time, could not wait to open the second part. This fragment has four parts in total. The first and third parts are the control of the mind, and the second and fourth parts are the control of the magic, which are matched with each other. Now that he has accidentally mastered the first part, the second part of the magic that matches it can be practiced.

After studying it carefully for a long time, Li Chuyi's face became more and more ugly. Originally, he felt that the day of flying on the sword was getting closer and closer, but as he practiced the second part, Li Chuyi found that it was not what he thought at all.

According to the content shown in the second part, he can perform a set of quite mysterious swordsmanship. But it is just swordsmanship, without the art of controlling sword energy or the art of flying swords, just like the swordsmanship of ordinary warriors holding swords and fighting in close combat. How can Li Chuyi, who has wanted to fly since he was a child, accept it?

With a dark face, he skipped the third part and turned to the fourth part of the technique. After reading it through, he found that the fourth part was also an advanced sword technique. Compared with the sword technique in the second part, it was just more mysterious, and a thin layer of sword energy could be slightly applied on the sword to increase the lethality.

Li Chuyi, who had completely given up, had a dark face and was silent for a long time before he sighed.

"Alas..."

He knew it was not that simple. If it was really an advanced sword technique that could fly with a sword, how could he learn it so quickly? It turned out to be an ordinary sword technique, which was much stronger than the techniques learned by ordinary martial artists, but it was a far cry from the flying sword techniques of the cultivators.

He wanted to throw it aside, but then he thought that this was the first sword technique he had learned, and it was still very memorable. Anyway, he couldn't understand other sword manuals, and he was too lazy to read the "Essence of Sword Art". Since he had already learned the first part of this sword manual, it meant that this sword manual was meant for him, so he didn't care about the rest, so he might as well learn them all.

Having made up his mind, Li Chuyi reopened "The Fragments of Ten Thousand Swords", turned to the second part, and began to study it carefully.