Chương 180: War God’s — Chapter 181 - Innately Gifted — Ascension

Ye Miyue paused, then nodded.

"I know. Master gave it to me. I've been practicing for a while now!" The Sword Washing Technique is also called the Sword Cleansing Technique. It's a daily practice for many swordsmen, generally used to maintain their blade. The maintenance process isn't just a simple wash. This Secret Skill is also called the Sword Nurturing Technique. From opening the edge and nurturing qi, to honing the blade and polishing it, to dripping water to cultivate spirit, each stage requires meticulous care.

Year after year of washing and nurturing makes the swordsman's blade more attuned to their body. Cultivated to perfection, the sword can gain sentience and take form. Its hum becomes like the voice of the heart, its edge moving with thought. This is a powerful Secret Skill that appears crude on the surface but relies heavily on the swordsman's perseverance. It seems basic, yet is profoundly deep. The kind of Secret Skill that grows stronger and stronger as long as you keep practicing.

As the saying goes: "The sword is like one's own body; nurturing the sword is nurturing the heart." In Wang Xian's view, this sword path Secret Skill was something every swordsman must learn and persist in cultivating.

"Good then." Wang Xian said.

"Let me see how your cultivation of this Secret Skill is coming along."

"Oh..." Ye Miyue thought for a moment, then walked toward the Eternal Silence Sword Case. Halfway there, her whole body stiffened. She'd already washed the Eternal Silence Sword Case this morning. There was no need to wash it again. So Wang Xian meant... Omitted......... Omitted, — The next day. Morning. Wang Xian woke up refreshed. Looking at the figure already up in the washroom, he couldn't help but reminisce: Omitted...

After finishing his wash-up quickly, Wang Xian asked with some puzzlement, "When I came back, the bedsheets were already changed." Ye Miyue, who was tidying the bedsheets, jolted. She hurriedly turned around and shoved Wang Xian out the door.

"Aiya... don't look... hurry out, I'm changing them anyway!"

"......" Wang Xian was speechless. Last night she slept like a dead log, totally unresponsive. First thing in the morning and she's doing this? After tidying up.

"I'm going to switch hospitals for my father..." Love what you're reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.

"We'll go to school together in a couple of days..."

"Oh, right..." Ye Miyue pointed at the black box.

"Master said the Ice Flame generally requires placing it in a furnace during smelting, while using primeval force to control it through the box."

"Otherwise, you can't use it right now!"

"Leaving the box open for a long time will also let the Ice Flame inside affect the surrounding environment."

"Don't underestimate just this tiny wisp. Even such a tiny wisp can easily damage a martial artist's body."

"Without the right talent, Master said you have to be extremely careful when using it!" Wang Xian nodded without answering. He intended to absorb it directly using his divine meridians. The Profound Ice Divine Flame wasn't much in quantity. With his current Zhou Tian divine meridians, absorbing it wouldn't be too stressful. At most it would only take a few days to adapt. As for the reminder from Ye Miyue's master, there was nothing wrong with it. It just only applied to other martial artists.

It didn't apply to him.

"From now on, live here with me." Wang Xian said.

"You have the key anyway." Ye Miyue's cheeks flushed red as she shot Wang Xian a glare.

"Absolutely not!" Having said that, she hurriedly walked out of the room. As if afraid of staying even one more second. Wang Xian thought to himself: your mouth says no, but you didn't give me back the key either. After Ye Miyue left, Wang Xian went to the cultivation room and took out the black box. Just opening it a crack, the entire cultivation room's temperature instantly dropped to several degrees below zero. A scorching cold air, intensely contradictory, filled the room. Wang Xian didn't dare be careless.

After all, he was currently only at the Third Realm, with only the Zhou Tian divine meridians. If his entire body were star bones, he wouldn't fear the influence of this heaven-bestowed treasure at all. His fingertip acupoints surged. Spirit malevolence slowly condensed in his palm. Wang Xian controlled the spirit malevolence, wrapping it around the Profound Ice Divine Flame in the black box, using it to absorb the flame into his divine meridians. Just a tiny wisp.

And Wang Xian felt as if his divine meridians were being scraped by countless freezing blades. The instant pain made Wang Xian furrow his brows slightly. This was even with the precondition of having divine meridians. Without divine meridians, this wisp of divine flame entering the meridians would likely destroy them instantly, then burn the flesh and bone marrow. No wonder one generally needed the cultivation of a Seventh Realm Great Grandmaster to dare clash with it directly.

With slightly inferior talent, even a Seventh Realm Great Grandmaster would sustain some injury. Even though for a Seventh Realm Great Grandmaster, a minor injury could recover in an instant and meant nothing. Yet this thing was merely a kind of treasure. For it to possess such power could be considered quite formidable. Of course, to cause harm to a Seventh Realm Great Grandmaster would require a large amount of Profound Ice Divine Flame. The amount in this black box didn't yet pose any real threat.

'First absorb this bit of Profound Ice Divine Flame...'

'When I grow stronger later, I'll have Xiaoyue take me directly to the place where the Profound Ice Divine Flame is born.' Ye Miyue and her master had surely only taken a little bit of the Profound Ice Divine Flame. Too much would certainly be difficult to collect. While thinking, Wang Xian continued absorbing the Profound Ice Divine Flame. With the Zhou Tian divine meridians, his whole body was unified. The Profound Ice Divine Flame could at most cause his divine meridians some tearing pain.

For him, this level of pain could only make him furrow his brows slightly. After absorbing it into his divine meridians, Wang Xian mobilized the fire seed within his body. The fire seed had been condensed from the earth fire in the dragon pearl and had also absorbed the nightmare fire of the Mountain-Treading Nightmare Tiger. Now, as the Profound Ice Divine Flame entered the fire seed, the originally purplish-black fire seed rapidly turned greenish-blue. And gradually began to expand.

Wang Xian proceeded unhurriedly. Using the properties of the Zhou Tian divine meridians, he fused the Profound Ice Divine Flame into the fire seed while simultaneously controlling the fire seed's original power. The nightmare fire within was also tied to one move of his Tiger Sha Blade Technique: Burning Blood to Ashes Across the Firmament. It had to be said, this nightmare fire was itself quite powerful.

Once it burned, it could seal a martial artist's five senses, especially those whose five-sense perception was extremely strong due to martial talent. It was quite effective against them. Otherwise, that Mountain-Treading Nightmare Tiger wouldn't have been so strong. Now with an additional Profound Ice Divine Flame, while sealing the five senses, once the Prairie Fire Spear Technique was unleashed, it could also impose certain restrictions on the opponent.

Coupled with his mastery in spear techniques, the Prairie Fire Spear Technique felt like it might even surpass that Martial God's move, the Asura Single Slash. Of course, the premise was that he did not reveal the Martial God True Intent, 'Annihilation of the Ten Directions.' If he revealed the Martial God True Intent and unleashed Annihilation, combined with the Asura Single Slash, the power... well, that was hard to say. It was just that the Martial God True Intent would greatly drain his mental strength.

Once revealed, if he couldn't end the fight quickly, his mental strength would wither in a short time, plunging him into dire straits. That was why Wang Xian had never used the Martial God True Intent up until now. Not because it wasn't effective, but because it consumed far too much of his own energy. Unless absolutely necessary, he would not use it. ➤ Next: Headmaster Luo Thinks, What About Wang Xian?