Chapter 479: Breaking Through All Things - 479
Zhu Yi very quickly arrived. He stood above the writing sect and made himself known. This time, no Core Formation realm cultivator greeted him. Instead, a soul formation realm cultivator flew up. He looked at Zhu Yi in astonishment.
"Where did you come from? I don't recall having any information on you."
"I am an independent cultivator. I'm also a friend of Wen Si's and would like to participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts."
The soul formation realm cultivator seemed to need a moment in order to take in everything he was told. The shock of Zhu Yi being an independent cultivator was not small.
"An independent cultivator reaching the soul formation realm? I haven't even heard of anyone besides Chen Jie reaching such a level." The man said.
"Was Chen Jie an independent cultivator?"
"When he reached the soul formation realm, yes. A lot had happened before that, but nobody knows the specifics. Regardless, it is incredible that an independent cultivator could reach this realm. If you want to participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts, you can join my squadron, as long as you believe you can hold yourself against a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast that is."
Zhu Yi nodded. "I'm sure I can."
The soul formation realm cultivator shook his head. "You must have never fought a Chaos Beast. You can never be sure about anything when it comes to them. Just be cautious since you've never fought one before."
Zhu Yi nodded.
"Since you say you're a friend of Wen Si's, you're free to meet him." The soul formation realm cultivator said before leaving.
Zhu Yi flew down to the same building as always and walked up. He soon met Wen Si.
Wen Si looked confused upon seeing him. "I can't clearly see your cultivation realm right now. You must be high in the nascent soul realm."
Zhu Yi looked at Wen Si. It seemed he was at the 1st level of the nascent soul realm.
Since he had broken into the soul formation realm, Wen Si could not clearly sense his strength anymore.
"I'm in the soul formation realm now."
Wen Si was naturally shocked. Zhu Yi expected it and did not dwell on it too much. He had only come to check in on Wen Si's progress.
He wanted to know how effective the secret of the world was at raising strength.
Of course, no matter what, it was already beyond his understanding.
Wen Si would not participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts. He was considered too important to the sect and too weak to properly protect himself.
After an hour or so, Zhu Yi left Wen Si's building and was led by someone waiting outside to the largest building in the sect. It was a large castle that seemed to house most of the strong people of the sect.
Zhu Yi was given the title of guest elder and given a grand room. He stood in the middle of it and practiced his sword while waiting for the day to come.
He hadn't used a sword in a while, instead spending all of his time focusing on cultivating. After all, his life had been at stake.
It took him a day before he got used to it again, and from then on, he progressed at an unimaginable pace. Besides practicing Zhou Fan's basic sword style, he focused on the formless sword. He could tell why Zhou Fan praised it.
It was truly an incredible technique, and it was fun to use as well. It made a person feel invincible when using it. It was a year before Zhu Yi heard a knock on his door.
His progress, as someone being taught by Zhou Fan and a person with god-level sword talent, was far beyond reasoning. Few in the entire universe could experience such growth in a single year.
Zhou Fan had also created a sword technique for Zhu Yi. He made the condition that he would teach it once Zhu Yi was able to use the formless sword a thousand times without sheathing his sword again.
Zhu Yi had thought that it would be easy, but it got harder and harder as he progressed. He had been stuck on the 978th consecutive attack for an entire day.
Zhu Yi opened the door.
A core formation realm cultivator stood outside and spoke. "We will set out in three months. Please be prepared by then."
Zhu Yi nodded and the core formation realm cultivator left. He had not expected to get a warning so far in advance, but this was the world of cultivators after all.
Zhu Yi practiced as hard as he could for the next month and a half before finally reaching the 1000th consecutive attack. If he was surrounded by three thousand soul formation realm cultivators right now, he felt confident that he would win. This was the power of the formless sword, and the feeling of power it gave.
With a month and a half left, Zhu Yi looked at Zhou Fan, clearly expectant.
Zhou Fan jumped off of his shoulder and formed a sword. It was not using Qi, but manipulating the power of the soul.
Sadly, the real world remained unaffected.
Zhou Fan explained things clearly while making only two movements with the sword.
A vertical downwards slash, and a vertical upwards slash.
"With your talent, I made things a bit more advanced. I call this technique, "Breaking through all things"."
The name alone made Zhu Yi excited, and seeing its potential made him even more so. However, he didn't quite expect just how advanced Zhou Fan had made the technique.
As the remaining month and a half passed, he had barely reached the most basic mastery of the sword.
"If Chaos Beasts truly use the power of Chaos Qi, then this technique may help you more than you think." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi nodded and sheathed his sword. It was still the one that Chen Jie had given him. He really needed a new one.
Chapter 480: First Encounter - 480
Since three months had passed. It was now time to gather. Zhu Yi left his room and walked towards the location where he could feel the most people.
He was led to a large room holding a meeting and promptly joined.
There was a lot of strategy, and Zhu Yi was placed in the 2nd squadron with another soul formation realm cultivator.
Although Zhu Yi did not know a lot of the specifics, all he needed to do was fight. He was also to be given a reward in the case that he killed a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast.
The meeting did not last long and they set out. With soul formation realm cultivators in the lead, they moved far away from the writing sect.
While the writing sect was the meeting place, 5 of the top ten sects were participating in this fight. Nearly all of their soul formation realm and nascent soul realm cultivators were here.
While they flew, Zhu Yi asked a question to the captain of the 2nd squadron, the other soul formation realm cultivator.
"Are there not going to be any Void Traversing realm cultivators fighting?"
He had yet to see or even hear mention of them.
The captain of the second squadron nodded. "All three of them participate in every fight. You will see them at the beginning of the battle."
Zhu Yi nodded. There were three known void traversing realm cultivators in the world. One from the Frost sect, one from the Writing sect, and one from the Grass Sect, the third ranked sect in the world.
They flew slowly in order to let the nascent soul realm cultivators keep up.
However, they soon arrived at an inconspicuous location. They set up camp here.
Zhu Yi was curious as to how they knew that Chaos Beasts would appear here, but he didn't ask. He didn't want to seem prying.
Looking around the camp, Zhu Yi saw many colors. Participating in this fight were the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th ranked sects in the world.
They were the Writing sect, the grass sect, the sky sparrow sect, the fire spirit sect, and the High boulder sect.
Zhu Yi waited for three days before he heard a loud shout. He flew out of his tent and looked a few miles in the distance. This was his first encounter with a Chaos Beast.
A giant gray beast that seemed to barely have a fixed form. It had four legs, tusks, and spikes around its head like a lion's mane.
It stood tall, its form reaching the skies. Zhu Yi could not feel the slightest hope in defeating it.
Around it, more Chaos Beasts appeared. Some looked similar to the giant one, but every single one was at least slightly different.
These ones did not give Zhu Yu as much pressure, though he felt like he was facing a strong opponent.
Cultivators flew towards the Chaos Beasts as three colors appeared above the biggest one. The colors of blue like ice, black like ink, and green like grass formed a sphere around the biggest Chaos Beast that stopped it from leaving.
The three colored sphere slowly moved away while extremely loud sounds came from within.
Zhu Yi charged forward and met with what he assumed was a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast. These were now the strongest existences on the battlefield.
Zhu Yi's target was fairly far away from others, and Zhu Yi could fight as hard as he wanted.
He unsheathed his sword and used the formless sword technique. The Chaos Beast saw him moving and charged, but cuts appeared on its body.
Truthfully, Zhu Yi did not feel much of a threat from the Chaos Beast. Although he wasn't quite near the level of fighting a Chaos Beast on the same level, he could be said to be in between fighting a Chaos Beast on the same level and fighting a Chaos Beast a level below him.
And he was only at the first level of the soul formation realm.
Despite suffering from an increasing amount of cuts, the Chaos Beast did not once falter or stop charging. It seemed like a wild, angry beast with no intelligence.
As it charged, a gray color began to appear around it.
Zhou Fan sighed in awe. It truly was Chaos Qi. Luckily, this beast was not intelligent enough to actually use it well. Otherwise, Zhu Yi would not live to see tomorrow.
Once the Chaos Qi appeared around it, Zhu Yi's attacks cut way less deep. Like this, he would only be able to slowly use up its Qi or bleed it out.
However, the formless sword was not meant for a head on attack. It was more or less a sneak attack.
Zhu Yi now had another attack for breaking through things.
He stepped forward and charged, he held his sword up and prepared to attack.
"Stop you fool!" Zhou Fan shouted.
Zhu Yi cut his attack short, hurting his arm, and backed away.
As he moved away from the charging Chaos Beast, he looked at Zhou Fan in confusion.
"That's Chaos Qi. That beast uses it like a fool, but if you carelessly touch it like that, you'll die without knowing how."
Zhu Yi was shocked. He did not know that Chaos Qi was that powerful.
"Chaos Qi is like a poison to cultivators. Don't be careless. If you're going to attack it head on, at least make sure that you don't touch the Chaos Qi." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi nodded and unsheathed his sword again. He charged forward and held up his sword. Although it seemed the same, his body stopped as his sword swung down, preventing him from coming into contact with Chaos Qi.
"Breaking through all things."
Zhu Yi's sword came down like a hammer, creating a vertical slash that cut through all things. The Chaos Qi resisted it a bit, but just the residual power alone cut the Chaos Beast deep in the face.
It stopped charging for a moment, blood pouring out of its face.
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