Translator: Jon
Editor: Silavin
The rewards Lu Ye had acquired from Hundred Wards Tower were immense. After he left the tower, his soul was under constant pressure.
Initially, he planned on going somewhere quiet or returning to the Divine Trade Association after leaving the tower. However, he didn’t expect to accidentally arrive at Soaring Dragon Boundary.
Then, he was hunted down, after which he returned to the manor and got revenge. It wasn’t until now that everything settled.
It wasn’t easy to digest the rewards from the tower. Back then, it took Lu Ye one to two years to digest the rewards obtained from the tower in Heavenly Derivative Sect.
The rewards he had acquired from the tower on the Cloud River Battlefield were ten times more than the previous time.
However, it wouldn’t take Lu Ye ten times more time to digest the rewards. First of all, his soul was much stronger now. Secondly, his mastery of the Way of Wards had improved tremendously, so it would be easier for him to digest everything.
With that said, it couldn’t be done in a short time.
Lu Ye didn’t need to break down everything. He just had to digest a bit of it so that his soul would face less pressure.
He rarely sat down and meditated like this, so the experience was interesting to him.
Five days later, Lu Ye opened his eyes as a glint flashed across his gaze while he was inside the wooden house.
After five days of comprehending and sorting everything, the pressure on his soul had been alleviated. However, as he understood more, he realised how esoteric the rewards were.
After his trip to Heavenly Derivative Sect, he had been curious about something.
Who built Hundred Wards Tower? Why was it so amazing? Why was it divided into three parts?
Such a treasure was beyond anyone’s imagination in Jiu Zhou. The tower must have been incredible when it was in its complete form.
Unfortunately, there were only two parts of the tower in Jiu Zhou. No one knew where the third part was.
Lu Ye didn’t spend too much time pondering it. There were many secrets in the martial world of Jiu Zhou. Even the Divine Ocean Realm Masters might not know everything, let alone Lu Ye, a Cloud River Realm Master. Perhaps even those people knew little about Hundred Wards Tower,
The pressure on his soul had been alleviated, but it would take him a long time to digest the immense rewards. It couldn’t be rushed, so he would do it slowly when he had time in the future.
He had a feeling that if he was able to comprehend all the benefits he had obtained from the tower this time, he would be the best Ward Cultivator in Jiu Zhou, though he wouldn’t dare to say that he would be the best one in history.
It wasn’t that he was conceited. He was certain that no one in Jiu Zhou had ever obtained as many benefits as he had from Hundred Wards Tower.
Having said that, even though the benefits from the tower could help improve his mastery rapidly, it was in the form of Enlightenment. As such, it didn’t belong to him.
If he could transcend what he had acquired from the tower one day, he would be able to create something of his own.
Certainly, that would only happen a long time later. That was just a feeling he had, but he didn’t have the right to achieve that for the time being.
After the pressure on his soul was relieved, he fished out the mysterious black stone from his Storage Bag.
The entire stone was black, and it was the size of an egg. At first glance, it might look like an ordinary stone, but upon closer look, one would realise that the black stone was like a black hole that could even suck one’s gaze into it.
That was the manual of the Tyrant Blade Technique.
It wasn’t certain where Ye Ying got the stone from. It was rumoured that he found it from an ancient ruins site.
It was because of this black stone that Ye Ying mastered Tyrant Blade Technique and established Tyrant Blade Manor. It could be said that the stone was the foundation of the manor.
Since the manor had been destroyed, it no longer existed in this world. However, as long as the black stone was still around, Tyrant Blade Technique would never be lost.
Lu Ye stared fixedly at the stone. Even though his soul was impenetrable, he was still shocked. He felt as though he was about to be sucked into the darkness.
He activated his Spiritual Power and infused it into the black stone. At that instant, the stone became a bottomless hole and continuously absorbed his Spiritual Power.
The darkness on the stone’s surface thickened. It was as though the darkness was about to materialise and stream out of the stone.
There came a moment when a dark fog billowed from the stone. The dark fog seemed to have a spirituality of its own as it soon engulfed Lu Ye, who wasn’t flustered one bit.
When he was waiting for Yi Yi and Ye Liuli to arrive after killing Pang Wanhai a while back, he had tried activating the black stone. As such, he knew that it was a normal phenomenon.
Shrouded in the dark fog, Lu Ye was no longer able to perceive his surroundings. He seemed to have entered a different world.
It was a grey world. As he looked ahead, he could see three vague figures.
Although he couldn’t make out the figures, he could tell from the silhouettes they belonged to the same person. However, these figures represented three different stages of a person’s life.
The figure on the left was energetic and high-spirited.
The figure in the middle was sedate and mature.
On the other hand, the figure on the right had a long beard. Although his back was slightly hunched, his aura was as deep as an ocean or as expansive as the universe.
They were respectively a young man, a middle-aged man, and an old man.
Lu Ye speculated that these were the marks the owner of the Tyrant Blade Technique had left behind to pass on his blade technique.
Every figure corresponded to one move of the Tyrant Blade Technique, so there were three moves in total.
There was no doubt it was an intelligent way of passing on one’s blade technique. It was more vivid than using a jade slip or a book. Nevertheless, not anyone could do it in such a way.
At the very least, Lu Ye had never heard of any Divine Ocean Realm Master in Jiu Zhou who could achieve that. Perhaps he was just a frog at the bottom of the well. Maybe it was a technique exclusive to Divine Ocean Realm Masters.
When Lu Ye entered this space previously, he activated the young man’s figure on the left. However, he left this place after three breaths of time.
This time, he had the urge to try out the other two figures.
It wasn’t difficult to activate any one figure as he could do it with a thought in his mind. After all, it was a form of inheritance. The Spiritual Power he had infused into the black stone was the key to accessing the inheritance.
However, just as he was ready to do that, he felt a sense of coldness sweeping over him, as though an invisible beast was extending its tongue and licking his soul.
Instantly, he was rooted to the spot as something dawned upon him.
Given his power, he wasn’t supposed to activate the middle-aged and old figures. Otherwise, he would lose his life in this place.
The strength of his soul didn’t only allow him to have a powerful perception, but he could also sense any imminent danger.
It was only then that he realised why Ye Ying was never seen using the second and third moves of the Tyrant Blade Technique.
People assumed that there wasn’t a need for him to use the last two moves to deal with his enemies, but the truth was that he had never learned them before.
That was because Lu Ye was certain that Ye Ying didn’t have enough heritage to activate the middle-aged and old figures. Unless he wanted to die, he would never do that.
Lu Ye smiled helplessly upon that realisation, but it also indirectly proved how incredible Tyrant Blade Technique was.
Ye Ying attained wonderful achievements by relying on only one move of the Tyrant Blade Technique. If he had learned the second and the third moves, he would’ve been unrivalled in Soaring Dragon Boundary.
Since Lu Ye couldn’t rashly activate the middle-aged and old figures, he shifted his attention to the young figure on the left.
As a cultivator, he had to stay curious, but he had to act within his means. Otherwise, that would be no different from inviting trouble to himself.
As a thought formed in his mind, the young figure started moving as well.
A saber appeared in his hand all of a sudden. Like his figure, the saber was black, so it didn’t look real.
The young man slightly crouched down and raised both of his hands. With the saber at his eye level, he ran a palm across the blade.
The posture was similar to how Ye Xiong activated the first move of the Tyrant Blade Technique.
Despite looking similar, the young man’s movements made Lu Ye feel as though a huge Dragon had awakened from its sleep. There seemed to be a Dragon’s head sticking out from its den and looking down at everyone.
Under such immense pressure, Lu Ye was unable to move a muscle, and his mind became sluggish.
If Ye Xiong had been able to use one-tenth of the young man’s power, Lu Ye would’ve lost his life at that time.
A moment seemed to have passed, but it also felt as though a million years had gone by as the young man extended his saber forward. The attack seemed slow and ordinary. Even a commoner who had never cultivated before could clearly see the attack.
However, as the saber moved forward, something inconceivable happened. In the darkness, all the dark clouds seemed to have dissipated, revealing a sky full of Stars.
All the Stars were actually flickering Saber Lights.
Suddenly, the sky came crashing down as the Stars rushed towards Lu Ye and engulfed him while the saber continued to move forward.
It was the first move of the Tyrant Blade Technique, Starburst!
When Ye Xiong used this move, Lu Ye had a similar illusion, but he soon got rid of the feeling. However, after the young man made such a move, Lu Ye realised he could never get rid of it.
It was as though countless Stars were indeed falling upon him alongside the night sky.
No one could ever ward off such Heavenly pressure. Even the entire world would be destroyed.
In an instant, Lu Ye felt an excruciating pain in his soul, making him grunt. It felt as though countless sharp blades were slashing across his soul.
Nevertheless, he wasn’t willing to close his eyes as he stared fixedly at the young man’s movements. He opened up his soul, letting the unbearable pain sweep over him as he observed the abstrusity of the attack.
For every Saber Light that slashed across him, he would gain a new insight.
Every moment seemed to have been stretched to the maximum. Although it felt like a long time had passed, only five breaths of time had gone by. All the Stars came apart, and the darkness disappeared.
The interior of the wooden house came into Lu Ye’s sight again. He panted heavily as though he almost drowned in water. Even his clothes were soaked in sweat.
Despite knowing that what he had experienced was merely an illusion as it was a form of passing on the technique, it felt so real that it was as though he had passed away amidst the myriad of Stars.