I opehe new Css Skill Tree to see what it had to offer me.
[Opening [Css]: [Heavenly Martial Empress of Light: Bing Xue (Primordial Immemorial Venerable-Rank)] Skill Tree.]
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Level 1.000: [Divine Yin and Yang Harmonious Soul Bde Arts (SSS)] [Cost]: [25.000 Skill Points]
Level 2.000: [Primordial Spiritual Body Divinity Arts (SSS)] [Cost]: [30.000 Skill Points]
Level 4.000: [Nine-Colored All-Seeing Void Eyes (SSS)] [Cost]: [35.000 Skill Points]
Level 6.000: [Primordial Nine Heaven Divine Prote (SSS)] [Cost]: [40.000 Skill Points]
Level 8.000: [Primordial River of Time and Spatial Membras (SSS)] [Cost]: [45.000 Skill Points]
Level 10.000: [Primordial Rainbow Spiritual Formatioion Arts (SSS)] [Cost]: [50.000 Skill Points]
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“T-This is…?!”
I was slightly surprised; these were all my most only used teiques! Now made into Skills, I had used them so much, yet the System seemed uo even turn them into Skills, but now it seems possible.
The thing is, they’re still different than the inals; they have new words added to them, such as “Divine” in some; others bee plete Arts rather than a sieique; and then there’s the Nine-Colored All-Seeing Eyes, whiow have bee “Void Eyes.”.
The Nine Heavens Prote is now “Divine Prote," and the Primordial River of Time Manipution has bee an Art, and it also tains a “Spatial Membrane” within it, which is iing!
And stly, the Primordial Rainbow Spiritual Formation has bee a whole set of arts, with "creation” and “arts” added to it.
This probably means direct upgrades from the inal teiques and abilities, whily seem more exg the more I see them.
It also has much fewer Skills than the previous Skill Tree, and their level requirements are very far from one another. I am Level 12ht now, so I only buy the first one for the moment, but that’s fine.
An upgraded version of my sword arts, in which I thought I had reached the pinnaurim... It just feels exg what this little system e out with—what a wondrous scarf this is!
Ding!
[You have exged 25.000 Skill Points!]
[You learhe [Divine Yin and Yang Harmonious Soul Bde Arts (SSS)] Css Skill!]
[The Css Skill has been equipped in the avaible Css Skill Slot: 12/14]
FLASH!
The moment I learhis new Skill, I felt a surge of power, a wave of light and darkness washing over my body, the prehension of the Sword Law, and the Yin and Yang Divinity verged together as one, something I wouldn’t have been able to do before, as there was no Divinity within me.
For a moment, I felt like I had bee a piece of ore within a mountaiing ihe mountain, my pos tio expand over thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands of years.
My growth and my existence were so slow, yet I could feel ected with nature to a level I had hought of or sidered before.
Then…
K!
A strong blow hit me hard, and I broke into tless pieces. Something grabbed me and pced all my pieces into a casket of sorts, carrying me far away from the mountain, my mother, and my home.
The fmes of a smithy engulfed my fragments. As I melted, my impurities washed away, and I felt a sensation of strange relief. The hotter my body became, the more I felt like I was being more refined.
The real me, which had been hiding within the depths of my very existence, was finally ing out. The smith’s gentle hands shaped me, his hammer hit me as I hardened, and the mold he used made me take shape.
I took the form of a bde. A strong, long bde g sharpness. Born on a mountain, I hought I would one day bee a oo kill.
The man g me with a proud smile. After sharpening, attag me to a hilt, and then polishing me, his masterpiece, me, was plete.
“Good enough.”
He pced me aside, inside a barrel with many swords like me—some of them even made out of many of my inal fragments—and I was all of them at the same time.
I traveled through many pces, moving aountains and valleys. The old bcksmith sold me inside a small vilge, where a young, rich child purchased me for a few s.
“Papa! I finally have my first sword!” He swung me around carelessly, unaware of the sharpness I possessed.
“Yes, my son, you will one day bee a strong warrior, will you?” His father ughed.
“Yeah! I will protect the legacy of our family! I will bee a strong swordsman!” the child said.
I still remember his eyes, full of hope and ambition, but also of foolish, ignorant innoce.
The years passed, and as he used me, he swung me tless times.
"I'll use you to protect my family!"
I cut through anything he ordered me; I prehended how the world around me was very soft pared to me.
I was strong and sharp, and I could cut anything I wanted.
Yet at the moment that he was finally given the ce to cut down another human...
"A-Ah...! My hands... they're trembling?"
Why did he hesitate?
CLASH!
"Fa... ther..."
He was struck down in a war, and that child, who grew up to be a soldier, died because he was too afraid to fight in a real war.
"This is a det sword!"
And I was taken away by his enemy.
I passed through many wielders, and as I cut through flesh and bone, my sword was stantly covered by their blood and guts.
I learned about the world through my bde, by cutting and killing everything and everyone.
The sharpness of my bde.
The hardness of my steel.
The softness of the flesh.
The fresh, warm sensation of blood covered me.
Yet as I grew older, I became rusty, and my bde became dull.
I was uo cut anything anymore without a lot of effort, and as I passed through many hands over the years, I was sometimes sharpened again and polished.
My bde gained internal, tiny cracks.
I was slowly falling apart, piece by piece.
CRASH!
“It broke…?”
The warrior holdihree hundred years after I was born, looked at my bde in disbelief as I broke into tiny pieces.
He eerless swordsman that only sought to improve his skills.
A lonely man with no family or friends, yet my stro wielder.
To him, I was the only thing he needed.
“My bde…”
So when I broke, he seemed sad.
He closed his eyes and then tinued swinging me stantly.
Why is he doing this when I am now pletely useless?
“A sword is not just the bde... A sword is the act of cutting, the act of sshing, the act of taking another’s life, sometimes for the be of many, or sometimes for selfish reasons.”
He kept swinging me for days and nights; his body was sweating, and he looked tired.
Yet as he spoke to me with such a soft, f voice, I felt something within my steel body awaken.
Somethihereal, something innate, something within me.
“You’re right… It doesn’t matter if my bde is broken.”
I was able to speak to him.
“Ah!”
He gasped in surprise as he looked at my broken sword body.
“Swing me, my swordsman.”
He smiled warmly, swinging my bde against the mountain.
There was no bde within me, yet with his words and the experiences I had, everything came together—the cept, the essence of a sword.
I was a sword, and I would always be a sword.
SLAAASH!
An invisible wave of air was released as he swung me.
It hit the mountain, and I reached really far.
The mountain where I had been born was right there.
And I finally came back.
Only to show Mother how strong I have grown.
RUMBLE!
The mountain trembled as its upper half colpsed, pletely cut in half.
I did that.
This is…
“Soul Bde.”
The pinnacle of what a sword bee is no longer just physical; I am the soul of a bde.
I finally got it. just when I thought I had reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, I learhat I wasn’t even there yet.
I hought that to further prehend it, I had to live as a sword and feel like ooo.
The power to make my body into a bde...
And this is perhaps only the beginning of a much higher ceiling than before.
When I opened my eyes again, I felt within my own hands something surging—a bde made out of my very soul.
My fingers and my nails all became as strong as a sword, with an endless sharphat would never go dull.
“I cut through anything much more easily than before.”
I swung my hand lightly as a ssh pierced through spad cut it open, revealing a cra the membranes of spad an infinite os beyond.
“Huh…”
I couldn’t help but smile lightly as I quickly patched the slid closed it, although that should have surely brought the attention of the God of this world.
Then, I looked at my own Aura, and the Dao of the Sword itself, within me, had increased its prehension.
I had reached 100% prehension before, but I was wrong.
After receiving this revetion, my prehension ged, as I had fully prehehat there was now a higher ceiling and much more to it.
The Dao itself absorbed this information and expanded, being grander; it turned into the Dao of the Bde, an evolved form.
And their prehension? A measly 10%!
I guess I am really starting all ain, huh?
But somehow, it’s fun, really fun...
Now, let’s see that Skill description.
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[Divine Yin And Yang Harmonious Soul Bde Arts (SSS): Lv1]
[Skill EXP]: [0/100.000]
A Css Skill that only belongs to the High Divine Css: [Heavenly Martial Empress of Light: Bing Xue].
You have fully prehehe Dao of the Sword and attaihe Divinity of Yin, and Yang, the Heavenly Martial Empress, must now fe a new path with your Bde. The sword is not enough, and you must now use your very soul as your sword, a Soul Bde that ot be broken and won’t grow dull no matter what.
By further prehending the Dao of the Bde and strengthening your Divinity of Yin and Yang, you will be capable of moving forward into a new world of possibilities. bihe Divinities and the prehension of the bde with your Esseo unleash devastating Soul arts. Any Swordsmanship Teique and Soul Bde Arts Attack Power and Attack Speed permaly increase by 400%, and their Essence Cost decreases by 25%.
Gather and harhe harmoween Yin and Yang to unleash your Soul Bde’s true power, bine your prehension with your divinity, and summon the {Harmonious Soul Bde of Yin and Yang Domain} around you, which allows you to both trap enemies within a world of endless bdes and to turn anything into a sharp sword no matter what, increasing Swordsmanship Teiques and Soul Bde Attack Power and Speed by 200% while giving them the ability to ignore 50% of a foe’s Defenses and breakthrough Divinities and Divine Domains the more Essend Faith are applied.
Avaible Soul Bde Arts:
Level 1: [Primordial Heaven Soul Bde: Red Heaven Inferno] [Divine Soul Bde Spirit Summon]
Level 2: ???
Level Bonus (1): Increases Swordsmanship Teiques and Soul Bde Arts Damage and Attack Speed by 50%. Decreases their Energy cost by 10%. Whenever you deal damage to a foe with Soul Bde Arts, you hurt their Souls directly with 10% of the inal Damage, with a 50% ce for their wounds to be covered with Bde Dao Marks, worsening them and halting regeion.
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Oh, it’s wonderful already.
It only offers two teiques, but both of these are quite good and iing; they even bine Magic with my Martial Arts.
This is perfect; I simply have to keep using it tinuously, and the Level will increase. It is a lethal teique, but how lethal it be?
Now that the sword is my own Soul, I could even trol how much damage it deals to others, right?
The sword, which is always lethal no matter what, ow bee a nohal on in my hands, perfect for teag people a good lesson.
I am not really a warm battle-loving madwoman, but I ’t wait to use it!
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Pach