Chapter 58: Breakthrough, Prism Sword Shadow

  "This guy is a bandit, he should have many treasures on him." Back in the inn room, Xiao Fan hastily opened the 'spoils of war' storage bag.

  "What's going on here?"

  When Xiao Fan opened the storage bag, he was suddenly furious and scolded loudly. This guy's storage bag only had a few pieces of low-grade spirit stones, not even one piece of medium-grade spirit stone, let alone any magic treasures or anything else, it was completely empty.

  "One look at this guy and I knew he was a habitual offender. How can someone be so poor? Damn it, being so poor yet daring to rob me, what a freaking idiot, idiot ah..."

  If a middle-aged man heard what Xiao Fan said, he would definitely be furious and crawl out of hell, 'Brother, if I were rich, why would I still go rob...'

  "Alas, I've wasted half a day for nothing, and all I got were these few pieces of low-grade spirit stones." Xiao Fan let out a depressed sigh, feeling like he'd suffered a huge loss.

  "Whatever, let's just say this young master is unlucky. Anyway, I'll first refine these spirit stones and see if I can break through."

  Xiao Fan decided to first refine these spirit stones and break through his cultivation before considering anything else. Only by increasing his own strength could he possess more spirit stone wealth.

  At this moment, Xiao Fan sat cross-legged on the bed, took out the middle-grade spirit stone from the Qiankun ring, and began to refine one by one, starting his cultivation.

  When Xiao Fan was operating his technique with all his might, a grayish chaotic primordial energy was circulating above his head.

  As time passed, the number of mid-grade spirit stones refined by Xiao Fan increased, and a faint grayish chaotic yuan force gradually appeared on top of his head.

  Xiao Fan was overjoyed in his heart and waited only for the second Chaos Origin Force to fully condense before he would break through to the Transcendent Second Order.

  Xiao Fan simultaneously operated the "Hunyuan Sacred Heart Technique" and the "Intention Sword Body", relying on the two techniques' overbearing power to quickly refine the middle-grade spirit stone.

  A mid-grade spirit stone floated in Xiao Fan's palm, being constantly extracted of its spiritual energy at a visible rate and refined into Xiao Fan's body. The entire spirit stone continued to shrink until finally, when all the spiritual energy within the spirit stone had been fully refined by Xiao Fan, the last bit of residue from the spirit stone disintegrated into dust.

  When Xiao Fan refined the twentieth piece of medium-grade spirit stone, his whole body shook and the illusory Chaos Origin Force on top of his head completely condensed, transforming from an illusion into a reality.

  "Finally broke through to the extraordinary second grade."

  Xiao Fan's mouth corner revealed a hint of a smile, he didn't stop the refining speed of the middle-grade spirit stone, but instead continued to fully refine the remaining fourteen middle-grade spirit stones.

  When Xiao Fan completely refined the remaining fourteen pieces of medium-grade spirit stones, he had reached the peak of transcending the ordinary second grade, and faintly, a strand of fine, hair-like, illusory primordial chaos energy appeared.

  "Unfortunately, there are too few medium-grade spirit stones, and it's impossible to continue breaking through."

  Xiao Fan couldn't help but withdraw his power and stand up, "The Pre-Heavenly Chaotic Sacred Body is truly a bottomless pit..."

  If it were an ordinary person, refining thirty or so mid-grade spirit stones would probably have allowed them to break through to the Ninth Rank of Mortal Ascension, but Xiao Fan had only managed to break through to the Second Rank of Mortal Ascension - this efficiency was truly pitifully low.

  Xiao Fan let out a soft sigh, "It seems that in the future, I'll have to think of ways to earn more spirit stones. Otherwise, who knows when I'll be able to break through to the Ninth Rank of the Mortal Realm."

  "It's a pity that low-grade spirit stones are almost useless to me now, and in the future I can only use mid-grade spirit stones. It would be great if I could get some high-grade spirit stones."

  Xiao Fan muttered to himself, "It seems that from now on, I can only rely on my physical strength and spiritual power. Since that's the case, I'll continue to temper my body and bring out my advantages."

  Xiao Fan continued to sit cross-legged, this time not refining the spiritual stone, but instead using his own cultivated two Chaotic Yuan Forces to repeatedly cleanse his physical body, tempering it to become even stronger.

  Xiao Fan spent a whole day and night in this sitting position, only stopping when he realized that the two Chaotic Primordial Forces had tempered his physical body to its limits, unable to further increase his physical strength.

  Xiao Fan threw out a punch, and instantly, a burst of tiger and leopard thunder sounded within his body, the sound of air exploding also rang out, the power of this punch was enough to split mountains and crack rocks.

  He gained about 10,000 jin of strength; Xiao Fan muttered to himself, feeling extremely satisfied with the results of his tempering. In his body, his muscles and bones were as crystal clear as jade, his blood and flesh radiated a divine light, his blood and energy were incredibly robust, like a giant ancient beast.

  "It's time to take a good look at the secret book of 'Fen Guang Jian Ying'. Xiaofan took out the yellowed ancient book, opened the first page, and suddenly, a strong sword intent came rushing over."

  "Hmm..."

  Xiao Fan's face changed color, mobilizing the bit of sword intent he had just grasped to counterattack.

  Faced with the powerful sword intent emanating from the ancient book, if Xiao Fang's sword intent was just a drop of water, then the sword intent emanating from the ancient book was like a vast ocean.

  Xiao Fan was like a person in the midst of a raging storm, battered by the vast ocean, his entire being on the verge of collapse.

  As time passed, a thread of fresh blood dripped down from Xiao Fan's mouth corner, and finally, that sword intent transformed into calmness, then dissipated.

  Wow...

  When the sword intent dissipated, Xiao Fan spat out a mouthful of blood and stared at the ancient book in his hand in shock. "This secret book is absolutely incredible! I just opened it and there's already such a powerful sword intent."

  The stronger the sword intent emanating from the yellowed ancient book, the more interested Xiao Fan became, and he hastily lowered his head to read the book.

  "One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things! The way of the sword is also a way, it can be divided and transformed. One sword can transform into ten thousand swords, this is what is called the Shadow Splitting Sword."

  After finishing the first paragraph, Xiao Fan was instantly attracted to what was said in the ancient book, and then he immersed himself in it, carefully studying this ancient book.

  Xiao Fan carefully read through the ancient book once again. Although this secret book was missing a part, its contents were vast and profound.

  Deep, with tens of thousands of words, fortunately, Xiao Fan's mental strength was great, and he could memorize them at a glance, so he could remember them all at once.

  Then, Xiao Fan's consciousness sank into the spiritual sea, and he began to practice his spiritual skills within the spiritual sea.

  Just as Xiao Fan began to perform the Transformation Technique, a three-inch small sword flew out of the left eye of Tongtian Sect Master's visualization in his spiritual sea and began to transform within his spiritual sea.

  Only a three-inch small sword in the void transformed into a three-foot long sword, the long sword first shook in the void, and instantly, a formless sword intent fluctuated and spread out.

  Xiao Fan's spirit was shocked, he found that this intangible sword intent fluctuation was exactly the same as the sword intent in the ancient book, and what's more, this sword intent was even more grandiose, far surpassing the sword intent in the ancient book by an unknown number of times, which made him extremely astonished.

  Immediately afterwards, the long sword seemed to be grasped by a hand, and one sword stabbed out, with a flash of sword light appearing, but this sword light appeared and immediately turned into two sword lights.

  "This is the first repeat of 'Fen Guang Jian Ying'."

  Xiao Fan whispered softly, "Feng Guang Jian Ying" is divided into three layers. The first layer, one sword cuts out, the sword light splits into two, and what's more, after one sword light splits into two sword lights, not only does its power not weaken, but it actually increases the power of the sword light.

  The long sword slightly trembled, a dark and uncertain fluctuation was transmitted into Xiao Fan's consciousness, instantly, Xiao Fan completely grasped the first layer of "Divided Light Sword Shadow".

  Immediately afterwards, the long sword slashed out again, a sword light exploded in mid-air, splitting into three sword lights.

  Second Heavy, Sword Shadow Three Parts.

  Xiao Fan's soft murmurs rose up, and he finally gained his second profound understanding.

  "The first stage, the sword shadow splits into two, its power is twice that of a single sword. As for the second stage, the sword shadow splits into three, its power is tripled. Unfortunately, I don't know what the third stage's power will be like?" Xiao Fan murmured softly, regretting that the third stage of the secret book was missing.

  Just as Xiao Fan's spirit was about to collapse, the long sword in the void did not disappear, but instead struck out again. In an instant, a sword exploded in mid-air, and at this time, one sword transformed into two swords, two swords transformed into four swords, four swords transformed into eight swords, eight swords transformed into sixteen swords... until the void was filled with dense sword shadows before stopping.

  A flash of sword light, and the three-foot long sword transformed back into a three-inch short sword flying back into the Guanxiangtu, but Xiao Fan was left with a deep shock.

  "This is the true 'Splendid Sword Shadow', one sword can transform into ten thousand swords."

  "With one sword move, power surges forth."

  Xiao Fan did not expect that the "Super Cheat" he had been praising would actually be able to evolve the missing content, and what's more, the evolved technique was even higher level than the original one, surpassing it.

  "Prismatic Sword Shadow", one sword transforms into ten thousand swords, one power surges greatly, thus, let alone being unbeatable within the same realm, even cross-level slaughter of strong enemies is effortless.

  "Unfortunately, this technique requires a great deal of physical strength. Otherwise, if I could use it without restriction, with just one sword strike, I would turn one sword into ten thousand swords, or even more, and the power of each sword would increase explosively. Then, who in this world would be my opponent?"

  "Theory of Infinite Sword Shadows" can theoretically achieve a single sword transforming into infinite swords, and its power can also increase infinitely, but it is almost impossible to truly wield it because this sword technique has great limitations on the practitioner, that is, the limitation of the physical body.

  Insufficient physical strength can't withstand such immense power, so even if one sword can be transformed into ten thousand swords, the final outcome will still be mutual destruction with the enemy.

  "I don't know how many swords my current physical body can transform into with one sword."

  Xiao Fan took the expected exit from the Spiritual Sea and returned to his physical body. Afterwards, he stuffed the ancient book into the Qian Kun Ring and hastily left the room.