Chapter Forty-Four: The Power of Sword Techniques

  Currently, Fang Tian Nan has only three things that can be used to absorb energy for cultivation.

  Light Source Stone, Fang Tian Nan did not intend to use it. This thing is used once and there will be one less. Moreover, Fang Tian Nan always felt that he had not fully understood the specific function of Light Source Stone. Just like absorbing the energy of Light Source Stone, why his innate attribute could change into Yang attribute energy. If all the Light Source Stones are consumed now, it's likely that Fang Tian Nan will regret it later. Besides, after Fang Tian Nan's strength advanced to the stage of transforming energy, absorbing the energy of Light Source Stone would undoubtedly be much faster. The remaining few pieces of Light Source Stone can absolutely not support Fang Tian Nan's daily cultivation for long.

  Secondly, it is the spiritual medicine cream collected from the Transmission Cave Heaven. This thing has a large quantity possessed by Fang Tian Nan, and its effect is also very powerful. Not only can it improve the physique of a martial artist, but it can also increase the actual cultivation. What makes Fang Tian Nan somewhat regretful is that the use and absorption of the cream, at first, the effect is the strongest. As the number of uses increases, the effect will become weaker and weaker.

  And finally, there is also the inheritance of the three bottles of elixir obtained from the Dongtian.

  Apart from this, Fang Tian Nan was probably just like the vast majority of martial artists, relying on his daily bitter training and continuous battle experience to improve his own strength.

  He hesitated for a moment, then finally fixed his gaze on a low-grade dan medicine.

  Since the middle-grade elixir is for humans to take, this weakened version of low-grade elixir should be fine for warriors in the Qi Refining stage, right?

  It seemed that he had thought of the challenges he would face tomorrow, and Fang Tian Nan immediately took a decisive action, swallowing a pill. Suddenly, the refreshing fragrance of the pill had not yet dissipated when a warm sensation spread from his lower abdomen. Later, this warmth gradually turned into scorching heat.

  It was as if there was a fire burning in Fang Tian Nan's belly.

  In an instant, Fang Tiannan felt the scorching energy from his lower abdomen suddenly surge into his meridians, almost violently sweeping through all the meridian pathways. Finally, just when Fang Tiannan felt he was about to collapse, this energy merged into his Lower Dantian, combining with the original misty Qi ball.

  Even so, Fang Tian Nan could still feel that his body was drenched in sweat, just like after intense exercise.

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  "It's okay, my body has been improved by the energy of the light source stone and the medicine pool. Otherwise... " Fang Tian Nan pondered, this Dan medicine suddenly burst out with energy, enough to destroy the meridians in an instant. Even if it was a low-level person who could take the Dan medicine, it wasn't something that a Huajing realm warrior like him could easily try to take."

  However, Fang Tiannan's adventure was not without any gain.

  Fang Tian Nan could clearly feel that the Qi ball condensed in his lower Dantian had become more substantial, and the speed of its rotation was undoubtedly faster. Faintly, it also brought out a hint of pressure.

  Although it is said that such signs will gradually become calm as time passes. After taking the elixir, after the energy in the body reaches saturation, the excess part will also slowly dissipate. However, for Fang Tian Nan who has just advanced to the Huajing realm, it is not a strengthening and consolidation of his own strength.

  At least after this baptism, the meridians can withstand greater external pressure. Fang Tiannan also has a deeper understanding of the actual strength of the Huajing Realm martial artist.

  Afterwards, Fang Tian Nan gave up his plan of continuing to take the Dan medicine and instead placed the human-shaped stone and long sword in front of himself.

  The route of the vigorous circulation on the human-shaped stone, Fang Tiannan has already memorized it. What Fang Tiannan needs to do is to combine the circulation of the vigor with the magnificent swordsmanship that the human-shaped wooden puppet had displayed earlier. The display of any set of martial skills has its corresponding mental method as an auxiliary. Only when the mental method and the moves complement each other can the martial skill exert its strongest power.

  Different martial artists have different understandings of martial skills, and even the innate high or low level of martial skills will be reflected in the actual combat strength when a set of martial skills is displayed.

  Fang Tiannan did not have the delusion that he could possess the same level of strength as when he first wielded the human-shaped wooden puppet's sword technique. As long as he could simply execute this set of sword techniques, Fang Tiannan thought to himself, he should be able to cope with Wu Yunbao's battle.

  After all, this is a martial art suitable for real combat.

  In terms of innate boundary layers, it is much higher than the martial artist in the realm of transformation.

  However, what made Fang Tiannan helpless was that no matter how he tried to mobilize his energy in his body to follow the meridian lines of the human-shaped wooden puppet, it had no effect at all. On the contrary, some movements even brought pain to Fang Tiannan's body, as if the route of Fang Tiannan's energy flow was wrong and could not be achieved at all.

  Could it be that I was wrong in my guess, and the green silk threads and green light spots carved on this human-shaped stone are not the routes of the flow of energy?

  Fang Tiannan couldn't help but furrow his brow, pondering, such swordsmanship shouldn't be limited to just puppets, right?

  If it's really like this, Fang Tian Nan's plan will undoubtedly come to nothing.

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  Subconsciously, Fang Tian Nan began to observe the human-shaped stone again. Consistent with his previous understanding, the blue silk threads on the human-shaped stone were indeed similar to the meridians in a warrior's body, with an extremely high degree of matching. Those blue light points also represented some joints and acupoints within the human body.

  Fang Tian Nan was confident in his own observations.

  However, even if Fang Tiannan practiced carefully along the meridian lines on the human-shaped stone, he made no progress at all. If it weren't for Fang Tiannan having personally witnessed the powerful combat strength of the sword techniques displayed by the human-shaped wooden puppet beforehand, he would have given up directly.

  Fang Tian Nan thought for a moment, then picked up the long sword and stood up, imitating the moves of the human-shaped wooden puppet in his memory, but still to no avail. Fang Tian Nan could only sit back down on the chair, put down the long sword, and continued to rub the human-shaped wooden puppet with both hands, staring blankly into space.

  It's just like a person who has arrived at the entrance of a treasure trove, only to find that they can't enter because they don't have the key, and are thus left feeling frustrated.

  "Huh, where did the humanoid stone go?" Fang Tian Nan came back to his senses and found that his hands were empty, there was nothing on the table, nor on the ground. It was even more impossible for an outsider to have entered Fang Tian Nan's room.

  For a moment, Fang Tian Nan spread out his hands, with an expression of utter weirdness on his face.

  Right away, Fang Tiannan thought of something and began to examine the chest area on his body, especially the middle dantian. Firstly, when Fang Tiannan initially obtained this human-shaped stone, it was from the chest of a human-shaped wooden puppet; secondly, in Fang Tiannan's chest, within the middle dantian, wasn't there a boundary marker, which was a space that could hold things?

  Just then, Fang Tiannan called out to the human-shaped stone inside the boundary marker, but there was no response. Instead, he found that this human-shaped stone had thoroughly merged into his own dantian. The shape of the stone had disappeared, and the cyan silk threads and light spots originally carved on the surface of the stone were now densely packed in Fang Tiannan's middle dantian.

  It's just like Fang Tiannan's Zhong Dan Tian, it's a stone, no, to be precise, these green silk threads and light points are not the ones on the surface of the human-shaped stone that Fang Tiannan observed before, but rather inside the stone, with many connections between the silk threads and light points.

  If Fang Tian Nan's Zhong Dan Tian is a vast starry sky, then those green light points are the stars in the starry sky, and the green silk threads are extremely complex, almost connecting all the stars with their specific rules.

  As Fang Tiannan clearly felt all of this, especially the thickness and length of these blue silk threads, which were one by one presented in Fang Tiannan's mind, the original intention to give up on the sword technique displayed by the human-shaped wooden puppet was immediately revived.

  "This is indeed the true route of the vigorous energy." Fang Tian Nan sighed to himself.

  Although the techniques and martial arts that Fang Tiannan came into contact with were not high-end, most of them could be performed by ordinary disciples. For example, the moves performed by Wu You and other inner disciples of Qingyun Sect were only briefly glimpsed in the grand hall of the Tongtian Palace. However, Fang Tiannan had never heard of any martial art or technique that was as complex and magnificent as the ones depicted on the human-shaped stone statues.

  Just by feeling this powerful energy running through his meridians, Fang Tian Nan could already sense the incredible might of this sword technique, which was beyond compare!