Chapter Twenty: Sword Techniques

  It's said to be a stone, but that's not entirely true. Fang Tian Nan took a preliminary look and felt it was only slightly like the texture of a stone, about the size of a palm, and in terms of shape, it looked more like a small, carved human figurine.

  Fang Tiannan couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart, sheathing his long sword and crouching down to pick up the strange human-shaped stone from the ground.

  As soon as he got it in his hands, Fang Tian Nan had a very familiar feeling, as if the stone in front of him had the same tactile sensation as the light source stones he had obtained before.

  However, Fang Tian Nan carefully distinguished for a while, and finally still slightly shook his head. It shouldn't be the light source stone, at least, it has some differences with the light source stones that Fang Tian Nan got. Even if it was carved, Fang Tian Nan was certain that his intuition wouldn't go wrong.

  To know, for the study and play of light source stone, Fang Tian Nan has done it very meticulously. Plus, after several months of daily and nightly absorption of energy from the light source stone, Fang Tian Nan is still quite certain about his own judgment.

  It's just that, even if it wasn't a light source stone, Fang Tian Nan could still feel that this carved stone should be the energy for maintaining the human-shaped wooden puppet's battle. After all, at this point, Fang Tian Nan could still sense the powerful energy contained within this stone.

  But since the energy in this stone hasn't been consumed and is located at the puppet's heart position, why did Fang Tian Nan only need to shatter the puppet's head for it to lose all its power? Logically speaking, shouldn't he have needed to hit the puppet's heart and destroy the stone for it to stop moving?

  For a moment, Fang Tian Nan also found it somewhat difficult to understand.

  Perhaps, as long as this arrogant puppet has even a slight bit of damage, the entire puppet will lose its combat effectiveness?

  If that's the case, then such a puppet would undoubtedly greatly decrease in threat. No matter how many are made or how strong their combat power is, they will always be caught at their weak points and easily destroyed, which would actually reduce much of the fear factor.

  ……

  Just as Fang Tiannan fell into contemplation and felt a little regret, the two powerful energies inside the metal plate in his dantian each split off a part, burst out of the metal plate, and flowed along the meridians, directly passing through Fang Tiannan's hands and entering the stone he was holding.

  In an instant, this strange stone flashed a faint white light, extremely dazzling, almost piercing Fang Tian Nan's eyes in an instant. Fang Tian Nan subconsciously closed his eyes, and after waiting for a moment, feeling the return of these two energies, the breath in his dantian gradually stabilized, before he opened his eyes again.

  The strange stone in his hand had not changed in size, but its shape was still in a human form, only slightly clearer, more like a lifelike stone person.

  What made Fang Tian Nan somewhat curious was that at this time, the human-shaped stone had exposed a number of cyan-colored threads. At first glance, it seemed as if someone had randomly painted a few strokes on the stone. Each thread was quite long and thin.

  These silk threads are interwoven with each other, as if a layer of gauze has been woven on the entire stone.

  And these blue silk threads, have thick and thin, colors also have deep and shallow. Among them, in the intersection of these silk threads, there are several denser points scattered around the stone man's body, forming many large and small blue light spots.

  "What?......" Fang Tian Nan muttered a sentence, "It shouldn't be that those two auras are the reason why I entered this small path?"

  In Fang Tian Nan's mind, the first thing that came to his mind was that at the time when he walked to the fork in the road, it was precisely these two energies in his Dantian that prompted him to enter this small path. And just now, it was also because of the appearance of these two energies that the human-shaped stone in front of him had undergone such a change.

  But what benefits can such changes bring? Or, what significance do these green threads have?

  Since entering the Inherited Heavenly Cave, everything that has happened has been shrouded in an air of mystery. Fang Tian Nan rarely understood the underlying reasons. He could only roughly speculate about the purpose of these trials, but he couldn't know how things like the sudden appearance of a dan furnace, the hundred-step staircase, and the incredibly powerful humanoid wooden puppet they had just encountered came to be, or what materials were used to make them.

  And now, the green silk thread on the human-shaped stone is even more baffling to Fang Tian Nan.

  ……

  Fang Tian Nan's eyes couldn't help but stare at the tiny, faintly glowing dots on the human-shaped stone statue, and he hesitated for a moment. If one had to think deeply about it, the distribution of these blue silk threads still followed some sort of rule.

  For example, no matter which end of the blue silk thread points to a part of the stone figurine's body, whether it is the hand, foot or head, its other end will inevitably intersect with a blue light point. The largest distribution of these light points is below the navel, if it were a normal human being, that would be where the dantian is located.

  "Huh!" As he thought about it, Fang Tian Nan's thoughts seemed to suddenly disperse, carefully examining each of the blue threads on the stone statue, especially the blue glow points on top. Gradually, Fang Tian Nan's puzzled expression finally cleared up.

  "This seems to be a route of operation for the Taoist magic." Fang Tian Nan muttered softly.

  In an instant, Fang Tian Nan's mind flashed with the scene of a human-shaped wooden puppet, initially wielding a sword in battle, wholeheartedly displaying its strongest move.

  Since this human-shaped stone is the one that provides energy for the wooden puppet to fight, then the blue thread that Fang Tian Nan sees now is likely to be the route of the operating energy of the wooden puppet. After all, the body of the wooden puppet has completely disappeared, leaving only this human-shaped stone, which can explain that this stone is the most critical part of the entire human-shaped wooden puppet.

  Of course, this was not the most delightful guess for Fang Tian Nan. After all, a set of skills, even if it was a powerful sword technique, after Fang Tian Nan became an outer disciple of Qing Yun Sect, he also had a way to accumulate contribution points and exchange them.

  However, it is worth noting that the wooden puppet was able to mobilize its true yuan when performing sword moves, and afterwards, it could suppress its strength to the realm of hidden power. This shows that if the green silk thread and light spots on the stone figurine represent the running route of this sword move's energy, then without a doubt, this is a set of sword techniques that simultaneously suits both martial artists and true person cultivators across different levels.

  This is what matters most to Fang Tian Nan.

  Even in the Qingyun Sect, Fang Tian Nan had rarely heard of any cultivation technique or martial skill that could transcend levels and be cultivated. At the very least, a warrior-level cultivation technique could accompany you through the stages of Ming Jin, An Jin, and Hua Jin, but once you broke through to Ren Yuan, reaching the level of a True Person, you would have to switch to a new cultivation technique.

  The difference between a true person and a martial artist lies in the different energies contained within their bodies. The former is genuine yuan, while the latter is jin qi.

  Suitable for the rotation of strong energy, it is difficult to be suitable for the rotation of true yuan again.

  Even more, most of the gongfa are only aimed at a certain level of a certain realm. For example, for Ming Jin Jing Wu Zhe, there are gongfa that belong to Ming Jin Jing Wu Zhe's cultivation, but after breaking through to An Jin Jing, one needs to re-cultivate gongfa that belongs to the An Jin Jing level.

  Frequent changes in practice methods will undoubtedly bring a lot of trouble to the practitioner's practice.

  In this way, the practice of being able to transcend levels becomes even more precious.