Chapter 1058: Chapter 1058: Deduction

For merchants, there is nothing that can’t be traded.

As long as the profit is substantial, even selling their own souls is not a problem.

Huangfu Yongchun had specifically reminded everyone not to sell ore within Luodu, and even if one were to disguise oneself and sell it in other Immortal Cities, caution was still paramount.

The best method was to cut and polish the ore oneself, turning it into standardized Spirit Stones.

The size of Spirit Stones circulating in the market has strict standards, but there are no secret marks or serial numbers or anything of the sort, so this method is the safest, ensuring there would be no mishaps.

The problem was, Wang Chen didn’t have the time to waste on crafting Spirit Stones!

After giving it some thought, he simply broke the ore he had obtained and stored it inside the Cangqing Ring.

Allowing the Cangqing Ring to directly absorb the nature’s spiritual energy contained within the ores.

This method was crude and simple but not wasteful in the least; after all, Wang Chen would need to eventually fill the Cangqing Ring with enough energy for another descent to the Lower Realm, so there was certainly nothing to regret.

Due to the large quantity of ore, it took him three days to complete this task.

This time, the Cangqing Ring was finally satiated, and millions of Low Spirit tier spiritual energy were injected into it, turning the treasure that connected two worlds from dark green to an even deeper shade of ink green that seemed bottomless!

Wang Chen estimated that with so much spiritual energy, not to mention descending to the Lower Realm once, another two or three trips would pose no problems at all.

Moreover, he distinctly felt that his connection with his avatar in the Cangqing Domain had become tighter and more stable.

Undoubtedly, this was a good thing.

It must be understood that the Cangqing Domain concerned Wang Chen’s future path and cultivation; it was the foundation for his transformation from Nascent Soul to Divinity Transformation and even the Great Vehicle of Integration. There was no room for the slightest negligence or error.

He gently touched the Cangqing Ring worn on his ring finger, its surface quickly dimmed to a lusterless state.

It became inconspicuous.

Divine objects conceal themselves; this was an innate ability of the Cangqing Ring, which could retract all anomalies with just a slight activation.

Wearing the ring on his hand like this, Wang Chen wouldn’t easily expose himself to higher-tier cultivators who might seek to kill him to obtain the treasure.

For a divine treasure such as the Cangqing Ring, not to mention Nascent Soul to Divine Transformation, even Integration True Venerables wouldn’t be able to resist snatching it upon sight!

After dealing with this batch of ores, Wang Chen called over Su Ziling.

“There’s a challenging task that needs your attention.”

However, Su Ziling’s eyes sparkled with excitement at this, and she was overjoyed: “What task?”

Since settling in Luodu, most of Wang Chen’s time had been spent in closed-door cultivation or going out for trials, with only a few days spent accompanying her.

With no one but herself tending the house, even though she had met some maids and concubines of similar status in the neighboring households, she couldn’t have frequent social interactions, thus she was quite bored apart from her daily cultivation practices.

As for household chores, they were nothing significant for a Purple Mansion cultivator like herself.

So she always felt that her contributions were far from matching the resources Wang Chen provided her!

Now that Wang Chen mentioned he had a task for her, her heart swelled with happiness.

Wang Chen took out a large quantity of ore from the Sumeru Ring.

These ores were carefully selected Middle Spirit ores; with his purse recently lightened considerably, Wang Chen couldn’t bear to feed the precious Middle Spirit ores to the Cangqing Ring, so he stored them separately.

The task he gave to Su Ziling was to use specially crafted tools or to be precise, Magic Artifacts, to cut and polish the ores into standard Middle Spirit Stones.

Wang Chen did not need to buy such artifacts from elsewhere; with a bit of effort, he could forge them himself.

The task was not so much difficult as it was monotonous and time-consuming.

But Su Ziling was more than willing to undertake it.

She felt that she could finally be of help to Wang Chen.

After handing over the ores to Su Ziling, Wang Chen went to the Cultivation Chamber to begin his attempt at deducing the other six Qijue Sword Techniques.

Currently, his mastery of the Leijue Sword Technique had achieved Minor Achievement, and its power was verified during the Slaying the Flood Dragon operation.

However, Wang Chen was very clear that the power of a single set of swordsmanship, compared to that of a complete sword formation, was more than seven times weaker!

In fact, although it was he who delivered the final blow to that fourth-tier Flood Dragon, the one that dealt the lethal damage to the Flood Dragon was still the collective strike from the Qijue Sword.

The grace of that sword strike, Wang Chen still remembers vividly to this day!

In such a case, how could he be satisfied with mastering just a mere set of swordsmanship?

Before, Huangfu Yongchun had said that the Leijue Sword Technique could be cultivated up to the Nascent Soul level, which was true.

But he did not tell Wang Chen that the Qijue Sword Formation could fully meet the needs of higher level combat!

Originally, Wang Chen had the idea of acquiring the other six Qijue techniques from Huangfu Yongchun.

But now he didn’t need to do so.

Because the final strike that killed the fourth-tier Flood Dragon brought Wang Chen a total of nine hundred thousand points of Heavenly Merit.

In Wang Chen’s view, the value of this gain far exceeded the sum of the Spirit Stones and materials he received!

The Heavenly Merit required for deducing the Qijue Sword Formation was sufficient.

What was he waiting for?

With the infusion of a large number of Heavenly Merit points, Wang Chen felt his thought process speeding up rapidly.

The complete text of the Qijue Sword, totaling two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five True Characters, were lit up one by one in his Sea of Consciousness, like numerous stars in the profound night sky, generating infinite variations.

The reason why Wang Chen was able to deduce the other six techniques of the Qijue was precisely because of this comprehensive main text.

Without the main text, it’s like water without a source, a tree without roots; relying on just the Leijue Sword alone was simply not enough to accomplish this.

When Huangfu Yongchun initially traded the sword technique to Wang Chen, he could not have dreamed that there was such a heaven-defying cheat in this world.

It was practically cheating!

The main text of the Qijue Sword was separated and then merged, repeatedly, hundreds of thousands of times.

Wang Chen felt like his brain was a computer operating at full capacity, calculating a massive set of data, putting his mental will through a tremendous test.

And such deduction went on for a whole six days and six nights.

Each day and night passed, and Wang Chen’s Heavenly Merit points decreased by one hundred thousand, and then a group of Spirit Light Law Seed appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

This group of Spirit Light Law Seed signified that Wang Chen had mastered a new skill.

Six days and six nights corresponded to six Spirit Light Law Seeds!

In the end, these six Spirit Light Law Seeds converged with Wang Chen’s original Leijue Law Seed to form the Big Dipper Seven Stars Array.

A new entry quietly appeared on his panel.

Or rather, a new skill.

[Qijue Sword Technique (Beginner): 3007/100000]

This skill replaced the original Leijue Sword Technique, and did not erase the experience value of the Leijue Sword Technique, retaining it all.

But the one hundred thousand points of experience required to advance from beginner to master still shocked Wang Chen.

You should know that the experience value of just the Leijue Sword Technique was counted in thousands.

Now suddenly jumping to one hundred thousand, it was indeed a bit daunting.

However, Wang Chen was very clear that this was precisely where the strength of the Qijue Sword Technique lay; it was undoubtedly the most powerful skill he possessed at the moment, without a doubt!

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The second update is delivered.