Chapter 9 - Training (I)
Once he got there, after following the description of an Outer Court disciple who described the location of the Battle Hall to him, he met an elder seated there with his eyes closed, seeming as if he was in a deep state of cultivation.
Immediately the elder opened his eyes to look at him, Sun Kang bowed and said politely once he straightened himself back, "Elder, this disciple would like to use the special combat spaces in the Battle Hall to train."
"Hmm." The elder who was looking at Sun Kang's face, uttered in shock. But his shocked expression and tone, were well hidden from Sun Kang who wasn't aware of anything.
Actually, at the elder's level of cultivation, and because of the eye-based Battle Art that he practiced, he expected Sun Kang to shiver or tremble once their gazes connected.
But to his utter astonishment, Sun Kang didn't shiver, neither did he tremble, causing the elder to be seriously shocked. And this was because once he opened his eyes to look at anybody lower in cultivation rank to him, they would usually shake or shiver in response to his soul-jolting gaze.
However, Sun Kang didn't!
But what he didn't know was that Sun Kang's soul was more than ten million times powerful than his. The slightest fluctuation of Sun Kang's soul activity will absolutely wipe out his soul, in fact, all the souls of virtually everyone in Prosper City and in faraway neighboring cities.
"You have an authority medallion?" The elder who still tried to conceal the surprise that had surfaced in his heart from leaking to his face, asked with a faked indifferent expression.
"Yes, elder." Sun Kang who didn't know what was going on within the elder's mind, humbly replied to his question.
"Show me. Let me see" The elder commanded.
Sun Kang nodded his head and then gave the elder the authority medallion in his hand for his scrutinization.
"Elder Guo Ling. Hmm." The elder said.
He then said further, stretching his hand out at Sun Kang, "You can have it."
Sun Kang accepted the authority medallion from the elder who then stood to his feet from the stool that he sat on and asked Sun Kang to follow behind him.
Ten minutes later, he showed Sun Kang a door to a room that he could use for his personal combat training. Once he did so, the elder turned around and walked back to where he was previously seated.
But as he walked back, he couldn't help but think deeply, 'Did he just show immunity to the effect of the soul-jarring Eye Art that I practice? Or he is just able to hide his expression far better than others?'
Sun Kang who couldn't tell or identify what was going on within the elder's roiling mind, had already gone into the Special Combat Space that was shown to him.
Immediately he entered, Sun Kang saw a vast stretch of plain land and nodded his head.
However, this place had no sky, but a really high ceiling that was suspended hundreds of feet above the ground and blocked out the unending rays of the sun could be seen.
Also, a really large mountain with its peak covered entirely in bright green grasses could be seen in the far distance. However, the mountain looked unreal, as it seem to have been formed from the power of experts that could control or manipulate the movement of the earth.
Nodding his head in slight impression at the Special Combat Space that he was given, Sun Kang moved to practice only four of the plethoric attacking techniques, and then anyone of the three movement methods for the Common Grade skills of the Severance Sword art.
So, he chose the [Ordinary Subduing Sword of Minor Sword Deities], [Dragon-Chasing Sword], [Thousand Phoenixes Slaying Sword] and [Behemoths and Leviathans Life-Stealing Sword] for the attacking techniques. Then he selected the [Profound Earth Traversing Step] for movement skill.
As an art that had techniques from the Low tier to the Cosmic Deity tier for different cultivation classes, they were all actually designed by the Nine Firmaments Sword Sovereign with the intention of making his Legacy Inheritor wield surprise cards in battles, with the so-called surprise cards being the Cosmic Deity-level techniques that could erupt with power belonging fully to the next cultivation stage.
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In Minor Planets that number in the millions in this Cultivation Universe, including the one Sun Kang was currently in, the highest rank of cultivation was the Celestial Law Master, while the others that ranked below it included the following;
Heavenly Law Saint,
Sky Law Saint,
Earthly Law Saint,
Mortal Ascendance Law Warrior,
Ascending Law Warrior and
Common Law Warrior.
To go from the Common Law Warrior stage to the Ascending Law Warrior stage, a cultivator would have to reach the twelveth layer of the Common Law Warrior stage before they can finally break through into the Ascending Law Warrior stage.
So, for the Cosmic Deity-level technique to erupt with power that belonged to the Ascending Law Warrior stage, regardless of whatever layer the Common Law Warrior stage-technique user will be, showed how powerful and tyrannical it was.
Sun Kang who could easily think all these, pondered for a moment before saying, "I guess I will master the high-level technique first, before ascending tier by tier to the Cosmic Deity-level."
"And just like master intended, the Cosmic Deity-level technique will be my surprise cards in battles. I will leave my enemies seriously shocked before their complete obliterations will take place." Sun Kang said with the understanding and readiness that he will be drained fully dry of his Origin Energy once he tried to use such an astoundingly powerful move in any battle that he would find himself in.
"No wonder the cultivation method for this art is also extremely powerful. If I continue to cultivate more fervently, I should enter the Ascending Law Warrior stage in no time."
Speaking up to here with both awe and greatness in his heart, Sun Kang immediately got to work.
Following the description for the first attacking technique that he chose, which was the [Ordinary Subduing Sword of Minor Sword Deities], Sun Kang closed his eyes and got ready to use the technique to unleash an attack.
With his eyes shut tight, Sun Kang moved his violet-colored Origin Energy from his dantian to his palm.
And as a previous, vastly enlightened expert of the Ancestral Law God stage, a stage where was he was one of the strongest in the Major Planet that he resided in, Sun Kang didn't waste any time in comprehending the basic mysteries in which the strike for the [Ordinary Subduing Sword of Minor Sword Deities] functioned in.
So, acting upon that basic comprehension of mysteries that he obtained in a flash, Sun Kang aimed his right palm which was beginning to glow in a blinding violet light at the massive mountain that stood really far in the distance.
Swoosh!
The moment he aimed his palm, large amounts of violet Origin Energy instantly rushed out and condensed quickly into a dazzling violet-colored sword.
The moment the illusory violet sword appeared with the basic mysteries of the sword technique drawing an ancient indecipherable pattern on the coldly gleaming surface of the sword, it immediately let out a blinding violet glow with unseen waves of power bearing astounding sharpness, beginning to emanate from the sword and in all directions.
The invisible sharp waves that emitted incessantly from the glowing violet sword, will definitely produce the feeling in anyone that it possessed the power to reduce virtually everything its path to countless, extremely thin slices.
Swoosh!
Then like an arrow leaving a bow, the sword shot out as a streak of violet light towards the mountain in the distance.
Bang!
It collided heavily into the mountain and caused a thunderous bang sound to immediately ring out.
Surprisingly, Sun Kang had left a clean gash in the mountain at that distance. Actually, the sword had fully gone into it, leaving a ten feet-deep cut in it.
But, assuming Sun Kang could tell that the mountain in the distance was only a low-tier, Common-grade mountain-shaped treasure, he will be more awed by the offensive power possessed by the attack that he unleashed.
Seeing the power that the sword possessed, despite being only an attack of the high-level tier, Sun Kang nodded his head in full satisfaction.
He couldn't wait to see what the Cosmic Deity-level technique had in store for him.
With his eyes beginning to shine as he prepared himself to unleash the same attack, but at the Peak-level tier, he readily moved large amounts of his violet-colored Origin Energy to his palm.
He then aimed at the mountain with that palm.
The instant he aimed with that palm, the energy stored within that palm rushed out like a flood and immediately condensed into a crystalline sword that shone with a dazzling violet brilliance.
Once the sword, which formed in less than a second, with the comprehended mysteries of the technique that Sun Kang understood being weaved into it in a flash, a certain strange pattern suddenly appeared on the body of the sword before expanding to cover it entirely.
The moment this occurred, with the pattern disappearing into it the next moment, the brilliance coming from the sword intensified with an overwhelming aura of sharpness beginning to emanate from the sword.
The bizarre sharp aura that the sword constantly gave off, made the sword seem like one that could cut through a hundred mountains effortlessly.
Swoosh!
Travelling once again as a streak of violet light into the distance, the sword struck the low-tier mountain-shaped treasure in the distance once it arrived in front of it.
Bang!
A deafening bang sound immediately rang out as soon as the sword struck it with a fierce overbearing power.
This time, the sword cut thirty feet deep into the mountain.
"Nice!" Sun Kang said with the satisfied nod of his head.
Beginning to anticipate the power that the Cosmic Deity-level attack will carry, Sun Kang moved to practice the Divine-level tier attack.
Repeating his earlier action, large amounts of his violet-colored Origin Energy immediately gushed out of his hand and rapidly condensed into a sword.
Then weaving the mysteries of the divine-level technique that he comprehended into the sword, which would absolutely differentiate it from an ordinary attack and imbue it with a higher-level power of the world, the sword began to exert a type of pressure that immediately caused the ground beneath it to crack.
Puclack!!
The pressure coming from the buzzing violet sword was so great that the crack made into the ground, immediately transformed into a large web of thin fissures that spread for ten feet across the ground.
Furthermore, an aura of sharpness that was tenfold greater than the aura that emitted from the Peak-level attack, began to exude unendingly from the sword that shone with a strongly blinding brilliance.
Whoosh!
As soon as it formed in only a single breath, with the mysteries of the technique engraved in it manifesting as a beautiful but ancient cryptic pattern on the sword's dazzling surface, the sword immediately shot out like a bolt of lightning towards the mountain that stood imposingly from afar.
Bang!
As soon as the sword struck it, it immediately cut deep into it that it was until it had cleanly pierced through it for more than a hundred and fifty feet before it began to slowly lose its amazing penetration power.
"Great!" Sun Kang said with a fully satisfied look appearing in his face.
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After unleashing the attack for the supreme-level tier, he was able to make a cut that was four hundred and seventy feet deep into the mountain-shaped treasure in the distance, signifying that the attack definitely possessed much more power than the attack that originated from the divine-level tier technique.
Then with his eyes beginning to blaze in strong anticipation and excitement for the power that will be possessed by the Cosmic Deity-level attack, Sun Kang suddenly twisted his face in unhappiness and impatience when he saw that he had fully used up all the Origin Energy stored in his dantian.
"These attacks definitely consume large amounts of Origin Energy. I can't afford to be liberal with them." Sun Kang mentioned with a sour expression appearing on his face.
He then sat on the ground in the cross-legged position to recover his lost energy, whilst preparing himself physically and mentally for the grandiose attack that will surely drain his dantian completely dry.