It had been 3 days since Ye Fan had arrived in the Tranquil Peace Inner Palace which was the abode of his Protégé Mistress Fairy Xuan Xueqi.
For 3 days, he had spent his time quietly looking at the cultivation slip of the Six Aura Swords and trying to understand its mysteries.
Finally, he muttered, ""Sword One, you need to be at the Energy Nascent Stage…"
"I am at the Energy Nascent Stage now. Does this mean that I can try to cultivate my first sword?"
"But I have only just broken through to this cultivation realm and my cultivation is not stable yet. If I fail to form my first sword then according to this cultivation slip, I won't be able to form it again until I have advanced to the next stage…"
Then he began to sigh heavily, "And accordingly to this cultivation slip, if I can't form my sword at that stage, I would also destroy my inner spiritual sea at the same time and I should not attempt again for the same stage…"
He bitterly said, "If a cultivator destroys his inner spiritual sea, then of course he could no longer form any profound swords; that is because he will be a cultivation cripple and a trash!"
Ye Fan clenched his fist angrily, "To think that I was almost so touched by her but she has actually given me a cultivation profound art to turn me into a worthless trash. This Witch Xuan Xueqi is really too vicious!"
He had actually been quite touched when she had given him an earth-step divine sword and when she had showed him the Six Aura Swords, he had actually been quite impressed by it as this was the very first time that he had been exposed to a superior profound art.
For a moment, he was beginning to doubt his loyalty to the Thousand Swords Divine Sect. But it had quickly ended now.
He angrily thrown away the cultivation slip against the wall of his abode, "This cultivation slip is a time bomb for me. I have a total of 6 chances to be turned into a trash by her!"
Ye Fan was someone that could not be easily angered but after checking the cultivation slip, he had lost his cool.
There was no way for him to avoid getting his inner spiritual sea getting destroyed even if the Witch Xuan Xueqi was generous with her cultivation instructions; it was because the results would be different from 1000 cultivators that were studying the same cultivation slip and it would all depend on the cultivator's talent to grasp with their own understanding.
But Ye Fan could not understand why the Witch Xuan Xueqi would want to go through all this trouble just to ruin him?
In fact, many of her actions could not be easily explained.
Or was it because she was bored?
He picked up the cultivation slip to check it again; this cultivation slip is jaded and does not look like a copy too…
Now creating a cultivation slip is also an extremely difficult thing to do and it is not the same as writing something.
It consists of numerous celestial dictations of dots called 'Star Systems' and each time a cultivator advance in his cultivation realm, he would be able to discover more of the star systems and more information or insight may be grasped.
A copied cultivation slip would appear to be crudely copied without any cultivation understanding and there would be plenty of missing gaps.
This cultivation slip was too intricate and it even contained the Witch Xuan Xueqi's explanatory notes.
No matter how he looked at it, it looked like an original.
Is she so evil as to create a cultivation slip just to ruin the others?
He began to tremble with rage again.
There was an alarm in the defensive array, and he knew someone was approaching.
He quickly composed before and sure enough, the doors of his abode were soon swung opened and Fairy Xuan Xueqi had walked into his abode.
She looked even more dazzling than ever before and in fact looked more mesmerizing in her white gold robe.
But Ye Fan was suddenly startled because he saw that she had taken off her outer robe and that she was wearing a little too revealing…
But he quickly greeted her, "Protégé Mistress…"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi waved her hands, "Protégé Ye Fan, there is no need for any formalities. Sit down."
He did as he was told on his messy table which was filled with hundreds of notes that he had copied from the Six Aura Swords cultivation slip that he had made over the past 3 days.
She smiled when she saw his notes all over, "So, how is your progression in the Six Aura Swords."
Ye Fan's countenance suddenly become very ugly.
It was naturally not progressing very well!
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled, "En. So you have discovered the flaws too with my Six Aura Swords, am I right?"
Ye Fan slowly said, "If I fail to create a profound sword with my inner spiritual sea then the price will be heavy indeed. I will end up destroying my inner spiritual sea."
"Do you think that I am harming you instead?" Fairy Xuan Xueqi asked him with a cool look.
By now, Ye Fan could not contain his rage for the Witch Xuan Xueqi and he angrily said. "You can kill me with a blow easily but there is no need to humiliate me like this. Or better, why don't you just cripple me directly instead?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi sighed softly, "I'm not surprised that you'll be angry with me after learning about the flaws of the Six Aura Swords…."
Then she took a deep look at him, "So Ye Fan, this is the real you?"
Ye Fan was startled but he did not care to pretend anymore. "Yes, this is the real me. So?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi was not angry by his lack of disrespect, "You really think that I will want to harm you? Although it isn't easy to learn my Six Aura Swords and you may end up destroying your inner spiritual sea, it is not considered a real cripple of your cultivation core. So you can still train it again…"
Ye Fan interrupted her coldly, "It is never easy to cultivate at the higher level. Imagine failing to cultivate a sword at the True Origin realm level and wasting tens of years of cultivation. What a good protégé mistress you are!"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi lowered her alluring eyes to say, "If you can't even condense your first sword, is there a point of talking the sixth sword at the True Origin realm level, huh?"
Then she looked up to him and said, "You have stolen my Golden Lotus Natal Pill and even consume it, am I right? You should be able to cultivate fairly quickly enough even if you fail for the first 3 swords."
Ye Fan hummed coldly, "So you've already known so you have given me your invitation card so as to plot to kill me for the first martial meeting."
"This, you are wrong." Fairy Xuan Xueqi said nonchalantly. "If I want to kill you, I can do it back then and even now. No one will dare to say a single thing to me because I am the law here."
Ye Fan: …
Because you are a sadist…
A killer…
And you enjoy tormenting me…
Fairy Xuan Xueqi pointed to the cultivation slip that was in his hands, "Although it is a major flaw with my Six Aura Swords but it is also because it is a most tyrannical profound art that requires the cultivator to condense with all their inner spiritual sea. If you are able to succeed then you have a profound art that is so powerful that you can easily defeat the same realm cultivator…"
She paused to say ruefully, "What is the point of keep using your profound strength to muster your profound force again and again against a strong cultivator or even a profound beast when you know that it may be in futility? What is the point of wishing for an increase in cultivation realm when your profound art can only be improved so much at the next cultivation realm? Why don't you have a powerful profound art instead that could kill your opponent effortlessly?"
Ye Fan was startled; indeed, he only needed a powerful profound art…
Fairy Xuan Xueqi said melancholy, "This Six Aura Swords require all your inner spiritual sea to create it and therefore it contains 100% of your profound strength. The more profound swords that you can muster, the more powerful you will be. I can't say that you will be invincible at your cultivation realm as there are many other formidable profound arts in existence but you will be close to it or at least among the very top…"
Then she turned to look at him with a bitter smile, "Why are you complaining about it when you didn't even take the risk as I did. Do you think that I didn't take the same risk as you when I first invented the Six Aura Swords. In fact, I have even failed once. So I definitely know your pains…"
Ye Fan looked startled as he muttered, "You have failed once…"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi said coldly, "Also, I have practiced the Nine Reincarnation Arts too. And I have previously voided my cultivation core on 8 different occasions. Compare to me, your risks are not worth mentioning at all."
Ye Fan was stunned, "What is this Nine Reincarnation Arts?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi hummed coldly, "You don't have to know. Ye Fan, I've thought that you are someone that is destined to be a great cultivator but you are nothing but a coward that did not like to take risks."
Then she had turned around to leave but not before saying, "Humph. This Six Aura Swords is yours now, whether you want to learn it or not. Maybe in the future, you can find a more courageous protégé that is willing to pick up my Six Aura Swords."
With that she had left the place by fluttering lightly away.
Ye Fan quietly looked at the cultivation slip that was in his hand after she had left…