292: Take the sword

Xiao Zhuo slowly studied the surrounding Demonic Script, not rushing to retrieve the heavenly cold demonic sword.

Within the Demonic Script, there was not only a saint-grade high-rank sword manual named Startling Cold Sword Canon, but also a record of Demonic Lord Han Jue's life, including some descriptions of the ancient Immortal-Demon War from a million years ago.

In that ancient war, Demonic Lord Han Jue single-handedly fought against two Great Luo Immortal Kings from the Immortal Realm, breaking through during the battle, killing one and severely injuring the other.

He himself suffered a Shattered Realm of his Dao Fruit, and his Dao imprint was also corroded by the opponent's Karma Divine Ability, leaving him with not long to live.

After repelling the two, Demonic Lord Han Jue casually found a lone peak, opened an Immortal Cave, and set up a Restriction, leaving behind his Legacy and his personal sword, Tianhan.

Demonic Lord Han Jue was a Prodigy Demonic Lord from the Nine Nether Abyss, one of the nine great abysses of the Demon Realm a million years ago, and was hailed as the foremost sword user in the Demon Realm at that time.

He had several battle records of resisting Devil Kings or Immortal Kings with his Demonic Lord Cultivation.

In his final battle, he even slew an Immortal King.

It was just a pity that he also perished there.

The Restriction he left behind had already collapsed over the past million years.

It was precisely because of the collapse of the Restriction that the Frost Sword unexpectedly leaked, affecting the weather for a thousand miles.

If Xiao Zhuo had arrived any later, the entire ice seal would have collapsed, and it was feared that the Legacy and many secret deeds left by Demonic Lord Han Jue would never be known to anyone.

With the Restriction collapsed, Xiao Zhuo naturally didn't need to make an oath to protect the Cold Hell Ice Demon Clan; he only needed to find a way to subdue the heavenly cold demonic sword.

However, this sword had probably already developed sentience, and if he couldn't learn the Startling Cold Sword Canon, he might not be able to make it recognize him as its master with Xiao Zhuo's current Cultivation.

Demonic Lord Han Jue also explained in the Demonic Script on the wall that this sword was an origin divine weapon that had reached saint-grade high-rank ten thousand years ago, and could already be called the strongest Sacred Artifact.

After a million years, whether it had advanced beyond a Sacred Artifact was still unknown.

Xiao Zhuo did not rush forward. A surge of icy Sword Intent enveloped the central cold pool. This Sword Intent did not reveal any killing intent, but Xiao Zhuo had a guess in his heart.

If he failed to comprehend the Startling Cold Sword Canon and rashly went forward, he feared he would be attacked by Sword Qi.

Sitting down cross-legged, Xiao Zhuo began to carefully study the Startling Cold Sword Canon.

This sword manual contained the Dao of Ice and the Dao of Sword, and had achieved a complete Fusion of the two Daos.

Its power was arguably superior to any Cultivation Technique Xiao Zhuo currently mastered.

Even his self-created Primal Beginning One Saber was slightly inferior to it.

Xiao Zhuo's The Way of Freedom could control myriad Daos. Now that he had broken into the Demon General rank, the three great Laws of Soul, Space, and Lightning had formed a Fusion Dao Fruit, and the power of Law had transformed into the power of Dao.

The Demon General rank could only initially borrow the power of Dao, while the Demonic Lord rank, with the improvement of their Comprehension Ability of Dao, could initially command Dao. The Devil King rank could control Dao.

As for the higher Saint Realm, even Xiao Zhuo currently had no clue.

Xiao Zhuo attempted to control the Law of Ice and the Law of Sword, beginning to try the opening Cultivation method of the Startling Cold Sword Canon described in the Demonic Script.

Streams of cold currents and sword light continuously surged with Xiao Zhuo's finger movements.

In just a hundred breaths, an ice sword formed by Qi Condensation had appeared in his hand, its cold Qi biting, clearly possessing considerable power.

Xiao Zhuo's eyes slightly brightened, and his panel appeared before him; the Startling Cold Sword Canon had already been initiated.

With his current Comprehension Ability, learning the Demonic Path Cultivation Techniques, which were generally easy to learn but difficult to master, was truly perfect for him.

On the panel, there were now nearly three hundred thousand Attribute Points. The Black Demon Clan's Hei Fang Tianyu and others he had slain earlier, as well as some Vengeful Spirit Bones he had casually killed, had provided him with a good number of Attribute Points.

Xiao Zhuo immediately activated the Attribute Points allocation.

The White Mist Space instantly appeared, and under the guidance of profound power, Xiao Zhuo's comprehension of the Startling Cold Sword Canon advanced by leaps and bounds.

The Startling Cold Sword Canon not only involved sword moves and techniques, but also Sword Intent and Sword Domain. It also contained profound methods for Dao Fusion and the Cultivation method for Startling Cold Demonic Yuan, greatly benefiting Xiao Zhuo.

This was a very comprehensive Legacy; simply Cultivating this sword manual to Perfection would immediately allow one to become a Sword Dao Grandmaster with a place in the Major Thousand Worlds.

After adding Attribute Points more than thirty times in a row, the Startling Cold Sword Canon was Cultivated by Xiao Zhuo to the Perfection level. The rest was the slow process of accumulating Cultivation.

Xiao Zhuo did not intend to use a large number of Attribute Points to stack Startling Cold Demonic Yuan; his main Cultivation was still the Free and Natural Heavenly Art.

With the Startling Cold Sword Canon at Perfection, even if he used the Zizai Immortal Power of the Free and Natural Heavenly Art to activate it, it could still unleash its ultimate power. Therefore, he did not need to continue increasing the Cultivation years of the Startling Cold Sword Canon.

As Xiao Zhuo exited the White Mist Space, the moment his eyes opened and closed, a piercing Sword Intent surged into the sky.

The heavenly cold demonic sword above the cold pool seemed to react, beginning to tremble continuously, and the Sword Qi storm outside intensified considerably.

It crashed against the zizai world boundary wall, causing even stronger impacts.

Many Demon Generals and Xiao Zhuo's Clone within were startled and quickly reinforced the boundary wall.

Meanwhile, Xiao Zhuo in the cave had already risen and slowly walked towards the cold pool.

Xiao Zhuo took a step into the cold pool's range. The deep blue spiritual liquid beneath his feet did not ripple; instead, it instantly solidified into solid profound ice. A bone-chilling coldness frantically eroded upwards from his soles, far exceeding the external storm by a hundredfold!

"Om—!"

The heavenly cold demonic sword, suspended in the center of the pool, suddenly erupted with brilliant ice-blue divine light! The entire cave was instantly frozen, and time and space seemed to solidify.

A Sword Intent, condensed to the extreme and capable of piercing through a Great Thousand World, like a primordial Vicious Beast that had slept for eons awakening, carried scrutiny and icy arrogance, firmly locking onto Xiao Zhuo!

Xiao Zhuo's God-Slaying Blood Flame and Thunder Divine Soul erupted around him, forcibly opening up a Domain that was not frozen. Zizai Immortal Power circulated, dispelling the terrifying corrosion.

His gaze was like lightning, staring directly at the sword body, and he declared loudly: "The Startling Cold Sword Canon has been learned by Xiao, are you willing to fight alongside me across the heavens!"

Before his words finished, a sudden change occurred!

Above the heavenly cold demonic sword, a phantom yet incredibly solid figure slowly emerged.

It was a middle-aged man dressed in a plain white robe, his face as stern as if carved from ancient ice, his eyes gleaming with divine light, devoid of any emotion, as if containing the Origin of the Universe's extreme cold.

He merely stood on the sword, and the coldness of the entire cave plummeted again. Even the Domain constructed by Xiao Zhuo's Zizai Immortal Power emitted faint "cracking" sounds, as if unable to bear the weight.

It was the tianhan sword spirit (cold sword spirit)!

Its imposing might far surpassed Little Wood and xue kuang (blood frenzy) in jade blood, fully displaying the spiritual charm of a saint-grade high-rank origin divine weapon.

"Successor?" The voice of the white-robed sword spirit resonated directly in Xiao Zhuo's Divine Soul, bone-chilling and devoid of any fluctuation. "A million years have passed, and finally someone has set foot here and learned the Startling Cold Sword Canon... However, merely learning the sword canon is only the first step. The sword of Demonic Lord Han Jue is not for the mediocre to wield."

As his words fell, without any visible movement from him, an ice-blue Sword Qi, purely condensed from extreme cold and supreme Sword Intent, appeared out of thin air, silent yet faster than a stream of light, directly piercing towards Xiao Zhuo's glabella!

This sword strike froze thought, extinguished vitality, and contained a wisp of the essence of Demonic Lord Han Jue's Sword Dao Free and Easy True Intent!

Xiao Zhuo's pupils constricted!

The threat of this sword was more than a hundred times stronger than the storm outside!

He dared not be negligent. The Free and Natural Heavenly Art circulated at full power. In a flash of thought, the Profound Truth of the Startling Cold Sword Canon was instantly put to use under the governance of the The Way of Freedom.

"Startling Cold: Dawn!"

With a low shout, Xiao Zhuo pointed his fingers like a sword, and a point of extreme cold light suddenly illuminated his fingertip. It was not an imitation, but a perfect recreation of the strongest offensive move in the Startling Cold Sword Canon, with Zizai Immortal Power as its core!

A similarly condensed ice-cold Sword Qi, imbued with Xiao Zhuo's own will, fiercely met it!

The two Sword Qi collided silently!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only absolute annihilation!

At the center of the collision, space shattered and froze like fragile glass, then was completely reduced to void darkness by the subsequent power!

A terrifying shockwave swept through the cave. The surrounding rock walls, already fragile due to the collapse of the Restriction and the overflow of Sword Qi, exploded, and many Demonic Scripts were shattered.

Xiao Zhuo groaned, his body shaking violently, his fingertips cracking, and a trace of dark golden blood oozed out, instantly freezing into ice crystals.

The profound ice beneath his feet also exploded into spiderweb-like deep pits.

And the Sword Qi formed by the tianhan sword spirit (cold sword spirit) also shattered and dissipated inch by inch under Xiao Zhuo's strike, which fused his Free and Easy True Intent, the domineering force of thunder, and the pure Startling Cold Sword Dao!

The phantom figure of the white-robed sword spirit fluctuated slightly. In those eyes, which had been frozen for eons, a faint trace of surprise flickered for the first time.

He could clearly sense that the person before him was not merely copying the Startling Cold Sword Canon, but had completely absorbed its essence in an extremely short time, integrating it into his own Dao, and even... subtly showing signs of surpassing the original framework!

"You are very good! You are also a Prodigy who has comprehended his own Dao!" The sword spirit's cold voice carried a hint of imperceptible excitement. "Your Dao is very unique. I am very satisfied!"

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