64: Sword Intention

Shen Xi carefully searched through the Spirit Guiding Scripture, but ultimately found no clues.

He shook his head helplessly, simply burying his curiosity deep in his heart.

Since he couldn't find the truth, there was no need to waste time.

What was more important now was how to use the Spirit Guiding Scripture to improve his Aptitude.

The thought of spending seven hundred years through the System, yet still failing to Breakthrough from Great Accomplishment of Yuanqi to the Yuan Qi Transformation Realm, gave Shen Xi a headache.

"Oh right, there's one more thing that also needs the System to unlock."

Shen Xi suddenly remembered that he still had a martial token fragment in his storage bag.

This was the key to opening the Martial Dao path, and even Shen Xi took it extremely seriously.

"First, unlock the martial token fragment."

[Unlock successful!]

[Obtained the coordinates of the next martial token fragment, location — Federal Safety City Twenty-eighth City!]

[Obtained Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One!]

It's in Twenty-eighth City!

Shen Xi was a little surprised.

Twenty-eighth City was the city he was currently in.

He hadn't expected one of the Martial Dao Token fragments to be so close to his home.

Besides the coordinates, a piece of text also appeared out of thin air in Shen Xi's mind.

This was an infinitely powerful Martial Arts.

Just the unlocked Incomplete Manual's record alone made Shen Xi's pupils contract.

The power of Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One was enough to crush Acquired Martial Arts, reaching the level of Innate Martial Arts.

This made Shen Xi swallow hard.

One must know that Innate Martial Arts were also priceless, and even someone like Kong Wen, who was one of the top figures in the Outer City, did not Cultivate Innate Martial Arts.

And merely Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One was enough to rival Innate Martial Arts, which made him incredibly excited.

If he were to obtain the subsequent parts... Shen Xi couldn't imagine the true Grade of the Martial Dao Scripture.

Yellow-Grade?

Or Profound-Grade?

Or even the legendary Earth-Grade?

"Begin practicing Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One."

Shen Xi didn't hesitate and immediately began to learn.

[Martial Arts practice begins!]

[Due to the power of Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One being comparable to Innate Martial Arts, practicing it annually consumes ten years of demon beast lifespan.]

[Year one, you begin to participate in Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One.]

[Year five, you finally barely get started.]

[After getting started, you discover that Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One does not have fixed Moves, but rather a Concept, and different Martial Artists comprehend entirely different Concepts from it.]

[Year ten, you finally reach the Minor Achievement Realm, and also transform this Concept into the path you will take next; although you are originally a fist fighter, you unexpectedly comprehended a sword technique through Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One — One Sword Eight Desolations!]

[Year twenty, you reach the Major Achievement Realm, and One Sword Eight Desolations also reaches the limit of Acquired Martial Arts' power; with just one more step, this sword technique can enter the Realm of Innate Martial Arts.]

[Year fifty, you Cultivate Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One to Perfection, and One Sword Eight Desolations officially becomes an Innate Martial Arts; furthermore, during the Cultivation process, you comprehended Sword Intent First Heaven.]

[Practice ends, this practice consumed five hundred years of demon beast lifespan, beginning feedback!]

A sword technique of infinite power instantly flooded into Shen Xi's mind.

He couldn't help but gasp.

Even without personally using it, he could already feel the terror of One Sword Eight Desolations.

It could be said that with this one sword, a Yuan Qi Transformation Realm expert would surely die, and even an Initial Stage of Acquired Realm could contend with it.

This was definitely a qualitative improvement.

One must know that Houtian and Yuánqì were separated by a major Realm.

Wanting to defeat a superior opponent was no different from a fantasy, but Shen Xi had now achieved it.

And it was with the Great Accomplishment of Yuanqi Realm, crossing one minor Realm and one major Realm, to contend with an Initial Stage of Acquired Realm.

And this was only the first gain from this Martial Arts practice.

Sword Intent was what truly excited Shen Xi.

Martial Artists, based on the Martial Arts they Cultivate, are also subdivided into different types of Martial Artists.

Fist Cultivators, Sword Cultivators, Blade Cultivators, etc... And no matter which type of Martial Artist, they all have the potential to master the corresponding Concept.

Fist Cultivators have Fist Intent, Sword Cultivators have Sword Intent, and so on.

And Martial Artists of the same Realm, those with Concept and those without Concept, are completely two different types of people.

A Martial Artist who has mastered Concept can instantly kill a Martial Artist of the same Realm who has not mastered Concept, and even fighting a hundred enemies is not a problem.

This is the terrifying aspect of Concept.

And while Concept is terrifying, not all Martial Artists can comprehend it; some, even when they reach the Houtian Realm and Xiantian Realm, still cannot comprehend Concept, but Shen Xi was able to comprehend Sword Intent in the Yuánqì Realm, even if it was only First Heaven, it was still enough to shock people.

To give a simple example, Shen Xi, possessing Sword Intent First Heaven and One Sword Eight Desolations, could instantly kill an Initial Stage of Acquired Realm Martial Artist.

This is the terrifying aspect of Concept!

"Tsk tsk tsk, as expected of Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One, it actually cost me five hundred years of demon beast lifespan."

Shen Xi said with some emotion.

As the Grade of the Martial Arts he came into contact with increased, the demon beast lifespan he needed to spend also increased.

Don't let the practice only seem to take fifty years; the System said from the beginning that one year of this practice would cost ten years of demon beast lifespan.

This also meant that Shen Xi actually spent five hundred years to truly Cultivate Martial Dao Incomplete Manual One to Perfection.

That's a full five hundred years!

Even the lifespan of a Xiantian Realm expert isn't that long.

This made Shen Xi feel frustrated with his Aptitude once again.

"I must use the Spirit Guiding Scripture to improve my Aptitude, but I don't know if the content recorded in this Secret Manual is true or false."

Shen Xi couldn't be sure either.

After all, the records in the Spirit Guiding Scripture were indeed a bit shocking, one could say they subverted the worldview of the Martial Artist world.

[Practice Spirit Guiding Scripture begins!]

[Year one, you sit cross-legged, sensing the existence of 'spirit' according to the records of the Spirit Guiding Scripture.]

[Year three, you have spent a full three years, but still haven't sensed the 'spirit'; you begin to doubt the authenticity of the Spirit Guiding Scripture.]

[Year seven, you start to feel frustrated and want to give up; after seven years, you only feel like an idiot, and the so-called 'spirit' is an enormous scam.]

[You decide to give up, but are unwilling to let these seven years truly go to waste, so you ultimately decide to try again.]

[Year ten, you are on the verge of collapsing; ten years have flown by, but you have gained nothing; you begin to wonder if you have truly been deceived.]

[Year fifteen, you finally decide to give up; the so-called 'spirit' must be a scam, and you are unwilling to waste any more of your precious time.]

[Just as you stopped sensing the existence of 'spirit' and were about to tear up the Spirit Guiding Scripture, a mysterious feeling, as if from the heavens, attracted your attention.]