226: One level of lightning strike, perfect!

“You can only try them one by one?”

Guo Feng had only been there once before, and it was empty inside.

Later, he discovered a handheld device in the Sovereign Hall that recorded the specific uses of various functional palaces.

After all, there were thousands of palaces, big and small, in Tianqi Sect.

It would be impossible for him to visit them all at once; it would take at least ten days to half a month.

Subsequently, he began his search in the Preaching Palace.

Each Dao Mark Stele was enveloped by a formation, which would emit a certain aura.

Users could discern whether it was the ‘Dao’ they sought through this slight aura.

In actuality, countless years ago, the Preaching Palace had administrators.

They would recommend Dao Mark Steles to sect disciples based on what ‘Dao’ they needed.

But now, Guo Feng had to find them on his own.

Boom—

Guo Feng poured his divine sense into the first Dao Mark Stele, and instantly, it felt as if he had entered a world of flames.

In the depths of the flames, there was a person speaking while simultaneously unleashing moves imbued with flames.

The momentum was grand and powerful.

As if it could incinerate everything.

But Guo Feng didn’t hear clearly before he was ejected from the Dao Mark Stele.

It turned out that when a user chose a Dao Mark Stele, the Dao Mark Stele would also choose the user.

If the conditions were not met, it would immediately eject them.

“Next one.”

Guo Feng wasn’t disheartened and immediately went to the next Dao Mark Stele, his divine sense entering it.

This was a world of rain.

So dark it was suffocating.

There was a woman dancing in the rain.

Just like before, he was ejected in an instant.

After going through more than twenty Dao Mark Steles in a row, Guo Feng also figured out some patterns.

Inside the Dao Mark Stele, there was a trace left by a powerful individual, containing their own ‘Dao’.

The powerful individual had set conditions within it.

If the conditions were met, one could observe this ‘Dao’; if not, they would be immediately ejected.

Furthermore, the aura contained in the Dao Mark Stele grew stronger the further along they were.

By the twentieth one, Guo Feng’s divine sense couldn’t even enter if he didn’t meet the conditions.

“Good heavens, there are hundreds more Dao Mark Steles after this, and I can’t even meet the divine sense threshold?”

Guo Feng couldn’t help but click his tongue.

However, on second thought, this Preaching Palace was originally only open to true disciples and extremely outstanding inner disciples.

It was a core strategic resource of the sect.

It was quite reasonable for the conditions to be strict.

“Then I’ll go to the eighteenth stele. The senior who left the eighteenth stele left behind blade intent, which perfectly suits my needs.”

Thinking this, Guo Feng walked forward.

It turned out that he had already found a stele that was very suitable for him before.

But he still wanted to see if there was one even more suitable for him.

So, he kept moving forward.

Soon, he arrived in front of the eighteenth stele and formally stepped into the formation of this stele.

He sat cross-legged.

Then he integrated his divine sense into this stele, and immediately, the blade intent, like a raging storm, swept over him.

Within it, there was a man who, while cleaving with his blade, expounded on his understanding of the blade.

Guo Feng quickly became completely immersed in it.

He didn’t know how much time had passed.

He awoke from it, and his entire being seemed to have gained a higher understanding of the Blade Dao.

“If the ‘Dao’ of this Dao Mark Stele is one hundred percent, I have already comprehended a full one percent!”

“Good heavens, let me see how much time has passed?”

Guo Feng pulled out his phone and glanced at it, his mouth twitching.

It was already the afternoon of August 22nd.

“I was here for three full days?”

“The time spent on enlightenment really flies by too fast!”

“Indeed, the further one cultivates, the more time it takes, and the slower the progress.”

He thought for a moment but did not leave the Preaching Palace. Instead, he went to an open space nearby.

It was quite spacious here.

In front were five puppet-like dummies.

Under the feet of each dummy, there was a magic array, and in the center of the array, there was a stone box.

He directly waved his hand and threw ten spiritual energy primordial stones into the stone box.

Immediately, the array lit up with light.

The dummy’s eyes suddenly opened.

Its gaze was extremely sharp.

It held a long blade in its hand, like a god of war.

This was something Guo Feng had seen in the handheld device from the Sovereign Hall, the Preachers of the Preaching Palace.

They were actually training dummies.

As soon as he threw in the spiritual energy primordial stones, the dummy immediately rushed towards him.

“Please make your move!”

The dummy’s voice was a bit stiff and had a very heavy accent.

However, Guo Feng could still understand it.

“Good!”

Without hesitation, he drew out his Mystic Dragon Spirit Blade and began to slash at one of the dummies.

Boom—

He directly unleashed an Eightfold Amplified Onefold Lightning Strike Slash at the dummy!

The best way to break through a major move is to constantly use it!

Immediately, a huge blade aura fiercely struck the dummy.

But the dummy countered with a backhand slash.

The blade light was chillingly sharp.

Its speed was even faster than Guo Feng’s blade speed, shattering Guo Feng’s blade aura in a few swift moves.

Then, it advanced further, slashing from a tricky angle.

Ruthless and brutal!

Clang—

Guo Feng’s expression changed; he hadn’t expected this puppet dummy to be so fierce, fighting to the death!

He quickly blocked with a backhand.

But he was sent flying by the opponent’s blade, crashing heavily into the wall, his internal organs almost injured from the shock.

A metallic taste of blood rose in his throat.

However, what he hadn’t expected was that this puppet dummy didn’t give him a chance to catch his breath at all.

The next blade strike came slashing down from mid-air.

“What the heck, are we mortal enemies? Aren’t you a training dummy?!”

Guo Feng even felt a sense of life-or-death crisis, but he resisted the urge to use Instant Shift.

Instead, he instantly unleashed an Eightfold Amplified major move!

Onefold Lightning Strike Slash!

Meeting force with force!

Boom!

With a loud bang, he was once again sent tumbling several times on the ground.

But the puppet dummy remained perfectly still, having taken Guo Feng’s Eightfold Amplified major move.

At the same time, it rushed forward again.

With a hum, a blade struck towards Guo Feng’s throat when he had no strength left to retaliate.

“Not good!”

Guo Feng’s face changed drastically, and he was about to use Instant Shift.

Because at this moment, he was in excruciating pain all over, his organs and meridians all rupturing.

His skin and muscles were torn.

He was almost a bloodied mess!

Every breath was burning with pain.

Unless he swallowed a repair spirit fruit, he had no room to retaliate at all.

But the next moment, he made a judgment.

This puppet dummy was still for training purposes, because its life-taking blade aura deviated one centimeter from Guo Feng.

It struck the ground.

“You failed.”

The puppet dummy said, then turned around and returned to the formation.

It closed its eyes!

Like a dead person.

“Damn, ancient sects are just different; even training dummies are this brutal!”

“How do they precisely determine your limits?”

“And, spending ten spiritual energy primordial stones is just to get beaten up?”

“I haven’t been beaten enough yet!”

Guo Feng’s mouth twitched, both admiring the level of this ancient sect and annoyed by the mechanism.

It’s damn expensive!

One beating costs four million hua currency!

Rich young masters spend four million to beat people, while Guo Feng spends four million to get beaten.

666!

“However, where can I find such an amazing sparring partner? If Sima Hui were to spar, the price would probably be even higher.”

Guo Feng had to admit, there was an effect.

This kind of major move practice usually involves unleashing major moves into the air. Otherwise, if you find a sparring partner:

If they are weak, you cut them down in one strike!

If they are generally strong, they won’t want to play after two cuts.

If they are very strong, who has the time?

Thinking this, he immediately took out spiritual energy primordial stones and circulated the Xuan Huang True Dragon Art to recover from his injuries and replenish his stamina.

Fortunately, his injuries were external.

His external injuries were different from those of ordinary people.

For ordinary people, external injuries refer to visible wounds, and internal injuries refer to damage to internal organs.

His external injuries referred to injuries that hadn’t damaged his foundation and could recover quickly.

This also counted as training his body’s resistance to beatings.

Once he had mostly recovered, he again invested ten spiritual energy primordial stones to fight the puppet dummy.

This time, he was smarter, unleashing 2x, 3x, 4x, all the way up to 8x major moves.

He discovered that the puppet dummy countered based on the intensity of the moves you unleashed.

The stronger you were, the stronger its counterattack.

And his main goal was to comprehend the profound meaning of Onefold Lightning Strike Slash.

Thus, he was continuously beaten five times.

Boom—

Finally, his Onefold Lightning Strike Slash broke through its limit, directly reaching a 9x amplification!

Onefold Lightning Strike Slash.

It was completely perfected!