In this valley, opposite the cabin, there was a large rock that could serve as a place for him to cultivate his Dou Technique.
However, since it was already night, he decided not to disturb others’ rest.
He felt it was better to temporarily stop cultivating his Dou Technique tonight and do it tomorrow morning instead.
Returning to his room, he continued to circulate his Qi.
The Earth Grade cultivation method was indeed different; the cultivation speed was almost six times that of a Profound Rank cultivation technique.
The next day.
Little Fairy Doctor got up early.
When she looked up, she saw Xiao Jian practicing swordsmanship on that large rock.
However, she didn’t understand it, so after watching for a while, she went to do her own thing.
The sword art after fusion, compared to the previous Vertical and Horizontal sword art that had many basic sword techniques, had seen many of the previous combos disappear.
Only three moves remained, which corresponded to three levels from low to high.
The first level was based on the wind attribute, which Xiao Jian named “Breath Severing”.
The second level was based on the Nine Swords of Dugu, which could divide into nine streams of Sword Qi.
The nine streams of Sword Qi had the same power, were interconnected yet independent, and he named it “Nine Decisions”.
The third level was based on the Vertical and Horizontal sword art, fused with other Dou Techniques.
With extreme speed and extreme dominance, Xiao Jian decided to name this move “Vertical and Horizontal”.
Thus, an Earth Rank sword technique appeared, and Xiao Jian possessed his first Di-rank Dou Technique.
However, this did not mean he would stop practicing basic sword techniques.
He might be different from others in this world who used swords.
Those people might just treat the sword as a weapon; if they lost it, they could just replace it with another.
Xiao Jian was different; the sword was his friend, his family, and a part of him.
Having not practiced swordsmanship for a long time, Xiao Jian felt a bit rusty.
Closing his eyes, he practiced the basic sword techniques over and over again.
Xiao Jian sensed the sword in his hand; it seemed to have breath and life.
Suddenly, at a certain moment, Xiao Jian opened his eyes.
“Breath Severing!”
A cyan-white sword light slashed toward the sky, moving very fast.
It seemed as if it wanted to cut the sky open.
He sheathed his sword into the sword sheath.
Xiao Jian sat cross-legged on the rock, carefully feeling the sensation from just now, and finally grasped that moment of feeling to imprint it in his heart.
In fact, he hadn’t expected to succeed in cultivating this move so quickly, but thinking about it, he had practiced swordsmanship for ten years.
If even the first level took a very long time, wouldn’t that be too slow?
However, this Di-rank Dou Technique could only be used by him.
This sword art was not just a simple Dou Technique; it was a form of swordsmanship that required “Intent” to be used.
In this world, he had not yet encountered anyone who possessed “Intent”.
Even Yun Yun simply treated the sword as a sword, nothing more.
After all, it was a Di-rank Dou Technique, and its consumption of Qi was truly significant.
Just this one sword strike drained one-third of the Qi in his body.
In other words, he could probably only execute three sword strikes in a single battle now.
Sitting cross-legged, he channeled the energy of the qilin fruit, and his Qi recovered very quickly.
Ten minutes later, his Qi had almost fully recovered.
Then, he began to try to execute the second sword strike.
Executing this strike took much longer than the previous one, taking over an hour.
Xiao Jian held the sword in his right hand, standing on the boulder.
Sunlight shone on the sword, sliding across the snow-white blade, and a trace of reflected light suddenly became dazzling.
Then, white Qi slowly climbed up his body and finally reached the tip of the sword.
Then, there was silent movement around Xiao Jian as Sword Qi surged.
Nine snow-white swords slowly took shape and then solidified.
Xiao Jian raised his sword and thrust it toward the sky.
In the blink of an eye, the nine sword shadows disappeared.
The Qi around his body rapidly vanished, and Xiao Jian half-knelt on the ground, propping himself up with the sword.
Bean-sized sweat dripped from his forehead.
The feeling of having ninety percent of his Qi drained away all at once was not a pleasant one.
“Hoo!
Hoo!
Hoo!”
“I can’t cultivate the last sword strike right now.
I need to at least break through to a five-star Dou Master before it’s possible to execute it; otherwise, I might be drained to death in one go.”
Below, Little Fairy Doctor saw Xiao Jian suddenly half-kneel after using a Dou Technique and immediately asked anxiously, “Xiao Jian, are you okay?”
“I’m fine!” Xiao Jian replied, immediately sitting cross-legged to begin recovering his Qi.
Hearing Xiao Jian’s reply, Little Fairy Doctor breathed a sigh of relief; she had thought something had happened to Xiao Jian.
However, she continued to watch Xiao Jian for a while, and only after confirming he was alright did she continue to process her medicinal herbs.
The first sword strike just now drained thirty percent of his Qi, and the second strike drained ninety percent.
This did not mean that those two strikes could only use that much Qi, but rather that they required at least that much Qi.
After lunch, Xiao Jian’s Qi had almost recovered.
In the afternoon, he planned to go out and find two demonic beasts to test his sword.
Striking at the sky didn’t give a very intuitive feeling.
Mainly, he wanted to test the first strike; the second strike hadn’t reached the level to be tested yet.
“I’m going out of the valley in a while.
Can I borrow Xiao Lan?” Little Fairy Doctor looked at the Blue Hawk beside her and said, “Ask her.”
The Blue Hawk proudly raised its head and let out a low cry, as if saying, “Beg me.”
Xiao Jian was helpless.
This silly bird.
Although after a few days of getting along, the relationship between the Blue Hawk and him had improved a lot, this silly bird was still a bit proud.
He took out a bottle and poured out a medicinal pill.
(A first-rank medicinal pill, Beast Attraction Pill.
It had a strong attraction to demonic beasts and at the same time had an accelerating effect on the cultivation of demonic beasts.) Attraction was one thing, but if it had no effect at all, the demonic beast wouldn’t be stupid.
Therefore, this kind of medicinal pill was still very useful to demonic beasts.
As soon as the medicinal pill appeared in Xiao Jian’s hand, the Blue Hawk immediately surrendered and pounced over, wanting to eat that medicinal pill.
With difficulty, he pushed away the huge eagle head, held the medicinal pill, and said, “Listen to me, and I’ll give it to you, understand?”
Only then did Xiao Jian feed it the medicinal pill.
After this silly bird felt the effects, it sat down beside him, its head constantly rubbing against Xiao Jian, indicating it wanted more.
Stroking its soft feathers, Xiao Jian took out two more medicinal pills and fed them to it.
He didn’t have many of these medicinal pills in stock, only these three, but that didn’t matter.
There were plenty of medicinal herbs in this place, so he could just refine more.
In no time, the Blue Hawk and Xiao Jian became good friends.
Seeing this, Little Fairy Doctor looked at Xiao Jian with jealousy and said, “Shameless swindler.”
Xiao Jian didn’t mind and retorted, “This is my skill.
Does it concern you?
Right, Xiao Lan?”
After saying this, he even looked at Little Fairy Doctor provocatively.
Little Fairy Doctor was so angry she couldn’t speak and could only turn her spearhead toward her pet.
“Xiao Lan, how could you be bought by him just like that!
Come here quickly!”
Xiao Lan was also confused as an eagle—what did I do?
Master, aren’t you friends?
What’s wrong with me eating some of his things?
However, she still obediently returned to Little Fairy Doctor’s side.
Hugging her Blue Hawk, she said, “It seems I’ll have to keep Xiao Lan away from you in the future, otherwise she’ll be led astray by you sooner or later.”
Xiao Jian said righteously, “How is that possible?
Do I look like that kind of person to you?”
Little Fairy Doctor glanced at him and said bluntly, “You don’t look like it, you are it.
Xiao Lan, let’s go, ignore this bad guy.” After saying that, she left with Xiao Lan.
Xiao Jian was just about to defend himself when the person and the eagle had already left.
With no other choice, he could only shake his head and wash the bowls.
In fact, he could fly out by himself.
After his breakthrough to Dou Master, the Purple Cloud Wings had become much more practical.
Not to mention long-distance flight, flying out of this valley was no problem.
However, since he was currently in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, it was better not to consume Qi if he didn’t have to.
Otherwise, if he encountered any problems, wouldn’t that be the end of it?
This was called being cautious.
Finally, Xiao Jian still flew away sitting on Xiao Lan’s back.
However, after flying a short distance, he let Xiao Lan return.
He wanted to go deeper, and Xiao Lan was only a first-rank demonic beast, so it wasn’t suitable.
Besides, being in the sky was too conspicuous and easily discovered by other demonic beasts.
Do not think that the Magical Beast Mountain Range only had one Amethyst Winged Lion King; the Magical Beast Mountain Range was huge.
Although there might not be any seventh-rank or eighth-rank demonic beasts, there were still quite a few fifth-rank and sixth-rank ones.
Heading deeper into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, under the condition of having no special requirements, third-rank demonic beasts were still quite easy to find.
After walking for about an hour, Xiao Jian found his target for the day: a third-rank Earth Stone Bear.
This bear was similar in strength to the previous Shadow Wolf, but their focuses were different.
The Shadow Wolf emphasized speed and surprise attacks, while this Earth Stone Bear emphasized strength and defense.
Of course, don’t think its speed was very slow; as a third-rank demonic beast, its speed might not compare to some wolf-type or leopard-type demonic beasts, but it was still top-tier.
The Shadow Wolf’s speed was faster than it, but if it came to attacking, this bear could hold it down on the ground and crush it.
On the way here, Xiao Jian also encountered many demonic beasts, including some second-rank ones.
However, all those that actively attacked were now lying on the ground, so he also harvested two second-rank demonic beast cores and five first-rank demonic beast cores.
He had converted the first-rank demonic beast cores into energy points.
Xiao Jian did not hide his tracks and stood not far in front of that silly bear, carrying the Black and White Profound Sword, seeing that the silly bear was asleep and hadn’t reacted yet.
Xiao Jian could only walk a bit closer and said to it, “Sleeping so soundly, I don’t know how you survive.
Hey!
Wake up, time to fight!”
The bear with the huge body seemed not to hear him; it rolled over and continued to sleep.
Xiao Jian was speechless and kicked it twice, finding that it was indeed quite hard.
Hmm?
This bear?
Why was there a layer of stone armor on its legs?
Hmm?
Stone armor?
“Damn, this bear has actually broken through to the fourth rank.
Is it too late for me to run now?”
Earth Stone Bear-type demonic beasts could only form stone armor after breaking through to the fourth rank.
It might be because this one had just broken through recently, so the stone armor had only condensed into a small piece and was not obvious; otherwise, Xiao Jian wouldn’t have dared to be so reckless.
“Right, did I just kick it?” A hint of self-doubt suddenly appeared in Xiao Jian’s heart.
“Run, run!” Xiao Jian was stealthily just about to retreat when a pair of bear claws grabbed his right leg.
It was the bear he had just kicked, but the bear hadn’t woken up, so it was just holding it subconsciously.