Chapter 3: Chapter 3
The higher one’s martial cultivation, the longer their lifespan stretched.
Rumor had it that the first Emperor of Silver Willow Dynasty had once reached the realm of Heaven and Earth Deity, granting him a lifespan of up to five hundred years.
If this had been his past life, anyone capable of living that long would have been hauled away and dissected for research long ago.
Adam closed his eyes and quietly began to take in the changes the system had brought him.
Slowly, a vivid scene surfaced inside his mind. It was the moment Sword Saint Arthur faced down seven Mortal Supremes from foreign lands before meeting his bloody end.
Outside the Heavenly Gate Pass, one man and one sword, clothed entirely in white, hung suspended in the empty air.
Blood seeped from the corner of Arthur’s mouth, yet his peerless elegance remained untouched. The Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords bloomed in his grip with the brilliance of an ultimate technique.
Sword intent rampaged outward, turning the sky dark and the earth dim. Wherever the sword light swept, every living thing was annihilated without exception.
Adam saw every single variation of the Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords with perfect clarity. The trajectory of each strike, the Dao rhythm woven inside the sword, every last detail seemed branded deep into his sea of consciousness.
In the end, Adam completely comprehended every profound mystery of the Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords.
When Adam opened his eyes again, a trace of genuine shock leaked through them. He had never imagined he could master every profound mystery of such a technique in so short a span of time.
Although the Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords contained only thirteen stances, those stances held within them countless variations.
Even a natural-born sword prodigy like Arthur had spent a full twenty years before finally reaching great mastery over the technique.
Although Sword Saint Arthur had died a bloody death, the Sword Sect he left behind still stood tall and firm across Silver Willow.
For three hundred years, the Sword Sect had brought forth one generation of talents after another, producing countless great geniuses of the sword, yet not a single one among them had ever fully comprehended these Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords.
This system truly was God-Tier. It had allowed him, in such a short period of time, to completely master a supreme technique that no one in the Sword Sect had fully comprehended in three full centuries.
What a pity that his cultivation was still a little too low to draw out the true power of the Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords.
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Without wasting another moment, Adam immediately threw himself into cultivation.
Having fully grasped the profound mysteries of the Thirteen Heaven-Shattering Swords, and with the blessing of God-Tier Comprehension from the system on top of that, cultivating felt as effortless to Adam as a fish slipping through water.
Heaven and earth spiritual energy poured into his body, coursing through his limbs and bones before gathering at last in the dantian within his abdomen.
In the short time it took for a single incense stick to burn down, that spiritual energy had already completed a Grand Circulation through his body.
A flash of astonishment crossed Adam’s eyes. He hadn’t expected his cultivation speed to be this terrifyingly fast after gaining God-Tier Comprehension. A full Grand Circulation finished in the burning of just one incense stick!
The so-called Qi Condensation realm was the act of refining heaven and earth spiritual energy, drawing it into the body, running it through a Grand Circulation, and finally gathering it inside the dantian.
Every time a Grand Circulation was completed, the spiritual energy stored within the dantian would grow by another small fraction.
Once the dantian was brimming full of spiritual energy, one could finally break through into the Innate Realm.
In other words, within the Qi Condensation realm, the faster you refined spiritual energy, the faster your cultivation speed would be.
The original owner had simply been far too slow at refining spiritual energy.
It had taken him several days just to complete a single Grand Circulation through his body. Even after more than a decade of bitter cultivation, he was still nothing more than a rookie stuck at the fifth level of Qi Condensation.
Now, by comparison, Adam only needed the burning of one incense stick to push spiritual energy through an entire Grand Circulation inside his body.
The gap between the two of them was nothing short of earth-shattering.
By Adam’s own estimation, at this kind of speed, he would only need a single night to fill his dantian completely and reach the peak of the tenth level of Qi Condensation.
Not daring to waste even a moment, Adam pressed on with his cultivation without pause.
There was no choice in the matter.
The Sixth Heaven and Earth Upheaval was rapidly drawing near. Now that he had the system standing behind him, Adam had to seize every breath he could to push his strength higher.
Otherwise, when the Sixth Upheaval truly descended upon the world, an ant like himself with neither strength nor backing might be wiped out in an instant by nothing more than the leftover shockwaves of some mighty figure’s battle.
After an entire afternoon spent in cultivation, the spiritual energy filling Adam’s dantian had grown more than thirty percent fuller than before.
He had climbed to the sixth level of Qi Condensation in no time at all, and was already brushing up against the threshold of the seventh.
Adam slowly stirred from his cultivation, sensing the changes coursing through his body, and a trace of shock flashed through his eyes.
