Chapter 430: Sword Tower
"Fellow Daoists, let’s say farewell." Bing Mei said with a smile on her face.
"All the best to the four fellow Daoists." Bing Lan said and watched as Bing Mei’s group entered the myriad forms mountain.
"I will also go." Chen Qing said.
"Good luck master." Jiang Yue said and Chen Qing couldn’t help but look at him with a complicated expression.
However, she didn’t say anything.
She only nodded at everyone before entering the myriad forms mountain.
"It’s hard to say how long we will stay on the mountain. For now, it’s best to say goodbye and good luck." Yang Xu said and the others agreed.
After all, they didn’t know what they would encounter in the myriad forms mountain.
Considering that, it didn’t make sense to make any plans.
"I will go now." Xuan Ke said and quickly entered the mountain.
Soon after, Li Futian followed and the remaining four also prepared to enter.
"Nianzhen, Ayue, remember to take care of yourselves." Yang Xu said with a solemn look on his face.
"We know." Jiang Yue nodded.
"Master, mistress, you should also be careful." Yu Nianzhen said.
After that, Bing Lan and Yang Xu entered the mountain, leaving Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen behind.
"Azhen, we will be separated when we enter the mountain." Jiang Yue said, feeling quite reluctant.
No matter how much time they spent together, he always felt it was not enough.
This time, they would enter the mountain and may not see each other for more than one hundred years.
"I will also miss you." Yu Nianzhen said and pulled Jiang Yue for a hug.
Like Jiang Yue, he was also reluctant.
When they separated for one hundred years in the sea of enlightenment, they didn’t feel the passage of time.
Unfortunately, he didn’t think the Myriad Forms mountain would be like the sea of enlightenment.
"When your training ends, you can use the golden teleportation talisman to find me." Yu Nianzhen suggested.
"You can also do the same."
"Good."
After that, the two entered the mountain together.
However, things were like they expected.
As soon as they stepped on the mountain, Yu Nianzhen lost sight of Jiang Yue.
Instead, a black tower appeared in front of him.
The tower was taller than the eye or the divine sense could see and it exuded an extremely dangerous aura.
Above the entrance, a few words were written using an extraordinarily sharp script.
"Sword tower." Yu Nianzhen read.
At the same time, he felt a sharp pain in his soul and he immediately looked away from the writing.
"What a powerful sword intent!" He couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
Although Yu Nianzhen’s swordsmanship was powerful, he was always striving for higher strength.
When he felt such a powerful sword intent, he naturally couldn’t help but yearn for it.
’It’s time to go in.’ He thought and immediately passed through the tower entrance.
As soon as he entered the tower, the door behind him disappeared.
Simultaneously, a voice resounded in the tower.
"Only use the one hundred and eight basic sword moves to defeat the swordsman." The voice said.
"Defeat the swordsman?" Yu Nianzhen was alarmed and immediately wanted to release shanjiang.
However, when he called it out, his natal sword did not respond.
"What’s going on?" Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but wonder.
At a loss, he tried again but the result was the same.
No matter what he did, he couldn’t release his natal sword which left him feeling a little helpless.
"I can’t use my natal sword?" He muttered with a frown on his face.
Just when he was thinking of removing a random sword from his storage ring, Yu Nianzhen noticed a wooden sword on the wall behind him.
"Am I supposed to use this wooden sword?" He wondered as he took the sword from the wall hook.
However, he didn’t have too much time to wonder because a swordsman suddenly appeared in the middle of the room.
The swordsman was dressed in black and held an iron sword in his right hand.
Without waiting for Yu Nianzhen to get ready, the swordsman rushed forward while swinging his sword.
"Third move of the one hundred and eight basic moves." Yu Nianzhen observed.
At the same time, he also swung his sword and countered with the sixth move.
Soon after, his sword move crushed the opponent’s and the swordsman disappeared.
"So easy?" Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but be surprised.
However, he wasn’t complacent.
After all, this was only the first floor and the Sword Tower had an unknown number of floors.
While he was reminding himself not to be proud, Yu Nianzhen felt something enter his body.
In worry, he quickly examined himself and his eyes widened in shock.
"There is a strand of extremely pure sword qi in my dantian." He gasped in surprise.
As he watched, the strand of sword qi sunk to the bottom of his qi ocean and soon began to disintegrate.
However, this wasn’t the most surprising thing.
When the strand of pure qi disintegrated, it was absorbed by Yu Nianzhen’s sword qi.
Soon after, the colour of his sword qi became clearer and Yu Nianzhen could feel it had become purer.
"Is the strand of pure sword qi the result of clearing the first floor?" He wondered.
At the same time, a new excitement was born in his body.
’If the reward of clearing one floor is a strand of pure sword qi, I should work hard to clear more floors.’ He thought and clenched the sword in his hand.
Soon after, he found the door to the second floor and quickly ascended.
Like the first floor, Yu Nianzhen faced a swordsman on the second floor.
Although he defeated the swordsman with one move, he could feel the puppet was stronger than the one on the first floor.
However, with his current level, Yu Nianzhen didn’t need a second move until he reached the eleventh floor.
From the eleventh floor to the twenty-ninth floor, he defeated the opponents with two moves.
On the thirtieth floor, he had to use a third move and after that, three or four moves were necessary.
In this way, Yu Nianzhen took thirty years to reach the one hundredth and eighth floor of the sword tower.
During this time, he only fought using the basic sword moves and his sword foundation had become extremely solid.
Other than that, his qi had become purer and he finally reached the peak of the mid-stage of the nascent soul realm.
"It’s time to advance to the late stage." He muttered and sat cross-legged in the middle of the one hundredth and eighth floor.
Because the sword qi in the sword tower was dense, Yu Nianzhen didn’t need to use spirit stones or other treasures to break through.
In a little more than two years, he advanced to the late stage of the nascent soul realm and he couldn’t help but feel a little happy.
"I wonder how XiaoYue is doing." He couldn’t help but wonder with a nostalgic look on his face.
"Has he also broken through? Is his opportunity as good as mine?"
For a while, Yu Nianzhen indulged in his nostalgia.
However, he soon pulled himself together and stood up.
"The sooner I clear the floors, the sooner I can see XiaoYue." He said and a determined look hardened his eyes.
Soon after, he ascended to the one hundredth and ninth floor.
"Combine two basic sword moves to form a sword art. Use the sword art to defeat your opponent." A voice resounded in the room.
Since Yu Nianzhen had created the falling meteor sword art and other sword arts, it was easy to combine two basic sword moves into a sword art.
In less than a cup of tea, he had already created a sword art and written it down in the designated place.
Soon after, a swordsman appeared.
The swordsman was still dressed in black but his aura was several times more powerful than the strongest in the previous floors.
’Seems like it won’t be easy.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and immediately wielded his wooden sword.
Seeing this, the swordsman also reacted and the two began to fight.
At first, Yu Nianzhen could still keep up but as the fight continued, he fell behind.
In less than an incense stick of time, he was miserably defeated and the swordsman disappeared.
"Seems like the sword art is not powerful enough." Yu Nianzhen muttered with a frown on his face.
After taking a short rest, he sat cross-legged and meditated for a while before formulating another sword art.
This time, the art was powerful enough to defeat the opponent but the door to the next floor did not appear.
"Why didn’t the door appear?" Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but frown.
"Is the sword art not perfect enough?"
After thinking that, he once again began to meditate.
An hour later, he revised his previous sword art and made it more perfect.
"If I use it like this, it will be more powerful and the qi consumption will not be much." He said.
