Chapter 453: Dao Transcending Sword Art
They felt Yu Nianzhen had no right to risk the Cangxing mountain mines.
However, those with a more flexible mind understood the situation.
They knew the Cangxing mountain could not withstand repeated challenges from other world mountains.
Most importantly, the mines could not be excavated with the current strength of the Cangxing cultivators.
In that case, it was best to take the initiative.
Even if Yu Nianzhen failed to defeat all his opponents and lost the three mines, the Cangxing Mountain would not truly lose.
After all, they would collect a lot of reincarnation stones from the stores and other charges.
As long as those assets were managed properly, the Cangxing Mountain would still profit.
Because of this, cultivators like Meng Zihua and Wei Ge did their best to help with the preparations.
In return, Yu Nianzhen was not stingy.
When the time came, Meng Zihua, Wei Ge, and others who helped with the preparations would receive a considerable portion of the collected reincarnation stones.
"Fellow Daoist Wei, I wonder if you are available to occasionally spar?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"I am available." Wei Ge immediately agreed.
"Mountain master, if you need my help, please ask." Meng Zihua offered.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist Meng." Yu Nianzhen said.
After the meeting, Meng Zihua returned to the Cangxing mountain.
In her place, Bei Chengling led some formation masters to find Jiang Yue at the arena.
When the formation masters arrived, Jiang Yue took them to purchase formation materials and they began arranging the necessary formations.
While Jiang Yue was arranging formations, Yu Nianzhen went into seclusion.
This seclusion lasted six years and when he came out, he had completed the revision of his natal sword art.
’It took almost ninety years to completely revise my Heaven Dominating sword art.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and sighed.
"From now on, the Heaven Dominating Sword Art has become the Heaven Transcending Sword Art." He said and his lips curled into a light smile.
"I wonder how XiaoYue is doing." He said and immediately exited the ancient palace.
When he came out, he discovered he was standing in front of a martial stage.
"Azhen." Jiang Yue called excitedly.
"Why didn’t you tell me you were about to come out?" He complained.
"Are you surprised?" Yu Nianzhen questioned as he took his husband into his arms.
"Surprised." Jiang Yue immediately nodded with a happy smile on his lips.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen chuckled and rubbed his husband’s hair.
"How have you been in the last six years?" He asked.
"I am fine and everything is going well." Jiang Yue answered.
"There are one hundred small martial stages and most have already been completed. I will be done with the small martial stages in half a month."
"That’s good to hear." Yu Nianzhen said and looked at the stage in front of him.
"How much force can the formations withstand?" He asked.
"The full blow of a ninth-level reincarnation realm cultivator." Jiang Yue answered proudly.
Initially, he wasn’t going to work too hard on the small martial stages.
However, after thinking about it, he changed his mind.
Because of this, he spent the first three years comprehending the necessary formations and finally achieved the mastery he needed.
"My XiaoYue is the best." Yu Nianzhen praised with a doting smile in his eyes.
"Aren’t I?" Jiang Yue was not modest at all.
After all, he worked extremely hard to push his formation mastery to the current level.
[What about the time formation?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue shook his head.
In the past eighty years, Jiang Yue mostly focused on defensive formations and force-dispersing formations.
Because of this, his mastery was quite biased.
Although he could arrange many sixth-level formations, most were at the basic or mid-rank level.
Only the defensive formations and force-dispersing formations had been urged to the peak-rank level.
"There will be time after the event ends." Yu Nianzhen encouraged.
"I know." Jiang Yue said and then stared at Yu Nianzhen eagerly.
"How?" He asked.
At that, Yu Nianzhen chuckled and made an ’okay’ sign.
"Azhen, you are really good." Jiang Yue exclaimed happily.
Compared to an ordinary martial art, changing the essence of a natal art was extremely difficult.
Even though it could be done, most cultivators would require hundreds of years to slightly change their natal art.
However, Yu Nianzhen had completely changed the essence of his natal sword art in less than one hundred years.
This not only showed his terrifying talent with swords but also showed his hard work.
In the past ninety years, aside from the time he spent stabilising his cultivation realm, Yu Nianzhen used the rest of his time changing the essence of his natal sword art.
Finally, his efforts bore fruit and his natal sword art was transformed.
"How is the effect?"
"I haven’t tried it but..." Yu Nianzhen paused for dramatic effect.
"But?" Jiang Yue urged.
"It should be three to four times more powerful than the previous natal sword art." Yu Nianzhen revealed and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be shocked.
Although the previous natal sword art didn’t perfectly portray Yu Nianzhen’s personality, it was still powerful.
When Jiang Yue heard that the new natal sword art was even more powerful, he was pleasantly surprised.
"What is its name?" He asked.
"Dao Transcending sword art."
Hearing this, Jiang Yue nodded in approval.
From the beginning, he didn’t want Yu Nianzhen to be limited by or to the heavens.
He wanted his beloved swordsman to rise above the heavens and stand at an unsurmountable peak.
"I am looking forward to seeing it." Jiang Yue said excitedly.
"It’s still at the infant stage." Yu Nianzhen explained and frowned.
"What’s the matter?"
"I have changed the nature of my natal sword art but I haven’t created a single move."
"There is still more than ten years before the event. I believe you will achieve your goal before then."
"I will let you see it when the time comes."
"Good." Jiang Yue nodded.
After that, Yu Nianzhen accompanied Jiang Yue for half a month.
During that time, Jiang Yue finished arranging the formations around the small martial stages.
"It took three years to deal with the small martial stages." Jiang Yue said, emotion lacing his voice.
"You are fast enough." Yu Nianzhen said.
In fact, he wasn’t overpraising Jiang Yue.
If other formation masters were asked to deal with the one hundred small martial stages, few could finish within three years.
Given Jiang Yue’s cultivation level, his speed of arranging the formations was extraordinarily fast.
"What’s your next goal?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"The trading area followed by the main martial stage and finally the outermost arena defensive formation."
"Do you have enough materials?"
"I didn’t have them several years ago but they have since been collected." Jiang Yue assured and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"XiaoYue, has anything happened in the past several years?"
Although Yu Nianzhen left seclusion half a month ago, he didn’t dwell on the preparations.
For this half a month, he focused on accompanying Jiang Yue and didn’t care about anything else.
However, half a month was enough and he couldn’t ignore his responsibilities for much longer.
"Nothing we couldn’t handle." Jiang Yue said and then reported everything that happened in the past six years.
From the explanation, Yu Nianzhen learned that more worlds had registered to participate in the event.
However, none of the top-grade worlds had come forward.
"It’s expected." Yu Nianzhen said but he was a little disappointed.
No matter what, he wanted to fight cultivators from top-grade worlds.
"Don’t worry, there is still a lot of time before the event." Jiang Yue comforted and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
After thinking about it, he felt there was indeed nothing to be disappointed about.
Even if the top-grade world cultivators did not participate in the event, there would be opportunities to fight them in the future.
"What about the modified cultivation techniques and martial arts?" He suddenly asked.
When Jiang Yue heard this, he sighed.
"One of our people was affected. The affected person is called Guan Rui; she is a female cultivator of the Heavenly Flower cult." Jiang Yue said and his eyes narrowed in anger.
Although the affected person was from an evil sect, she was still a person from the Cangxing world.
Between her and an outsider, Jiang Yue was naturally biased towards her.
"What’s her situation?" Yu Nianzhen asked, his face deceptively calm.
"Her qi deviated and she has gone mad. Some alchemists have been trying to find a way but there are no results so far."
"Are there others who used the modified cultivation techniques?"
"Some people have not returned to the Cangxing mountain so we can’t be sure about their current situation."
"How many are unaccounted for?"
’Thirteen." Jiang Yue answered directly.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but frown.
Thirteen cultivators were not many.
However, the Cangxing Mountain didn’t have many people so the loss of thirteen reincarnation realm cultivators was significant.
