Baili Tianming sat cross-legged in the cold jade secret chamber deep within Feiyun Fortress, the nine phantom images of mortal true dragons circling his body casting shimmering golden light upon the stone walls.
One thousand eight hundred and twenty days and nights had passed since he began cultivating the heritage of the Taixu Scripture. The patterns of the Ghost-Serpent Shadow Sword on his left arm had long transformed into two intersecting Taixu sword scars. Deep within these scars, the essence of eight thousand four hundred middle-grade Spirit Stones absorbed over five years settled like sediment. At this moment, he was operating the third-tier technique of "Taixu Sword Condensation," and as the sword Qi surged from his Dantian toward the twelve-story tower, it actually produced the sound of clashing metal and iron—this physical body had completely transformed into a sword embryo, every inch of its bone engraved with the "Supreme Annihilation of Emotion Record" recorded in the Taixu Scripture.
Frost spread across the cold jade floor toward the dome of the stone chamber, only to instantly vaporize upon touching the bronze ancient lamp suspended in the center. This object was the "Nine Nether Underworld Fire" brought back by his second uncle Baili Shu from the East China Sea secret realm three months ago. It was supposed to help him harmonize the excess killing sword Qi within his body, but at this moment, the lamp wick eerily reflected three thousand tiny blood-colored s…
Chapter 135