Chapter 3: Gathering the Sword Spirit

  What is garbage kung fu? Hai Tian has never heard of such a thing before.

  Even the little rain on the side and other collateral children stared with wide eyes. It was clear that they were all puzzled in their hearts. Why would a heavenly rank cultivation method be called a useless cultivation method by the master of the house?

  Everyone's eyes were focused on Hai Wuya.

  Glancing at the long-awaited sea and sky, Hai Tian sat down. The dust on the "Nine Heavenly Sword Manual" was slapped away by Hai Tian, but it still accumulated a thick layer.

  "It's said that this 'Nine Heavenly Sword Manual' was written by a former sword deity senior, and later, due to a coincidence, it was obtained by our Hai family's seniors. At the time, all of our Hai family's seniors thought that this was an opportunity given to us by heaven, and with this 'Nine Heavenly Sword Manual', we can definitely make our Hai family soar."

  The crowd did not disturb Hai Wuya, they stood quietly and listened to him tell the bitter secrets of the Hai family.

  "Although this 'Nine Heavenly Sword Manual' is an incomplete cultivation method, it can cultivate up to the Sword Emperor realm. At that time, the seniors of the Hai family immediately found the young generation's children who had not yet started cultivating and passed on this cultivation method to them. A year passed, and among the ten young generation disciples who were cultivating, even the worst one had reached the power of eight segments of the sword!"

  "What? The strength of an eighth-rank sword in just one year?" Everyone exclaimed in shock.

  The power of the sword is at a level that the swordsman has reached before becoming a full-fledged swordsman, and it can be considered as a transitional phase. It is divided into nine levels from one to nine.

  To know that even now, the young generation of the Hai family with the most talent, Hai Yun, has only cultivated for three years and is only at the sixth level of swordsmanship. In contrast, those children of the Hai family back then, the worst among them had already reached the eighth level of swordsmanship.

  Haitian didn't follow the crowd's gasps, instead he slightly furrowed his brow. A heavenly-stage cultivation method that could allow someone to cultivate to the power of an eighth-rank sword within a year wasn't unusual. But why was it called a useless cultivation method?

  "But Elder, why is it called a useless technique?" Xiaoyu asked out loud the question that everyone present had in mind.

  He gently patted Xiaoyu's head, and Hai Wuya continued: "Then, something unexpected happened. Those young men, in the following days, made no progress at all. None of those who reached the ninth level of sword power could become a formal swordsman, let alone a one-star swordsman."

  "Is there really no one?" Haitian asked with a frown.

  "Yes, not a single one." Hai Wuya nodded and continued, "At first, the family elders thought it was just that those young masters had some innate problems. But as one year passed, two years passed, three years passed, those young masters still hadn't made any progress at all. They were all stuck at the threshold of nine-segment sword power."

  As soon as these words came out, Xiaoyu and those collateral descendants were all shocked with their mouths wide open.

  Even Hai Tian's eyebrows were furrowed tighter, he had never heard of such a strange thing. As the heavenly stage cultivation method "Nine Heavenly Divine Sword Manual", it was actually unable to even make someone reach one-star swordsmanship. Could it be that this was a fake?

  No, if it's fake, then those ten young brothers would never have had such a cultivation speed from the start. There must be a problem with this cultivation method.

  "Father, I'd like to take this manual back and have a look first." Haitian pondered for a moment before speaking up.

  "I've said it like this, do you still want to take it back?" Hai Wuya's voice gradually cooled down, he had already made his words so clear, why did Hai Tian not listen and go back to choose another one?

  Ke Haitian has his own ideas, he was also a sword god, and whether it's insight or experience, he is far stronger than the people here. The things that the seniors of the Hai family couldn't study, Ke Haitian may not necessarily be unable to study.

  "Yes, I just want to study it first and see what secrets are hidden within." Hai Tian said again.

  He glanced at Haitian's stubborn expression, and Haiyue was slightly taken aback. However, he still nodded: "In that case, you can take it back and study it first. But now go and choose another cultivation method for me." In Haiyue's heart, even if Haitian took it back, it was impossible to come up with anything.

  Hearing Hai Wuya's somewhat serious tone, Hai Tian understood that if he didn't choose a new cultivation method again, Hai Wuya probably wouldn't let him take this incomplete and useless cultivation method away.

  Helpless, Hai Tian quickly found the yellow-level high-grade martial art that Hai Wu Ya told him at the third row and fifth layer when he entered.

  Seeing Hai's satisfied smile on his face, Haitian finally let out a sigh of relief.

  After everything was registered, Hai Wuya stood up: "Alright, now you can start copying in the next room. After finishing copying, put that skill back to its original place. I'll come over to check tonight."

  Before long, Hai Wuya turned around and left.

  Others excitedly took out the paper and pen they had prepared long ago, ran to the next room and started copying their chosen cultivation techniques.

  Haitian, however, left the high-level Huang Jie Gong Fa he had chosen on the table and let Xiao Yu take care of it. He himself took the incomplete "Nine Heavenly Divine Sword Manual" and left.

  "Brother Tian! Where are you going to copy it to?" Xiaoyu saw that Haitian was about to get into trouble and immediately shouted out loud.

  "I'll go back and study for a while, and come over again this afternoon. Xiaoyu, can you help me keep an eye on that manual, don't let anyone else touch it." Haitian said without turning his head back.

  Xiaoyu, who had always gotten along well with Haitian, naturally wouldn't shirk the task. However, he really couldn't understand why Haitian was so keen on studying that useless ancient manual.

  Haitian returned to his room and immediately closed all the doors and windows.

  Compared to his initial excitement when he first saw "Nine Heavenly Sword Techniques", he now appears extremely calm and perplexed.

  A magnificent Heaven-stage cultivation technique, how could it have turned out like this? He was baffled and began to carefully flip through the pages.

  He opened the dusty, long-abandoned martial art manual, and Hai Tian's thoughts immediately shifted to it. However, after a while, he closed the manual, stood up, furrowed his brow, and paced back and forth: "Strange, there's nothing wrong with it, so why can't I become a One-Star Swordsman?"

  No matter how he thinks, he doesn't think there's any problem. But once he makes up his mind, he will go all out to do it.

  "It seems that in order to unravel the secrets of this 'Waste Cultivation Method', I can only try it myself!" A faint smile hung on Haotian's face.

  Since he became a Sword God, there has hardly been anything that could challenge him. The blood that had long since congealed finally began to boil once more.

  "Come on! Let me uncover the true face of your 'waste material skill'!" Ha Tian smiled confidently, immediately sat down cross-legged, and began to cultivate according to the method recorded in the incomplete "Nine Heavenly Divine Sword Manual".

  Even though it wasn't his first time cultivating, he still felt a thrill inside his body.

  The majestic spiritual energy of the universe slowly entered Haitian's body. A milky white mist was constantly swirling above Haitian's head.

  These milky white mists are precisely the highly concentrated heavenly and earthly spiritual energy.

  These days, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has been present in the air. However, the concentration is very thin, so normally people can hardly see it with the naked eye. But Hai Tian used a special technique to make the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of ten meters around his body wildly condense, forming a high-concentration milky white mist.

  A wisp of milky white mist, like a sprite frolicking in the forest, quickly entered Haitian's body, following his meridians, and began to flow continuously, eventually gathering in the lower dantian.

  Feeling the increasingly dense white mist in his lower Dantian, Hai Tianming understood that those highly concentrated heavenly and earthly spiritual energies had been transformed into his own sword spirit energy.

  Jianling force is the energy cultivated within the body of a swordsman. Almost all the means of a swordsman are controlled and completed by Jianling force.

  Just as everything was going smoothly, Haitian suddenly felt a vast and powerful spiritual energy of heaven and earth that he could no longer control, and it began to surge in frantically.

  This sudden situation did not bother Haitian, who had encountered it many times before in his cultivation. He worked hard to control the small amount of sword spirit power, trying to slow down the influx of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy.

  If it were in the past, this method would definitely work.

  But Hai Tian forgot one thing, he was no longer the Sword God who possessed the majestic sword spirit power in the past, but a small bird who had just started cultivating.

  How can his thin sword spirit possibly block the overwhelming heavenly and earthly spiritual energy?

  Feeling the crazy influx of heaven and earth spiritual energy, Haitian's face changed color, even he felt troublesome. If he continued to allow the heaven and earth spiritual energy to enter so crazily, it wouldn't take long before his body would be burst by this heaven and earth spiritual energy!

  It's hard to come by a body that can accommodate his soul, how could he lose it again so easily?

  With a roar of discontent in his heart, he wanted to control these heavenly spiritual energies. The best way was to convert them all into his own sword spiritual energy. But with his current conversion speed, how could he keep up with the speed at which the heavenly spiritual energies were entering?

  One of these days, his body will burst!

  What to do? What on earth should I do? Hai Tian was anxious and worried in his heart.

  Suddenly he had an epiphany and thought of a method. Since he couldn't control the entry of this heavenly spiritual energy, then he might as well start condensing his sword spirit!

  Jianling is the formal symbol of a swordsman, and also the absolute core of a swordsman. Because the Jianling hides the soul of the swordsman, once the soul is damaged, then even with the best elixirs and the strongest strength, it cannot escape the result of falling.

  However, generally, it is only when a nine-star swordmaster's power surges that the sword spirit begins to condense.

  Haitian didn't know either? But now he has no way to think so much anymore.

  When he wants to do something, he does it - that's Hai Tian's personality.