Chapter 91 — Merging Sword Intent

Pu Yao smiled as soon as he saw Zuo Yan.

"Pu Yao, I don't want this piece of junk cultivation manual. Either refund my crystals or give me a different one!" Zuo Yan's eyes were red, like an enraged gaunt zombie bear, glaring fiercely at Pu.

Demon.

"Ha." Pu Yi's light laugh was like the faint hiss of a snake flicking its tongue. He drawled, "I don't do refunds or exchanges here."

"You can forget about ever getting any crystals again!" Zuo Yan said viciously.

Pu Ji was unmoved, propping up his chin, his incomparably handsome face full of mockery, leisurely and composed: “Anyway, I don’t need your consent.”

Zuo Yan was struck dumb by these words; only then did he realize that he seemed to have no means of restraining this fellow.

I'm not willing to accept this! I just can't accept it!

Zuo Yan was gnashing his teeth with hatred, but there was nothing he could do.

Coming away defeated from Pu Yao is hardly surprising; being able to get the better of Pu Yao would be the truly unbelievable thing.

The refining of the Golden Crow Pill was forced to halt; the scarlet flowers in the spirit garden had not yet matured, and Zuo Yan suddenly lost every means of amassing wealth—especially now that he was penniless. With no crystals left, that...

Then nothing can be stirred up at all.

Zuo Suihao spent every day in the small courtyard cultivating and running around the spirit garden; the rest of the time he went to Hengfang Courtyard to learn alchemy. He couldn't make the Golden Crow Pill, but the other pills were unaffected. It was also fortunate that he...

Now that his prestige has soared, and his master is in seclusion refining pills, only then can he have a relatively large credit limit with Xu Qing.

Unfortunately, he hadn't found any pill as easy to sell and as profitable as the Jinwu Pill. On the books, he had actually lost quite a bit. Fortunately, Xu Qing didn't mind this at all—that was only normal.

That's right. If you could earn crystal stones right from the start by learning alchemy, then everyone would go learn alchemy.

Zuo Yan remembered the words his master had said to him: Spend more time practicing your swordplay!

He remembered this sentence extremely clearly. What lay behind these words went without saying.

Fine, since there’s no way to go about earning crystal stones, then I’ll just focus on practicing the sword. He had already reached a fairly good level in the *Water-Departing Sword Art*, but had also hit a bottleneck—how to progress further?

He couldn't make any sense of it at all. All he could think of right now was whether he could merge Uncle-Master Xin Yan's Tidal Sword Intent with the Parting-Water Sword Intent.

He had had this idea before, and it had first come to him when he accidentally saw the sword river in his sea of consciousness split into two halves.

However, fusing two different sword intents is an extremely difficult task. Fortunately, almost all of the sect's jade slips are now open for access, including Uncle-Master Xin Yan's "Ice Flood Dragon Sword Art."

This opening of the jade slip did not have much impact on the disciples. Senior Brother Wei Sheng was in the sword cave, Senior Brother Xu Yi was engrossed in artifact refining, Senior Sister Gongsun Qing was already packing up, preparing to go to her future husband's place, and Luo Li

Shi Heng had been in seclusion and still had not come out, and Xu Yixia and Hao Min were also not very interested in practicing swordplay. Qin Cheng and Master Heng had gone out on business again and had not returned.

By this reckoning, the one most interested in these sword-formula jade slips was instead Zuo Yan. And the jade slip that interested Zuo Yan most was The Ice Chi Sword Formula. To be honest, among the jade slips released this time, this was also the one that interested him most.

To an unexpected jade slip. Even this is open?

Within our sect, the most formidable is the Wukong Sword Art, but in Zuo Huan’s view, the Ice Chi Sword Art is the most formidable sword art. He had never seen just how formidable the Wukong Sword Art was, but Senior Uncle Xin Yan’s

He had experienced the terrifying sword intent countless times, and his understanding of it was especially profound.

Being able to see the complete Ice Dragon Sword Art now is the only thing that has excited Zuo Yan recently.

However, he soon discovered that, as with some of the jade slips in Hengfang Court, the content one could see in the Ice Chi Sword Art had to match one's cultivation level. If one's cultivation was insufficient, the later content could not be seen.

This is to prevent practitioners whose cultivation is insufficient from forcing themselves to practice and thereby causing harm.

Zuo Yan could not see much—only the method for refining the flying sword and some rather basic content. Seeing this, he could not help but sigh inwardly. Although the Dripping Water Sword was of a higher grade than the Ice Crystal Sword by quite a bit...

Many, but none is as suitable for the Ice Chi Sword Art as the Ice Crystal Sword. This further strengthened Zuo Yan’s determination to fuse the two sword intents. Not to mention, just for the Dripping Water Sword alone, it would be worth doing so.

The language of The Ice Chi Sword Manual was extremely abstruse and obscure, but Zuo Yan had a rough understanding of the Ice Chi sword intent, and by comparing and pondering it, he was unexpectedly able to grasp most of it. After reading through all the content he could finish, he put down the jade...

Jian, Zuo Zhuo fell into deep thought.

Once he sank into deep thought, ten days passed!

Ten days without eating, drinking, sleeping, or resting!

On the tenth day, Zuo Yan suddenly opened his eyes and raised his hand, sending out a flash of sword light!

Tsk!

A streak of cold, faint firelight, yet carrying the biting sharpness of a sword's edge, struck the ground and revealed a deep hole, its rim marked with many fragments and traces of ice.

Unfortunately, it can still only be merged together so rigidly; there are still many places in the new sword intent that Zuo Yan finds unrefined. I'm afraid this will have to wait until his understanding of the Ice Chi Sword Formula becomes deeper.

Through constant practical application, one gradually gains true understanding, and only then can one achieve complete mastery and effortless proficiency.

The new sword intent is mainly the Lishui Sword Intent, with the Ice Chi Sword Intent as a supplement. Originally, the Ice Chi Sword Intent was of a higher grade than the Lishui Sword Intent, so it should have been the primary one and the Lishui Sword Intent the supplement. However, Zuo Yan...

His understanding of the Lishui Sword Intent is far deeper than his understanding of the Bingchi Sword Intent.

However, after the two merged, the power of the sword light increased greatly!

By contrast, the fusion of sword moves is far easier than the fusion of sword intent. Neither the Ice Chi Sword Formula nor the Li Shui Sword Formula is known for elaborate and complex sword moves.

What a pity—there was no one to test his sword for him. Zuo Yan suddenly felt a little nostalgic for those guys from the Xuanyao Sect: if only every so often someone would come to test his sword for him and throw in a top-grade magic treasure as a bonus.

What a wonderful thing it would be!

But when Zuo Yan realized that this single line of thought had cost him ten days, he was startled out of his wits; forgetting everything else, he mounted the gray-beaked goose and flew straight for the Spirit Garden. Fortunately, the scarlet flowers and other medicinal herbs in the Spirit Garden

was in very good condition and had not changed much, so he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Exhausted, he simply lay down among the grass in the Spirit Garden and fell asleep.