Chapter 5

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Wu Ye left the open space in the forest, an elder of the Training Hall came with five disciples in less than half a minute.

One of the five disciples happened to be the white-browed senior brother, who was teaching the disciples to practice spells in the Training Square.

The elder hovered in the air on his sword with his eyes closed. He released his spirit sense to sense the aura around him.

“That intent just now… What’s going on?”

The elder’s face was a little solemn. He scanned the surroundings with his spirit sense for the last time, but he still did not find anything.

He shook his head and put away the sword under his feet before landing on the ground.

“Did you find anything?”

After searching for a while, one of the disciples finally found the place where Wu Ye was standing just now.

He patted the white-browed senior brother’s shoulder and pointed at the hole in a big tree.

The white-browed senior brother looked at it carefully. He reached out and touched a big tree that had been broken by Wu Ye’s finger. He looked surprised and shocked. “Master, it’s here!”

The elder took a few steps and arrived in front of the tree in an instant.

His sharp gaze rested on the hole in the tree. Then, he slowly reached out to touch the mark, his eyes filled with disbelief.

This was… the finger intent?

The five disciples saw the shock in the elder’s eyes and looked more curious.

“Master, this attack isn’t the sword intent of the sword qi,” a disciple said with a certain tone.

The elder glanced at him and nodded. He slowly said, “This is indeed not the sword intent. This is the finger intent.”

“Finger intent?”

Hearing the elder’s explanation, the disciples’ expressions became increasingly strange.

This was the Sword Control Sect. Everyone practiced the sword, so how could someone have practiced the finger intent?

“I’m somewhat familiar with the aura of this finger intent. If I remember correctly, a few hundred years ago, there was a sword master in our Sword Control Sect who practiced the Heaven-Splitting Sword Intent.

“Later, many of our Sword Control Sect disciples’ natal flying swords were tainted by the secret techniques used by the demons in an intense battle. Although we won that battle, many of our disciples lost their natal flying swords and their combat strength was greatly reduced.

“In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, the sword master integrated the sword principle into his finger and released sword qi. This was the sword finger developed later, also known as the sword technique. And now, the most basic sword finger in the sect is the Heaven-Splitting Sword Intent.

“However, this attack is too strange. There is only finger intent, but without sword intent.”

The elder looked at the hole in the tree and analyzed it as he muttered to himself.

The white-browed senior brother was even more shocked after hearing this.

He had practiced the sword for more than 40 years in the Sword Control Sect and had yet to see anyone in the sect comprehend the intent.

Nevertheless, someone had actually used the finger intent here.

Only after a thorough analysis did the elder of the Training Hall finally calm down.

He had just noticed that there was a wisp of spirit energy floating halfway up the mountain. He felt that the sky had become clearer as if there was a trace of Heaven-Splitting Intent.

Thus, he came over to take a look.

He did not expect to see such a shocking scene.

“Could it be that the sect leader senior brother used the Heaven-Splitting Sword Technique here on a whim?”

The elder of the Training Hall could only think of such a possibility.

Now that he did not discover any more information, he suppressed the doubts in his heart and returned to the Training Square to teach his disciples how to cultivate.

Meanwhile, Wu Ye hurried back to the herb garden. He sat on the wooden chair, panting heavily.

“That was close. Luckily, I ran fast enough. What a close call.”

However, this was also a good thing for him as it sounded a warning bell for him.

After all, this was the Sword Control Sect. It had a thousand years of heritage and a deep foundation.

No matter what he did in the future, he had to be more careful.

…

From then on, a year passed very quickly.

After taking care of the spirit plants in the herb garden every day, Wu Ye would use the remaining time to stroll around the various peaks of Qianyuan Mountain of the Sword Control Sect.

However, other people were under the impression that he was a slacker because he often went around signing in at different places every day. Besides, he was dressed in a disciple attire of the Spirit Plant Hall.

During this period of time, Elder Du had specially conducted a spirit plant assessment for him.

However, Wu Ye had obtained The Complete Guide to Growing Spirit Plants, so he did not find the knowledge related to planting and herbs difficult.

In addition, he had deliberately displayed his third level strength of the Qi Refinement as well as cultivated to the second level of the Cloud Rain Technique (mastery).

Although his level was not particularly outstanding, he was more than qualified as a spirit plant cultivator in the herb garden.

All the spirit plants, whether ordinary or rare, were all well taken care of by Wu Ye. With that, Elder Du had nothing to comment on.

In his opinion, this kid was perhaps born to be a spirit plant cultivator.

Although most of the elders of the other mountain peaks looked down on Wu Ye, they gave up lecturing him. It was because they noticed that the Spirit Plant Hall only had one disciple and that Wu Ye had taken care of the spirit plants without making any mistakes in the past year.

Of course, not the entire Sword Control Sect looked down on Wu Ye. At the very least, those from the Alchemy Hall thought highly of Wu Ye.

However, to Wu Ye, these were all unimportant matters.

For him, nothing was more important than signing in.

The joy of signing in was something they could not understand at all!

Just by strolling around and signing in at the various peaks, he would be able to obtain cultivation techniques and rare pills.

This was simply exhilarating.

Within one year of signing in, Wu Ye had gained a lot.

He had signed in at the Punishment Hall and was rewarded with the ‘Demon-Destroying Fist’!

He had signed in at the Alchemy Hall and was rewarded with the ‘Foundation Establishment Pill’!

He had signed in at the Training Hall and was rewarded with the ‘Fire Alchemy Technique’!

He had signed in at the Sword Forging Hall and was rewarded with the ‘Marrow-Cleansing Pill’!

…

Apart from that, Wu Ye had also secretly sneaked into many forbidden areas of the Sword Control Sect to sign in using a variety of techniques, including his Foundation Establishment cultivation, the ‘Phantom Of The Night Technique’, and the ‘Turtle Breath Technique’.

For example, he had signed in at the statues of the former sword masters in the Sword Control Sect hall and received the ‘Innate Spirit Gathering Technique’!

He had signed in at the scripture pavilion and received the ‘Supreme Body Tempering Technique’!

He had signed in at the restrictive talismans in the amnesty tower and obtained the ‘Supreme Talisman Painting Technique’!

He had signed in at the demon-slaying tower and obtained the ‘Indestructible Vajra Body’!

As far as Wu Ye knew, the accidental death of the 63rd sword master of the Sword Control Sect had caused the sword master’s inheritance to break. Hence, many of the mystical powers and secret techniques of the Sword Control Sect had been lost. 

Just like the Innate Spirit Gathering Technique, the Supreme Body Tempering Technique, and the Supreme Talisman Painting Technique, they had all been lost.

Now, the spirit gathering technique and body tempering technique that the Sword Control Sect cultivated were all incomplete.

It was also because of this that the Sword Control Sect lost its position as the leader of the top five sword sects.

At this point, the Sword Control Sect was ranked third and secured its position as the top five sword sects of the Northern Spirit Realm. It was fortunate that they had kept the ‘Great Void Condensing Sword’, which was most important and representative of the sword sect. 

Even so, there was no complete sword master inheritance.

This meant that the current Sword Control Sect only had the sect leader but without a sword master!