Chapter 126: Finality Moon, Liminality Flower (12)

Chapter 126: Finality Moon, Liminality Flower (12)

In the morning, they return to the Inner World, and eager to advance their sword cultivation, they throw themselves straight into impossible odds. Lan Xiaohui chooses five hundred opponents this time, with no time limit, and all of them are in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

I detach my consciousness from my vessel to observe their battle, or, more specifically, their new martial arts methods.

I understand how Wu Yulans Eternal Moment Swordsmanship works, likely because it was developed in part thanks to my Inner World or, at the very least because I also know the Transient Sword method from which it was derived.

The core principle of the method revolves around the concept of the moment. Sword Qi is generated from ones consciousness which is filled with sword intent, and there are many forms of this intent. Killing intent is one example. Ultimately, intent itself is a combination of conviction, confidence, and the desire to strike to make ones will manifest.

Normally, cultivators can generate sword Qi whenever and however they please, but through this swordsmanship method, Wu Yulan has relinquished that ability, or imposed limitations on it. In order for her to generate sword Qi, her intent needs to be incredibly clear and focused to be able to move her sword into action, and this burst of extreme sword Qi manifests in the concept of the eternal moment.

In order to perform techniques, cultivators will generate the energy and the sword Qi over a period of time, but Wu Yulans method rejects this notion and provides all the resources for her techniques in an instant.

Even though Wu Yulans method is now of the Supreme grade, she strikes with the power of an Immortal grade martial art.N0v3lRealm was the platform where this chapter was initially revealed on N0v3l.B1n.

However, this is not where the methods relationship with the concept of a moment ends. In order for Wu Yulan to generate this extreme amount of sword Qi, it needs to happen in two stages. First, her overwhelming intent is like a declaration of fate, and it manifests in the world as a bright white line that reveals the path which her sword will follow. Next, the execution follows, and if her sword does not follow the pre-determined path, she will suffer incredible Qi deviation and internal damage.

Her method requires extraordinary spiritual perception to operate, as identifying these weak points and moments requires great foresight because one mistake in determining her target would leave her virtually defenseless against counterattacks.

In a way, she is at the threshold of cause and effect, disconnected from the predictions of her future by the actions of her past.

I recognize that she uses this sword to describe her own existence as the Liminality Flower an entity that is in between her past as Lan Xiaohui and her future as Zhu Xuelian. It is fitting, then, that the sword she will use to bring about this change and cross from the threshold of transience, is the Finality Moon myself.

Their first attempt at this challenge ends before they can kill even half of the demonic beasts in the [Killing Field]. With so many powerful opponents, even profound martial arts will be unable to help them overcome this challenge. At this stage, it is obvious that even at the limit of their possibilities, success is out of their reach.

For a Foundation Establishment cultivator, killing five hundred demonic beasts of the third rank is simply not possible, regardless of strategy, tactics, or martial arts.

To succeed here, they would need to cultivate an inner core and try again when they raise their cultivation realm.

However, it quickly becomes apparent that they do not intend to succeed at this challenge but to sharpen their swords to the very extremes of limit and obtain the pinnacle of what they can achieve.

When I notice how much energy they are generating by engaging in this self-destructive behavior, I heavily approve of their methods.

Even without killing half of the demonic beasts, they make up for the majority of the cost of operating the entire Martial Hall division of my Inner World which is now projected the consume 2,000,000 Inner World Energy because of simulating 500 second rank demonic beasts, per week.

If they can kill 350 no, only 300 demonic beasts then they would likely generate a surplus of energy, instead of cutting into my stockpile.

This pleases me.