Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1164: Chapter 628: Sword Light_2

With the slowdown, the sword light transformed from the body of the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword has time to fly to the second sword light and crush it after shattering the first one.

”Next, won’t there be three sword lights?” Li Yuanba speculated in his heart and prepared accordingly, strengthening the Sword Intent imbued in the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword.

Contrary to his expectations, this time there were four sword lights.

This startled him—if the sword lights doubled with each appearance, it wouldn’t take many rounds before the sword lights reached a terrifying number.

He didn’t know how many rounds other Sword Cultivators could withstand, so he braced himself for the battle.

This time, he once again divided the sword light, splitting the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword into four sword lights to resist the four trial sword lights.

He understood that the more sword lights split from the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, excluding the main sword body, the lesser the power of the divided sword lights.

This is why Sword Cultivators rarely use divided sword lights; they use them only against weaker foes to increase attack efficiency.

Due to the enhanced infusement of Sword Intent in the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, even when divided into four sword lights, the energy-converted three sword lights still had the power to withstand the trial sword lights.

The key factor was the role of the ’Supreme Yang Sword Intent’. Although its power wasn’t as strong as the ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’, the ’Supreme Yang Sword Intent’ was still a very potent Sword Intent.

The original Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword shattered the first sword light, then swiftly crushed the remaining three trial sword lights.

Then, as Li Yuanba’s mind shifted slightly, the Sword Intent on the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword changed to ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’.

He activated the ’Divine Eye Sight’; its visible range was only within his eyes, but it allowed him to see the sword lights appearing before him more clearly and make more precise judgments.

”Divide!” Li Yuanba uttered softly, and the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword split into eight sword lights, with the ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’ also divided into eight parts.

At this point, eight sword lights appeared in the void, flying towards him.

He was slightly surprised this time, as the eight sword lights came in the form of the Eight-direction Formation.

This was much more challenging to deal with than ordinary eight sword lights, and most frustrating was that the power of the eight sword lights remained unaffected by the increased division.

The sword light’s power was still at the Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle Level somehow unaffected by the division of sword lights.

He even suspected that the power of the Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle Level sword light was determined by the trial based on his realm.

These eight sword lights were almost equivalent to eight Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle Level Sword Cultivators striking simultaneously, infusing the formation expertise into their attacks.

”Slash!” A fierce gleam flashed in Li Yuanba’s eyes as he manipulated the eight sword lights to transform into the Reverse Eight-direction Formation, rushing into the Eight-direction Formation.

He countered the eight trial sword lights arranged in the Eight-direction Formation with a method for breaking formations, yet ultimately breaking the formation required his sword light to shatter the trial sword lights.

Without the method for breaking formations, even if he wanted to confront the trial sword lights with his Lifebound Flying Sword, he wouldn’t be able to touch them.

The eight trial sword lights clashed with the eight ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’ sword lights, slicing through the eight trial sword lights and dissipating them into fragmented light points.

Li Yuanba exhaled slowly and retrieved the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’.

He had no choice; he could no longer continue battling this way, as even if he could continually divide his sword lights, once divided into sixteen, they definitely wouldn’t withstand the sword lights with the power of Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle Level.

He didn’t know how other Sword Cultivators were handling it, but he chose to use the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’.

With a slight mental shift, forty-eight energy-converted flying swords flew out from the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’. None were Fourth-grade Flying Swords, but they were all second or third-grade energy-converted flying swords.

Though these were second or third-grade energy-converted flying swords, the Sword Intents infused within carried a trace of Nascent Soul Early Stage Sword Intent, almost touching the edge of Nascent Soul Early Stage power.

At this moment, sixteen sword lights appeared in the void of the trial space, flying at him in two Eight-direction Formations.

With a wave of his hand, the forty-eight energy-converted flying swords, under his Divine Sense control, engaged in two Reverse Eight-direction Formations.

Each trial sword light was blocked by three energy-converted flying swords, with the three flying swords forming a Three Talents Formation.

With his Spirit, without needing to worry about other enemies and being free from other attacks, he could fully exert his Spirit to divide it up to a hundredfold, controlling a hundred energy-converted flying swords.

In Nascent Soul Level combat, such Spirit division into a hundredfold is absolutely inadvisable as each energy-converted flying sword contains too little Spirit.

In battles against cultivators, if the opponent has a Spirit-related Cultivation Technique, they could completely finish off the Spirit contained in Li Yuanba’s energy-converted flying sword with a single Spirit attack.

But in this trial, there’s no need to worry about such problems, so Li Yuanba boldly divided his Spirit.

The forty-eight energy-converted flying swords forming Three Talents Formations to confront trial sword lights still couldn’t truly counter them, only delaying for a breath’s worth of time at the cost of scattering themselves.

A single breath was sufficient for Li Yuanba to drive the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword to shatter all sixteen trial sword lights.

”Thirty-two trial sword lights!” Li Yuanba spoke slowly, reminding himself.

He once again summoned ninety-six energy-converted flying swords from the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’, keeping it within the range of a hundred energy-converted flying swords, he could precisely control them with his Spirit to form formations, facing the trial sword lights with Three Talents Formations.

Meanwhile, his Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword divided into eight sword lights all blessed with ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’.

The thirty-two trial sword lights were dealt with effortlessly under his full display.

Yet his expression grew increasingly serious, knowing that the upcoming trials marked the beginning of trouble.

”Sixty-four trial sword lights!” he said slowly.

From ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ emerged sixty-four energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords, each carrying the real power of Nascent Soul Early Stage.

Even the trial sword lights couldn’t quickly strike back against these energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords, which ranked second among the Ten Thousand Sword Peak’s energy-converted flying swords.

Sixty-four trial sword lights shot out in formation through the void.

The Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword, moving at top speed, first slashed through a node in the formation of sixty-four trial sword lights, breaking the formation.

With this, the sixty-four energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords were matched against the trial sword lights, with each energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Sword engaged in a duel in the sky.

Clearly, the sixty-four energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords comparably weaker, but the Fourth Grade Xingyi Sword wreaked havoc, backed by the obstruction of the sixty-four energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords sufficient to clear out the sixty-four trial sword lights.

Li Yuanba assessed the state of the sixty-four energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords, having consumed about one-third of their energy, indicating that they may only last one or two more rounds.

’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ wasn’t conducive to prolonged combat, at least not in its current state.

The real power of ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ lay in the moment of a thousand swords firing in unison, overwhelming enemies with sheer quantity, enhanced by the Great Cultivator’s ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’, creating an extremely terrifying explosive destructive force in an instant.

However, to enable ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ for prolonged combat requires a lengthier nurturing period.

The energy-converted Fourth Grade Flying Swords hadn’t spent enough time in ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ to undergo adequate nurturing.

”One hundred twenty-eight sword lights!” Li Yuanba spoke slowly.