Ling Tian Sword God

Chapter 1106: Chapter 1105: Sanctification

After assuming the role of leader for Group One, Ling Chen continued for several days, heading to the martial arts training field to cultivate and receive guidance from the Spiritual Heart Saint.

The Spiritual Heart Saint, once regarded as a genius among Saints, is the youngest of the Elders. From him, Ling Chen learned quite a lot.

Ling Chen had already absorbed much understanding of the Saint Path from Sect Master Xi Yan.

What he lacked was the method of condensing the Saint Body.

In the recent days, the Spiritual Heart Saint’s lessons included parts about condensing the Saint Body.

Over the course of these days, Ling Chen had grasped most of the methods for condensing the Saint Body.

To form the Saint Body, one must sanctify the body.

Utilizing various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures is all for the purpose of sanctifying the body. After all, one’s body is only so big, and sanctifying it part by part will eventually lead to complete sanctification.

The Saint Body Ointment is one of these numerous Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Currently, although Ling Chen is only at the Seventh Realm of the Sky Apex Realm in cultivation, for an ordinary person with such cultivation, it would be impossible to withstand the overbearing medicinal power of the Saint Body Ointment.

But Ling Chen is not an ordinary Seventh Realm Sky Apex cultivator; his strength surpasses most Half-Saints. Naturally, using the Saint Body Ointment on him does not pose much pressure.

Now, Ling Chen can begin to gradually sanctify his arm and condense the Saint Body.

From the Spiritual Heart Saint, Ling Chen received his first portion of Saint Body Ointment.

This was an extra reward for serving as the leader of the first group. However, the Spiritual Heart Saint also stated that if Ling Chen could not become one of the Twelve Divine Marquises by the year-end Ninth Stream Conference, he would have to regurgitate all he had ingested.

Ling Chen was single-mindedly focused, dedicating himself entirely to enhancing his cultivation, as for the consequences of failure, there was no need to waste time thinking about them now.

Sitting cross-legged in the room at Cuiyun Residence, Ling Chen began refining the Saint Body Ointment in his hand.

Pouring the Saint Body Ointment out of the Jade Bottle, he applied it to his right hand; the first part of his body to be sanctified was his right hand.

A person’s body is divided into seven parts: head, torso, left hand, right hand, left leg, right leg, and internal organs.

The right hand is the most important part for a swordsman, naturally making it the first choice for sanctification.

As True Qi flowed into the right arm, strands of gold light suddenly emerged from the right arm, dazzling like it was covered in butter.

The medicinal power of the Saint Body Ointment instantly penetrated the right arm and rapidly spread, transforming the bones, flesh, and meridians, greatly enhancing them.

A tearing pain suddenly transmitted from inside the arm.

Hiss!

Ling Chen inhaled sharply, beads of sweat the size of beans trickling down his forehead.

However, Ling Chen gritted his teeth, exerting himself to circulate True Qi to fully saturate the arm with the medicinal power of the Saint Body Ointment without wasting a single bit.

An hour later, Ling Chen’s right wrist was completely sanctified.

But with only one bottle of Saint Body Ointment, it wasn’t enough to sanctify the entire arm, indicating the need for more Saint Body Ointment.

Yet after the wrist was sanctified, Ling Chen noticeably felt his right hand was more nimble, his meridians smoother, the flow of True Qi unobstructed, and the Red Sky Sword in his hand felt lighter by more than half.

”The effect of sanctification is indeed immediate.”

Ling Chen hadn’t expected that just sanctifying the wrist would produce such significant results; fully condensing the Saint Body would surely lead to unimaginable levels.

A gleam appeared in Ling Chen’s eyes, his anticipation for the Saint Realm grew.

Standing up from the bed, Ling Chen pushed open the door and walked towards the courtyard outside.

His destination was the Scripture Pavilion of Lingyue Island.

Lingyue Island’s Scripture Pavilion has thirteen levels, built underground, forming an inverted tower.

As a renowned hidden sect in the Nine Provinces Land, Lingyue Island’s Scripture Pavilion is vast, with a long history, encompassing myriad things, housing an unknown number of books, including ancient texts carved on tortoise shells, stone tablets, bamboo slips, and booklets.

Cultivation techniques, martial arts skills, formation maps, beast taming Chapters, and cultural geography can all be found here.

Ling Chen did not come to the Scripture Pavilion to peruse cultivation techniques or martial arts skills but to search for records about hidden sects and even the secrets of the Nine Provinces.

He knew too little about this world. To become familiar with the world of the major sects of the Nine Provinces in a short time, the most practical way was to consult the records in the ancient texts.

This category of books falls under ”Geographical Chronicles” and ”Customs and Practices,” generally unrestricted, accessible to any disciple of Lingyue Island.

The Scripture Pavilion is never short of disciples coming to study, though most of them have different purposes than Ling Chen. They primarily search for cultivation techniques and martial arts secret manuals, and few remain on the first floor.

To most Lingyue Island disciples, these things are common knowledge, taught from a young age.

Standing by the bookshelf, Ling Chen quickly leafed through the geographical texts of the Nine Provinces.

He sought things unseen by outsiders.

Books like ”Annals of the Central Dynasty,” ”Registrar of the Empress’s Daily Life,” and ”Rise and Fall of the Nine Great Families” held no interest for Ling Chen; he merely skimmed through them.

After searching for about half an hour, Ling Chen finally found a copy of the ”Nine Provinces Sect Records.”

This book was very thick, and the text written on it was very tiny. Without infusing True Qi into his eyes, at first glance, one could only see small black dots on the pages.

Obviously, the predecessor who wrote this book was quite the expert.

Using his sleeve to wipe the dust off the cover, Ling Chen slowly opened the ”Nine Provinces Sect Records.”

Flipping through the pages, his eyes quickly scanned; this ”Nine Provinces Sect Records” provided detailed introductions about the major sects established and fallen in the Nine Provinces Land over the past five hundred years.

According to the records in this book, many sects still exist in the Nine Provinces Land, but few of them hold significant influence, and even fewer are renowned enough to be called by name.

In this ”Nine Provinces Sect Records,” eight great super sects are listed in the most prominent positions.

They are:

Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao!

Divine Female Sect!

Cloud Mud Temple!

Taiqing Palace!

Sword Casting Villa!

Human Demon Hall!

Desolate Fire City!

Lingyue Island!

These eight sects are located in eight different parts of the Nine Provinces, residing in their respective sect secret realms. All of them are powerful forces with legacies of over a thousand years, possessing a long history and profound heritage, with countless experts under their wings and millions of disciples.