Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

The crimson aura and pale light around his sword slowly intertwined.

At first, they resisted each other fiercely. The sword in Li Yun’s hand trembled violently, and thin cracks even appeared in the ground beneath his feet from the pressure.

The jade-robed powerhouse finally showed a faint change in expression.

He could imitate sword arts.

He could suppress sword cultivators.

But the partial fusion of two Xiantian Stage Sword Intents was no longer a simple sword technique.

It was the beginning of Li Yun’s own unique sword path.

The jade-robed powerhouse raised his sword.

Crimson Slaughter Sword Intent and pale Immortal Sword Intent appeared around him as well. He was trying to imitate Li Yun’s fusion.

However, this time, the two Sword Intents around him did not merge smoothly.

They overlapped, but they did not fuse.

Li Yun noticed this immediately.

A sharp light flashed in his eyes.

’So even the Innate Sword Body cannot instantly copy a sword path that has not fully taken form yet.’

This was his chance.

Li Yun stepped forward.

”Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art.”

Hundreds of crimson slaughter swords appeared again.

But this time, each slaughter sword carried a thin pale edge.

”Eternal Immortal Sword Art, Undying Edge.”

The Immortal Sword Intent entered the slaughter swords, but unlike before, it was not merely wrapped around the outside. A portion of it had begun to sink into the Slaughter Sword Qi itself.

The two Sword Intents were still not fully fused.

But they had begun to merge.

The slaughter swords changed immediately.

Their crimson color deepened, while pale lines appeared along their edges like immortal veins. The killing power became sharper, colder, and more stable. It was as though every sword could continue existing until it pierced through its target.

The jade-robed powerhouse copied the move again.

Hundreds of crimson swords appeared around him as well, and pale immortal light covered their edges.

But the difference was clear.

His swords were powerful, but they only carried overlapping power.

Li Yun’s swords carried the beginning of fusion.

The two waves of Sword Qi collided again.

Boom!

This time, the result was completely different.

Li Yun’s partially fused slaughter swords tore through the copied swords one after another. Even when the jade-robed powerhouse’s swords managed to shatter them, the pale immortal edge inside Li Yun’s Sword Qi continued forward like a lingering thread, cutting deeper and deeper into the opponent’s formation.

For the first time, the jade-robed powerhouse was forced back.

One step.

Then another.

Li Yun did not give him time to adjust.

His figure advanced, and the sword in his hand erupted with both crimson and pale light.

”Undying Slaughter Edge.”

The name escaped his mouth naturally.

It was not yet a complete sword art.

It was only the first embryonic form of a fused technique born from Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art and Eternal Immortal Sword Art.

But even in its incomplete state, its power was terrifying.

Li Yun swung his sword.

A single Sword Light shot out.

This Sword Light was crimson at its core and pale at its edge. It carried the will to slaughter and the undying sharpness of immortality.

It did not possess the overwhelming number of Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art, nor did it possess only the quiet sharpness of Undying Edge.

It possessed both.

The jade-robed powerhouse’s eyes finally changed.

He raised his sword and tried to reproduce the same strike. Crimson and pale light gathered around his blade, but the two powers remained slightly separated. He could copy the shape, the rhythm, and even most of the force, but he could not copy the tiny point of fusion hidden at the core of Li Yun’s Sword Light.

That tiny difference became fatal.

The two Sword Lights collided.

For a moment, the arena fell silent.

Then, the jade-robed powerhouse’s Sword Light cracked.

The crack spread rapidly, and in the next breath, his copied attack shattered completely.

Li Yun’s Undying Slaughter Edge continued forward.

The jade-robed powerhouse immediately swung his sword again, releasing several copied slaughter swords to block, but every one of them was cut apart. He then used Undying Edge, but even that pale Sword Light was split open by Li Yun’s partially fused Sword Intent.

The Sword Light reached him.

Sshh!

It pierced through his throat.

The jade-robed powerhouse’s body froze.

His bright star-like eyes widened slightly. For the first time, a trace of emotion appeared in them. It was not anger or fear, but something close to acknowledgment.

Then, his body slowly collapsed.

The powerful opponent who possessed the Innate Sword Body had finally been defeated by Li Yun.

Li Yun stood in place, breathing slightly heavier than before.

He had not used any other arts in this battle.

He had used only his Slaughter Sword Intent at thirty percent mastery in the Xiantian Stage, his Immortal Sword Intent at twenty percent mastery in the Xiantian Stage, and the sword arts born from those two paths.

Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art.

Eternal Immortal Sword Art, Undying Edge.

And at the final moment, the incomplete fusion of both.

Undying Slaughter Edge.

Li Yun looked at the fallen jade-robed powerhouse and slowly lowered his sword.

This battle had taught him something extremely important.

Against an Innate Sword Body, ordinary sword techniques would only be copied and suppressed. Even powerful Sword Intents could be imitated if they were used separately.

But a sword path that truly belonged to him, one born from the fusion of two different Sword Intents, could not be copied so easily.

His Slaughter Sword Intent and Immortal Sword Intent had only begun to partially fuse.

Yet even that incomplete fusion had already allowed him to defeat an opponent with the Innate Sword Body.

Li Yun’s eyes shone with a deep light.

If one day he could completely fuse these two Sword Intents, the power of that sword path would definitely reach an unimaginable level.

Whoosh!

The corpse transformed into green mist, which instantly surged into Li Yun’s body.

This time, what was enhanced was not Li Yun’s chaos qi, but his Sword Intent.

Under the effect of the green mist, his Sword Intent directly increased.

His Slaughter Sword Intent reached fifty percent source mastery, and his Immortal Sword Intent directly rose to forty percent source mastery.

”Not bad.”

Feeling the growth of his Sword Intent, Li Yun could not help nodding.

After Sword Intent reached the Xiantian Stage, increasing its source mastery became extremely difficult.

Under normal circumstances, without any special encounters, increasing Sword Intent by even two percent would take at least three months, or even longer.