C14

Spring came and autumn came. In the blink of an eye, four years had passed.

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Dugu Yifeng was in the small courtyard. He held a sharp sword in his hand and was floating above the pond in the small courtyard.

As he stepped on the water, if one looked carefully, they would see that there was nothing beneath his feet. He just stood there on the surface of the water.

Suddenly, he waved the sword in his hands.

The sword was moving fast and slow, so fast that one could barely see the shadow of the sword. One could only feel the sword flashing; it was moving slowly to the extreme. It made people feel like this person was almost unable to hold the sword.

However, no matter how fast or slow it was, there was one thing that was similar. When the sword was swung into the water, there were no ripples on the water surface. It looked very strange, as if the sword had completely fused with the water.

With a flash of sword light, Dugu Yifeng withdrew his sword and stepped onto the ground of the small courtyard.

With a smile on his face, Dugu Yifeng did not move. In his heart, he was thinking back to the sword technique he had just displayed.

This Wave Surge Sword Art was an exquisite sword technique created based on Taoist principles. Just now, he had used a gentle force to send his inner strength underwater. Underwater, there should have been waves, but...

Dugu Yifeng shifted his gaze to the sword in his hand. This sword was the sharp sword that he had bought from the blacksmith's shop in East Rock City four years ago.

"It seems that I need to exchange for a sword. The quality of this sword can no longer withstand my vigorous inner strength." Dugu Yifeng muttered to himself.

"I didn't expect that after the blood jade stopped absorbing my power, my power would improve so quickly. Saying that my power improved by leaps and bounds isn't even enough to describe my power!"

Four years ago, the blood jade had stopped its absorption of Dugu Yifeng's power. Since then, Dugu Yifeng's power had increased by an explosive amount.

In these four years, Dugu Yifeng's power had almost recovered to 50% of what it had been in his previous life. He had reached the peak of the tenth level of the foundation realm and was about to break through to the precelestial stage.

Just as Dugu Yifeng was considering his own inadequacies, the door to his courtyard was suddenly pushed open and a young girl barged in.

This girl was graceful and graceful, like a fairy. She had an oval face and was astonishingly exquisite. She wore an ordinary light white dress, and looked like the obedient daughter of a small family.

This girl was none other than the young girl that Dugu Yifeng had saved four years ago, Ling Yanran.

"Big Brother Yi Feng, how's your cultivation? Have you broken through?" The young girl's eyes widened as she looked at Dugu Yifeng and asked, "Brother Yifeng, you're not going to break through again, are you? Yanran is losing more and more to you!"

Hearing the young girl's slightly bitter words, Dugu Yifeng raised his head and looked at the young girl. The smile on his face became wider and wider, but he did not respond to the young girl's words.

Seeing the smile blossoming on the corner of Dugu Yifeng's mouth and the smile in his eyes, the young girl seemed to have realized something and bashfully and angrily slapped the Dugu Yifeng in front of her, "Brother Dugu Yifeng, you're bad. You clearly haven't broken through yet. You actually tricked Yanran!"

The young girl raised her nose slightly, looking like she was acting coquettishly.

Seeing this cute girl act so coquettishly, a warm feeling rose in Dugu Yifeng's heart. However, he did not explain that he had already broken through to the peak of the tenth level of the Foundation realm. It had been four years since the two had first met, but the relationship between Dugu Yifeng and Ling Yanran had developed very quickly.

For the past four years, Dugu Yifeng hadn't gone to Eastrock City that often because of his cultivation. On the other hand, the young girl Ling Yanran would come to the Immortal Sword Villa to find Dugu Yifeng every few days because she did not like the boring environment in the city. As time passed, the two became familiar with each other. After getting along with each other for so long, the relationship between the two naturally had a great breakthrough.

Dugu Yifeng smiled and faced the young girl who was looking at him. He said, "Little girl, what do you take me for? No matter how capable I am, it's impossible for me to break through to the precelestial stage so quickly."

"The Pre-Sky Realm is indeed not that easy to break through!" The girl nodded and suddenly realized something as she exclaimed, "Brother Yufeng, you've reached the Peak Tenth Order!"

Seeing the girl's reaction, Dugu Yifeng nodded slightly and said to the girl in a soft voice, "It's just a small breakthrough, but I might be able to break through to the Lesser Heaven stage very soon."

"Brother Yi Feng, you are only sixteen this year, so you must be at least eighteen years old if you want to break through. A thousand years ago, the legendary Sword Emperor was infatuated with the Sword Emperor and he broke through to the Elementary Realm. That is already the lowest record of breaking through to the Elementary Realm in the entire continent."

Seeing this, Dugu Yifeng smiled. He didn't say anything, but in his heart, he estimated that he had broken through to the precelestial stage in less than a year.

"How could the road I walked in my previous life possibly take me too long!" Dugu Yifeng had lived on the continent for a long time, and he had a rough understanding of his own abilities in his previous life. He estimated that his previous life's cultivation realm should have been at the peak of the Postnatal realm, stuck at the bottleneck to break through to the Connate realm.

Dugu Yifeng's plan was to break through to the Nascent Realm as soon as possible and begin to travel the continent to see the local customs and traditions of the entire continent. Of course, the most important thing for him was to break through the bottleneck that he had failed to break through in his previous life ? the Nascent Realm.

Looking at the smile on Dugu Yifeng's face, Ling Yanran suddenly had a premonition. She didn't know why, but she suddenly had some confidence in Dugu Yifeng.

"Big Brother Yi Feng, I was just joking with you. You have to try your best to break through as soon as possible. Perhaps you will have the opportunity to break the record of the entire continent!"

The young girl suddenly spoke with some comfort and encouragement.

Dugu Yifeng smiled and nodded. He used an unquestionable tone and said, "Alright, since my Yanran has said so, how can I not do it?"

"Then I look forward to Brother Yifeng's early breakthrough, breaking the continent's record, and becoming the number one person on the continent," the girl said with a smile. There was a bit of expectation and a bit of pride in her words.

After a while, the young girl left, unwilling to delay Dugu Yifeng's training. At this moment, Dugu Yifeng was considering which meridian to open first.

On this continent, the martial arts practice initially consisted of the basic ten stages, which consisted mainly of the cultivation of mixed meridians. To break through to the Houtian realm, one needed to open one of the eight meridians in the human body and release the early Xiantian Zhen Qi, which would then be combined with his own inner force and would allow him to completely break through to the Houtian realm.

Then, the human body would open up all the eight extraordinary meridians. Only then would it be possible to break through to the Nascent Realm. In the legends, there were even experts above the Upper Sky Realm. They were known as the Grandmasters, and were known as the Titled Emperors. The infatuated Sword Emperor mentioned to Ling Yanran was a peerless emperor of a thousand years ago. She belonged to the same generation as the Eastern Emperor and had grown up to be a powerhouse together.

As for the existence of a higher realm, Dugu Yifeng wasn't too clear on that. He was just certain that the founders of the three empires had reached an unprecedented realm.

Dugu Yifeng smiled bitterly as he thought about how many sects and masters he had been in his previous life and how he couldn't afford to break through to the Nascent Realm. Then, he thought of how this continent was so rich in the world's spirit energy, and Dugu Yifeng relaxed.