In the room.
Lin Yun first walked to the table in the room, took out the tea gifted by Senior Dong Jian, then took a small pinch and placed it into the teacup on the table, after which he fetched water and heated it using his inner force.
After the tea was brewed, Lin Yun immediately picked up the teacup and drank it down.
“What a refreshing feeling.” As the tea soup went down his throat, a look of enjoyment also appeared on Lin Yun’s face.
Apart from the relaxation of the body, the primary sense of lightness in the brain was extremely important.
In this state of the brain, the efficiency of thinking, comprehending, and learning anything could all be improved to a certain extent.
Although compared to the Holy Nether Fruit that Lin Yun had once used, the difference was like heaven and earth, it was at least helpful, not to mention that the Holy Nether Fruit was inherently extremely difficult to obtain, and the duration of a single one was only twenty-four hours.
Whereas the batch of tea leaves in Lin Yun’s hands could be used for quite a long time.
Lin Yun first closed his eyes, feeling the image of sword dancing in his brain, while also recalling the image of Senior Dong Jian demonstrating sword dancing for Lin Yun.
Lin Yun felt that his receptivity to Senior Dong Jian’s guidance at that time, allowing him such good comprehension, was due not only to his originally solid foundation and good aptitude in swordsmanship, but also seemed to be aided by the Heart Intent Technique that he cultivated.
“Let’s begin.”
After Lin Yun finished viewing the image in his mind, he drew his treasured sword and entered a state of practising swordsmanship.
The sword technique that Lin Yun was currently using was the Azure Mist Sword Art.
This was a True Saint-level sword art, and among the Transcendent Realm, eighty percent cultivated Saint-level secret manuals, while those who could cultivate True Saint-level secret manuals probably only accounted for twenty percent.
Lin Yun’s ability to easily leap realms in the Transcendent Realm, apart from the augmentation of True Saint artefacts and such, the Azure Mist Sword Art similarly provided Lin Yun with an advantage.
Even in the Void Dao Realm, using a True Saint-level sword art would not be outdated at all.
Of course, this also depended on to what extent one had cultivated the secret manual, such as with the same True Saint-level sword art, one person cultivating to the fifth layer and another to the ninth layer, the gap would certainly be large.
The Azure Mist Sword Art had a total of thirteen forms, and Lin Yun had already cultivated to the eighth form.
This time, Lin Yun’s comprehension, understanding, and application of the sword art had all seen tremendous improvements, so Lin Yun was confident that the Azure Mist Sword Art would definitely achieve a significant enhancement.
In the past, after Lin Yun had cultivated the Azure Mist Sword Art to the eighth form, when he tried to learn the ninth form, he had clearly felt it as difficult as ascending to heaven, utterly unable to comprehend it.
But this time, when learning it again, Lin Yun clearly felt it come effortlessly.
“It’s done, as expected, smoothly.”
In merely half a day’s time, Lin Yun had already mastered the ninth form of the Azure Mist Sword Art.
Lin Yun picked up the teacup and drank another cup of tea.
“Continue!”
Lin Yun decided to strike while the iron was hot and directly cultivate the tenth form of the Azure Mist Sword Art.
With this kind of secret manual, the further back it went, the greater the difficulty of advancing one form compared to before.
But Lin Yun had great confidence in cultivating the tenth form.
…
One year later.
Lin Yun emerged from the One Thought Clarifies the Mind Pagoda.
“Go!”
The treasured sword in Lin Yun’s hand erupted with radiant glow, instantly thrusting out violently, resembling rolling waves of misty light.
“Azure Mist Sword Art eleventh form, Misty Waves Surge to the Heavens! At last, success.” Lin Yun sheathed his treasured sword, a smile appearing on his face.
From the eighth form up to the current eleventh form, Lin Yun’s Azure Mist Sword Art had undoubtedly welcomed an explosive enhancement!
If Lin Yun were still at the first layer of the Transcendent Realm now, he would even have the confidence to defeat the third layer of the Transcendent Realm, one must know that when Lin Yun was previously at the first layer of the Transcendent Realm, at most he could fight evenly with the third layer of the Transcendent Realm, without confidence in victory.
The Azure Mist Sword Art now had only the final two forms left for Lin Yun to fully master.
But Lin Yun felt that he was already hard-pressed to cultivate the twelfth form.
For the current eleventh form, Lin Yun had spent a full ten months before successfully comprehending it.
Indeed, the difficulty of comprehending the final few forms was too high.
For the current Lin Yun, the eleventh form of the Azure Mist Sword Art was entirely sufficient!
If it were merely a Saint-level sword art secret manual, Lin Yun believed he could now easily master it completely, but after all, this was True Saint-level, a high rank meaning a high ceiling.
So for the final two forms, Lin Yun was not in a hurry to cultivate them, now was not the time, Lin Yun had a relatively clear understanding in his heart of his own sword art situation.
“It’s time to go out for a walk.”
Lin Yun sheathed his treasured sword, then walked towards the outside of the room.
Over this one year of time, Lin Yun had always stayed in the room cultivating and had not gone out at all.
…
Time flowed by, and in a flash, another three-plus years passed.
Over these three-plus years, Lin Yun had continuously attempted to inject inner force into that piece of shattered black item.
But over such a long time, it still showed no changes whatsoever.
“Knock knock knock.”
The door to Lin Yun’s room was knocked on.
“Come in.” Lin Yun responded towards the doorway.
The room door was pushed open, and Wu Chengtian walked in.
“Brother Lin Yun, there are still four months until the Heart City Treasure Appraisal Conference begins, we set off today, to arrive early.” Wu Chengtian said.
“Finally setting off?” A look of anticipation appeared on Lin Yun’s face.
For this trip to Heart City, what Lin Yun most anticipated was finding a way to release the soul contract.
Of course, for this grand treasure appraisal conference, Lin Yun was similarly filled with immense anticipation.
