The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

"So, deep inside this whale tooth sword, because it was frozen in time by the black ice, it is very likely that some of the mysteries of the Starfire Comet Tail Sword remain? Perhaps from the imprint of Zheng Canghai's vitality and his life energy on the sword, we can comprehend the unique connection between them and the star's vitality?"

Familiar with most of the sword classics and cultivation secrets of Bashan Sword Field and the Chu Dynasty, Concubine Zhao's cultivation knowledge is undoubtedly extremely broad. She almost immediately guessed the true purpose of this famous sword being specially sent to Zhao Qing and couldn't help but sigh:
"However, compared with the countless years of cultivation of the sword classics and true essence techniques that the sword's owners have practiced, finding the imprint of the Spark Sword Classic that may or may not have been activated a few times is like finding a drop of different water in the ocean. It is extremely difficult."

If the whale-tooth sword was simply taken as a trophy, then among the collection of famous swords in the Chu Palace, although it was a top-notch choice, it would not be particularly outstanding.

Unless there happens to be a sword manual that is suitable for it, a "second-hand" natal sword that has had many owners is much less valuable than a newly refined sword of the same grade, and it is even more difficult for a new sword owner to use it skillfully, just like an old pair of shoes that are difficult to fit new feet.

"It's not different water. Compared to the ordinary heaven and earth energy, these cold star energy should be more like a salt with low solubility that was thrown into a large lake..."

Zhao Qing smiled faintly, and the five fingers holding the long strip of black ice penetrated into the ice like a shadow, and took out the entire handle of the whale tooth sword without damaging the ice at all - in fact, it was melting and freezing at the same speed, so it was difficult to distinguish:
"It may seem difficult to successfully analyze the traces of the summoning, reception, and refraction of the star energy inside the sword. However, as long as the entire lake and the entire ocean of energy are completely evaporated, those tiny salt crystals will naturally be exposed."

"Evaporate the ocean of vitality?" Concubine Zhao was stunned when she heard this, and then a glimmer of enlightenment flashed in her eyes: "You mean, with powerful cultivation and exquisite vitality control skills, all the regular vitality in the sword can be extracted, so that those hidden traces of star vitality can be fully revealed?"

This is not simply about forcing out the true essence that the sword master has poured into the sword, but going a step further. Even the crystallizations of essence, energy and spirit that have become part of the Whale Tooth Sword itself and have been incorporated by successive sword masters during its tempering must be stripped away one by one, leaving only the purest and most original imprint of star energy.

The scale of the project and the high level of cultivation and precision of mind control required are simply incredible. If one is not careful, the sword may be damaged and the runes engraved inside may be erased, not to mention preserving those tiny traces of starlight.

Realizing the absurdity of this analysis plan, whether it was the three great masters Zhen Lingzi, Fan Wugui, and Gongshu Zhi, or some Bashan disciples who were only in the fifth or sixth realm in the hall, all showed surprise on their faces, and were secretly shocked in their hearts, unable to believe it for a moment.

But since Zhao Qing had proposed such an idea, she must have been certain about it. She stretched out her index finger and thumb, and gently pinched the spiral spear-shaped whale-tooth sword. Strands of red and white light coiled around it like gossamer threads, and the purple light that merged and turned into one continued to penetrate inside.

In the blink of an eye, everyone keenly sensed that the sword body was as hot as if it was in the furnace of heaven and earth, and groups of blue mist began to emerge. The mist seemed to contain endless tides and waves, and the patrolling whale sharks also appeared and disappeared from time to time.

Looking around, the top floor of the Linxing Tower, which is hundreds of feet above the ground, should have been shrouded in clouds and mist, but at this moment it seemed to be completely immersed in the deep sea, naturally giving rise to a feeling of claustrophobia and oppression.

The crystal luster of the whale-tooth sword seemed to fade away gradually with the precipitation of mist, becoming a little dimmer, but also showing a slight sense of transparency, as if it had slowly transformed from a spiritual jade into ordinary glass.

When the divine consciousness touched the spreading mist, everyone couldn't help but have a strange feeling, as if they were a narwhal lurking in the deep sea, inadvertently raising their heads and looking up at the hazy white light above that seemed far away due to the obstruction of water.

As the entire sea level slowly dropped due to the intense evaporation, the deep water turned into shallow water. From the narwhal's perspective, the white light that came into view became clearer and clearer, turning into a sparkling blue sky with clouds and water meeting each other.

It also looks like a piece of natural jade, revealing its delicate internal texture structure, like a dream.

Several young Bashan disciples who were extremely talented and fully immersed in it, "saw" at this moment the mysterious artistic conception flowing out of the Whale Tooth Sword, which was so magnificent that it was indescribable. They were extremely shocked and delighted in their hearts, and they couldn't help but shed tears.

It was only because they entered the most valuable state of enlightenment in the process of cultivation in the subtle environment where the faint Yuan Qi of heaven and earth was continuously released from the sword body, and thoroughly felt the true meaning of some powerful sword scriptures that remained, and benefited greatly.

Not only did his cultivation level improve slightly, but the barriers to his sword realm also seemed to become much looser, like solid ice meeting the warm sun, melting away into thin air. Many difficult sword moves that had troubled him in the past were now easily solved.

One of the practitioners who had been stuck at the peak of the fifth realm for a long time was even more touched. He had a deeper understanding of the essence of the vital energy of heaven and earth and the yin and yang and five elements. The vital energy in his body surged and he actually entered a state of breaking through the realm and advancing to his original state.

The current Bashan Sword Field in Chujing seems to have many masters and a strong background, but the main sect has been destroyed for only a dozen years, so it is naturally impossible to develop much. In terms of disciples, it is only several times that of Baiyang Cave, and it can only be regarded as a second-rate sect.

Moreover, Zhen Lingzi was only a solitary master of a friendly faction, Fan Wugui's Wugui Palace was a subsidiary force supported by Concubine Zhao Xiang, Gongshu Zhi was actually a follower of Wang Jingmeng, and what he practiced was not the direct tradition of Bashan, so the fact that there were many masters like this had to be questioned.

The sudden addition of a backbone force in the sixth realm undoubtedly excited everyone present. After all, if a sect wants to remain strong for a long time, in addition to the power at the top level, the strength of the middle level and the potential of the lower-level disciples are also indispensable.

As the leader of all this, Zhao Qing's expression remained calm, simply because all this was not over yet.

After the entire "ocean" of vital energy evaporated and the traces of practicing the "Heavenly Punishment Sword Sutra" were fully revealed, the vast and boundless "sky" of vital energy was also ignited by the invisible flames and was eroded layer by layer.

Finally, a boundless star map against a dark background of space came into Zhao Qing's perception. Some of the stars seemed motionless, while others were constantly twinkling, communicating with each other through condensed starlight waves, achieving a resonance across time and space.

Then, this ancient starry sky scene continued to expand and change direction in her eyes, outlining the trajectories of the flow of vital energy of countless stars, making the area corresponding to the Big Dipper clearer and clearer, like seven dazzling pearls, flashing mysterious light.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Qing smiled slightly, and as he lightly stroked his finger, a purple sword energy broke through the air and directly merged into the star map, shuttling between the many stars. Every time it passed a star, it would leave a deep sword mark, interweaving into a mysterious star network.

As a result, the entire star map seemed to be activated. The light of the seven stars became brighter, and the starlight fluctuations between them became more and more intense, like the momentum of thousands of horses galloping.

Finally, when the purple sword energy returned to its origin, the entire picture trembled violently, and then turned into a crystal light, which rushed directly into her body and sank deep into her sea of ​​qi.

"This... is this the origin of the Spark Sword Intent?"

Concubine Zhao was dumbfounded. Although she had a high level of cultivation, the scene before her was beyond her comprehension. The exchange of light between the stars seemed to contain the oldest and deepest secrets in the universe, which made people feel awe.

The three masters Zhen Lingzi, Fan Wugui and Gongshu Zhi looked at each other in surprise. They had never thought that they could peek into such vast mysteries of heaven and earth through a sword. This feeling shocked them, and made them curious and admired Zhao Qing's methods.

Since she was able to peel off the Whale Tooth Sword's vitality imprint and deeply derive the artistic conception cultivated by successive sword masters, allowing some mid- and low-level practitioners to gain enlightenment, and it seems that she could probably do the same by replacing other famous swords, isn't this a completely new method of sword inheritance and enlightenment?
Once this thought came up, it spread quickly in everyone's mind like wildfire. They realized that what Zhao Qing showed might not only be a technique to analyze the inner secrets of a famous sword, but also a way of practice that could break the routine and directly hit the essence of kendo.

"That's pretty much it."

Zhao Qing nodded, raised her palm, and looked at the seven extra silver starlights between her fingers. With a thought, strands of colorful Qi were transformed into star fire, circling around her arm and condensing into a magnificent colorful silver bracelet.

It only took half an incense stick of time for Zhao Qing to comprehend the method of eliciting the support of Zheng Xiu's Starfire Comet Sword from the sword, relying on his in-depth understanding of photoelectric changes, high-energy rays, and star energy. He also deduced most of the chapters of the "Starfire Sword Sutra" by seeing the big picture from the small.

Most of it here refers to the fact that although she had mastered the method of refining true star fire on the spot, and could use it to attack the enemy from a distance, and could also accurately track and lock onto the target under the guidance of friendly forces who had been implanted with some of her own life energy, she seemed to be missing an extremely critical piece of the puzzle.

That is, when the energy of the stars is used to launch a long-distance attack, the speed at which the sword energy falls can easily reach a hundred times the speed of sound, which is faster than a real meteorite. It can fly hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye, which is much faster than any other flying sword technique in the world.

But in Zhao Qing's opinion, such a terrifying speed is still far from enough. Even if it is placed on the earth, it will take more than ten breaths to travel a distance of a few thousand miles, not to mention crossing the outer space of tens of millions of miles.

At least it has to reach a speed close to the speed of light to be its proper characteristic.

More precisely, according to her personal experience in the battle at the Wei River, Zheng Xiu's pale sparks condensed and formed in the sky in an instant, and there seemed to be no rising process at all. It was as if the true essence in the opponent's body was directly moved to the cold starry sky, and then turned into true fire and poured down. The speed of the falling sparks was no different from Zhao Qing's inference, but it was faster than the highest sword speed of most of the peak seven realms, but not as fast as her newly cultivated Sun God Thunder Sword.

However, the speed at which the true essence is sent into the high starry sky stage is at least dozens or hundreds of times faster than the former. Since it can only be roughly estimated through remote sensing, it may have reached sub-light speed.

So, was it that a space channel was opened up in a targeted manner, or was the true essence converted into star rays that traveled at nearly the speed of light, instantly penetrating across the distance?

However, when high-energy rays penetrate the barrier of the atmosphere, they will be severely lost due to scattering and cascade reactions, making it difficult to focus on one point, and not very suitable for beyond-visual-range strikes, right?

Zhao Qing waved his hand gently, and summoned the Starfire Bracelet in front of him. He looked at the generation and annihilation of the tiny strands of star energy inside it. He thought deeply and gradually realized that the key lies in the penetrating and stability of the star rays, which have been specially enhanced in the "Starfire Sword Sutra".

The Qi generated by the "Eternal Life Secret" she practiced can also be accelerated to a level close to that of light, and can be used to launch focused laser attacks in the visible light band. However, when it encounters the obstruction of dust and mist, it will gradually lose its accuracy due to scattering after reaching a certain distance, and its power will also be greatly attenuated.

"Are all kinds of starlight woven together by some method, spun from mutually non-interfering silk threads into pieces of 'cloth' and condensed into chains?" Zhao Qing pondered secretly in his heart, constantly making subtle guesses.

The Spark Bracelet floating in the air also emitted strange auras, as if it was naturally pulling at the countless Qi in the void and transforming into an ethereal spinning cone, constantly winding and processing invisible light as it rotated.

At this moment, she finally understood the principle and technique of weaving starlight into one piece, that is "quantum entanglement". This special effect is used to "glue" star rays of different wavelengths and phases together, entangle them and protect each other to resist the influence of various adverse environmental factors.

A common source of quantum entanglement, such as two-photon entanglement, is to allow a high-energy ultraviolet beam to shine on a nonlinear crystal. In this process, the photon "fissions" into two lower-energy down-converted photons, which correspond to each other and are entangled with each other.

Therefore, by splitting the high-energy star rays into low-energy rays one by one using a similar method, we can ensure their independence while maintaining a mysterious connection through quantum entanglement, like an invisible net that tightly connects all the cultivated starlight together.

In a sense, such a web of starlight already possesses some of the zero-friction properties of a superfluid, and can be called quantum star energy, or condensed star energy.

Zhao Qing's mind suddenly became clear. She realized that she had touched upon one of the most core secrets of the "Starfire Sword Sutra". At the same time, it also gave her a new way to view and interpret the changes in vital energy from a quantum perspective.

This way of using the star energy not only greatly enhances the power and speed of the sword energy, but also gives it unprecedented flexibility and precision, making it easier to perform complex spatial transformations and trajectory adjustments in the middle, and significantly reducing the corrosive damage to the practitioner himself.

Considering that there was another person in Jiaodong County, Zheng Sha, who also practiced the Starfire Sword but did not seem to have such characteristics, perhaps this was actually Zheng Xiu's further innovation and improvement after comprehending the relevant skills of the Bashan Sword Field, giving the "Starfire Sword Sutra" more capabilities.

However, she encountered Zhao Qing's brute force method of cracking the Yuan Qi encryption, which was far superior to her inspiration and wisdom, but it benefited the latecomers.

Theoretically, this method can also be applied to other ray-type moves and cultivation techniques. For example, if the Changsheng Jue Qi that she is good at can be improved according to this method, perhaps some extremely strange new changes can be produced, allowing the idea of ​​the unity of spirit and energy to entangle with each other.

In the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, the wave functions of two particles merge together in a unique way, making their states an indivisible whole, and according to some scientists, they actually become two projections of the same particle in higher-dimensional space-time.

The multi-world interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that every observation of a pair of entangled particles will cause the universe to split, thus producing countless parallel universes. In the dragon world, the research results of alchemy are roughly similar, recognizing the existence of higher-dimensional consciousness and multiple world lines.

So, if we integrate our spiritual thoughts into the starlight or qi that is split and generated into an entangled state, or even merge our entire primordial spirit into one with it, condense it into light, and then split it again, what will happen?

Will two new consciousnesses be born, entangled with each other, and perceive the "self" in another parallel universe? Or will it just generate a projection of the other self, a strange incarnation? Or will it allow the dimension of the subject's consciousness to leap to a higher level?

Perhaps, this is the principle of the cocoon transformation of the high-level dragon race? The Nine-Death Silkworm Divine Art in the Sword Dynasty world may also involve this kind of entangled state consciousness? After all, the two seem to be surprisingly similar, and both seem to contain some of the characteristics of the Nine Realms of Immortality.

By the way, if the life form suspected to be in the Ninth Realm, Yaohuoxing, can really sense the historical trend of the parallel world, it cast its gaze on me, could it be that it discovered something abnormal in this regard? Zhao Qing's mind was full of thoughts, and he thought of a lot at once, his expression slightly solemn.

Special abilities related to the element of time are usually very disgusting and difficult to restrict. Fortunately, it won’t be long before you can acquire such characteristics and become a "cheat" character, which is really exciting.

She sighed softly, temporarily suppressing these complicated thoughts, froze the Spark Bracelet with black black ice, and then looked at the people around her who also had some insights, and said:

"When I was traveling overseas before, I discovered some relics from the You Dynasty era and learned a lot about how to use the energy of the stars. If not, I wouldn't have been able to crack the secret of the Spark Sword so easily and master it so quickly."

"In a sense, most of the most profound cultivation methods in the world today are closely related to the Ghost Emperor, the Four Patrol Kings, and the Eight Great Divine Generals of the past. For example, some of the mysterious methods of the Lingxu Sword Sect seem to be connected to the skills of the Divine General Duanshi and the Divine General Chetian..."

Sometimes, having too much understanding and too many means is not a good thing. You need to find some boring excuses to hide your edge.

"Are there relics of the You Dynasty overseas? I haven't heard much about them. I only know of one case." Zhen Lingzi stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and asked Gongshu Zhi:

"It is said that the Nine Netherworld Sword of the Gongsun family, the Nether Emperor's most powerful weapon, was originally buried in the sea area around Xingzhou and Jinzhou. It was accidentally discovered about a hundred years ago, which triggered a fierce battle for it. Could it be that..."

Gongshu Zhi twirled his beard and nodded slowly, saying, "Yes, although the fight was eventually settled by the Gongsun family and they gained the most benefits, it is said that there are still some valuable treasures from the You Dynasty era, ancient sword scriptures, and secret cultivation methods that are still out there and have never been recovered."

"However, all of this information was strictly sealed by the former powerful families in Changling, and the outside world knows very little about it... After Yuan Wu and Zheng Xiu successively wiped out the four major families, these relics of the You Dynasty, except for the Nine Netherworld King Sword, should have fallen into the hands of the Qin royal family and Jiaodong County."

"It seems like this, there should be another overseas relic that also contains precious treasures? If so, it is destiny that senior can get this opportunity." Fan Wugui sighed, and there was a bit more envy in his eyes when he looked at Zhao Qing.

Zhen Lingzi suddenly realized, then frowned again: "But why does the legacy of the You Dynasty appear frequently overseas? Could it be that the Emperor You built a palace in the overseas continents, or had a large-scale war?"

"Maybe." Zhao Qing was vague and didn't reveal too much: "The overseas is vast and contains countless unknowns and secrets. Yuanwu has been sending armored fleets to explore distant islands over the years, perhaps to find some new ancient relics."

At the same time, she was thinking to herself that even if the ancient ruins that had been excavated no longer had anything valuable in the eyes of most people, as long as there were some subtle traces left, for her, they were a series of revealed cultivation techniques.

If those who explored the ruins at the beginning had insufficient cultivation level and were blocked from some core mechanisms like the Wushan Qinglei Juetian Formation, Zhao Qing could naturally try to break the formation and get more treasures.

In fact, as far as the whale-tooth sword was concerned, in addition to gaining some secrets from the sword scriptures, she also sensed and absorbed some memory fragments of the Zheng family's successive leaders, as well as the thousands of strands of golden energy contained in the sword body.

And the even more valuable "Golden Scapegoat Talisman", this talisman made by the Emperor You himself in the past, according to Zhao Qing's simple investigation, definitely contains the true Five Elements' Regular Politics, and the main body is exactly the Gold Element Politics that she needs, which can suppress disasters with its restrained nature.

"Let's not talk too much. Now that the Spark Sword has been completed, everyone, is there anyone willing to provide a 'seed' condensed from one's own vital energy?" Zhao Qing looked around, his eyes like lightning, and asked in a deep voice: "I have a new idea here, and I want to verify it here."

...(End of chapter)