Leon looked at the dark cloud looming above him with a gleam in his eyes. His two red sabers were already in his hands, and moonlight reflected off their edges, giving off a sinister aura.
"Whatever life essence points I collect, pour all into the 'Twin Eagle Sabers' technique and push it to perfection," Leon silently gave a mental command to the Primordial Law Codex.
Although the codex didn't have the ability to speak, it was quite intelligent and could follow commands automatically without Leon's manual intervention.
Buzz... buzzzz.
The golden crowned bees, which had already evolved from ordinary bees to mortal realm bees, possessed the ability to somewhat see even at night. Coupled with the full moon above, they had no problem locating the person who had disturbed their rest.
Like arrows, they charged toward Leon like a black cloud, ready to teach this arrogant human a lesson.
Leon too did not dare stand in one spot. He quickly ran here and there in the clearing, while the two red sabers in his hands danced like two red windmills, effortlessly cutting whatever came in their path.
Golden crowned bees started falling to the ground with their bodies cut in two, while Leon, like an agile monkey, kept jumping from tree branch to branch, then to the ground, then running circles on the ground.
All the while, he was not stationary, and the speed of the golden crowned bees could not even catch up with Leon. As for getting tired, he did not have to worry about it either. The Ultimate Body Forging Art, although not complete, had a special ability to draw in qi from the atmosphere directly into the body through all 360 acupoints, replenishing the spent vital qi in a matter of time.
Hence, Leon was not afraid of being tired in a fight no matter how much vital qi he spent. At the same time, the Twin Eagle Sabers technique also started progressing at an alarming rate.
Due to it being a 10 star grade cultivation technique, even to increase the proficiency of the technique by one point, he had to add more than two or three life essence points, but thanks to the golden crowned bees getting killed each second under his sabers, he was not short on points. Soon his proficiency with the Twin Eagle Sabers entered the minor success realm.
Then after half an hour it reached major success. The two sabers in Leon's hands moved with even more terrifying momentum as they effortlessly cut down the bees.
Then suddenly with each swing of his blade, the surrounding qi started vibrating strangely. As Leon's proficiency with the technique increased, this vibration became violent, and suddenly, with every swing of his blade, red sword qi condensed around his sword and flew toward the bees, killing more than a hundred in just a single swing.
Leon was also momentarily stunned due to the memories that poured into his brain with each increase in the proficiency of the technique. Leon was so fully immersed in Twin Eagle Sabers that he did not even realize when he had comprehended sword qi.
Buzzzz...
But the golden crowned bees did not even give Leon any time to think as they charged at him like death soldiers.
...
At the tree top, both women looked at the fight happening at some distance in disbelief.
"That guy actually comprehended sword qi, and it is even being strengthened at an alarming rate," the young woman in white said in astonishment.
"His stamina is also out of this world. With each swing of his blade he is pouring out vital qi like crazy and did not even stop to recover some. Still, there was no sign of tiredness on his face. Even those body cultivation talents from the first stronghold would not be able to do this," the maid beside her also said with a frown.
"The sword technique he is using is also not simple. Its grade is at least above 9 star, otherwise it is impossible to condense such powerful sword qi. I wonder where he got such a technique in this first tier circle area," the young lady said softly.
The maid beside her pondered for a moment and said in astonishment, "That is it. This guy is definitely a prodigy from some other place, possibly even from the first stronghold. Otherwise it is impossible for a person from the first circle to possess such terrifying talent and comprehension."
The young lady beside her did not refute. She kept her eyes focused on the battle below, observing every move of Leon's sword with interest.
...
On the ground, Leon was having his time killing the bees. He even stopped running away and instead stood in one place as he created a non stop curtain of sword qi around himself with the continuous swinging of his sabers.
The bees that dared to get even close to him were directly killed by the sword qi curtain. In less than three hours, more than 60,000 thumb sized bee carcasses piled all around the clearing.
"Good grief!, you really are a monster. By the way, was that red light that shot out from your sword, sword qi?" John said in astonishment as he ran over to Leon. But when he saw Leon's face, he halted in his step and started laughing.
Although Leon had killed all the bees, 60,000 bees was not a joke, and he was still stung at every exposed part of his body, especially his face, which now looked like a pig head. Although it was not that harmful thanks to the black healing oil he had applied on his skin, the pain was still there.
Leon gazed at John from the corner of his eyes and ignored him, as he shifted his attention onto the Primordial Law Codex.
[Primordial Law Codex - page no: 3]
[Owner: Leon (human)]
[Life essence points: 74032]
[Technique: Twin Eagle Sabers]
[Technique grade: 10 star]
[Technique realm (mortal): 400/400 (perfection)]
From this wave of honey bees, he had earned a staggering amount of life essence points with practically zero risk.
"That will be enough to push the Ultimate Body Forging Art to completion," Leon said as he looked at the 74032 displayed on the Primordial Law Codex.
Without wasting any time, Leon decided to merge the Twin Eagle Sabers with the Ultimate Body Forging Art, and the next second, page number 3 vanished and slowly merged with the 2nd page.
The content of the second page suddenly became blurry and a line of text appeared on it.
[Merged technique is already close to god level. You can consume 10,000 life essence points to push the technique to god level by integrating the characteristics of Ultimate Body Forging Art into it and giving birth to an even stronger technique. Do you wish to proceed?]
Leon stared blankly at the text for a moment and immediately gave the command to proceed. After all, he had enough points to spend. Even if the evolved technique was not as good as he expected, that was not a problem. He would at most take it as a lesson to not repeat this mistake in the future.
When Leon selected the option to proceed, he felt new memories and comprehensions appear in his head. At the same time, the vital qi circulation inside his body became even more complex, with millions of qi veins forming all around his body.
Leon's cultivation fell from the 7th heaven of the mortal realm to the 5th, then to the 3rd, and finally it stopped at the 1st heaven, back to the starting point. But this time, intermixed with his vital qi, there was also sword qi which ran through these newly formed circuits automatically.
At the same time, the fall in his realm did not affect the quality of his vital qi. It still remained as strong as a cultivator at the 8th heaven.
[Primordial Law Codex - page no: 1]
[Owner: Leon (human)]
[Body Realm (Mortal): 1st Heaven]
(Life Essence: 823/25000)
[Spirit Realm (Mortal): 1/10]
(Soul Essence: 20/100)
[Elemental Grade: ???]
...
[Primordial Law Codex - page no: 2]
[Owner: Leon (human)]
[Life essence points: 64032]
[Technique: Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art (incomplete)]
(Completeness: 25%)
[Technique grade: god]
[Technique realm (mortal): 400/400 (perfection)]
[Note: Can consume other compatible, lower or similar grade techniques at perfection stage to repair the technique]
(Compatible techniques: none)
The first notable difference was that the base potential of his body had risen from 812 to 25000 along with the fall in his realm back to the first heaven.
The second was that the completion percentage remained at 25% as before without any change, which should have increased since he had recently merged a technique into it.
The third was that previously in the Ultimate Body Forging Sutra, the technique merely used weapon intent to temper the body, strengthening it in the process. But now, the evolved Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art had actually integrated the sword qi into his own vital qi, treating his own body as a sharp sword.
The Ultimate Body Forging Art on the other hand just tempered the body into a piece of fine iron block with no special characteristics to the vital qi. But the Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art had turned this fine piece of iron into an actual weapon with a terrifying sword spirit qi inside it.
According to the information of this technique he received in his mind, he would be able to form four weapon spirits inside his body by the time this technique was completed.
Each weapon spirit could be powerful or weak according to Leon's mastery of the weapon and his imagination. But this was hardly a problem for Leon, since with the Primordial Law Codex, hardly anyone could match his level of mastery of any technique. And in case of imagination also, he was not inferior to anyone since he came from a different world where there was no lack of authors and artists with all sorts of weird imaginations.
Once a sword spirit took shape, it would retain its form forever and would also have the characteristics of the weapon whose shape it mimicked. Leon sat on the floor absently for a long time contemplating what type of sword he should form with his sword spirit. But then he looked at the saber in his hand and slapped his thigh in realization.
"Damn it, why the hell do I have to stick to the rules and give the shape of a sword to my sword spirit? Since my sword intent comes from Twin Eagle Sabers technique, let my sword spirit be an eagle then."