Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The first floor was the exchange area for Qi Refining cultivators. Lin Zhao didn't stop; he went straight to the sixth floor.

The six-story space is not large, with only a few dozen rows of bookshelves, but each row of bookshelves is filled with jade slips, the covers of which are marked with the name of the cultivation method, its grade and exchange price.

Lin Zhao began searching for cultivation techniques that could be exchanged for.

The Alliance of Ten Thousand Laws truly lives up to its reputation as an organization that has fought against demons and beasts for thousands of years.

Most of the various secret techniques, supernatural abilities, and cultivation methods are designed to target demonic beasts.

There are hundreds of sword techniques alone, and even more secret arts and supernatural abilities for hunting monsters.

At the very center of it, he saw a crafting blueprint for a fourth-tier magic weapon—the Demon-Slaying and God-Devouring Sword, a fourth-tier magic weapon specifically designed to counter demonic beasts.

The exchange price is only one million merit points, which is ridiculously cheap.

But when he looked down at the list of materials, he understood—the main ingredients required several fourth-tier spiritual materials that had a special killing effect on demonic beasts, as well as the complete skeleton of a fourth-tier demonic beast and dozens of third-tier materials.

This sword was specifically designed for demonic beasts, from the selection of materials to its forging; its power against human cultivators was rather mediocre.

Since it was so cheap, Lin Zhao naturally exchanged it.

Then he turned to searching for sword techniques.

There are hundreds of powerful sword techniques available for exchange.

Lin Zhao spent several days flipping through the books one by one, carefully selecting three subjects in the end.

The first technique: [Great Five Elements Sword Technique]

The name is so common that you can buy any martial arts manual called "Five Elements Sword Technique" in any market. Most of them are beginner-level sword techniques.

But the copy included by Wanfalou is different.

In Lin Zhao's view, this was clearly the first half of a powerful sword technique—the second half corresponded to the Nascent Soul stage and above.

The core of the sword technique is to transform sword energy into the most extreme five elements attributes: Geng Metal Sword Energy, Li Fire Sword Energy, Qing Wood Sword Energy, Xuan Water Sword Energy, and Hou Earth Sword Energy.

The sword manual also includes specific methods for applying sword energy transformation, sword energy thunderous sound, and sword light differentiation. The manual contains detailed cultivation methods for these sword realms.

What attracted Lin Zhao the most was the last part: the Five Elements Sword Qi could evolve into a sword formation.

The Five Elements Returning to Origin Sword Formation, the Four Symbols Heavenly Gang Sword Formation, the Three Talents Returning to the Source Sword Formation, the Two Elements Xuanji Sword Formation, and the legendary Qian Yuan Sword Formation.

Lin Zhao's sword techniques only included two formations: Five Elements Return to Origin and Four Symbols Heavenly Gang.

The Five Elements Returning to Origin Sword Formation consists of five sword energies arranged according to the five elements, trapping and killing in one.

The Four Symbols Celestial Dipper Sword Formation is formed by fusing the five elements of sword energy to create Celestial Dipper Sword Energy, which then evolves into the Four Symbols.

These Four Symbols are simplified versions of the Nascent Soul Dharma Form, similar to Lin Zhao's Five Sacred Mountains World-Suppressing Heavenly Dragon and Tian Hao's Vast Sun; they are all the same kind of existence.

Successfully evolving even one of the Four Symbols is enough to dominate the Core Formation realm; if one could evolve all four, legend has it that they would be able to contend with the Nascent Soul realm.

As for the Three Talents Returning to the Source Sword Formation and the Two Elements Revolving Jade Sword Formation, those fall under the category of Nascent Soul cultivators.

It requires a level 7 or higher access level, and the exchange price is ridiculously high.

And then there's the final Qian Yuan Sword Formation, labeled as a fifth-order Nascent Soul formation, but whether it's truly fifth-order is anyone's guess—as far as he knows, the Myriad Laws Alliance doesn't have any Nascent Soul Heavenly Monarchs.

The Great Five Elements Sword Technique is extremely difficult to cultivate, demanding an abnormally high level of comprehension and spiritual awareness from the cultivator.

Even if an ordinary Core Formation cultivator were to exchange for it, they would most likely only be able to learn the basics and wouldn't be able to use the sword formation at all.

However, Lin Zhao has the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel in her physical body, so she is least afraid of high difficulty.

The Great Five Elements Sword Technique cost Lin Zhao 16 million merit points.

The second technique is the Three Fiends Sword Technique.

A sword technique so obscure that almost no one redeems it.

The Three Fiends Sword Technique uses external forces to condense the three fiends sword energies—Blood Fiend, Earth Fiend, and Heaven Fiend.

Blood Fiend draws the malevolent energy from the bloodbath of living beings; Earth Fiend draws the malevolent energy from the depths of the earth's veins; Heaven Fiend draws the malevolent energy from the heavens above.

The three types of malevolent energy correspond to the three elements of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Sword energy leans towards Yin, or more precisely, towards the spirit and soul.

The problem lies here.

When malevolent energy enters the body, it will inevitably erode the soul.

If a cultivator is not careful, they may be devoured by the evil energy. At best, their personality will change drastically; at worst, they may go into a state of demonic possession and become a madman who only knows how to kill.

Lin Zhao was naturally not afraid.

Not to mention that the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel of the true body can be immune to inner demons,

Take, for example, the Divine Soul Sword Tower within the consciousness sea of ​​the Azure Lotus clone.

That tower is a magical artifact evolved from the divine power of this spirit, extremely strong and powerful, more than capable of suppressing the erosion of evil energy.

He even had more ideas—the manifestation of divine consciousness at the Nascent Soul stage. He wasn't entirely clear on the specifics of how it was achieved, but during his early studies at the sect...

He once knew of a concept of three gods: Yin God, Yang God, and Yuan God.

There are various interpretations of the three gods, some contradictory, some unified.

But in Lin Zhao's current view, the Yin energy cultivated by the Three Fiends Sword Technique is essentially the tempering of the Yin spirit.

The Supreme Sword Soul of the Divine Soul Sword Tower cultivates the Yang God.

When the two are combined, they become the primordial spirit, which is the spiritual manifestation of the nascent soul.

He was unaware of the higher Nascent Soul realms.

However, he knew one thing: to build a Divine Transformation Dharma Realm during the Nascent Soul stage, he had to raise his divine sense to the Nascent Soul realm during the Core Formation stage.

If one does not push their consciousness to the Nascent Soul level during the Core Formation stage, then opening up the Dharma Realm in the future is just a pipe dream.

He's making preparations in advance, so he won't suffer any losses.

The Three Fiends Sword Technique cost eight million merit points.

The third technique is the Great Void Guiding True Power Technique.

Lin Zhao didn't know where the Myriad Laws Alliance got this technique from.

Strictly speaking, this is not a sword technique at all, but a spell that draws upon external spiritual energy.

However, it needs a vessel, and the power of sword cultivators is extremely strong and rigid, which is just right to support this spell.

When first formed, it can enhance the power of one's own sword energy.

When one reaches a certain level of mastery, one can draw upon external spiritual energy and use it for one's own purposes.

When it reaches its full potential, it is said to be able to summon terrifying forces from beyond the world, easily defeat enemies of higher levels, and possess all sorts of incredible powers.

However, Wanfalou's evaluation of this spell was—useless.

The cultivation is extremely difficult, but there are substitutes for the effects.

There are many types of blessing spells in the cultivation world; it's not indispensable.

Foundation Establishment cultivators can initially draw upon external spiritual energy, but Core Formation cultivators can control even more powerful spiritual energy.

As for Da Cheng drawing upon forces from outside the world, no one in history has ever accomplished that.

Many people think that the last part about "invoking forces outside the world" is just boasting.

But that was exactly the last sentence Lin Zhao wanted.

As a cultivator from one of the seven overlord sects, he was well aware that there were worlds beyond his own.

Legend has it that the chaotic spiritual energy in the endless void is only the most superficial danger; various terrifying forces are hidden deep within the void.

Even powerful cultivators from sects wouldn't easily venture into the void, and cross-realm expeditions are extremely dangerous.

Legend has it that the Star Void Sect, one of the seven overlords, encountered an accident during a cross-world expedition, and was almost counterattacked by the other world.

Although they eventually repelled the enemy, their strength was greatly reduced, and they closed their sect for many years, constantly cleaning up the mess left by the past.

After that incident, the Seven Realms rarely embarked on cross-realm expeditions, focusing more on internal affairs and ascending to the upper realms.

However, there are also rumors that the Star Void Sect intends to invite other overlords to join them in taking care of the other world, but these rumors have been circulating for thousands of years, and no one knows when they will come true.

Five million merit points are required to exchange for them.

If even 10% of the description of the Tai Xu Yin Zhen Technique is true, then its value is far more than five million merit points.

The Three Gates Sword Techniques completely squandered the thirty million merit points.