The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

After leaving the danger zone, Wu You returned to the base.

Instead of going straight back to his own courtyard, he went to the quartermaster department to find Old Wei.

Old Wei, who was handling business at the counter, looked up. His eyes narrowed slightly when he saw Wu You, and then a smile appeared on his lips. His tone was casual and gratified, typical of an elder.

"The moment I sensed that illusory aura, I knew it was you who had returned."

Wu You naturally knew what Elder Wei was referring to. He blinked somewhat embarrassedly, and then relayed Ye Yi's words to Elder Wei.

After listening, Old Wei was slightly taken aback: "Are yesterday's events like yesterday's death, and today's events like today's birth?"

He paused, as if savoring the unspoken meaning in those words, then nodded:

"It seems he has indeed let go of his resentment."

Then Old Wei raised an eyebrow, his tone shifting from感慨 (feeling of emotion) to 逗嘲 (teasing).

"But will it all be an illusion within two years?"

"He's only at the sixth level right now, yet he dares to say such things."

Wu You explained to Elder Wei, "It's already at the seventh level."

Upon hearing this, Elder Wei waved his hand: "Sixth and seventh rank are the same."

"The most difficult step in breaking through the illusion is how to stably project one's own power into the outside world and then form a stable illusory body."

"This step will still take some time."

"But once this step is completed, the rest will be quick."

"Hu Lie has already completed the construction of his virtual body, and his breakthrough is expected to happen this month."

Wu You nodded, chatted with Old Wei for a while, and then returned from the deep dark domain to his own courtyard in the real world.

It was already past nine o'clock at night. A crescent moon hung in the night sky, and its light fell on the desk and stone bench in the courtyard, turning them into a pale silver-gray.

Pushing open the door and entering the room, Wu You immediately saw the half-closed door of the training room.

Energy mist seeped out from the cracks in the door and slowly drifted into the air.

Without a doubt, there must be a little black cat with golden eyes lying in the center of the training room right now.

He shook his head, ignored it, and went out of the house to sit on the stone bench in the courtyard.

Then, Wu You extended his right hand, fingers spread, palm facing up.

Then he began an experiment he had conducted before: condensing the Seven Tribulations Sword Chapter into a talisman sword using the Talisman Sword Conduit Technique!

With a thought, streams of black sword energy, filled with destructive power, flowed from his palms, swirling and coiling between his fingers.

Wu You controlled the sword energy, allowing it to slowly and gradually condense in his palm.

He compressed the black sword energy that was originally scattered between his fingers inward, causing it to condense from strands of silk into a highly dense energy ball.

Then, just as Wu You was about to condense the concentrated black energy clusters, which carried a strong aura of destruction, into a talisman sword using the method of planting talismans and entrusting swords, those seemingly stable concentrated energy clusters began to fluctuate violently.

Fine cracks began to appear on the surface of the energy cluster, like an eggshell that had been broken from the inside.

The cracks spread outwards from the center of the energy cluster, becoming denser and deeper until the energy cluster finally disintegrated.

The concentrated black sword energy exploded from his palm, turning into countless tiny black light particles that scattered in all directions.

Wu You frowned.

"It failed."

Wu You was not discouraged by his first failed attempt.

He paused for a moment and then tried again.

With another thought, black sword energy once again overflowed from his palm.

This time he slowed down, controlling the flow of sword energy more carefully, distributing it more evenly between his fingers and compressing it more smoothly inward.

However, in the final step of condensation, the concentrated energy cluster still uncontrollably cracked and then dissipated back into black sword energy.

The second failure.

Come again.

The third attempt also failed...

The next few attempts also failed, each with the same result: just as the condensed black sword energy was about to condense and take shape according to the method of planting talismans and entrusting sword techniques, it would fluctuate violently and then disintegrate uncontrollably.

Wu You's brows furrowed even more.

Could it be that too much Pivot Sword Qi was inputted?

Could it be because the quantity is too large, exceeding the threshold that the Talisman-Supporting Sword Technique can handle?

He thought for a moment and began to adjust the amount of sword energy he was inputting.

He began to reduce the amount of sword energy he was inputting time and time again, but without exception, all of them still failed.

Even though Wu You controlled the amount of sword energy he inputted to a very small level, the Talisman Sword Technique still could not condense it into a talisman sword.

Each time, it would disintegrate in the final condensation stage, as if something was preventing these sword energies from being solidified into a form that could be stored.

A guess flashed through Wu You's mind: Could it be because the Pivot Tribulation Sword Qi involves the rules of destruction, and the level of the Seed Talisman Sword Technique is too low to condense and shape the Pivot Tribulation Sword Qi that involves the rules?

If that's the case, how should it be done?

How can the Sword Technique of Planting Symbols be modified to enable it to bear the power involved in those rules?

Wu You was at a loss for words for a moment.

After a few moments, he tried several more times without success, and had to temporarily abandon the idea of ​​condensing the various [Seven Tribulations Sword Chapters] into a talisman sword.

Wu You closed his eyes, and the path of the Sword Control Technique unfolded in his consciousness as he began to practice the Sword Control Technique.

More than an hour later, he opened his eyes. His silver eyes shone slightly in the moonlight, and the starlight flowing deep in his pupils seemed to slow down a bit.

I glanced at the Sword Manual panel: Sword Control Technique (Mastery) (200/10000) → Sword Control Technique (Mastery) (600/10000).

Wu You frowned.

He had a feeling that mastering the sword control technique would be a slow process, but he didn't expect it to be this slow.

In just over an hour, I gained 400 proficiency points. At this rate, it will take at least another 30 hours to raise my Sword Control Technique to the Perfect level.

Wu You sighed, "Thirty hours it is then."

"Practice whenever you have time, and you should be able to master it in a few days."

Next, Wu You began to experiment with some of his previous ideas about sword control techniques.

He originally had the idea of ​​integrating multiple types of Star Pivot Seven Luminaries Swords into a single talisman sword through the Talisman Sword Technique, or linking multiple talisman swords together to form a sword formation.

With the acquisition of sword control techniques, the concept of talisman sword formations can be further developed.

Sword control techniques allow one to wield and control a sword, and a talisman sword is also a sword!

Therefore, the sword control technique can be used to coordinate and control the talisman swords, allowing multiple talisman swords to be triggered in sequence, so that each talisman sword can exert its maximum effect.

For example, a set of talisman sword formations may contain the Tian Shu Po Jun Talisman Sword, the Tian Xuan Fu Xing Talisman Sword, the Tian Quan Wen Qu Talisman Sword, the Yu Heng Lian Zhen Talisman Sword, the Yao Guang Dong Ming Talisman Sword, and so on.

The trigger order of the talisman swords within the sword formation can be set: first, the Tianxuan Binding Star Talisman Sword is triggered to imprison the enemy; then, the Tianquan Wenqu Talisman Sword automatically finds the enemy's weakness; next, the Yaoguang Dongming Talisman Sword locks onto the weakness found by the Tianquan Wenqu Talisman Sword; and finally, the Tianshu Pojun Talisman Sword, which carries the additional damage from the Yuheng Lianzhen Talisman Sword, delivers the final blow to the enemy's weakness.

The combined effect of this approach will be absolutely explosive.

Based on the current power of the crafted talisman swords, Wu You estimated that an average ninth-tier cultivator would not be able to withstand this sword formation.

However, there is still one problem: he, who has mastered the art of sword control, can naturally do this.

But how can we combine sword control techniques with talisman swords to create a sword array that others can also use?

This requires shifting the control function of the sword-wielding technique from the "person" to the "sword formation" itself.

Let the sword formation control itself, and let the rune swords form a kind of automatic, pre-set linkage relationship.

In this way, it is not a person controlling the sword, but the sword formation controlling itself.

In this way, those who have not practiced sword control only need to activate the sword formation at the appropriate time, and the sword formation will automatically complete all subsequent operations according to the preset program.

Wu You lowered his silver eyes slightly, lost in thought.

Just as Wu You was frowning in thought, the pale silver sword-shaped mark between his eyebrows suddenly began to glow slightly, and at the same time, a strange feeling came from it.

Sensing something was wrong, Wu You immediately stopped thinking, closed his eyes, and carefully sensed the feeling emanating from the sword mark between his eyebrows.

That feeling—

It sounded like a faint voice from a distant place.

Is it a call? A prayer? A request?

Just as Wu Yougang was concentrating his attention to hear the sound more clearly.

The next moment, that strange feeling of elevated perspective that I had experienced before surged back.

(A terrible piece of news: Although Lao Yue has been very careful, because she writes slowly and still has to stare at the computer for four or five hours every day, her left eye pressure is too high again. She got back very late after finishing her IV drip today, so there are only two chapters for now. Lao Yue will try to add an extra chapter tomorrow at noon.)