Chapter 351 One Year Later

Guanling Mountain is a small hill about five hundred miles away from Zhiyuan City. The mountain is not high and does not have any beautiful scenery. The entire top of the mountain is bare and has no trees. From a distance, it looks like a small earth bag.

At this moment, in front of a cliff at the foot of the mountain, a man in black is sitting cross-legged. This man is about 26 or 27 years old. He has a handsome appearance and a straight posture. If you don't look at the long and narrow scar on his face, he would look like a man. He is also considered to be extremely handsome.

The man in black had been sitting here for an unknown period of time, but his body and head were covered with a thick layer of leaves, and it seemed that he had not moved for a long time.

The mountain, the person, and the tree seemed to have been frozen, and they had always maintained this image. It seems that even the roaring mountains and tsunami cannot change this picture.

At this moment, behind the man in black, there suddenly came a roar of dragon swords, and the entire mountain wall was shaking slightly, as if something was about to break out of the wall!

The man in black suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to look back. He saw a crackling sound on the mountain wall, and after a moment, several cracks seven or eight feet long appeared. These cracks are like miraculous workmanship, and the turning points are even more like carvings with a knife and an axe. They seem to be invaded by sword energy, revealing murderous intent.

Faced with such a strange sight, the man in black was not surprised but overjoyed, and even showed a long-lost smile on his face. He calmed down, turned around again, and glanced around with a vigilant expression, just like a bodyguard on guard.

At this moment, sitting cross-legged on the mountain wall, there is a young man in gray clothes. This man is in his early twenties. He has not washed himself for many days, his face is covered with dust, and he even has a layer of fine beard.

However, sword energy was surging all over his body at the moment, and sporadic sword energy escaped from the pores on his body from time to time, cutting the cave in the mountain wall beyond recognition.

After a moment like this, I suddenly saw that the sword intent around the young man's body was suddenly withdrawn, and then it all returned to this person's Dantian, and the young man's aura also changed accordingly, with a faint feeling of "the sword is hidden in the sheath, hidden but not released." The mysterious feeling!

At this moment, if a monk with great supernatural powers uses his soul to explore the details of this young man, he will surely find that there is a cyan long sword in his Dantian.

This long sword has no hilt, sword grille, sword pommel or sword tassel. Even the sword tip and sword edge are not very obvious. It is just a bare long green strip, like an inconspicuous branch.

But no one here would dare to say that it is not a sword, just because the sword intention in this "branch" is so powerful that although it is hidden in Liang Yan's dantian, there is also an aura that goes straight into the sky. The roar of dragons and swords heard by the man in black outside the mountain wall just now was coming from this thing.

At this time, the young man's eyes suddenly opened, and he woke up from his trance. He first turned his head and glanced around, then sighed softly:

"It's been a year. I didn't expect that it took me a whole year to condense the sword embryo!"

This young man is naturally Liang Yan, and the green "branches" in his dantian are naturally transformed from the "Eternal Mayfly Wood"!

A year ago, he was driven off Changning Mountain by Ning Bugui, but he also observed Ning Bugui's "Phaseless Sword Sutra" that day, and vaguely touched an opportunity to break through the "Sword Embryonic Stage".

Liang Yan had been taking sword-raising pills for more than a hundred days, and he was diligent in practicing the "Yin-Yang Sword Pill" technique. It has already reached the bottleneck, and there is only an opportunity to realize it, and the sword embryo can be condensed at any time.

And Ning Bu returned sooner rather than later, which happened to give him such an opportunity.

Liang Yan came down from Changning Mountain and felt something vaguely. He felt an impulse in his heart and wished he could start condensing the sword embryo on the spot and hit the "sword embryo stage".

However, he is still a somewhat rational person. He knows that this place is near the "Tomb of the Dead". If he encounters Wen Tao, one of the three guardians, he asks himself whether he can handle it. But if he meets Wu Jingwu, the owner of the dead man's tomb, he will have no choice but to die.

So after Liang Yan left Changning Mountain, he walked non-stop for nearly a thousand miles to the southwest until he entered the territory of another medium-sized demonic sect. Then he felt relieved and found a sparsely populated place. The small hills with no spiritual veins began to retreat.

But Liang Yan himself didn't expect that as soon as he sat in this mountain, spring would pass and autumn would come, and it would actually take a year for the sword embryo to take shape!

He had also learned from Zhuo Bufan before that in order to prevent any mistakes when condensing the sword embryo, sword cultivators were very cautious and did not dare to make any rash advances.

But even so, the one that took the longest time was only about three months. It has never been heard of someone like Liang Yan who took a year to practice.

Liang Yan could only smile bitterly at this, but he secretly felt that the reason why it took so long was probably related to the "Yin Yang Sword Pill" technique in the "Tao Sword Classic".

This method is too weird. It not only condenses the sword embryo, but also uses the sword embryo in the Dantian as the "inner sword elixir", uses the sword outside one's body as the "outer sword elixir", and then uses Taoist secret techniques to conduct yin and yang. For a practitioner, this is tantamount to practicing two natal flying swords at the same time, which is why it takes so much time.

However, although it took a lot of time, he has now officially entered the "sword embryo stage" and can be regarded as a true sword cultivator. As long as you practice diligently from now on, there will eventually be a time when the natal flying sword will be separated from the body.

At that time, he, Liang Yan, could ascend to heaven and earth, enter and leave the underworld, and become a carefree little swordsman from now on.

Thinking of this, Liang Yan couldn't help but feel a little expectant. He looked inside and looked at the green "branches" in his body, and couldn't help but murmur to himself:

"Since you are transformed from the 'Eternal Mayfly Wood', why not call you 'Mayfly Sword' from now on!"

As if sensing the name given by the master, the green "branches" in the dantian trembled slightly and made a cheerful sword sound, as if in response to Liang Yan.

Liang Yan was a little overjoyed when he saw this. Although he knew that after the sword cultivator entered the "sword embryo stage", his compatibility with Feijian would be greatly improved, and Feijian would slowly develop its own spirituality. But that was only after several years or even more than ten years of cultivation in the dantian. Who would have expected that the "Ephemera Sword" would have developed a trace of spirituality just after entering the sword embryo stage.

However, after he thought about it, he felt that it was normal. After all, this "Ephemera Sword" evolved from the Qing Emperor's physical body, and was later imprinted with his own sword intention by the Taoist seekers. Naturally, there were some extraordinary things. A mere spirituality was not enough. No wonder.