My Golden Core is a Star, do you call this cultivating?

Zang Hua was a terrifying powerhouse from the Celestial Era. Her strength was notable even during the God Court period.

However, she was most remembered for her love and hatred towards the Heavenly God.

Even among top-tier powerhouses, gossip and drama existed.

"Little Bride, step back!" Qi Yuan instructed, raising his precious sword and stepping forward.

This time, he did not merge with Little Bride but chose to face the challenge alone.

To be honest, this was his first time in the game fighting against an intelligent being.

"Your talent is good, but your achievements rely solely on the Heavenly God's legacy, don't they?" Zang Hua said, her eyes reddening.

In the distance, other powerful beings from the Divine Realm were watching.

Zang Hua's words resonated with some, while others understood she harbored resentment.

Zang Hua had always admired the Heavenly God, fighting battles for him. Unfortunately, the position of the Emperor's Empress went to the Bridal Queen.

Proud as Zang Hua was, she even lowered her head, willing to be a concubine, but was rejected by the Heavenly God.

Zang Hua's emotions towards the Heavenly God and the Bridal Queen were complex.

Now, the husband of the Bridal Queen, the new Master of the Clothes Department, had suddenly risen to power.

Many believed this was due to numerous gifts left by the Heavenly God, possibly including treasures that enhanced talent.

Moreover, Zang Hua never liked the Clothes Department and had a particular aversion to the new Bridal Queen, the daughter of the Heavenly God and that woman.

Therefore, even after Dragon Judge subdued Hitomi, and others remained silent, she stood up.

"Besides your talent, what else do you have?"

"Have you experienced the chaos of the Western Sea?"

"Have you ever fought against the three great domains?"

"Without experiencing major battles, you are just a fledgling eagle, incapable of defeating the extraterritorial demons!"

Zang Hua shouted, "Let me show you what it means to be one of the Ten Generals of the God Court!"

Zang Hua was one of the former Ten Generals of the God Court!

In the God Court, her status was second only to the Heavenly God and the four department heads.

She had fought countless battles, large and small, thousands of times in her life.

She was a woman who had crawled out of a sea of blood, standing on a mountain of corpses.

As she made her move, it was a barrage of endless fierce attacks.

Qi Yuan's vision was filled with Zang Hua's figures.

Zang Hua's strongest martial art was the Infinite Sea of Flowers!

Countless flower petals danced in the air, with hundreds of Zang Hua's figures moving among them, launching different attacks at Qi Yuan.

Unless one's martial heart and spirit far surpassed Zang Hua's, they could not distinguish which were real and which were illusions.

This move was highly effective against inexperienced fighters.

Qi Yuan held his sword in front of him.

In the Xuanyuan Forbidden, the Clothing Crown Forbidden, and the Five Elements Forbidden, Qi Yuan had killed tens of thousands of monsters, gaining a wealth of combat experience, far exceeding even the disciples and elders of the Divine Light Sect.

However, his previous opponents were mostly mindless monsters.

They could not compare to Zang Hua.
Or rather, their combat experience was not on the same level.

Qi Yuan thrust his sword, powerful and unyielding.

Amid countless afterimages, he locked onto Zang Hua's true body.

Because his eyes could see hints.

His sword struck, and a look of surprise flashed in Zang Hua's eyes.

She couldn't dodge in time and pushed her palm forward.

Slash!

The collision of sword and flesh should have favored the sword.

However, a cunning smile appeared in Zang Hua's eyes, "You are still too young."

The force penetrated through the sword, directly entering Qi Yuan's chest.

Even though Qi Yuan had defenses all over his body, he was still slightly injured by the penetrating force.

Pale-faced, he looked at the blood-soaked Zang Hua with a calm expression, "You are right."

In the distance, the watching giants of the Divine Realm spoke, their eyes filled with admiration.

"He was able to injure Zang Hua."

"It seems we have underestimated him; he is not just a mere cultivator prodigy!"

"The Infinite Sea of Flowers, even I cannot identify Zang Hua's true body. How did he do it?"

"He is still too young and was tricked by Zang Hua."

"Such a pity, he is still too immature."

Three hundred years... is too short, too short." Yu spoke, his expression complex.

The Master of the Clothes Department had only appeared for a few days and had already achieved perfection in the Five Elements, a talent unmatched in history.

Given enough time, who knows what he could achieve?

Everyone watched Zang Hua and Qi Yuan.

At this moment, Qi Yuan closed his eyes.

His combat skills had mostly been against monsters, enough for dealing with ordinary people.

But against extraterritorial demons, it was far from sufficient.

However, Qi Yuan was not alone.

He closed his eyes and said towards Zang Hua, "Thank you, let's go again."

At this moment, the experiences and cultivation insights of that burly man slowly emerged in Qi Yuan's mind.

That burly man, who idled in his youth and suddenly enlightened after reading a book in middle age, was a powerful swordsman.

Qi Yuan, wielding a sword, found that the burly man's swordsmanship experience was the most suitable for him.

At this moment, he forgot his own skills.

He seemed to transform into that burly man.

Holding the sword, he battled an evil flood dragon in the East Sea for seven days, skinning and dismembering the dragon.

He cleaved open the earth, slaying a demonic being in the underground.

Qi Yuan, holding his sword, emanated the aura of the sword, brewing, accumulating, like dark clouds.

"Qing Pingzi, a duel with you!" Qi Yuan opened his eyes, and in an instant, the sword's sharpness shot towards the sky, piercing through the clouds, revealing a dazzling light to the world.

Zang Hua's lips curled into a mocking smile, her expression disdainful, as if saying, "Is that all?"

At the same time, in the Five Elements Forbidden, a coffin lid was lifted.

The burly man looked somewhat pale, gazing towards the Yin-Yang Forbidden with admiration, "The kid is not bad, has three-tenths of my past glory. But his appearance and demeanor still lack refinement, needing more tempering."

"Spit... Ptooey!" He habitually spat outside the coffin.

...

After logging out of the game, Qi Yuan didn't read but closed his eyes.

He was reflecting on the battle with Zang Hua in the Yin-Yang Forbidden.

Zang Hua, indeed worthy of being one of the Ten Generals of the God Court, had incredible combat strength and techniques that Qi Yuan could not match before.

He immersed himself in the combat experiences and insights of Qing Pingzi, battling Zang Hua.

He learned part of Qing Pingzi's combat experience.

His eyes were particularly effective against Zang Hua's strongest technique, the Infinite Sea of Flowers.

Zang Hua didn't use this technique again, significantly weakening her strength.

Thus, Qi Yuan gradually gained the upper hand. As he understood Qing Pingzi's swordsmanship more, he fought more valiantly.

Zang Hua was defeated.

He obtained the divine reflections of many strong beings in the Yin-Yang Forbidden as he wished.

Exhausted, he had to log off.

As for how to control the Yin-Yang Forbidden, that would have to wait until the next login.

"Swordsmanship, now I can be considered a true swordsman, right?" Qi Yuan thought.

However, he realized he still had significant differences from true swordsmen.

Sword cultivators of the Great Shang Kingdom had a sword in which they entrusted their entire mind and spirit.
If the sword broke, the person would be injured.

He didn't have that; he wasn't a true sword cultivator.

Though powerful, his weapon wasn't a sword, and Qi Yuan didn't want to entrust his life and fortune to a single treasure.

"The Qi of the Five Elements is still being replaced, probably wood will be next." Qi Yuan pondered, wondering if it would cause another small shock to the Shinguang Sect.

This replacement was related to the order of fusion with the Five Ancestors.

He left his courtyard, standing halfway up the Seven Colors Peak, inhaling and exhaling Qi, with golden light emanating from his breath.

"Fortunately, it's not fire, or I'd be a Calabash Brother."

At this moment, a flying crane appeared in Qi Yuan's sight.

The crane carried a visiting card in its beak.

The crane flew straight towards Qi Yuan, dropping the visiting card into his hands.

"Wanfeng Peak, Dong Xian? Visiting me?"

Qi Yuan thought hard but couldn't recall who Dong Xian was.

"Let's meet then." Qi Yuan found it peculiar.

After all, he was used to being a salted fish (lazy person); many in the Divine Light Sect knew of him, but it was rare for someone to visit him.

"Sure." He responded on the visiting card.

The crane picked up the invitation and flew away from the Seven Colors Peak.

About a quarter of an hour later, a black-clad youth appeared in Qi Yuan's sight.

Seeing the youth, Qi Yuan was stunned.

"You call yourself Dong Xian? Aren't you called Xiao Yan?"

Dong Xian: "… Senior Brother, my name is not Xiao Yan; you must have mistaken me."

Hearing this, Qi Yuan felt somewhat helpless.

If he had known it was him, he wouldn't have agreed to meet.

"What business do you have with me?" Since they had already met, Qi Yuan naturally wouldn't send Dong Xian away.

In case he offended this person and he angrily left the mountain with a "Don't bully the young and poor", Qi Yuan felt he wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

A eager smile appeared on Dong Xian's face: "Senior Brother, I've heard you're obsessed with games. I have a few collector's editions here."

As Dong Xian spoke, he took out several game jade slips.

This time, he had bled heavily, taking out his treasured games just to build a relationship with Qi Yuan.

After they became familiar, he could then invite Senior Brother Qi Yuan to participate in the Dragon Seizing Battle.

Qi Yuan took the jade slips, and as soon as his hand touched them, a scene appeared in his mind.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Qi Yuan held the jade slips, this was the first time he had come into contact with contraband from another world.

This game was the kind where real people acted as NPCs, of course only projections.

Some of the plots had extremely large scales.

Moreover, it deeply grasped the essence of role-playing.

The female cultivators inside included charming and enchanting fox spirits, female cultivator sisters from neighboring caves, arrogant and unreasonable young ladies, and cold and proud female sword immortals.

Of course, these game jade slips, unbeknownst to have this type, also had a combat type, which could simulate Foundation Establishment cultivators fighting, improving the experience of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

"Is Senior Brother satisfied?" Dong Xian lowered his voice and said, revealing an expression of a kindred spirit.

Qi Yuan glanced sideways at Dong Xian: "I'm currently in sage mode and not interested in these things. Tell me, what did you come to find me for?"

Qi Yuan returned the game jade slips to Dong Xian.

But thinking it wasn't good, he casually kept one, which happened to be the female sword immortal one.

Dong Xian was a bit confused at first.

This Senior Brother Qi Yuan indeed spoke strangely.

But it was good that he kept one jade slip, so a relationship could be established.

Sometimes, a good way to build a relationship is to ask for advice from others, while allowing them to demonstrate their exceptional abilities.

After all, many people like to teach others.

"I've heard that Senior Brother's knife techniques are very good, I specifically came to ask Senior Brother for advice..." Dong Xian said half of his words, then paused.

In his mind, Artifact Elder's urgent voice came through.

"Sword techniques! Ask about sword techniques!"

Dong Xian didn't understand, but still said as Artifact Elder instructed: "To ask Senior Brother for advice on sword techniques."

Good at knife techniques, asking about sword techniques?

Is it me who has a problem or you? Qi Yuan looked at Dong Xian, feeling that this person only had the fate of a protagonist, but his head didn't seem to work well.

However, he didn't mind.

Why should he argue with someone whose head had problems?

"Sword techniques, I happen to know a bit." Qi Yuan spoke.

His sword techniques were indeed not bad.

Not to mention the Heaven-Slashing Sword Drawing Technique he originally knew, the sword techniques in Qingping Zi's memories were also very powerful.

"Which aspect do you want to know about?" Qi Yuan asked.

Artifact Elder didn't transmit any more messages, he just wanted to see how Qi Yuan's sword techniques were.

After all, there were rumors that the Black Mountain Sect had been wiped out, and for some reason, he always felt it had some inexplicable connection with this Qi Yuan.

Or perhaps, it was related to the people behind Qi Yuan.

He wanted to see some clues from Qi Yuan's sword techniques.

Dong Xian lowered his head in thought, then said: "Now that I'm only at Qi Cultivation, I can't nurture a natal sword like sword cultivators, but I want to be like sword cultivators, where one sword strike can make flying birds fall. Are there any good sword techniques that can achieve this?"

Dong Xian made things up, finally landing on sword techniques.

Hearing this, Qi Yuan looked at Dong Xian with some surprise: "You kid are indeed not bad, with the potential of Xiao Yan.

Sword cultivators are strong, their strength lies in their natal swords.

Unfortunately, Qi Cultivation realm cultivators can hardly have natal swords."

Firstly, natal swords were too precious, and Qi Cultivation realm cultivators couldn't afford them; secondly, Qi Cultivation realm cultivators lacked spiritual power and couldn't project their divine sense, so they couldn't control swords.

Therefore, the combat power of sword cultivators at the Qi Cultivation realm was actually just average.

It wasn't until the Foundation Establishment period that the strength of sword cultivators was manifested.

Qi Yuan continued: "Without a natal sword, but we can have... qi swords!"

"Qi swords? What's that?" Dong Xian was stunned.

"Qi Cultivation cultivators, what do they cultivate? It's a breath of primordial qi, a breath of spiritual qi! Since there's qi, then we can use qi to form swords, project sword qi, and kill invisibly!" Qi Yuan spoke eloquently.

Qingping Zi's sword dao, when cultivated to the end, was to use qi to form swords. With no sword in hand, qi became the sword.

At a higher realm, one's self became the sword.

This was somewhat similar to some sword cultivators forging themselves into a natal sword, different paths leading to the same destination.

"Using qi to form swords is indeed good, but you must be careful not to go astray and use qi to form horses, that's not a good thing." Qi Yuan said earnestly.

Dong Xian: "???"

He was completely confused.

Why was it that he understood every word Senior Brother Qi Yuan said, but when put together, he didn't understand what it meant?

"Senior Brother Qi Yuan, what does it mean for Qi Cultivation to use qi to form swords?"