The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

For the next period of time, Long Xuan stayed at Long Ziyan’s home, practically living in her room, and they spent their days together in comfort.

During this time, they continuously exchanged their cultivation insights, with the most discussed topic being how to comprehend Sword Intent.

Sword Intent is an enigmatic concept—something that can only be understood but not easily explained. It’s impossible to record insights on Sword Intent through words, as no language can describe the true comprehension of it.

Thus, understanding Sword Intent relies entirely on oneself. It all depends on personal perception, and there’s no way to impart it through verbal teaching.

Despite their many days of discussion, Long Xuan was still confused, having no clear idea of what exactly Sword Intent was.

All he knew was that Sword Intent was an intangible form of attack, capable of piercing through anything, with a long-range offensive capability. When attached to a sword, it made the sword even sharper and more indestructible.

Moreover, Sword Intent carries the wielder's will. Since everyone's will differs, the Sword Intent they comprehend will also vary, such as Destruction Sword Intent, Slaughter Sword Intent, or Heartless Sword Intent...

With her Nine Yin Severing veins Physique, Long Ziyan had a natural affinity for ice-based powers, so it was highly probable that the Sword Intent she would comprehend would be Ice Sword Intent.

Even the same type of Sword Intent would have different strengths when comprehended by different people. Given Long Ziyan’s innate sword bones, the Ice Sword Intent she would eventually comprehend was bound to be the strongest Ice Sword Intent.

However, even though Long Ziyan was born with sword bones, she still had only a vague understanding of comprehending Sword Intent and was at a loss as to how to grasp it.

It seemed that comprehending Sword Intent was extremely difficult for her as well, and it was impossible to achieve it in a short period of time.

Long Xuan was anxious; his Blade Gu needed to evolve to be of use to him. This matter couldn’t be delayed. He didn’t want to reach the Spiritual Sea stage only to find his Blade Gu still hadn’t evolved.

So, one day, as he watched Long Ziyan on the swing, a sudden thought came to him. Grasping the fleeting inspiration, he hurriedly asked, “Ziyan, I’ve thought of a way to help you comprehend Sword Intent.”

“I want to create a type of formation, a phantom formation that can attack intruders with various kinds of Sword Intent.”

“I believe that if anyone experiences death a few hundred or even a thousand times under different Sword Intents, even if they were a dumb pig, they would eventually comprehend Sword Intent.”

“But this formation has a special feature: those killed by the Sword Intent won’t truly die. They can resurrect and challenge the formation again. By attempting countless times, it’s only a matter of time before they can comprehend Sword Intent.”

A gleam of light flashed in Long Xuan’s eyes as he realized this plan was entirely feasible.

He intended to borrow from the illusions of the Origin Realm, just as he had used the principle of tomb raiding in the Origin Realm last time. He could die countless times within the tomb, but his body outside would awaken at the moment of death, allowing him to challenge the tomb again. After countless attempts, he would eventually clear it.

As for simulating various types of Sword Intent in the illusion, he already had a plan.

The demonic flower he had brought out from the Empress’s ancient tomb was no ordinary flower. It had lived for countless years, surviving numerous epochs.

During this long span of time, the demonic flower had killed countless powerful beings, including numerous sword cultivators.

The flower’s ability was to perfectly replicate all of a person's abilities, including the difficult-to-grasp Sword Intent.

Long Xuan didn’t know how many sword cultivators the demonic flower had killed, but it could currently replicate over a hundred types of Sword Intent.

This was a terrifying number. Those who could comprehend Sword Intent were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, extremely hard to find.

For the demonic flower to be able to replicate over a hundred types of Sword Intent over the ages, one can only imagine how many people it had killed.

The bodies of those who died at its hands must have long since piled up into mountains, and it grew by sucking the blood of these mountains of corpses. R̃Αɴ𝖔𝐛Ɛ𝙨

Thus, using the demonic flower as the core of the phantom formation, creating an formation that could unleash countless Sword Intent attacks was not an idle fantasy.

The more Long Xuan thought about it, the brighter his eyes shone. The problem that had troubled him for many days had finally found its solution today.

As she swung, Long Ziyan glanced at him sideways and said helplessly, “Are you dreaming? There’s no such formation in this world, nor is there an illusion technique that allows one to die and yet not die.”

“Even if the body doesn’t enter the illusion and only the spiritual self does, once the spirit is shredded by the Sword Intent, the body will also die. Once consciousness is destroyed, even an undying body is useless. How could someone possibly die and then be reborn?”

“A person killed countless times by Sword Intent may indeed have a chance to comprehend it, but no one has that many lives to spare.”

“Otherwise, this world would be in chaos, and everyone would be able to comprehend Sword Intent.”

“If this formation were spread to a world full of sword cultivators, wouldn’t it drive all the sword cultivators mad? They’d risk their lives to charge into the formation.”

“By then, every sword cultivator would have Sword Intent, and you’d be triggering a revolution in the world of swords, sweeping across the entire world.”

“One could say that with this, you’d be single-handedly elevating an entire profession. This would be a heaven-defying achievement that would go down in history. You’d become famous!”

Long Ziyan smiled as she looked at Long Xuan, completely disbelieving what he said.

"This kind of thing is simply too extraordinary and goes against the natural order. How could I possibly believe it?"

"Any new creation is met with disbelief. Most people are bound by their conventional thinking and are unwilling to accept anything new," Long Xuan provocatively said as he looked at her. "I have confidence in my idea. How about we make a bet? Let's see if I can successfully develop this formation."

"If I win the bet, you'll let me control you for a month, doing whatever I say."

"If I lose, you can do whatever you want with me."

Long Xuan looked at her with a mischievous smile.

Long Ziyan immediately blushed. She knew exactly what Long Xuan meant. He wanted to do things that she had not agreed to before. If he truly won, she would be without dignity for the next month.

Impossible. There’s no way he could create such an outrageous formation. He couldn’t even simulate something as simple as Sword Intent because he doesn’t understand it. How could he create a formation that releases various types of Sword Intent? He’s dreaming.

He’s overconfident and has forgotten that someone who doesn’t understand Sword Intent cannot create illusions of it.

He’s driven by his desires and has made such a silly mistake. It’s laughable.

Long Ziyan pondered for a moment, then suddenly sneered, "Fine! I’ll take that bet!"

"I’d like to see what skills you have to create a formation that would overturn the entire Sword Realm. If you win, I’ll do whatever you say!"

"Good! It’s a deal! Hahaha... Wait for my good news. I will make you truly convinced!" Long Xuan laughed heartily, finally getting up and running outside.

He needed to start preparing the materials for this formation. Naturally, materials for a formation that could enhance an entire profession wouldn’t be simple. His wealth might be greatly diminished—no, it might not even be enough.

Although he had contributed to researching the Dragon Blood Battle Gu and was rewarded two billion contributions by the Western lands Long Clan, the clan is currently besieged, and the contributions from Western lands Long Clan couldn’t be spent within the Far Western Long Clan.

Moreover, the two billion contributions haven’t even been received yet.

After much consideration, Long Xuan decided to continue milking the Far Western Long Clan by submitting self-created Gu techniques.

The Far West Long Clan had already made a fortune by using the Space house to conduct various businesses. The treasures piled up in the Treasure Pavilion are like mountains. It’s time to milk them again.

As for what kind of Gu technique to create, Long Xuan couldn’t be bothered to think too much. He might as well submit the Longevity Gu that can upgrade the Sou Gu. This technique alone is worth a billion.

This technology is truly terrifying, and its low cost is enough to render the teleportation formations obsolete, monopolizing the world's teleportation business.

This is a groundbreaking technology that will have a sensational effect and shake the world.

The interests involved in this technology are so immense that even if the Far West Long Clan joined forces with the Western lands Long Clan, they couldn’t guard such vast wealth. They might need to join forces with more relatives and have stronger allies to support them.

But there’s no rush for that now. The key is to create the formation diagram first. Without the formation diagram, how would you know what materials are needed?

With that thought, Long Xuan finally left Long Ziyan’s boudoir and ran back to his own cave to start working on the formation diagram.

Watching Long Xuan's departing figure, Long Ziyan finally let out a long sigh of relief. She could finally rest for a few days. She already regretted choosing a man with such powerful physical strength as her dual-cultivation partner. She had brought this trouble upon herself.

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Half a year passed by in the blink of an eye. In a small pavilion, Long Xuan wrote the three large characters "Immortal-Slaying Formation" on the cover of a book. His handwriting was as fluid as a dragon. He put down the pen and revealed a satisfied smile.

After six months, the formation that could release countless types of Sword Intent was finally completed. He was looking forward to seeing Long Ziyan’s expression when she saw this formation.

Long Xuan showed a wicked smile of satisfaction.

The name "Immortal-Slaying Formation" sounded extremely domineering. The reason for choosing this name was simply that it sounded powerful and murderous enough to even slay immortals.

People unfamiliar with the formation would probably think it was a world-renowned killing formation, scared off by its name alone.

However, calling the Immortal-Slaying Formation a killing formation wouldn't be entirely inaccurate.

If the Immortal-Slaying Formation could repeatedly resurrect a person, it could serve as an auxiliary formation to help someone comprehend Sword Intent.

But what if its resurrection feature was turned off?

Then, of course, it would become a supreme killing formation where anyone who entered would surely die.

Tsk tsk, the Immortal-Slaying Formation contained over a hundred types of Sword Intent, over a hundred types of Saber Intent, and even the rare Gun Intent, Staff Intent, and Whip Intent…

There were so many types of intent, covering any weapon imaginable, too many to count.

Who could withstand that? Anyone who recklessly entered this world filled with various Intents would be torn to pieces in an instant.

Even though this formation was an illusionary formation, its killing power surpassed that of most actual killing formations.

Long Xuan was incredibly satisfied with the Immortal-Slaying Formation he had created. This was another great invention for the world.

The heaven-defying formation he created was enough to leave a significant mark in this world’s history and shock the entire world.

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