Immortal Reincarnation Tribulation

Chapter 109 Level 2 Water Shadow Sword

Now that he had completed the stabilization phase of the third level of Qi Refining, he took out two bottles of Qi Refining Essential Oil, opened one of them, and instead of dripping it, poured a small sip directly into his mouth before beginning to circulate the Water Guiding Technique and begin his cultivation.

For more than half a month, Du Fan remained motionless. At this time, there were already four or five empty bottles on the ground in front of him.

Two days later, Du Fan slowly opened his eyes, a look of exhaustion in them.

"My cultivation has reached the peak of the third level of Qi Refining. Next, I will break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining!" Du Fan's eyes showed a decisive look. He immediately took a small sip of the Mind-Concentrating Essence Oil and began to regulate his breathing.

Several hours later, the fatigue on Du Fan's face faded, and his physical condition had reached its peak.

At this moment, he no longer hesitated, and suddenly drank a mouthful of Qi-refining essential oil, thus attempting a breakthrough.

Time passed slowly, until late at night on the fifth day, when Du Fan suddenly felt a roar in his mind, and a trace of pain appeared between his brows, but his face was full of joy.

He immediately felt that many hidden meridians in his body, like a spider web, were being opened one by one. In a short while, a large amount of magical power filled his body. Only after completing a cycle in his body according to a certain trajectory did Du Fan feel extremely comfortable.

Du Fan finally broke through to the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage after consuming and refining Qi Refining Essential Oil day and night.

His magical power was now much stronger, and his spiritual sense was also considerably more powerful.

Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he abruptly raised his arm and grabbed at an empty bottle on the ground.

The empty bottle that originally contained the Qi-refining essential oil trembled slightly and then flew into Du Fan's palm.

With a flash, the empty bottle appeared in Du Fan's hand, which he held firmly.

"This is... the innate skill that naturally unlocks after one's cultivation reaches the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage, the Art of Object Control. It's really useful!" Du Fan looked at the small bottle in his hand, a hint of joy on his face, and muttered to himself.

"The Art of Object Control can be unlocked at the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage, the second level at the seventh level of the Qi Refining stage, and it can only be perfected after the Foundation Establishment stage. Only then can one truly master the control of objects."

The contents recorded in the jade slip belonging to the Peony Fairy unconsciously surfaced in Du Fan's mind.

He pondered for a while, but instead of getting up, he swallowed half a bottle of Qi Refining Oil and began to regulate his breathing, intending to stabilize his cultivation at the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage.

At the break of dawn the next day, Du Fan slowly opened his eyes, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light, and compared to before, he seemed to have gained some indescribable charisma.

Du Fan got up, rinsed himself in the spirit pond, and then went to the pavilion to hurriedly begin to comprehend the second-level Water Shadow Sword.

He held a jade slip in his hand and sat there for a whole day until dusk, when Du Fan's expression suddenly changed.

"I've figured it out. The second-level Water Shadow Sword is much more complicated than the first-level one, but if I were to practice it, one night would be enough." Du Fan muttered to himself as he got up and walked back to the training room, lost in thought.

The next morning, Du Fan emerged from the attic again, looking somewhat disheveled, but his eyes gleamed with excitement.

In the courtyard where he was, there was a place that resembled a martial arts training ground. Du Fan walked there.

Standing before him was a wall two zhang long and two zhang wide, and one chi thick, with fluorescent light flowing on it, giving it a somewhat crystal-clear feel, clearly shrouded by a layer of restriction.

This wall was naturally intended for cultivators to test their spells.

Du Fan moved his arm, took out the elder's token, and waved it at the wall. The next moment, the layer of restrictive light covering the wall surface seemed to have weakened a bit.

Du Fan then put away the token, took a deep breath, made a hand seal, and secretly circulated his internal magic power. In an instant, a two-foot-long light blue sword appeared in the void in front of him, hovering there. It was clearly the spell of the first-level Water Shadow Sword.

With a soft shout, he suddenly swung his arm against the wall, and the pale blue sword emitted a clear sound before transforming into a beam of blue light that shot towards the wall.

After a loud bang, the water-shadow sword formed by the magic collapsed and disappeared, leaving only a sword mark about an inch deep on the wall.

Upon seeing this, Du Fan frowned.

Without saying a word, he raised his magical power and chanted incantations. Points of spiritual light appeared in front of him. After a short while, the spiritual light gathered in the center, and a blue longsword about half a zhang in size appeared.

This sword is a bit darker in color than before, and the blade is more than twice the size. It doesn't seem illusory; it looks like a real object. It is indeed the second-level Water Shadow Sword that Du Fan activated.

Du Fan let out a low shout, and with a sudden flick of his arm, the longsword in front of him whistled towards the wall with a buzzing sound. Both its momentum and speed were far superior to the previous level one Water Shadow Sword, making them completely incomparable.

The moment the blue lightsaber made contact with the wall, a deafening roar erupted. The protective crystals on the wall flashed wildly, but only lasted for a moment before the blue lightsaber pierced through the wall behind it.

Another sound of stone shattering rang out. After the Water Shadow Sword spell dissipated, a hole the size of a thigh had appeared in the wall, completely penetrating it.

"The power of the Level 2 Water Shadow Sword is so much stronger than that of the Level 1 one!" Du Fan was also taken aback when he saw this.

Then his eyes flashed, and with a flick of his wrist, a beam of silver light shot out from his Qiankun Ring and was caught in his hand.

What he held in his hand was a three-foot-long, two-finger-wide silver sword, its surface shimmering with silver light, making it look quite extraordinary.

At the hilt, there is a groove about the size of a thumb, and near the groove, there are several circles of complex patterns. This sword is clearly the low-grade magic weapon of the sword type that Qixia Sect gave to it.

With his current cultivation level of the fourth stage of Qi Refining, he can activate and use it.

With another flick of his finger, Du Fan produced a low-grade spirit stone in his hand. He expressionlessly placed the spirit stone into the groove of the sword hilt.

A moment later, the spirit stone slowly disappeared as if ice and snow were melting. At the same time, the runes near the sword hilt lit up, flashing with silver light.

Upon seeing this, Du Fan frowned, because the inscribed array here consisted of three rings, none of which were lit up at the moment.

After a moment's thought, he guessed the secret. Without saying a word, he took out two more low-grade spirit stones and put them into the sword. After the two spirit stones disappeared, the three rings of patterns on the sword hilt finally lit up and flashed with silver light.

Du Fan nodded in satisfaction, made a hand seal with one hand, chanted incantations, and flicked his wrist, unleashing the level two Water Shadow Sword spell with the help of the magic weapon.

The moment a deep blue sword shadow, about ten feet in size, detached from the magical weapon, it emitted a violent roar, transformed into a streak of light, and, accompanied by countless illusory sword shadows, crashed towards the wall in front of it.

Wherever it passed, space seemed to distort, and a series of hissing sounds arose. In an instant, the blue streak of light struck the wall.

A deafening roar suddenly erupted.

Looking at the protective light barrier on the surface of the wall, it was shattered inch by inch, and the wall itself, which was two zhang in size, collapsed completely and no longer existed.

Upon witnessing this scene, Du Fan gasped in shock, his expression showing horror before he recovered after a long while.

"The level two Water Shadow Sword, which is activated by the magic weapon, is probably no less powerful than a level three one," Du Fan muttered to himself, resting his chin on his hand.

After a long while, Du Fan glanced at the collapsed wall ruins in front of him and felt a headache coming on.

If he had known the final blow would be so terrifying, he would have activated an additional layer of protective barrier, and things wouldn't be like this now.

With a sigh, Du Fan could only call over an inner sect servant to repair the trial wall, as he would need to practice his spells here frequently in the future.

In less than an hour, the inner sect servants arrived at Du Fan's villa with great excitement.

Although Du Fan was prepared, he was still taken aback by the scene before him. There were more than twenty of these inner sect servants, and Fan Xin and Ding Quan were among them.

After a moment of silence, Du Fan, not caring about the tip of twenty-odd spirit stones, had them work together to repair the trial wall.

After giving the tip and sending the other inner disciples away, Du Fan, for some unknown reason, left Fan Xin alone and asked him to wait for him in the pavilion in the courtyard.

He himself went to the laboratory and began to extract the essence of a sixty-year-old spiritual flower called "Snow Lotus" using newly made ripening powder.

Two hours later, Du Fan emerged from the laboratory, carrying a bottle of milky white liquid, and walked straight into the pavilion.

"Fan Xin, go to Jinling City for me and give this item to the Seven Star Merchant Alliance branch there. Have the person in charge there forward it to Vice Alliance Leader Xiao Yan of the main alliance. Just tell them my name, and they should know what to do."

Du Fan handed the small bottle to Fan Xin and gave him these instructions.

"To Jinling City? May I ask Elder Du, is there a time limit for this transport?" Fan Xin was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, and after pondering for a moment, he asked.

"There's not much of a rush, so why do you ask?" Du Fan asked, also taken aback.

"It is like this. This place is not very close to Jinling City. With my speed, it would probably take me more than half a month to get there. If Elder Du is in a hurry, there is also a one-way teleportation array in the sect to Jinling City."

After a slight hesitation, Fan Xin voiced his thoughts.

Upon hearing this, Du Fan quickly understood Fan Xin's meaning and immediately asked, "How many spirit stones does this teleportation array consume per attempt?"

"The one-way teleportation array that leads to Jinling City is a small teleportation array, and each teleportation costs two hundred low-grade spirit stones," Fan Xin said respectfully.

"Two hundred low-grade spirit stones? That's two mid-grade spirit stones. Although I'm not in a hurry to finish this, you don't need to skimp on these spirit stones." Du Fan nodded and said.

He then flicked his fingers, and suddenly two mid-grade spirit stones and more than ten low-grade spirit stones appeared in his hand. With a flick of his wrist, he tossed all the spirit stones in his hand to Fan Xin.