Time to act!
Wang Xiu held the Nether Blood Immortal-Slaying Sword and began attempting to merge the two great sword techniques—"Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash" and "Immortal-Slaying Strike."
Of course.
The two sword techniques were fundamentally distinct—merging them would be no simple feat.
Unless one were a true supreme grandmaster of the sword dao, it was basically unthinkable. Fortunately, Wang Xiu's requirements were not that high.
He didn't dare hope to perfectly fuse the two sword techniques. He merely wanted to borrow a portion of the "Immortal-Slaying Strike's" profound mysteries, building upon the foundation of "Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash."
In other words.
He only wanted to incorporate the damage-boosting property of the Immortal-Slaying Strike—one that borrowed the exotic vital blood within the Immortal-Slaying Sword—into his Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash.
As the master of the Immortal-Slaying Sword, he had the sword spirit's assistance.
Furthermore, his Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash had already reached perfection. Achieving this wasn't difficult for him.
Time.
Passed minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye, an entire night had gone by.
When the morning light pierced through the darkness, Wang Xiu finally stirred from his meditation, sword light bursting from his eyes.
Sword, come!
His right hand's five fingers curled slightly.
Immediately.
The Nether Blood Immortal-Slaying Sword beside him let out a crisp ring and flew into his grasp.
In an instant.
An endless sea of blood materialized behind Wang Xiu. Concentrated vital blood energy surged into his body, but Wang Xiu did not refine or absorb it.
Instead, following the circulation pathway of the Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash, it rapidly transformed into surging sword qi, vast and mighty.
When the sword technique's great cycle was complete.
Wang Xiu leaped into the courtyard and fiercely swung his sword. In an instant, sword qi soared to the heavens.
Roar~
One after another, corpulent blood-colored pig phantoms shot from the blade in Wang Xiu's hand, roaring and rampaging through the void, radiating a fierce sword dao edge.
One!
Two!
Three!
...
The vital blood energy gathered more and more.
At first.
They all maintained the form of fat pigs, but when the blood-colored pig phantoms reached seven, Wang Xiu suddenly caught a mysterious sensation from the void.
Converge!
In an instant, the seven blood-colored pig phantoms began burning fiercely. Amidst the roaring flames, the seven pig phantoms started merging into one.
Ultimately.
They actually transformed into a crimson fire dragon, claws bared and fangs bared, shooting forward.
Boom~
A massive blue stone block, over ten feet tall, was instantly pulverized into dust beneath the rampage of the sword qi fire dragon.
"Gather the blood of seven pigs and summon a divine dragon sword qi. The power is passable."
Wang Xiu nodded slightly. "But it's still far from matching the authentic Heaven and Earth Same Longevity. The difference is like night and day."
The reason for this.
Was naturally that the vital blood energy contained within a mere seven pigs' blood was too little. Even when sacrificially offered, the effect was negligible.
In that case... crimson, add more blood!
Wang Xiu took a deep breath.
The Nether Blood Immortal-Slaying Sword in his hand began to grow hot, and the sea of blood behind him started boiling.
More and more.
More and more vital blood energy flooded into Wang Xiu's body.
Seven-Slaughter power!
Ten-Slaughter power!
Thirty-Slaughter power!
Sixty-Slaughter power!
Ninety-Slaughter power!
Hundred-Slaughter power!
Three Hundred-Slaughter power!
...
Soon.
The vital blood power of a full three hundred pigs was sacrificially offered by Wang Xiu, manifesting behind him and blazing with fire.
In the flames.
Three hundred stout fat pigs began rapidly fusing, transforming into a crimson flame dragon-shaped sword qi dozens of times larger than before.
Roar~
Amidst the majestic and ferocious dragon's roar, Wang Xiu fiercely swung his sword.
In an instant.
A crimson sword qi dragon, over twenty zhang long, shot toward the front. Wherever the sword qi raged, the void trembled.
Even the clouds at the horizon were swept clear by the impact of this sword qi.
"Not bad!"
Wang Xiu nodded. This sword finally had some of the Heaven and Earth Same Longevity's power.
After offering the vital blood of three hundred pigs, this strike of Wang Xiu's was roughly three times his normal power—far stronger than his Wind and Thunder Talisman Sword Technique.
He figured.
It should be enough to threaten most Golden Core cultivators and leave them gravely wounded.
And this was just the effect of offering three hundred pigs' blood. If he offered five hundred, he should be able to unleash five times the power.
And so on.
Of course, he couldn't infinitely stack buffs.
Wang Xiu's body had its limits. It wasn't about how much pig blood he burned—he could only control sword qi up to a certain threshold.
If the sword qi exceeded his limits, it might explode inside his body before he could even swing it.
Based on Wang Xiu's perfected-level mastery of the Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash, he estimated that in his current normal state, he could withstand the sword qi from at most a thousand burning pigs' blood.
In this state, he could unleash his strongest killing strike at ten times destructive power.
Any more than that.
Would easily cause the sword qi to spiral out of control, potentially injuring himself as much as the enemy.
However.
If combined with the Great Vajra Temple's "Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon Subduing Golden Body" to reinforce his physical strength, Wang Xiu felt this number could be doubled or even tripled.
If he were willing to risk mutual destruction.
He might even be able to unleash the ultimate strike of two thousand, or even three thousand slaughters.
At that point.
With twenty or thirty times terrifying explosive power, forget about sweeping the Golden Core realm unbeaten—even ordinary Nascent Soul venerables could be caught off guard and gravely wounded.
This kind of power.
Would terrify anyone who heard about it. After all, Wang Xiu's current cultivation was only at the Fourth Heaven of Golden Core.
Someone like Li Zuiyue, who could fight across realms to challenge Nascent Soul venerables at the peak of Golden Core, was already considered a top genius—potentially ranking on the Southern Region's Golden Core Leaderboard with far-reaching fame.
And Wang Xiu?
In his normal state, he was confident he could go toe-to-toe with Golden Core cultivators.
With everything unleashed in a desperate fight, his trump cards could even threaten Nascent Soul venerables.
It was simply inconceivable.
This was already outrageous enough. What was even more outrageous was that normally, when Sword Lineage disciples used "Heaven and Earth Same Longevity," it was a life-or-death technique—something they could only use once or twice in their entire lifetime.
But Wang Xiu?
Thanks to the unique properties of the Nether Blood Immortal-Slaying Sword forged from Dark Nether Blood Gold, as long as he had enough pig vital blood to replenish it, this technique could theoretically be used as a basic attack.
Others burned their entire vital blood, sacrificing their lifespan to unleash sword qi at ten times power.
And Wang Xiu?
As long as his body could handle the strain and his execution was flawless.
In the future, when facing demon lords.
Thousand-Slaughter Slash!
Thousand-Slaughter Slash!
Thousand-Slaughter Slash, slash, slash!
As long as his blood reserves were ample, he'd hack away until the demons broke down!
Skr~
"With this move, when facing Golden Core demon lords in the future, my victory rate should at least reach passing grade."
Wang Xiu murmured to himself.
After testing the three-hundred-slaughter slash, he didn't test the thousand-slaughter slash.
After all.
Even though He Daren had been frantically killing pigs for disaster relief lately, the accumulated pig blood in the Nether Blood Immortal-Slaying Sword was only around six or seven thousand.
At most, it would allow Wang Xiu to perform six or seven thousand-slaughter slashes. He couldn't waste them.
A killing move.
Had to be saved for demonic cultivators—he couldn't let the pigs die in vain!
...
After testing the revamped "Heaven and Earth Same Longevity Demon-Slaying Slash," Wang Xiu sat cross-legged and meditated to recover his expended spiritual power.
Half an hour later.
Four streaks of sword light shot through the sky above Spirit Tortoise Peak. Li Zuiyue had arrived with his three cousins, coming to keep their appointment.
"Let's go!"
Li Zuiyue laughed loudly: "Junior brother, I'll take you to Zhuque City to experience the splendor of the mortal world!"
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