Chapter 44: Green Jade Perch
Nangong Cai Beans was a bit surprised as she looked at Ding Ning in astonishment and asked, "Why would you suddenly think to ask about the Sword Sacrifice Trials of our Qingteng Sword Academy?"
Ding Ning asked in return, "You should know about the Spirit Vein in White Sheep Cave?"
Nangong Caiyang nodded even more doubtfully.
Ding Ning said, "Yesterday, the cave master had already allowed me to utilize the spirit vein for cultivation, but after just one night, the situation had already changed, and your Green Vine Sword Academy's dean, Di Qingmei, had allowed us White Sheep Cave disciples to participate in your Sword Sacrifice Trials as well, with the three winners of the final Sword Sacrifice Trials being able to ultimately obtain the reward for utilizing the spirit vein for cultivation."
Nangong Caiyang's face suddenly became a bit ugly.
She was a young girl with a great sense of justice, so even though she was a student of the Green Vine Sword Academy, she had always had some sympathy in her heart for what happened to the White Sheep Cave.
In her opinion, being able to enter White Sheep Cave's Scripture Scroll Cave to study was nothing, after all, in the future, White Sheep Cave's disciples would definitely be able to enter the Green Vine Sword Academy's Scripture Collection Hall to study as well, however, the most valuable thing in White Sheep Cave was this White Sheep Spiritual Vein, now that the Green Vine Sword Academy was going to take out the Spiritual Vein of the White Sheep Cave as a reward and the Green Vine Sword Academy would definitely not be able to take out its own most valuable Green Vine Wooden Sword as a reward, the reward for the Blue Vine Sword Sacrifice Trial of the Green Vine Sword Academy was Green Jade Perl, this kind of thing was valuable, but in the final analysis, it was not on the same level as the White Sheep Cave's Spirit Vein.
This would be full of trickery.
"The Sword Sacrifice Trial, originally our Green Vine Sword Academy..." she hung her head with an unsightly expression, and had originally begun to explain what the Sword Sacrifice Trial was all about, yet it was only at this moment that she had suddenly somewhat comprehended some of the meanings of Ding Ning's words, and she instantly raised her head, shocked, as she looked at Ding Ning. "You're trying to participate in the Sword Sacrifice Trial and then win from within?"
Ding Ning looked at her shocked eyes and calmly said, "I do have this idea, looking at your expression, this Sword Sacrifice Trial seems to be very difficult?"
"Very difficult." Because she was already convinced that Ding Ning was a monster genius, Nangong Caiyang's shock began to fade away, and she furrowed her brows, pondering if there was such a possibility while softly continuing to explain, "Because the original reward of our Green Vine Sword Academy was the Green Lipid Jade Perch."
Ding Ning was slightly stunned, "Green Lipid Jade Perch?"
Nangong Cai Beans nodded and said, "I don't know if you've heard of it, but the Green Lipid Jade Perch is an amber formed from the sap of the Green Lipid Vine, which is unique to our Green Vine Sword Academy. Our Green Vine Sword Academy discovered some of this amber when it was founded, and at the same time discovered the unique and wonderful uses of this amber...this amber has a great effect when we cultivators break through from the third realm of the True Elemental Realm to the fourth realm of the Melting Elemental Realm, allowing our True Elemental to merge with more Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi."
Some mocking expression inexplicably appeared on Ding Ning's face as he couldn't help but softly say, "I didn't think that the reward for your Qingteng Sword Academy's Sword Sacrifice Trial was the Green Lipid Jade Peril."
He was actually very clear about the utility of the Green Lipid Jade Perl.
In fact, this kind of jade perlum was not unique to the Green Vine Sword Academy as Nangong Cai Beans had said, at least he knew that two clans from the former Great Wei Dynasty and one from the current Great Chu Dynasty also had this kind of treasure.
Moreover, he also knew that apart from being able to play a good role in the third to fourth realm when breaking through the realm, which was equivalent to a natural elixir to enhance the strength of the true essence, in fact, when cultivating to the sixth realm of the original life realm, this kind of Jade Perch would also allow the cultivator to better accept some of the original life objects, and even because of this kind of treasure, there was a possibility that he could be able to accept some of the originally unable to be accepted by the original life objects.
He was not an ordinary cultivator, so the green jade perlage had more significance for him.
So this Sword Sacrifice Trial... he then had more reasons why he had to win.
"Originally, there were very few of these treasures, and by now, there are even fewer green grease jade perks in the clan treasury of our Green Vine Sword Academy, so in our Green Vine Sword Academy's opening, this kind of treasure would have to be given to the most outstanding disciple." Nangong Cai Beans did not know Ding Ning's true inner thoughts as she looked at him and said gruffly, "That is why the rule of our Sword Sacrifice Trials is that disciples whose initiation is as long as they are within ten years of each other can participate."
Ding Ning did not say anything, signaling that she could continue.
"This is a test of true strength, and the location of the trial is in the Sword Sacrifice Canyon at the back of our Green Vine Academy. That canyon is originally very narrow and long, and has been laid with a unique green vine spell formation by our Sword Academy, so not only is it difficult to find your way across, but some of the green vines will also attack on their own. All the disciples participating in the trial entered from the back of the mountain of our Green Vine Academy, and then as a reward, the Green Lipid Jade Perch was placed at the other end of the canyon, and the first one to traverse the entire Sword Ritual Canyon to get the Green Lipid Jade Perch was the winner." Nangong Cai Beans said carefully, "In the canyon, it is forbidden for more than two people to travel together in a party, only solitary activities are allowed, and if they encounter each other, they will either fight to determine the winner, or run away from each other. However, traveling through the Sword Sacrifice Canyon is again limited to three days, and each day there is a stipulation of an area that must be reached in half a day, and then one has to stay in that area for half a day, and those who can't reach it will be eliminated. Because you have to stay in that area for half a day, there tends to be a lot of fighting as per past practice."
Ding Ning sneered, "This is human nature...always afraid that the more some opponents are left until the end, the more accidents will occur, so they always want to get rid of them in advance."
"You should understand that the key lies in the fact that disciples who have been initiated for ten years are allowed to participate in the trial, and there are some people whose strength, is much beyond that of the rest, and they naturally want to put the winners and losers in a duel, rather than wanting to put the winners and losers in who runs fast." Nangong Cai Beans said with a heavy heart, "Even if the spell formation in the Sword Sacrifice Canyon changed the heaven and earth yuan qi in there, so that the true essence of the cultivators above the third realm would not be replenished after they ran out, and they would only be able to fight at the cultivation of the second realm afterwards, but the true essence that was filled up in their bodies from the very beginning would be able to allow them to tackle a lot of people, and their combat experience and understanding of sword arts , will still be much more powerful than the others."
Ding Ning was a bit surprised, as he looked seriously at Nangong Caixiang and said, "So there are still some limitations on cultivation?"
"When true qi cannot be combined to heaven and earth yuan qi, it can only stay at the step of true qi. But it is also only after the true essence in the body is exhausted that one would face such a situation." Nangong Cai Beans hesitated for a moment, but still looked at Ding Ning sincerely and said, "Even at the Qi Refining Realm, there is an enormous gap between you in terms of power. Although you have now passed through the Xuanxuan and opened up your sea of qi, the most you can do is make your body a bit more robust. You've seen the battle between me and that disciple of Li Ling Jun at Wutong Fall, you should know very well that a sword containing true qi can easily shake you out."
"I still have time."
Ding Ning smiled faintly, these words from Nangong Caiyang added a lot of confidence to him.
He glanced at the white clouds above the Scripture Scroll Cave and softly said, "Although your Dean Di Qingmei used those three spirit veins as rewards for the Sword Sacrifice Trial, at least until then, one of them still belongs to me, and I can still utilize it to cultivate."
Nangong Cai Beans once again fell into inexplicable shock, her voice trembling slightly, "Breaking through the first realm in a month's time, it seems that only the two monsters from the Spirit Void Sword Sect and the Minshan Sword Sect have ever done it."
"You don't even directly say that it's not possible for me to do it, so that means you think it's possible for me to be able to do it." Ding Ning laughed, his smile a little brighter, "As long as someone has done it, it means that it is truly possible."
Nangong Caiyang looked at him dumbfounded.
After several breaths of time had passed, she sincerely whispered, "I hope that you can succeed, but your time is too tight, and you still have to pay attention to practicing the Sword Scriptures. If you feel the need, you can look for me to refine your sword, and I can give you some experience in battle. Also, Su Qin from your White Sheep Cave is a very powerful Sword Master, looking at him, he definitely won't hold back if he meets you in the trial. You must be careful of him. As for our Green Vine Sword Academy, the one you need to be most careful of is He Chaoxi."
After a pause, Nangong Cai Beans looked at Ding Ning and continued, "He Chaoxi's father, He Qiwei, is an expert under Yan Xiang's seat, and although He Chaoxi and I were initiated at the same time, he has already reached the third realm of the middle grade, and he didn't even enter a better sect because he didn't have the ability to do so, but rather because Dean Di Qingmei went to request that he join the Green Vine Sword Sect because his physique was perfect for the our Green Vine Sword Sect's strongest technique, the Withering Skill."
"Even our dean Di Qingmei doesn't cultivate the Withered Glory Technique, for nearly a hundred years, only one of our dean's senior uncles in our Green Vine Sword Sect has cultivated this technique, and that senior uncle of his is the only sect master in our Green Vine Sword Sect who has attained the middle grade of the seventh realm in the past hundred years." Nangong Cai Beans was still uneasy after saying this, and added worriedly, "That's why almost no one knows about the unique features of this technique, and there are also rumors that it's difficult to cultivate, and that progress is much slower than normal techniques, so I'm afraid that He Zhaoxi is not only at such a cultivation level right now."
Ding Ning thought about it and felt that what he wanted to know was almost enough.
So he seriously asked the last question he wanted to know, "In the trials, is it possible to kill people?"
Nangong Cai Beans glanced at him and said, "This is exactly what I'm most worried about... In principle, it's not allowed, but there's always a time when the wrong hand is used, and Senior Uncle and Senior Uncle and the others, sometimes they may not be in time to step in to block or save the day."
Ding Ning fell silent.
The Green Lipid Jade Perch must be obtained, yet within it, there was no telling how many dangers were involved.
