Peerless Empress: One Woman, One Sword, Slaying Through Myriad Realms

After Ye Wuxi kicked the corpse of the fourth Heavenly Demon a few more times, Duan Hong appeared.

"Brother Duan, what brings you here?"

Duan Hong glanced at the desiccated corpse on the ground and shook his head. "I was worried that you might distract him and cause some accident, but it seems I was overthinking it. Yu'er has already gone ahead, let's go back too!"

Ye Wuxi nodded, and the two boarded the griffin again and headed towards the Heavenly Sword Sect. Fortunately, they did not encounter any more foolish people on the way.

After this delay, it was already the next day when they returned to the Heavenly Sword Sect. After handing over the other three people's belongings to Ye Wuxi, Liu Yu'er went back to her seclusion.

Back in his room, Ye Wuxi took stock of the Four Heroes of the Heavenly Demons' possessions and couldn't help but purse his lips.

"What kind of 'Four Heroes' are they? They only have this little bit of money!"

The four of them together only had five thousand mid-grade spirit stones, a high-grade Xuan-rank palm technique, several mid-grade Xuan-rank martial arts techniques, and a tattered map, and that was it.

Ye Wuxi put away the spirit stones and placed the other martial arts techniques into another ring. This ring was specifically for storing martial arts techniques obtained from killing, which could be taken back to the Ye family later.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Ye Wuxi murmured, "It's time to work on some sword techniques. Cultivating martial arts of the corresponding attributes will allow me to unleash my full potential. I cultivate the power of the five elements. If I had a sword technique containing all five attributes, my strength would definitely be even greater..."

However, as her cheap master had said, the Five Elements Dao Body inheritance was rare, and finding a sword technique with five attributes was extremely difficult. Nevertheless, Wu Yiwei's self-created saber technique gave her a lot of inspiration.

Without any inherited skills, she could easily create her own sword technique that suited her own attributes. Although the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Sword was powerful, it was ultimately a fire-type sword and could not perfectly complement her five elemental true qi.

"Perhaps we could try combining sword techniques!"

Having made up his mind, Ye Wuxi headed to the Martial Arts Pavilion...

In the swordplay section of the Martial Arts Pavilion, Ye Wuxi looked through the rows of techniques. Today, she wanted to find a water-based swordplay manual to try out.

"It's you!"

After spending two hundred contribution points, Ye Wuxi exchanged for a top-grade Xuanji sword technique, "Azure Wave Chasing the Sky Sword," and then leisurely found a secluded cliff with a waterfall at the bottom.

Sitting casually on a large rock, listening to the sound of flowing water, Ye Wuxi focused his mind on the sword technique he had just acquired.

The Azure Waves Chasing the Sky Sword has three forms.

The first move, "Waterfall Plunging Down," is a swift and powerful sword strike, like a waterfall plunging three thousand feet...

The second move, "Chasing Waves and Flying Flowers," is an unpredictable sword technique, like a gentle rain nourishing the earth. Though as soft as flowing water, it contains boundless power.

The third move, Azure Wave Slaughter, is as fierce as a storm, with each strike carrying overwhelming power, and the attacks flowing continuously like a torrent.

Having memorized the three sword moves, Ye Wuxi took out the Azure Rainbow Sword and began to wield it, one strike at a time, using the flowing water in front of him.

As darkness fell, sword energy crisscrossed the cliff bottom, water splashed and pounded against Ye Wuxi's body, and her sword grew faster and faster...

For several days, Ye Wuxi stayed at the bottom of the cliff, finally mastering the three sword techniques to a minor degree, but this was still not enough...

On the twelfth day, Ye Wuxi stood on a boulder over a stream, gazing at the water flowing down in front of her, and suddenly closed her eyes slightly.

Fire signifies destruction, burning, and incinerating all things, hence its powerful attack.

The beauty of water lies in its gentleness, but gentleness does not mean weakness.

The principle of overcoming strength with softness lies in the continuous flow of water.

Just like this waterfall, it starts as a drop of water, gradually becomes a river, and after falling hundreds of feet, it has a huge impact. This is the process of continuous accumulation, the power of water, which is ready to be released.

The meaning of water should be softness and resilience. It is more than capable of attacking with softness and resilience, and when it is accumulated and released, it can break everything.

Ye Wuxi suddenly opened his eyes, his long sword twitched slightly, and he casually slashed a sword aura at the waterfall in front of him.

Suddenly, the surging waterfall seemed to be cut off in mid-air, and the continuous flow of water broke up for a few breaths before continuing to flow.

Gripping his longsword tightly, Ye Wuxi smiled slightly and murmured, "I've grasped the basics of water magic. Next, I can try to fuse water-based sword techniques with fire-based sword techniques."

She didn't intend to become an expert overnight. Since she mostly used only the water and fire dantian, she decided to start her path of fusing sword techniques with the fire and water elements.

"Let's start with the two opening moves, 'Phoenix Spreads Its Wings' and 'Waterfall Descends Straight Down'!"

Having made up his mind, Ye Wuxi focused his attention again, continuously practicing the two sword techniques, searching for the balance between the two moves.

She was no stranger to the fusion of elemental true qi, but it wasn't a direct fusion of water and fire. Water and fire are mutually destructive, so it was obviously not easy to fuse two sword techniques of different intents and generate a more powerful attack.

Time passed slowly, and Ye Wuxi stayed at the bottom of the waterfall cliff for another month...

On this day, atop a deserted mountain cliff, Ye Wuxi, dressed in flowing white robes, stood with a solemn expression.

Ye Wuxi fully activated his water and fire dantian, pouring all his blue and red true energy into the Azure Rainbow Sword. He leaped up and unleashed a powerful sword strike.

A magnificent sword aura appeared on the horizon, carrying the momentum of an endless river and flames burning the sky. With a single slash, terrifying flames swept out, piercing the air with a hissing sound...

Ye Wuxi gripped his longsword tightly, quite satisfied with the power of the strike he had just delivered.

"The combination of fire-attribute true energy and this fused sword strike is even more powerful than the previous full-force 'Phoenix Feathers in Flight'. The hard work of the past month has not been in vain..."

"What should we name this sword strike?" Ye Wuxi stroked his chin.

Having been a liberal arts student in her previous life, she felt it necessary to choose a poetic name so that her more than a month of arduous cultivation at the bottom of the cliff would not have been in vain.

"The long river burns the sun..."

"Let's call it 'Drunken Slash Through the Long River, Heaven-Burning Sword'..."

Ye Wuxi murmured with satisfaction, then began to wield his longsword repeatedly, practicing the newly fused sword technique.

After another day, Ye Wuxi leisurely descended the mountain, returned to her small courtyard, tidied it up, and then fell asleep.

Ye Wuxi didn't wake up until the sun was high in the sky, and stretched lazily in a good mood.

"There are still half a month until the outer sect competition. Let's go check out the cultivation tower. Perhaps we can even make another progress in our cultivation before the competition!"

After more than a month of arduous training, my true energy has become increasingly solid, and attempting a breakthrough will not cause instability in my foundation.

Ye Wuxi soon arrived outside the cultivation tower, which had nine floors.

It is said that there is a spiritual vein beneath the tower, and together with a large nine-palace spirit-gathering array, this is how this cultivation tower was created.

Therefore, the spiritual energy is more abundant at the bottom of the cultivation tower, and becomes thinner as you go up. The entire cultivation tower can only accommodate a maximum of about two hundred people.