Boom! Fragments flew at the cave entrance, as Lu Yu emerged triumphantly with his divine skills perfected.

By consuming three insights from the Celestial Gap Streaming Light Blade Technique, Lu Yu successfully enhanced the power of the Bladeless Blade Technique, advancing it from a third-grade to a fourth-grade spiritual martial art.

[You've gained insight into the Bladeless Blade Technique, upgrading it to a fourth-grade spiritual martial art, "Iaijutsu."]

[Since the Iaijutsu was created by breaking through the limits of the martial arts on your own, its minimum level is permanently set to "Legendary Skill."]

Unlike the Infinite Fist, after advancing the Iaijutsu, Lu Yu didn't receive any notification about the martial arts fusion due to the exhaustion of his three insights.

Upgrading a third-grade martial art to fourth-grade is much more difficult than elevating a common grade martial art to spiritual grade.

After the Bladeless Blade Technique advanced to Iaijutsu, the power of the Celestial Collapse doubled, allowing Lu Yu to consume 300 Qi Blood and deal 600 Qi Blood damage.

Additionally, Iaijutsu has a technique called "Gaining Momentum."

Lu Yu can further enhance the power of the Iaijutsu - Celestial Collapse through Gaining Momentum, with a maximum boost of double the power, causing triple the Qi Blood damage.

Lu Yu's execution limit has significantly increased.

Just as he exited the cave, before he could showcase the power of Iaijutsu, he saw the sky filled with rainbows descending to the ground.

The Martial Cultivators at the Qi Condensation realm had entered the secret realm.

This means that those at the Qi Cultivation stage are no longer the main characters. The secret realm of warriors will feature numerous depictions and cultivators at the peak of Qi Condensation.

Those at the Qi Cultivation stage who wish to remain in the secret realm must either hide far away and avoid provoking the Qi Condensation cultivators, finding secluded corners to seek insights from Qi Cultivation depictions.

Or they must find their faction's Qi Condensation seniors to continue moving freely in the secret realm under their protection.

Whoosh~ A bronze chariot flew across the sky, and Chu Tiange noticed Lu Yu standing on the mountain looking up. Turning back, he flew above Lu Yu and asked, "Do you want to see them besiege the Sword God's phantom?"

The best time to join in the siege on the Sword God's phantom is right after the Qi Condensation realm descended, followed by when the Qi Sea realm arrives.

But it's difficult to find the Sword God's phantom quickly due to the small number of strong Qi Sea realm cultivators.

Previously chased by the Sword God's phantom, Chu Tiange was particularly eager to share the joy of seeing it being besieged.

Joy multiplies when shared, a truth even children understand.

Lu Yu boarded the bronze chariot, and the two flew toward the densest area of descending rainbows, where almost all sword cultivators congregated near Sword Abyss to hunt for the Sword God's phantom.

"I see it! The Sword God's phantom is over there!" Chu Tiange shouted to the Qi Condensation cultivators below who had just landed.

A few people glanced up at Chu Tiange, exchanged looks, and without fighting, headed in the direction Chu Tiange indicated. Whether Chu Tiange was deceiving them didn't matter, as they had no clue where the Sword God's phantom was, so it didn't hurt to try.

Lacking the strength to observe the details of the secret realm from flying Spiritual Treasures or exotic beasts above, they could only find the Sword God's phantom after landing.

Thanks to Chu Tiange's tireless efforts and hard running, the surrounding Qi Condensation cultivators gathered near the Sword God's phantom. This was undoubtedly the largest-scale siege the Sword God's phantom had ever encountered.

Lu Yu looked speechless at Chu Tiange, who was watching the Sword God's phantom being attacked below with excitement, thinking, "Is it that big of a deal? You were only chased once."

He silently noted Chu Tiange's pettiness, thinking it would be best not to offend him, lest Chu Tiange hold a lifelong grudge.

"Lu Yu, do you have any cola? Watching the battle below is making my blood boil, and I'm a bit thirsty," Chu Tiange turned to Lu Yu and asked.

Inviting Lu Yu aboard also served to ask for food. He discovered Lu Yu's Storage Ring seemed full of food, uncertain if Lu Yu was a disciple of the Divine Weapon Pavilion or a gourmand from another world.

Carrying lots of ingredients and food.

Lu Yu, hearing this, casually took out a glass bottle of cola for Chu Tiange.

"Gulp gulp - Ah~ Refreshing!" Chu Tiange leaned over the chariot railing, stretched out his body, held up the cola, and watching the Sword God's phantom being overwhelmed below, let out a massive belch with a shout of "Refreshing!"

Suddenly, Lu Yu felt a chill, and Chu Tiange quickly stood straight, concealing the cola and holding in his burps.

"Hic~" Soft, continuous hiccups sounded. Chu Tiange glanced nervously at the dragon chariot above him.

Noticing Chu Tiange's expression and actions, Lu Yu understood what caused his earlier sensation.

Boom! Surrounded by over twenty peak Qi Condensation Martial Cultivators, the Sword God's phantom was shattered after just breaking into the Qi Condensation realm. Before being defeated, the Sword God's phantom unleashed a final major attack, severely injuring nearly half of those peak cultivators.

With an almost complete lack of realm disparity, the Sword God's phantom endured an onslaught by over twenty peak Qi Condensation cultivators, utterly terrifying in its strength.

After the Sword God's phantom was shattered, everyone sat cross-legged, even the severely injured, urgently absorbing the cultivation insights dispersed from its defeat.

Occasionally, a cultivator's aura would suddenly strengthen, with some enhancing multiple times in succession. Even cultivation insights from a Sword God at the Qi Condensation realm could noticeably boost their strength.

Watching the Sword God's phantom be shattered, Chu Tiange drove the chariot away, setting Lu Yu down at a spot, and said, "Now that the Qi Condensation realm has entered the secret realm, if you don't want to die, it's best to keep a low profile and avoid crowded places."

He added before flying away, "I'm not concerned for your safety, just unwilling for my partner to die too quickly. If there's a chance, we could collaborate again."

Lu Yu glanced at the place where the Sword God's phantom perished, then turned in the opposite direction. His task now was to survive until the Qi Sea realm emerged and encounter the depiction of a dual-element Spiritual Power master.

Inside Fist Valley, the pressure had escalated to double gravity, allowing those within to sense changes in gravity. Knife Cliff's edge flickered with blade light, as the mottled surface turned smooth again, gleaming with polished blade light.

The abyss of the sword exudes a terrifying aura that could cut through anything. Just standing at a distance and looking at the sword abyss, one could feel themselves riddled with holes, bullet holes, finger punctures, claw marks... all started to manifest their own extraordinary qualities, making the secret realm much more dangerous.

Boom! Not long after, Lu Yu encountered a shadow remnant at the peak spirit energy realm and a fierce battle erupted.

In the situation where spiritual power couldn't be used, the power unleashed by an ordinary peak spirit energy realm was comparable to Lu Yu's fully charged swing.

This meant Lu Yu had a chance to kill the shadow remnant at the peak spirit energy realm.

Lu Yu had quite an advantage; outside the secret realm, his blade would never have the chance to touch a Martial Cultivator at the peak spirit energy realm.

The shadow remnant at the peak spirit energy realm was dazed by Lu Yu's charged strike, which left it heavily injured. If Lu Yu had exerted to his limit, this strike would've been a fatal one.

The shadow remnant quickly reacted and launched a counterattack using blade techniques.

Clang! Lu Yu retreated two steps back, as the shadow remnant at the peak spirit energy realm was stronger than him. Without heavily injuring the opponent with the first strike, this battle would've been a losing one, and Lu Yu would have had no choice but to retreat.

"Come again!"

Iaijutsu - Celestial Collapse!

With a strike infused with four-tenths of his Qi Blood, Lu Yu slashed at the heavily injured shadow remnant. The shadow remnant exerted all its power to defend with a powerful technique, but in its injured state, it couldn't block the strike completely.

The blade in its hand shattered by Lu Yu's strike.

Faced with the weaponless peak spirit energy realm blade practitioner, Lu Yu expended tremendous effort to defeat his opponent.

[Defeated a Grandmaster level shadow remnant! Gained 105,230 experience points, and an additional 30,000 martial skills experience points]

Gaining 130,000 experience points from defeating a peak spirit energy realm shadow remnant surprised Lu Yu, but it wasn't entirely beyond expectations.

Looking at his realm level, Lu Yu thought, "In that case, I just need to kill three more peak spirit energy realm shadow remnants to level up again!"

Lu Yu already grasped the approximate strength of the peak spirit energy realm shadow remnant. With no defenses, his fully charged strike had a high likelihood of severely injuring the shadow remnant.

If he activates the Blood Burning Secret Technique, unleashing four times the power, almost no peak spirit energy realm shadow remnant could withstand it.

Thinking of this, Lu Yu purchased several Spirit Fruits from the marketplace to quickly restore his Qi Blood and consumed them to replenish the lost Qi Blood.

He was now ready to hunt down peak spirit energy realm shadow remnants.

If others knew Lu Yu's thoughts, they would think he was crazy, assuming himself to be the Sword God?

After restoring his consumed Qi Blood and stamina, Lu Yu began searching for spirit energy realm shadow remnants.

Ironically, when he wasn't looking, he would stumble upon a shadow remnant while walking. Now, purposefully searching, Lu Yu couldn't find any peak spirit energy realm shadow remnant.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Lu Yu saw a few people: three disciples wearing the same outfit surrounding a female disciple and a shadow remnant.

Of course, they weren't engaging in anything untoward, just a few senior brothers protecting their junior sister, allowing her to fight the shadow remnant alone to enhance combat experience and gain martial arts insights.

Noticing Lu Yu's arrival, two of them turned cautiously towards him while one remained focused on their junior sister, guarding her against the shadow remnant.

"We found this shadow remnant first, stay away! If you're looking for shadow remnants, head there, you'll find plenty of Qi Cultivation level ones," one of them said.

After glancing at the four, Lu Yu walked towards the direction pointed, saying, "Thank you."

Sure enough, not far along, Lu Yu spotted a wandering shadow remnant.

"Damn! I forgot to tell him to go around; a peak spirit energy realm shadow remnant just appeared there," the person remembered and said anxiously.

"Second senior brother, third senior brother, you watch over junior sister; I'll go after that person, hoping he hasn't gone too far," the one who had reminded Lu Yu said, hastily chasing in the direction Lu Yu had taken.

The Silent Shadow Concealment Array activated, enveloping Lu Yu's surroundings. Charging up, he activated the Blood Burning Secret Technique, moving close to the shadow remnant.

Under the effect of the Silent Shadow Concealment Array, when Lu Yu was within ten meters of the shadow remnant, it remained oblivious, pacing like a wandering monster in the game's wilderness.

Reaching the peak of momentum, Lu Yu stomped on the ground, swiftly closing in on the shadow remnant with several red Qi Blood afterimages trailing behind him.

Boom! Crash!

Iaijutsu - Celestial Collapse! Two consecutive strikes!

The shadow remnant evaporated on the spot, leaving a crater. The second stage of the Qi Blood explosion's damage was still formidable, even the sturdy ground was blasted into a pit.

Disabling the Blood Burning Secret Technique, the Qi Blood drifting from Lu Yu slowly diminished, leaving him with barely any Qi Blood left within.

He purchased Spirit Fruits to replenish his Qi Blood, and after regaining most of it, Lu Yu stored away the array plate.

The senior brother's silhouette appeared belatedly, "Finally caught up with you, good thing you weren't too fast. I forgot to tell you earlier, there's a peak spirit energy realm shadow remnant ahead, you'll need to detour."

"Luckily you weren't fast; otherwise, encountering that shadow remnant, you'd have to leave the secret realm," the senior brother said.

Lu Yu chuckled and said, "Thank you for the reminder, friend."

The senior brother scratched his head, laughing as he said, "No problem, our master teaches us—in foreign lands, rely on friends—having one more friend opens another path."

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