Chapter 625 - 625: Sword Inquiry Stone

"I have indeed been cultivating sword techniques, Senior," Chu Qingyun replied respectfully.

"What realm have you reached?"

The man continued to ask.

"I'm just one step away from comprehending Thunder Sword Intent," Chu Qingyun answered.

This man was clearly a powerful senior from the Saint Extreme Sect, and he had now taken an interest in Chu Qingyun's Sword Dao.

For Chu Qingyun, this was a rare opportunity. He had to display his strength in the Sword Dao to the best of his ability. Only then could he garner more attention.

If he managed to receive some guidance, it would surely be of endless benefit to his future cultivation.

'A Level Nine Martial Spirit, only one final step away from Sword Intent...'

A faint smile touched the man's lips, and his eyes revealed a hint of nostalgia.

He slowly stood up, turned, and looked at Chu Qingyun with curiosity.

At that moment, Chu Qingyun also raised his head to look at him.

The man wore a gray robe, his expression gentle and serene.

At a glance, he seemed like a very ordinary middle-aged man. He lacked the dignified air of a powerful expert, much less the sharp, vigorous aura of a young Martial Artist like Chu Qingyun.

Of course, Chu Qingyun wasn't foolish enough to believe he was truly an ordinary person.

Only a handful of Inner Sect Core Disciples were allowed to cultivate on the eighth floor of the Saint Extreme Tower.

'And this ninth floor was painstakingly hidden by an Illusion Array. How could anyone staying here possibly be ordinary?'

"Use the Sword Intent you've comprehended and strike that Sword Inquiry Stone with your full power."

After sizing Chu Qingyun up for a moment, the man pointed to the ten-meter-tall stone monument and said to him.

'The Sword Inquiry Stone?'

Chu Qingyun shifted his gaze to the stone monument, which was covered with countless sword marks.

"Thunder Sword Momentum!"

With a soft cry, Chu Qingyun unleashed his Thunder Sword Momentum, sending a dazzling blast of Thunder Power hurtling toward the Sword Inquiry Stone.

However, the expected impact and sound never came.

Upon contact with the Sword Inquiry Stone, the bolt of thunder was absorbed as quickly as a drop of water falling on cotton.

After it absorbed the bolt, a bright flash of lightning sparked along a downward-slanting sword mark three meters up the Sword Inquiry Stone before vanishing.

"The Thunder Sword—a strike that manifests the fierce and powerful aspect of Thunder Sword Intent... The name is quite fitting."

"However, this strike alone isn't enough to say you're just one step away from comprehending Thunder Sword Intent. There should also be a strike that manifests its speed. Go ahead and use that one too."

Watching Chu Qingyun's strike, the man nodded slightly from the side.

Chu Qingyun, however, couldn't help but feel a surge of astonishment.

'He saw completely through my method for cultivating Thunder Sword Intent with just that one strike.'

'Even an Inner Sect Elder like Elder Zhu couldn't do that!'

Thinking of this, Chu Qingyun became even more certain that this man was an incredibly powerful senior expert.

And so, holding nothing back, he immediately unleashed the Lightning Sword, striking the Sword Inquiry Stone before him with all his might. His target was the sword mark three meters up its surface.

A wider smile appeared on the man's face as he watched Chu Qingyun's move.

He naturally understood that Chu Qingyun was trying to leave a sword mark on the Sword Inquiry Stone.

However, his previously unstoppable Lightning Sword suffered the same fate as the Thunder Power before it. It plunged directly into the Sword Inquiry Stone, leaving not even a scratch behind.

After the bright purple Sword Light passed, the sword mark flashed with lightning again, this time appearing somewhat brighter and thicker than before.

"This..."

Chu Qingyun was astonished.

With his current strength, the Lightning Sword could easily shatter even a Tier Four Defensive Soul Technique, yet it had no effect on this stone.

The spot on the Sword Inquiry Stone where the Lightning Sword had struck was left without so much as a single scratch!

"If you want to leave a mark on the Sword Inquiry Stone, you'll have to wait until you break through to the Martial Emperor Realm."

"To have come this far on the Sword Dao while still in the Martial Spirit Realm, and to have found your way to the ninth floor of the Saint Extreme Tower... I suppose this could be called fate."

"Let me lend you a hand..."

As the man spoke, he casually flicked a stream of Primordial Power into the Sword Inquiry Stone.

The instant the Primordial Power sank in, the sword mark three meters up—the one Chu Qingyun had lit up twice with his two strikes—suddenly began to SIZZLE, emitting a dazzling, piercing lightning.

Soon, the lightning had completely filled the sword mark.

After the lightning filled the sword mark, Chu Qingyun suddenly heard peals of thunder and the crackle of electricity from high above his head.

He looked up, and his face immediately filled with astonishment.

Nearly a hundred meters above his head, thunder and lightning were converging, fusing together to form a Sea of Thunder and Lightning hundreds of meters in diameter!

The Sea of Thunder and Lightning hung like a storm cloud over Chu Qingyun and the man.

Chu Qingyun visually estimated that the Sea of Thunder and Lightning had already surpassed five hundred meters in diameter, and it was still expanding!

At that moment, Chu Qingyun was utterly and completely stunned.

He understood, of course, that the Sea of Thunder and Lightning had appeared because the man had flicked that stream of Primordial Power into the Sword Inquiry Stone.

'To be able to unleash such a terrifying technique with a casual flick of Primordial Power...'

'This man's power... it's truly unfathomable!'

Just then, the man seemed to think the Sea of Thunder and Lightning was a bit too large, so he casually pointed a finger.

The Sea of Thunder and Lightning immediately stopped expanding. It began to slowly shrink until it was about two hundred meters in diameter, hovering above the two of them.

Within the two-hundred-meter Sea of Thunder and Lightning, thick bolts of lightning, like great serpents and flood dragons, twisted and coiled. The terrifying aura they radiated turned Chu Qingyun's face deathly pale.

"This is... true Thunder Sword Intent!"

Chu Qingyun said in shock.

He had unintentionally unleashed a similar Sea of Thunder and Lightning once before, long before he had reached the Blood-soaked Land.

But the "Sea of Thunder and Lightning" he had summoned then was simply far too small compared to this one.

It was like comparing a molehill to a mountain.

There was simply no comparison, whether in power or presence!

"Your insight isn't bad," the man said, looking at Chu Qingyun with a hint of a smile. "Are you ready to withstand an attack from the Thunder Sword Intent?"

'An attack!'

Chu Qingyun was stunned for a moment.

But he quickly realized what was happening. By having him withstand an attack from the Thunder Sword Intent, the man was helping him to truly comprehend it!