THE LIGHTNING EMPEROR

The Unification of the Sword Soul

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"Each Sword has its own soul, if you really want to possess this sword, then you should be able to learn the nature of this Sky Sword of mine, if you really want to possess this sword, therefore the basic training in knowing the Sword will be our Start," said Wang Lao Yi.

Feng Huang who was also outside just put on a relaxed attitude looking at Wang Lao Yi who was training Fang An.

The first training that Fang An had to learn was the basis of Sword trait recognition, this training would allow Fang An to understand how to play the sword in his own way.

The reason Wang Lao Yi was quite simple, the Sword Technique he had was the Sky Sword Technique combined with his Wind Element Spirit Root, whereas Fang An did not possess the Wind Element.

Therefore this basic exercise was very important for Fang An, because after that he would easily master all of the Sword Techniques within the Celestial Sword Book as well as would be able to raise Wang Lao Yi's Celestial Sword.

Fang An held onto his Spiritual Sword, this time he did not make any swordplay moves, but instead attempted to unify himself with his Sword.

The problem was not easy for Fang An to carry out the unification of the sword with his soul, let alone Fang An was still a beginner in practicing the Sword.

While Fang An was still trying to train, Feng Huang came over to Wang Lao Yi and asked him something.

"You can create a Space dimensional portal like this from the Earth Ring to the Sky Ring, have you ever heard of any three rare items that possess the quality of Nature? One of these things was once owned by my Master, his name was the Natural Cube! Have you heard of it?" asked Feng Huang.

"Three Spiritual Heirlooms of Nature huh? If not mistakenly remembered, one of the Heirlooms has a portal dimensional Space that has a Time faster than the outside world right?"

Feng Huang nodded so that Wang Lao Yi instantly remembered him, he had certainly heard of it but had never seen it.

"If not one of the three heirlooms, the Nature Storage Ring, the Natural Cube, and the World Ball Separator! But I've never seen one of those heirlooms!" wang Lao Yi.

"If the Cube of Nature were in my master's place, but it was then, now it doesn't know who it is in my master's hands!" said Feng Huang.

Wang Lao Yi looked at Feng Huang and his curiosity made him ask Feng Huang something.

"You're actually a Spiritual Soul or what?" ask Wang Lao Yi.

"I am not a Spiritual soul, but only a trace of a stored past memory, unlike you, I have a time limit in this world!" replied Feng Huang.

"It is fitting that your aura is different like a Spiritual Soul in general, then which continent are you from?" ask Wang Lao Yi.

"I'm from the Bright Star Continent!" replied Feng Huang.

"Away away! I have indeed never made it to the Bright Star Continent, but according to the news I heard, there is a place for great Cultivators with extremely high cultivation abilities, is the news true?" ask Wang Lao Yi.

"Yes that is indeed true, there are people who have the ability of Xu Hun like someone who has the ability of Yu Zhi here, very much, even the number of Xu Qin and Xu Tin is also quite a lot, except for the Cultivators who were at the Zi Xuan Stage up to Zi Xia, only the people from the Ancient Sect who had already moved to the Portal World had one!" replied Feng Huang.

A Zi Xuan and Zi Xian as well as Zi Xia were known for their abilities capable of creating their own world, and it was only the ancient Sect that could do it, and it was only the ancient Sect that could do it, however the existence of the Ancient Sect was very mysterious and never came out into the real world, yet they did indeed exist.

"But other than these Ancient Sects, there must be people who have already reached the Zi stage right?" ask Wang Lao Yi.

"There are, but only a few!" replied Feng Huang.

Wang Lao Yi nodded, even though he was over a hundred years old, but he had never heard of the excess figure before him which was the incarnation of the rare Spirit Core Divine Beast, but even though he knows he will not be able to do anything, because he is also a Spiritual Soul.

They looked back at Fang An who was constantly trying to train diligently, there was no sign yet that Fang An would succeed in uniting with his Sword, it was only natural that it was indeed very difficult to do all of that.

The first night Fang An had not managed to do so so he would continue his training after exiting the portal dimensional Space Ring, he wanted to find out the news of the spy sent by Mu Yuan, who was the one sent by Mu Yuan, but having not gotten the news he wanted, Fang An went back inside his portal dimensional Space Ring.

Fang An did not wait for the night to train, once there was nothing important he had to do, then he would use that time to rehearse.

It is indeed very difficult to master the Merger of the Sword soul, as it normally requires a minimum of a year of continuous practice, no matter how genius the person is.

However Wang Lao Yi continued to galvanize Fang An so that he could more quickly grasp as well as master the Sword Soul Merger as quickly as possible.

Actually the exercises inside the portal dimensional Space Ring were no different from the exercises in the outside world, the difference was only the calmness in the exercises, the difference was simply the calmness in the exercises, because inside the portal dimensional Space Ring there was only Fang An and his two teachers.

As a result of the practice, Fang An's medical science became hampered, he rarely practiced improving his Pill refining, because sword training required full concentration without any interference.

***

Mu Yuan and Fang Zui received a letter message from an Eagle, the two of them immediately opened the small scroll which turned out to be a message from the spy sent by him.

"It turns out that Fang Xian's wife was there, but they'll be moving her around in about seven days!" said Mu Yuan.

"We have to get there, Mr. Mu, don't let them move it first" said Fang Zui.

"It seems that it must be so, it's just that their strength is quite large, here it is written briefly if there are about three hundred members consisting of Yu Zhe and Yu Zhi, here it is written briefly if there are about three hundred members consisting of Yu Zhe and Yu Zhi, while Yu Zha was about 9 people and Yu Zhu was six people" Mu Yuan said.

"Is there also Yu Jing?" ask Fang Zui.

"There's no explanation here, it could be that there's Yu Jing as well because we also don't know people from some groups like the Serpent Head Killer and the Moon Shadow, either, because they're still pretty mysterious!" said Mu Yuan.

"What's wrong?" Mu Zhi Tian came along with Gu Yao He at once asking what Mu Yuan and Fang Zui were talking about.

"Then we get there! Bring all our best members, if there's someone who has Yu Jing's abilities, then we'll deal with it!" said Mu Zhi Tian.

Previously, Gu Yao He and the three Yu Jing had made a cooperation agreement to help the Fang Clan, despite the rejection, but Luo Ying was forced to reestablish Fang An's services which had helped the government destroy the Fortress of the rebels.

Although Luo Ying had already recalled Fang An's services, but Chang Hanzi was not entirely willing to jump straight in to help, he just wanted to observe the situation, instead, this made Gu Yao He not feel happy if he cooperated with the government.

Mao Lin herself did not refuse to help, she was just waiting for the news of when they would go to the Branch Headquarters where Fang Xian's wife was being held, she said, so those who were already on their side were three Yu Jing, and this should have been more than enough considering that there were only five Yu Jing alone in that Green Land Continent, then, so far, that's all they know.

"Okay, tonight we're leaving soon, I'll gather all the members of my Guard!" mu Yuan said then he immediately got up to gather all his members.

Gu Yao He stepped out then he whistled loudly and an Eagle flew up and alighted on his arm.

A small paper in two-word letter reads, Storm and Night, then Gu Yao He tied it to the eagle's feet and whispered the address to the bird and let it go to fly to the address given earlier.

"I feel like there's another surprise waiting there!" gu Yao He muttered as he counted his fingers trying to predict then he went towards where Gu Fei Ming and Luo Ying were.

Fang Zui also went to see Fang Xian to inform him that tonight they would soon be leaving for the Moon Shadow Branch Headquarters, because right now Fang Xian did not want to be rash anymore, so he could only follow Mu Yuan's plan.

"Has An'er been told this?" ask Fang Xian.

"I'll be there to tell him!" replied Fang Zui.

"Don't let me" Fang Xian said.

He immediately went to his son's room, but when he got there, he did not see Fang An's whereabouts so he guessed that Fang An was most likely being with Mu Yi Ling.

"She must have known that she was with Young Miss!" fang Xian muttered then he immediately went to his room to make preparations for his departure.

As it was already nightfall, hundreds of groups of Mu Clan Fighters gathered in the front yard, they all consisted of Yu Zhe and Yu Zhi, respectively, yu Zha was about 7 people excluding Gu Fei Ming and Mu Yuan, while Yu Zhu was only 3 people.

"Where's An'er? Was she not with you, Young Miss?" fang Xian asked Mu Yi Ling.

"No uncle Fang, during these three days I have also rarely seen him, he was only seen briefly and then disappeared, and so continues to this day!" mu Yi Ling replied but her eyes glanced at Mu Xao Tang and his two friends, she started to suspect them as they had time to look for trouble with Fang An.

Mu Xao Tang immediately realized that, he immediately shook his head giving the code if they also did not know where Fang An would be at the moment.

"Ling'er, you'll be here, later if Fang An has come, let him know if we've already left for the Moon Shadow Branch Headquarters!" said Mu Yuan.

"Good dad!" replied Mu Yi Ling.

Above them, Gu Yao He and Mu Zhi Tian were hovering with energy light on their two legs respectively then Mu Zhi Tian made a sound, "We are setting off now!" said Mu Zhi Tian.

Luo Ying and Gu Fei Ming felt heavy-hearted from not seeing Fang An's whereabouts, but they are also unlikely to remain there because they also do not know the direction to the Moon Shadow Branch Headquarters, although the benchmark location is clear if their Headquarters is not far from Zanxu Village.

All of them immediately departed after the exclamation from Mu Zhi Tian, and now only the non-Fighter Members were left along with Mu Yi Ling at that place, and after they had all disappeared in the darkness of the night, a young man came out from inside the room and walked towards the courtyard.

Mu Yi Ling turned her head and she saw Fang An who had been looking for her father since, Fang An appeared with a large Blue Sword on his back, and Mu Yi Ling could feel Fang An's abilities returning up one level.

"Why does it feel so lonely!" muttered Fang An.

"Where have you been? Since then my father and your father have been waiting for you!" asked Mu Yi Ling.

"I've been in Cin ever since..! I mean I'm meditating! What's wrong?" ask Fang An.

"They've all left for the Moon Shadow Branch Headquarters," Mu Yi Ling's reply left Fang An shocked.

"When do they go and where do they go?" ask Fang An.

"Not for long, maybe if you catch up with him you'll meet if you go that way!" mu Yi Ling replied as she pointed the direction they were going.

"Thank you, I'll go first!" fang An said.

"You want to go, and what about me? I'm here waiting for you to tell you!" said Mu Yi Ling.

"It's very dangerous, you'd better wait here" Fang An replied.

"You underestimated my ability?" asked Mu Yi Ling.

"No, it's not so! I just.. e.. I just don't want anything to happen to you, so it's best that you stay here," Fang An said, making Mu Yi Ling misbehave as a result of his explanation.

Mu Yi Ling assumed that Fang An was very worried about her and that Mu Yi Ling had finally complied with Fang An's desire to stay at home.

Fang An immediately called out to the Ice Lion then he leaped onto his back and the two immediately flew after his father.

"It still feels heavy!" muttered Fang An who still felt the weight of the Blue Sword on his back, even though he had already managed to fuse the Soul Sword with his soul, it was still that the Sky Sword still felt heavy.