At that very moment, as Lin Hui saw that line of text, a massive torrent of cultivation information regarding the Wild Wind Sword Technique surged into his mind.
In his mind's eye, it was as if he had been painstakingly cultivating the Clear Wind Sword day and night without rest. Then, amidst that bitter training, on a certain day in the howling wind outdoors, he gained an epiphany regarding the essence of wind. He formed a special traction net through the flow of Internal Force, transforming it into a wild gale, thus obtaining the three forms of the Wild Wind—the Wild Wind Sword Technique.
Whoosh.
He stood up abruptly, his hand grasping the sword hilt on his back. The experience of the Wild Wind Sword Technique, bitterly practiced over a million times, was transmitted rapidly from his mind to the muscles of his hand the instant he held the hilt.
His muscles micro-adjusted, naturally adopting the most familiar grip.
He drew the sword, pointing it obliquely at the ground.
Lin Hui closed his eyes and began to wave the blade. As if dancing, he practiced this brand-new Wild Wind Sword Technique with extremely slow movements.
This sword technique had only nine moves divided into three forms: the Soothing Mountain Form, the Overlapping Cloud Form, and the Clear Ring Form.
The three forms and nine moves appeared unremarkable; most were basic slicing cuts, slashing as if tracing circles.
At first, he was very slow, very slow, as if his body had not yet fully adapted to this change.
He was still constantly adjusting.
But as his memory continued to align, the muscles and joints of his body gradually seemed to recall that bygone bitter practice.
The circling sword moves became faster and faster.
Soon.
The sword blade began to blur, turning into an afterimage.
A faint whistling sound of tearing air began to emanate from the space around him.
Another minute passed.
The sword shadow disappeared completely. Even the afterimage could no longer be seen; only the sound of tearing air could be heard, becoming more frequent and dense.
Another minute passed.
The sound of tearing air began to diminish, replaced by a continuous, fine rustling that sounded like actual wind.
At this point, Lin Hui's right hand vaguely appeared as if it hadn't moved at all, held horizontally in front of him. Yet, a gale had already started to whip up before him.
A large volume of airflow blew against the yellow altar cloth in front of the deity statue within the main hall.
The airflow crashed against the incense altar and scattered in all directions, causing the window curtains hanging elsewhere in the hall to flap continuously.
Finally.
Boom!
Suddenly, a ring of distorted, substantive airflow exploded outward with Lin Hui at the center.
This ring of airflow was more powerful than the blowing wind from before; in just a single impact, it shook the entire incense altar violently.
Amazing! Lin Hui was shaken to the core.
Before this, he had never seen any martial art capable of causing such exaggerated phenomena.
Ever since he awakened the memories of his previous life and came to the Clear Wind Temple, the Seven-Section Swift Sword he first learned was relatively normal—just a slow technique for Body Tempering.
The subsequent Nine-Section Swift Sword was somewhat formidable, infinitely stronger than those fencing athletes from his previous life, striking with afterimages.
The Clear Wind Sword Technique had already been somewhat outrageous—so fast that people couldn’t even react. It was like the wind itself.
And now, this Wild Wind Sword Technique—he had only just begun cultivating it, yet it was already causing such a huge commotion.
If he were to complete the Body Tempering with these three forms and nine moves, wouldn't he ascend to the heavens!?
Lin Hui carefully recalled the information flooding his mind.
The third Body Tempering of the Wild Wind Sword Technique corresponded exactly to nine ranks, just like before.
Because he had directly mastered all the sword moves and realms upon evolution, if he wanted to perform Body Tempering now, he would have to grind repeatedly, just as he did with the perfect Clear Wind Sword tempering.
As for that Surrounding Wind, he looked at it with some itchiness in his heart, wondering what kind of special effect it was.
The special effect Featherweight Ascension had now become his trump card for instantly boosting his combat power. This Surrounding Wind felt like it might be some kind of defensive or sensory ability.
Lin Hui carefully sensed the Wild Wind Sword Technique, and only after his mood had calmed down slightly did he look at the three new Evolvable Branches that had appeared beneath it.
There were actually three branches this time, which made him somewhat curious.
As he focused his attention, information on the three branches soon surfaced.
[1 — Hell Startling Wind Sword Technique.]
[2 — Arcane Wind Elemental Sword.]
[3 — Typhoon Sword Technique.]
"..."
Lin Hui had once thought that the evolution of the Blood Seal would likely proceed along three directions: Purgatory, Frost (Extreme Cold), and Reality. But the two new branches appearing now told him: You thought too much.
This Blood Seal wasn't just truly random; it had randomized into something like an "Arcane Wind Elemental Sword." Is this genre even normal anymore?!
Speechless, he went through the specific descriptions and conditions one by one.
[1 — Hell Startling Wind Sword: Legend has it that in the long history of Hell, a formidable swordsman once appeared who excelled at utilizing the airflow of Hell's Breath. Although he eventually died in a chaotic eruption of Hell's Breath, his sword technique was successfully preserved on a certain stone wall.]
[This sword technique possesses strong single-target lethality and carries a certain degree of Hell corruption. Combined with the Wild Wind Sword, it forms a special sword art perfectly adapted to the user's main body.]
[Required Resources: Nine Evil Souls, 5 years Reserve Energy, 5 years Reserve Spirit.]
[Time Required: 9 years (Extra gestation time for the Hell Sword Embryo after reserves are completed).]
"...This..." Just looking at the description, Lin Hui knew this sword technique was absolutely strong. Very strong. Super strong!
But looking at that nine-year duration...
He decisively looked at the second one.
Although he now had medicine to accelerate the process, nine years would still take a long time, even if shortened. It was better to look at everything first.
[2 — Arcane Wind Elemental Sword: Originates from a Grand Arcanist proficient in swordsmanship. In his spare time, because his grandson loved sword arts but lacked arcane aptitude, this Arcanist created this sword technique specifically for him.] [This sword art can draw upon the wind elements within all things, accelerating sword speed and imbuing each strike with various wind-element arcane abilities. It has powerful area-of-effect lethality and astonishing destructive power, but its consumption is immense. It specializes in manifesting the destructive power of wind.]
[Required Resources: Meditate in a windy place for 13 days, 8 years Reserve Energy, 8 years Reserve Spirit.]
[Time Required: 10 years (Extra gestation time for the internal miniature Wind Element Pool after absorption reserves are completed).]
"...This one is even more ruthless. Ten years! And the style is exactly as I guessed—it's the style of mages and arcanists."
Speechless, Lin Hui finally looked at the third one.
[3 — Typhoon Sword Technique: A new sword technique completely deduced and evolved from the Wild Wind Sword Technique. It enhances the effect of the sword wind in Body Tempering and actual combat, fundamentally changing the nature of Internal Force to form a cyclone-type Internal Force based primarily on borrowing planetary rotation force. Executing special sword moves with this Internal Force allows one to borrow all external forces, accelerate the sword wind, and form high-speed rotating airflows.]
[This sword technique integrates offense and defense, capable of forming a home-field advantage within a certain range. It does not fear low-energy group attacks. It has a weakening effect on both equal-energy opponents and high-energy opponents.]
[Required Resources: 7 years Reserve Energy, 7 years Reserve Spirit.]
[Time Required: 7 years (Extra gestation time for cyclone-type Internal Force after absorption reserves are completed).]
This one is also very strong... Wait! Suddenly, Lin Hui noticed that the "Time Required" column displayed the word "Extra."
Could it be that this time is an additional wait required after passing the time for Reserve Energy?!
Lin Hui's heart skipped a beat.
The more he looked, the more it seemed likely.
Before he could continue guessing, the Blood Seal immediately gave a trace of feedback.
It was indeed extra time that had to be waited out...
So... looking at it this way, the first one is five plus nine, fourteen years...
The second is eight plus ten, eighteen years.
The third is seven plus seven, fourteen years.
This time was too long... If he couldn't use medicine to accelerate it, Lin Hui didn't know how he could wait for such a long duration.
At his current cultivation speed, reaching the Internal Style Six Layers probably wouldn't take two years. The issue was not knowing how to break through to the Circulation Realm afterward.
It could be said that starting from the third Body Tempering of the Wild Wind Sword Technique, he had already headed in a direction completely different from traditional martial artists.
Here, once martial artists reached the Internal Style Six Layers, they would begin to pursue the Circulation Realm. That was a higher realm of Internal Force, an evolution and sublimation of life. To a certain extent, they had already abandoned the external Body Tempering of moves and turned thoroughly toward Internal Force.
But the Wild Wind Sword Technique still followed the path of combining internal and external. Not only were there changes in Internal Force, but there was also a third stage of continued Body Tempering that he had never heard of. It even mixed in other inexplicable elements.
Standing in the main hall, Lin Hui was unable to choose for a long time.
He wanted all three subsequent branches of this Wild Wind Sword Technique.
But the time required was truly too long.
If I take the full amount of energy medicine every month to shorten the time, then with the various prescriptions I've mastered now, combined into the best regimen—even without the Spirit-Enriching Reishi—I wonder how many days I can shave off in a month? I can test it first!
Lin Hui made up his mind. He wouldn't rush to choose with the Blood Seal. Since the time required was so immense, missing a few days wouldn't matter. He planned to wait until the medicine was refined, then personally test the various prescriptions obtained from the Hundred Flowers Sect to determine how much time could be shortened in a month before making a decision.
After composing his mind, he exhaled a long breath and continued holding his sword to cultivate the new Wild Wind Sword Technique.
This set of sword techniques could perform a third Body Tempering.
If the purpose of the second Body Tempering was to stimulate the production of Internal Force, then he didn't know what effect this third Body Tempering would have.
It was just that the commotion caused by practicing the Wild Wind Sword Technique was simply too great. After practicing it twice, Lin Hui had no choice but to actively leave the hall to avoid turning the various things inside into a chaotic mess.
He left the Daoist temple and followed the edge of the mist zone, searching all the way for a suitable location.
As he walked further and further, he soon passed through the woods and fields, arriving at a barren wildland full of jagged rocks and hills.
The jagged rocks here were all shaped like cobblestones; each one was as long as a person and over half a meter high, scattered here and there on the ground.
The soil was also entirely hard, dark yellow, and not even a few blades of weeds could be seen.
In the distance, a few withered trees stood scattered about, brandishing their claws and fangs without leaves, making the surroundings appear even more lonely and desolate.
Lin Hui looked around. He found a large hill to serve as a visual obstruction for his back, then made markers for the way back before continuing his sword practice.
After practicing just a few times, he sensed the benefits of this place.
The wind was already strong here, so the wind generated by him would be undetectable unless one looked carefully.
Moreover, the soil here was damp, and the stones were large, numerous, and heavy; ordinary wind couldn't blow them up at all.
Added to the fact that there were no flowers or grass, it was completely impossible to distinguish which direction the airflow was blowing from. It could serve perfectly as his training ground.
From now on, this place will be my main training ground. I'll just call it the Wild Wind Plains. Lin Hui was quite satisfied with this place. He simply gave it a new name himself.