Chapter Fifty-Five: When the Sword Immortal Kneels, Who Claims to Be Invincible?
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Zhu Jinzhen’s eyes brightened instantly. No upper limit, no restrictions. This Martial Cultivation Furnace could naturally replicate the power of Celestial Beings from the mainland.
“Bang!”
With a thought, an object resembling the Eight-Trigram Furnace of the Supreme Old Lord appeared out of thin air. Zhu Jinzhen noticed two lines of small carved characters on the Martial Cultivation Furnace and revealed a trace of surprise on his face. Then, more uses of the furnace surfaced in his mind.
“Refine the body through martial arts, aligning with the heavens?”
“The Martial Cultivation Furnace can use a certain person or living being as a template to replicate their realm, cultivation, martial insights, heart methods, and martial skills. It corresponds to the subtlety of the heavenly way above and aligns with the transformations of yin-yang and the five elements below. It can automatically absorb energy from heaven and earth to fuel itself. Each time, it can replicate up to seven individuals, and the more people, the slower the replication.”
Is this a limitation? Zhu Jinzhen didn’t think so. Instead, his pupils contracted slightly, showing a thoughtful expression. “I wonder how long it takes to replicate the power of a Celestial Being from the mainland?”
One day? Three to five days? Or even longer?
None of these mattered to Zhu Jinzhen. If it took a few days or even a month or two, he could soon have seven mainland immortals or even Celestial Beings under his command. Zhu Jinzhen could wake up laughing at night.
What he valued most was the Martial Cultivation Furnace’s lack of a clear upper limit.
In the Comprehensive Martial World, the peak of martial arts was the realm of mainland Celestial Beings. Beyond that lay either ascension or the pursuit of ancient divine and demonic relics, treading the path of ancient gods and demons.
“The Multiverse Tower, the Heavenly Organizations?”
Zhu Jinzhen’s mouth twitched slightly. Images of a certain shopkeeper and various city lords, shopkeepers, and tower masters from multiverse trade streams appeared in his mind. Strange thoughts surfaced: “Did the system buy this, or did it snatch it?”
He always felt that his system, dormant for years, suddenly upgrading and going online was somewhat abnormal.
“Forget it. No matter the origin, it’s not something I can control right now.” Zhu Jinzhen quickly pushed aside the chaotic thoughts and looked at the other compensation package rewards.
[Anywhere Door: A magical item from the world of Doraemon. As long as you think of the destination, opening the door leads there. Restrictions: Cannot be used for time travel or crossing dimensions. Range limited to within ten light-years.]
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“With the Anywhere Door, the whole world is accessible.”
“Even places beyond the Nine Provinces, even…”
Zhu Jinzhen looked up at the hanging moon on the horizon, gazed into the boundless sky, as if trying to pierce through the void and cast his vision into the realms above.
In the Comprehensive Martial World, these higher realms are called the Upper World, the Immortal Realm, the Divine Realm, and so forth.
Having used the Gourmet Tablecloth for years, Zhu Jinzhen remained relatively calm about the arrival of the Anywhere Door.
He didn’t take the Anywhere Door out but glanced at it a few times before returning it to the system space and turned to other rewards. “One Sword Immortal Kneels? Could it be that move of Li Chungang’s?”
[One Sword Immortal Kneels: A rule-based sword technique. One sword is drawn, and ten thousand immortals kneel.]
As is well known, the shorter the description, often the more powerful the effect.
With a thought, the card inscribed with “One Sword Immortal Kneels” transformed into a stream of inheritance rules and merged into his body. At the same time, Zhu Jinzhen mastered all the abilities of “One Sword Immortal Kneels.”
“Whoa~!”
“System, you call this a rule-based sword technique?”
“This is completely conceptual level, isn’t it?”
“It surpasses Li Jing’s hundred percent empty-handed block of a blade strike. In some ways, it’s even better—no, ten times better.”
Countless profound insights about swordsmanship flooded Zhu Jinzhen’s mind, making his scalp tingle with awe.
“Whose ‘One Sword Immortal Kneels’ is this? It’s truly targeted at immortals?”
“Mainland immortals are immortals, and those with ‘immortal’ in their name are also immortals.”
“If the realm has ‘immortal’ in its title—whether Earthly Immortal, Immortal King, Immortal Emperor, Great Luo Golden Immortal, or the Primordial Infinite Great Luo Golden Immortal—unless the gap is immeasurably vast, I can kneel them all with one sword.”
Zhu Jinzhen was completely stunned.
He had thought “One Sword Immortal Kneels” was perhaps one of the famous signature moves of the Sword God Li Chungang from Li Yang outside the Nine Provinces.
But the system’s information revealed it to be a genuine rule-based sword technique.
As long as there was the word “immortal,” whether in realm or name, all would kneel before this sword.
The most terrifying part was that the technique could grow stronger as Zhu Jinzhen himself grew.
“Does that mean I’m invincible now?”
Zhu Jinzhen swallowed hard, knowing the system’s five-year sign-in compensation package wouldn’t be weak, but he hadn’t expected it to be so powerful—no, downright broken.
Simply invincible!
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He even thought that since he had transmigrated into the Comprehensive Martial World, if he were thrown into worlds like Perfect or Primordial, with just one sword he could make all immortals kneel—no matter the High Ancestors, the Path’s Enders, the Tyrannosaurus Immortal Emperors, the Great Luo Golden Immortals, or the Primordial Golden Immortals.
“Calm down, calm down.”
“Being able to suppress doesn’t mean I won’t die.”
Zhu Jinzhen took several deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down. Although the system’s “One Sword Immortal Kneels” was undoubtedly invincible and an absolute control divine technique, if the realm difference was too great, the moment the opponent knelt, they would still have the power to kill him with a glance or a thought.
A mainland Celestial Being thrown into those high-martial, high-dimensional worlds might not even count as an ant.
The rationality shaken by the illusion of invincibility gradually returned, and Zhu Jinzhen realized how inflated he had been just now—almost belittling Immortal Emperors and Great Luos with his modest mainland Celestial Being status!
After calming down, feeling the countless profound swordsmanship insights swirling in his mind and the sparks of inspiration emerging, a look of ecstatic joy appeared on Zhu Jinzhen’s face.
“This One Sword Immortal Kneels points me toward a new path in swordsmanship!”
Ren Piaomiao’s sword talent combined with the Ethereal Sword Technique was excellent.
But every path has its end.
The arrival of One Sword Immortal Kneels allowed Zhu Jinzhen to align his swordsmanship with this rule-based technique and evolve it.
If one day he could wield swords at will in accordance with the rules,
That would truly mark the complete mastery of swordsmanship.
Zhu Jinzhen thought so to himself.
Until past midnight, immersed in swordsmanship insights, he slowly exhaled a murky breath.
“As expected of a sword technique standing above the rules. Even if it’s just the tip of the iceberg, the analogy and fragments have greatly advanced my swordsmanship.”
In his eyes, thousands of sword evolutions appeared: the ultimate human sword moves, myriad variations, returning to simplicity—all within a single thought.
The sword intent, nearly Dao-like, had finally crossed the final threshold.
The very swordsmanship revered by the likes of Zhang Sanfeng.
A whole new realm of swordsmanship, a new world of the sword.
Though myriad profound insights and flashes of inspiration flowed through his mind, Zhu Jinzhen suppressed them and said, “There are still two more rewards. Let’s finish looking before discussing anything else.”
No need to rush into seclusion just yet.