Supreme Emperor of Swords

Chapter 255 Three Essential Factors of the Way of Inscriptions

The Sabre Master suddenly looked up to the sky and said while laughing, “To tell the truth, if shamelessness is a sin, the Sword Master, you are unforgivable for your sin.”

Ding Hao was left speechless.

Discussing for a while, Ding Hao had an idea in his mind, so he gave a long whistle to call the devil cat. He made arrangements and asked him to bring the captives of the black knights to go hunting outside the village.

“Meow, meow. I so like hunting. Meow, hahaha!” The devil cat expressed his great joy.

Ding Hao had a bad feeling and said, “Don’t go too far. Don’t try to capture too strong ominous beasts. Those black knights should be kept alive for future use. Don’t play them to death.”

“Meow. I’ve got it. Meow.” The cute little cat replied impatiently. With a dozen bitter black knights and several villagers with rich hunting experiences, he ran out of the village like flying.

Ding Hao, sitting in the stone building quietly, began to cultivate.

…

Time flew by.

Very soon, more than three days had passed.

Ding Hao was sitting quietly in the stone building every day, practicing martial arts without leaving home.

The sword techniques and the sabre techniques’ Mysterious Qi from the lower Dantian of the belly and the middle Dantian of the chest had reached the realm of the Eight-apertured Completion. Two apertures of Shaohai and Qihai were concise and mellow; both were shining brilliantly like big stars.

At the same time, two great fighting skills of the Dragon King’s Water-Splitting Style and the Smoke Billow Blurry Technique had been cultivated to fulfillment.

Ding Hao still had not practiced the last Golden Body Building with Blood and Marrow from the Nine Levels of the Golden Body Building by Ice and Fire. As for this technique, its power had actually reached the Lower Grade in Earth Rank. But it had too high requirements for the cultivator’s constitution, luck and the cultivating environment, so few people succeeded in accomplishing such a technique; that was why the rank evaluation fell into the human rank.

In the last round of the Golden Body Building with Blood and Marrow, the blood and marrow in the body should be condensed and improved so that the constitution could be changed in quality. Only when the cultivator trained through extreme ice and fire could he achieve its completion. Ding Hao was ready to strive for the fulfillment realm after he reached the Martial Disciple Ream, both in the terms of the Burning Flame Mysterious Qi and the Icy Frost Mysterious Qi.

In addition to practicing those techniques, in recent days, Ding Hao had spent more time on learning the knowledge about formations with the Sword Master.

That kind of study was really vast and complicated. It took three days for Ding Hao to get to know a rough foundation with his comprehension and talents, such that he didn’t even reach a first glimpse level of the technique.

At the same time, with Ding Hao’s leadership, the villagers in the Valley Village had finally returned their normal way of life. In addition to planting some green vegetables in the ice room, they also went out hunting together with the devil cat and black knights. The hunting team went out of the village at noon every day and came back before sunset. They had gained a lot, and it was more than enough to feed the village.

The devil cat showed an amazing hunting talent. Every time he could find weak beasts while avoiding the powerful and ominous beasts, and even found some wild low-rank spiritual herbs in the inaccessible snowfields. Under the devil cat’s leadership, the ration reserve in the Valley Village began to be abundant.

That wicked guy, who showed off too much all day, was almost going to be enshrined by the villagers as an “Auspicious Omen of a Mythical Animal.”

The villagers who had enough to eat became strong. With nutrition, the sallow and emaciated looks were gone and they became vigorous. Some young men and middle-aged men also joined the drills done by the black knights and learned some martial arts moves.

Ding Hao had never been tightfisted. Through the devil cat’s mouth, he taught the ‘With One Saber to Begin Journey’ technique to the villagers to practice, hoping to improve their self-protection abilities.

In just a few days, the Valley Village became vigorous and rejuvenated.

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On the fourth morning, the weather was fine and the sky was blue.

Ding Hao finally went down the stone building, had breakfast with the villagers, and greeted Gao Feng and others. He left the Valley Village and went to a vast snow field about five li away.

The terrain there was extremely gentle. The ground was covered with snow that was more than one meter deep. Under the sunshine, the ground within five or six hundred meters was like a huge white paper, spreading between the sky and the earth.

“It’s here.” Ding Hao stood on the snow.

With his current strength, he was able to step on the snow without leaving any traces, being as light as a feather. His clothes fluttered in the wind like a wisp of smoke.

Closing his eyes, Ding Hao recalled the Way of Inscriptions that the Sword Master taught him these days. When he opened his eyes again, the burning brilliance flickered. As the divine light shone, Ding Hao stretched out in the void. The rusty sword and the blood sabre showed up in his hands at the same time.

Ding Hao began to practice the Way of Inscriptions.

“The basic foundation of the Way of Inscriptions was laid in three elements of the Literary Way, the Literary Methods and the Literary Significance. The supernatural power of Inscriptions is ever-changing. Basically all are produced out of three elements. From today on, I will step in the Literary Way.”

Ding Hao took a step forward slowly and built up his strength gradually.

At this time, the Sword Master said in his mind, “As usual, an inscriptionist begins training his Literary Way with pen and paper. When he cultivates the depths of the Way of Inscriptions, he starts to use the special devices. Most of them are auxiliary magical weapons and pens. Only in such a way can he master the Literary Way, understand the Literary Methods and cultivate the Literary Significance, then have the power to communicate with the Heaven and Earth. Ding Hao, you should think about it and make your final decision. Do you really want to use the sword and sabre in your hands as pens and the snow field between the sky and the earth as paper to take a step further? You should know that this step is crucially important. Once you succeed, you’ll have infinite power. On the other hand, if you fail, the result is terrible. I’m afraid that within a short time, it is hard for you to achieve some progress in the Way of Inscriptions.”

Ding Hao nodded firmly and said, “You don’t have to convince me, I have thought about it and already made my final decision.”

Before he finished his words—

Whew! Whew! Whew!

Ding Hao flashed; he took another step. The sword and sabre in his left and right hands were shaking; with them he wrote ten big “一” Chinese characters in the snow ground.

The so-called Literary Way was the basic composition of the inscriptions, just like strokes that constitute the Chinese characters, also like a horizontal stroke and a vertical stroke sketching a scroll and circuits composing a line. Those components looked simple, but each part played its own role. They were composed one by one according to different divine laws and rules to be ten different Literary Ways.

Ding Hao used his sabre and sword to write traces in the snow ground and they appeared to be ten “一“ Chinese characters. All the characters’ size, length and thickness were different; in fact, they were ten different Literary Ways.

“What you thought is apparently right but actually wrong, and you still have a long way to go.” The Sword Master’s voice was heard in his mind.

Ding Hao nodded. To cultivate inscriptions could not be successful in one move. He thought that he was very clear in the mind, but with the sword and sabre to depict, a slight discrepancy might lead to a serious error. The ten “一” Chinese characters had not reached the Lines Level.