Chapter 407: Chapter 279: Nine Luminaries Sword Infant_2
Tie Dan spun in the air and saw that there were still hundreds of people in the fortress. As he landed among them, he saw a group of Kan Country samurai dressed in fur pelts, each holding weapons, bows drawn and arrows notched, cautiously watching him.
Tie Dan raised the gourd in his hand to show them.
Everyone’s expressions relaxed, they turned their heads and went about their business.
A warrior who seemed to be the leader of the group came forward, cupping his fists and said,
"Immortal, please wait a moment, the new wine will be ready in two days."
Tie Dan curiously asked,
"Can I see how you brew it?"
The leader was indifferent, so he invited Tie Dan to the back mountain to watch and explained while showing him.
Basically, it’s mare’s milk wine made by ancient methods. The stable in this mountain town holds hundreds of horses, which are the warhorses of these border-guarding samurai. Due to the harsh cold, they need to drink strong liquor to ward off the cold and warm themselves. In Kan Country, each fortress brews its own wine.
Simply stir the fermented sour mare’s milk for seven or eight days, separate and filter the liquid, and it can be drunk. To be called Thunder Cup strong liquor, the process is slightly more complex, with repeated barrel changing, fermentation, filtration, and distillation, adding local herbs to remove the gaminess and enhance flavor, and maturing for a period of time. Although the taste is gamy, spicy, and strong, after careful savoring, the taste is different in each place, and the flavor varies with the maturation time.
Frankly, in this snowy and icy world, there’s nothing much else to do, so they study these things to satisfy their cravings.
Tie Dan tasted it, and ordinary mare’s milk wine was actually drinkable, but when put into the wine gourd, the taste changed somewhat. Moreover, Tie Dan also discovered that this gourd was a space magic treasure, capable of holding as much as you like, but the Sword Monarch didn’t mind making repeated trips, evidently taking just enough each time to leave some wine for these mountain folks to fend off the cold.
But it shouldn’t be for this reason that he was specifically told to make a trip.
"Do you need any help? What did the previous Immortal exchange with you for the wine? More demon beast meat?"
The leader thanked him, obviously knowing that the previous Immortal wouldn’t come again, and so requested,
"We already have enough meat, and as the snow is about to melt, we can graze the horses down the mountain, so there’s no shortage of food.
The last Immortal left us a sword talisman every time he took wine, and troubled you to set up an array to protect the village.
To guard against future demon attacks."
"I see, I understand."
Seeing the stack of talismans handed over by the leader, Tie Dan also understood the Sword Monarch’s intention,
This was a small test left by the Sword Monarch, or rather, a way to teach him to master the Yao Guang lineage’s sword formation technique.
The Yao Guang Sword Formation, like the spinning skill of the five light swords on Po Jun Sword Lord’s back, which Chen Huzi also used back in the day during fights to break mountains, could become hundreds of sword lights when executed, circling to protect the body and attacking enemies everywhere.
Indeed, techniques should not be casually passed on; this is the rule of the Sword Sect. But not being passed down doesn’t mean you can’t learn it on your own!
With demons all around, isn’t it reasonable to be constantly prepared with the secret technique sword formation for protection?
I didn’t teach you, but the disciples and descendants are so talented! He just watched and learned on his own, so what can I do! Should I look for blind and foolish people then!?
So, since Tie Dan is so capable of learning, the Sword Monarch has generously shown him everything he knows. Each time he fed Tie Dan meat or wine, the changes in the sword light and sword wheel formations on his back were different.
Tie Dan certainly wasn’t blind or foolish, tacitly memorizing everything.
It wasn’t difficult, because the key basics had already been taught bit by bit by Chen Huzi back in Yanzi Cave, and Tie Dan wasn’t a fool. The first time he learned, the second time he mastered, and by the third time he found it redundant, so Chen Huzi didn’t say any superfluous words.
This sword formation refines the Nine Luminaries Sword Scripture to the Nascent Soul Sword Light realm, and after becoming proficient in sword control and energy manipulation techniques. It upgrades from previously wielding a single sword energy to simultaneously controlling hundreds or thousands of sword lights.
It can be used for both group attacks and duels, forming a sword array to slay enemies, with both offensive and defensive capabilities, ever-changing, cutting through evil and disasters, its uses are endless.
Having previously seen through the method of manipulating the sword formation from the Sword Monarch, now with the complete reference set of sword talismans from these villagers, Tie Dan has seen everything of the Yao Guang lineage’s core secret sword and sword array inheritance.
The Sword Monarch might have done it just in case he couldn’t come back...
Never mind, let’s stop overthinking, I’ve been drinking his wine for so many days, so I’ll just accept this inheritance.
So, for these two days, Tie Dan stayed in the mountains, using the sword talismans left by the Sword Monarch to set up arrays, integrating the Yao Guang Sword Formation.
And the more he studied the sword formation and pondered the words of the Sword Monarch, the clearer and more understandable Tie Dan’s mind became.
Previously, he had a nest of anger that was hard to bear, but now calmed down, calculating and pondering, Tie Dan also realized saying the Sword Sect’s cultivation techniques were outdated was mostly true, but there was a bit of arrogance in that.
If judged by success or failure, Tie Dan does not have a flawless record. Had the Sword Monarch not acted to protect him this time, he probably would have already died in Inner Mountain.
As for Beichen’s Secret Sword, no matter what, it had been passed down from Xuan Nu and Yuan Gong, how bad could it be, it’s just that the times have changed, and the descendants are disappointing, unable to learn and wield it properly, unable to deliver the expected results.
Take the secret sword that Tie Dan mastered for example.
The Yu Heng lineage focuses on demon extermination and demon destruction. Back then, at the bottom of the Nine Yin Mountain, the Child Sword Light obtained was on a destructive and killing path, its power boundless, nothing indestructible, even the Great Demon Ancestor could be swept in two, used for demon extermination, it’s not lesser than Gang Fist at all.