Chen Ping's Sword

Chapter 334: Chapter 169: True Gang Glaze, a Single Sword Sweeps All

The fire spread quickly, starting as small flickers before rapidly connecting into a patch. With the gusting winds, the flames soared, even igniting the damp trees.

Chen Ping and his peers stood midway up the mountain; although the fire was still distant and posed no immediate threat, it was only a matter of time before they would be cornered.

Either get consumed along with the Primordial Sect and this mountain range,

or charge down the mountain and fight a life-and-death battle against Jiang Wuji and his three thousand elite cavalry below.

It’s not that Chen Ping belittles the "experts" of the Primordial Sect; once things hit that point, survival would be slim, and escaping even a few would be a problem.

At least for the disciples below the Innate Level, there’s fundamentally little hope of forging a path to escape.

In Chen Ping’s plan,

the Primordial Sect was actually crucial.

Not just because from his master Sima Rou’s perspective, this place is his true sect, naturally having inseparable ties, creating a bond stronger than with strangers.

But also because Chen Ping had discovered that the prerequisite for cultivating the Star Essence Body Infusion Technique associated with Seven-Star Swordsmanship was a strong physique.

Without attaining the Iron Body Realm Perfection Level’s robust physique, activating the Seven Stars and attracting Star Essence into the body would first cause the flesh to collapse and severely damage the foundation.

This was the reason Gao Yue from Changkong Martial Arts Hall coveted the Primordial Golden Body Technique.

Catching sight of a higher path, yet his physical body couldn’t support it, he could only sigh helplessly.

Such frustration is indescribable.

The main disciples of Primordial Sect, even the youngest novices under sixteen, have been cultivating the Primordial Technique for over three years.

Not to mention those disciples in their twenties who have been cultivating for six to ten years.

Though resources and talent limited their progress, many of them, numbering twenty-three, are still circling around the Iron Body Realm.

Regardless of cultivation level, these individuals all have devoted years of hard work to physical cultivation.

In terms of physical foundation, both males and females here surpass the Outer Disciples of the Primordial Martial Arts Hall in Xingqing Prefecture.

In a horizontal comparison, the only ones who can match these young disciples in foundation are the eight direct disciples led by Han Wushang—no, excluding Chen Ping, now it’s seven direct disciples who can compare.

To Chen Ping, these are innate warrior seeds.

Provided with adequate nutrition and resources, and utilizing the swift Starlight Body Refining and Essence Supplement Sublime Technique, they could swiftly become exceptional generals leading troops into battle.

With the support of the Star Essence Body Infusion Technique, cultivating speed is definitely not an issue.

As for final achievements, it depends on their innate talent limits; not everyone can become formidable masters.

But according to Chen Ping’s view, even if someone’s talent is poor or physique weak, body refining, before reaching the Innate Level, lacks stringent barriers.

In other words, the weakest among this batch can achieve Great Success in Silver Body, and with full strength, resist against Early-Stage Innate True Qi.

This level is considered the talent of a mighty general in any faction.

Most factions find it rare to produce even one such general, and luck plays a role.

Once discovered, they lead troops into battle, overpowering and dominating.

If Chen Ping realizes this concept, his generals would be produced in batches.

Given this, Chen Ping is keenly interested in ensuring these young disciples face no harm.

He hopes to rescue them all.

For speed,

he didn’t even deeply contemplate the profound mysticism of the fused "Three Yang Heart-Burning Technique."

From proficiency to mastery, to great success and perfection.

At this moment, Chen Ping discovered this fused Celestial Star Sect Heart Refining Secret Technique is at the same level as the Celestial Heart Bright Moon Sword spell.

Enhancing it consumed quite a lot.

Gritting his teeth, he didn’t care about the cost, directly spent 240 Tribulation Value to raise this Heart Refining Secret Technique to Perfection Level.

Chen Ping originally had only 199 Tribulation Points remaining...

If not for the recent descent into battle, gaining 172 Tribulation Value from the Cyan Wood Dragon Locking Array and Grandmaster Jiang Wuji, he couldn’t have supported such consumption.

Sensing slightly, transitioning from a mist-like Martial Intent to a seemingly tangible Vajra Diamond-like Martial Intent.

Chen Ping disregarded the intense satisfaction from his mind and immediately activated the Seven-Star Sword Technique, initiating the Seven Stars Union to attract celestial stars, allowing vast Star Essence to pour into his body.

With an extreme unwavering will, in his consciousness, three rounds of blazing suns steadily rotate in the sea of awareness, refining the fiery aspects within the Star Power to fragments of black gas dissolving into void...

This part of Star Power entering the physique transformed into threads of bright silver slightly transparent as if crystalline energy, purified, infiltrating flesh, muscle, and bone.

An overwhelming and uplifting emotion surged within.

Chen Ping’s heart and spirit slightly trembled, spreading in all directions, feeling his physical form dissolve, scattered among the celestial stars in the sky.

Since ancient times, hanging eternally beyond the void, absorbing infinite energy from beyond the heavens, neither increasing nor diminishing, unbreakable, indestructible.

At this moment, he felt harmonious and free, with a faint joy rising within.

As though witnessing the change of seas into mulberry fields, traversing through ages.