The female priestesss spiritual power was truly too powerful. Solons brain could not bear such strong energy at all. His mind entered a very mysterious illusion.
The surrounding world was no longer a piece of nothingness and darkness. Instead the stars shifted and time and space changed.
Even many memory scenes that did not belong to Solon surged in rapidly.
Without doubt these were memory fragments belonging to this female priestess of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple. After she died completely certain memory information had not fully dissipated and was devoured by Solon.
Of course these memory fragments were extremely chaotic. It was hard to even form one complete scene.
The scene that appeared the most was a young man and woman dying in a pool of blood. An incomparably beautiful woman like an immortal held a three year old little girl and walked away through the blood.
Next the memory fragments became more and more numerous and more and more chaotic.
Finally the surging spiritual power completely exceeded the limit that Solon could bear.
Solon felt that inside his spiritual world countless lights flashed past. In the end it was absolute bright white light.
Finally his brain could not bear such great spiritual power at all and he directly fainted.
Previously when the female priestess crazily attacked him with illusions he desperately wanted to faint but could not do it at all. Yet now because he had crazily devoured too much spiritual power he directly fainted.
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He did not know how long had passed. Solons spirit woke up. The surroundings were still a complete piece of nothingness and darkness.
Demon Star, has the devouring finished? Solon asked.
Yes, master, the Demon Star said.
Solon said, How does this female priestesss spiritual power compare with the Shadow Spider Queen?
It is equivalent to 7.9 Shadow Spider Queens, the Demon Star said.
Solon was completely amazed. Although he knew her spiritual power was astonishing he had not expected it to be so terrifying.
The Demon Star said, Moreover she had already consumed a lot of spiritual power in order to thoroughly destroy you. The remaining part is still equivalent to nearly eight Shadow Spider Queens.
Now this incomparably powerful spiritual power had all been devoured by Solon.
We do not know her name. In the spiritual illusion she tormented me ten thousand times. However… she should count as a good person, right? Solon asked.
She is just a pitiful woman who was deceived and brainwashed by the Divine Dragon Holy Temple, the Demon Star said. She was once the purest saintess and the most sincere spiritual female priestess. Otherwise how could she have qualified to enter the Heavenly Tomb and inherit the highest top secret of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
The reason the Demon Star said she was a pitiful person who had been brainwashed was because the Divine Dragon Holy Temple had deceived her. Her most respected master had killed her parents and then carried her away to accept her as a successor.
At that time she was already three years old and had personally seen her master kill her parents. But memories before the age of five or six cannot be retained, let alone at three years old.
Therefore this segment of memory had been buried in the deepest depths of her brain domain and could not be dug out at all. It would only occasionally flash out as a certain fragment in the deepest nightmares.
And in Solons final counterattack that sought life from certain death he had stirred up this memory of hers and stirred up her deepest nightmare.
Then her faith and her spirit had been instantly and thoroughly destroyed.
It really was heaven favouring Solon that this female priestesss brain contained this most terrifying nightmare. Otherwise even if the desperate counterattack succeeded it would not have destroyed her soul and spirit.
But no matter how tragic this female priestess was she was after all a figure from a thousand years ago. Solon only let out a single sigh.
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Has my spiritual talent already been completely transformed? Solon asked.
It is complete, the Demon Star said. Guess how much your spiritual talent has reached now.
8.6? Solon asked.
8.7! the Demon Star said. Your current spiritual talent is already truly one in a million. It really is lucky. If your spiritual talent had been transformed in the real world there would have been some spiritual power loss no matter what. But inside this Heavenly Tomb the spiritual power has almost no loss at all so the improvement effect is even stronger than imagined.
Spiritual talent of 8.7 meant that in comprehending sword dao, in releasing spiritual attacks, and in using spiritual power to lock on targets everything would achieve twice the result with half the effort. Compared with his previous spiritual talent of 8.1 it was a complete increase of several times.
Immediately after Solon thought of a very fatal matter, that was time.
Demon Star, how much time have we already spent inside the Heavenly Tomb? Solon said. Has the deadline for my duel with Gui Qin Shao already passed?
I do not know. Perhaps not, the Demon Star said. The Heavenly Tomb is a completely sealed energy field, as if it is another world. Therefore the time inside here is completely inconsistent with the outside. You even have no concept of time inside the Heavenly Tomb.
It really was like that because inside the Heavenly Tomb world it was completely the spiritual domain. Here there was no concept of space and no concept of time.
The only thing that gave Solon a feeling of time was the female priestess of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple crazily attacking him spiritually.
Every spiritual torment felt as if it lasted several hours. And this kind of torment happened hundreds or thousands of times. Therefore Solon felt as if more than one or two years had passed inside the Heavenly Tomb.
Because your heartbeat had also completely stopped I lost any reference point so I also do not know exactly how much time has passed in reality, the Demon Star said. But no matter how much time has passed what you need to do now is to learn the next four moves of the Nine Swords of Calamity.
The Demon Star was right. If a very long time had already passed in reality and he had already missed the duel with Gui Qin Shao then there would be no point in Solon rushing over immediately.
And if there was still time then he also had to master the later moves of the Nine Swords of Calamity before he could defeat Gui Qin Shao in the duel.
Of course there was an even more critical problem. How was he going to leave the Heavenly Tomb? Because no one could leave the Heavenly Tomb, not even absolute top experts.
But now was not the time to consider this problem. What needed to be done next was to practise the sword and comprehend sword dao.
And inside this Heavenly Tomb world it was the most suitable place to practise the sword, even more suitable than inside meditation.
Because here there was no sense of time and the perception of the bodys meridians, energy, aura and so on was still very sharp, exactly the same as in reality, unlike inside the meditation world.
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Thus next Solon once again entered an incomparably dull and incomparably painful sword practising environment.
The sixth move of the Nine Swords of Calamity.
Once again he experienced that feeling of pain worse than death, that feeling of searching for the correct one among countless mistakes.
Only after practising several thousand times or ten thousand times could he master the first form of the sixth move.
Then after another several thousand or ten thousand practices he mastered the second form.
And every practice was a painful torment for the meridians throughout his whole body.
That grasp of the balance of internal force fields in the body and the perfect coordination of sword intent and stance was really damn too difficult.
But Solon still deeply felt the heaven defying aspect of raising his spiritual talent to 8.7.
Previously in the meditation world mastering the fifth move had taken a full seven or eight months. Yet now the sixth move had taken less than three months.
Of course that was three months of time inside the Heavenly Tomb. As for how long it was in reality that was truly unknown.
Immediately after came the seventh move. The difficulty rose again by geometric multiples.
A full five months later Solon completely mastered the seventh move of the Nine Swords of Calamity.
At this time he had already surpassed eighty percent of swordsmen in the world, at least in this set of sword techniques called the Nine Swords of Calamity.
Gui Qin Shaos cultivation progress was at the fifth form of the eighth move of the Nine Swords of Calamity.
To defeat Gui Qin Shao Solon needed to at least complete the entire eighth move.
And the difficulty of this eighth move was already completely outrageous. Previously when comprehending the balance of internal force fields in the body there would still be one correct among several hundred mistakes.
But in the practice of the eighth move even among a thousand mistakes one might not find a single correct one, let alone needing to perfectly match the force field balance with sword intent.
A full year of time, with hundreds of thousands of comprehensions, attempts and practices, unknown how many.
In Solons near collapse he finally completed the learning of the eighth sword of the Nine Swords of Calamity.
Next, should he leave directly or continue practising the ninth sword?
Solon felt some hesitation because this kind of bitter cultivation was too terrifying. He already had complete psychological trauma.
It could be said that if his spirit had not been crazily tormented by the female priestess he would have almost collapsed already while practising the eighth sword of Calamity.
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In the end Solon decided to continue cultivating. Even if he only mastered the first form of the ninth move it would be fine.
Gritting his teeth Solon began the learning of the ninth move of the Nine Swords of Calamity.
However it was as if heaven could not bear to see him suffer this kind of torment. Suddenly the whole world shook violently.
It was the nothingness world inside the Heavenly Tomb that changed dramatically and violently.
Then a terrifying bright light fiercely tore open the Heavenly Tomb world.
Boom boom boom…
The nothingness world that Solon perceived completely shattered piece by piece and turned thoroughly to ashes and smoke.
After the bright light tore open the Heavenly Tomb nothingness world it fiercely stabbed into Solons eyes and stabbed into his spiritual world.
Immediately after his body gradually regained sensation.
It was as if waking up layer by layer from the deepest dream.
Waking up again and again, waking up again and again.
At the same time in the real world the energy coffin of the Heavenly Tomb gradually turned to ashes and smoke bit by bit.
In just a moment the entire Heavenly Tomb nothingness illusion was thoroughly destroyed and collapsed.
And Solon woke up from who knows which layer of dream. He suddenly opened his eyes and then sat up with his body, returning to the real world.
What is happening? What is going on? Solon said in shock.
At this time the energy coffin inside the Heavenly Tomb had already completely turned to ashes and smoke.
And beneath him floated a beautiful female priestess. Her face was incomparably beautiful and delicate but her hair had already turned completely white. Her entire body was without a single thread, her peerless heavenly body pure and moving.
This was the female priestess who had been buried in heaven, the female priestess who inherited the top secret for the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
In the spiritual world she had tormented Solon millions of times and had almost thoroughly destroyed him, finally dying from Solons fatal counterattack.
However Solon felt no hatred towards her at all. Because this was her Heavenly Tomb, this was the inheritance place of the highest top secret of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
Therefore as the heavenly burial person the female priestess would instinctively attack any intruder and protect the highest secret of the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
After countless fierce battles Solon finally saw her appearance.
But he only looked at her once.
Next this beautiful female priestesss body also began to turn to ashes and smoke. Inch by inch it turned to ash through nirvana and scattered with the wind, finally disappearing completely.
Demon Star, what is going on? Solon said.
The Demon Star said, The heavenly burial person inside the Heavenly Tomb has already had her spirit destroyed so the Heavenly Tomb has activated self destruction to erase all traces of existence.
Then the Demon Stars voice changed sharply and said, Master hurry and leave. Everything here is going to be destroyed and is going to collapse.
Sure enough Solon felt that the energy field here had already become incomparably chaotic.
Thus he hurriedly rushed upwards desperately, along the Heavenly Tomb cave, rushing upwards desperately, upwards…
At this time the entire seabed was shaking and tearing.
Quick, quick, quick…
Solon rushed upwards crazily. A few minutes later he finally rushed out of the Heavenly Tomb cave that was tens of thousands of meters deep.
He fiercely smashed open the giant rock covering the tomb cave. Solon rushed into the seawater.
Boom boom boom boom…
The entire seabed ground rang with crazy loud sounds and tore crazily.
A terrifying seabed earthquake was about to happen and would thoroughly destroy any traces of the Heavenly Tombs existence.
Solon swam upwards desperately, upwards desperately.
An earthquake would certainly be accompanied by a tsunami. He needed to survive this earthquake and tsunami. He needed to outrun this heaven shaking tsunami giant wave.
He swam upwards crazily, upwards.
Two or three minutes later.
Splash… Solon fiercely rushed onto the sea surface.
At this time the terrifying earthquake at the seabed had finally erupted completely.
Boom boom boom!
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And Solon who had rushed out of the sea surface suddenly stood motionless and looked ahead, completely stunned.
Because ahead there was a small boat. Sword Venerable Bi Xiao was on the small boat rowing and leaving. He was only less than a hundred meters away from Solon.
And when Sword Venerable Bi Xiao saw Solon rushing out of the sea surface he was also completely stunned.
He, he had not died? Moreover he had even come out from the Heavenly Tomb? Was it not that no life could leave the Heavenly Tomb?
A deathly silence. The two of them looked at each other.
Solon asked, Sword Venerable sir? You, you came again?
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao said in astonishment, I, I have not left yet.
He had actually not left yet. After pushing Solon into the Heavenly Tomb coffin and seeing no reaction Sword Venerable had left extremely unwillingly and rowed the boat to return to Mist Island.
However he had only boarded the boat and left for less than a few minutes when Solon had rushed out from the sea surface.
Inside the Heavenly Tomb world Solon had fought with the female priestess for who knows how long and then cultivated the Nine Swords of Calamity for who knows how long.
That feeling was as if several years had passed.
But in reality it had only been an instant, or even not even an instant.
Inside the Heavenly Tomb world everything was stopped and everything was frozen, including space and time.
All of this was truly too mysterious and too strange.
Immediately after Solon thought of a very critical problem. Would Sword Venerable Bi Xiao kill him again to silence him?
Sword Venerable sir, are you still going to kill me? Solon asked.
Sword Venerable raised the wooden sword in his hand and said, I do not know.
Rumble!
At this time a heaven destroying and earth extinguishing energy surged up from under the sea.
The great earthquake at the seabed thoroughly destroyed any traces of the Heavenly Tombs existence and then triggered a heaven shaking and earth moving tsunami.
A terrifying huge wave fiercely rushed up into the sky.
Sword Venerable Bi Xiao was startled. His figure flashed and he fiercely lifted Solon onto the small boat.
Then the dragon power inside his body exploded crazily, driving the small boat forward at high speed and desperately leaving this place of the tsunami.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh…
Sword Venerable drove the small boat forward at a speed of dozens of meters per second.
And behind them the tsunami surged up with hundreds of meters of towering giant waves rolling over, as if the mouth of a demon that wanted to thoroughly swallow the small boat and the Sword Venerable and Solon on it.