“…Okay, that was it. I think I have taught you all enough about things that don’t relate to my inheritance. Let’s begin actually teaching you three. According to the Sword Immortal Way, since I have already transmitted my Quintessence Sword Art, I’ll now test your comprehension of the Sword. Langyu, since you are not strong enough to participate, only watch. Fu Ying and Li, you will have to battle in her place. Are you ready? As my strongest disciples, I want to see your sword cultivation.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui glanced at the two.

“Junior sister, we will be embarrassing ourselves before your eyes.” Saying this without even looking back at her, the twins unleashed their cultivation that they were concealing, causing their junior sister to hastily back away.

“Wait a moment, I’ll change the environment a bit…” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui unleashed a wave of energy. In their surroundings, the countless paper scraps with numbers and letters upon them disappeared along with the SNES. The environment warped until they stood upon a hardwood floor. Nearby, there were bamboo paneled doors and a few posters with some quotes on them.

“Langyu, stay back, observe and learn.” Heifeng Jiansui gave Langyu a single advice before moving forward for the spar.

“Thanking master, this disciple will observe with all her heart.”Langyu nodded back and gravely bowed to him.

Just then, Heifeng Jiansui seemed that he had thought over something. He drew his sword Nineprime and drew a single strand of golden energy from it. That done, he called Langyu to receive it with both hands.

Looking at Langyu who seemed to be fascinated as she stared the sword, he tapped her on the head. “Since you are my youngest disciple with the lowest cultivation, I’ll grant you the duty of a sword maiden. Protect and watch over my sword.”

“Since this is our first spar and I wish to test your Sword Dao, I’ll only battle defensively. I won’t draw Nineprime unless you force me. To begin with, I’ll only rely on my bloodline of the Black Phoenix… and something you two need to learn more about, the power of ‘faith’. How about it?” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui gently played with the string of golden energy.

At Heifeng Jiansui’s words, the twins fell into thought for a moment before smiling.

Testing their Sword Dao… this meant that they were supposed to only use their Dao comprehension in battle, while holding back their Immortal King energy. Heifeng Jiansui would thus guide them in their cultivation with his sword bearing down upon their flaws.

Understanding this, they glanced upon the sword reverently held in Langyu’s hands, Nineprime. His words clearly stated that if he did draw his sword, he could display the prestige of a Sword Immortal and match their Immortal King cultivation blow by blow… And relying on the power of his Black Phoenix bloodline and ‘faith’, he could miraculously produce equivalent strength.

Saying this, he turned to the twins. “Since I am testing you two, don’t dare to hold back your strength. Come together with the full might of your Sword Arts and the comprehension of everything you have learnt.” Hearing this, the two nodded.

“As the Sect Master says. Sect Master, allow us the first move.” Saying this, the twins drew their swords in tandem.

Their spar had began.

Fu Ying and Fu Li stood side by side, holding swords on their left and right hands. The aura of Immortal Kings was fully unleashed as countless plum and cherry blossoms began falling. The shadow of a godly tree formed behind them, five distinct colors of the Five Phases blossom in the green leaves, red stems, golden branches, yellow trunk and blue root, forming an enthralling scene. With the tree as the core, the area around 10,000 km in a hemispherical radius was covered by plum and cherry blossoms.

Heifeng Jiansui felt the space surrounding him had been severed from the laws of the Nineorigin Chaosworld. The laws were solely controlled by the two twins before him.

“Five Phase Immortal Dominion with a Five Colored Tree as the core, not bad. You formed it this soon?” The Yin-Yang Perpetual Emperors had given guidance to the twins and their Five Phase Immortal Dominion had formed in accordance. As the Five Elements descended from Yin and Yang, it complemented their cultivation path.

Immortal Kings had Immortal Dominions formed by the sum of their comprehensions and insights. A peak Immortal Dominion could spread out to cover a Great World and with the twins complementing cultivation, it should have far surpassed that… But their breakthrough was quite recent and thus, coming together only a 10,000 km space was stably covered by the Dominion.

In response, Heifeng Jiansui allowed the power of the Ice-Fire Dao of his Black Phoenix bloodline to awaken. Ice and fire gathered into two red and blue clones of fire and ice. Forming two swords of ice and fire, they stood by Heifeng Jiansui’s sides like guards while Heifeng Jiansui drew a golden bladed sword.

His clones temporary and formed by simply separating the Ice-Fire essence energy of the Black Phoenix First Dao… he had created it as a part of the supreme battle technique Black Phoenix Transcending Emperor.

Standing side by side with swords drawn, the three formed a triangular formation… the Threelaw Battle Formation!

“I am beginning with this move! Plum Blossom Sword Rain!” Fu Ying began the first move, as countless pinkish white plum blossom flowers fell. The rain of flowers concealed sharp sword intent, yet they were fairly weak individually. If a mortal swung his sword, he could cleave through one… but how could one man face a sky full of them falling up him?

Heifeng Jiansui and the two clones formed by essence energy of his bloodline stood together facing the rain of plum blossoms. The sight of tens of thousands of plum blossoms gently drifting down was a rare sight to see, and within Heifeng Jiansui’s mind, a curiosity formed, a desire to let the gentle rain of flowers bathe him…

This suicidal desire was severed with a cleave of the sword. The patter of the Plum Blossom Sword Rain was immediately stemmed by the furious cleaves of three swords. A swordsman chopping through a falling drop of water… this was a legendary event in the world of martial arts. And thus, the possibility of fending off a barrage of rain would be impossible to even imagine.

“Heh, this move isn’t bad. Using the Supreme Dao of Wood as the core, linking the Grand Dao under it to be controlled by it and adding on the Sword Dao to fuse them together with the element of sharpness… This is a pretty good formation!” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui called upon the power of the golden strand of faith energy before starting the attack against the rain of flowers.

Having reached the apex of sword arts, ‘chopping through a rain, drop by drop’ was something only natural for Heifeng Jiansui. The three-colored swordlight formed by Heifeng Jiansui’s sword fused laws of Wood and Earth, with Metal as the core. As for his clones, they used the freezing power of Ice and the burning power of Fire to cleave through the sea of plum blossoms. Together, they complemented to form a Five Phase Cycle within the Black Phoenix Threelaw Formation, forming a cloud of black fire with five-colored strings weaving within it!

Heifeng Jiansui and his two clones pointed their swords to control the cloud of black fire formed by the Threelaw battle formation, using the Phoenix bloodline Daoscripts deep within their body and blood they poured strength into it, allowing it to transform in strength. Finally, Heifeng Jiansui flicked the strand of golden faith into the cloud.

The cloud of black fire had the twin elements of ice and fire interlocking like Yin-Yang, and as it tore through the rain of plum blossoms, it seemed to transform into a flying phoenix. Black winged like a dark crow, a beak red like fire and claws white like ice, it was like a legendary beast resurrected to battle again!

The Black Phoenix was like a bonfire while the plum blossoms were like a hail of leaves. No matter how many leaves struck, the bonfire would only swallow them!

Just like this, the rain of leaves came to an end, transformed into the phantom of a Black Phoenix that protected Heifeng Jiansui. This was the transformation of Five Phases, of Wood being burnt to build up fire.

Fu Ying glanced at the smoky Black Phoenix that swallowed the hail of flower blossoms with shock. While she had not used her Immortal King energy, it was still inexplicable that a small Fire Domain had stemmed her attack of Dao Insights, no matter whether it called upon the Five Phase Cycle or not. The power Heifeng Jiansui could call upon was limited by his mortal body. And so, the only factor that was left was his bloodline…

No, even if all these forces were fused together, it was still inexplicable for her one attack to lose. Even if it was her first, casual attack and even if Heifeng Jiansui was an apex Perpetual Emperor who could crush her even as a mortal… It was impossible for such a reversal to occur, especially in terms of Dao Insight.

“So you understand that my Black Phoenix bloodline is the cause behind the effect of your attack filled with Immortal King-level Dao insights being vanquished… Do you understand the reason why my mortal Black Phoenix bloodline would allow such a miracle?” Heifeng Jiansui questioned Fu Ying with the air of a stern teacher.

“This wasn’t due to a Dao but due to the effect of your bloodline, and it wasn’t one of the inherited Daoscripts engraved in your bloodline… No, this was the domination of a Phoenix upon a Cherry Blossom which formed the core principles behind my attack. It is impossible for even the lowliest Phoenix to fall to a Cherry Blossom and your bloodline is of the Black Phoenix which surmounts ordinary phoenixes…

Wait, just because a Phoenix surmounts Cherry Blossoms on the food chain, you suppressed my attack with Immortal King insights? How is this even possible?!” Fu Ying couldn’t help but exclaim this. Even though she had comprehended the reason why her attack failed, it was still unbelievable.

“…Normally, something like this wouldn’t happen. Suppressing Immortal Kings with mortal means is something nearly impossible to achieve. But sometimes, the stars of fate shine bright and even gods fall to mortal hands. This is the divine power of faith… the power of the Dao of Heavenly Fate. My comprehension of it compared to the Sword Dao is only superficial… Yet it is capable of such a miracle.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui’s expression was stern.