"How can this be an air blade? It should be called as tsunami blade instead!" the spectating crowd shouts as they stand up from their seats from the suddenly turned exciting fight. One against nine, the Master Senior Ninth is challenging all his senior in a round of sparring match. The gigantic air blade with the size of mini-wave strikes into the ninth people, but it was easily deflected the moment their eldest senior brother executes the second strike from the Seven Star Sword Art.

"Junior brother ninth! It was a surprise for us to see how ridiculous is the size of your air blade, but I'm afraid that is far not enough for you to easily break our attack!" the seventh senior brother speaks as he waved his sword all the way up above his head, and with a scream, he executed the third strike from the Seven Star Sword Art! Like a piercing bullet, the three strikes came into his reach in a flash.

"Triple Wave Strike!" Zhang Wu Ji executes the third skill from the Perfected Three Wave Sword Art obtained from the Lan Shan Clan members to deflect the three strikes, but his fourth senior brother wasn't going to let his seventh brother and ninth brother take the fight to themselves. With his Yi-Jia Sword in hand, he executed the fourth strike from the Seven Star Sword Art!

"Sword Strikes from Four Direction!" the attack that strikes from four different directions aimed at his four limbs, but that short window of movement allows Zhang Wu Ji to vanished from their eyesight! He's literally gone from the battlefield in a flash without anyone noticing!

"Fist of Destruction Qi!" a shout came from just on the left of the fourth brother as the fist landed on his waist. It was a simple spar, this Zhang Wu Ji did not apply too much strength to execute this attack. But the momentum from that hit sent the fourth senior brother quite far from where they were fighting before the eighth senior brother sent the fifth strike to stops Zhang Wu Ji.

"Wheel of Five Sword Element!" the attack carries the strength of a fiery Qi as its strikes, but Zhang Wu Ji activated the [Bronze Emperor Wheel] from the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art to fight against his eighth brother's attack. Although the attack came from a 4th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, it's power of destruction is unmatchable if one were to fight against this attack using his raw strength.

But that unmatchable destructive power was forcefully smashed into bits the moment the Bronze Qi Wheel was formed right in the middle of the air between them, as the wheel strikes at the nine opponents to stop them altogether. Luckily, the activation of their fifth and sixth senior sister's Seven Layer Star Aura protected them from the immense pressure.

The opened window of merely few seconds gave the two side a moment to take a breath, but for the two sisters trying to fight against the Bronze Emperor Wheel, it was an attempt to fight against a rock with the hardness of an egg. In this case, it was two eggs. Without the need to extort even more pressure, the Bronze Emperor Wheel strikes at the team of nine people when the double layered aura shatters.

But once again, their eldest senior brother and second senior brother saved the situation once again. As the two among the three of them with 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter's strength, the executes the sixth strike from the Seven Star Sword Art together, aiming to defeat their ninth junior brother with a single strike. Before the attack came out, the eldest senior brother added a sentence.

"Junior brother, if you can't take this hit, escape from the left side!"

"Senior brother and sisters! Do not underestimate your youngest junior brother! Lone Star Sword!" he executes the first strike of the Seven Star Sword Art as he replied to his senior brother's words. Hiddenly inside his heart, Zhang Wu Ji speaks to himself as he executed the 3star Burst from the Seven Star Burst Manual. With his strength is now tripled, Zhang Wu Ji's Lone Star Sword Strike is now six-time stronger than before the activation because of the double the damage when executing any strikes from the Seven Star Sword Art.

The three attacks clashed at each another before they canceled out each other. The remnants of the three strikes create a gale that blows everyone unstable from their seats or standing, and the remains of the gale even reach where the Reflection Pagoda is erected on the ground. The commotion is finally over when the gale stop blowing all over the place.

"Is this what I achieve in this generation?" Liang Tian speaks as he held the soft and tender hand of the headmistress as they spectate the sparring from the top of the Reflection Pagoda. Looking back at the headmaster with a pair of the eye full of obsession, the headmistress answered his question with a very gentle "Yes..."

"Swords from Seventh Heaven!" Guan Qing Han took the opportunity to strikes the moment the gale is over, but the mistake from Zhang Wu Ji's movement caused him to activates the wrong attack on the wrong person! His Three Strikes Dog Ruling Art suddenly made it's appearance to the public, before it slaps the bottom of a virgin young lady. The worst thing is not because she was a virgin, but it's due to her strength as a 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter.

The embarrassment of this strike rouses her anger into the stage of an angry Queen mother, like a palm with five fingers, carrying the power as strong as five Mountain Tai slammed at Zhang Wu Ji's left cheek. In physical exchange, how can a mere 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter stand against the strength of a 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter? The slap brings Zhang Wu Ji flying away over half a meter distance before he landed flat on the ground.

That's his first, blackout slap, originated from the owner of five Mountain Tai Palm, Guan Qing Han.

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"Master Senior Ninth! Are you awake?"

"Quickly, tell the others Master Senior Ninth is awake!" a lady's voice came into his ears as he barely able to open his eyes. From the familiarity of the voice, it must be Liu Yanni instead. He struggles to open his eyes, but that struggle caused him some pain from the leftover of the slap. From the public perception, Zhang Wu Ji's face turned into a head of a pig because of the bruise on his left face, and due to the heavy landed on his right face.

"Damn... Her slap is seriously poisonous and deadly. I can't even open my eyes after I got one slap from her..." Zhang Wu Ji complained, unaware of his Goddess of Death were seated right beside his bed. The other senior brother and sisters wanted to warn him, but it was already too late for Zhang Wu Ji to redeem himself, especially after he describes her with the word [Poisonous] and [deadly].

"I have to strengthen myself quickly. The moment I healed, I will go to the Knowledge Pagoda to pick the remaining of the Seven Star Sword Art to practice. I also need to increase the speed of my cultivation, else I will keep on getting bullied by that tigress Guan Qing Han. Who's willing to marry her if she continues to behave like a tiger towards a nice man like me?" Zhang Wu Ji continues to talk, unaware of his action of digging his own grave deeper.

Instead of replying to his words, Guan Qing Han expressed her anger with a slap on the bedside before she left quietly. The voice that came from that slap created a trauma in Zhang Wu Ji's heart the moment he heard the similar voice once more. When the footsteps left the doorstep, Zhang Wu Ji asked.

"Is there somebody here?"

"Junior brother, we're all here," they answered the same word altogether.

"I'm sorry for collapsing during our sparring match. Is everyone alright?" Zhang Wu Ji asked. But luckily he cannot open his eyes now, else he will understand why his eight senior brother and sisters sighed and pitied him. When he noticed the group did not reply to him, he took it as they were worried about his condition. Understanding wrongly, he added a sentence of words to make them feel better.

"Senior brother and sisters, fret not, Wu Ji will get better by tomorrow."

"That's great. Now that you're fine, then you have to excuse us to return to our own courtyards." they started to excuse themselves from continue to bother him from rest. But in their mind, all of them pitied his future because he literally dug his own grave and waiting for his proper burial.

With everyone has left, Liu Yanni excused herself as well, because the time is starting to get late. After confirming that only himself remained inside of his room, Zhang Wu Ji executes the Small Nourishment Art on himself to recovers all his injuries and exhaustion from his previous battle. Through that sparring match, he noticed his own weaknesses, which is on his number of Fighter Qi usable during the fight, and his battle experience.

Although the nine of them were facing some difficulties when fighting against him, Zhang Wu Ji understands that was because they weren't used to fighting against him in a group battle. Plus because of their close relationship with each another, it becomes even more difficult to spar seriously until any of the sides end up with serious injuries. But this consideration will not happen during the gathering match.

After taking a good rest until the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji came out from his room once more, unknown that he just caused himself a grave matter to handle in the future. Inside the Dining Hall, the group of nine enjoyed their breakfast before everyone returned to handle their own matters. It was just a single night after the sparring match has passed, but the commotion it created did not reduce. In fact, they end up motivating many disciples to practice even more intensely by aiming to reach their nine master disciple's height.

This time, when he went out from his humble courtyard, it was crowded with many Slave Disciples and Inner Disciples awaiting for a little guidance. But because of Zhang Wu Ji's sensitive position, none of them approached him to ask for his guidance directly, but a smaller part of them was smart enough to notice that most of the followers of this Master Senior Ninth have a task in hand that has to be completed daily.

Instead of approaching their master, it's better to start from his attendants. But because the three elders are not approachable due to the differences if status, the disciples waits for the five disciple attendants instead. Without being bothered by their acts, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the Knowledge Pagoda in order to borrow a few manuals. He understands that due to his side performance, his status in the sect is slightly increased, but it was still not enough for him to overuse his fame for the sake of borrowing a few more manuals.

He took the privilege to borrowed a total of five manuals and copied two. This was the most efficient method for him as the restriction of time is just barely enough for him to note down two manuals before it was taken back to be cultivated. With seven manuals in hand, he returned like how he came out, without bothering to ask why are those visitors are loitering outside of his courtyard.

The rewriting process soon become like a habit to him, especially when he has an oversupply stock of Double Xuan Paper in his own room. With over a million Gold Coins for every roll of the Double Xuan Paper, Zhang Wu Ji is literally sleeping at the side of a few hundred million worths of treasure. Yet, he was treating them as a normal writing paper for him to rewrites the manual he took back to his courtyard.

This rewriting process ends up taking another eight more days until there was only another 42 days before the Upper South State's Sect Gathering. Other than having a quiet advancement into his 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, they're no special disturbance at all.

In this eight days, he completed the rewriting process to creates six new version of the Seven Star Sword Sect, with only the last Strike manual, is not available to him. Although it was only six strikes in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji successfully fuses them together into two parts.

The first Strike to the Third Strike is fused together with an addition of his own version of the Perfected Three Wave Sword Art. The end results of the fusion were quite shocking to him as it able to motivates him to combine the Fourth Strike to Sixth Strike with another additional copy of the new Perfected Three Wave Sword Art. This two attempt end up giving him a much more completed version of the Seven Star Sword Art, with only the Seventh Strike, remains.

[Upper] Seven Star Sword Art +5 (Shao Yin Phase)

-Usage 1: Allow the user to execute (10) Lone Star Strike / (50) Twin Star Piercer / (120) Triple Star Wave by paying sufficient amount of Fighter Qi

-Usage 2: Allow each swing of the attack to carry nine air blades

-Usage 3: User's attack carries the effect of (Open Wound) when it made contact with opponents

-Durability: 16/16

-Special: Increase User's sense by 5%

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[Middle] Seven Star Sword Art +5 (Tai Yin Phase)

-Usage 1: Allow the user to execute (290) Star from Four Direction / (520) Five Element Star Wheel / (800) Six Star Alignments by paying a sufficient amount of Fighter Qi

-Usage 2: Allow each swing of the attack to carry eleven air blades

-Usage 3: User's attack carries the effect of (Paralysis) when it made contact with opponent's weapon

-Durability: 16/16

-Special: When execution of skills is a failure, return a double amount of Fighter Qi to the user.

Using the seven different manuals to fuse into two manuals were a big improvement. Based on his current difficulties, Zhang Wu Ji may only able to carry about seven manuals on his body, excluding the other weight placed on his body of course. Luckily, the Wen Wu City Resident's Bank was kind enough to accept his banking approach, and in exchange for his large amount of money, they provide him with a stack of specially made coins imbued with the strands of Qi from the City Lord.

Each of this Crystal engraved coins came with the seal of the City Lord, as well a hundred strands of Qi inside of this coin forming a special recognition data that extremely difficult to be broken. The coin was worth a million Gold Coins each, thus instead of carrying over 50,000 Qi Sensing Pills wherever he goes, it was easier to carry only fifty special coins and some spare change.

In his hand, the most important Manual is, of course, the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art, followed by the Ten Petals Orchid Cultivation Manual, Fist of Destruction Qi, Orchid Assassination Art, Qi Directing Sutra, Lone Star Sword Art, and the Three Wave Sword Art. But now, the final two manuals was replaced by two different manuals, which is the Upper Part and Middle Part of the Seven Star Sword Art. Of course, this number did not count the books he carried in a sling carry he often took whenever he goes.

This also means the two additional manuals that he copied before leaving the pagoda are excluded from the total numbers of books he carried in his body. But after he considered their usage, it was a very good option for him to hand them to the five attendants to practice, because the two book is more related to the improvement of physical body and also battling experience.

But after some consideration, Zhang Wu Ji stops himself from giving them such an early stage manual, because of two different reasons. The first one would be due to the fact this Physical Body Art are more suitable for practitioners with a strong hand to hand combat abilities. As for now, none of the five younger attendants of his qualified to be called as hand to hand combat cultivators.

"I suppose I will have to gather a few more manuals before I created something out of luck. If the creation is good enough to support their cultivation until they reach the strength of an Inner Qi Warrior, then it should be good enough for me to let them inherits it." Zhang Wu Ji's expectation in his soon to fusion result is greater than his expectation on others.

As the time is still a few hours before sunrise, Zhang Wu Ji quietly came out from his room to took a bath. He entered the Pill Making Room later after his bath to concocts the Complete Taixia Qi Pills and Yin Essence Pill before he left the room and take a walk outside without being accompanied by the sleepy Iron Scale Bull. If this scene were to be seen by the public, the Iron Scale Bull might be going to get a beating lesson to ignore the master when he was out in view.

Since it was far too early in the morning, nobody was loitering outside except some kitchen workers that were busy preparing the morning breakfast to be delivered to many different departments. Their attentiveness and effort in preparing the food always obtained the appreciation from this young Master Senior, but this is the first time he steps closer to the kitchen without having a destination set in his walk.

"Ah! Master Senior Ninth, are you here to get some food? Wait for this junior for a while, I will bring you some Pork Bun and also Liver Congee to enjoy!" the kitchen staff that stands closer to the opened door noticed the Master Senior and approached him to check if he was here to grab some food. It did not take him too long to return with five more kitchen workers that came along with some tableware, and two of them is holding some food arranged nicely on the plate.

"Master Senior, please enjoy the meal, if you need more, feel free to ask the few of us!" the one that approached him offered to bring him more if Zhang Wu Ji wasn't enough with this few dishes. Being showered with such an attention and care, Zhang Wu Ji can only smile as he took his first bite on the steaming hot pork bun. Before long, he took a sip of the soup before he started with the Liver Congee, and with his bare hand, Zhang Wu Ji grabbed the fried Youtiao and took a bite.

The kitchen workers return to their position while Zhang Wu Ji is enjoying the food. The fact this kitchen is so big shocks him, but the fact they weren't that appreciated compared to the other few departments saddened him as well. In his mind, he thought;

"How can a department that provides so many delicacies to the others to enjoy during their mealtime end up unappreciated by the members of the Seven Star Sect? Fret not, Kitchen Department. Let this Master Senior took you guys into your new heights!" Zhang Wu Ji stands up as he finishes the Youtiao in his hand, but that action ends up as the act to ask for more foods!