Chapter 4 Eighteen Mysterious Tombstones

The black sword stele stands between heaven and earth, exuding an incomparably majestic aura, suppressing the aura of heaven and earth.

Ji Tianxing saw that the black sword stele was covered with traces of wind, frost and time etched, and it looked very old.

I don't know how long this sword tablet has gone through.

He looked up at the sword tablet that was thousands of feet high, and saw that there were four mottled characters engraved on the sword tablet.

Every word has complicated strokes, looks vigorous and powerful, and seems to contain a sharp and unparalleled sword intent that will tear the sky through the monument.

Ji Tianxing just took a second glance, and was suppressed by the sword intent contained in the four big characters, and a deep awe was born in his heart.

Those four words are very mysterious and ancient, and they are not words of this era at all, and he has never seen them before.

But strangely, he had a hazy feeling in his mind and recognized those four words.

Tomb of the Sword God!

"Sword God's Tomb? Is this a cemetery?"

Ji Tianxing was puzzled and thought to himself, "No wonder it looks so desolate and gloomy, and it is full of the breath of death."

"However, I have only heard of some strong people calling themselves sword masters, and the number one kendo expert in Qingyun Kingdom only dares to call themselves sword sects."

"Someone is actually called the Sword God? What is his realm of strength?"

Ji Tianxing couldn't understand what kind of realm of strength the Sword God was.

But he can guess that the tomb of the Sword God is so powerful, he must have been a top powerhouse beyond his imagination!

He withdrew his gaze looking up at the sword monument and continued to float towards the sword monument.

After a while, he came to the bottom of the sword monument and looked at the surrounding wasteland.

I saw that there were more than a dozen pitch-black tombstones standing in a row on the wasteland on the left and right sides of the sword monument.

Ji Tianxing counted, there are eighteen tombstones, nine on each side.

He walked near the row of tombstones on the left and found ancient writing on each tombstone.

Some steles have more characters, as many as hundreds.

Some steles have less text, only one or two sentences and more than 20 characters.

To Ji Tianxing, these ancient and mysterious words should be unfamiliar.

But he stared at the first tombstone and observed it for a while, and there was a hazy feeling in his mind, and he actually recognized those complicated and obscure words.

Looking at those ancient words, he couldn't help but meditate in his heart.

"The first realm of kendo, Jianxin."

"The so-called sword heart is to temper the sword body and condense the sword heart. This is the ultimate way to reach the state where there is no sword in the hand, and the sword is in the heart..."

Seeing this, Ji Tianxing couldn't help but stop, his heart was full of shock and incredible.

These two sentences were something he had never heard before, and they were completely inconsistent with his cultivation experience and cognition, and were even subversive!

He practiced the Ten Profound Swordsmanship handed down from his family since he was a child. From the first day of practicing swordsmanship, he practiced with a precious sword in his hand.

Not only him, but even the masters of kendo in Qingyun, all have to use swords to use swordsmanship.

Even the first swordsman of the Qingyun Kingdom, Lord Jianzong, never leaves the sword in his hands, practicing hard day and night.

But the text on this tombstone says that the first step in practising kendo is the realm of swordsmanship.

Isn't this bullshit?

If you don't have a sword in your hand, how can you practice the sword? How to use swordsmanship?

Ji Tianxing thought subconsciously: "80% of the words on this tombstone are whimsical and delusional words, which are completely inconsistent with the common sense of martial arts cultivation!"

However, he thought about it, this is the tomb of the Sword God, and the words on the tablet are most likely left by the Sword God during his lifetime.

Even if not, it must have something to do with Sword God.

So, he continued to read with suspicion and curiosity.

"The first layer of the sword heart, self-destruction of dantian, with its own essence as the root, supplemented by the vitality of heaven and earth, condensing the sword energy, and nurturing the sword embryo in the body."

Ji Tianxing was a little dumbfounded, he just felt that these words opened his eyes, and the cognition and three views over the past ten years were overturned.

"My God! What kind of evil art is this way of Jianxin? If you want to cultivate Jianxin, you must first destroy your dantian?"

"Dantian is the foundation of a martial artist's cultivation. It is more important than life. Who would destroy their dantian to practice this kind of evil art? Unless they are crazy!"

Thinking of this, Ji Tianxing was stunned for a moment, and a strange thought popped up in his mind.

"Hey! Ordinary warriors can't self-destruct their dantian to cultivate the sword heart, I'm different!"

"My dantian has disappeared. It is impossible for me to reach the true essence realm in this life. I can only be a waste in the refining realm in this life... Maybe, I can try to practice?"

Ji Tianxing always felt that the way of Jianxin was contrary to common sense and did not conform to the common sense of martial arts.

But he has been forced into a desperate situation. If he wants to regain his strength and take revenge on Ling Yunfei, he will not let go of any opportunity to make him stronger.

Next, he carefully read the text on the first tombstone, and after a while, he probably understood.

"If I want to practice the way of the sword heart, I need to refine my body and transform it into qi, use my own essence qi to cooperate with the vitality of heaven and earth, condense it into sword qi, and then use sword qi to breed sword embryos in my body."

Ji Tianxing pondered for a while, and felt that this cultivation method was very novel and strange, and it might be possible to succeed.

He memorized the words on the first tombstone firmly and looked at the second tombstone.

The text on this tombstone is relatively small, only more than 20 words, and it records a meditation and cultivation route.

He memorized the more than 20 words of cultivation formulas, and then looked at the third, fourth and fifth tombstones.

As a result, he found that the text on the later tombstones became more and more esoteric.

Even if he could recognize the words on the tombstone, he couldn't understand what those words meant.

He reluctantly looked at it a few more times, and then he felt exhausted and his thinking became confused.

Ji Tianxing knew that his realm of strength was too low, and he had not yet started to practice the Way of Swordsmanship.

If you forcibly watch the profound and esoteric cultivation methods, you will probably lose your mind and become crazy.

So, he quickly retracted his gaze and stopped looking at those tombstones.

"A lot of greed can't be chewed, no matter whether the way of swordsman is evil or not, it must be cultivated and comprehended step by step."

"I'll leave here and talk about it, first try the cultivation method of the first layer of the way of Jianxin."

Ji Tianxing just thought of leaving, the mysterious space and the eighteen ancient tombstones immediately became illusory and fuzzy.

The next moment, Ji Tianxing's mind returned to his original position and he woke up.

He sat up from the bed, opened his eyes and looked around, and found himself still in the room.

It was night outside the window, and the lights were on.

He picked up the tea cup at the head of the bed and took a sip of tea, rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, and whispered, "Why do I feel like I'm asleep and dreaming?"

"I don't know, are the Sword God's Tomb and the eighteen tombstones real or a dream?"

Ji Tianxing frowned and recalled, and the words on the first and second monuments clearly appeared in his mind again.

After hesitating for a while, he decided to take a risk and try to cultivate the swordsmanship.