Chapter 17: Ice and Fire Swords

Long Yu couldn't let it go for a long time. It turned out that he was slowly separated from the essence of everything in front of him. He also lost his direction in everything now. Long Yu understood what he had to do and bowed to the people around him, "Thank you for your guidance, I am very grateful."

Long Yu sat cross-legged on the second and third floors, comprehending the profound meaning of the sword formation. The sword formation itself was in a static state, and it would attack other things in the sword formation only if there were participants. If there were no other things affecting it, it would not actively attack.

Long Yu felt the changes in each layer. On the surface, there was no movement. If something affected the layout, it would produce a balance between them, and then it could generate attacks. Long Yu summoned a sword from the ring and controlled it to enter the third layer. Following the airflow, the sword body did not break, but instead merged into the airflow and became a part of it.

A sword enters the eight directions, and the north is the change of water, which should be the representative of Kanmen. The northeast is the change of mountains, which should be the representative of Genmen. To the east is the transformation of Lei, which should be the representative of Zhenmen. The southeast is the change of wind, which should be the representative of Xunmen. The south is the change of fire, which should be the representative of Limen. The southwest side is the change of earth, which should be the representative of Kun. The one in the west is the change of Ze, which should be the representative of Dui. To the northwest is the change of heaven and earth, which should be the representative of Qianmen.

From the north, water slowly turns into mountains, then slowly turns into thunder, then into wind, fire, earth, lake, sky, and finally into water. Long Yu finally understood the relationship between them, which was a change from water to fire, and from water to rain from the sky. The eight positions represent eight corresponding changes.

Long Yu controls the sword to fly out from the position of Duimen and enter the fourth layer. The fourth layer represents the change of twelve hours, from cold to hot and then to cold again, and there are two changes in direction. Long Yu flies the sword out from the north and directly enters the second layer, the change of the four seasons is unpredictable. Long Yu still flies out from the north and enters the first layer, the change of the two poles is just a Taijiu Liangyi.

After Long Yu's realization, he felt like committing suicide. The Yin-Yang Bagua Sword Formation was a very easy strategy to attack, and he could understand its mysteries very quickly. But he still came up with so many tricks to kill himself. Long Yu shook the sky and comforted himself, "Only by taking a detour can you understand what it means to walk in a straight line." After Long Yu finished speaking, he didn't even believe it at first.

When Long Yu tried to integrate the sword into the Chen Fa, he understood a truth. The body is just a shell and cannot represent all of one's strength. Long Yu sat cross-legged on the ground and started to insert the sword into it from the fourth layer.

The fourth layer was filled with twelve swords. After Long Yu controlled the first sword to enter, he then controlled the second sword, which immediately broke into pieces as soon as it entered the formation. Long Yu controlled another sword to enter, and it also broke into pieces. Long Yu tried hundreds of times in a row, but still got the same result. He sat on the ground and looked at the picture he had drawn. Suddenly he stood up, as if he had thought of something.

Directly controlling the twelve swords to enter, the result was still bleak, only one sword could enter. Long Yu himself was wondering if he had done something wrong. Long Yu did not give up and tried, but the result was still the same.

Long Yu was unwilling to accept the current changes, and looked at the map on the ground carefully. Twelve hours, twelve changes, and twelve directions kept appearing in his mind. Long Yu looked at the twelve directions and kept them in his mind. The cross is the bearing, and if the cross is the axis, there are exactly four spaces.

Long Yu suddenly thought of something. Starting from the cross, from north to east, there are three kinds of airflow changes. By analogy, there are exactly twelve kinds of changes. The cross is exactly four grids, and each grid has three kinds of changes.

Long Yu quickly controlled the twelve swords to enter the four grids of the cross at a certain distance from each other. Since it was successful this time, Long Yu watched the twelve swords continue to rotate with the airflow. Long Yu was happy and a little excited. This way, the fourth level of the sword formation could be formed.

Long Yu then controlled the eight swords to enter the third level very smoothly, and looked at the results of the third and fourth levels. Long Yu suddenly understood the arrangement of this sword formation, and with the same principle, he quickly formed a two-yin and four-level sword formation.

Long Yu felt the airflow and continued to follow it, controlling the swords in the sword formation and adapting to the changes inside. Long Yu felt that he could control it and directly controlled all the swords to fly directly into the sky.

Long Yu looked at the swords in the sky, synchronizing their speed with the sword formation, and always felt that something was missing. Long Yu felt his own sword formation, and then compared it with the airflow inside the sword formation, and suddenly realized that there were two missing sources of power, one was ice and the other was fire.

Long Yu controlled the purple flame in his consciousness to enter his sword formation, and suddenly found that his sword formation was full of fire. Long Yu smiled at the sky, and it seemed that only one ice sword was left. Long Yu shrunk the sword formation little by little, but as soon as it shrunk, all the swords were displaced, and the airflow of the sword formation directly shattered the swords.

Long Yu smiled helplessly, and shouted to the sky with a harmless look, "Daoyou, I know you are still up there, can you lend me an ice-attributed sword? I will definitely pay you back double in the future."

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Long Yu on the stone steps looked at everyone helplessly and shook his head. "What the hell is this kid doing? This is Fengming Continent. Ice attribute is useless. There are alchemists, blacksmiths, barrier masters, formation masters, and rune masters everywhere. Who would use ice attribute things? It's useless."

The man fanning himself with a black fan didn't want to play dumb. Everyone suddenly looked at him. The man coughed dryly and said, "My barrier technique relies on the five elements, and I don't have any ice. You can look at Sima Laogui. They may have it in Xuanmen."

The man in green linen clothes shouted, "I don't have it. Besides, if I had it, my wife would give it to her beloved disciple." Jian Chen held a sword with purple lightning in his hand and looked at the man in green as if he wanted to bite him.

The man who was still refining the elixir leaned against the stone and threw an icy sword from his ring into the sword formation. Everyone looked at him with hatred. The man quickly transformed into a pair of wings and left the stone steps, "I'm going to play with my little apprentice, you guys can do whatever you want."

Jian Chen drew a moon fox in the air, and the man threw a needle. A purple moon fox and a glowing needle collided, creating a group of fireworks. There was a deafening explosion, cracks appeared on the stone steps, and the surrounding mountains kept shaking.

Jian Chen looked at the positions of the two people before him, and there was only a ripple in the air, nothing else.

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Long Yu looked at the snowflakes floating in the sky, and a stream of cold air entered the sword formation directly. Long Yu looked at a sword falling directly above him, and quickly dodged to the side. The closer the sword got, the closer the cold got. The purple flame in his consciousness was threatened, and it turned into a high temperature that surrounded Long Yu's soul.

Long Yu felt a warm current coming, which prevented him from being attacked by the cold. Long Yu used his spiritual sense to control the ice sword, but the ice sword was not moved at all. Long Yu felt that the ice sword was resisting his spiritual sense, as if neither of them would submit to the other.

Suddenly, another sword fell from the sky, with a line of words on it: Draw spiritual energy and ice crystals to control the Ice and Snow Sword, use spiritual consciousness to control the Red Flame Sword, and activate the attributes for your own use.

Long Yu looked at the words on the sword and quickly performed the Master's Salute to the surroundings. This sword came just in time. Long Yu looked at the two swords on the ground, one of which was emitting white gas, as if the surrounding air had turned into ice.

Then he looked at the transparent gas that was constantly coming out, as if the surrounding gas was distorted. Long Yu looked at the two swords, first used his spiritual sense to control the Red Flame Sword, and the sword body suddenly emitted orange flames. Then he looked at the Ice and Snow Sword, and then at the spiritual energy crystal in his spiritual sense. He didn't know how long it had been since he had absorbed the spiritual energy crystal.

Long Yu first absorbed some spiritual energy crystals, and then controlled the ice and snow sword. As soon as the spiritual energy crystals touched the ice and snow sword, Long Yu felt that his consciousness was about to freeze. Fortunately, the purple flame in his consciousness burned off the connection with the ice energy.

Long Yu couldn't figure out why this happened. Looking at the purple flame in his consciousness, he suddenly realized that the spiritual energy crystal he had extracted before might be of fire attribute, and the ice and snow sword might have frozen directly into his consciousness in order to resist.

Long Yu encountered a problem again. Changing the spirit crystal required the body to proceed, and he did not have the ability to keep his body from being attacked. Long Yu could not care less and summoned two swords from his ring to protect his body.

Under the constant impact of the airflow, the swords were exchanged with difficulty to extract the spiritual energy crystals. As soon as they changed one, the two swords broke. His body turned into blood mist again. Long Yu looked at his body and shook his head, "I'm sorry, old friend."

Long Yu tried the aura crystal he had just extracted, but the Ice and Snow Sword didn't even move, there was no rejection or movement. Long Yu guessed that he must have extracted it wrong, and thought about how to extract the real ice-attributed aura crystal.

Long Yu looked at the body left in the ring and shouted to the sky, "God proposes, man disposes, just work hard, the rest is up to God." Long Yu exchanged the spiritual energy crystals again, and after exchanging the spiritual energy crystals again, his body turned into blood mist. Long Yu quickly collected the blood into the ring.

Long Yu tried to connect the Ice and Snow Sword, but it still didn't move. Long Yu looked at the sky helplessly, muttering, "I have the will but not the strength. It seems that I don't know how long it will take to extract the ice attribute aura crystal."

The sword formation suddenly stopped its airflow attack, and Long Yu looked at the sky, as if waiting for something to fall. A stream of sword energy was left on the ground, leaving two lines of words: When you can control the Ice and Snow Sword, I will let the sword formation energy flow.

Long Yu looked up at the sky and shouted, "Who are you and why are you helping me?" Only a few echoes were left in the air, and there was no other sound. Long Yu kept staring around, but there was no sign of anyone.

Long Yu quietly looked at the words on the ground, as well as the words left before. Long Yu had no idea what the mysterious man meant. Was he trying to fool him, or was he trying to help him intentionally? Long Yu had many questions in his mind. It seemed that the other party knew him very well, but he knew nothing about him.

Long Yu looked helplessly at the sky, and then at the airflow of the sword formation stopping, as if it was written on the ground that he would have to wait until he had mastered the Ice and Snow Sword before he would be willing to allow himself to gain a deeper understanding. In Long Yu's heart, there was a feeling of being controlled by others, and he had been resisting this feeling.