Chapter 48 – One Glance at Ten Thousand Laws, The Technique-Stealing Eye

[Azure Lotus Eye (Azure Lotus Eyes): Proficiency 1/3000]

[Effect: Eyes manifest azure lotuses, granting panoramic vision with no blind spots when activated. Briefly memorizes witnessed spells – one glance encompasses all methods]

[Current Experience Points: 2412]

Briefly memorizes witnessed spells?

Lu Chen stared at the Azure Lotus Eye’s proficiency-level effect, pondering for a moment before extracting a single word… steal!

That’s right, steal.

Your spell is quite useful, but it’ll be mine the next second!

However, using “steal” to describe the six-petaled azure lotus’s skill effect didn’t sound very elegant.

Thus, Lu Chen gave this new skill effect a more pleasant name – Stolen Techniques.

Stealing spells – this was Lu Chen’s interpretation of the six-petaled azure lotus’s skill description.

Apart from unlocking this new “Stolen Techniques” effect, the Azure Lotus Eyes’ visual acuity itself had also received significant enhancement after the skill upgrade.

This would undoubtedly provide considerable assistance for Lu Chen’s upcoming analysis of the Seven Kill Sword Formation.

“But merely upgrading the Azure Lotus Eyes isn’t enough. After all, this is only the first floor of the Sword Pavilion, and we’ve already encountered such powerful opponents.”

“Even though the five-story Sword Pavilion has lost more than half its structure, it appears the path to the third floor remains intact. The opponents on the third floor will certainly be far stronger than those on the first floor – conservatively speaking, they should possess at least Foundation Establishment Stage power.”

“And even if I master the first floor’s sword formation, due to the special requirement that sword formations cannot be executed alone, my actual combat power won’t see immediate improvement.”

“So to clear this instance, my current cultivation level… is still slightly insufficient.”

Thinking this, Lu Chen directly checked his cultivation level that hadn’t been touched for some time.

[Name: Lu Chen (Azure Cloud Sect Inner Disciple)]

[Cultivation: Qi Condensation Stage Seven (7700/30000)]

[Current Experience Points: 2412]

“First, I’ll raise my cultivation to Qi Condensation Stage Eight. Then after returning to reality, I’ll collect the cultivation resources Old Chen promised me.”

“With these resources as backing, I can quickly cultivate the Azure Lotus Eye to breakthrough realm and raise my cultivation to Qi Condensation Peak in a short time, without worrying about arousing suspicion.”

“After all, no one else knows I just recently learned the Azure Lotus Eye. They’ll only assume I’ve been practicing this ocular technique for a long time.”

“Combined with the cultivation resources from Old Chen, my rapid cultivation advancement in a short period will be easily explained.”

Even while inside the instance, the cautious Lu Chen had already begun preparing thorough explanations for how he would account for his rapid cultivation progress after emerging.

Take one step, watch ten steps ahead, consider a hundred possibilities… this was Lu Chen’s way of caution!

[You consumed 300 experience points. Cultivation increased to ‘Qi Condensation Stage Eight’…]

[Name: Lu Chen (Azure Cloud Sect Inner Disciple)]

[Cultivation: Qi Condensation Stage Eight (8000/30000)]

[Current Experience Points: 2112]

“I’ll save the remaining experience points for now. My priority is to cultivate the Azure Lotus Eye to breakthrough realm during this instance run.”

“After all, to achieve Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, I still need to cultivate three similar divine abilities…”

After all preparations were complete, Lu Chen pushed open the Sword Pavilion’s main door once more, revealing the seven Sword Demons wandering the first floor.As expected, the seven Sword Demons launched an attack the moment they saw him.

In response, Lu Chen calmly raised the Ink Dragon Sword.

“Come on, let me experience your skills once more.”

The seven Sword Demons wasted no words with Lu Chen, attacking again in the form of a Sword Formation.

Try?

Then die!

Three minutes later…

“The Seven Kill Sword Formation may appear ordinary, but it contains hidden mysteries. Truly worthy of being a Sword Formation that has been passed down through Hidden Sword Peak for millennia. It’s truly difficult to grasp its essence in just one or two attempts…”

After deep contemplation, Lu Chen raised his head.

Gazing at the slowly descending blood-colored longsword, or more precisely, the Seven Kill Sword Diagram above the blood-colored longsword.

His Azure Lotus Pupils with six petals began to rotate continuously, with many mysterious patterns appearing on each petal.

Upon closer inspection, one would discover that the patterns slowly manifesting on the Azure Lotus petals were identical to the Sword Formation diagram above the seven Sword Demons’ heads!

Lu Chen… was secretly learning the Sword Formation!

Boom!

As the giant sword landed, Lu Chen’s figure was once again engulfed by the violent killing intent, disappearing from sight.

Second Sword Pavilion challenge, failed!

Summarize mistakes after failure, remember the pain in death.

After reviving for the second time, Lu Chen still didn’t rush to start the challenge, instead calmly recalling the previous Seven Kill Sword Formation.

In principle, the essence of the Seven Kill Sword Formation wasn’t spell-based.

Lu Chen shouldn’t have been able to copy it with his Six-Petal Azure Lotus Eyes.

But in reality, the copying ability of the Six-Petal Azure Lotus was more powerful than Lu Chen had imagined.

Because its copying principle was first to understand the opponent’s Spiritual Power circulation trajectory, then precisely replicate specific Spiritual Power patterns on the petals.

Finally, as long as the eye technique user infused their own Spiritual Power into the Azure Lotus Eyes.

The eye technique user could then use the previously copied special spell once.

See the Spiritual Power patterns, copy the Spiritual Power patterns, use the Spiritual Power patterns.

The combination of these three achieved what the Six-Petal Azure Lotus called the ‘spell stealing’ effect.

Therefore, although Lu Chen couldn’t execute the Seven Kill Sword Formation alone, he could see the Sword Formation patterns, copy the Sword Formation patterns, and learn from them.

However, although the spell-stealing power of the Six-Petal Azure Lotus Eyes was powerful, it couldn’t steal every spell pattern.

If the spell performed by the opponent required too much Spiritual Power, or needed to meet specific conditions.

Then the spells Lu Chen stole could only remain at the ‘understanding’ and ‘copying’ stages, unable to be directly executed.

But even if unable to execute, the Six-Petal Azure Lotus was still an excellent auxiliary ability.

It could greatly reduce the difficulty for Lu Chen to learn spells.

In short, as long as he completely saw a spell once, he could remember most of it.

And if he saw it multiple times…

Sorry, this spell would soon be his!

At the Sword Pavilion entrance, after studying the stolen Seven Kill Sword Formation for a long time, Lu Chen temporarily stopped.

This wasn’t because he didn’t want to continue learning, but because Sword Formations were different from other spells and Divine Abilities.

A complete Sword Formation included many variations.

Lu Chen needed to see all the Sword Formation variations to truly learn the Seven Kill Sword Formation.

“Try a few more times, strive to make them display more Sword Formation variations, enrich my learning database.”

After saying this, Lu Chen stood up again and pushed open the Sword Pavilion door.

Spell thief, coming to steal spells!

Second seven Sword Demons challenge, failed!

Third seven Sword Demons challenge, failed!The third time, the fourth time…

After dying fifty more times consecutively, Lu Chen finally recorded all the Sword Formation patterns and all their variations.

The reason it took so many attempts wasn’t that the Seven Kill Sword Formation could change over fifty times.

Rather, sometimes the Sword Demons would execute Sword Formation patterns Lu Chen had already seen before, making them worthless to record. He had to start over repeatedly, forcing them to reveal new techniques.

This cycle continued until the fortieth challenge, when Lu Chen realized the Seven Sword Demons could no longer produce additional variations of the formation.

Yet, since the skill icon for the Seven Kill Sword Formation still hadn’t appeared in his mind, he understood he might be missing something.

So he deliberately challenged ten more times.

Fortunately, after this fiftieth attempt, he finally obtained the long-awaited Sword Formation skill.

[Special Skill: Seven Kill Sword Formation (Non-Upgradable)]

[Effect: Seven individuals can form a special Sword Formation, gathering and distributing their killing intent while sharing incoming attacks.]

“If not for the Six-Petaled Blue Lotus’s Spell-Stealing Eye, I might have needed over a hundred attempts to master this Seven Kill Sword Formation.”

Lu Chen chuckled, then pushed open the Sword Pavilion’s door once more.

This time, his face was filled with confidence.

What you know, I now know too.

But what you don’t know, I still do!

So, how will you contend with me?

As Lu Chen entered the Sword Pavilion’s first floor again, the Seven Sword Demons swarmed him just like the previous fifty times.

However, this time, Lu Chen unusually chose not to draw his sword. Instead, he strode purposefully toward a specific direction.

The position he headed for was clearly one of the formation nodes of the Seven Kill Sword Formation!

His intentions were obvious.

This time, he wasn’t planning to shatter the Seven Kill Sword Formation fortress head-on but to infiltrate its interior directly.

After all, no matter how sturdy a fortress is, it cannot withstand destruction from within!

Lu Chen stepped onto the unique node, immediately severing the connection between the Sword Demon there and the others.

Facing the panicked and bewildered Sword Demon before him, Lu Chen smiled and said, “I’ve learned all there is to learn. It’s time… for the roles of attacker and defender to be reversed.”

(End of Chapter)