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This caused the originally half-hour refining process to stretch into an hour before Tan Shuchang successfully refined the malevolent spirit.

At the moment the Sword Spirit was refined, a Lotus Platform appeared beneath Tan Shuchang.

The Lotus Platform was blood-red, matching the color of the Blood Pool.

However, atop this Lotus Platform, it seemed as though divine aura pervaded, and golden light constantly rose.

It was only with this one Sword Spirit that a Calamity Witnessing Sword Qi was completed!

Tan Shuchang's cultivation levels were propelled forward by seventy-five years!

With the enhancement of his cultivation levels, the "Shadow Retaining Immortal Secret Tome," the last volume, was finally mastered by Tan Shuchang.

With four volumes of demon magic completed, demonic presence also began to manifest around Tan Shuchang.

This was something akin to a domain of malice.

Invisible to the naked eye, but when the demonic presence descended, anyone with lesser cultivation levels than his could not even stand up! While those with strong will might resist the demonic influence, they would still be seeded with a "Demon Nurtured Sword."

The Demon Nurtured Sword did not directly affect cultivators, but over time, the cultivator seeded with it would start becoming vicious and quick-tempered, and eventually, they would display erratic behaviors.

Of course, if they faced someone like Tan Shuchang, they would be outright ignored.

"These four volumes of Divine Skills indeed complement the first volume's Calamity Witnessing Sword Qi; thus, this last volume's Divine Skill shall be named 'Wishing the World without Calamity, Later volume'."

Tan Shuchang thus declared.

The first volume's Calamity Witnessing Sword Qi could transform murderous ghosts, bound by the rule of killing, into Bloody Sword Qi.

The fourth volume's "Wishing the World without Calamity, Later volume" could gather Calamity Witnessing Sword Qi and, like a Cultivator from Mount Sword, "Sword rise," "Sword arrival" – meaning, condense Sword Qi into a sword, leveraging the power of heaven and earth to deliver a unique strike.

And at the moment of action, due to different environments, timings, and numbers of enemies encountered, the resulting unique strike differed.

As for why it still has a "Later" suffix.

That's because the name of the third volume of Divine Skills is 'Wishing the World without Calamity, Earlier volume.'

Though these "Earlier" and "Later" volumes are not directly linked, the essence of a Demon Cultivator is to strike unexpectedly!

Then, a pleased Tan Shuchang caused the Blood Pool to disperse.

"What's wrong with you?"

As soon as Tan Shuchang dispersed the Blood Pool, he saw an expressionless little girl walking in circles at the spot, as if she were a compass.

"It's been more than an hour now," answered Dongdong, who regained her composure upon seeing Tan Shuchang, her face expressionless.

While saying this, she did not even blink her eyes.

"Misjudged it, that Sword Spirit was tough to refine. Alright, let's go!" Tan Shuchang explained briefly, then took out the key of the Sword Tower.

"Aren't you taking this Immortal Sword with you?" Dongdong asked.

Upon hearing this, Tan Shuchang pointed at the broken Immortal Sword and said, "It's difficult to handle something that seems orchestrated by someone's arrival, and with their arrival, immediate changes occur. I'm afraid of attracting dirty things if I take this sword."

He was very familiar with the plot requirements.

Of course, what ultimately made Tan Shuchang decisively give up was rooted in the Sword Spirit that became malevolent.

While refining the Sword Spirit, Tan Shuchang also perused through part of its memory.

The content of this part of the memory was chaotic, and with everything thrown together haphazardly, he couldn't fully piece it together; however, with some guessing and partial piecing together, he managed to gather a rough idea.

This broken Immortal Sword had been tainted by some strange substance capable of assimilating human hearts, which led to the Sword Spirit turning malevolent.

Although Tan Shuchang was a Demon Cultivator, he still considered himself "not fortunate enough to enjoy" this thing, so he decided to let that Son of the Heavenly Mandate purify the broken Immortal Sword!

Maybe after the sword was purified, it would under a "serendipitous coincidence," return to his hands?

"Aren't you the one who isn't even afraid of Mount Sword Disciple?" Dongdong asked with some surprise.

"That's different. Even if I killed all those old seniors, the head of Mount Sword Disciple wouldn't come down the mountain specially for me. At most, he'd strike me with his sword if he happened to meet me. But if I took this sword, then this Nan Jian, Su Huan'an, would definitely make a special trip down the mountain for me!"

"How can you be so sure it's meant for Long Zhangyuan and not for me?" Dongdong asked curiously, because she didn't think that someone named Long Zhangyuan could get this broken Immortal Sword.

You have to understand that the thirteenth floor of the Sword Tower is now safe solely because she is here!

With the heavenly intent of the sword, she forcefully suppressed all the Sword Qi here!

So, what makes Long Zhangyuan think he can take this broken Immortal Sword?

Does this Mr. Long deserve it?

"It's hard to say. What if someone killed by the Sword Qi here awakens the residual spiritual awareness of the Sword Spirit because of a highly similar face? Or what if the two even merge into one?"

Tan Shuchang said, the former is hard to say, just an unfounded guess, but the latter was a known method of Artifact Refining. He had heard from his mentor, the Heartless Old Man, about the artifact from the Demon Path that evolved from a Magic Artifact, refined using a method of "feeding the sword."

Although this method of Artifact Refining is now considered a thing of legend, whether it truly is just a legend for Mount Sword Disciple is a matter worth discussing.

"Demon Nurtured Sword?" Dongdong blinked and blurted out a name.

And that was exactly the artifact evolved from a Magic Artifact.

Mainly used for killing, it was extremely ruthless.

Any Cultivator possessing the Demon Nurtured Sword must continuously engage in slaughter, then gather the essential nutrients from the killing.

However, this extreme method of nurturing through battle usually resulted in the Cultivator's complete destruction, with the Demon Nurtured Sword disappearing without a trace, waiting for the next fortunate one to gain its approval.

After all, for Cultivators who needed power for revenge, the Demon Nurtured Sword was undoubtedly a dreamy "treasure."

Other spiritual artifacts are hard to quickly forge a century's worth of cultivational advancement into a cloud-level Cultivator, but the Demon Nurtured Sword can!

Moreover, if not hunted to death, there are no side effects to this quick advancement in cultivation skills.

The most it could do is make a person become cold and heartless.

But even without the Demon Nurtured Sword, and among the righteous Sword Cultivators, there are quite a few with such dispositions. To put it nicely, it's "beyond the sword, all is void," a kind of pure Sword Cultivator spirit, possessing the naive heart of the Sword Dao; to put it less nicely, how different is this from being cold-blooded and ruthless?

"You know and you still ask such a stupid question?" Tan Shuchang also blinked and then said with a smile.

Dongdong: "..."

Then, with a wooden face, this little girl retorted confusedly, "How do you know I am trying to gain the approval of the Heavenly Sword, this spiritual artifact? There are three conditions for the approval of the Heavenly Sword, the first is the Sword Dao realm of the Sword Heart Universe, the second is directly facing the broken Immortal Sword in the Sword Tower..."

Tan Shuchang: "..."

First, I don't know; second, I don't want to know.

Frowning, Tan Shuchang couldn't help his mouth twitching twice.

Because, according to the two conditions this little girl mentioned before, she had completely met them.

"And the third?" Out of curiosity, Tan Shuchang still couldn't help but ask.

"The third condition is to find the person you admire the most in your heart, and during the most intense moment of emotion, to sacrifice the sword with the blood from your heart. Well... I don't have that, so I'm planning to make the Heavenly Sword recognize me," Dongdong said expressionlessly, and as she spoke, she walked outside.

Seeing the little girl was about to leave, Tan Shuchang smiled and waved at her, saying, "Wish you smooth sailing, and don't forget to write to me often, Junior Sister Dongdong!"

A certain little girl was walking with a cool demeanor when she suddenly heard this, nearly tripping and plunging to the ground because of his words.