Starfate Bestows a Technique: The Complete Earthly Fiend Sword Art Carved into My Soul

In a ruined mountain god temple, Xiao Yanzhi fights to the death and slays a white fox demon that feeds on human essence.

At the moment the demon dies, a Star Mandate decree enters his soul, and the complete swordsmanship tradition of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends is imprinted upon it.

This art encompasses three complete levels of swordsmanship: tempering one’s energy in close combat with a sword, controlling a sword from afar to strike down foes, and condensing a mindless sword to cleave souls.

He now understands both the foundations of the sword and its advanced techniques.

But his body is mortal, and his dantian holds only a faint trace of primordial energy. Bound by his cultivation, he can currently use only the entry-level art of “Guiding Qi into a Weapon,” barely making a rusty scrap of iron fly a short distance. He cannot use advanced powers such as the flying sword or the heart sword at all.

He understands a complete, supreme sword art, yet can only cultivate his energy from scratch, one slow step at a time.

From now on, every demon he slays will unlock a new one of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts. He will gradually build up his energy, unlock the full power of the Earthly Fiend Sword Arts one level at a time, and forge his own path of cultivation through demon-slaying.