Chaotic Sword God Chapter 346: Saint Tier Battle Skill

Jian Chen was a Radiant Saint Master and not a Radiant Warrior in that regard. A Radiant Saint Master majored in using their spirit in order to augment and strengthen their control over the Radiant Saint Force in the world to heal those that needed it. A Radiant Warrior cultivated like any other cultivator in order to fight and improve their own strength. Spirit was secondary to them since it was absolutely unrelated to improving their strength. Thus, the light attribute cave would not be extremely effective for him since he wasn’t a light attributed cultivator.

A Radiant Saint Master and Radiant Warrior had only a slight difference in name, but they walked two different paths of cultivation. One focused on the spirit and the other focused on Saint Force.

Quickly leaving the light attribute cave, Jian Chen knew that while the light attribute element inside was meant for people to comprehend, it would not serve him any use. Not only that, but he couldn’t handle the painful stinging sensation.

Afterwards, Jian Chen had visited the other caves. Aside from some small increase in his understanding, since his inner Saint Force had no attribute, he felt no connection to any of the caves.

Quickly, Jian Chen had arrived at the third area which was a single huge mountain wall. There were eight abnormally large caverns within the cave walls, but while most of this caves were located very high up on the wall, the lowest cave was only 30 meters high. The highest one was over a hundred meters up, reaching almost to the top of the cave. The entire wall was as smooth as a shiny mirror with no footholds, meaning that those without strength would find it impossible to climb up.

Right on top of these caverns had a few words; the very first cavern had the words, “Second Heavenly Layer Saint King Yunyang Wudi’s remnants.”

The top three caves had the words, “Ninth Heavenly Layer Saint King Tian Qinyu’s remnants!” “Ninth Heavenly Layer Saint King Xue Wuya’s remnants!” “Ninth Heavenly Layer Saint King Langsi Xiexun!”

Jian Chen’s eyes swept across the caves with awestruck fascination. These 8 caves all held the remnants of Saint Kings! The top most 3 caves had even housed Saint Kings at the Ninth Heavenly Layer!”

“Could it be that all of these Saint Kings were from Mercenary City?” Jian Chen muttered. It was only know that he realized the powers he had seen from Mercenary City was only the tip of the iceberg.

Mercenary City had towered over the Tian Yuan Continent for countless of years as the pinnacle city. Not only did they have several Saint Ruler experts, but they also had some Saint Kings to be the overseers. This type of colossal power was akin to a ferocious warbeast that no one could possibly stand a chance to kill.

Suddenly, Jian Chen couldn’t help but think back to when he was in that isolated space collecting tokens for the competition. When he had been in the shrine, Ming Dong’s uncle Tian had been a Saint Ruler 5000 years ago. Would it be possible for him to have made a breakthrough to become a Saint King after so long? Or maybe even a Saint Emperor? Since he had been residing within the isolated space along with the place used for the competition, could he too be a member of Mercenary City?

Sucking in a deep breath, he slowly started to try and calm himself down. With a single leap, he landed within the shortest cavern.

The passageway within the cavern was quite long and curvacious. Walking for around 300 meters, Jian Chen had finally arrived at a dead end which was a single spacious cave around 50 meters in width. There wasn’t any source of light, but what should have been a dark cave somehow had a bright light that was almost exactly like the outside. But the source of this light could not be found, giving this cave another sense of mystery.

All around the cave were various paintings of men. Each painting was almost lifelike, and in each painting, the person drawn within seemed to be doing some sort of graceful movement.

Within the center of the cave, three men were sitting idly while staring at the paintings with a stiffness as if they were statues. Not a single hair could be seen moving, and within the three of them, Jian Chen could recognize the Thirteenth Elder.

“Could it be this painting portrays one of the legendary Saint Tier Battle Skills?” Jian Chen thought. Walking besides the three men, he followed suit and began to stare fixedly at the painting. But after half a day, he had failed to understand anything from the painting.

“Jian Chen, how did you come to be here? Did the Eighth Elder not tell you to stay at the first area to cultivate?” Suddenly, Jian Chen could hear the wizened voice of the Thirteenth Elder who spoke with shock.

“Thirteenth Elder, I was only taking a look around. I’ve heard from the Eighth Elder that the third area had a Saint Tier Battle Skill. Could this painting be it?” Jian Chen asked. Since he was afraid of disturbing the other two men, Jian Chen spoke in a quiet voice.

“Correct, this is indeed a Saint Tier Battle Skill. Since you are here, I presume that you have seen the other caverns. This is one of the riches of Mercenary City. In total, there are 8 Saint Tier Battle Skills; the equivalent to the Eight Senior Elders of Mercenary City. Each one of them reached the Saint King realm and these Saint Tier Battle Skills were created by them.” The Thirteenth Elder spoke.

“Thirteenth Elder, with these paintings all depicting a Saint Tier Battle Skill, I don’t see anything for cultivation methods, just why is that?” Jian Chen asked with confusion.

“A Saint Tier Battle Skill is different from a Heaven Tier Battle Skill. There are no Cultivation Methods, each advancement from this point on is dependent on oneself. The use of a Saint Tier Battle Skill is to draw upon the energy of the world. So to comprehend and understand a Saint Tier Battle Skill, one must be a Saint Ruler at the very least. That is because once one makes the breakthrough to become a Saint Ruler, they will begin to understand the profound mysteries of the world and grasp the energy of the world. Jian Chen, a Saint Tier Battle Skill isn’t something that you can understand right now. You are merely wasting your time here, hurry on back to the first area and cultivate. You are the King of Mercenaries for this time’s Gathering of the Mercenaries. Wait until you become a Saint Ruler and come back for the next Gathering of the Mercenaries to enter the holy land once again.” The Thirteenth Elder spoke.

“I thank the Thirteenth Elder for his kind intentions. I had only wished to see this Saint Tier Battle Skill, and even though I was unable to understand it, I was still able to further my insights.” Jian Chen smiled.

“It is up to you. You only have half a year’s time, I hope you treasure it wisely.” The elder said before turning away.

Jian Chen kept calm and looked back towards the first painting. Now that he knew that these paintings were Saint Tier Battle Skills, his attitude towards these paintings had changed completely. He no longer looked at it with a simple gaze and instead began to look at it intently so that even their expression were not neglected.

As he looked at each and every movement within the diagrams, Jian Chen would occasionally feel a small revelation appear within his mind as if he was on the verge of understanding something but was unable to grasp the final step and grew confused once more. Seeing just how each one of these movements and forms had some sort of secret, Jian Chen was unable to completely understand just what was the purpose, leaving him quite vexed.

With each observation, Jian Chen could feel his thoughts grow more and more chaotic as he felt his mind expand. It was almost as if his head had become a constantly expanding balloon, and since he couldn’t bear the “air” expanding within, his head was hurting badly.

Jian Chen knew that this Saint Tier Battle Skill was the cause, so immediately turning away his eyes and sitting on the ground, he tried to think of nothing so as to empty his mind of everything else and fall into a deep meditation.

After an unknown amount of time, Jian Chen had finally regained his mind, allowing him to open his eyes and stare at the painting once more.

Right now Jian Chen had a better understanding of the first painting. Slowly, he could understand that the people within the painting was like the heavens. They were representatives of the world, their movements were fused together with the world. Each move contained a mysterious and profound mysteries of the world; and with each strike, it contained a profound theory, but that was something that Jian Chen didn’t understand.

But when Jian Chen had understood the first part, he could suddenly feel that this one strike displayed on the picture was quite simple and could work it out. In one moment, he could feel that this move embodied many things; a simple strike that could have countless of variations. In another moment, he could feel that this move was akin to nature and harmonized the body with the world before shaping it. In the next moment, he could feel that it contained a terrifying amount of power that could scare demons and shatter the world….

With such a simple looking painting, Jian Chen was able to understand so many pieces of information. But if the other Saint Rulers were to figure out that Jian Chen was able to figure out this much, they would pop open their eyes in shock and look at him with an inconceivable look.

For an Earth Saint Master to gain so many insights after looking at a Saint Tier Battle Skill, this was an impossible task. If Jian Chen were to later have a grasp on the profound mysteries of the world, then understanding this Saint Tier Battle Skill was not too far out of his reach. In fact, establishing his own Saint Tier Battle Skill wouldn’t be impossible either.

As soon as this bit of information had traveled to Jian Chen’s mind, his mind instantly grew chaotic once more as it swelled up, threatening to fracture at any moment.

Jian Chen immediately closed off his eyes once more and forced himself to calm down.

Afterwards, Jian Chen would repeat the process of looking at the painting. Although all of the information he had learned was from the mystery filled painting, he could only continue onwards. No matter how much he tried to continue, he had to stop every so often. If he tried to push onwards, then his brain would begin to swell, causing his mind to grow chaotic and his thought processes slowing down.

“It seems that being unable to grasp the mysteries of the world causes one to be unable to understand the Saint Tier Battle Skill. I can sense that this move is filled with many things, but I cannot understand the concepts. Could it be that the profound mysteries of the world is not enough?” Jian Chen thought to himself. With one of the legendary Saint Tier Battle Skills right in front of him but he himself was unable to comprehend the meaning behind it, this had left Jian Chen feeling unwell.