Chapter 484
Chapter 484: Arriving in Skyhill
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
"Welcome to the Skyhill Museum of Sabers and Swords . The Skyhill Domain is the largest refining base of melee magical equipment in the Flying Star Sector . The Skyhill Museum of Sabers and Swords is one of the most professional museums in that regard, too . I am your tour guide, and you can call me 'Sword Lady'!"
Three days before the annual Skyhill Sword Seminar, countless tourists and fans had arrived in the Skyhill Domain .
Most of the lovers of melee magical equipment would all take a tour in the well-known Skyhill Museum of Sabers and Swords . For the real lovers, it was even a sort of pilgrimage for them .
The spacious and bright museum was packed with people . Li Yao was pushed along with the crowd and was somewhat dizzy . Thankfully, there was a lovely girl dressed in red, floating in midair with a long sword on her back . She was the virtual tour guide of the museum .
"It is well known that, starting from the collapse of the ancient Cultivation world and the renaissance of human civilization, the refining of sabers and swords in our modern world has gone through four periods . The Aura Sword Hall that we are in represents the first period .
"Ten thousand years ago, modern Cultivation theories were still brewing . Cultivators' understanding of spiritual energy was still very lacking . Most of the Cultivators were in the Refinement Stage . Therefore, aura swords that were driven by high-pressure air currents were born . Please take a look, the most awesome aura swords at the time could compress one standard unit of spiritual gas to one hundredth its size, and when the spiritual gas was unleashed suddenly, the damage could be very impressive . Also, it could work as a jet and bring the Refinement Stage Cultivators who hadn't learned the mysteries of flying into the sky so that they could add height to their attacks, increasing the repertoire of moves .
"Our next stop, the Mechanical Sword Hall, represents the second period .
"Based on the aura swords, the refiners continued researching and finally combined spiritual energy with machines perfectly . All kinds of incredible blades were invented at the time . Theoretical models of chainswords, vibration sabers, as well as quite a lot other melee magical equipment were invented with during the time before they were successfully manufactured later! The melee magical equipment of this period only used spiritual energy as a source to drive the machines and provide revolution, vibration, cutting, and other effects; the spiritual energy was not part of the attack itself .
"We are going to enter the Hall of Compound Swords and Sabers now . Compound blades are also the most frequently-seen solutions for swords and sabers nowadays .
"Compound melee magical equipment usually boasts mechanical attack abilities like chains and vibrating edges . In the meantime, its spiritual energy could be condensed into an aura and attack the enemies directly . The double-attack pattern increases the range of attack significantly and also makes it much more difficult for the enemies to defend .
"Right now, in the Cultivation world, there are many kinds of melee magical equipment that were solely built up by spiritual energy, such as Light Sword and Spiritual Photon Battle Saber . They are the fourth-generation sabers and swords for us . Although there are still many flaws on the restriction models and trigger designs in such weapons right now, the advantages of blades made of pure spiritual energy are revealing themselves . Maybe soon enough, they will become mainstream in the Cultivation world!
"Other than the renowned sabers and swords of modern times, we are also exhibiting tremendous scraps of ancient flying swords . Now, everyone, please follow me to the 'Ancient Sword Hall' . "
Li Yao spent the entire morning wandering around in the museum following the 'Sword Lady' and quite enjoyed himself .
After one month and a half's harsh training, it was a long-due relaxation, too .
Gulu…
Yet, as if trying to humiliate him, his stomach started rumbling, in a quite ear-catching fashion .
Many passers-by glanced at him weirdly, and when they noticed his peasant-like clothes, their eyes were even weirder .
Li Yao was not being pretentious; he was merely faced with an embarrassing problem: that he had run out of money .
A month and a half earlier, he could almost be called a millionaire . With the fortune he had looted from Fengyu Ming and the salary that Lei Dalu had paid him, he could've lived a comfortable life for a couple of years if he were an ordinary person .
However, the way Cultivators spent their money was not imaginable for everybody . It was especially so for Li Yao who had been training at the highest standard in preparation for the Skyhill Sword Seminar .
Putting the rent of his training chamber and refining workshop aside, putting the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that he used up inside his training chamber aside, putting the strengthening drugs and medications he took every day aside, the specially-made 'Green Water Ointment' alone that he smeared on his hands to improve their sensitivity was costing him almost ten thousand Flying Star dollars on a daily basis!
After pouring millions of Flying Star dollars into it, the final result might be that the sensitivity of his fourth finger was improved by 0 . 1% .
But he didn't have a second option . One millimeter of difference between two top experts might determine the victory and failure of a match . A 0 . 1% sensitivity gap might mean the difference between the final 'Sword Master' and someone ranking in the fifties .
Li Yao had carefully studied the videos of the Skyhill Sword Seminars from the previous twenty years . He discovered that every one of the top thirty winners was an experienced refiner; especially those from the renowned sword-forging families, they all had immeasurable skills and were not easy to deal with at all .
The organizers of the Skyhill Sword Seminar did not forbid the previous contestants from joining the match again . Therefore, many of the people he had seen on the videos might be his opponents .
Opportunities were rare to fight against the top experts and the heirs of the noble families . Li Yao had decided to participate in the match in his best state . Thus, he had spent quite a fortune on his training .
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