One Royal Family, Three Holy Palaces, Five Mercenaries Associations, Eight Demon Sects, and Ten Guilds

"Four hundred pounds of strength! The first three stages focus on cultivating skin, the middle three stages focus on cultivating muscles, and the final three stages focus on cultivating. But the entire realm has a complete impact over blood veins."

"So, Junior Swordsman Realm cultivates body to improve stamina, endurance, and strength. Although swordsman uses sword energy for the attack, physical strength is very necessary. Now let's see how much sword energy I have in my body."

Naturally, sword energy is hidden inside the sword meridians. This makes another factor for talent. More the meridians, the more energy they can store. This is why geniuses are respected. Now that he has cultivated sword energy, Li Xian controlled his spiritual sense and let the sword energy out.

A blue gas poured out of his skin and slowly infused together. But suddenly, he realized he can't make a sword. To make a sword, he needs a proper technique, or rather Heart Law. The cultivation Technique cultivates energy inside his body.

Cultivation is growth, and growing his lifespan through energy is cultivation. Cultivation Technique can attract the spiritual energy into his body and when the sword meridian transforms spiritual energy into sword energy, its main job starts.

That is to strengthen his body according to the realm followed by the ancestor. In a Junior Swordsman Realm, he needs to cultivate his body. So, every cultivation technique is based on cultivation realms that were created by their ancestors.

But Heart Laws are a different concept for a swordsman. And it is as important as sword arts. A sword needs attribute, power, and ability. Heart Law records everything sword energy required. When a heart law is practiced, he can give shape, attribute, and ability to his sword energy.

But Heart Laws can't be changed until they completely practiced. Heart Laws has several same functions as cultivation technique. Heart Laws can be used by swordsmen, martial artists, and even rare demon practitioners.

From an old book that he read, Xuanwu Continent is divided into five different powers. One Royal Family, Three Holy Palaces, Five Mercenaries Associations, Eight Demon Sects, and Ten Guilds.

As a swordsman, he wasn't deeply concerned about other things but that doesn't mean he didn't learn anything at all. Royal Family is at the top of the Xuanwu Continent. Three Holy Palaces are the Divine Sword School, Heaven Battling Academy, and Golden Buddha Pagoda.

Jingui's Sword School is part of Divine Sword School. And Heaven Battling Academy is the holy ground for martial artists. As for the Golden Buddha Pagoda, they are the Buddha Dao Cultivator. They have completely different cultivation techniques and heart laws, unlike others.

He didn't learn anything deeper about Five Monsters Domain and Ten Guilds. But he has a little bit of information about Demon Sects. According to the books, Demons are the enemies of humans. Demons are crueler than Monsters.

Although monsters hunt humans for the sake of eating them, they only do it when they have no choice. Naturally, monsters occupy a great place for cultivation in the forest and spend a lifetime cultivating at the same time.

Only when a monster or horde of monsters attacks people when they no longer have such resources. In the end, it's the world where strength rules. But Monsters are rather strange. Some are kind of logical and follow different rules while some are just rampant and slaughters humans in their sight.

That's why Xuanwu Continent divides monsters into two groups. One is Spirit Beast and another is Demon Beast. Spirit Beast is developed with rules from their ancestors, follows the cultivation of their ancestors, and tries to stay out of conflict.

Demon Beast on other hand is a very conflicting, rampant, and murderous beast. Demon Practitioner and Demon Beasts are different concepts. Demons are the mixer of Demon Beasts with humans. Demon Beasts doesn't have a powerful bloodline but they have a unique feature.

They can use every creature's blood to continuously improve their strength. Not just blood but also different kinds of body parts. This allows them to improve their strength quickly but at the price of losing their mind to madness.

Some humans got greedy by those beasts and started learning from them. And finally, ten thousand years ago, a human established Demon Dao in Xuanwu Continent. And surprisingly, he created his own Demon Sect becoming Demon Ancestor.

Current, eight demon sects are part of the main Demon Sect that was established ten thousand years ago. These people slaughter humans, demon beasts, spirit beasts, and some other creatures that hide in the shadows to improve their cultivation.

Demon's cultivation is very much similar to humans. They start from Demon Handyman, Demon Soldier, Demon General, Demon Commander, Demon Lord, Demon King, Demon Emperor, Demon Saint, and Demon Ancestor.

Li Xian stopped thinking more about the demons and started focusing on his sword. He thought for a while and checked the spatial ring with his spiritual sense. Unfortunately, he couldn't find a single Heart Law. Finally, he found he had to visit the Sword School for the Heart Law.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Xiao Feng staring at him. Seeing his eyes opened, Xiao Feng started pouring questions "Young master, what kind of cultivation technique you practice? Why can you swallow a metal sword? And why didn't you tell me before? Do you know how much worried I got when you stabbed yourself with the sword?"

"Xiao Feng, can you ask a question at a time?" Li Xian sighed and spoke after facing four questions at the same time. But he still decided to answer. He opened his mouth but she interrupted him turning him speechless.

"Young master, what kind of cultivation technique you practice?" Xiao Feng blinked her eyes and got into her knees as she asked. Li Xian was still sitting on the lotus position.

"My cultivation technique is called Sword Devouring Technique. It devours sword to further enhance my talent and cultivation at the same time." Li Xian answered in a single breath. But when he was about to answer her second question that she asked previously, he got interrupted again.

"Why can you swallow the metal sword?"

"It has something to do with those golden runes appearing around my body. As for the clear reason, even I don't understand it properly, and let me finish first." Just thinking of her interruption, Li Xian didn't give her a chance to ask again.

"Even I didn't know about it, so how I can tell you first. And I deeply apologize for making you worry. Don't worry, I won't do anything stupid."

"Umm! ...….. Young master, why are you speaking so differently?" Xiao Feng asked with confusion. She felt the Li Xian that she spoke previously was a little different from the Li Xian that she was speaking now.

"See Xian, let me talk with her. You are too formal." Inside his head, Mac was already woken up. He listened to their conversation and spoke after Xiao Feng's question.

"Not now elder brother, I am going back to the sect. You don't know the way so I will control my body." Li Xian chuckled inside his brain and denied Mac. Because of the connection between them, he can talk to Mac with his thoughts.

Of course, he needs to focus his thoughts on Mac before speaking. He didn't know why and how but it was a great thing he could ask for now that his body has two souls. There are some secrets that he didn't want to share with Mac and the same goes for Mac.

So, they can limit their privacy and also talk to each other with their thoughts only.

"Just think of it as me having two personalities." Li Xian didn't want to lie to a person who has surrendered her life in his hand. The main factor of the Master-Servant Contract is its number one rule. Master dies, servant dies with him, but servant dies, nothing happens to the master.

This is why most of the powerful spirit beasts only sign an equal contract. If one of them dies, the other also dies.

"Two personalities?" Xiao Feng muttered with confusion but suddenly, she awakened by Li Xian's question "Xiao Feng, you are wind spirit, right? What kind of power do you have?"

When Mac heard this question, he laughed inside the room.

"Hahaha! Idiot, she is wind spirit. Of course, she has the power to manipulate wind."

Hearing his laughter, Li Xian blushed with shame and rebuke "Of course, I know she can manipulate wind. I…. I was trying to understand the deepness of her powers."

"Yes, I would also like to know her deepness." Suddenly, Mac's laughter suddenly vanished as he spoke with seriousness on his face. This kind of seriousness was too fake.

But Li Xian didn't understand it and spoke "See, even you are curious about the deepness of her power."

"Li Xian, you are really a kid. I am not curious about the deepness of her power. I am curious about a different deepness." Suddenly, a thought rang in his mind and he asked with seriousness in his eyes.

"I forget to check that earlier. Li Xian, what's the length of your little brother."