Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 5 Billions of Details

In the hazy forest, I could only see a pair of eyes shining with excitement.

"Sister..." Lin Jian turned around and didn't want to pay attention to her, "Let's practice tomorrow, I'm so sleepy..."

"How can you sleep at your age?" Chunxue pressed on. "Do you have the money to buy a flying sword? Have you mastered all the magic? Have you earned enough money? When will you be able to ascend to immortality?"

"Stop chanting, stop chanting, Master." Lin Jian covered his ears and stood up impatiently, "Practice! Practice now! What are we practicing, Master?"

"Battle March!" Haruyuki's eyes sparkled, gleaming brightly beside the oil-lamp-lit table. "I've thought about it, and this technique is perfect for you. You're definitely capable of learning it!"

Lin Jian, still confused, asked blankly, "What is a combat march?"

"It allows you to maintain the teleportation state while performing other actions." Haruyuki counted on his fingers. "For example, you can eat while teleporting, drink water while teleporting, or wield a sword while teleporting..."

Lin Jian suddenly woke up, and all sleepiness was swept away. "Holy crap! What a magical skill!"

From continuous casting to hands-free casting, isn't this an epic enhancement?

Even if you can't defeat the enemy after entering the Tianyuan Demonic Gap, you can still run away quickly.

As long as I can run faster than my teammates, maybe I can hold on until the sect changes defense?
whee!

"Right, right!" Haruyuki's eyebrows twitched upwards in delight. "And you can definitely learn it!"

As a famous teacher, one must take into account the qualifications of his disciples when teaching them.

Ordinary cultivators like Lin Jian have limited talents, so it is quite difficult for him to learn a new technique from scratch. However, if he just makes a little improvement on the original technique, it will be much easier.

Haruyuki tucked his hands into his pockets. "Then let me ask you, how many steps are there in the Divine Movement Technique?"

"Four steps," Lin Jian replied immediately. "First, concentrate your mind and gather your Qi, guiding it through your body to achieve a state of inner and outer unity. Then, take advantage of the situation and transform all natural factors, such as wind direction and terrain, into your own speed potential. Then, draw the runes, merging your Qi with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, transforming your body into a breeze. Finally, you will be able to disappear without a trace, leaving no trace behind."

"That's right! What I'm going to teach you now is to make a slight change in this third step."

"What changes?"

"Add a little detail to the rune."

"Bring the jade."

Simple rune structures can be written with paper and ink, but more complex rune structures require jade when practicing or presenting them.

As long as a little bit of true energy is used to communicate, the user can use his or her own thoughts to freely outline the shape he or she wants on the jade. It can be regarded as the... blackboard in the world of immortal cultivation.

……

Looking at the rune structure before him, which was so complex that it looked like a tangled ball of thread, Lin Jian's eyes went dark.

"You call this a little detail?"

"Isn't this simple?"

"Is this easy?"

There is no laughter in the woods.

He pinched the jade, "looked" at the runes in his mind, then looked at Haruyuki in front of him, and finally realized that the gap between people was greater than that between people and dogs.

Runes are a kind of superhuman writing with mysterious power that is needed to perform magic in the world of immortal cultivation.

The earliest origin can even be traced back to the creation of the Pre-Heaven Bagua by the Human Emperor. The eight runes representing the Pre-Heaven Bagua are the earliest ancestral runes between heaven and earth. All subsequent runes evolved and separated from them.

The rune structure now in front of Lin Jian is certainly not as mysterious as the Ancestral Rune, but for him, it is also not comparable to the runes in the spells he had encountered before.

Normally, if the runes of the divine movement technique that Lin Jian usually performed were compared to a simple two-dimensional simplified painting, then the runes that Chun Xue gave out at this moment were a three-dimensional composite structure.

The difficulty of performing it is at least ten times higher than before. If this is called simple, then what is complicated?
Fortunately, Lin Jian felt that his spatial imagination was pretty good, but his hand was slightly trembling when he picked up the jade.

Jade is also very expensive... Usually when he practiced other spells and runes, he would use paper and pen or even draw on the sand. Only when he reached the final stage and felt confident, would he try to use jade for the final practice, including confirmation.

But now the complexity of this rune is far beyond the ability to express with pen and paper. It can only be perfectly presented in the mind with abstract thinking.

"Let's just be extravagant..." Lin Jian gritted his teeth, picked up a piece of jade, and began to outline his own runes...

As the morning light began to break, Haruyuki, who was half asleep in a strange bed, heard some sounds of washing up.

Looking up, I saw a handsome young man in a simple Taoist robe standing in front of the door. As if he heard me wake up, he stood in the sunlight shining through the crack of the door, looking back and holding up his pants. "Your performance was not bad. The reward is on the table. I have to go to morning class and will be back soon. Don't go out unless you have nothing to do."

"Oh~" Chunxue nodded blankly, feeling like something was wrong.
Lin Jian, having received his response, turned and walked out, closing the door behind him. He yawned in the dim light of dawn and walked towards the Soul Gathering Square in the slightly cool morning breeze...

Haruyuki woke up and looked out the window at the dawn, puzzled. "What time is it?"

The rooster hasn't even crowed yet, are the cultivators from the lower nine realms so eager?

After waking up, she didn't continue to rest. Instead, she walked towards the round table filled with jades curiously, wanting to see what the so-called "reward" was like.

"On July 28th of the Yi Si Year, I learned a technique from the Spring Snow Sword Immortal in the forest—Combat March—and used it to offset a debt of 990,000 high-grade spirit stones. I hope the Spring Snow Sword Immortal will continue to work hard, paying off his debt soon and embracing a life of freedom.

Signed by: Lin Jian

(frown)
(meditation)
(Smiles happily)
"It's time to pay back! I earned 990,000 from one spell, so the remaining 10,000 shouldn't be easy, right?" Chunxue happily looked up and down at the inch-long note, and after a moment, he folded it carefully and stuffed it into the belt around his abdomen.

"Huh?" Haruyuki paused before realizing what the note meant.

"Learn?"

How did you learn it?
Even she herself took two days to become proficient in this rune.

As for applying it in actual combat, that requires more practice.

This kid wouldn't think he's learned everything just by practicing a little, right?
Chunxue picked up one of the pieces at random, skeptical, and probed into it with his mind.

The interrupted structure clearly shows the result of the user's last sketch. No one can become fully familiar with this complex rune structure overnight.

So it's natural that the structure of the jade in my hand is not even half complete.

But as long as you practice diligently, you will eventually become familiar with these rigid and inanimate objects.

Haruyuki curiously explored each piece one by one.

Each interrupted structure represents a change in the sketcher's level.

The change is quite obvious and increases linearly.

After looking all the way through, when he picked up the last piece of jade, even though Chunxue had already made up her mind, she couldn't help but open her cherry lips slightly and stood there in a daze.

"It's... it's done?"

In her mind, the rune in the jade slowly rotated, revealing details from all sides. It was exactly the same as the one she demonstrated, flawless.

Haruyuki scratched his face, feeling somewhat bewildered. "Even faster than me?"

"It only took one night?"

Haruyuki's eyes wandered, then he denied it, "No."

Not overnight.

There is limited jade on the table.

Not only did this kid buy a flying sword that he picked up from a garbage dump, but even the jade he used to practice runes was a low-quality product.

Normally, the luminous structure drawn in jade by the divine consciousness wrapped in true energy can be erased and outlined repeatedly.

But for jade like the one used in the forest, after practicing with it three or five times at most, the jade filled with impurities will no longer be able to withstand the repeated erosion of true qi.

It will crack...

And on the table in front of me - one, two, three, four, five... there are a total of twelve jade stones.

Does this mean that this kid only practiced fifty or sixty times a night at most?
(End of this chapter)