Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 6 Qingshan Sword Classic and Sword Practice

"Notice: The guild is purchasing fragments of the River God's Seal for 10 gold plus 100 Guild Contribution points. If interested, please contact the guild's personnel managers."

Less than two hours after receiving the items, Su Yu received this guild notification.

"The guild's response was quite quick."

Su Yu almost didn't hesitate and found a human resources manager named Yan Ning behind the notice:
"Manager Yan, I have one!"

If it was a complete ancient River God Seal, he would definitely not sell it, and he would even hesitate if it was a slightly larger one. But it was just a small fragment, one of the eighty or so pieces, so there was no need to keep it. He did not have the ability to collect all the other fragments.

10 gold, this will greatly ease his financial pressure.

100 points of guild contribution is not low and can be exchanged for a lot of good things.

A quarter of an hour later, the fragments of the ancient river god seal were handed over to the guild, and he successfully obtained 10 taels of gold and 100 points of guild contribution.

After getting the money, he immediately went to Qianyu Chamber of Commerce to start shopping.

The first is a basic sword technique - Qingshan Sword Sutra.

Qingshan Sword Manual (Elementary): A side-door sword technique with ten levels, known for its lightness and speed.

Each level increases the flying sword damage by +15, the attack speed by +10, and the sword flying speed by +10 km/h.

Training requirements: 12 points of innate bone, 15 points of innate understanding.

Now I just want to see if I have talent in this area, there is no need to buy something too good.

It's just that you don't have talent, there won't be any loss. If you have talent, you can find a way to at least get a high-level basic sword technique to cover it.

Then he picked some at random and spent 2 taels of silver to buy a second-level flying sword - the Green Fish Sword.

Green Carp Sword (Second-level Flying Sword): A flying sword made from the spine of a green carp.

属性：攻击力20-25，攻击速度12-15，御剑速度13-16，基础剑诀加成15%。

Equipment requirements: Eighth level of basic sword techniques.

This flying sword is considered the lowest among the second-tier flying swords. It only has attributes, but no additional features or spells.

But it is also cheap, only 2 taels of silver.

After preparing the flying sword, the next step was the highlight. He spent a full 5 taels of gold to buy five volumes of first-grade cultivation notes.

First-grade cultivation notes (Sanxian): The cultivation notes of Sanxian masters, the upper limit of which varies depending on the grade of the skills, 1 level for exquisite, 2 levels for advanced, 3 levels for intermediate, and 5 levels for elementary.

This thing was a scroll made of jade. Su Yu returned to his residence, took out the notebook and opened it. There were small characters written with spiritual light on the jade slip. As he opened the jade slip, the spiritual light characters slowly flew up and gathered into a stream of light that flowed into his eyebrows.

"Hint: Read the First-Rank Cultivation Notes. The upper limit of the Purple Element Refining Qi Technique level will increase by 3 levels."

"Hint: Unknown factors, the upper limit of the Purple Element Refining Qi Technique level +6 levels."

"Perfect!"

Su Yu happily took out the second volume of the cultivation notes and began to read.

After reading three volumes in one breath, the upper limit of Qi Refining Mentality is +18, plus the original 15 levels, now the upper limit of the Purple Yuan Qi Refining Technique that can be practiced is 33 levels.

I'll keep the remaining two volumes for now, and see later if I have any talent for swordsmanship.

Then he took out the Qingshan Sword Scripture jade slip to study, and opened the attribute panel. His eyes fell on the green + sign behind the sword scripture. With a thought, he invested a steady stream of killing experience and Taoism into it, constantly improving the level of the sword technique.

As the lowest level of mental method, the practice points and Taoism required to upgrade the primary Taoist method are only half of the intermediate level.

It only takes 33 practice points and 10 points of Taoism to upgrade the Qingshan Sword Sutra from the initial level to the tenth level.

Qingshan Sword Sutra Level 10: Flying sword damage +300, attack speed +200, sword control speed +200 km/h.

Furthermore, the improvement of sword skills also gave rise to several basic abilities.

The first level derivative [Sword Light]: adds a sharp sword light to the flying sword, extending the attack range. Each level of Qingshan Sword Sutra increases the sword light by 1 cm.

Talent bonus, each level increases the sword light by 2 cm.

The tenth-level derivative [Sword Qi]: Concentrate mana to cut out sword energy to hurt the enemy remotely. The sword energy's maximum attack power is 10% of the damage. Each level of sword technique increases the sword energy distance by 5 meters and consumes 50 mana points.

Talent bonus, sword energy's maximum attack power is 20% damage, and each level of sword technique increases sword energy distance by 10 meters.

In addition, the sword technique also comes with ten sword moves, namely -

Canglong Welcomes: Ability to suddenly strike the enemy with a sword, stabbing them. Consumes 5 mana.

White Carp Leaps Upwards, launching a sudden attack. Consumes 5 mana.

The vast blue waves, a sword sweeping across, with great power, consumes 10 mana points.

The tiger roars, building up momentum and launching a fierce attack, consuming 15 mana points.

The flying general of Dragon City slashes down from the air with great momentum, consuming 15 mana points.

Thousands of horses are galloping, and the moves are coordinated with the body movements. The sword moves are like smoke for thousands of miles, consuming 25 mana points.

Clouds scatter across the sky, and a single sword strike transforms into multiple shadows, both real and unreal, making them difficult to defend against. Consumes 25 mana.

A sword comes from the west, leaping into the air. Once launched, no retreat is left, and it consumes 50 mana points.

Burning cirrus, additional fire attribute spell damage, consumes 100 mana.

The River Flows East is a powerful move that consumes 30% of your mana. It should not be used unless absolutely necessary.

Su Yu equipped the Green Fish Sword, stretched out his hand, and a ray of green sword light appeared in his palm. He stretched out his hand and pointed, and used the Azure Dragon Welcoming Guest technique. The flying sword disappeared in a flash, and the next second a small hole was blown out in the wall.

"White carp leaps into the waves!"

Following the sword moves that had already come to mind, he retracted the flying sword, turned it in a circle, and stabbed it fiercely from bottom to top.

Then he quickly performed his third move, Ten Thousand Miles of Green Waves. He stretched out his hand and a flying sword flew into his hand. He swept the sword across, and the sword light was like a fan.

The tiger roars on the hill.

Flying General of Dragon City.

The body moves sideways using the energy, like thousands of horses galloping.

Staying at home, Su Yu practiced every sword move according to the sword manual.

After the rehearsal was finished, Su Yu put away his sword and stood up. He frowned and thought about what had just happened. After thinking for a while, he practiced it again from beginning to end.

He frowned just now because he was very keenly aware of some problems, but he was not sure at the beginning and wanted to practice more and make a decision after he became proficient in it.

Facts proved Su Yu's guess that he also had talent in swordsmanship.

Every time he practiced again, he could clearly feel the improvement in his swordsmanship. His proficiency increased very quickly, and the connections between his moves became more and more smooth. Some of the problems he had felt before gradually disappeared as his swordsmanship became more and more proficient.

Later, he simply took a day off and did not go to level up in the afternoon, but stayed at home to practice. Putting actual combat aside, the first step was to practice all the moves thoroughly, as if they were like arms and fingers. Then, in actual combat, he would be able to better control the flying sword and reduce mistakes.

When you have used up all your magic power in one breath, take a break to recover your magic power while thinking about the practice just now. What parts did you practice poorly and where you made mistakes, remember them in your mind and correct them in the next practice.

Although Su Yu could sense that he might have extraordinary talent in cultivation and combat due to the golden finger, he did not slack off. Instead, he worked harder to transform this talent into strength.

Any top master with a name or reputation has both talent and hard work.

If you have talent but don't work hard, you can at most become a master with a certain level of strength based on your talent, but you will never become a top master.

Especially the heavenly tribulation that hangs over the heads of all practitioners. It is impossible to overcome it with talent alone. Even if you have a powerful innate spiritual body or the blood of a powerful divine beast, you still have to spend some effort to dig out your physique and blood.

Su Yu was born into an ordinary family, without the support of his parents or family, and without any bloodline or physique. If he wanted to make a name for himself, he had to rely on his own efforts.

But the fact is that if you don’t have talent, it will be difficult to become a top powerhouse no matter how hard you work.

Fortunately, he has some talent, how can we let him down?

"That's not enough."

Early in the morning of the third day, Su Yu, who felt he had mastered the ten moves, applied to the guild's logistics department for five photo stones of sword masters, spending a total of 25 guild contribution points.

The photo stone is equivalent to a video recording from the previous life. It can record the sword-fighting skills and experience of sword masters, and outsiders can practice swordsmanship according to the photo stone.

Moves can be mastered through hard practice, practical experience can be gained through combat, but to quickly acquire combat skills, one needs the guidance of an experienced person.

This thing is rarely sold outside, and even if it is sold, it is very expensive, costing twenty or thirty taels of silver.

But the guild has a lot of swordsmanship masters, and there are a lot of photo stones of swordsmanship masters like this, which can be purchased by spending some guild contributions. Moreover, three of them are swordsmen who practice Qingshan Sword Technique like him, and their attributes are completely compatible.

5 points of guild contribution for one, which shows that the value of these 100 points of guild contribution is quite high.

He continued to stay at home and spent several hours looking over the five photo stones three times before he picked up the flying sword to practice again.

Compared to his previous practice of following the sword master's instructions to fly the sword, this time he began to try to practice deeper sword techniques.

He started with the first move, Azure Dragon Welcoming Guests, and the next move was not the second move, White Carp Leaping Over the Waves, but the seventh move, Chaotic Clouds Clearing the Sky.

The first move, Azure Dragon Welcoming Guests, involves a sudden thrust of the sword. The second, White Carp Leaping Over the Waves, requires the sword to be retracted from bottom to top. This involves an unnecessary movement of retracting the sword, as described on the stone by a swordsman proficient in the Qingshan Sword Sutra:
"The first stage of swordsmanship is proficiency, complete mastery of all sword techniques."

“The second stage is to make the connection smooth and eliminate the unnecessary parts.”

"The seventh move, Chaotic Clouds Clear the Sky, transforms into multiple sword shadows with one sword, both real and fake, making it difficult to defend against. This move can be used to directly follow the first sword move, without the need for additional movements such as retraction."

There are many options for finishing the move "Luan Yun Pai Kong", which can be up, down, left or right, and the next move will be connected depending on how you finish the move.

To finish the move, go to the left and choose to sweep across with the mighty blue waves.

I will stop the move and follow up with the white carp leaping from the bottom to the top.

If you finish the move, the flying sword of Longcheng will chop from top to bottom.

Practice from morning to night, take a short break, and continue practicing at night.

This is the benefit of memorizing all the moves thoroughly. There will be no hesitation in any change of moves. When the moves are proficient, the power will naturally be greater.

After practicing for five or six days in a row, Su Yu was able to disrupt all the moves and connect them seamlessly.

At this point, practice alone is no longer useful, and actual combat is needed to test it.

Early the next morning, he spent a full 142 million practice points and 20 points of Taoism to upgrade the Ziyuan Qi Refining Art to the 20th level.

Health +800, Mana +1600, Mana Power +800, Mana Recovery +4 points/second.

Next are 200 top-grade soul-restoring pills, which can restore 1000 mana points at a time. Each pill costs 150 coins, and 200 pills cost a total of 30 taels of silver.

After making all the preparations, he slowly went out riding the paper crane.

When I came to Chensha River again, almost a week had passed and the river had long returned to calm. Two tower ships were sailing side by side on the river. The incense attracted a large number of water monsters to attack the tower ships, but they were all blocked by the thick defensive barrier of the tower ships.

As his cultivation level improved, his eyesight also improved. He could clearly see the crew on the ship and the newcomers in the car even from two or three kilometers away.

“It’s so nice to have money!”

The gap between veteran players and newcomers is very obvious and can be seen at a glance.

He has to be self-reliant from the first day, while the rich have been riding the bus from the first day until now, and will probably continue to ride in the future.

If he worked hard all day to get double experience, he could only accumulate about 500,000 killing experience points. If he did nothing on the boat, he could also accumulate 500,000 to 600,000 or even more. If he used a jade talisman to gain double experience points every day, it would not be a problem for him to accumulate one million killing experience points a day.

Moreover, he could attract BOSS from time to time and accumulate more than ten or twenty points of Taoism, which was much better than him.

Therefore, even with the bonus of the golden finger, among the newcomers in the same batch as him today, he is definitely not in the first tier in terms of the level of his mental skills.

But it's not a big problem. The requirements for Taoism upgrades are not high in the early stages, so it's normal to upgrade quickly.

When you reach the 30th level or above, regardless of the basic Qi-refining techniques and sword techniques, those who have the capital will also need to learn other methods such as thunder techniques. At that time, the requirements for practice points and Taoism will gradually become exaggerated, and the gap will widen further.

To be precise, the gap in strength will widen further, and the elites will gradually stand out and widen the gap with others at this time.

But the gap in basic Taoism levels will indeed gradually narrow, and the difference will not be too big.

There are too many aspects that affect strength, and the level of Qi Refining Technique is just one of them.

The paper crane flew slowly for a distance, and suddenly saw a group of familiar people leveling up by the river ahead.

They lured dozens of monsters of level 20 to 30 over, and several senior ones cast spells at the same time to bombard them.

Su Yu descended. Qiao Bin looked up and was surprised to see him. He smiled and greeted him:

"Is my little brother still alone?"

He bowed in return:
"Yes, still alone."

After a brief chat, Su Yu found a place at random and stood on a rock. He stretched out his hand and the Green Fish Sword flew out. It circled around him twice as he wished. He stretched out his finger and turned it into a green light, shooting out and piercing a carp spirit dozens of meters away.

He started with the Canglong Welcoming Guest, and stabbed the carp demon in the back with a sword, causing a ball of blood to float.
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70
The Green Fish Sword has an attack of 25, and the basic sword technique damage bonus of the second-level flying sword is 15%, which is a 45-point damage bonus, for a total of 70 damage.

The carp demon felt pain, swung its thick tail, turned around, and opened its mouth to spray out a water arrow. Su Yu thought about it and the protective air shield rose to block the water arrow. He quickly changed his moves and stabbed the carp demon with three swords in a row, leaving three sword marks deep enough to see the bone on its back.

The last sword was on the right, and he followed it up with a sword from Bi Bo Wanli, which cut off the last bit of the carp monster's blood and gained 32 points of killing experience.

"Four moves in total, and it only consumes 40 mana points."

"This is more cost-effective than using magic."

There was no need to rest. He stretched out his hand and pointed again, and the flying sword floated up from the back of the other fish demon.

This time, after the chaotic clouds cleared, there was no longer a vast expanse of blue waves. A sword came from the west with all his strength, causing a double critical hit, directly cutting the fish demon into two pieces.

(End of this chapter)