Borrowing a sword

Chapter 277 Having Read Three Thousand Scrolls, Sword Intent Reached Perfection

Inside the Sword Pavilion, Chu Huaixu stood there, stunned.

But the young Taoist priest had already placed the sword sheath on the wooden table beside him and began to take the jade slip on his own.

He walked to the scabbard as if he didn't believe it and began to touch the bead.

—Master Dao, I think we need to have a talk!
Damn, he actually took the initiative to interact with me!?

As a result, when Chu Huaixu touched the black bead this time, the young Taoist priest did not react at all.

"Pretending?"

"You only talk to me when you want to, and ignore me when you don't?"

"Or does it mean that this bead must be worn on his body, or be near him?"

Chu Huaixu had previously poked at this bead, and Dao Zu had worn it on his belt.

The Taoist priest quickly took a few jade slips and then sat down on the wooden chair.

He placed the black scabbard on the table, without making any physical contact with it.

Chu Huaixu tried to touch the bead again, but it was still to no avail.

The young Taoist priest comprehended the text very quickly, and soon put down the first jade slip.

Then, everything around them froze again.

Chu Huaixu saw the birds flying outside the window of the Sword Pavilion, which were now frozen in mid-air.

This secret realm was like the Dao Ancestor giving him special instruction, passing on his swordsmanship.

It's obvious that it's time for class again.

This low-grade Xuan-level sword technique is called the "Gentle Breeze Sword".

To his slight surprise, he did not master it to perfection this time, but only to the "beginner" level. Then everything around him that had been frozen in time returned to normal.

This relieved Chu Huaixu, who realized that the route was different this time.

—He enjoys reading, but doesn't seek to understand everything.

It turns out that this was just a superficial attempt.

He was simply retracing the Dao Ancestor's "Sword Path." If he only reached the entry level, then Chu Huaixu would also only need to cultivate to the entry level.

The young Taoist priest quickly picked up a new jade slip and began to study it.

One sword technique, two sword techniques, three sword techniques.
As the number of cases increased, Chu Huaixu discovered that this young Taoist was simply pursuing his studies based on his own personal interests.

He only dabbled in sword techniques that didn't interest him much.

When he encounters something unconventional or that suits his taste, he will study it for a longer time, but he will usually only achieve a minor level of understanding, at most a major level, and then he will stop.

He no longer seeks perfection.

Chu Huaixu always felt that this Taoist priest had his own plans.

"Or rather, he had a specific purpose in coming to Jian Ge this time!"

He suddenly felt that the scene in front of him looked somewhat familiar.

This is very similar to the "sea of ​​questions" strategy commonly used by top students.

And as some great minds might think: even the most stupid person can learn calculus, right?

Chu Huaixu's level of comprehension (7) is actually considered somewhat dull compared to someone with a true level of comprehension (10).

But what can he do? He's "trapped" here.

Just study it hard!
Moreover, Chu Huaixu discovered an advantage.

"This is truly beneficial to my understanding of sword intent!"

Learning swordsmanship itself will increase the progress bar of sword intent.

The more you learn, the more you will achieve; the less you learn, the less you will achieve.

But now the advantage lies in the sheer number of sword techniques.

In fact, if you only learn a small number of sword techniques and rely on this method of comprehending sword techniques to speed up the progress bar of sword intent, it is definitely not enough.

However, Chu Huaixu usually wouldn't spend experience points to learn some useless sword skills, and he wouldn't play that kind of high-volume approach.

"It's not worth it. After learning these skills, people usually don't use them."

"It's more cost-effective for me to directly spend experience points to upgrade my sword intent than to do this."

But the situation is different now.

He was trapped here, and time seemed to stretch on forever.

Although the process was agonizing, agonizing, and a true test of his willpower, the presence of that cyan aura seemed to prevent him from going insane.
It's like raising the psychological threshold.

This allows him to remain locked in this "dark room" without completely breaking down.

In addition, Chu Huaixu was a very open-minded person, so he continued to learn from the Dao Ancestor.

This led the disciples of the Sword Sect to discover that a very strange Taoist priest had appeared in their Sword Pavilion.

He possessed the Sword Master's token, which allowed him to borrow any jade slip without limit.

But he only looked at the jade slips and didn't practice swordsmanship. It was as if he could directly get started just by looking with his eyes and feeling with his heart.

Chu Huaixu, on the other hand, was like a lonely ghost that no one could see, wandering around this level of the Sword Pavilion.

Although time outside is frozen, time within the secret realm is in motion.

He saw that it had started snowing outside Jian Ge.

It was still midsummer when Mingming came in.

With this thought in mind, Chu Huaixu felt even more strongly that the young Taoist priest had planned this all along.

"He prepared far too many fasting pills!"

His fasting pills seem to last forever.

Even if there is a medicine cauldron inside the black bead, and even if the medicine cauldron is constantly refining the Bigu Pill automatically, it still needs to have a large amount of raw materials on hand.

At that moment, the young Taoist priest put down another jade slip.

The surroundings froze again, and he stood up to demonstrate his swordsmanship to Chu Huaixu.

This time, the dead fox was full of energy.

Because his sword intent progress bar has reached 99.7%!

Once he masters this sword technique, his fearless sword intent will surely reach its peak.

Chu Huaixu had even begun to look forward to the possibility of directly reaching the Great Perfection realm within the Inheritance Secret Realm.

Currently, it seems entirely possible!

"[Ding! You have learned the skill - Snow-Treading Plum Blossom Sword.]"

The next moment, a force emanated from his body and spread outwards.

He began to resemble a drawn sword once again. The "aftereffects" of the "Sword Refining Manual" continue to plague us to this day.

Each time Chu Huaixu made progress in swordsmanship, his sense of being "the sword man is the sword" would be strengthened.

He now understood why Nangong Yue, a master weapon refiner, had always looked at him with a somewhat strange gaze.

Which weapon refiner wouldn't notice such an exquisite sword?

He felt that, rounding up, he could actually be considered a weapon refiner.

However, he was...self-refining?

[Fearless Sword Intent], now fully mastered!

The snow outside Jian Ge was gradually melting.

The withered tree sprouted new branches and buds.

When the branches and leaves are lush and verdant, the sound of cicadas can be heard from outside the pavilion.

Summer has arrived, and another year has passed just like that.

The disciples of the Sword Sect were beginning to get used to the presence of a Taoist priest sitting inside the Sword Pavilion.

He is gentle, very polite, and easy to talk to.

Because this Taoist priest wore the Sword Venerable Token, the disciples of the Sword Sect respected him greatly, and no one overstepped his bounds during the year.

Amidst this harmonious atmosphere, a "lone ghost" was growing increasingly grim.

The sense of "humanity" in Chu Huaixu is getting weaker and weaker.

He no longer exudes a strong "class spirit"; instead, he seems to have a deathly aura.

This young Taoist priest could at least chat with the Sword Sect disciples occasionally; he could touch the jade slips, sit on the wooden stool, and touch everything here.
But this "lone ghost" won't do.

No one could see him, no one spoke to him, he couldn't even touch anything around him, and he felt a strong sense of detachment from his small world.

This feeling of loneliness is actually quite devastating, and can even be somewhat depressing.

This cyan aura could only keep his mind stable, preventing him from collapsing or going insane.

How much torment is Chu Huaixu going through right now?

He would feel extremely envious whenever he saw young Taoist priests taking fasting pills.

"Is it delicious?"

"I want to try it too!"

"Damn, I really want one!"

Gradually, Chu Huaixu found himself becoming somewhat infatuated with the way of the sword!

Because he couldn't do anything else, he was bored every day, and the only thing he could do was practice swordsmanship.

He began to try to find the differences between different sword techniques.

I started to try to figure out the creator's thought process.

Let's begin to explore the interesting aspects of this sword technique.

This was the only thing he could use to amuse himself.

Another year passed in Jian Ge.

The young Taoist priest had already finished reading the low-grade and mid-grade Xuan-level sword techniques.

He had already seen a small portion of the 150 high-grade Xuan-level sword techniques.

Chu Huaixu's [Fearless Sword Intent] also finally broke through to the Great Perfection realm during this process.

Even after the sword intent reaches its peak, a new progress bar will still appear.

"Once this progress bar is full, I can try to condense my own sword heart."

His gaze began to drift out the window.

From a very early age, he had missed Big Ice Block, Little Xu, and even Old Niu and the Taoist sect.

Strangely enough, I don't really miss anything about Earth.

"Has it really happened without me even realizing it, that I've come to regard this place as home?" Chu Huaixu himself was somewhat surprised.

"I wonder how the training is going on the other side of the big ice block."

"Ha, woman, she's probably going crazy missing me!"

He started to amuse himself in his mind again, which was quite boring.

Now, he is learning high-grade Xuan-level sword techniques.

Chu Huaixu also began to select his favorite from among them.

So far, his personal favorite sword technique is called "Tianxing Sword," which is a homophone of the phrase "Tianxingjian" (天行健).

He is now gradually developing his own understanding of swordsmanship.

This further amplified the feeling that he was "a man who is a sword."

As "time" passed, the young Taoist priest finally took down the last jade slip from the shelf.

Chu Huaixu noticed this, and he also paused for a moment, then his shoulders slumped slightly, and he let out a long sigh.

After gaining a basic understanding of this sword technique, Chu Huaixu began to practice it.

After mastering the basics, his progress bar for condensing his sword spirit reached 61%.

It's obvious that a high-grade Xuan-level sword technique provides significantly more enhancements than a mid-grade one.

The surrounding scene remained intact. The young Taoist priest put the jade slip back, picked up the sword sheath on the table, and began to descend the stairs step by step.

After leaving the Sword Pavilion, the Sword Master of the Sword Sect had already arrived and was standing outside the door to greet him.

It was obvious that the Sword Master, who resided on the nameless peak, was also keeping a close eye on everything within the Sword Pavilion.

He was probably wondering when the Taoist priest would finally come out on his own.

As a result, we've been waiting and waiting, and now it's come to this.

"I never expected that you would actually read through all three thousand volumes of swordsmanship in one go."

"I admire you."

The dignified Sword Master bowed respectfully to the young Taoist priest with utmost sincerity.

Despite not being a sword cultivator, his unwavering and persistent pursuit of the sword made even the dignified Sword Master of the Sword Sect feel somewhat inferior.

Unbeknownst to him, an extremely bored young man seized the opportunity to step forward, and relying on his own accomplishment of the same feat, stood shoulder to shoulder with the young Taoist priest and accepted the bow without hesitation.

At the same time, the young man raised his hand fiercely and gripped the black bead on the scabbard tightly.

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