Borrowing a sword

Chapter 298 Arriving in the Capital, Sword Heart Achieved a Minor Success!
When Chu Huaixu left the Dao Ancestor's Inheritance Secret Realm, the Sword Heart's upgrade progress bar was at 56%.

During this time, he and Han Shuangjiang have been sparring together in various ways, with him acting as her training partner.

I just upgraded [Six Out of Deficiencies] to Great Perfection.

These actions can all increase the progress bar of Kenshin.

The former method was actually of little effect, because when he was sparring, he couldn't really hit the big ice block hard. At most, he would just slap her plump buttocks hard and feel the vibration of her flesh, and then flirt with her like that.

We can't really hurt her, can we?
She's terrible. She doesn't train her body, so she's not resistant to beatings. When she gets injured, she can only recover by taking medicine, and she doesn't recover as quickly as Xiao Xu and I do naturally.

As a result, Chu Huaixu would be too restrained during exchanges, which made the exchanges less meaningful.

However, when a level-one sword technique is elevated to the Great Perfection, this level of sword enlightenment greatly enhances one's sword heart.

The two combined bring the progress bar to 69%.

Chu Huaixu glanced at it and saw that if he were to upgrade using experience points, he would need another 96.

He did a quick mental calculation and soon came up with the answer.

"In other words, if the progress bar is zero and you rely solely on experience points to level up, it would actually take nearly 310 million points to go from Condensing Sword Heart to Sword Heart Minor Completion."

Upon realizing this, Chu Huaixu gasped.

What does over three million experience points represent?
This means he can risk his life three times to learn the [Ten Thousand Swords Return to One (Advanced)] skill!
You could be scammed by "telecom fraud" three times!
This made him suddenly understand why people with clear sword minds are so rare in the world.

Why is it that so many sword cultivators have already entered the seventh realm and even created the [Sword Domain], yet their sword hearts still cannot enter the realm of enlightenment?

As mentioned before, the [Domain] is a product that will naturally arise after entering the Seventh Realm.

Sword Domain and Sword Heart are not related.

Take Chu Huaixu's second master, Chu Yinyin, as an example. She has now broken through to the seventh realm. The reason she went into seclusion before was not only to break through to the third level of the seventh realm, but also to condense her sword domain.

However, she had only achieved mastery of the sword mind, not complete enlightenment of the sword mind.

Among all the sword cultivators in the entire Daoist sect, only Jiang Zhi and Shen Man have reached this level.

This is why everyone initially believed that Chu Huaixu could only become Shen Man's disciple.

"It costs 300 million just to reach the minor achievement level. If it's to go from minor achievement to major achievement, it would cost at least five or six million. And if it's to go from major achievement to great perfection, it would cost at least ten million?" Chu Huaixu was shocked.

He had no idea about this before.

Before his transmigration, sword cultivators were at most at the Great Perfection of Sword Intent, and had never even reached the advanced version like [Sword Heart].

This also made him realize just how high the level of the spiritual fetus divine power awakened by his [Spiritual Embryo: Heart Sword] was!
Since entering the Gentleman's Temple, Chu Huaixu has gained so many masters, as well as a rather unreliable grandmaster.

I've brushed up on a lot of advanced knowledge about the cultivation world.

He only recently learned that for sword cultivators, the grade of their [Sword Heart] affects the grade of their [Sword Domain] when advancing to the seventh realm.

The higher the level of Sword Heart, the greater the probability of obtaining a more powerful Sword Domain when advancing to the seventh realm.

"The reason why the eldest master is recognized as the strongest in the seventh realm is that she had already achieved sword heart clarity before advancing to the seventh realm, thus condensing a powerful sword domain. This is one of the reasons."

"I just don't know if I will be able to receive the blessing when I have two sword hearts now?" Chu Huaixu asked, puzzled.

Of course, he is only at the third realm now, so he can't get the answer for the time being.

Before him, there had never been a sword cultivator in the world who possessed two sword hearts.

Therefore, he didn't even have any reference materials.

"Promote him," Chu Huaixu thought after hesitating for a moment.

96 experience points, I can just grit my teeth and spend them.

"Such mysterious experiences as those in the Dao Ancestor's inheritance secret realm are unlikely to be encountered again in the future."

There is no need to upgrade the sword technique in the near future.

"Upgrading Kenshin will mostly rely on experience points."

Chu Huaixu no longer hesitated and directly chose to upgrade.

On the other side, the Sword Sect's ten giant eagles flew along.

After receiving the sword technique [Azure Fire], Geng Tianhe, the prodigy of the Sword Sect, has been meditating and comprehending it.

If there's anything he doesn't understand, he'll ask the Sword Master.

At first, he was quite reserved and didn't dare to ask, afraid that his Sword Master Uncle would find him annoying or stupid.

After asking once, Geng Tianhe felt that his senior uncle was extremely patient, completely different from his master.

When he was confused, Situ Cheng would indeed help him understand. But every time he explained something, he would boast about himself and then express his disdain for his disciple, saying that his disciple's talent was at most half of his own.

“If you were even half as good as I was back then, you wouldn’t ask such a question!” This was a phrase that Situ Cheng often said.

Besides, Situ Cheng was not actually good at teaching apprentices.

Because in Kendo, he is actually an "experience-oriented" person.

This is somewhat similar to Jiang Zhi.

They attained enlightenment through fighting, even killing, along the way.

Therefore, when these people teach their disciples, they often cannot clearly explain many of their insights, because they have experienced life and death, breaking down and rebuilding.

"It can only be understood intuitively, not explained in words." Situ Cheng often said these eight words to Geng Tianhe.

Figure it out yourself!

But middle-aged Confucian scholars are different.

He explained it in more detail.

There's no way around it, the contemporary Sword Master is a true "theorist".

Situ Chengdu often couldn't help but mutter, "You've reached the Sword Master realm through studying books!"

When he answers Geng Tianhe's questions, he is more specific. Moreover, he always explains things in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

What impressed and surprised Geng Tianhe even more was that: "I was asking questions about the [Azure Flame], but after listening to my senior uncle's words, several of my other doubts about swordsmanship suddenly became clear!"

—There is indeed no comparison between my master and my senior master.

And it must be said, this [Azure Sky Flame] does indeed have some compatibility with Geng Tianhe's Great River Sword Intent.

The most distinctive feature of this sword technique is that each strike is stronger than the last.

It wasn't until the ninth sword strike that it reached its peak!
This is somewhat like a great river surging forward, with wave after wave.

While studying this Earth-level sword technique, Geng Tianhe felt that his sword intent had also made considerable progress.

In addition, the teaching model of middle-aged Confucian scholars is a relatively rare encouragement-based teaching method.

Perhaps it was because he praised his junior brother too often that he developed this habit.

When the Sword Master was teaching Geng Tianhe, he would always praise him gently.

Geng Tianhe already regarded him as an idol, and his admiration for him was like a surging river that never stopped flowing.

After receiving the praise, Wu Jian's condition improved even more!

At this moment, atop the eagle, the middle-aged scholar glanced at the young man who had closed his eyes to comprehend swordsmanship and said with a smile, "Junior brother has truly taken on a fine disciple."

"Judging from the current progress, Tianhe should be able to formally master this extremely difficult sword technique before the East-West Continent Grand Competition officially begins."

"And in the process of the competition, one may be able to achieve a minor level of mastery."

"Such talent is truly rare," he simply praised.

After praising his junior brother, the middle-aged scholar noticed that his junior brother didn't react much, and then suddenly realized something, adding, "He has quite the demeanor of his junior brother back then."

Situ Cheng was extremely pleased to hear this and nodded in satisfaction.

After a while, the middle-aged scholar looked ahead and said with a smile, "We've arrived in the capital."

After conducting a brief examination, the great cultivators of the Moon Kingdom made way for them.

One of the great cultivators happened to be a sword cultivator.

Upon learning that the middle-aged scholar was the legendary Sword Master, his gaze towards the man became noticeably more respectful and fervent.

The eagle continued to fly forward.

A middle-aged scholar sat atop a hawk, overlooking the night view of the capital.

He has rarely come down the mountain in recent years.

He had only visited the capital of the Moon Kingdom three times in his early years.

Moreover, on all three occasions, he accompanied Situ Cheng specifically.

Sword Master looked at the restaurant where the two of them had dined together not far away, and was about to point it out to his junior brother when he suddenly paused for a moment.

The middle-aged scholar's gaze immediately turned from the high place towards the location where Chu Huaixu resided, and he uttered a sound:
"what?"

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