Under One Person: Starting with the Dual Cultivation of Body and Soul.

Zhang Zhiwei practiced Taoism, and he also cultivated techniques, even creating a Qi Body Source Flow that was said to be the pinnacle of techniques and whose skills were close to Taoism.

Take a closer look at Zhang Huaiyi's life.

He was never competing with himself.

He was competing with his senior.

Tragically, despite his lifelong efforts, his senior brother never even noticed them.

Even though Master pointed it out, Senior Brother didn't care about his little tricks.

It's fair to say that his senior brother never saw him.

His only consolation might be that he was better than his senior brother at selecting successors.

Li Chang'an didn't want Lu Lin to become as obsessive as Zhang Huaiyi.

That's why I brought this up tonight, so he could see who his opponent was.

Lu Lin nodded quickly: "I understand, Senior Brother Chang'an."

Lu Jin nodded with satisfaction, feeling even more pleased with her disciple. She completely abandoned the idea of ​​having Li Chang'an and Lu Lin as rivals to hone each other's skills.

At the same time, he was also thinking about the principles that Li Chang'an had just mentioned.

There are some of these principles that he has not fully understood.

Indeed, this proves the saying: a disciple need not be inferior to his teacher, nor a teacher necessarily superior to his disciple.

He had to teach Li Chang'an what he needed to teach.

He should learn what he needs to learn from Li Chang'an.

Seeing that Lu Lin and Li Chang'an were discussing the details of cultivation, he didn't disturb them further and quietly left.

Lu Lin stayed with Li Chang'an until dawn before leaving.

After leaving, without even taking a break, Lu Lin quickly washed her face, slung her schoolbag over her shoulder, and went to school.

Li Chang'an then meditated in the quiet room for a while.

The morning sunlight streamed into the courtyard, and he got up and went to the courtyard to practice his sword.

Sword practice was also part of his daily training.

He drew the eight-sided Han sword that Lu Jin had given him years ago.

When the longsword was drawn, it emitted a crisp sound like the sound of ocean waves, clear, resonant, and lingering.

Li Chang'an gripped the hilt of his sword, flicked his wrist slightly, and in an instant, he thrust out more than twenty swords in succession.

The bonuses brought by the Qi transformation state of reversal are truly terrifying.

His current sword-drawing speed is much, much faster than before, to an inhuman degree.

Even ordinary slashes and thrusts, in his hands, were as powerful as lightning, easily tearing through the air and leaving visible white shockwaves in the sky, which looked quite intimidating.

Chapter 62 Sword Practice

Seeing the white shockwaves lingering in the air, Li Chang'an had an idea. He tried to infuse his Qi into the sword and then swung it out, wanting to see if he could unleash sword energy.

The reason he wanted to try it was because his family's Yuyang Sword Technique was not a sword technique that primarily relied on sword energy to injure the enemy.

His family's swordsmanship emphasizes using a single sword to break a spear, achieving oneness between man and sword, and making the sword an extension of the body.

Within three feet, everyone is an enemy.

You can't hit anything more than three feet away; you have to get close to shoot. That's why you need a broken gun.

If you can unleash a sword aura several meters long with a single strike, what's the point of breaking through a spear?

The spear pierced the sword's aura.

Li Chang'an swung his sword.

"laugh!"

A faint, pale white sword aura flew out from the blade, traversing three meters through the air before striking the courtyard wall, leaving only a shallow white mark.

Li Chang'an walked over, reached out and touched the white mark, then shook his head and chuckled.

"Sure enough, without a special method of circulating Qi, simply pouring Qi into the sword and striking it out is no different from striking out Qi directly. Although it looks impressive, it doesn't actually have much power. At most, it can only clear away some weeds."

Li Chang'an was not surprised by this result.

Simply having a large amount of Qi is meaningless.

Take Feng Baobao for example. Her Qi is almost inexhaustible, but if she doesn't use any special techniques and just throws out the Qi ball, it has no destructive power at all.

The "Ejaculation in the Middle" and "Continuous Ejaculation in the Middle" techniques from the "Awei Eighteen Styles" she came up with look like the Kamehameha, very impressive, but it can only knock one or two cans away.

Therefore, the key to becoming a superhuman lies in one's cultivation of life force and magical abilities, not in the amount of Qi one possesses.

Qi is like money. Slapping someone with a wad of cash has very little lethality but is extremely insulting.

However, if you use Qi to construct methods, it's like buying weapons with money; the power of the weapon depends on what kind of weapon you can buy.

Now that they've bought the weapons, they're naturally subject to company oversight.

Therefore, the company defines "extraordinary people" as those who can use Qi to construct methods and form extraordinary abilities.

In theory, all individuals with supernatural abilities should be subject to the company's control, and Li Chang'an was registered with the company.

It was Lu Jin who arranged it for him. The company came to his door to register him and recorded some of his basic information, such as his height, weight, the time he gained Qi, and the skills he cultivated.

At that time, he had not yet mastered the first level of Qi transformation in the Reverse Life stage, so the ability he wrote was "Yuyang Sword Manual".

After this apprentice-acceptance banquet, I estimate that someone from the company will come to update the files.

After testing the sword energy, Li Chang'an gave up and honestly began practicing the Yuyang Sword Technique.

The Yuyang Sword Technique also emphasizes injecting Qi into the sword, but instead of releasing it, it condenses it within the sword. This not only enhances the sword's power but also allows the sword to become one with the user, achieving a state of perfect harmony between the sword and the user.

He infused it with Qi, and the eight-sided Han sword began to gleam with a cold light. Then he began to practice.

The Yuyang Sword Technique is a very simple sword technique, and its core essence lies in thrusting.

Li Chang'an thrust out with his sword.

"call out!"

A single, cold star suddenly appeared.

Then came the second point, the third point, the fourth point...

Li Chang'an thrust his sword into the void ahead, one strike after another at incredible speed. The blades moved in unison, almost transforming into a sky full of silver streaks of light.

At this moment, anyone who was watching would surely be horrified.

Because it didn't look like a rapier, but rather like a chilling rain of swords. Anyone who dared to stand in front of it would be riddled with holes in a second.

But after practicing for a while, Li Chang'an stopped and looked at the sword in his hand.

He discovered that he had entered a state of reversing the flow of Qi into his physical body.

This magic sword, which had always worked very well, suddenly became less effective.

It's not that it's inconvenient to use; he has already reached a state of perfect harmony with the sword, so it's easy to use no matter what.

Instead, when he infused his Qi and intention into the sword, making the sword and his body connected, the sword could no longer withstand the strain.

He even had a feeling that if he unleashed his full power, he might break the sword.

"Although magical artifacts are stronger than ordinary weapons, they still have their limits!"

Li Chang'an muttered to himself, and then he thought of Quanxingyuan Tao.

Yuan Tao was a weapon refiner who had spent his entire life refining magical artifacts. His proudest achievement was the Nine Dragon Sons. However, he encountered the Celestial Master, who effortlessly crushed the Nine Dragon Sons with just two fingers, as easily as popping bubble wrap, providing a great stress relief.

And the quality of this magic sword is probably not even comparable to the Nine Dragon Sons that Yuan Tao has been refining his whole life.

"Sure enough, once you reach a certain level of skill, it becomes an unparalleled level. Once you reach this level, the first thing that can't keep up with the pace is actually this sword."

Li Chang'an sighed.

That being said, it's not like he would actually throw the sword away; after all, it's been with him for so many years.

Moreover, magical artifacts are hard to come by, and purely offensive magical artifacts like swords are even harder to find.

Because of company regulations, such magical artifacts designed solely for killing should be kept to a minimum.

Therefore, weapon-refining sects such as Tiangongtang tend to create functional magical artifacts, such as jade pendants and thumb rings for protection.

If he doesn't use this sword, he might have to revert to the brute fighting style of the Sanyi Sect for a long time, using his hands as swords.

“Using your hand as a sword isn’t so bad, but…”

Li Chang'an looked at the Han sword in his hand and suddenly had an idea.

Since the magical artifact is not powerful enough, why not refine it to make it more powerful?

Refining magical artifacts is generally the job of artifact refiners.

A weapon refiner can imbue a magical artifact with abilities, creating it from nothing.

For example, if Li Chang'an's sword were in Ma Xianhong's hands, he could easily modify it, adding a bit of Qi to it, so that it could unleash sword energy capable of injuring people, or even make the sword spew fire and lightning, and so on.

However, becoming a weapon refiner is not something that can be achieved simply by wishing for it. Weapon refiners are somewhat similar to innate extraordinary individuals; they must possess innate talent.

Only those born with the talent to become weapon refiners can become weapon refiners. Without talent, one can never even get started. Therefore, this profession is very rare, magical artifacts are also very rare, and high-end weapon refiners are even rarer.

Li Chang'an had no intention of getting involved in the art of weapon crafting, a school of thought that purely relied on external objects.

What he called "refining" was actually using his own Qi to nurture the magical artifact.

This gentle nurturing won't give the ritual implement any fancy new abilities, but it will make it harder and sharper.

For example, the sushi knife that Feng Baobao has called Okamoto 0.01 is so good at cutting through iron and splitting a car in one stroke because she often uses her own Qi to nurture it, which causes a qualitative change in the material of the knife.

"This should be called material transformation, right? After successfully transforming a material, if you know the art of controlling objects, you can use something like a flying sword. Jiajia Village is good at this."

While pondering, Li Chang'an tried to feed the sword with his own white qi, but found that the sword was not affected at all when the white qi flowed through it.

Chapter 63 The Sword of Reversal

"Is there a lack of necessary methods for transforming substances?"

Li Chang'an felt that if Feng Baobao could learn something on her own, there was no reason why he couldn't.

"Transforming an object involves feeding it with Qi, but after I injected Qi into it just now, the sword didn't absorb it. Is the problem with the Qi or with the object?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Chang'an felt that the problem must lie with the items.

If it's Qi rising, then it means that this Qi needs to be transformed through practice.

Feng Baobao has never learned any martial arts techniques; her Qi is just ordinary Qi, and she doesn't possess any ability to enhance anything.

"Since it originates from an object, it means that there must be a pathway inside the object that can receive and absorb Qi."

"The ability to transform matter should be achieved by finding this path or acting on this path through a special technique, thereby achieving the purpose of nourishing Qi."

"Feng Baobao has a unique eye, so she can see the trick at a glance."

"So how do I find this path?"

"The intermediate state is possible, but the awareness of the intermediate state can only act on itself."

Thinking of this, Li Chang'an had a flash of inspiration and came up with a solution.

"First, use the Yuyang Sword Technique to enter a state of unity between man and sword."

“Then use the awareness of the intermediate state to see yourself.”

"I wonder if I can see the condition of the magic sword?"

Li Chang'an acted immediately. He stood with his sword in hand, entering a state of oneness with the sword, and then used the awareness of his intermediate state to perceive his entire body.

Immediately, he noticed that the range of his intermediate state consciousness had expanded slightly, extending to the magic sword in his hand.

"It works!"

Li Chang'an carefully examined its interior.

He saw some extremely fine veins inside the sword.