Chapter 46 (2/2)

Just as he was making his plans someone knocked on the door, and soon after a maid brought Manny in, the latter holding many books. He said, “There! These are all the sword techniques you asked for. Here are the best Nurturing sword techniques, these are the Training sword techniques for the five major attributes, and these are the renowned sword techniques of Tempest Overlord Charlemagne, of Gale Sword Deity Jude Law, and of Aurora Sword Spirit, McDowell.

“However, it is impossible to find their most exemplary sword techniques in the Prefectural academy. All the records we have here are of the sword techniques they practiced before and shortly after they had gone through the first transition.”

“That’s sufficient…” Fang Xingjian smiled. Amongst the three specialties, the one that he had least confidence in was Perfect Muscles. Such a specialty was simply in defiance of nature, and required one to continuously and crazily destroy one’s own muscles and bones.

However, looking at the biographies of the various strong Warriors, he noticed that the only three Windstorm Sword Heroes in the Empire’s entire history had all become Divine Level strong Warriors and had also reached level 30. They were Tempest Overlord Charlemagne, Gale Sword Deity Jude Law and Aurora Sword Spirit McDowell.”

This was also one of the reasons he had chosen the Windstorm Sword Hero. Now, he had asked Manny to bring him the sword techniques they had practiced in their earlier days. This was also so that he could uncover the profound mysteries behind the specialty Perfect Muscles.

He believed that as long as he practiced these three persons’ basic sword techniques to the maximum level, he would at least grasp an idea of how to obtain Perfect Muscles.

‘Practicing techniques from the Nurturing Path and Training Path every morning and first increase the reaction attribute. Increase it with potential points first, then get additional attribute increments from practicing a variety of sword techniques. It would be more worthwhile this way.’

After all, his reaction only had 23 points, and he would only need to deplete 20,000 potential points in order to increase it by 1 point. When his attributes got higher, it would be more worthwhile to raise the reaction attribute by reaching level 10 in a myriad sword techniques.

On the contrary, when his attributes were lower, if he were to depend on the additional attributes from mastering sword techniques, then when his attributes reached about 40 to 50 points, each additional increment would cost him around 40-50,000 potential points, which was much more expensive in comparison.

‘Practice techniques from the Nurturing and Training Path to increase attributes in the morning, study the three strong Warriors’ basic sword techniques and experience in the afternoon,’ Fang Xingjian said to himself as he wrote. ‘Learn Waves and mental cultivation techniques at night.’

‘Do this for one month… then make necessary adjustments subject to the results.’

Fang Xingjian’s plan was to rely on his sword talent, using potential points and attribute increments from mastering sword techniques to level 10 in order to quickly raise his attributes.

From there, he would then depend on his high attributes to forcefully train and obtain Heightened Reflexes and High Sensitivity Motion Vision.

After that, he would depend on his extraordinary sword talent to master all the basic sword techniques of the three powerhouses, and from there work on achieving the specialty Perfect Muscles.

He had yet to think of a good plan for the Waves and mental cultivation techniques. He could only be like any other person and self-study for now.

Just as Fang Xingjian was deeply engrossed in his own plan, Class 256’s instructor Dick came over to him with a grim look. He busted the door open directly and went up to Fang Xingjian.

He looked at Fang Xingjian, fury flashing across his face, and asked, “Fang Xingjian, do you know what you’re doing?” After finding out about Fang Xingjian’s choice of such a rare job for his first transition, he had started cursing that Fang Xingjian was being ridiculous.

Putting aside Fang Xingjian’s own future, since he was Class 256’s instructor, if the Prefectural Champion in his class were to fail his first transition, it would obviously appear very poorly on his performance evaluation, and may even affect his own career and his position in his clan.

He swept a glance towards the plan Fang Xingjian had written down and became even more infuriated, “Do you think that just because you’ve won the Prefectural Champion, that your talent is unrivaled and that you can be cocky now?

“Do you think that you’re the only one who’s clever, the only one who’s talented, and thus would be able to assume a job which others are not able to?

“Think about it. There are eight other classes in the academy other than the one you are in. Putting aside the one person who has gotten through the previous Regional Selection, there are seven other Prefectural Champions. Let me tell you that, including Laurence who has passed the Regional Selection and was thus enrolled into the Regional Royal Academy, all of the Prefectural Champions chose their jobs from the seventeen jobs.”

Fang Xingjian lifted his head, looked at Dick, and calmly replied, “So what?”

Dick felt exasperated, and spoke in a tone as if he felt that Fang Xingjian was not living up to expectations to say, “Do you know how many people have succeeded in becoming a Windstorm Sword Hero in their first transition, across the whole of the Empire’s history? Three. Only three! They all became Divine level existences. Do you think that your talent is comparable to theirs?”

Fang Xingjian said, “I think it can be.”

With a bang, Dick smashed the table before Fang Xingjian into two, sending bits and pieces of books flying.

“Ignorant!

“Arrogant!”

After saying these two words, Dick turned to leave, as if he had been completely disappointed in Fang Xingjian. However, when he reached the door, he still said, “I’ve already reported this case to the headmaster and to Lord Huang Lin. You’d better think of how to explain it to them.”