Chapter 49 (1/2)

Chapter 49: Rumors

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

Five days later, Huang Lin’s private training grounds.

Two swords clashed, making a sound so loud that it was as if an explosion had just occurred. Fang Xingjian consistently retreated, yet continued to hold his stance against the immense force. A satisfied grin broke out on Huang Lin’s face, and a tinge of content appeared in his gaze.

“This is truly unbelievable. Xingjian, with your talent, in the future you’ll definitely be one of the top swordsmen in the world.”

Fang Xingjian exhaled briefly, expelling the foul air in his chest and replied, “Thank you for your guidance, teacher.”

“No need to thank me. Your talent…” Huang Lin shook his head and said, “Remember, definitely don’t reveal your talent to other people… Sigh, but if you really were to become a Windstorm Sword Hero, it would not matter anymore.”

“Alright, I’ve taught you all the basic sword techniques I could. The rest is up to you and your training. To reach level 6 for eight sets of sword techniques in only fifteen days… You really are a talent in sword arts. You must treasure your talent.”

Fang Xingjian nodded, thinking to himself that if the other party were to know that his actual achievements in the past fifteen days, he would probably be in so much shock that his eyeballs would pop out. He had reach level 10 for eight nurturing sword techniques. Out of these, five of them having no overlaps, which implicitly brought him quite a lot of additional increments to his attributes.

Other than this, from Huang Ling he had also learned a training technique specializing in increasing the reaction attribute, the Meteor Sword Technique. At night, he would take time to practice this technique, depleting all his potential for this set of sword technique, thus managing to bring his Meteor Sword Technique to level 20, which brought him an additional 4 point increase to his reaction attribute.

In addition, Fang Xingjian’s large consumption of potential points on the Meteor Sword Technique also increased his reaction by an additional 6 points.

These were only the sword techniques he had learned from Huang Lin. Other than these, he had also spent the afternoons studying the three Divine Level Warriors’ basic sword techniques, training all four sets of sword techniques to level 10, two of which had brought him additional increments to his attributes.

The more sword techniques Fang Xingjian picked up, the fewer he would find which were not repetitive in nature, but able to effectively increase his potential and provide additional increases for his attributes.

Therefore, Fang Xingjian’s attributes had changed to:

Name Fang Xingjian

Age 16

Occupation Warrior’s Squire

Level 9

Strength 40

Agility 45

Reaction 36

Endurance 33

Flexibility 34

Nurturing Sword Techniques 20 sets

Training Sword Techniques 3 sets

Specialities: Genius Swordsmanship, Elementary Survival Instinct, Internal Healing， Internal Training， Sword Specialist

With that, he took a big step closer towards meeting the requirements for the Windstorm Sword Hero’s attributes, namely over 45 points in strength, over 60 points in agility, over 45 points in reaction, over 35 points in endurance, and over 35 points in flexibility.

He was 5 points away from the strength requirements, 15 points away for agility, 9 points for reaction, 2 points for endurance, and 1 point for flexibility.

And now, with so many sets of sword techniques, the maximum amount of potential points he could accumulate each day had increased to 5000 points. However, after breaking through the 30 point mark for the reaction attribute, now he was only able to increase his reaction by a tiny bit even if he depleted 30,000 potential points every six days.

After completing the sword techniques training in the morning, and having completed his daily assignments for training his attributes, Fang Xingjian went to Huang Lin’s residence to join him for lunch.

Both of them were powerful Warriors, well-trained both internally and externally, with extremely strong organs and with the ‘Internal Training’ specialty. Therefore, both of them had extremely big appetites. For them, the amount of food an ordinary strong man would usually have was mostly digested after stuffing down a few mouthfuls, chewing and then compressing the food with their organs.

After finishing the meal, Huang Lin drank a cup of tea and, seemingly unintentionally, he said, “There seems to be a lot of rumors flying about in the academy recently.”

Fang Xingjian went blank for a short moment. He knew what the other party was referring to. After he had started an all-out training for the Windstorm Sword Hero, various rumors about him had been started in the academy.

And with Kaunitz taking the lead in completing the first transition five days ago, thus becoming the fastest Knight in the academy’s history to have completed the first transition, the rumors flourished even faster and fiercer.