Chapter 385 - Training Sword Cultivators (2/2)

Yi Qing exchanged a meaningful glance with Lonemoon and said, “Song Ren, did you know Yun Heng before?”

“Huh?” Song Ren turned. “I didn’t.”

“Then… why do you have so much hatred toward him?”

Song Ren paused, as if realizing what he had said. A look of confusion flashed across his face as he scratched his head. “I don’t know. I just… he doesn’t look like a good person. He’s hateful!” Once he finished speaking, he nodded hard and glared at the man in the crystal. His entire body tensed up.

Yi Qing frowned even more deeply now. By right, people with the glow of merit should be likeable and friendly. Song Ren was a timid ghost, and he was not hard to get along with. He was even kinder and more friendlier than his own master. Lonemoon would not have expected him to form such an extreme view of Yun Heng on his first time meeting him.

Could it be that before he died, he knew Yun Heng?

…

It looked like they had to ask Yun Heng about this soon.

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Lonemoon was excited. He did not think that he would suddenly have so many disciples who would train in sword cultivation. The next day, Si Yu reported to him the outcome of all the tests. There were 17 celestial spirit roots, among whom two had extraordinary spirit roots. They found a few hundred people with two or three spirit roots each. This was even more than the number of people with waste spirit roots that they had found.

Among these, Lonemoon picked a few people with better quality bodies to be sword cultivators. To these, he personally imparted his skills. He let Si Yu and the others train the others to gather Qi into their own bodies, and to teach them basic sword techniques. Again and again, Lonemoon reminded them not to train them in body cultivation. Moreover, he isolated Shen Ying from all the new disciples, and allowed them to enter the hall to train.

The more he looked at the few cultivators he picked, the more satisfied he felt. It was a fact that they were slightly older, had already missed the ideal window period to begin training, and had accumulated several waste energies and qualities in their bodies. However, Lonemoon was confident that as long as they could train hard and form their cores before they reach the end of their lifespan, they would be well on their way to immortality – much less to become Soul Formation cultivators.

There was very little spirit Qi and spirit herbs and plants in the small world. However, this did not affect sword cultivators. Sword cultivators depended on their own sword techniques. Pills and herbs would have no use to them apart from if they found themselves gravely injured. Moreover, they had Yun Heng! He was himself a Soul Formation cultivator. All he had to do was to train a bit harder in this cultivation and endure the lightning tribulation. He would soon become an immortal, fit to enter the immortal realm.

Naturally, he was following the sword cultivation manuals.

Lonemoon could almost see the entire place filling up with sword cultivators. He was fully dedicated to the great cause of imparting cultivation to this entire population.

Shen Ying, who was skiving in broad daylight: “…”

Er, why did she feel like she was forgetting something?

Forget it, that probably was not important.

“Chef, can you prepare my afternoon tea? I’m hungry.”

“Yes, Master. No problem, Master!”