Chapter 14: Sword Technique (1/2)
When Yang Wei woke up, he finally had time to unravel the technique that Elder Jing gave him.
Since there is a week left until the mystery realm opens, he was ordered by Elder Jing to use this remaining time to train himself.
'Elder Jing is busy concocting pills and refusing visitors. I can't slack off either.'
Opening the martial technique, Yang Wei slowly read it before knowing it's a technique for swords.
”Weird, this is a technique for sword users but I don't even have a sword.” Mumbling slowly, Yang Wei was confused why Elder Jing gave him this technique.
After all, his information is available and Elder Jing said she checked on him already.
Yang Wei was dazed before reading the technique instead. 'Maybe this is to increase my comprehension.'
Although Yang Wei was not wrong, he wasn't right either because this martial technique was different.
Yang Wei slowly finds out that this technique is to help a cultivator condense a sword qi using only his finger.
”To become one with the sword does not mean having an affinity with a sword. It is to be able to have a sword in your body at all times.”
Speaking the wording from the technique aloud, Yang Wei is feeling excited about this.
Yang Wei continued to read more and try out the step one at a time.
To be able to have a sword qi in the finger, you must first feel the wind and concentrate on the mental image of your finger as a sword.
Yang Wei spent the next 8 hours trying to form a sword with his two fingers and try to cut down a wooden log.
However, no matter how many times he tries, Yang Wei always fails to maintain the sword image in his finger.
”This technique is extremely taxing to one soul power and to think that I can barely condense a tiny dagger.”
Yang Wei can't help but feel a bit disappointed because he couldn't enlarge the true qi to have the shape of a sword.
To master a technique requires many practice and attempts before one can be comfortable in using it.
Therefore, Yang Wei is a bit disappointed but knows that haste makes waste so he would not overwork himself.
Once Yang Wei couldn't produce another true qi due to exhausting it, he would go back to his room and study more herbs.
Yang Wei is multi-tasking to increase his knowledge regarding alchemy while improving his combat prowess.
Just like that, 6 days have gone by with Yang Wei doing the procedure every day without wasting any precious time.
It was at this moment that the sect became noisy with youths being excited.
That's because the announcement of the mystery realm opening tomorrow is announced to everyone.
Every sect in the kingdom is now preparing for this mystery realm and hoping to have a lucky encounter on this trip.
Yang Wei and others were also called to appear in the open courtyard where many disciples gathered.
Yang Wei was standing in the crowd and he saw many inner disciples on the opposite side.
”I really hope I can go to this mysterious realm.”
”Are you crazy? Do you know how high the death rate is inside?”
”Tch, if you're always this scared then how can you be qualified to be a cultivator. We are already going against heaven by cultivating so if you're scared of dying every time, your path is doomed to failure.”
The disciples kept chattering among themselves and discussing the mystery realm.
Some are eager to get picked to be able to enter, some are unsure about what to do, and some are scared to be picked to enter the mystery realm.
Many of them have different agendas in coming to a sect and Yang Wei was the same.
Yang Wei came to this sect to be exposed to the cultivation world and not stay as a mortal for the rest of his life.
Hearing all those disciples chattering, Yang Wei only shakes his head since he was going to the mystery realm.
'If I dare to not show up, Elder Jing might really cripple me.'
Yang Wei may be forced to go but in the end, there was a burning desire inside him that he wants to go.
Only by encountering life and death situations could one have their potential show their true value.