73 Damn! (1/2)
“I don’t have the Stars Diffraction Technique, so how could I know what would happen in three months? So you ‘definitely’ should not believe every word that I said.”
Wang Wu assumed the “dead pig should not be afraid of boiled water” rogue attitude, which caused her disciple Wang Lu to feel helpless.
From his experience with her for more than two years, Wang Lu knew that Wang Wu was not a credible person. The most typical example was around two years ago when she offered her the long term meal ticket at Misty Peak cafeteria; at that time, she hyped up the cafeteria so much, saying that it has the most high quality Western cuisine. Thus, Wang Lu cheerfully took the meal ticket and rushed to the cafeteria, only to curse inwardly when he encountered those fish heads on “look up at the starry sky”.
However, to say that she could not be trusted… Just the day before, at the Heavenly Sword Hall, the six elders gave their endorsement of her! Daoist Master Feng Yin confidently exclaimed “I believe her!” with such a conviction! Regardless of Daoist Zhifeng, they all believe her!
Thinking to this, Wang Lu could only inwardly sigh, thinking, “I’ll believe her this one time!”
Then, it was cultivation time.
In accordance with Wang Wu’s requirements, in three months, Wang Lu has to break through the third level of the sword art and reached the seventh level of Qi Cultivating Stage. The most important thing was naturally the cultivation of the Non-Phase Method. Nowadays, the vast majority of the cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation World used cultivation methods like the Non-Phase Method to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy and transform them into magical power to further advance their cultivation. This method was usually called as the Core Cultivation Method—it was the foundation of all cultivation. It contained the most extensive content, but also the most difficult one. Sixty to seventy percent of the time, the cultivators would focus their cultivation of this Core Cultivation Method. As for the Non-Phase Sword Art, although his Master did request him to practice it, it was actually just a minor part of the cultivation...
However, when Wang Lu actually began to practice it, he was surprised to find out that this Non-Phase Method was the most worry free and required the least effort.
Because this Method was too wonderful...
For more than two years—also because of his spirit root—the vast majority of Methods possessed by the Spirit Sword Sect were out of his reach because the Core Cultivation Method was very difficult. The most important point was that this Immortal Cultivation Method was too elusive and indescribable, requiring a more senior cultivator to comprehend its content. How to breath in the surrounding spiritual energy, how to circulate them, and how to transform them into magical power... many times those senior cultivators would just use their feelings to describe what was written on the text and pass it onto their juniors. However, passing the information in this manner would inevitably produce errors, not to mention that each cultivator would have different physique and different circumstances. Thus, even after practicing the same cultivation method, the experience would be completely different. It was very difficult to have a universal method applicable to all condition that would take all the cultivators on the same straight path.
Currently, even if they have a Master to teach them, a cultivator would still have the feeling of “blind men with the elephant” and thus struggle to cultivate.
Take the Qi Cultivating Stage for example; in this stage, the main thing to do was to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, keep it inside the Inner Mansion, and transform it into magical power while circulating it inside the body. After that, the Inner Mansion would evolve into Jade Mansion, creating the node that connected the inside and the outside.
For the ordinary Core Cultivation Methods, there were too many steps that cultivators needed to try before they could accomplish this. For example, the surrounding spiritual energy absorption speed, the way to circulate it, and so on; the size of each person’s Inner Mansion was different, so the location for the circulation was also different from person to person… Even if the method was touted as the simplest, most “universal” method, it still has too many hazy and vague area, which made it hard to explain clearly and correctly.
However, Non-Phase Method could actually do that! How to use the two hundred and six Sword Bones to extract the golden liquid to construct the cycle, where to gather the golden liquid in the Inner Mansion, how much strength was needed to drive the energy, the conversion speed, the diameter of the whirlpool… Each steps taken were so meticulously explained that it made one’s hair stand up in anger! Moreover, it was completely tailored; Wang Lu only needed to practice it step by step accordingly without any hesitation whatsoever.
Towards this, Wang Wu actually didn’t claim any credit. “In fact, there’s nothing difficult in this. Even though it gets in the way of absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy, your Void Spirit Root is, after all, a top rank spirit root in the Immortal Cultivation World. Its other aspects quality are all top notch, therefore, as long as the designed Cultivation Method perfectly tailored to your condition, in accordance with the ideal theory of advance deduction, the designed method could just be theorized on paper; it doesn’t need to be experimented first before you can practice it… Of course, this method is only applicable to you. If the other cultivators were to try it, in half a day, they would suffer Qi Deviation and their body would explode hahaha!”
Laugh your ass! You think it’s funny to do a human experiment on your own disciple!?
In any case, the Core Cultivation Method of the Non-Phase Method was basically without any difficulties. His cultivation speed was extraordinarily astonishing. In just ten short days, Wang Lu was able to construct a simple small cycle and completed the ninth level of Qi Cultivating Stage… If it were to extrapolate from this, reaching the seventh level of Qi Cultivating Stage in three months was actually an easily achievable target.
Then, it was time for the Non-Phase Sword Art.
According to Wang Lu’s choice, his Master taught him the second set of the Non-Phase Sword Art. This second set was indeed like what his Master said: one was required to have a great wisdom in order to practice it; the designed idea for this sword art was the convergence of the essence of all the world’s sword art into one—omnipotent! Simultaneously, one was also required to have the insight to all of the world’s sword arts’ flaws—invincible!
Just listening to this guiding principle, Wang Lu would immediately associate it with those various perpetual motion machines, water turning into oil contraption, and so on. No matter how he thought about it, it was still unreasonable.
Fortunately, his Master quickly followed it with, “Of course, that belongs to the ideal form of the Non-Phase Sword Art, which may seem illusory for you. However, forImmortal Cultivators, we must always have lofty ideals. As to how we link it to the reality, that’s another matter entirely.”
Wang Lu suddenly understood: this second set of the Non-Phase Sword Art was created to have Wang Wu’s characteristic in it. “Why don’t you say it earlier?” he thought.
However, when his Master told him the method for the first level of this Non-Phase Sword Art, Wang Lu suddenly felt like he was being cheated once again.
“The method for the first level is very simple, you just have to go and find fifty to sixty sets of the mortal world’s second or third rate sword arts, practice them one by one, and master them.”
“Where would I find fifty to sixty sets of mortal world’s sword arts?!”
“... Well, you don’t.” While speaking, his Master, out of nowhere, suddenly pulled out a big pile of old and worn out sword art books. “These are my collection of extremely expensive high quality books that I purchased from the mortal world. Practice well, and don’t disappoint your Master’s painstaking effort.”
With a face full of doubt, Wang Lu reached out for that covered-in-dust pile of books.
“‘Loose Style Sword Art’, ‘Recline Corpse Sword Art’, ‘Climb Over Women Sword Art’... What the hell! Aren’t all these basic sword arts solely taught for newcomers!? Do you think I don’t know the difference in the grade in the mortal world’s martial arts? Where are the two sets of Coiling Finger Soft Sword and Soul of the Fallen Hero Sword?!”
When he continued to peruse, he found a note, which was written with: quality goods made in Classic Store pavilion, limited time offer at a wholesale price of ten taels of silver.
Wang Lu immediately looked up, but his Master has long vanished.
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While the overall feeling was that he was cheated badly by his Master, in the following half a month, Wang Lu earnestly practiced these novice sword arts one by one until he mastered them all.