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Alex took out the mortal-grade sword and started pouring his Qi into it. The sword showed some resistance at first, but quickly let his Qi in and started glowing yellow.
"This is a mortal grade technique, Master. It's called Smiting Blade and all it does is make my sword sharper and deal more damage." Alex explained to his master.
"Hmm… that is quite bad. Only a mortal grade? Ma Rong should have at least taught you an earth-grade technique. Honestly, what is that woman thinking?" Wen Cheng showed disapproval towards the technique.
"Oh no, I learned it before I went to the forest 2 weeks ago. So master has nothing to do with it." Alex cleared some misconceptions.
"Oh, if that is so, then okay. I can understand why you would learn such trash. It doesn't even have an elemental attribute to it. I will get you some better ones to choose from tomorrow."
"For today, let's focus on just swordsmanship."
Wen Cheng took out a common-looking blade and started talking.
"Fighting with a sword is not about using the sword to hit an opponent as hard as you can. It's about the proper techniques and practice."
"The techniques can range anywhere from how to swing a sword to how to best apply forces to how to move your feet to get the better advantage."
"Now, look at me."
Wen Cheng started swinging in mid-air randomly, but to Alex's eyes, it looked like he was fighting a very strong opponent. He weaved and dodged his enemy's attacks by moving in a weird way using his feet, and cleaved his enemy through the chest when he could.
As Alex watched more and more, he started becoming entranced. He slowly walked to an open space and started following Wen Cheng's movements.
The copy of the arts looked very wonky and not at all refined, but the basics were there. About 10 minutes later, Wen Cheng finally stopped and looked towards Alex, only to find him a distance away copying his moves.
He watched his move almost the same as him and started getting shocked.
'This guy managed to nearly copy my moves just by watching me move a while?' he thought. This was what they called talent. Wen Cheng was really happy inside that he made this kid his disciple.
Alex stopped moving after a while, as he had nothing more to copy. He got out of his entranced state and was surprised at what he had just done.
He looked at his own hands. 'Was I even controlling them?' he was honestly too surprised. He hadn't registered any of the things he did but somehow could remember them. It was a very odd experience.
"Did you try to copy me?" Wen Cheng asked. "Although that wasn't very good, the basics were there. Just the fact that you managed to do it means that you probably have a talent for it."
Wen Cheng took out a rather thick book, at least thicker than most cultivation techniques Alex had seen and handed it to him. "This book contains the sword fighting style I use called the 'Elusive Heavenly Sword'. It's mostly focused on footwork and dodging more than attacking. But it also has some strong attacks that would be considered Earth grade if they were a technique on their own."
"I will get you some techniques tomorrow that you can use as proper damage technique. Read this book for now and learn as much as you can. Since it's a heaven-grade technique, it is going to take you a while."
Alex started turning the book's pages over and realized there were a lot of images along with the text. 'This is going to take a while,' he thought.
"Master, is this considered a movement technique too? cause I need one of those as well." He said.
"Oh, no. This is just a set of footwork for swordsmanship. Real movement techniques are something else. Wait a second, did Ma Rong not teach you the Hong Wu sect's immortal grade movement technique?" Wen Cheng seemed to know about Flickering Shadows and asked about it.
"Oh, I already learned that technique, Master. But it's really hard to use during the daytime, in flat surfaces." He said.
"Is it? I don't know how that technique works. Ma Rong is too secretive about it." Wen Cheng said. Then suddenly, he recalled the first part of the sentence and immediately asked.
"Did you just say you already learned it? But it's an Immortal Grade technique, and you had at best only learned it 2 weeks ago."
"Yes, Master. I can somehow learn techniques very fast. Although practicing and perfecting the technique will take me a while, learning it however is pretty quick" Alex explained.
Wen Cheng looked at him closely. "Are you really not lying about it?" he asked.
"Of course not, master. Why would I lie?" he said with a little chuckle.
"Alright then, show me. Use that technique."
Alex was ready for him to say that, so he immediately disappeared from the spot and appeared behind Wen Cheng from his shadows.
"Oh my god. You really do know it. Then you won't need another movement." Wen Cheng was surprised at how talented his disciple was.
"But master, this technique doesn't work as well during the daytime at places with little shadows. The technique relies on shadows to be functional." Alex explained when it started sounding like he wouldn't be getting a movement technique.
"Alright, Learn this book for now. Since you are so quick, you should be done with it within the week. I will also get you a good movement technique tomorrow along with a few damaging techniques, defensive techniques, and a very important escaping technique to choose from." Wen Cheng promised.
"Thank you, master," Alex was genuinely happy at how much Wen Cheng was giving him. It had only been a few minutes, and he had already given so much knowledge and opportunity.
"Alright, you read that book. I will come to see you at around 3 am." Wen Cheng left after saying that.Novels online
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Wen Cheng left Alex to learn the book by himself. Alex looked at the book and was still surprised by how big it was. However, he was also happy that he could read the language by himself now.
"Elusive Heavenly Sword. A technique that improves a cultivator's dodging ability and provides great offensive attacks. The elusive part is only useful against cultivators that fight in close combat, while the attacking part works on everyone. Attacks use wind, so cultivators with wood-aligned spiritual roots are preferred. But since the wind aspect only affects 2 of the 3 latter strikes, even those without spiritual roots can learn it."
Alex read the book's first page and was surprised. "Wow, that's a lot of information on the introductory page. It even talks about spiritual roots."
He used his system to read it and found that the description it came up with had barely any information. Aside from the name and the fact that it was a sword technique focused on dodging and attacking, the description gave no other information.
'Do other books give such information as well?' he couldn't check right now as he didn't have any books on him at the moment. He had already returned the Flickering Shadows book prior to arriving here.
He then proceeded to flip the page and was immediately surprised by what he saw. Instead of normal words like any other cultivation technique, this one had drawings telling one what to do.
The first set of 5 pictures showed one how to move with their feet. There was a bunch of text right below, explaining the movement in extent.
Alex put the book to the side and started to do what the picture in the image did. There was no Qi or other type of energy involved. It was just a simple way to move one's body.
Yet when Alex tried it, he found the movements he had just done to be wrong. 'That's not it.' He tried once more. 'That's not it, either.'
'How can I follow easily after watching master, but can't follow a book.' It was then that something came to his mind.
'Wait, do I need to finish the book before I start. Because that was exactly what I did with the other books. Just because I can read the books now, doesn't mean I have to change my learning style right?'
He immediately started using his spiritual sense to read all of the books. It was hard not to ignore the basic understanding from being able to understand the language, but he managed to do it at last.
Finally, after around 15 minutes, he finished reading the whole book.
'Alright, now it should be fine.' He thought and started using the movement technique. Surprisingly, he was still making mistakes at it.
'What's going on?' he couldn't understand what was happening. He still kept on practicing and at some point, started going into another trance.
During the trance, he couldn't think of anything or do anything. But the knowledge of what to do and how to do it kept flowing out of his brain. He practiced more and more, and four hours later, he had perfected it.
Finally, he woke up from his trance to see that he had learned the sword technique. He looked at the time and saw surprised that it was nearly 2 am.
'Did I fall asleep once more? That too while practicing?' he was starting to doubt if there was really something wrong with him. But just the fact that he had truly learned the sword technique kept him from believing it.
'Also why did it take me so long to learn the technique? Is it because the technique doesn't have anything to do with Qi and spiritual roots for the most part?' he wondered.
He practiced once more now that he had learned the technique and he managed to do every single footwork perfectly. Elusive Heavenly Sword had 3 different attacks.
None of the attacks had any name and were dependent on one's spiritual roots to use all of the 3 attacks.
The first strike was a simple sword strike that was used in close combat. As long as one had Qi, they could use this attack.
The second strike was one that was used from a little further away from the opponent. It required the cultivator to have a wood elemental spirit root for this attack to work.
With this strike, one could send out a small human-sized wind slice through the air that would fly towards the enemy.
The third and final strike was one that could be used from very far away and was the most devastating of all. It sent out a very fast wind slice through the air that had a very high penetrating power.
However, it required the person to only have wood elemental spirit root or dual elemental spirit root with wood being one of them. Anything more, and the cultivator could not use the technique to its full power.
Alex tried practicing the 3 attacks. The first attack was integrated with the footwork. At a certain segment of the footwork, he brought up his sword and poured Qi into it. As he brought it down, it glowed yellow and gave a loud sound as it cut through empty air.
He then tried the second strike. For this strike, he didn't require footwork. He simply started moving his Qi around his body. He brought it around his body to his palm, where the Qi entered the sword through the sword handle.
However, just before it entered, the Qi changed from Yang elemental to Qi with yang and wood elemental. The color, however, shifted to just green and the yellow from the yang didn't show.
He brought the sword up to the top and sliced it down. A massive slicing wind came forth from his blade and flew away to the wall in the room and disappeared with a boom.
The blade kept ringing in his hand as he looked forward in shock at the power of the strike.
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