"Congratulations Senior brother!! " Everyone expressed their joy. This wasn't a small matter afterall. Those who could sense Weapon aura were rare and considered geniuses but that was all. Talent alone was not enough to converge the aura into Intent.
Only someone with determination and a clear view of his Dao can do that. Talent might take you to the peak, but hard work will let you fly and cross the skies. It's not just a hearsay, it's a fact that has been proven many times by those who have Ascended the Mortal Realm.
Who among those that reach the peak of Mahayana Realm wasn't a genius? But how many of them could successfully cross the huge barrier of Heavenly Tribulation and ascend? Maybe only one out of ten, and that one had what others lacked. Persistent, a strong will and ten times more hard work than others.
The disciples were impressed by their Senior brother and their admiration for him went even higher.
Huang Zudi couldn't hold it anymore, " Senior brother, please show it to us!"
He said what everyone wanted to very much. They wanted to see the Saber Intent for themselves so they could try to comprehend it a little, which would help them greatly.
Zhao Li obviously wouldn't refuse them, he held his Saber straight and focused, there was a faint energy covering the blade which was almost invisible and only if one observed closely they could see it.
"I-its really Saber Intent!!" Everyone gasped, even though they didn't doubt Zhao Li, seeing it was a different thing. They could feel closeness to this energy. Saber Intent afterall was derived from Saber Dao itself.
The universe itself is like a tree, sprouted out of a seed of Dao. The Heavenly Dao which was the trunk divided into many divisions, they could be said to be the Greater Dao which further divided into Lesser Dao and finally the branches became the laws that connected the leaves to the tree.
Laws were the framework of the Universe, the small threads that keep everything connected to Dao. Even though they were all around us not many could feel and comprehend them. Doing so with a Mortal Soul was even more difficult and only a few Heavenly geniuses might be able to do so.
But those in Heavenly Realm were naturally closer to it, and could comprehend it much easier. Only when your Soul comes into contact with Heavenly laws for the first time during Heavenly Tribulation and evolves to a higher dimension can you understand laws much better.
That's why it was so rare to see anyone in Mortal Realm comprehending Sword/Saber Laws because these were part of Greater Dao afterall. Laws for Lesser Dao were much easier to comprehend but those who could do so were peak talents of Mortal Realm.
Though 'Lu Devil World' now had a Structure of a Tier-3 World which is already at the peak of Mortal Realm, it had the inheritance of a Tier-4 world afterall, so it was little ahead of other Tier-3 worlds.
Intent was something who could touch the laws and converge them to give it a metaphysical form. It was not as simple as qi, but something much more complex, a condensation of the threads which were laws till they become visible to naked eyes.
Zhao Li put his Saber back and pointed at Huang Zudi, " Do you want to learn it too?"
His simple question made others feel stupid, ' They can learn it just like that?' Seeing his casual behaviour they thought that Zhao Li must be joking. How can someone learn 'Intent' just because they wished too?!
Huang Zudi gave a wry smile, " Senior brother please don't joke like that. Who doesn't want to learn 'Intent' ,but how can it be so easy? I don't think my comprehension is high enough to do so.
His words were like needles that poked everyone's heart, they all wanted to learn it but they didn't have good comprehension to even feel the laws forget about condensing them into Intent.
" I won't joke on such things, Comprehension isn't the way to feel laws, it just makes it easier. The hard and more solid way is to feel the essence of of your Dao. We practice Saber Dao so the sure way to feel Saber laws is to feelt the essence of Saber art as I said earlier.
You all are already considered geniuses in Saber Dao so I think you should understand this well, the essence of our Dao is 'Overbearing'. When I said to control our strength, I wasn't talking about restraing ourselves rather guiding our strength in a perfect line. To have control over our Saber without losing the Overbearing nature of it."
The disciples thought back of the pebble which didn't make a single ripple on the water and somewhat understood what he was talking about.
" But senior brother that is really hard for us." Ji Ruoxi said , and even if they managed to do it , the vibration of air particles itself might form ripples on the water surface. They didn't have Saber Intent to neglect the Air drag like Zhao Li!!
" That is indeed a little tricky for now, before that you can do something basics."
Zhao Li took out some silk thread of Nightcrawler spider demon and tied the two ends between two trees and placed a big boulder behind it.
The disciples were confused what he was doing but didn't stop him.
He called out Huang Zudi, " Seal your Cultivation and use only physical strength to cut through the thread but your Saber shouldn't touch the boulder behind."
Huang Zudi thought it was really a simple task, even though doing so with physical strength alone would be a little hard as the thread was ten times tougher than Steel itself but if he used his full strength he would be able to cut through.
Cultivators naturally had high physical strength even if they didn't practice any Body Strengthening Technique because the Spiritual qi strengthen their bodies everytime they advanced a Realm.
Huang Zudi could produce a force of more than 40,000 jins with his body alone and that more than enough to cut through the silk thread.
He raised the Saber in a vertical position above his head while putting all of his strength into it and swung down like a falling meteor, it was the stance of the first layer of Seven Severing Saber Technique; Meteor Fall. Though he didn't use any qi, the stance itself was the foundation of technique and almost doubled the force of his attack.
It cut through the silk easily and split the boulder into half.
He was feeling a little proud of his strength and turned to Zhao Li, " How was that Senior brother?"
Zhao Li and everyone was looking at him like he was some idiot.
Zhao Li didn't even bother replying him anymore and gestured Ji Ruoxi to go next, " Remember to change the boulder." was the only thing he said.
Only now Huang Zudi realised that he had messed up, his Senior brother asked him not to touch the boulder and he ended up splitting it into half!!
' I'm such an indiot!" he could only curse himself inwardly.
Ji Ruoxi replaced the boulder, she didn't ofcourse learnt from Huang Zudi's mistake and didn't use her full force but the result was not much better, she still left a metre deep slash on the boulder and which made it almost split.
The other disciples went in turns but didn't have any better results, forget about not touching the boulder, the least shallow mark was still more than a metre deep!!
Zhao Li waited until all of them finished their turns, " Not so simple as you thought?"
His question made everyone ashamed, they really thought it to be easy when they saw it. But only after trying themselves they realised that it was anything but easy!
"Keep doing this until your Saber stops touching the boulder and when everyone gets there, add one more silk thread to it and then one more . When you can do it with 5 silk threads at once , come and find me."
After saying that he descended the peak and went to meet his 'Master'.
Gu Chen asked Huang Zudi after Zhao Li left, " Brother Huang, why did Senior brother asked us to add more threads?"
Huang Zudi looking at him, " Isn't it obvious? That's because we are not using our full force to cut through the silk thread which isn't the original goal of this task. Only if we add more silk thread we would need more force to cut through, and to cut through five threads at once , we would have to give our 200% !. Only when we're able to control ourselves at our 200% can we say that we have completed this task.
His explanation made others feel that it was quite logical.
" Senior brother Zhao Li is really different, his methods are so unique." Ji Ruoxi had stars in her eyes.
Huang Zudi looked in the direction where Zhao Li left, " That's a given, he's our Sect's Holy Son who is even more talented than those direct disciples of Major Sects."
Nownonly they remembered that he had already stepped into the Realm of Saber Intent!! He was really ahead of those direct disciples of Major Sects!!
Gu Chen picked a new boulder to replace the old one, " We can't disappoint Senior brother, let's finish this fast."
Everyone nodded and went back to their "Training".