Chapter 40: Whatever! Use enlightenment Points first!
A week went by and he couldn't even start on the saber technique. He then accepted his fate if being unable to learn the saber art by himself.
It seemed that he had some ego bruised that he went on for a whole week, trying to learn by himself. But he failed and this was not surprising.
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Late at night! In his new room, that had been created during the course of the week, from the extension of the house, Wang Lu's figure was looking at the panel without hesitation.
"Turns out I'm only good at the Body Forging techniques and Unbounded Fist! What are we waiting for! Drop points on Heaven Savering Saber."
He didn't know if he would be noticed by the witch if he used the Enlightenment points, but upon thinking it through, it didn't seem likely.
Without much deliberation, he pressed on the + sign at the Heaven Savering Saber and before he knew it, he felt dizzy.
Things didn't go as he had thought, as small insights seemed to appear from time to time. It continued until half an hour later and upon recovery, he looked at the panel with anticipation.
But he seemed to have recieved some massive slap. The panel had indeed some changes but not what he had expected.
Name: Wang Li
Status: Mortal
Lifespan: 12/95
Martial Arts: Unbounded Fist(perfect)+, Heaven Cleaving Saber
Enlightenment Points: 12
Mission: 0/1(Massacre Wang Clan and gather hatred points from the world that can unlock other panel functions.)
The enlightenment points seemed to have reduced by one, and the + sign before the Heaven Savering Saber had vanished.
He looked at it with some confusion, and then realization.
"What the hell was I expecting? How can there be such a good thing? It seems that if I want to master the saber skill, I should practice step by step and probably it would become simpler for me to make progress. Let's go out and try it." He couldn't help himself.
He had already used the enlightenment point, how could he be willing to suffer such a loss.
His opened the door carefully and walked outside. He then picked up a knife, even though it wasn't long enough, it wasn't smaller either.
It could still qualify as small and walked toward the bamboo saber that he had made from the bamboo materials.
It didn't take long for him to start practicing.
It was just that his activities still couldn't escape the eyes of Cai Yue.
She kept watching everything from her room. Well! Technically, this was Wang Lu's room, but it had been taken as her's.
Wang Lu started from basic swinging, and this didn't bring him much of trouble.
He continued by trying to remember the technique, and to his shock, it was very smooth.
As the wind moved in the courtyard, it brought with it the sound of nature.
The moon was the only source of light, and a teenage boy, with some clean warn out clothes kept swinging the wooden saber.
The movement he made was no different from cleaving as he waved the saber.
Perhaps ir was just an illusion but he could feel the speed of which the the wooden saber was cleaving increasing.
But unlike before, the number of unnecessary steps seemed to be slowly being abandoned and his saber becoming more and more refined.
The wind that was howling in the courtyard seemed to be cut off by the wooden saber.
The figure was not big, but everytime he cleaved with the saber, it seemed like he was capable of cutting off anything on the saber's path.
That was the feeling he gave Cai Yue that was sitting on the bed in the room.
Beside her, a woman had appeared at some point, she had blue silvery hair falling all the way to her knees.
"Mistress is he the reason you are not leaving this place?" The woman asked.
She could see that Wang Lu was nothing special and Cai Yue seemed to have said nothing to her about this.
If Wang Lu saw her, he would realize that she was a top notch beauty and even more importantly, had a certain charm to her, that came from deep from her bones.
"What do you think? That old man back then didn't just save me for nothing? I had to make a deal and now it's time to fulfil it." She didn't even look at the woman, as she kept observing Wang Lu.
But the woman seemed to have misunderstood what Cai Yue meant.
Cai Yue had been present when he chose the saber technique. She also chose the same technique, and the more she watched him practice, the different it looked.
Even though the insights kept gathering in Wang Lu's mind, his imagination was just too wild. He actually was visualizing himself cutting off heaven and earth after the technique was practiced, thus, the direction of enlightenment and practice was still being affected by him.
But at least he could also tell that enlightenment wouldn't happen just instantly. It seemed that perhaps in the future things might be different but not now. But he felt this process was not slow either and he was lost in it.
One by one, his movements and stances kept changing, and all the five moves of the technique were displayed by him.
His entire demeanor changed the more he cleaved with the saber and it reached a point where even Cai Yue observing couldn't help but squint her eyes.
His Heaven Savering Saber technique had already reached this mastery stage. That was not all, but it felt like he could still go further if he continued to train.
Suddenly his movements stopped and then he jumped forward, his saber followed as he cleaved forward and an insect that had been moving around was cleaved from the wings. But he didn't stop and the saber turned. It was rotated in his arms and moves about each time causing the insect to be sliced.
When he landed, he looked at the moves he had just completely performed and sighed.
That was one of the five moves Inverse heavens. He had used it perfectly, and probably it was considered to be the strongest attack tricks he could use with the saber.
He was just excited from having performed the first move and he couldn't use the others and this was for a good reason. He was just too weak.
No! The reality was that his imagination was a bit too much, and thus the five moves would require him to become stronger first.
But even so, he could focus on the Inverse Heavens, as it was enough to make him well known.
"Indeed a young man should learn saber moves! What sword is the king of weapons? What spear overlord of weapons? Before a saber heaven has to bend or break!" He murmured as his eyes regained focus.
The woman and Cai Yue that heard his murmur had different reactions.
When the woman heard this, she couldn't help but complain with a sneer.
"Mistress! This human kid is just too arrogant! He doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth! How about this servant teaches him a lesson for you?"
Cai Yue looked at her with a cold gaze that her feel a chill down her spine.
"I called you here to discuss something important. I think it's time for you to go back. Remember to gather all of the others and gather towards the Blood Moon domain. In that place, it would be easier to recover! Don't speak what you shouldn't say!" She stared at the woman with emotionless eyes.
The woman actually felt her own body shaking, "Mistress seems to have become stronger! Don't tell me she got something beneficial to her cultivation and agreed to train that kid. But he doesn't seem to have anything good about him other than boasting."she thought but didn't dare say it out loud.
Watching the woman obediently vanish,the coldness in her eyes receded slightly. She then murmured the last sentence that Wang Lu had just said, "Heaven bend or break huh!"
Her figure suddenly appeared beside Wang Lu!
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