Chapter 800: Chapter 799: Bamboo Shoots After the Rain
Standing next to Shi Bu, there were more than ten swordsmen, all of them were the most fanatical and radical.
Hou Niao hesitated slightly, as he was indeed uncertain, “You must know, this is just one possibility, the progression of cultivation techniques requires continuous experimentation, no one can guarantee success in a single attempt; while the possibility of binding your body skills is high, it is merely one of many possibilities.
Given the huge impact of severing body skill connections on your strength, I think two or three people trying it is sufficient.”
Shi Le shook his head, “Senior Brother, we understand your intentions, but there’s one point you’ve overlooked: all skill experimentation requires a sufficient number to support it in order to yield the most accurate results; two or three people are not enough to indicate any significant problem.”
After looking at the resolute gazes of everyone and having a brief discussion with some leaders, “Since the possibility of failure due to body skills is the greatest, then we will have thirty people trying in our first attempt! We should arrive at an accurate conclusion.”
Hou Niao couldn’t prevent it, because this was the right solution.
In the cultivation world, trying new cultivation techniques individually is of little significance due to individual differences; to find a skill suitable for the masses, the experiment must be expanded in range, in numbers, to address the issue.
He underestimated these Grassland swordsmen’s determination for reform, in any race, there is always a group of the bravest people, who shoulder the responsibility of leading the race forward, never regretting until death.
Shi Le, Shi Bu, Shi Ye, and others were among them, they were really too eager to acquire the swordsmanship of Body Sword Integration, which would completely change their awkwardness in chasing enemies with swords, their awkwardness had troubled them for over a thousand years.
Transform into a sword, swift as lighting; once becoming a sword body, why need body skills? Just refine the sword harder! It’s practically a swordsmanship designed for them.
A sorrowful resolve, if they fail, their body skills they depended on for defense would greatly lose power, that is the relationship between magic cultivation, body cultivation, and sword cultivation; you cannot use the body of body cultivation with the understanding of magic cultivation while wielding a sword in battle.
The Grassland fell silent again, no one knew what awaited them; Hou Niao was wondering, if failure continued, would he still deserve the position of the Grand Senior Brother of Grassland Tongtian Realm?
He might become the shortest-lived Grand Senior Brother of the Grassland.
Unexpectedly, the results came out unusually quickly; just half a month later, a long sword qi roared in the sky, a flying sword moved erratically, dashing here and there, lacking coherence, yet everyone could feel the exhilaration of the flying sword!
Amidst its faltering, the silhouette of a Grassland swordsman appeared where the flying sword vanished, accompanied by his extremely excited shout,
“I succeeded! Abandon body skills, achieve sword spirit! Brothers, let’s go!”
Before Hou Niao could react to say a few words, the remaining sixty-odd Grassland swordsmen dispersed noisily…
Where there’s one, there will be another!
Hou Niao was surprised to find that with the Grassland people’s habitual way of practicing the sword, they were exceptionally fast in birthing sword spirits! Even faster than he was with the Quanzhen method.
Lose in the East, gain in the Mulberry; thinking it over carefully, the difference in swordsmanship directions between the Golden Bloodline and Shan Sect Quanzhen was the reason for such discrepancy;
The Golden Bloodline’s sheepskin ancient scroll was very specialized in the Body Sword Nourishing Spirit Skill, disregarding other aspects, dismissing the Flying Sword Skill contemptuously.
Whereas Shan Sect Quanzhen’s method was all-encompassing, aiming for both body sword and flying sword, especially focusing on the flying sword; different emphasis determined the speed at which they birthed sword spirits.
Under Hou Niao’s observation, after the first Grassland sword cultivator birthed a sword spirit, it was like bamboo shoots after a rain, one after another; within a few short months, out of ninety-seven Grassland swordsmen, over fifty had birthed self sword spirits, capable of Body Sword Integration.
This probability is already very high, and still ongoing.
But this doesn’t mean birthing sword spirits was as easy as eating or drinking; those gathered here are essentially the elite of the Grassland Tongtian Realm swordsmen, the most talented and capable individuals, any one of them had honed their skills on the sword dao for over a hundred years, an accumulation leading naturally to fruition.
During these months, he also observed the Grassland people’s swordsmanship power after sword formation and found the Grassland people indeed had a special enhancement in Body Sword Skills, deriving from their day-in-day-out dedication to the sword, also from their bold and fearless sword-fighting style, when all these are blended together, the powerful prowess truly belonging to Body Sword Skills naturally bursts forth.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the race, nor any dogmatic Golden Bloodline, but just their swordsmanship philosophy from childhood; even Central Plains kids practicing the sword here would equally possess the Golden Bloodline, just a hype.
The answer is, if practicing the sword with the Grassland people’s method from childhood, taking the Body Sword Skills path would yield twice the result with half the effort; if taking the Shan Sect Quanzhen path, pursuing Flying Sword Skills would be more fitting.
But birthing the self sword spirit is very crucial, once birthed, the directions no longer differentiate, the competition becomes merely about personal talent, diligence, and opportunity, irrelevant to the path chosen.
An ideal Sword Sect should have these two basic directions, choosing upon entering the Dao and then never regretting.
Wielding a sword? That’s the foundation, essential in all directions.
Seeing Grassland swordsmen practicing the sword, the greatest benefit to Hou Niao was understanding the framework of a Sword Vein Daoist, from his personal framework to the entire Daoist framework, he now had a deep understanding.
Using his own indulgence in thinking, he now possessed some qualification to establish a sect and school.
Of course, compared to whether Grassland people or Quanzhen types, he was an outlier, not only seeing deeper, thinking further, but also due to his exceptionally unique flying sword!
When others were still using physical swords, he had already escaped the confines of physical swords, rising to the realm of Five Elements Essence Qi, from reality to virtuality, then from virtuality to reality, benefitting in sharper control of flying swords, more flexible operation, greater power, and easier addition of Dao intent…
Most importantly, from then on, he no longer worried about his flying sword being captured by opponents, as it could be virtual… virtual-physical conversion, unable to be seized.
If a sword cultivator can release swords without restraint, without worrying about losing the flying sword, it’s like liberating the greatest constraint troubling sword cultivators, and the combat power released sees a qualitative elevation.
Unconsciously, without practicing any new skill, cultivation technique, or secret technique, his real combat power had silently and imperceptibly advanced to a higher level.