Practicing cultivation? Absolutely not. My cultivation technique already surpassed the Heavenly Tier. If Senior Jianyi were to figure that out, it would be a real pain to explain. I might as well just practice the Qingyun Sword Technique—the Thirteen Swords of Qingyun, where each strike is more powerful than the last. The further down the list you go, the higher the stacking layers, and the greater the power of the technique.
Whenever I had free time, I would ponder over the sword manual I obtained from the ruins. The sword taboo written by Sword Obsession felt insanely badass: a single sword strike splitting a mountain. I carefully recalled the process of executing that sword skill. Taking breath as force, intent as blade, and heart as target, body and mind as one, swing the sword and slash.
Taking breath as force should mean using one's own spiritual energy as the driving force. Intent as blade must refer to sword intent; since it's a sword technique, it couldn't possibly be anything else—I'll just have to try it out first. But sword intent was something I didn't seem to possess. After studying for so long, the only sword technique I knew was the Thirteen Swords of Qingyun. And even then, I only knew a few superficial moves and had never actually used them in actual combat. Heart as target was easy to understand: using one's mind and spirit to lock onto the target to be eliminated. Body and mind as one should mean concentrating completely.
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