“Are you ever going to stop?” Yang Hao was barely holding his own, having narrowly dodged several curved blades. He was already struggling to defend himself, and arguing with Hun Yuanzi only made things worse. “What’s the point of being from a wuxia sect anyway? If you’re so capable, help me defeat them!”
“Hehe, trying to provoke me, huh?” Hun Yuanzi, being an old hand, saw right through Yang Hao’s trickery. “Fine, fine. Who else could it be but my disciple? I’ll teach you a technique and show you the might of our sect’s ultimate skill.”
“What are you going to teach me?” Yang Hao dared not be careless, as every time Hun Yuanzi tried to teach him something, things usually went wrong.
“Stupid disciple, why do you always treat true energy like the Force?” Hun Yuanzi seemed to have figured out Yang Hao’s problem. Although Yang Hao was technically learning cultivation under Hun Yuanzi, the latter was a lazybones master who only offered guidance on alchemy and never taught Yang Hao any techniques for channeling energy.
Naturally, Yang Hao didn’t understand the difference between the energy currently filling his body and the Force he had previously learned: “Can we skip the theory and get straight to the practical stuff?” Yang Hao was nearly frantic under the intense pressure of the battle.
“The true energy of cultivation is uncontrollable. Don’t try to control it the same way you control the Force,” Hun Yuanzi blurted out randomly. “Just let it flow freely.”
“Freely?” Yang Hao, being easily influenced, actually believed it. He immediately stopped pushing the energy in his body. All techniques related to the Force and telekinesis ceased at once.
This was a disaster. Yang Hao’s five swords were manipulated through telekinesis, and as soon as he stopped, the three swords hovering around him clattered to the ground, instantly losing all their power. Without the swords to block them, the sixteen curved blades advanced in a straight line straight toward Yang Hao.
Yang Hao was horrified and barely managed to roll out of the way to dodge the attack.
“Damn it! I shouldn’t have trusted you!” Yang Hao regretted listening to Hun Yuanzi. Not only had he lost his swords for defense, but he had also lost the initiative in the fight. Now he could only dodge helplessly, unable to even use telekinesis again.
“Now, can you feel a warm current flowing inside your body?” Hun Yuanzi asked, completely unfazed by the chaos he had caused.
“How would I know?” Yang Hao was too busy dodging to pay attention to his internal changes. “You never taught me before, and now you’re teaching me in a life-or-death moment. That’s just wrong!”
“This is what I call crisis teaching!” Hun Yuanzi, the troublemaker, had his own theories. “Just feel it yourself. Otherwise, no one will be able to save you.”
Even though Yang Hao was furious, he had to admit that Hun Yuanzi had a point. Right now, the place was full of Li Bo’s men. If he didn’t pull himself together, he really might lose his life.
Yang Hao gritted his teeth, stopped dodging, and focused inward to sense the changes in his body. Sure enough, he immediately felt a hot stream of energy slowly moving through his meridians. As the energy flowed, his limbs and bones felt a pleasant sensation. The more it moved, the stronger and hotter it became, as if it had a life of its own.
“Feel it now, right? This is the true energy flowing through your extraordinary meridians. This is the essence of cultivation. Before, you used the Force to control the true energy, merely moving it mechanically. Now, I’ll teach you how to unleash the true power of the true energy.”
“How do I unleash it?” Yang Hao asked while twisting his body to dodge another wave of attacks. Strangely enough, after completely abandoning techniques like the Force and levitation, his body had become more flexible. It felt as if his entire body had become light, allowing him to leap and dodge effortlessly.
It seemed that all of Yang Hao’s previous methods had been wrong, wasting all his cultivated energy. Only now did he finally get a chance to return to the right path. What a shame that Hun Yuanzi, who claimed to be his master, had been too lazy to teach him all along.
“Good disciple, after you picked up the five swords, even though you had sharpened them with raw crystals, you still treated them as ordinary iron. What a waste,” Hun Yuanzi remarked, seemingly determined to teach everything at once. “Now, I’m going to help you forge them all into flying swords.”
“Flying swords?” Yang Hao was greatly surprised. He had heard the term before; in all the cultivation novels he had read, each sword cultivator had their own flying sword. But Yang Hao had never imagined that he himself could cultivate a flying sword.
“Can I really have a flying sword now?” Yang Hao asked hesitantly.
“Of course! After you swallowed my Nihuan Pill, you actually passed the first stage of cultivation—the Foundation Building stage. So you’ve long been able to cultivate flying swords and magical treasures. Although the effects might be slightly inferior, it’s still better than nothing,” Hun Yuanzi said lazily.
“Why! Why! Why!” Yang Hao twisted his body with great difficulty to dodge several curved blades, his face filled with anger. “Why didn’t you teach me before? I’ve been cultivating for so long, yet you never taught me anything.”
“Hahaha…” Hun Yuanzi chuckled dryly, trying to mask his inherent laziness. “When I teach is still teaching, right? Isn’t teaching now more effective?”
“Just shut up and hurry up!” Yang Hao was too exhausted to argue further with Hun Yuanzi. Moreover, the effect of the Strength-increasing Pill was about to wear off, and Yang Hao could already feel the energy in his body beginning to shrink.
“Disciple!” Hun Yuanzi finally became serious and began issuing instructions. “Drive out your true energy and direct it toward your swords.”
Without hesitation, Yang Hao immediately complied. This time, he didn’t use the Force but instead relied purely on his consciousness to push forward. Sure enough, the true energy surged forth as if it had a mind of its own. The red true energy enveloped Yang Hao’s swords, and the swords emitted colorful lights before slowly rising into the air. However, since no telekinesis was used to control them, they simply hovered motionlessly in the air.
“Bite your finger and sprinkle your blood onto the swords!” Hun Yuanzi shouted excitedly.
Without questioning, Yang Hao bit his finger with all his strength. In this life-threatening moment, he nearly bit his finger off. Blood spurted out, and Yang Hao wildly flicked his finger toward the floating swords, splattering blood across their blades.
The colorful glow of the swords immediately changed, radiating a piercing red light.
Hun Yuanzi gave the next instruction: “Now, inject your true energy into the swords themselves, treating them as if they were part of your own body.”
Yang Hao, who had a bit of cleverness, finally grasped the meaning behind Hun Yuanzi’s vague words. He quickly channeled his true energy into the swords, treating them as extensions of his own meridians, allowing the energy to flow freely within them.
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