bookandnovel Chapter 14834 Three Types of Swordsmanship
Chapter 14834 Three Types of Swordsmanship
Chapter 14834 Three Types of Swordsmanship
The demon slowly turned around, her gaze falling on Ling Xiao, and said solemnly, "Come here."
Ling Xiao's heart skipped a beat. He quickly stepped forward and came to his side. Then, he respectfully bowed to this once peerless swordsman, his expression respectful and without the slightest slackening...
Regardless of whether the other party acknowledges his identity, his unparalleled swordsmanship alone is enough to earn his respect.
Looking at his respectful demeanor, a hint of relief flashed in the demon's eyes. He spoke slowly, his tone tinged with a sense of vicissitude and reminiscence:
"Since you have inherited my mantle, you should know my origins."
My real name is Ximen Lie. I was the eldest son of the Ximen family. I was exceptionally talented and became famous at a young age. I was the most promising person in the Ximen family to inherit the position of family head and become an unparalleled powerhouse.
But my heartless brother betrayed me, stealing my spiritual eyes, crippling my cultivation, destroying my talent, and dragging me from the heights of power into the mire, turning me into a useless person whom everyone could bully.
Ling Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and his gaze toward Ximen Lie held a hint of sympathy. He asked softly, "Then how did you, senior, manage to shed your crippled state and become such an unparalleled swordsman?"
A self-deprecating smile, tinged with arrogance, played on Ximen Lie's lips as he slowly spoke:
"Since I can no longer follow the path of genius and cannot return to my former peak, I might as well break through and rebuild, and open up a path of my own."
A path of swordsmanship that relies neither on talent nor spiritual roots, but solely on perseverance and unwavering determination to reach the pinnacle.
Forge your own path!
Ling Xiao was increasingly shocked, his eyes filled with admiration...
In the path of cultivation, talent and spiritual roots are the foundation. Without a foundation, one is like water without a source or a tree without roots. To achieve anything in such a way is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
However, Ximen Lie was able to forge his own path after becoming a cripple and become an unparalleled swordsman. Such perseverance and talent are rare in the world.
Ling Xiao eagerly pressed, "Senior, what kind of path is it? Please enlighten me."
Looking at the eagerness and sincerity in his eyes, Ximen Lie smiled slowly and stopped hiding his true intentions, recounting the two peerless sword paths he had painstakingly developed throughout his life.
His tone was solemn, and every word contained his life's insights.
The first type: Blood Sacrifice Symbiotic Blade Dao... "The blade is the body, and the body is the blade."
The core of this training method is "life binding," which breaks the boundary between man and knife, merging the knife with oneself.
Cultivators never regard the knife as a mere tool, but rather as an extension of their body and life, or even another symbiotic self, with the person and the knife depending on each other and sharing life and death.
Core concept: "Symbiosis between weapon and spirit".
At the beginning of cultivation, the cultivator must undergo a cruel blood sacrifice ritual to completely fuse a newly conceived, unformed "embryonic blade" with the bones of their spine or arm.
Make the embryonic knife a part of your body, grow with your cultivation, coexist with others, and never be separated.
Humans and knives share life force, pain, and aging; the knife is there as long as the person lives, and the knife is destroyed as the person dies.
Cultivation process: Cultivators no longer deliberately practice fixed "moves", but instead "feed" and "temper" the blade within their bodies through countless battles and even daily routines.
The knife absorbs all of its owner's emotions, including anger, sadness, joy, and obsession, gradually giving birth to a unique "knife spirit." The knife spirit is connected to the owner's soul and shares the same thoughts.
When a cultivator is on the verge of death, they can burn the life force of their blade to achieve a brief peak burst and reverse the course of the battle.
Conversely, if the blade is damaged, the cultivator will suffer the same internal injuries, and may even endanger their life.
The ultimate state: "Man and sword as one" is no longer a metaphor, but a real physical reality.
When cultivation reaches its peak, the cultivator can freely switch between the physical body and the weapon form.
It can also instantly give a part of one's body the hardness and sharpness of a divine weapon, allowing one to cleave mountains and rivers with a wave of the hand, and to sever rivers with a turn of the hand, making the knife and the person indistinguishable.
The second type: the Dao of Causality... "It doesn't cut things, it cuts 'principle'."
This cultivation method completely abandons the physical contest of strength and instead explores the "rules" and "cause and effect" of how the world works, taking the ultimate path of spirit and rules.
Its practitioners are mostly meticulous philosophers, historians knowledgeable in ancient and modern times, or madmen who are extremely obsessive and obsessed with rules. Ordinary people simply cannot comprehend its true meaning.
Core concept: "Carving the sky with a knife".
Practitioners firmly believe that the existence of all things in the world is composed of unseen and intangible "principles" or invisible causal lines. Everything has a cause and effect, a beginning and an end.
An ordinary knife cuts at the "fruit," the object itself, and can only destroy the appearance.
The causal law principle, however, cuts off the "cause," the fundamental connection of things, the essence of rules, and can destroy everything from its source.
Cultivation process:
Cultivators sit facing a wall every day, not for ordinary meditation and breath regulation, but to use their divine sense to explore the void, deduce the causal relationships between all things, and comprehend the mysteries of the rules, day after day, year after year, without interruption.
The moment of drawing the blade is not simply about wielding the weapon, but about using the blade as a medium to guide one's "thoughts" and "divine thoughts" to touch and sever the causal line of the target.
For example, when a sword is swung, nothing seems to happen on the surface, but the sword in the opponent's hand may suddenly break... because the cultivator has severed the "cause" of "this sword was once forged";
Or perhaps, the enemy will suddenly forget how to hold a knife or how to exert force...
Because the cultivator severed the "cause" of the enemy's "muscle memory formed over many years of cultivation," thus dismantling the enemy's combat power at its root.
The ultimate goal: "Severing cause and effect".
This is the legendary highest realm. Once achieved, the cultivator can break free from the shackles of cause and effect and take control of their own destiny.
It can sever one's own death calamity, erase the "cause" of "lifespan coming to an end," and achieve immortality;
It can sever the enemy's hatred towards you, erase the "cause" of "hatred", and resolve disputes;
It can even sever the "cause" that a mountain "should have existed," causing the majestic mountain to disappear into thin air, leaving only a flat open space. Its power is boundless and awe-inspiring.
The third type: The Way of the Sword – based on emotions and thoughts… “Only the mind and consciousness can create the sword.”
This cultivation method is completely different from the previous two. It does not rely on physical strength or skeletal symbiosis, nor does it study the rules of cause and effect. Instead, it relies entirely on the cultivator's inner world and extreme emotions.
Those who cultivate this path firmly believe that the so-called real material world is nothing but an illusion, and only the "thoughts" that arise in the heart, only the extreme emotional fluctuations, are the real and true source of power that can mobilize the power of heaven and earth.
Core concept: "I think that the enemy will perish."