“This ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’, its grade is actually orange?” Lu Xun was slightly surprised at seeing this.
The grades of skills were the same as the grades of equipment. They were divided into the five colors ‘gray, yellow, blue, purple, orange.’
Orange, it was the highest grade of a skill.
Cat Southnorth suddenly rushed in here, restless with anxiety. And then, he didn’t even do anything but simply closed his eyes. An orange-grade skill was actually delivered to him?
It gave him the feeling that orange-grade skills were chasing after him to be learned…
This reminded him of an exchange between Sabrina and Thomas[1]: “And you’re still reaching for the moon. No, Father. The moon’s reaching for me!”
Even in his previous life—when he was still playing his level 60 main account that wielded rods—he only learned a purple-grade rod technique, it was even just an incomplete version!
Nevertheless, people wouldn’t be able to close their legs after a strike from his rod, wailing in anguish.
The simple words “eat my rod” would make many male players terror-stricken. It would also make many female players shocked at his skills!
However now, the skill placed in front of him was actually of the highest grade, orange!
Lu Xun examined the basic information of the ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’, what surprised him was that this skill was created by his Eldest Senior Brother, who was still currently in a deadly seclusion.
‘Being able to create an orange-grade skill, how strong must Eldest Senior Brother be?’ Lu Xun exclaimed inwardly.
What surprised him even more, however, was that the basic information was very clear about something—the reason why Eldest Senior Brother was in a deadly seclusion, was that he fell into Qi Deviation from cultivating this ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’.
‘I rely on experience value to level up, there shouldn’t be any complications like Qi Deviation, right?’ Lu Xun thought.
And so, he decisively chose ‘Learn’ on the selection options of ‘Learn or Not?’
And then, an apathetic information window popped out again.
‘10,000 points of experience value is required to learn, Continue or Not?’
Lu Xun momentarily hesitated.
It wasn’t that he was shortsighted and unwilling to part with 10,000 points of experience value.
But it was that at an early stage, 10,000 points of experience value was considered to be quite a lot. Many things could be done with it, it truly was valuable.
As for the ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’, it didn’t matter if he didn’t learn it right now. Couldn’t he just find Cat Southnorth to learn it again in the future when he had experience value stored up?
However, the orange-grade skill tickled at his heart…
One might as well ask how many players could resist the urge from learning it immediately.
Not to mention, he had never once learned an orange-grade skill. He didn’t know its exact might, what if it was absolutely flipping incredible at the elementary level?
But… these 10,000 points of experience value would truly be regrettable…
It was really reasonable because an orange-grade skill shouldn’t be something that appeared at the game’s early stages. In the middle to the late stages of the game, 10,000 points of experience value was completely bearable.
“Fortune favors the bold!” Lu Xun clenched his teeth and chose ‘Continue’.
‘Successfully Learned, Current Progress: Sword Nurturing Technique Level 0’
‘Experience Value 2150/1500, Upgradeable’
He already spent 10,000 points of experience value, that’s why he didn’t care about the 1,500 points of experience value to upgrade.
He took note that the Sword Nurturing Technique was separated into ten levels, this meant that it was a complete skill.
It was not like the rod technique he had learned. Since it was an incomplete version, its max level was only eight, and at level eight, no matter how much experience value you had, you wouldn’t be able to level it up any further.
At the time, the purple-grade rod technique only required 500 points of experience value to upgrade to level one. However, the cost of upgrading the ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’ directly tripled!
It must be known that the experience required to upgrade for the following levels were several times more. There was a huge difference of 500 as the base value as compared to 1,500 being the base value. The difference would be a lot more in the later levels!
“Forget it, it doesn’t matter. I already learned it, if I don’t upgrade it by one level, then the 10,000 points of experience value would be spent for nothing, right?”
Lu Xun resolutely chose to level it up.
An anomaly arose at this moment.
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At the Small Study inside Lu Xun’s room.
After Cat Southnorth imparted the ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’ to Lu Xun, she didn’t rush to leave.
She saw that Lu Xun was still meditating with his eyes closed, guessing that he was probably still taking it in and comprehending the technique.
Cat Southnorth sat on a chair at the opposite side of Lu Xun, she muttered, “Little Junior Brother doesn’t even have a sword right now. Why did Second Senior Sister tell me to impart the Sword Nurturing Technique to him if it has no use? He doesn’t even have a sword for nurturing!”
“But… the Sword Nurturing Technique is too profound and hard to fathom, Little Junior Brother would probably need to spend a good amount of time to thoroughly learn it. Second Senior Sister probably wanted him to learn the Sword Nurturing Technique, all the while he digested the sword intent she left for him. This could have the effect of complementing one another.”
“Hehe, it’s definitely what I assume it is! Cat Southnorth you’re so very smart!” The lolita dangled her small feet in the air, her cat ears moving slightly. She was really pleased with herself.
She certainly guessed what Second Senior Sister’s intentions were. The Sword Nurturing Technique needed to be comprehended and couldn’t be learned in a short while.
If Lu Xun relied on the sword intent Second Senior Sister left him to comprehend this technique, then his progress would be much faster. This would be doing half the work for twice the effect.
… Second Senior Sister already arranged everything properly!
Suddenly, the anomaly happened at this very moment.
The surrounding spiritual qi converged towards Lu Xun as if it had gone mad. Now, he was like a candle in the dark night while the spiritual qi was the moth drawn to the flame!
The anomaly of the spiritual qi startled Cat Southnorth. Even Second Senior Sister, who was still in the forest meditating with her eyes closed, had suddenly opened her eyes, her expression stern.
“How!?” Cat Southnorth jumped off the chair, her expression anxious.
“How is it possible that Little Junior Brother already learned the ‘Sword Nurturing Technique’ all of a sudden!? And by the looks of it, he’s already cultivating it!” Cat Southnorth couldn’t help but panic.
Just like she said earlier, Lu Xun was swordless. He didn’t even have a sword, so what was he using the Sword Nurturing Technique to nurture?
The essence of the Sword Nurturing Technique was to nurture one’s own sword day after day, and year after year.
Once their cultivation reached mastery, they could unleash an immense amount of power!
Without the slightest bit of exaggeration, if the sword’s starting power was 10, then once your Sword Nurturing Technique reached level one, the sword’s power could reach 20!
If this were categorized in a game, then the Sword Nurturing Technique was more like a ‘Passive Skill’.
It wasn’t like an active skill that could only unleash its power when used. As long as you were using the sword you nurtured—your every move and form—every time you inflicted damage… it would be doubled!
Simply put—one hundred percent critical hit!
Yes, it was a one hundred percent critical hit!
And, the more the Sword Nurturing Technique was upgraded, the more the critical effect could continue to increase. For example, the double critical damage would turn into triple critical damage!
This was a divine skill for sure. However, the precondition was that you had to have a sword!
A large amount of spiritual qi was attracted over before it surged into Lu Xun’s body.
According to the process, after it circulated once in Lu Xun’s body, it would then cross over to the sword through his hands.
However, because he didn’t have a sword, the spiritual qi circulated and continued to circulate again, it was lost inside his body.
It was reasonable to say that what would happen next was that his body would explode, and he would simply die just like that, like a balloon that was given too much air.
But, since he already spent the experience value, it was certain to be upgradeable.
Thus, the spiritual qi was pulled as if being drawn by something. It started to converge towards the Heart of the Sword inside Lu Xun’s body!
Slowly, a concentrated golden light appeared inside the Heart of the Sword.
It was awfully thin, just like a needle.
However, in reality, it was an extremely small sword.
A sword inside the heart!
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[1] Sabrina (1954 film), where Sabrina is played by Audrey Hepburn, Thomas is the father of Sabrina