Chapter 105 – Purple Talent, Sword Maniac!

Chapter 105 – Purple Talent, Sword Maniac!

Upon seeing this newly drawn talent, Su Xing raised an eyebrow.

“This is already the third time I’ve drawn a sword-related talent. Could it be… that I truly have an innate affinity with swords, destined to become a supreme Sword Immortal?”

From the initial Sword Dao Genius to Sword Dao Prodigy, and now Su Xing had even drawn the purple-quality Sword Maniac talent!

As the saying goes, three times makes a pattern—this time, Su Xing was truly tempted.

Yet what made Su Xing hesitate was that he had no sword cultivation techniques or manuals. How was he supposed to practice the sword?

Just then, Su Xing noticed a line of description after the talent… “In your ninth year of sword practice, you comprehend the Lethal Thirteen Strikes”!

“So, does this mean I can comprehend sword techniques on my own? If that’s really the case, then this talent is absolutely a must-pick!”

Su Xing’s heart raced with excitement.

“As for whether I can comprehend cultivation techniques, I’ll only know if I try, right?”

Su Xing turned his gaze toward the simulation panel.

【In the Blessed Spirit Field, you become aware that you are in a simulation.】

【You feel a sudden, intense interest in swords surge within you. You retrieve a blue-quality sword weapon from your storage ring.】

【With sword in hand, heroic ambition rises in your chest. You feel as though you were born for the sword!】

【And so, you begin training diligently in swordsmanship!】

【Just like that, three months pass!】

【During these three months, aside from your daily alchemy, you pour all your energy and focus into the sword dao.】

【You had little prior contact with swords, yet you pick it up with extraordinary ease. In just three months, you swing your sword tens of thousands of times, mastering several sets of basic swordsmanship found online.】

【In mere months, you have the fundamentals of swordsmanship—striking, thrusting, parrying, and sweeping—down to perfection. You grow unsatisfied and wish to practice more advanced sword techniques.】

【Thus, you decide to enter the Luotian Assembly dungeon, hoping to learn superior swordsmanship.】

Seeing this, Su Xing’s heart stirred. He silently recited:

“Activate immersive simulation function, duration two hours.”

【Ding! You have successfully activated immersive simulation. 200,000 energy consumed. Simulation duration: 2 hours. Remaining energy: 15,503,888 points.】

The simulator’s notification chimed in Su Xing’s ears.

The next second, Su Xing’s figure vanished from where he stood and appeared inside the Luotian Assembly dungeon.

Following the same familiar quest flow, Su Xing brought his Shennong martial uncle to pay respects to the master.

During this time, Su Xing had also asked his Shennong martial uncle about swordsmanship, but Shennong Youtian was a farmer through and through—naturally, he knew nothing about such things.

Left with no choice, Su Xing headed to the Scripture Pavilion, hoping to find a sword path suited to him.

Before long, Su Xing discovered an ancient text he’d been looking for in the Scripture Pavilion—the 《Sword Cultivation General Compendium》.

Though the book’s name was unremarkable, it was one of the most important introductory texts for sword cultivators. The reason was simple: it was written by Lü Dong, a Sword Immortal renowned throughout the world tens of thousands of years ago!

This compendium of sword cultivation covered virtually all the fundamentals of sword training. One could say that as long as you thoroughly mastered this compendium, learning any advanced sword technique in the future would be effortless.

Soon, Su Xing became completely absorbed in cultivating from this compendium.

Two hours flew by in a flash. Seeing that his immersive simulation time was about to expire, Su Xing didn’t hesitate to renew it.

【Ding! You have successfully activated immersive simulation. 2,200,000 energy consumed. Simulation duration: 22 hours. Remaining energy: 13,303,888 points.】

With time once again plentiful, Su Xing threw himself wholeheartedly into the sword compendium.

From initial bewilderment, to vague understanding, to genuine comprehension—Su Xing voraciously absorbed the knowledge within the sword compendium.

Through continuous study, Su Xing felt his understanding of swordsmanship growing at a breakneck pace.

He didn’t know how much time had passed, but when Su Xing next opened his eyes, he had already returned to the real world—yet he hadn’t noticed the transition at all.

“Hss~ When did I return to the real world… The immersive simulation ended, and I didn’t even realize?”

Su Xing’s eyes went wide. Then, realizing something, he murmured in a daze:

“Could it be… I just entered a state of epiphany?”

Su Xing digested the memories flooding his mind, feeling as though he had instantly become an absolute master of sword theory!

“So, bearing the Sword Maniac talent, while studying the sword compendium, I inadvertently triggered an epiphany… and that’s what led to such tremendous progress?”

Su Xing could hardly believe it. Such a coincidence had actually happened to him—triggering the epiphany talent during immersive simulation.

Given that a single day of epiphany was equivalent to ten years of ordinary cultivation, Su Xing was now at least the equivalent of a master who had immersively studied sword theory for ten full years!

“Tsk tsk, what incredible luck… The sword knowledge in my head should be enough to keep me busy digesting for quite a while, right?”

Su Xing closed his eyes and recalled. The sword compendium divided mortal swordsmanship into three stages: Human, Earth, and Heaven—the Three Swords!

The Human Sword, once mastered, could slay any enemy in the mortal world. There would be no one under heaven who could not be killed.

The Earth Sword borrowed the momentum of heaven and earth to form a sword of creation. A single strike could alter weather, cause mountains to crumble and tsunamis to surge.

The final stage was the Heaven Sword. Once the Heaven Sword was mastered, it would lead directly to the path of the Sword Immortal.

During his immersive simulation, Su Xing had spent an entire day reading the sword compendium and triggered an epiphany—equivalent to studying the compendium for ten years—and had only barely finished reading through the vast first section.

After that, Su Xing had exited the immersive simulation.

However, just the cultivation of the first section—the Human Sword—alone was enough to keep Su Xing occupied for a long time.

“If I cultivate this Human Sword to Perfection, I could probably truly fight across realms—Nascent Soul battling Spirit Transformation, right?”

Shock appeared on Su Xing’s face, along with a faint trace of anticipation.

What young man hasn’t dreamed of becoming that white-robed, immortal-sword-wielding Sword Immortal, standing alone above the world?

Even Su Xing was no exception. Thinking of this, Su Xing’s face flushed with excitement, eager to begin the simulation.

【You emerge from the Luotian Assembly dungeon, itching to practice your swordsmanship.】

【You spend six hours each day practicing the most fundamental sword techniques, integrating them into a cohesive whole.】

【Three months later, Wang Qingxuan finds you.】

【Reluctantly, you temporarily set aside your sword practice. After one night, you and Wang Qingxuan join the Advent Cult.】

【You demonstrate exceptional strength and astonishing alchemy skills within the cult. You successfully join Luo Shuying’s faction as planned.】

【The next day, you speak the code phrase to Luo Shuying and earn her trust.】

【Luo Shuying helps you obtain a large quantity of medicinal herbs. You spend two hours each day refining herbs, devoting more of your time to cultivation.】

【In your second year, you become the eighteenth Elder of the Advent Cult, with the codename Medicine Elder.】

【You devote even more attention to sword cultivation, and your combat prowess improves rapidly.】

【You choose not to re-enter the Luotian Assembly dungeon, because the sword knowledge already in your mind is more than enough to sustain your training for a long time.】

【In your third year, you lead Luo Shuying in defecting from the Advent Cult, taking the vast majority of treasures from the Cult treasury with you.】

【The Advent Cult dispatches several Protectors and Elders to hunt you down, but they don’t expect that you’ve already contacted the Great Xia Military. You turn the tables and slay the pursuing Elders and Protectors one by one.】

【In your fourth year, with abundant spiritual energy and daily consumption of Dragon Spirit Pills, your cultivation advances rapidly. You reach the second layer of the Nascent Soul realm.】

【That same year, thanks to your daily physical tempering and sword training, combined with ample blood essence and Primordial Martial Pill supplements, your Body Tempering cultivation rises to Primordial Martial Realm, Eighth Layer!】

【In your fifth year, you refine Mind-Condensing Pills and gift the completed pills to Luo Shuying. The Spirit Clan’s strength increases enormously.】

【That same year, Luo Shuying advances to become a Legendary-stage powerhouse.】

【In your sixth year, you still maintain two hours of daily sword practice, but devote more energy to cultivation and alchemy.】

【This year, you exhaust all previously accumulated herbs, adding tens of thousands of Grandmaster-stage and several hundred Heavenly King-stage powerhouses to Great Xia.】

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded, his mind churning with thoughts.

“Six years have passed. After this, there’s no more pressure to refine pills. So then, what comes next—practice the sword, or advance my cultivation?”

Su Xing wasn’t sure just how difficult the sword compendium was to cultivate, but given that mastering it could lead to immortality, the difficulty had to be staggering.

The question was how much time it would take to master the first section of the compendium—the Human Sword!

The unknown time investment made Su Xing hesitate, but when he thought about how tremendously his strength would increase once the Human Sword was mastered, his resolve hardened once more.

“I still need to practice the sword! But I should hedge my bets. Four hours a day of sword practice will suffice. The rest of the time I can try advancing my cultivation. If sword practice doesn’t pan out, I’ll still have enough cultivation progress to claim—so it won’t be a loss.”

At the same time, a glimmer of hope flickered in Su Xing’s heart. What if—just what if—he triggered another epiphany while practicing the sword? Wouldn’t that be an enormous windfall?

With this mindset, Su Xing continued the simulation.

【In your seventh year, you continue spending four hours daily on sword practice. In your spare time, you begin attempting to refine Divine Power Pills.】

【You cut off a section of the Divine Power Vine growing in your Blessed Spirit Field, carefully grind it into a fine powder for use as an ingredient, then take out the remaining herbs needed for the Divine Power Pill. Once all preparations are complete, you begin refining.】

【With your limited supply of Divine Power Vine, you estimate you can attempt at most five hundred batches of Divine Power Pills, so you treasure every opportunity.】

【In the first month, you refine one batch of Divine Power Pills per day, attempting thirty batches in total. All thirty batches fail. The difficulty of refining Divine Power Pills is far greater than you imagined.】

【In the second month, you again attempt thirty batches of Divine Power Pills. Successful batches: zero. Failure rate: one hundred percent.】

【The third month…】

【The fourth month…】

【In your eighth year, after a full year of attempting to refine Divine Power Pills, you’ve consumed nearly all five Divine Power Vines in your possession, yet still haven’t successfully produced a single batch. On your skill panel, Divine Power Pill refinement remains at the “not yet initiated” stage.】

【You understand that this is because the difficulty of refining Divine Power Pills far exceeds your current abilities. Under normal circumstances, you simply cannot succeed—unless you enter a state of epiphany!】

【You look at the half-vine of Divine Power Vine remaining in your hand, hoping to trigger a state of epiphany and succeed in refinement.】

【A little over a month later, as expected, you fail. You do not enter a state of epiphany, and your supply of Divine Power Vine is completely exhausted.】

Su Xing’s eyes went wide at this, and he let out a sigh.

“As expected, refining the Divine Power Pill is even harder than I imagined. It seems ordinary methods can’t possibly succeed…”

“Since that’s the case, I’ll just have to try my luck…”

Su Xing’s plan was to attempt Divine Power Pill refinement during every simulation run, and to make the refining process as slow as possible—say, four hours per batch.

That way, he would spend more time actively refining Divine Power Pills, which would increase the probability of triggering an epiphany!

And over the course of several—or even dozens—of simulation runs, Su Xing was bound to succeed at least once. When that happened, he could finally consume the Divine Power Pill.

Of course, this was merely Su Xing’s plan. Whether it could actually be carried out still depended on luck.

“But before that, reaching Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection is something I absolutely must accomplish!”

Su Xing murmured to himself.