Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 71: Sword Controlling and Flying Swords
"You just need to recommend me, and everything else will be done according to the rules. I am somewhat confident in my own abilities." Lu Qingshan said leisurely.
Tan Tai Qingrun glanced at Lu Qingshan suspiciously.
——As a swordsman who hasn't even mastered the art of controlling and flying a sword, where does your confidence come from? Don't you have any idea?
"Okay, I will arrange it for you as soon as possible. You should prepare yourself. I will notify you once you are ready." Tan Tai Qingrun casually threw out a token, and the token flew towards Lu Qingshan.
Lu Qingshan took it and saw that it was the Zhenjiang Tower token.
It was one thing to say, but Tan Tai Qingrun was still willing to keep Lu Qingshan in Zhenjiang Tower, so he gave the token very straightforwardly.
After all, for now, Lu Qingshan is simply an inexhaustible treasure trove in her eyes.
The purpose of coming to see Lu Qingshan has been achieved, so Tan Tai Qingrun naturally will not chat with Lu Qingshan.
He wielded the Lingyin sword and leapt into the air, transforming into a streak of green sword light, before disappearing in an instant.
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Seeing Tan Tai Qingrun leaving, Lu Qingshan took out the jade slip given by Tan Tai Qingrun from his storage ring.
A row of data information comes into view.
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【Liuyan Sword Controlling Technique】
Casting conditions: This skill can only be cast with a sword
Description: Sword Cultivation Escape Technique, upper limit 20 levels
Skill effect: Flying with a sword at an extremely fast speed. When it reaches a certain speed, its appearance will turn into a beam of flame.
Additional note: The more spiritual energy you consume, the faster you will fly the sword.
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Yes, sword-wielding is not an offensive spell.
In the traditional sense, the art of wielding a sword should be called the art of escape, which is an escape art exclusive to sword cultivators.
In fact, the methods of escape practiced by monks from different schools are also different.
Each escape method also has its own characteristics.
For example, the Five Elements Escape Techniques of the Dharma Practitioners are ever-changing and can be applied to all kinds of terrains.
Ming Xiu's shadow escape technique and smoke escape technique are secretive and mysterious, making them hard to guard against.
The spiritual practice of teleportation is extremely mysterious and can connect to the spiritual inspiration of heaven and earth.
There are many such examples
The sword-controlling technique, as a sword-cultivating technique, is an extremely deformed technique, just like the sword-cultivating profession itself.
Its biggest feature and also its only advantage is “fast”!
Extremely fast. Compared with other escape techniques, sword-controlling techniques are much faster.
Apart from this, sword-wielding technique has no additional functions.
But this is also in line with the professional characteristics of sword cultivators.
There are two common attack routines for sword cultivators.
One is to choose to stay within the effective attack range of the flying sword and constantly harass and attack the enemy.
The second is to charge forward suddenly and kill the enemy quickly with sword skills.
Both of these attack methods rely on speed.
Speed is the sword cultivator's most powerful weapon.
Naturally, it is no surprise that the sword-controlling technique is so important to sword practitioners and can be compared to the secret technique of flying swords.
In Lu Qingshan's memory, in the game of his previous life, there were some sword-cultivating players who took a different approach and focused on the art of wielding a sword. They created a new "guerrilla warfare" gameplay among the reckless sword-cultivating players.
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to retreat when the enemy advances, harass when the enemy stays, attack when the enemy is tired, and pursue when the enemy retreats.
These sword-cultivating players have thoroughly implemented the mysteries of "when the enemy advances, I retreat; when the enemy retreats, I pursue."
Whenever there was a battle, he would use sword-wielding skills to get close to the enemy, and when he was within the attack range of the flying sword, he would use the flying sword to kill the enemy.
As soon as the enemy fought back, he realized that the situation was not going well and immediately used sword-wielding skills to run away.
The enemy chased for a while, but gave up when they couldn't catch up. These sword cultivators immediately took advantage of the situation and turned around to provoke them with their flying swords.
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In fact, for a sword cultivator who specializes in sword-controlling, a flying sword can do little harm.
But these sword players don’t care about that - I can’t kill you, but I can make you sick to death!
For some "psychopathic" players, disgusting others is the ultimate pleasure.
Although these players call their style of play "guerrilla warfare", there is actually another more widely known name that better reflects the essence of this style of play - "dirty flow".
In several versions that followed, the "dirty style" of sword cultivation was also all the rage in "Jiu Tian".
This also raised the disgust of "Jiutian" players towards sword cultivators to a higher level.
The sword-wielding technique is therefore listed as one of the most dangerous skills in "Nine Heavens".
Although the reputation is not very good, it also reflects the speed and power of sword-wielding.
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Lu Qingshan probed his spiritual thoughts into the jade slip, and various techniques and skills of the Liuyan Sword Technique came into his mind.
"Skill detected: [Liuyan Sword Controlling Technique], do you want to spend 500 experience points to learn it?"
"study!"
Lu Qingshan's remaining experience points quickly decreased by another 300 points.
"Learning, please do not stop...1%...55%...99%"
"Learning success! You have mastered the [Liuyan Sword Controlling Technique]!"
After learning the sword-wielding technique, Lu Qingshan took out another jade slip.
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【Flying Sword Technique】
Casting conditions: This skill can only be cast with a sword
Description: Sword attack technique, upper limit 20 levels
Skill effect: Control the flying sword to attack the enemy from thousands of miles away.
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The name of this flying sword secret technique is not as fancy as the Liuyan Sword Controlling Technique, and it even seems a bit plain.
However, the level of this flying sword secret technique is not high, which is consistent with its simple name.
The sword-controlling technique and the flying sword secret technique are the signature skills of sword practitioners, and their experience points can be inherited.
That is to say, if Lu Qingshan learns higher-level sword-controlling and flying sword techniques after this, the newly learned techniques will overwrite the old ones and will inherit all the experience points of the old ones.
Rather than opening a new skill.
This also makes common sense.
——You have obviously already mastered a sword-controlling technique to a high level. If you learn an even more advanced sword-controlling technique now, there is naturally no reason for you to start from scratch like a novice. You will definitely be able to master it much faster than a cultivator who has never learned a sword-controlling technique.
It is also for this reason that Lu Qingshan can, at this stage, invest a lot of experience points into low-grade sword-controlling and flying sword secrets without hesitation.
Lu Qingshan also probed his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip, and with a bang, the flying sword skills turned into an image that appeared before his eyes.
The spiritual power came out from the Dantian, swirled in the body, and rushed straight to the Niwan Palace between the eyebrows with a powerful force. It mixed with a wisp of spiritual power in the Niwan Palace, then attached to the flying sword and rushed straight towards the enemy.
This sword gathers the spiritual power in the sword cultivator's dantian, the spiritual power between the eyebrows and the soul, as well as the power of the flying sword itself.
Once the flying sword appears, no one can match it.
"Skill detected: [Flying Sword Technique], do you want to spend 500 experience points to learn it?"
"study!"
"Experience value -300, currently learning [Flying Sword Technique], please do not stop... 1%... 55%..."
"Learning successful! You have mastered the [Flying Sword Technique]!"
The killing ability of a flying sword depends on three basic values in addition to the grade of the flying sword technique that the sword practitioner has practiced.
The quality of the flying sword itself, the sword cultivator's spiritual power, and the sword cultivator's divine consciousness.
Only when the spiritual power attached to the flying sword is pure and deep enough, the power and speed of the flying sword will be enough to deter others.
And the flying sword can only have the ability to reverse and change if it is attached to the spiritual consciousness. If there is no spiritual consciousness to control it, the flying sword will go straight forward and backward, and be very rigid.
What determines the effective attack distance of a flying sword is spiritual awareness.
A flying sword is only a spiritual killing sword within the range of a cultivator's spiritual awareness.
Spiritual consciousness is an attribute column that cultivators will unlock from the foundation-building stage.
Whether in fighting or in the cultivation of immortal arts, spiritual consciousness plays a vital role.
In the world of cultivation, spiritual awareness is an important attribute that can be compared with spiritual power and is used to measure the strength of a cultivator.
There are two ways to strengthen your spiritual awareness.
One is to wait for one's own cultivation to improve. Whenever a cultivator's own spiritual power reaches a fixed level, his spiritual awareness will be enhanced as the cultivator's strength increases.
However, this method is too passive, the improvement is slow and the amount of improvement is very limited.
Another way to strengthen spiritual consciousness is to practice spells that can train spiritual consciousness.
It is easy to find methods to cultivate spiritual power, but the methods to train spiritual consciousness are extremely rare. Only some powerful forces possess such methods.
Therefore, most cultivators have no way of obtaining systematic techniques for cultivating spiritual consciousness.
For cultivators, although training spiritual consciousness is as important as cultivating spiritual power, most cultivators can only strengthen their spiritual consciousness by improving their cultivation.
