Volume 2 Dragon Bird Chapter 6 Water Sword Armor (Part 1)
"Your pet sneaked into my room when I was away and I caught it." Zang Xiaojian pointed at the Western Rat King who was hiding behind Lu Qingshan.
"I'm not a pet..." The King of Western Rat muttered subconsciously.
"That's right, I forgot to ask you, what's your name?" Zang Xiaojian heard the complaint of the King of Western Rat.
Seeing Zang Xiaojian asking him, the King of the Rat from the West immediately stood up from behind Lu Qingshan, straightened his back, and patted his chest with his little paws, "It's the King of the Rat from the West!"
Zang Xiaojian nodded seriously, wrinkled his nose and said to Lu Qingshan: "Since it said it is not your pet, then I am sorry, I must have found the wrong one. I will take it away and settle accounts with it."
While speaking, Zang Xiaojian winked at Lu Qingshan imperceptibly.
Lu Qingshan understood what he meant, and also wanted to scare the King of the Rat from the West, who had been getting more and more jumpy recently, so he cooperated and said, "Okay, take it away quickly, and you can kill it or chop it up as you like."
Zang Xiaojian made a gesture of wiping his neck towards the King of the Western Rat and said with a grin, "King of the Western Rat, right? Come, let me settle accounts with you."
The Western Rat King, who was still baring his fangs and claws just a moment ago, suddenly turned into a wilted eggplant, his momentum deflated, and he said with great resentment: "Lu Qingshan, you have no conscience!"
After teasing the Western Rat King for a while, Lu Qingshan straightened his expression and apologized to Zang Xiaojian: "It was my negligence that I didn't take good care of it. I can compensate you with some spirit stones to show my gratitude. What do you think?"
He would try his best to eliminate troubles if possible. It was not Lu Qingshan's way to stir up troubles everywhere, so he was very polite.
Zang Xiaojian waved his hands and said generously, "I didn't lose anything, so why should I ask for compensation? In fact, I didn't intend to do anything to it, but when I caught it, it tried to fool me by pretending to be an ordinary rat. I decided to teach it a lesson, so I came here."
This stupid rat, it's bad enough that he was being cunning, but he was also seen through, which was a big mistake.
Lu Qingshan glared at the Western Rat King unhappily.
"Are you a sword cultivator?" Zang Xiaojian tilted his head, looking at Lu Qingshan with bright eyes, and suddenly said this.
Without waiting for Lu Qingshan to ask, Zang Xiaojian explained: "I was outside just now and felt the sword energy in the room."
Lu Qingshan was startled and finally began to look the girl in front of him.
It is not an easy thing for Zang Xiaojian to have reached the late stage of foundation building at such a young age.
But he was someone who had experienced big scenes after all - in the later stages of the game, talented NPCs in the Nine Heavens emerged one after another like mushrooms after rain, so the talent shown by Zang Xiaojian only surprised him a little.
However, when he tried to condense the sword energy in the cabin, he mobilized only a very small part of the spiritual power, and the fluctuation was barely audible. Under this circumstance, Zang Xiaojian was still able to sense the sword energy in the room from a distance. Such performance was truly amazing.
There are two possibilities for this. One is that Zang Xiaojian's soul strength is far beyond that of ordinary people, so he has extremely strong perception ability.
Another possibility is that Zang Xiaojian is gifted.
The next second, Lu Qingshan knew that it should be the second possibility.
Because Zang Xiaojian stretched out her right hand towards Lu Qingshan, a ray of sharp sword energy whooshed out from her fingertips.
The girl flicked her slender fingers, and the sword energy at her fingertips shot straight towards the Western Rat King, and suddenly dissipated three inches in front of the Western Rat King.
Zang Xiaojian looked at the frightened Western Rat King, smiling with curved eyebrows, "I am also a sword cultivator!"
Not to mention anything else, just the cultivation level of the late stage of foundation building is enough to enable him to release out-of-body sword energy without the assistance of a sword. Apart from his extraordinary talent in swordsmanship, Lu Qingshan could not think of any other explanation.
"Yes." The identity of a sword cultivator was not something that could not be revealed, so Lu Qingshan simply nodded in acknowledgement. At the same time, the same wisp of sword energy appeared at his fingertips, but this sword energy flickered for a few moments before quickly dissipating. Lu Qingshan shook his head and said, "It's still not good enough. I'm far behind you."
Zang Xiaojian watched the sword energy condensed at Lu Qingshan's fingertips dissipate, and said seriously: "The reason why your sword energy cannot be condensed for a long time is not because there is a problem with your skills."
Lu Qingshan's heart skipped a beat.
One problem he had to face after being reborn in the Ninth Heaven was that, although this world was the same as the game world, it was not a game after all, so there were actually many differences.
For example, sword energy. In the game, he even mastered the sword energy turning into silk, but the problem is that in the game, it was just a bunch of data, a buff effect he obtained by passing the test of the kendo instructor.
After the time travel, all he could inherit were the tactical knowledge on how to combine and apply various skills, but as for how to specifically perform the skills, he had to learn it step by step from the beginning.
This is also the reason why, although he was already a great swordsman in the game who could slash with one sword and exert great sword energy, after his rebirth, he had to refer to and study the true explanation of sword energy given by Tan Tai Qingrun and try to condense his sword energy.
In this situation, if he had not had the unparalleled talent for swordsmanship bestowed upon him by his natural sword species, he could not imagine himself spending more than ten years to master the technique of firing sword energy.
Perhaps by then he had already relied on his experience points to advance his cultivation to the Golden Core Stage?
A Jindan swordsman who can’t fire sword energy?
That's just too ridiculous.
Lu Qingshan cupped his hands and said, "Please give me some advice, fellow Taoist."
"My mother once said that there is no such thing as a free lunch." Zang Xiaojian paused, a thoughtful look on his face, and finally, as if he had made a big decision, he laughed and revealed two rows of sparkling white teeth. "But you are the first sword cultivator I have met since I came out of..., so this time, I will give it to you for free."
After coming out? The first sword cultivator?
Lu Qingshan noticed the strange words in Zang Xiaojian's words, and he subconsciously matched his mind with the family sect that matched the situation of the girl in front of him.
He had never heard of a powerful sword-cultivating family with the surname Zang, so they must be from the sect.
Only the Sword Sect's Nascent Soul can leave the sect and wash the sword in the pool...
There was too little information revealed by Zang Xiaojian. Lu Qingshan searched in his mind but was unable to determine Zang Xiaojian's origins for a while.
"Your problem is that your cultivation is not enough and your control over spiritual power is insufficient, so you are unable to maintain the form of sword energy. Even for me, it took me until the late stage of foundation building to condense sword energy without the assistance of a sword!" Zang Xiaojian said with a grin, his tone cheerful.
Is it because of insufficient cultivation?
Hearing Zang Xiaojian say this, Lu Qingshan was stunned.
The jade slip "The True Explanation of Sword Qi" given by Tan Tai Qingrun only explained the experience of condensing sword energy with swords, and did not include any precautions on condensing sword energy out of thin air, so he had no choice but to study it on his own.
In fact, it’s not Tan Tai Qingrun’s fault.
You must know that the sword energy condensed out of thin air is much inferior in power to the sword energy emitted by a sword.
Apart from showing off one's skills, it is not very useful. If you use this time, you might as well take care of your own sword and practice sword skills. If Lu Qingshan had not practiced the Five Elements Sword Armor, he would not have spent time studying this.
Normally, no sword practitioner would specifically study how to condense sword energy out of thin air. Most people would master this skill naturally as their attainments in swordsmanship improve.
However, that is generally a realm that can only be achieved by sword cultivators in the Jindan or Yuanying stages.
When the sword energy that Lu Qingshan condensed out of thin air was unable to maintain its form, he always thought that there was some special trick in it that he did not understand, but he did not expect that the reason was due to his own cultivation.
