In the morning, they return to the Inner World, and eager to advance their sword cultivation, they throw themselves straight into impossible odds. Lan Xiaohui chooses five hundred opponents this ti, with no ti limit, and all of them are in the early stage of Foundation Establishnt.
I detach my consciousness from my vessel to observe their battle, or, more specifically, their new martial arts thods.
I understand how Wu Yulans Eternal Mont Swordsmanship works, likely because it was developed in part thanks to my Inner World or, at the very least because I also know the Transient Sword thod from which it was derived.
The core principle of the thod revolves around the concept of the mont. Sword Qi is generated from ones consciousness which is filled with sword intent, and there are many forms of this intent. Killing intent is one example. Ultimately, intent itself is a combination of conviction, confidence, and the desire to strike to make ones will manifest.
Normally, cultivators can generate sword Qi whenever and however they please, but through this swordsmanship thod, Wu Yulan has relinquished that ability, or imposed limitations on it. In order for her to generate sword Qi, her intent needs to be incredibly clear and focused to be able to move her sword into action, and this burst of extre sword Qi manifests in the concept of the eternal mont.
In order to perform techniques, cultivators will generate the energy and the sword Qi over a period of ti, but Wu Yulans thod rejects this notion and provides all the resources for her techniques in an instant.
Even though Wu Yulans thod is now of the Supre grade, she strikes with the power of an Immortal grade martial art.
However, this is not where the thods relationship with the concept of a mont ends. In order for Wu Yulan to generate this extre amount of sword Qi, it needs to happen in two stages. First, her overwhelming intent is like a declaration of fate, and it manifests in the world as a bright white line that reveals the path which her sword will follow. Next, the execution follows, and if her sword does not follow the pre-determined path, she will suffer incredible Qi deviation and internal damage.
Her thod requires extraordinary spiritual perception to operate, as identifying these weak points and monts requires great foresight because one mistake in determining her target would leave her virtually defenseless against counterattacks.
Though, an observer like myself would be hard-pressed to see Wu Yulans thod as a double-edged sword, for she leaps from mont to mont in such quick succession that she appears as a white shadow blurring across the ground.
Each ti her sword strikes, half a dozen demonic beasts die, their body parts flung across my Inner World by the force of Wu Yulans sword. Her spiritual veins and Qi entrances are wide open while she performs this feat, absorbing vast amounts of air to replenish her Qi reserves, operating at full capacity with no downti.
The fact that Wu Yulan can operate her breathing thod at full output and still possess the ntal capacity to exert her intent and then generate extre bursts of sword Qi and energy is precisely why she has not only cleared all the floors of the Pavilion of Introspection but why Lady Yue has an interest in her.
Wu Yulan is a natural genius.
Lan Xiaohuis thod is even more extre at its core, despite being simple in execution.
Because of Lan Xiaohuis Sword Domain, and the nature of my sword when shrouded in the principles of the Fractured Sword thod, the warping of curvature in front of my vessel shortens the distance I need to travel to cut, producing lightning-fast attacks with extre power comparable to Wu Yulans.
However, there are many thods in the world that can produce fast attacks with extre power, and if it were not for Lan Xiaohuis peculiar thod of achieving this, I would not be impressed.
The core of Lan Xiaohuis thod revolves around the concept of liminality and its expression through her footwork technique: [Liminality Steps]. To describe Lan Xiaohuis motion as speed, when she slashes her sword from in front of a pack of monsters, only to appear behind them a mont later, and then deliver another slash that creates fountains of blood, would ultimately be correct; but it would not be a complete description.
It is in those monts before she moves and after she completes her motion, that a great degree of uncertainty falls on Lan Xiaohuis intrinsic physical properties. In the sa way as when she dispersed my existence over a great area when under the influence of the Ancient Sword Graveyards enlightennt, so too can she make her own existence uncertain in this way.
This effect manifests most clearly in the way she moves, leaping forward as if under the influence of reduced gravity, yet as if pulled ahead at great speed by the effects of her Sword Domain. And it is clearer still in the way that she swings my vessel without experiencing any inertia, or at least very little of it; while at the sa ti striking hard enough to lift her off the ground. Even airborne, however, she is not defenseless, because her [Liminality Steps] allows her to move through a small region of space in any way she desires.
In a way, she is at the threshold of cause and effect, disconnected from the predictions of her future by the actions of her past.
I recognize that she uses this sword to describe her own existence as the Liminality Flower an entity that is in between her past as Lan Xiaohui and her future as Zhu Xuelian. It is fitting, then, that the sword she will use to bring about this change and cross from the threshold of transience, is the Finality Moon myself.
Their first attempt at this challenge ends before they can kill even half of the demonic beasts in the [Killing Field]. With so many powerful opponents, even profound martial arts will be unable to help them overco this challenge. At this stage, it is obvious that even at the limit of their possibilities, success is out of their reach.
For a Foundation Establishnt cultivator, killing five hundred demonic beasts of the third rank is simply not possible, regardless of strategy, tactics, or martial arts.
To succeed here, they would need to cultivate an inner core and try again when they raise their cultivation realm.
However, it quickly becos apparent that they do not intend to succeed at this challenge but to sharpen their swords to the very extres of limit and obtain the pinnacle of what they can achieve.
When I notice how much energy they are generating by engaging in this self-destructive behavior, I heavily approve of their thods.
Even without killing half of the demonic beasts, they make up for the majority of the cost of operating the entire Martial Hall division of my Inner World which is now projected the consu 2,000,000 Inner World Energy because of simulating 500 second rank demonic beasts, per week.
If they can kill 350 no, only 300 demonic beasts then they would likely generate a surplus of energy, instead of cutting into my stockpile.
This pleases .
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