Absolute Sword Sense Chapter 80: Ursa Major (4)

Ckaj! Chak!

A blade sharply cut through the air.

Nurous lines were drawn by the tip of the Turbulent Sword.

I was now looking into the mories of Blue Decree Sword. But this mory was different from the other mories I had seen.

Whenever I saw the sword move, the path and movent were engraved into my head.

My wrist and arms twitched as if I had suddenly beco too antsy to remain still.

I was now watching the sword technique that So Ik-gyeom, the forr head of the family who had perished in the war, was known for.

Rather than seeing it, it felt more like I was recalling muscle mory.

The five techniques which made up the second half of the technique, shown imdiately after the five moves of the first half, were literally a feast containing the essence of a heavy sword.

Shhh! Swop!

The mont the sword slamd down hard, the energy wrapped around the sword continued downward even as the sword itself stopped, partially leaving an imprint in the form of a sword on the floor of the training hall; with such ferocity that the training hall felt like it would collapse.

It was quite a good technique.

Lord So Ik-heon added speed to his heavy sword technique to compensate for the missing second half, but there was no need for that level of speed originally.

Soon the scene faded and,

-Do you get it, Child?

Blue Decree Sword asked .

It wasn’t like I had learned it, instead it was more like it had been engraved into my mind.

It felt like my body seed to know for sure what the technique should look like, what it should feel like. Then Short Sword spoke to ,

-Did you see all the techniques in such a short ti?

‘Short?’

No way

Since the heavy sword was different from a normal sword, the process wasn’t fast. I think it took

less than ten seconds to watch it.

-What are you talking about? What do you an? It all happened in the blink of an eye…?

‘… the blink of an eye?’

-Yes.

At Short Sword’s words, even Blue Decree Sword seed puzzled.

And that wasn’t all

-Sa here, Wonhui

Even Iron Sword agreed.

‘Hmm. Strange.’

Is there really a way to check and learn things in the blink of an eye?

I took a silver coin out of my pocket.

‘Blue Decree Sword’

-Speak.

‘If I flip the coin, can you show

the sword technique again?’

-Are there any difficulties? You just need to follow it.

Asked Blue Decree Sword. As a test, I flicked the silver coin with my finger and floated it in the air.

At that mont, my vision blurred, and I saw the hazy scene once again.

I re-watched the technique, and when the vision was done, I returned back to reality.

‘Uh?’

And what greeted my return was a marvelous sight.

The coin I had flipped before rewatching the vision was still in the process of falling down.

This wasn’t in the blink of an eye, this was in an instant!

Tak!

I caught the coin.

‘This is unbelievable.’

This was amazing.

The perceived ti when watching these visions was much different from real-ti, this was just too shocking!

Then Iron Sword said sothing.

-Wonhui. This seems like a really innovative ability.

‘Innovative?’

-Right. My forr master said that when one’s martial arts reach a certain level, imagery training is more helpful than physically repetitive training.

These were the words Iron Sword first taught

when we were learning the Xing Ming Sword. He said that if the basic foundations of the body were laid through repeated physical training, then to ascend the movent of the sword, presence of mind was needed.

-Think about it. Even as you are image training, as you better integrate the technique it then becos muscle mory. What if you do that over and over again? Naturally, you will end up mastering the technique.

Ah…

Does that affect my mind and body?

Thanks to what the sword showed , I was able to see the complete technique twice.

For that reason, it remained more clearly in my mind

-If you repeat it ten or a hundred tis, you will be able to see the results.

-Right!

Short Sword agreed.

It wasn’t as easy as how they made it sound. However, as she said, if this succeeded I would be able to master the techniques of the best in a very small span of ti. This didn’t seem so bad.

Even if I needed to have the technique repeated to , it was just an instant.

-I am fine, but you child?

‘I am fine.’

-Good. If you tell

to stop, I will stop showing you.

As soon as Blue Decree said that, the mories began to flow once again.

Once, twice, thrice…

The more it repeated, the more it felt as if I was using the sword. However, a problem arose as the repetitions increased.

I felt dizzy, my head hurt and even my innate qi was being consud.

‘A little more… a little more…’

Just as we were on our twentieth iteration,

“Euk!”

I puked from the dizziness.

-Are you fine, Child?

The illusion disappeared and we returned to reality.

-Yah, are you fine?

-Wonhui!

Short Sword and Iron Sword looked anxiously. It felt like they were spinning in front of .

Eight or nine iterations were fine, but going beyond ten was quite a burden.

-You are sweating too much.

At Short Sword’s words, I touched my forehead with the back of my hand. Sweat was dripping down as if I had been training hard.

‘Really?’

My fingers trembled. Strangely I looked at my hand and wrist, and I saw them convulsing.

‘Ha!’

It was amazing.

In reality, it had only been a couple of monts, yet the condition of my body seed to contradict this. This was why I wasn’t simply tired, my body was feeling completely exhausted.

-Unbelievable. I had no idea imagery training could work this way!

Iron Sword spoke, a bit shocked.

I was too, this bizarre thing happened when I repeated those mories.

Truly perhaps this was the power that ca from Ursa Major.

-But I don’t think you should overdo it, Wonhui

My opinion exactly.

Not a hundred, but maybe end it after a dozen tis.

“Haa… Haa…”

I was tired.

After repeating this twenty tis, my ntal and physical fatigue was imnse, and I realized that doing it in succession had to be avoided.

Or I should just do them little by little with a gap to recover.

‘I need to cultivate.’

-Yes.

After cultivating for a little ti, my innate qi and internal qi which were consud would be restored.

If I hadn’t stopped I would have collapsed.

-Wonhui

Iron Sword calling out to

had retrieved

from my thoughts.

“Kuak!”

The lord, So Ik-heon, who had been half embedded into the wall of the training room, staggered down.

He seed to calm down as he looked at

with a confused face. I don’t know if it was because of his defeat, but he looked quite shocked.

“You…”

“It should be better if you cultivate”

Even though he managed to not be hit by my sword, he was still slamd with the full force behind it.

The qi of an opponent was not sothing one should leave in their body, as it will corrupt the body and the internal organs.

Sss!

A haze rose from So Ik-heon’s body.

In front of , he couldn’t even cultivate, so he decided to forcibly push out the qi. And he frowned,

“Why did your hand hold back?”

He seed puzzled that my technique was orthodox.

“… did you want

to kill you?”

“… don’t say useless stuff, you let

live for your own sake. Unless you prove that you aren’t a Blood Sect…”

“Stop provoking .”

“What?”

“Let’s get rid of this pretentious act we do.”

“You…”

“I do not want you to misunderstand, your life is in my hands, and you aren’t even my father by blood; so you shouldn’t push your luck.”

‘…!!’

At those words, So Ik-heon looked shocked. He never would have thought I would know the truth.

“You… how do you know that?”

Judging from this reaction, it seed like my mother told him to never let

know the truth. Confused he asked,

“… did you know?”

“Two hyungs, the way you look at your children is clearly different, did you think I wouldn’t notice?”

So Ik-heon gulped,

“… if your mother heard…”

Before he could even finish his sentence, I threw back his Blue Decree Sword.

Shh!

The sword infused with my innate qi flew to him and lightly brushed by his clothes and embedded itself into the wall.

“Do not speak of my mother with that disgusting mouth.”

So Ik-heon didn’t speak further. From the start, we never had a good relationship.

His desire to believe that his actions and attitudes toward

were done in the na of taking responsibility only made

more disgusted by him.

And he quietly whispered,

“I am…”

“Do you want to say you have done enough for ?”

“…”

“Please don’t say that you were trying to protect

and Yong-yong from your wife and children.”

His face contorted.

He must be upset because he was being forcibly ripped out of the illusion, his false sense of duty, forced to see the truth now.

“For the sake of my mother, you said you’d treat

like your child. It was to keep that promise. And you justify your selfishness like that?”

“How do you!”

“If you really wanted to protect

or Yong-yong, wouldn’t it be by defending us when your wife was going to co onto us? You think ignoring us is a fair attempt with the other kids?”

“Kuak!”

Blood gushed from his mouth

He was pushing my qi out by circulating his qi, but it seed like my words had disturbed his concentration. It didn’t matter to .

“I don’t care what you did behind us. If you think that it is your duty and obligation that you did those things, let

tell you that you are mistaken.”

“Ha…”

His face turned dark.

Maybe it is because I told him that his reasons were shit.

“I… was protecting you….”

“Is pushing

out protecting ?”

“…”

“You were running away from your responsibility. You did enough for a guy who wasn’t even your child? From now on whatever happens isn’t my fault? Is that your true intention?”

“Cough!”

He coughed and didn’t respond. He must be upset now that the mask he had put on was being pulled down.

“If you hadn’t thought that and sent

out, I wouldn’t have been kidnapped by the Blood Sect”

‘…?!’

He looked quite shocked. Look at how he reacted when I talked about the Blood sect.

“If my teacher hadn’t co to save

at that mont, I would have been pulled into those people.”

I took sothing from the sleeve and threw it at him

He received that thing only to show a shocked face.

“This…”

“The plaque of the Great Doctor.”

“This?”

“You might like to think that my dantian got healed by the Blood Sect, but this is the truth.”

I never thought I’d use the plaque of that man like this.

Well, this was no lie. He did heal my dantian, or at least he tried to,

“Teacher had acquaintance with that man and he restored my dantian”

“Sigh…”

He sighed. It seed like he was a bit shocked when it was the best physician that had helped .

But the important thing cos now.

“Did you think I don’t qualify to be a representative?”

Srng!

With that, I drew Iron Sword, puzzling So Ik-heon.

Not caring, I took the stance.

“You… no?”

His eyes widened as he recognized the stance of the Sodong Ranged Sword.

I moved my body following the mories I had seen, following the shadow of So Ik-gyeom.

Chak!

The movent of the heavy sword was being demonstrated and So Ik-heon beca confused.

“I don’t….”

It was natural to show this reaction as this wasn’t so simple imitation.

Now, I was performing on the level of the forr lord.

So Ik-heon couldn’t take his eyes off

even for a mont and the mont I finished, ca a shout.

“No!”

His body shuddered as the first half ended and the second half was being unfolded.

Even if he hadn’t learned it, he was bound to recognize this. At least, he should have seen his father do it.

Pak!

The floor of the training room was being dug into a hole as I continued to move the slashing sword technique.

I was able to perform it correctly, and as I finished he looked dumbfounded.

“Do you still think I don’t deserve it?”

At my question, he asked,

“H-How do you know that?”

I pulled out a paper that I had prepared in advance, on it was the latter part of the sword which I had written down with pen and ink in the training room.

“The Great Doctor always takes sothing in exchange for healing soone. Even if it cannot be used, he decides to keep things for the sake of honor.”

“Then father?”

So Ik-heon connected the dots.

Thanks to this, I made a plausible situation and the man couldn’t take his eyes off the paper I held.

Seeing the full technique made him beco quite shocked.

Now it was his turn to beg.

I took the paper back and said,

“Who is in the position to make requests now?”