Chapter 509: Oneself (2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Luo Di was teaching his son the sword skill, he said with a smile that his body was already at the Great Master tier, however, he could do nothing if his skills could not be brought up to speed.
Shortly after he explained the content of the sword style in rough terms, Luo Di taught Lu Sheng a few basic moves in detail.
Then, he quickly noticed that he only had to teach his son twice, and the latter would already be able to grasp what he thought were highly difficult sword skills.
Whether it was his form or his technique in using his force, they seed to be as easy as a pie to Lu Sheng.
This shocked Luo Di. Before they knew it, the morning had passed them by.
Luo Di taught Lu Sheng more and more sword skills. Before he knew it, he had taught all the basic sword skills in the morning. Lu Sheng had also rembered them all, including the way to exert force.
Lu Sheng’s body was not trained well enough, so he was unable to execute many of the sword skills perfectly. If that had not been the case, he would have been able to be on par against Luo Di after learning all the sword skills.
After lunch, Luo Di allowed Lu Sheng to rest for a while. He taught him new things in the afternoon.
After teaching him all the combat sword moves, the next step was for him to keep training so that he would improve his skills. There was no shortcut in fusing the sword skills with one’s reflexes. Repetition was the only way.
However, Luo Di felt that he did not have much ti left. He started teaching Lu Sheng how to improve his body’s strength, energy, and agility in the afternoon.
The contents of these lessons were the topmost secrets contained within the sword style. After strictly forbidding Lu Sheng from teaching this to outsiders, Luo Di started to teach the first stage of the training thod to Lu Sheng.
At the sa ti, he gave him a small bottle which contained black pills. He ordered Lu Sheng to take one after a certain period of training.
Lu Sheng had completely grasped the training thod. Rather than a training thod, it was much more of accelerating his body’s adaptation with the aid of the pills’ stimuli.
At dusk, Lu Sheng felt completely exhausted after dinner. He took a shower and retired to his bedroom. At the sa ti, he summarized what he’d learnt throughout the day.
He lay down on the bed and toyed with the small bottle which contained the pills. He replayed the mory of the sensation he’d felt after taking one pill.
His Divine Intellect Divine Lord’s spirit was much more powerful than before. His imnse spirit continuously resounded within and scanned himself.
‘So sword style this is. It’s practically a substance abuse style. The training of the body is completely reliant on taking pills?’ Lu Sheng quickly understood the theoretical effects of the pills.
These pills’ greatest effect was the unique stimulus it had on the body’s muscles. The effect was strong and long-lasting. It enabled the muscles in one’s body to beco more balanced and powerful. However, it had a certain toxicity to it as well. The thod of training one’s body taught by the sword style was to reduce the toxic effects of the pills to the lowest extent possible.
‘The increase in body strength is completely dependent on this so-called secret dicine.’ Lu Sheng scowled slightly. To him, such a thod of completely relying on external substance to improve one’s body was the Wicked Path.
‘It requires the user to improve his body through taking this dicine. If the raw materials for this pill run out one day, won’t this skill be completely lost?’
“Deep Blue.” Lu Sheng summoned the modifier. He checked the contents of the fra. As expected, a corresponding sword skill fra appeared in the modifier’s interface after he learned the Gelailo Sword Style.
“Gelailo Sword Style, Initiation. (Special quality, strength incrent).” That was the only special quality.
‘During the first stage, I’ll have to practice the thod to train my body after taking one pill. On average, the human body needs four to nine weeks to completely digest the boost brought about by the dicine before it’s able to take another one.’ Lu Sheng rembered what Luo Di had taught him.
‘In other words, I’ll need one to two months to completely digest it. This is practically absorbing nutrients from the dicine to strengthen myself.’
Lu Sheng looked at Deep Blue’s fra. He quickly planned for his future progress. ntal Energy could not substitute matter. Hence, he had no choice but to rely on the pills to train and strengthen his body.
Throughout the next month, Luo Di had focused all his energies on training his son. He appeared hurried. When he discovered Lu Sheng’s terrifying talent, he planned to teach his son everything he knew in one go.
Other than his skills, experience, shooting skills, ridings skills, and the others, he even gave Lu Sheng a big bag containing various dicine and pills which he’d concocted himself. He told him that these were all the dicine he would need to train his body in the future.
Lu Sheng did not stay idle throughout the month. He had attempted to substitute the dicine’s effects with ntal Energy and Yang Essence, and while he failed, he discovered the best way to use Deep Blue.
The said thod was to greatly reduce the ti he needed to strengthen his body after taking one pill.
An ordinary person would need one to two months to completely digest the dicine. This period would also lengthen as one’s level increased. This was because the higher a person’s level was, the stronger the dicine that person would be taking.
Deep Blue was completely capable of using ntal Energy to aid him in the swift mastery of difficult training thods.
The unique training thod of this sword style was the essence of the Gelailo Sword Style. Every tier had its own corresponding training thod after taking the dicine to aid in the absorption thereof. If Lu Sheng was able to complete the entire set of moves, it ant that his body was already able to digest the dicine on its own, and the strengthening of his body was complete.
Deep Blue greatly amplified this training thod with ntal Energy. This process was completed in an instant.
If Lu Sheng was not worried that Luo Di would notice sothing amiss, and thus refrained from using Deep Blue to accelerate his progress, he would finish up the bottle of pills Luo Di gave him ages ago.
With the passage of ti, it was finally ti for Luo Di to leave.
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Evening. Cold night breeze blew.
Luo Di rode on horseback, with two strong servants accompanying him. He carried a white sack and waved toward his back.
“Go back, I’ll return soon. I’ve taught you everything I ought to. What’s left is for you to train and connect them.”
“Don’t worry, you’ll surely be greatly shocked when you co back.”
Outside the manor, Lu Sheng watched Luo Di’s slowly receding back with a bunch of old people from the manor.
A month of training had strengthened his body plenty, and he no longer appeared so frail that he could not withstand the blowing wind. He was now a highly capable young man with a slight sensual appeal.
“Mister Luo Di has left. Ah Sang, there’s a ball in the Adika Manor tomorrow morning. Won’t you co with ?” The girl from ise Manor, Jia Lin, was here as well.
This girl was Luo Sang’s childhood friend. She had always doted on Luo Sang, treating him as her own little brother.
Luo Sang had a problem with his heart since he was young, and was a frail young boy who often fell sick. His skin that was as fair as polished jade added to his cuteness. Hence, Jia Lin, who was many years his senior, would often co over and take care of Luo Sang of her own accord. When they grew closer, they got used to this arrangent.
Recently, Luo Sang had attracted Jia Lin’s attention because he had been secluding himself as he worked hard on his sword training. Hence, she ca over for a visit and to see if sothing bad had happened.
Lu Sheng shook his head.
“My body’s too weak. Now that it’s finally looking better, I can’t slack off. Sister Jia Lin, I might be spending less ti with you after this.”
When Jia Lin heard this, she smiled.
“That’s good news. Your body has always been frail. I’ve advised you to train yourself before, but you wouldn’t listen. Now that you’re willing to train of your own volition, I can’t be any happier.”
Her looks were average. Her red hair stopped at her shoulders, and she had small clumps of freckles beside her nose, but she had a nice smile.
Jia Lin’s body was above-average. She had breasts bigger than most girls, while her waistline and the length of her legs were standard. Among the nearby manors, she was one of the beautiful unmarried won who had a striking point of her own.
Many had tried to matchmake her and Luo Sang. However, only the two of them knew that their relationship was more of kinship than love. Jia Lin filled the emotional void left behind by the absence of Luo Sang’s mother. The two of them resembled siblings and a mother and son at the sa ti.
“I know that training with the sword is difficult. With nobody looking after you in the manor, you must take care not to overdo it. It’ll be bad if you hurt yourself from overexertion,” Jia Lin instructed him.
“Don’t worry.” Lu Sheng nodded with a smile. The karma and wish of this persona, Luo Sang, was not to let the tragedy repeat itself and destroy the town.
By the looks of things, if he wanted to settle the karma completely, he would have to make sure that Luo Di would not die before destroying the town.
The objective of Luo Di’s current excursion should be to temporarily lure the monsters hunting them away. The ti which he decided to go back and exact his revenge had not yet co. Lu Sheng had deduced this from the hidden military resources in the manor—many were still being prepared. Luo Di did not bring anything that was complete with him. He’d rely brought with him so short-term equipnt. It was apparent that he planned to return.
‘He should be confident enough about returning without a scratch this ti. However, I don’t have much ti left. That bag of dicine is sothing Luo Di had prepared for himself. There should be enough of them to last until the third tier. Although I’m not sure just how powerful the town’s monsters are, it won’t hurt to strengthen this body to its limits. I have Deep Blue, after all.’
After taking a pill, Lu Sheng had actually analyzed the theory behind this dicine’s effects via his Divine Lord’s spirit.
Through his analysis on his own body and the observations on his endocrine system, he noticed that these dicines for the different tiers actually had another, greater purpose than supplying nutrients. These dicines were actually forcing open so limitations and switches of the body.
When these switches were unraveled, the body would absorb nutrients in an unbridled and unlimited manner to strengthen itself.
Once the dicine lost its effect, the switches would close up once again.
For this reason, the ingredients of the dicines for the different tiers were actually similar.
Although Deep Blue could not directly improve his physical body, it was able to strengthen the training thod, which in turn shortened the process of digesting the dicine. Deep Blue shortened the ti needed for an effect to take place, which originally required a very long ti to an extrely mind-blowing rate.
Since these dicines were different from what Lu Sheng had previously imagined as their main purpose was to control switches, this ant that as long as he had enough dicine, he would be able to continually strengthen his body with Deep Blue.
“Alright, I’m going back to training. Jia Lin, you should go back as well. It’s almost dusk.” Lu Sheng stopped his thoughts, and softly urged her to leave.
Jia Lin nodded. “Very well. I’ll co over to check on you sotis. Take care of your body. Don’t overdo it and injure yourself.”
“Okay.”
Shortly after, Lu Sheng looked on as Jia Lin left on horseback. Accompanied by a few ise Manor servants, she slowly made her journey back.
Lu Sheng turned around and scanned the crowd behind him.
“Alright, everyone. Everything will go on as it has all this while. I’ll be practicing with my sword in the morning. If there’s anything you need to see about, please co in the afternoon. I should be in the garden area.”
“Understood, Young Master,” the crowd of farrs, smiths, and craftsn replied.
Lu Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and strode toward the manor. Judging by the training dicine of the Gelailo Sword Style, the improvent of the user’s body was on an overall level. There were boosts to the user’s speed and strength, and taking the dicine enabled the user to constantly reach the body’s limits. However, a long ti was needed to digest the dicine, and there was also the issue of toxicity lingering within the body.
Although the training thod had a detoxifying effect, ordinary n would not be able to achieve complete detoxification.
This resulted in the lack of a fixed total amount that the practitioners of the sword style could consu throughout their lives. Toward the late stages, the toxins would start to constantly weaken the body. In addition to that, life would also start taking its toll. The result was that taking the dicine would actually weaken the body.
Hence, the degree of strengthening a user could obtain was also fixed. Moreover, the mysterious secret dicine was not able to unleash its complete might.
Lu Sheng planned to give it a try. He wanted to shorten the ti needed to digest the dicine and see just how powerful it could make him.
Through Deep Blue, he was completely able to attain the theoretical limits of body strengthening of the Gelailo Sword Style.
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