Chapter 59: Creating Swordsmanship

Chapter 59: Chapter 59: Creating Swordsmanship

"Senior Sister Luo Yi, please help me out. I promise there won’t be any problems with my cultivation."

Yi Xiaoyao leaned forward slightly, his handsome face moving closer to the girl’s pretty face, which was feigning a serious expression.

Although Luo Yi was skilled in Charm Techniques, a blush still crept onto her pretty face.

"I can help you check out these two swordsmanship manuals, but I’ll have to report this to Master when I get back. He’ll be the one to decide whether you’re allowed to cultivate them," Luo Yi said, her heart softening as she frowned slightly.

Yi Xiaoyao flashed a brilliant smile, revealing his pearly white teeth, and quickly nodded. "No problem!"

With the matter settled, Luo Yi took the two Jade Slips to the Tower Guardian Elder to register them. When the elder took the Jade Slips, his eyelids immediately twitched.

"These two types of swordsmanship are dangerous Spiritual Skills. There are strict requirements for borrowing them: you must be an elder’s disciple and can only cultivate them under an elder’s guidance and supervision."

Luo Yi gave the Tower Guardian Elder a sweet smile. "Elder Linjie is my master. You know that, Elder Xu."

"Hmph! Of course I know that. But I also know you’re checking out these two swordsmanship manuals for that kid over there!" the Tower Guardian Elder said, his face hardening as he looked at Yi Xiaoyao.

Hearing this, Yi Xiaoyao thought, ’This is bad. I didn’t expect it would be so difficult to borrow these two swordsmanship manuals. No wonder they were deliberately hidden in a corner.’

But Luo Yi’s eyes darted as she said, "Elder Xu, he’s my master’s newest disciple. Please, just let us borrow them."

Although Yi Xiaoyao had not formally become Linjie’s disciple, the Tower Guardian Elder had no way of verifying this at the moment. After a moment’s hesitation, he had no choice but to nod in agreement.

The two of them left the Star Spirit Pavilion, and Luo Yi handed the Jade Slips to Yi Xiaoyao.

Yi Xiaoyao took them with a joyful expression, toying with the Jade Slips.

Seeing that the boy before her only had eyes for the Jade Slips, completely ignoring the great beauty standing right beside him, Luo Yi’s lips immediately curled into a small pout.

...

After returning to his residence, Yi Xiaoyao immediately began to carefully examine the two Jade Slips in his hands.

The sky was growing dark. Bathed in the sunset’s glow, Yi Xiaoyao began to cultivate the two types of swordsmanship known as Fierce Techniques—arts that no one else dared to practice.

Withered Silence Swordsmanship and Spirit-Devouring Swordsmanship. The creator of these two arts was the same person: the first-generation Hall Master of the Seven Kills Star Hall.

This person’s Talent Attribute was the Withered Wood Attribute. This Attribute not only possessed tyrannical Destructive Power but also had the ability to devour Life Force.

But Yi Xiaoyao was different from that first-generation Hall Master. His Talent Attributes were Devouring and Destruction. Cultivating one type of swordsmanship for each Attribute gave him a greater advantage.

That being said, after practicing dozens of times, Yi Xiaoyao had made no progress. He had even come close to suffering a cultivation deviation.

At this moment, Yi Xiaoyao sat under the moonlight, his brow furrowed in thought.

’Why? I clearly meet the requirements for this swordsmanship, so why can’t I seem to master it?’

After staring blankly at the Sword Technique on the Jade Slip for a full hour, Yi Xiaoyao had a sudden realization.

’I understand now. I was just following the steps of the swordsmanship, but some parts conflict with the Attributes of its creator. That’s what’s leading to the risk of a cultivation deviation.’

’If I want to continue cultivating these two types of swordsmanship, I have to grasp their essence and then recreate the Sword Technique according to my own Attributes!’

As he muttered to himself, even though Yi Xiaoyao had identified the problem, his expression grew even more troubled.

Recreating a Sword Technique... how incredibly difficult.

Fortunately, with the foundation of his predecessor’s essence and Yi Xiaoyao’s own heaven-defying talent in the Sword Dao, it was not an impossible task.

Gradually, Yi Xiaoyao stood up. His eyes were lightly closed, but his sword began to move.

A surge of Sword Qi filled with a destructive aura instantly enveloped the longsword. The Bloodthirsty Sword’s original blood-red color turned an abyssal black.

As time passed, Yi Xiaoyao’s longsword danced in his hands, yet there was not the slightest glint of light from the blade.

This was because the falling moonlight was being extinguished by the Destructive Sword Qi on his blade!

Suddenly, Yi Xiaoyao’s eyes flew open. He slashed down at a drifting leaf in front of him.

The leaf was not sliced in two. Instead, it vanished in an instant, utterly extinguished!

"It worked!"

A sharp glint flashed in Yi Xiaoyao’s eyes, his excitement unmistakable.

’This swordsmanship, created from the Withered Silence Swordsmanship, is no longer the Withered Silence Swordsmanship. It should be called... Silent Swordsmanship!’

A single slash, and all things are silenced.

"It’s a shame my understanding of the Sword Dao is still insufficient. Otherwise, the power of this swordsmanship would be far greater than it is now," Yi Xiaoyao sighed with regret.

But if anyone else had witnessed this scene, their eyes would have popped out of their sockets. For someone so young, with his level of cultivation, to be able to recreate a swordsmanship based on the essence of a predecessor’s art—and to even surpass the original—was a feat that would make even Sword Dao geniuses who had been immersed in their craft for decades feel inferior.

With the experience of creating the Silent Swordsmanship, Yi Xiaoyao then picked up the Spirit-Devouring Swordsmanship and began to study it.

The next morning, a series of urgent knocks came from outside Yi Xiaoyao’s door. The visitor seemed extremely anxious.

Yi Xiaoyao had been cultivating all night and had just sheathed his sword. He hurried to open the door.

Outside the door, Linjie’s face was a mask of anxiety and anger. Behind him stood Luo Yi, looking aggrieved.

"Xiaoyao! I heard from Luo Yi that you checked out two swordsmanship manuals from the Star Spirit Pavilion yesterday. You have no idea how dangerous those arts are! I absolutely forbid you from cultivating them. Return them at once!"

The moment Yi Xiaoyao opened the door, he was met with Linjie’s scolding.

"Senior Linjie, Senior Sister Luo Yi, I was just about to return these two swordsmanship manuals," Yi Xiaoyao said as he quickly invited the two inside.

"Hmph, that’s more like it. You must have realized how dangerous those two swordsmanship manuals are, which is why you decided to return them, right?"

Linjie’s expression finally softened as he nodded. Then he pointed at Luo Yi behind him and barked, "I told you to look after your junior brother, but you sent him down a path to his death! If Xiaoyao had a mishap cultivating those Fierce Techniques, how would I explain it to your Grand-Master!"

Luo Yi looked completely aggrieved and shot Yi Xiaoyao a resentful glare.

Yi Xiaoyao gave her an apologetic smile, then scratched his head and said to Linjie:

"Senior Linjie, I know you’re concerned about me, but... I’ve already successfully cultivated both types of swordsmanship. That’s why I was going to return them."