Chapter 77 - Insane Rate of Progress

Chapter 77: 77 - Insane Rate of Progress

Seeing King’s talent with her own eyes, Iris felt for the first time that she wasn’t a genius. But if she wasn’t a genius, then weren’t most cultivators trash?

She even felt it was unfair that this talent belonged to someone who lived such a carefree life and didn’t even need it.

Aside from reading novels, King had never fought anyone before, let alone held any social status or accomplished anything great.

He was someone who yearned for extraordinary dreams but was also a failure in the real world.

Who could have guessed that someone like him would possess such a shocking talent for cultivation and combat?

Since transmigrating, all the system had given him was basic combat experience.

That level was no different from that of ordinary people who had spent years learning to use a sword. It was even below that of professional athletes.

In battle, his talent for adapting and rapidly creating new strategies in the heat of combat had quietly shown itself time and time again.

He himself hadn’t noticed it, or perhaps he simply considered it something basic and not worth mentioning.

The Heavenly Dao Sword shook more and more violently, drifting farther and farther away from King’s hand. When it finally looked almost as if it were flying, it kept wobbling as though it were about to fall.

This wobbling looked no different from a child riding a bicycle for the first time. The only difference was that the wobbling quickly gave way to stability.

Are you kidding me? He just tried it and already got the sword to fly. What’s more, it’s getting more and more stable. Damn it, why do I suddenly feel like the heavens are so unfair? Why wasn’t this talent given to a true hero of humanity instead of some damn... Hmph, I can’t let him waste such a god-given gift.

King’s utterly unreasonable rate of progress made Iris’s eyes widen more and more. If she hadn’t wanted to interrupt him, she would have screamed out loud long ago.

Some mediocre people believe that hard work can defeat a genius. But those people are just frogs at the bottom of a well who have never witnessed the absurdity of a genius with their own eyes.

Geniuses and talented people are two completely different kinds of existence. The gap between them is like the gap between humans and gods.

They’re only one step apart, yet that step is something they can’t cross even in a hundred years.

Others can practice for months without getting results that match what King achieves just by reading a few pages of a book without even practicing. With a gap like this, how are they supposed to work hard enough to catch up?

That’s not even counting the geniuses who are incredibly hardworking. When one buff is stacked on top of another, what does hard work even count for?

Work hard for an entire lifetime? Nonsense. Even if they worked hard for a hundred lifetimes, they still wouldn’t see a genius’s back, let alone catch up to them.

But talent has never been all-encompassing. Even geniuses are still limited by the human body and brain.

Working hard is good, but you have to work hard in the right way. Think before you act instead of blindly following what others do, even when it doesn’t suit you at all.

It’s not difficult to surpass geniuses in fields where they lack talent. In fact, it can be incredibly easy.

There isn’t just one arena in the world, but an infinite number of them. Which one to choose is up to each individual.

In just thirty seconds, the Heavenly Dao Sword could almost float steadily in midair.

King was so focused right now that he didn’t have any major reaction. He was simply following the steps he thought he needed to take. Next, he had to control the sword and make it fly wherever he wanted.

King’s hand glided smoothly like a gentle breeze, and the sword immediately drifted in that direction. Technically, his hand didn’t need to move at all. This was a matter of the body’s reflexes.

When he wanted the sword to move in a certain direction, he treated it as an extension of his own arm. Because of this thought, one of his hands involuntarily moved along with it.

The Heavenly Dao Sword had actually succeeded in flying around in circles on the very first try. Its speed kept increasing, and its flight path became harder and harder to predict.

Since King had his eyes closed, he had no idea what was around him. The only thing he could sense was the distance between himself and the Heavenly Dao Sword.

Having calculated everything beforehand, King could ensure that the Heavenly Dao Sword’s flight range wouldn’t bring it into contact with the wooden house. But he had no idea what would happen if someone moved around randomly.

Iris was just standing still and watching, so how the hell did the sword’s tip end up heading straight for her head?

Hmph, you bastard! Even if you didn’t do it on purpose, I’ll settle the score with you later.

She didn’t want to interrupt King’s learning process, so she dodged instead of counterattacking or yelling at him.

King felt that he had practiced the Object Manipulation Technique to a level that was barely sufficient for practical use, so he made the Heavenly Dao Sword stop in front of him.

He jumped onto the sword and actually managed to stand incredibly steadily. Not a single tremble, not the slightest bit of awkwardness. Such perfection was truly unreasonable for someone who had only just started practicing.

Now that he had become fairly proficient, King didn’t take things slowly anymore. He directly controlled the flying sword to carry him straight up into the sky.

The higher he went, the lower the temperature became and the thinner the air grew, making him frown slightly. But while in a state of maximum concentration, he didn’t let these minor external factors hinder his progress.

King had now reached an altitude of around 8,000 meters, a deadly zone for ordinary people. Feeling that his proficiency was sufficient, he stopped.

His goal wasn’t just as simple as flying on a sword. What he wanted was to fly freely instead of being restricted by a sword.

The difficulty was immense. Almost all of King’s spiritual power was in the body, so sensing wasn’t a problem. The problem was that his body wasn’t motionless like inanimate objects such as swords.

To control his body and make it float freely in space while not restricting any other movements required a level of multitasking ability beyond that of an ordinary person.

This wasn’t simply a matter of flying upward. This was the art of constantly switching the body’s state between moving freely and flying like a lifeless object.

The more intensely King focused on sensing, the more he realized that the difficulty of these two tasks differed by far more than just a little.

Since the normal method wasn’t effective, he would try stimulating his body and brain even more intensely.

The Heavenly Dao Sword flew into his hand as he simultaneously deactivated its flight state. King’s body immediately went into free fall...