Chapter 14: Sword Technique

When Yang Wei woke up, he finally had time to unravel the technique that Elder Jing gave him.

Since there is a week left until the mystery realm opens, he was ordered by Elder Jing to use this remaining time to train himself.

‘Elder Jing is busy concocting pills and refusing visitors. I can’t slack off either.’

Opening the martial technique, Yang Wei slowly read it before knowing it’s a technique for swords.

“Weird, this is a technique for sword users but I don’t even have a sword.” Mumbling slowly, Yang Wei was confused why Elder Jing gave him this technique.

After all, his information is available and Elder Jing said she checked on him already.

Yang Wei was dazed before reading the technique instead. ‘Maybe this is to increase my comprehension.’

Although Yang Wei was not wrong, he wasn’t right either because this martial technique was different.

Yang Wei slowly finds out that this technique is to help a cultivator condense a sword qi using only his finger.

“To become one with the sword does not mean having an affinity with a sword. It is to be able to have a sword in your body at all times.”

Speaking the wording from the technique aloud, Yang Wei is feeling excited about this.

Yang Wei continued to read more and try out the step one at a time.

To be able to have a sword qi in the finger, you must first feel the wind and concentrate on the mental image of your finger as a sword.

Yang Wei spent the next 8 hours trying to form a sword with his two fingers and try to cut down a wooden log.

However, no matter how many times he tries, Yang Wei always fails to maintain the sword image in his finger.

“This technique is extremely taxing to one soul power and to think that I can barely condense a tiny dagger.”

Yang Wei can’t help but feel a bit disappointed because he couldn’t enlarge the true qi to have the shape of a sword.

To master a technique requires many practice and attempts before one can be comfortable in using it.

Therefore, Yang Wei is a bit disappointed but knows that haste makes waste so he would not overwork himself.

Once Yang Wei couldn’t produce another true qi due to exhausting it, he would go back to his room and study more herbs.

Yang Wei is multi-tasking to increase his knowledge regarding alchemy while improving his combat prowess.

Just like that, 6 days have gone by with Yang Wei doing the procedure every day without wasting any precious time.

It was at this moment that the sect became noisy with youths being excited.

That’s because the announcement of the mystery realm opening tomorrow is announced to everyone.

Every sect in the kingdom is now preparing for this mystery realm and hoping to have a lucky encounter on this trip.

Yang Wei and others were also called to appear in the open courtyard where many disciples gathered.

Yang Wei was standing in the crowd and he saw many inner disciples on the opposite side.

“I really hope I can go to this mysterious realm.”

“Are you crazy? Do you know how high the death rate is inside?”

“Tch, if you’re always this scared then how can you be qualified to be a cultivator. We are already going against heaven by cultivating so if you’re scared of dying every time, your path is doomed to failure.”

The disciples kept chattering among themselves and discussing the mystery realm.

Some are eager to get picked to be able to enter, some are unsure about what to do, and some are scared to be picked to enter the mystery realm.

Many of them have different agendas in coming to a sect and Yang Wei was the same.

Yang Wei came to this sect to be exposed to the cultivation world and not stay as a mortal for the rest of his life.

Hearing all those disciples chattering, Yang Wei only shakes his head since he was going to the mystery realm.

‘If I dare to not show up, Elder Jing might really cripple me.’

Yang Wei may be forced to go but in the end, there was a burning desire inside him that he wants to go.

Only by encountering life and death situations could one have their potential show their true value.

Waiting for another 10 minutes, an unfamiliar face to the disciples entered the center stage.

“Who is that person?”

“I don’t know… but he should be some powerful cultivator since the sect elders are behind him.”

“W-Wait, it’s the sect leader. I managed to get a glimpse on the sect leader during the sect tournament.”

An inner disciple said loudly for everyone to finally know who was the person that entered the center.

The sect leader rarely shows himself to the disciples and only appears once during the sect tournament organized by the kingdom.

Therefore, not many are able to recognize him but once they do, all the noises completely vanish as they await his speech.

“Be at ease everyone. Today I’m just here to announce that our sect was able to get 10 slots for entry to the mystery realm. It is an honor for our sect to be able to get this number but it’s still not possible to have everyone enter.” Sect leader Kong said slowly when the noise all quieted down.

When sect leader Kong said that sentence, many disciples cried out in uproar.

After all, the sect has over 1000 members and they only have 10 slots. The chance for them being able to enter is low.

Some still hoped that there would be a duel for who gets the entry but if they think a bit harder.

That’ll be impossible because the mystery realm opens tomorrow. There is simply no time for 1000 people to finish competing against each other.

Adding this factor, all the disciples came to a single conclusion. The slot entries for the people allowed to go to the mysterious realm have been decided.

They were just there to be an audience to know the people who are lucky to be able to obtain a slot.

Meanwhile, Yang Wei was calm and wondered why the sect did this.

‘Is this some method to increase the disciple’s fiery competitiveness inside them to have them catch up to those obtaining an entry slot?’

Yang Wei tried to think up multiple reasons for this action but couldn’t find anything logical in his guesses.

Sect leader Kong saw the disciple’s expression from the stage and slowly stroke his beard.

“As you all have guessed, the sect already conducted a meeting and decided who will be the 10 people entering. However, their name will not be announced except for their status.”

“Why can’t we know their name?”

“Yea, sect leader Kong, this is unfair to all those who didn’t get picked.”

A barrage of questions is uttered by every disciple when sect leader Kong said that their name will not be mentioned except for their status.

Sect leader Kong did not reply and instead, released his cultivation pressure on the people who were complaining.

The disciples who tried to create a scene were instantly on their knees because the sect leader Kong cultivation stage is in the Houtian stage while they are either in the Qi Condensation or Foundation Core.

“I will not repeat myself. If you have any complaints, you are free to leave the sect. Now I will begin to announce the status of the people.”

Sect leader Kong said before releasing his pressure on the disciples and began speaking about the status of those able to enter.

Sect leader Kong has announced some sect elder, inner disciple and the last one, an outer disciple.

When the crowd heard an outer disciple was able to get an entry slot, every inner disciple stared at those outer disciples.

They were all trying to pinpoint who was that disciple that gets to be able to enter the mystery realm.

The outer disciple was afraid because the inner disciple was in the Foundation Core stage while they’re still in the Qi Condensation.

Yang Wei was also being eyed on due to his handsome face but not much suspicion of him because of his low cultivation.

Yang Wei’s cultivation could only be considered average since many outer disciples advance to the 6th or 7th Qi Condensation due to the martial technique they chose.

When Yang Wei was about to shut his eyes, he suddenly noticed someone spying on him.

It was the same sensation he got in the night so Yang Wei hurriedly tried to search for the culprit.

However, the person retracted his true qi before Yang Wei was able to locate them and during this time, Yang Wei saw Elder Jing winking at him.

Elder Jing said something without audio but Yang Wei with his improved eyesight can tell what she said.

‘Meet me in my courtyard after this announcement is over.’

Yang Wei figured out her words before nodding slightly as he wanted to ask her questions about their plan in the mystery realm as well.