"Derivation Skill" progress is promising—
"Yijinjing", inspiration 91, success is imminent."
From last July to this February, over a span of eight months, the research and development of "Yijinjing," the ’holdout,’ is finally nearing completion. Yan Chuan feels both emotional and expectant.
Not just "Yijinjing."
This includes two newly established Seventh Level Geng Tasks—
"Wave Riding Micro Steps!"
The inspiration for these two Divine Skills grows daily, and movement can be seen every day. This is much faster than when "Yijinjing" was first being developed, where progress was hard to come by within half a month or even a month.
In three days, Geng level tasks—
"Wave Riding Micro Steps", 5 points of inspiration!
"Dugu Nine Swords", 9 points of inspiration!
If you calculate it this way—
"Wave Riding Micro Steps, at most two months!"
"Dugu Nine Swords, at most one month!"
In one to two months, these two Geng-level Martial Arts can be fully developed.
And the "Jian Province Competition" precisely lasts a month.
That is to say, by the end of the competition, the "Dugu Nine Swords" can just be developed, while "Wave Riding Micro Steps" will need a little more time, likely to be completed by the Cang Mountain stage.
"It might not be necessary."
"For the past four days, I’ve been explaining in the audience, only going on stage once."
"There’s still nearly a month ahead, I can go on stage up to sixteen more times. As long as I can give explanations on stage, the progress can be faster."
Maybe "Wave Riding Micro Steps" won’t take two months.
Maybe "Dugu Nine Swords" won’t take a month.
But Yan Chuan still thinks it’s not enough—
"Jian Province Competition!"
"Cang Mountain Sword Discussion!"
"Such grand occasions are rare opportunities, I must cherish them, seize every single moment to strive to consolidate all my Martial Arts into a cohesive system before the ’Jian Province Competition’ and ’Cang Mountain Sword Discussion’ end."
This cannot be neglected.
As for how to accelerate the research and development, Yan Chuan already has an idea—
[Research and Development Project Name: Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill (Difficulty: Jia)]
[Completing the task earns ’Experience +50000000000’, ’Spiritual +50000000000’]
[Task Three: Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill], a day passed, not a dent.
"The ’Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill’ is too difficult, beyond my current capability."
"It cannot just occupy a task slot for nothing."
"Might as well free it up."
Yan Chuan thought to himself—
"Initiate new research task—"
[Research and Development Project Name: Huashan Foundation Sword (Difficulty: Xin★)]
[Completing the task earns ’Experience +5000’, ’Spiritual +5000’]
Yan Chuan consumed 5000 experience, immediately canceling the task for the "Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill" and set up a new task, which is the "Huashan Foundation Sword"!
The so-called ’Foundation Sword’ can be understood as ’Basic Swordsmanship,’ ’Foundational Swordsmanship,’ or—
Swordsmanship Foundation!
Swordsmanship Fundamental!
"Huashan Foundation Sword" is a set of basic sword techniques that explain and encompass the general outline of Huashan Swordsmanship.
Yan Chuan first practiced "Mixed Element Skill," then further studied "Purple Mist Divine Skill," both of which are direct traditions of Huashan.
This time, the "Huashan Foundation Sword" is also a line from the Huashan Sect, which is the foundation of Huashan Swordsmanship. Historically, Huashan is known for being strange and dangerous.
The "Huashan Foundation Sword" derives its Sword Intent from Huashan’s ’strange’ and ’dangerous’ aspects.
The boundless beauty of Huashan is in its oddities and dangers.
Oddities and dangers often echo and derive from each other, thus Huashan’s Swordsmanship is strikingly elegant, supremely high, with moves filled with the impression of achieving victory through unusual strategies, seeking triumph in danger.
The "Huashan Foundation Sword" fits perfectly, starting shallow and delving deep; this way of the sword alone is enough to traverse Jianghu.
From the difficulty of the task—
"Xin Level One Star!"
Comparable to ’Xingyi Boxing,’ ’Eight Diagram Palm,’ ’Baji Fist,’ etc., all peak boxing skills, it suggests that the potential of the "Huashan Foundation Sword" is not insignificant, and its power is substantial.
However, Yan Chuan’s decision to abandon "Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill" and instead develop the "Huashan Foundation Sword" is not because of "Mixed Element Skill" and "Purple Mist Divine Skill," or only slightly related to them; it’s more so because—
"Dugu Nine Swords starts from ’Swordsmanship’ but transcends ’Swordsmanship.’"
"If I want to develop ’Dugu Nine Swords,’ I mustn’t bypass the research of ’Swordsmanship.’ Without a deep foundation in Swordsmanship, even if by chance it’s developed, pushing forward, mastering it would consume a vast amount of time and energy."
"Dugu Nine Swords permeate through Huashan; within ’Huashan Swordsmanship,’ one can find shadows of ’Dugu Nine Swords’ here and there."
"Start from ’Huashan Swordsmanship,’ absorb the ’Five Mountains Swordsmanship,’ then trace roots further to include ’Quanzhen Swordsmanship’."
"Maybe even include the ’Ancient Tomb Swordsmanship’ as well."
"On this foundation, developing ’Dugu Nine Swords’ and practicing it in the future will be twice the efficiency with half the effort!"
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!
A skyscraper rises from the ground up!
Foundation is very important.
Yan Chuan effortlessly developed ’Xingyi Boxing,’ ’Tai Chi Boxing,’ and other peak boxing skills because he already had a deep foundation with Cheng Family Boxing and Guangling, Taikang, and other regional Hundred Schools Boxing Skills.
Developing ’Mixed Element Skill,’ ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ was also firm progress in Inner Strength, one step at a time reaching new heights.
Even with ’Wave Riding Micro Steps,’ he had prior versions of ’Divine Movement Transformation’ to rely on.
But for ’Dugu Nine Swords’?
Yan Chuan, with only a bit of swordsmanship foundation, hastily embarked on this peerless sword skill, lacking foundation and clarity; of course, the progress wouldn’t be quick.
Now, Yan Chuan is starting to rectify this.
Start by developing swordsmanship!
Start by reading secret manuals!
Yan Chuan got up and went out, heading straight to the Cangwu Department in Yingze County. Elder Jiang had already cleared the way for him, allowing Yan Chuan to enter the Collection Room to browse freely!