132: Chapter 110: Sudden Uprising, Decisive Kill!
132: Chapter 110: Sudden Uprising, Decisive Kill!
In the real world, six days had passed.
So how long had passed in the Meditative World?
It seemed incredibly exaggerated, yet many things could prove that the time trajectory in the brain was different from reality.
This was not derived from the movie “Inception” but based on real evidence.
For example, when you’re sleeping, you might have a very long dream.
However, the actual time you spend dreaming might only be a few minutes.
Using an inappropriate analogy, the human brain can be considered a computer.
When awake, it runs extremely slowly due to many distractions.
But when all external factors are blocked out and all resources are pooled into doing a specific task, its processing speed can increase by several orders of magnitude.
However, meditation is not omnipotent.
It can only be used to investigate something very focused, pure, and even repetitive.
Like perceiving the intrinsic rules and attributes of a set of sword techniques.
If it were used to practice martial arts, it would be utterly useless because in meditation, the power of the dragon could not be improved at all.
And in the Meditative World, Suo Lun had endured the most painful and monotonous times.
This sword technique appeared incredibly stunning, but actually practicing it was truly torturous.
Not to mention having to learn all nine moves and eighty-one forms, one had to fully comprehend all ninety-nine variations as well.
And this kind of comprehension could not afford the slightest error.
Once a mistake was made, your next sword move could not be executed, as your bodily balance would be completely destroyed, and even your meridians might be injured.
Therefore, this set of sword techniques was not about learning one movement but about sensing the balance of stances within the body, the flow of breath in the meridians, and achieving perfect harmony and equilibrium with the sword intent.
In short, it was about making the breath of the meridians and the essence of the sword techniques become as natural as heaven and earth, reaching a perfect balance.
Thus, this set of sword techniques had become the highest path for Swordsmen to perceive the Sword Dao.
In the Meditative World, it took Suo Lun fully eight months to completely comprehend the first move.
Yes, it took a full eight months to bring the body’s meridians and the essence of the sword techniques into perfect harmony.
This was also fortunate to be in the Meditative World where personal desires and distractions had already been removed, and there was a long-standing numbness to irritability and tedium.
In reality, such endurance would have been unbearable and near total collapse.
But it was also because of the numbing of emotions and senses that the learning acuity in the Meditative World was much worse than in reality.
What could be completed in six months in reality might not be accomplished in a year in the Meditative World.
The difficulty of the second move increased again, but with the understanding of the first move, it took only six months.
The third and fourth moves also took just half a year each.
However, after more than half a year, the fifth move was still not completely finished.
Because Suo Lun’s spiritual power had been depleted, his dragon power had been exhausted, and the dragon power stored by Yao Xing was almost gone as well.
In order to sustain the final comprehension and training, Yao Xing even had to consume Suo Lun’s own energy to supply the brain with the energy needed for meditation.
By the time the comprehension of the fifth move was complete, his entire body was utterly depleted, even weaker than at any previous time.
All the energy within his body had been consumed cleanly, and all his vitality had been drained.
Upon opening his eyes, the first thought was to immediately fall asleep.
However, he absolutely could not sleep, for if he did, he wouldn’t wake up for several days and nights.
“Sword Master, how many days have I been meditating?” Suo Lun asked with effort.
“Six days,” said Sword Master Bi Xiao.
“There are three days left until the duel you spoke of.
How far have you progressed with the Calamity Nine Swords?”
“The fifth move,” Suo Lun responded.
Sword Master asked, “Then how long have you spent in the Meditative World?”
“Nearly three years,” replied Suo Lun.
Sword Master Bi Xiao frowned, “Then your speed is slower than I had thought.
Is it that your spiritual talent isn’t as strong as I imagined, or did you carry distractions even into the depths of meditation?”
Perhaps it was both reasons.
Because he entered into meditation instantly, Bi Xiao had greatly overestimated Suo Lun’s spiritual talent.
His true talent was around 8.1, although it was one in ten thousand.
But in the eyes of Sword Master Bi Xiao, it wasn’t considered top-notch, even falling short of Gui Qinshao.
It sounded odd, with Gui Qinshao being so proud and not very scheming, how could she have a higher spiritual talent?
Yet that was the case, both Suo Lun and Zhi Ning were scheming, but their spiritual talent was hard to reach the pinnacle.
People with high spiritual talents tend to have relatively pure characters.
When Sword Master mentioned that Suo Lun still carried distractions deep within meditation, it was indeed true.
Because, to write a single word with the sword tip—Ridge—was all the ninety-nine variations of the Calamity Nine Swords were about!
So, during his training and comprehension, this idea even invaded the deepest part of his meditation.
As a result, Suo Lun’s training progress in the Meditative World was not as perfect as imagined.
Gui Qinshao had practiced the Calamity Nine Swords for ten years and had now completed the fifth form of the eighth move.
However, she hadn’t been training every moment of those ten years.
Adding up all the time spent in comprehension and training on the Calamity Nine Swords, it would not exceed two years.