Chapter 118: Progress in Mastery of All-Thing
Unlike the first and second rounds, outsiders were forbidden to watch the third round. Other than the examinees, only the members of the Heaven Sword Sect were present inside the Sword Pavilion.
All present had their eyes on Snowy, filled with curiosity.
"Isn't that the girl who had passed all the nine gates? She is so young.."
"Yeah, she is the one. With her outstanding results, I think the sect will not refuse if she wants to skip the examination. Why does she need to muddle around here with us?"
"Maybe she wants to learn many Earth-grade techniques from here?"
"Hmph. What do you know? Even if she is extremely talented, learning Earth Grade techniques in a short time is still very difficult. How many techniques do you think she can learn in six hours? Are you forget about the bet between Young Master Qian and her? I think she is here to thrashing Young Master Xian once more."
"Is it really that difficult to learn an Earth Grade technique?"
"Heh, do you think it is easy to learn a new technique only in six hours? Maybe it is doable if you want to learn Mortal or Profound grade techniques, but Earth grade techniques? You are just wasting your time!"
"It is a pity, though.."
"C'mon don't bite more than you can chew. If you perform well in this round, maybe you can get another chance to come here in the future."
The examinees didn't waste their time and hurriedly dispersed, searching for any suitable techniques they could learn.
Some of the examinees from the clans affiliated with the Heaven Sword Sect didn't pick random techniques, instead, they approached the stone tablet which contained the sword techniques passed on to their family to increase their comprehension. It was far more beneficial for them to do this instead of learning a new technique from the scratch.
"Snowy, which technique do you want to pick?"
"There are so many choices! Heaven Sword Sect really is up to its name!"
Qi Ying'er and Qi Ning'er looked around the room with sparkling eyes. Their eyes fixated on the Earth grade techniques section, basically ignoring the Mortal and Profound Grade techniques section.
Although it was not the first time they came upon Earth grade technique, this was the first time they had seen a lot of them in one place. She couldn't help but feel excited!
"I want to take a look first."
"Then, I am going first. I want to find the Trinity Sword's stone tablet, hopefully, no one had claimed the sword tablet."
"Is that the signature technique from Meng Clan, Meng Qi?"
"Yes. If I can learn the insight from the sword tablet, I think I can reach a great success level today."
Although everybody could learn any techniques, it didn't mean that they could exert the full power of the moves. The amount of strength they could release was depending on how deep their mastery of each technique.
Martial Techniques mastery could be divided into several levels: Initial success, Small Success, Great Success, and Perfection. Only at the perfection level could the practitioner sense the sword intent within the sword technique.
Of course, those were the only level that ordinary cultivators knew. When they reached the realm of Grandmaster, they will realize that beyond the perfection level there was one more level called Manifestation. It was the level where the practitioner could unleash the intent within the techniques.
Increasing the comprehension of martial techniques required vigorous training and accumulation of insight. For a loose cultivator or cultivator from a mediocre clan, family, or sect, reaching the level of great success was already an incredible achievement due to a lack of resources and experts.
That was why many people spent their utmost effort to join Big Sect and Great Family.
"How nice.. We need to learn from the start."
"That is why you should hurry and pick your sword tablet; six hours is very short."
"Okay! Let's go sister!"
"Yes, yes. Snowy, we are going too."
"Un. Good luck."
After they separated, Snowy could feel a malicious gaze fell on her back. As she turned around, she saw Xian Bu Yu stood not far from here, looking at her with a death stare.
"Thanks for letting me win in the previous round."
Although she only spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, Xian Bu Yu felt her words were so sharp that his heart started bleeding.
"Don't be happy yet. You are just lucky! Can your luck help you survive this round, though?"
Xian Bu Yu snorted and left unhappily. 'Let her be arrogant for a while. It is I who will have the last laugh in the end.'
Snowy didn't treat Xian Bu Yu's threat seriously at all, at most it was just like a dog barking. She continued searching for a particular tablet.
Having learned the "Sky Severing Slashes" from Feng Xue, Snowy wanted to know whether the insight within the sword tablet could help increase her skill proficiency.
After ten minutes or so, she finally arrived in front of the stone tablet. She observed the sword marks on the surface of the tablet intently and entered a zen state in a blink of an eye.
Snowy saw a silhouette was wielding a sword in an imposing manner. The silhouette pointed its swords at the sky as if it was declaring war on heaven. A massive amount of energy gathered on the tip of the sword forming a blade made from Sword Qi. The only difference from the Sky Severing Slashes she once saw was its strike now exuded dense sword intent that seemingly wanted to tear the sky asunder.
'With a sword in my hand, I'll sever anything.. Even the sky!'
Snowy somehow could feel the sword intent radiated by the silhouette as clear as day. She quickly grabbed the chance to comprehend the sword intent, making it her own.
*Swooosh!*
The silhouette finally swung its sword, leaving a rift in the sky.
And that was the end of the vision.
Ding!
[Comprehension of Sky Severing Slashes greatly increases!]
[Increase skill proficiency 3->4]
[Adding the insight of the sword intent. Comprehension of Sky Severing Slashes greatly increases!]
[Increase skill proficiency 4->5]
[Comprehension of Mastery of All Thing greatly increases!]
[Proficiency 0. Increase skill progress 15% -> 16.5%]
Snowy didn't expect that observing the stone tablet could yield such a great harvest. Her <Sky Severing Slashes> proficiency had already reached the maximum level and it actually was contributing to the progress of her <Mastery of All-Thing> and also strengthen her sword intent.
'So, when my each of my skill reaches the maximum level, it will increase the progress of Mastery of All-thing! How convenience..'
Previously, although she had a repository of myriad martial techniques in her memory, she did not want to wantonly learn all of them just because she could. She only learned the best technique available for a specific purpose, for example <Thousand Eyes> and <Yin-Yang Shadow Step>.
But now, after realizing that she could make big progress in <Mastery of All-thing> by reaching the max level of proficiency skill for every technique she had learned. She was eager to try to comprehend all of the techniques she could retrieve.
'Let's start from all the techniques available in Heaven Sword Sect.'
With renewed motivation, Snowy quickly moved to the next stone tablet.