Changing Class to Spell Cultivator

"I..."

"No need to say more, I know the answer very well. Yesterday I ordered you to stay and guard the Righteous Qi Palace. Do you have any complaints?"

"This is my responsibility as the young sect leader. My father also had his own unavoidable difficulties, which I can understand."

"I hope you truly understand, and not just be perfunctory... I might as well tell you, if your sister Ziling were to succeed as the young sect leader, I would still keep her in the Righteous Qi Palace without any favoritism. But if one day our positions are reversed, you must resolutely sacrifice me without any hesitation. This is the awareness that the inheritor of the Intent to Slay Evil should have."

"... I've got it."

After Wan Ziqiu left, Wan Yebai sighed deeply, his face showing disappointment. He had originally thought that although his son was only capable of maintaining the status quo, he was not an incompetent person. Under his leadership, the Evil-Slaying Sword Sect could at least be safely passed down and smoothly handed over. However, now that the sect was facing a great calamity, it was an extraordinary time. With his son's ability to maintain the status quo, he was bound to be stretched thin and unable to cope with the situation. Unfortunately, the sect did not have any other better candidates.

Wan Yebai looked up at the distant horizon. It was not yet sunrise. A few lingering stars were embedded in the pale blue sky. The earth was hazy, as if shrouded in a silvery-gray veil. The ground was pitch black, while the sky was all white. Wild grass trembled slightly, and everything was shrouded in a mysterious twilight.

A lark seemed to join the stars, singing in the highest sky. The vast heavens seemed to hold their breath, listening to this little life's hymn to the boundless universe. The dazzling Venus hung atop the Righteous Qi Peak, contrasting sharply with the ruins below, where the Blood Abyss Sect, like a soul flying out of a dark mountain valley.

"Misfortune and fortune are intertwined; what is a calamity can also be an opportunity. Should we take a gamble?"

Three days later, Si Ming approached Wan Yebai with the manual of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique, saying, "Sect Master Wan, I have encountered difficulties in cultivating this Swordsmanship and have come to seek your guidance. I hope you will be so kind as to enlighten me."

Upon hearing this, Wan Yebai was surprised, and managed to conceal his emotions with great difficulty.

His earlier offer to share his insights was merely a polite remark. It was assumed that someone of the Heavenly Martial Alliance leader's status would keep quiet even if they didn't understand, focusing on self-study rather than lowering themselves to ask for advice. Especially someone as young and high-ranking as Si Ming, who was likely ambitious and wouldn't easily bow down to others, was unexpectedly "unreserved."

Wan Yebai's initial plan was to wait until Si Ming encountered a bottleneck, then proactively offer him various cultivation insights annotated by a senior, providing him with thoughtful care. Given Si Ming's personality—he was more receptive to gentle persuasion than force—he would surely remember this favor. Therefore, when Wan Yebai later asked Si Ming to help him kill the Beast King Anye, Si Ming would most likely agree.

On the other hand, he felt that even if the leader of the Heavenly Martial Alliance could put aside his pride and humbly ask for guidance, it would be two or three months from now. Only three days had passed. Could it be that with the martial arts foundation of the leader of the Heavenly Martial Alliance, he couldn't even learn the basics of Swordsmanship on his own?

But these thoughts were just thoughts; he couldn't possibly say them aloud. Wan Yebai wasn't a fool who didn't understand human nature, so he asked, "May I ask, at which stage did the Alliance Leader encounter difficulties?"

"If I can't learn the last two moves, are there any conditions?"

With Si Ming's talent for sudden enlightenment, he would definitely learn anything that could be learned. The fact that he hadn't learned it after three days of practice only shows that he didn't yet meet the minimum requirements for these two moves.

As for asking others for help, he didn't feel ashamed at all. In his previous life, when he encountered problems he didn't understand, he would just search on Baidu. If he encountered professional problems such as buying computer configurations, he would ask for help on forums. Back then, he could even type "kneeling and begging for help in the freezing cold, doing a 360-degree body flip three and a half times in the snow," and even post more embarrassing pictures. What was asking others for help?

Asking questions when you don't understand is the right attitude to learn; pretending to understand when you don't is the most shameful thing to do. Almost every student who has gone to school and is serious and motivated knows the principle of "asking the teacher when you don't understand".

"So it was the last two moves... Uh, which two moves did the Alliance Leader mean?"

"It consists of two ultimate techniques: 'All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes' and 'Slaughter Seal, Killing Realm, Sever Sin.'"

Wan Yebai opened his mouth, and after a long while, asked, "What about the ones in front?"

"You've learned them all."

"... Is the Alliance Leader joking? Forgive me for not understanding the humor style of the Western Martial World; it seems to lean towards the hard-boiled."

"What's this about hardcore and softcore?"

Si Ming rolled his eyes, but immediately realized he had inadvertently shown off, so he could only say, "Facts speak louder than words, so please, Sect Master, experience it for yourself." After saying that, he formed a sword with his fingers, unleashing Sword-Ray from his fingertips, and attacked with the moves of the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique.

Wan Yebai quickly parried the attack, also forming a sword with his fingers and unleashing its Sword-Ray to clash with it.

The Evil-Slaying Sword Technique is inherently fierce and powerful. When the two used the same Swordsmanship together, it was like a lion fighting a dragon, or a raging storm, extremely intense.

As the saying goes, a master's skill is immediately apparent. After exchanging blows for more than ten rounds, Wan Yebai immediately realized that his opponent had truly mastered the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique, and not just in a superficial way, but almost to the point of perfection. He was no longer bound by the rules and routines, but had made changes to the stance that suited him better. In terms of strength, he was even slightly better than Wan Yebai, who had practiced Swordsmanship for forty years.

How could such a thing happen!

"Could it be that the Alliance Leader practiced the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique before?" Even though he knew it was impolite to ask such a question, Wan Yebai couldn't help but ask.

"Of course not, otherwise why didn't I use it when I faced the Beast King Anye? And why did I put on this act in front of you before?"

Wan Yebai knew that this possibility was very small, but if it wasn't this answer, the other answer was even more unbelievable.

"Did the Alliance Leader really master Swordsmanship to this level in just three days?"

"Actually, it took me two days to reach my current level. On the third day, I was trying to figure out the remaining two ultimate moves, but unfortunately, I couldn't get anywhere with them. I had no choice but to come and ask the sect leader for guidance," Si Ming said calmly.

It wasn't that he was showing off intentionally, but rather that he had used this kind of pretentious act so many times that he had developed a resistance to it, and therefore remained completely unmoved.

"I'm sure the sect leader has seen people who learn martial arts exceptionally quickly. What others can achieve in a month, they can reach in a day. I'm just a little bit faster than those people, so there's nothing particularly surprising about it."

Si Ming said that he really didn't want to put on this kind of unskilled and unoriginal act, but he was forced into it.

Chapter 556 Job Change Technique Cultivation

The fact that any martial arts genius could learn a skill instantly and master it in one go shattered Wan Yebai's worldview. However, the facts were right in front of him, and unless he could find other explanations or use the mental victory method to hypnotize himself into believing that "it's all an illusion," he could only accept reality.

Fortunately, there is no Principle in this world that says "if your established values are challenged, you will get your head blown off." Therefore, after a slight struggle, Wan Yebai decided to let the matter go for now, not to delve into the reasons, and to only consider the premise that "Alliance Leader Sima has learned the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique."

"As expected of the Alliance Leader, you've made rapid progress, mastering the Evil-Slaying Sword Technique so quickly. Of the remaining two ultimate moves, 'All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes' requires not only Internal Cultivation strength but also spiritual cultivation. This is because this move is not a physical sword but a sword of consciousness, using one's own Sword Intent to erode reality, causing the opponent to experience the illusion of time and space freezing, rendering them unable to move and forcing them to obediently endure this One Sword strike."

"From your description, it sounds like a combination of illusion and Swordsmanship."

"It's seemingly real but actually fake. This move is fundamentally different from illusions. Even the kind of illusion where 'being injured in a fantasy will also result in being injured in reality' is still essentially a deception. But this move is real. Even if the opponent understands the principle behind this move and knows that the time-space freeze is just their illusion, they still won't be able to move," Wan Yebai thought for a moment and suggested, "How about this, I'll demonstrate it to the Alliance Leader here."

Si Ming nodded and said, "Personal experience is the most authentic; I humbly request Sect Master Wan's guidance."

Wan Yebai first closed his eyes to regulate his breathing. Clearly, even with his cultivation level, this move was not something he could use immediately, especially since his injuries had not yet healed.

After a moment of preparation, Wan Yebai's Sword Intent continued to rise. After reaching a certain level, he opened his eyes, first reaching out to pick up a drop of water and flicking it into the sky. The moment the water droplet began to fall, he launched his sword move.

"All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes!"

In an instant, Si Ming felt a surge of murderous aura emanating from Wan Yebai. If it weren't for the fact that it was only murderous aura and not killing intent, he would have been prepared to fight back—but he soon found himself unable to move.