A streak of flowing light flashed through the dense forest.
Like a fish returning to the sea, like a bird soaring through the blue sky, it darted at high speed between towering trees, sometimes skimming up to the treetops before diving sharply downward.
It was so agile, it seemed to possess a life of its own!
Screech~
A large grasshopper hiding in the bushes was startled by the passing streak of light. It hurriedly leaped into the air and spread its wings, trying to flee this dangerous place that filled it with terror.
Yet the flowing light, which had just shot over a dozen paces away, abruptly turned back and silently sliced the large grasshopper in two!
The next moment, the silvery flowing light suddenly accelerated, streaking like lightning to the front of a white-robed cultivator.
The radiance receded, revealing the true form of a two-foot-seven-inch Flying Sword.
It hovered in the air, its blade trembling ever so slightly up and down, emitting a crisp, pleasant hum.
Wang Chen smiled faintly and reached out to grasp the Flying Sword.
A sensation of flesh and blood being connected rose within him, and indescribable joy welled up in his heart!
Sword Control Technique · Experience +1 Sword Control Technique (Minor Mastery): 207/300
Wang Chen let out a long breath.
No pain, no gain. Although the Sword Control Technique was exceedingly difficult to practice, through unrelenting effort, he had still brought this skill past the halfway point of Minor Mastery.
Thrust, slash, shave, coil, point, burst, intercept, press, return—the nine fundamental forms of the Flying Sword.
Wang Chen had already grasped all their essential principles.
In the sword strike he had just completed, he had consecutively employed the techniques of thrust, shave, coil, intercept, and return.
It struck from thirty zhang