[Sword in the Heart]

"This Sword Nurturing Art, its level is actually orange?" Lu Xun was taken aback.

Skill levels, like equipment levels, are divided into five colors: "Gray, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Orange."

Orange is the highest level skill.

Mao Nanbei rushed in so hastily, and then he didn't do anything, just closed her eyes, and an orange-level skill came?

It gave him the feeling that an orange-level skill was chasing him to learn it…

This reminded him of a quote from Audrey Hepburn: "I will never attempt to reach for the moon. I want the moon to come to me!"

Even in his previous life, when he was still playing that stick-wielding level 60 account, he only learned a purple-level staff technique, and it was still an incomplete version.

Despite this, one strike from his staff could make people unable to close their legs, screaming incessantly.

The phrase "Eat this stick!" made countless male players tremble with fear and countless female players marvel at him!

But now, the skill in front of him is actually the top-level orange grade!

Lu Xun checked the basic information of the Sword Nurturing Art, and to his surprise, this skill was created by his First Senior Brother Yan Li, who was currently in Secluded Life-or-Death Cultivation.

"To be able to create an orange-level skill, what level of strength must First Senior Brother be at?" Lu Xun sighed in his heart.

But what surprised him even more was that the basic information clearly stated that the reason why First Senior Brother was in Secluded Life-or-Death Cultivation was also because of this Sword Nurturing Art – he had suffered a cultivation deviation while practicing it!

"I level up with experience points, so I shouldn't have the problem of cultivation deviation, right?" Lu Xun thought in his heart.

So he decisively chose [Yes] in the [Learn?] option.

Then, the cold information popped up again.

[Learning requires 10,000 experience points. Continue?]

Lu Xun hesitated for a moment.

It wasn't that he was short-sighted and reluctant to part with these 10,000 experience points.

But for the early stages, 10,000 experience points really weren't a small amount. They could be used to do many things and were truly precious.

As for the Sword Nurturing Art, it wasn't a big deal if he didn't learn it now. When he had enough experience points in the future, he could just ask Mao Nanbei to teach him again, right?

But the orange-level skill was itching his heart…

How many players could resist the urge to learn it immediately?

Moreover, he had never learned an orange-level skill before, and he didn't know its specific power. What if it was awesome right from the start?

But these 10,000 experience points were really painful…

But thinking about it, orange-level skills weren't something that should appear in the early stages of the game. In the mid-to-late stages, 10,000 experience points would be completely bearable.

"Take a gamble, a bicycle can become a motorcycle!" Lu Xun gritted his teeth and chose [Continue Learning].

[Learning successful. Current progress: Sword Nurturing Art Level 0]

[Experience points 2150/1500. Can level up.]

Since he had already spent 10,000 experience points, he didn't care about these 1,500 points.

He noticed that the Sword Nurturing Art was divided into 10 levels, indicating that it was a complete skill.

Like the staff technique he had learned before, because it was an incomplete version, the maximum level was 8. Once it reached level 8, no matter how much experience points you had, you couldn't increase it any further.

However, it only took 500 experience points to raise the purple-level staff technique to the first level, but this Sword Nurturing Art directly tripled that!

You should know that the experience required for subsequent upgrades would directly increase several times. With 500 as the base and 1500 as the base, the difference would be greater and greater later on!

Forget it, never mind. He had already learned it. If he didn't level it up first, wouldn't the 10,000 experience points be wasted?

Lu Xun decisively chose to level up.

A change occurred at this moment.

Inside the Small Study, in Lu Xun's room.

After Mao Nanbei passed the Sword Nurturing Art to Lu Xun, she didn't rush to leave.

Seeing Lu Xun still sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, she guessed that he was still digesting and comprehending.

Mao Nanbei sat down on a chair, opposite Lu Xun, and muttered, "Little Martial Brother doesn't even have a sword right now, what's the point of Second Senior Sister asking me to pass him the Sword Nurturing Art? He doesn't even have a sword to nurture!"

"But the Sword Nurturing Art is too profound and obscure. Little Martial Brother will probably need some time to fully learn it. Second Senior Sister probably wants him to learn the Sword Nurturing Art while digesting the sword intent she left behind, which can have a complementary effect."

"Hehe, that must be what I'm thinking! Mao Nanbei, you're so smart!" The little loli swayed her little feet in the air, her pair of cat ears twitching slightly, very proud of herself.

She had indeed guessed Second Senior Sister's thoughts. The Sword Nurturing Art requires comprehension, it can't be learned all at once.

If Lu Xun relies on her sword intent to comprehend it, his progress will be much faster, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Second Senior Sister had already arranged everything perfectly!

However, an anomaly occurred at this moment.

The surrounding spiritual energy began to converge towards Lu Xun like crazy. He was like a candle in the dark night, and the spiritual energy became moths flying into the flame!

The change in spiritual energy directly shocked Mao Nanbei, and even Second Senior Sister, who was meditating with her eyes closed in the Bamboo Forest, suddenly opened her eyes, her expression solemn.

"How could this be!" Mao Nanbei jumped off the chair, looking anxious.

"How could Little Martial Brother learn the Sword Nurturing Art all at once! And looking at him, he's already cultivating!" Mao Nanbei couldn't help but panic.

Just like she said before, Lu Xun is a Swordless One, he doesn't even have a sword, what is he going to nurture with the Sword Nurturing Art?

The essence of the Sword Nurturing Art is to nurture one's own sword, day after day, year after year.

And once cultivation is successful, it can unleash tremendous power!

It's no exaggeration to say that if the power of the sword is 10 at the beginning, when your Sword Nurturing Art reaches level 1, the power of the sword can reach 20!

If it were divided in the game, then the Sword Nurturing Art is more like a [Passive Skill].

It's not like an active skill, which can only exert its power when used, but as long as you are using the sword that you have nurtured, every move you make, every style you use, every damage you deal… is doubled!

To put it simply, it's a 100% critical hit!

Yes, it's a 100% critical hit!

Moreover, as the level of the Sword Nurturing Art increases, the critical hit effect can continue to increase, such as from double critical hit to triple critical hit!

This is a divine skill, but the prerequisite is that you must have a sword!

A large amount of spiritual energy was attracted and poured into Lu Xun's body.

According to the process, after circulating in Lu Xun's body, it should be transferred to the sword through his hands.

But he doesn't have a sword, so the spiritual energy circled around and got lost in his body.

Logically speaking, he would explode and die next, like a balloon that has been blown too much.

But since the experience points have been spent, he will definitely be able to level up.

So, the spiritual energy seemed to be attracted by something and began to converge towards the Sword Heart in Lu Xun's body!

Slowly, a solid golden light appeared in the Sword Heart.

It was very, very thin, like a needle.

But in reality, it was an extremely small sword.

A Sword of the Heart!

Brother Xun's path of Sword Cultivator will be slightly different, I think it's quite interesting, and I will talk about it bit by bit later~