Sublime Mastery!

The sword talisman looked like an illusory sword shadow, carrying a rather sci-fi feel, yet without the slightest sense of incongruity.

Jiang Yuan touched the sword talisman with his thoughts.

Several notions suddenly arose in his mind.

Like a selection panel, Jiang Yuan summarized them in words as follows.

[Sword Talisman Enlightenment]

[1. Increase enlightenment of Phoenix Cry Sword Technique]

[2. Evolve and complete Flowing Wind Sword Technique]

The two sword techniques Jiang Yuan had encountered both appeared on it.

There was also an option called [Sword Talisman Enemy Repulsion].

The Flowing Wind Sword Technique was not worth a damn to Jiang Yuan. The Zhenyuan Escort Agency's Phoenix Cry Sword Technique was in no way inferior to the Flowing Wind Sword Technique, so there was no need for him to learn it. Besides, evolving and completing it looked like it would consume even more energy.

Moreover, it would be hard to explain if a disciple of the Zhenyuan Escort Agency had learned the Flowing Wind Sword Technique.

Jiang Yuan set his sights on the Phoenix Cry Sword Technique.

He had been taught the complete set of this sword technique.

However...

Jiang Yuan hesitated somewhat at that moment. He recalled what Wenzhao had once said.

Mastering even a single weapon technique required an enormous expenditure of a martial artist's energy. If one cultivated several weapon techniques at once, that energy would be scattered.

For example, Jiang Yuan's Phoenix Cry Sword Technique and Tiger Roar Saber Technique had both reached minor accomplishment, and he even possessed a Severing Gate Saber at perfect major accomplishment.

Yet Jiang Yuan was not broad but shallow.

Jiang Yuan's gaze gradually hardened. He was not an ordinary martial artist. Ordinary martial artists could only focus on one of these martial arts techniques, but Jiang Yuan had the simulator and was different from them.

With the simulator, he did not even need to personally seek enlightenment. With its boost, Jiang Yuan could become peerless in both saber and sword—or perhaps a master of all weapons.

Jiang Yuan stopped hesitating and chose sword technique enlightenment: the Phoenix Cry Sword Technique.

The sword talisman's energy began to diminish slowly at a rate visible to the naked eye.

98, 97...

Then, memories of someone painstakingly practicing swordsmanship day and night suddenly emerged in Jiang Yuan's mind.

Traces of sword training also began to appear on Jiang Yuan's body.

In those memories, he practiced swordsmanship frantically like a martial arts fanatic, a sword fanatic, regardless of day or night, wind or rain.

Drawing, striking, thrusting, pointing, snapping, stirring...

The sword technique seemed to come alive in his hands.

The sword technique advanced from minor accomplishment to perfect major accomplishment, but perfect major accomplishment was not its endpoint.

Until, during one practice session, a bottleneck in the sword technique was violently smashed through.

It reached an entirely new realm.

Sublime Mastery!

Sword light transformed into divine phoenixes, their cries ringing through heaven and earth as they suppressed all evil.

Jiang Yuan's face was slightly pale, but when he opened his eyes, a sharp sword light flashed forth.

Jiang Yuan's temperament changed in an instant. If he had previously been a treasured saber hidden from view, he was now a peerless sword with its edge fully bared.

Jiang Yuan looked at his hands, feeling as though something was missing from them.

A sword! A swordsman's sword!

The Chen Saber appeared in Jiang Yuan's hand, but he shook his head.

He needed a sword!

Jiang Yuan had never expected the Phoenix Cry Sword Technique to reach the legendary realm of Sublime Mastery.

Jiang Yuan had never heard of anyone in the escort agency cultivating the Phoenix Cry Sword Technique to Sublime Mastery.

There were some who had attained perfect major accomplishment, but all of them were renowned veterans of the escort agency.

Swordsmanship had become another trump card for Jiang Yuan. When he could not reveal his strange bone, the Phoenix Cry Sword Technique at Sublime Mastery would be his ace up his sleeve.

He could not show it lightly either, but unlike the strange bone, it did not have to remain hidden from others unless it was a life-or-death moment.

Upgrading the Phoenix Cry Sword Technique to perfect major accomplishment had consumed five Points, while cultivating it to Sublime Mastery had instantly used up fifteen percent of the sword talisman's energy.

The sword talisman now had only 78.5/100 energy.

Jiang Yuan was in no rush to spend all the sword talisman's energy. Its enemy-repelling function was likewise one of his trump cards.

The sharpness in Jiang Yuan's temperament gradually receded, no longer exposed for all to see.

Jiang Yuan continued to open the simulator.

The appearance of the sword talisman made Jiang Yuan realize that the clearance rewards granted by the simulator were no worse than the rewards available for exchange.

Jiang Yuan looked at the Martial Arts Enlightenment Card.

The sword talisman's enlightenment ability could be said to be a Martial Arts Enlightenment Card exclusive to sword techniques.

Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment before directly using the exclusive Martial Arts Enlightenment Card on the Tiger Roar Saber Technique.

Martial Arts Enlightenment Card -1

Memories of practicing martial arts appeared in Jiang Yuan's mind once more, while traces of training in the Tiger Roar Saber Technique emerged all over his body.

Move after move of the Tiger Roar Saber Technique flashed through his mind.

The Chen Saber danced in his hand, and faint tiger roars sounded.

The Chen Saber became especially familiar in Jiang Yuan's hands.

However, Jiang Yuan had not reached the level of Sublime Mastery this time.

Jiang Yuan did not use another Martial Arts Enlightenment Card.

Judging by the energy within the sword talisman, reaching Sublime Mastery required three times the energy needed to reach perfect major accomplishment.

Jiang Yuan guessed that one Martial Arts Enlightenment Card could not upgrade a martial art at perfect major accomplishment to Sublime Mastery.

Besides, he did not currently need a second martial art at Sublime Mastery to strengthen himself.

Jiang Yuan used up all the enhancement chances he had accumulated in the simulator, then decisively clicked to generate a new simulated life.

Third Life! Begin!

[Required to generate Third Life simulation: Points*200]

Points -200

Four scarlet words appeared on the panel.

[Iron Blood Fiendish Qi]

The environment around Jiang Yuan suddenly changed.

The next instant, a sharp whistle of wind rang out, and a black shadow pounced at Jiang Yuan's face like lightning.

Having been prepared, Jiang Yuan reacted instantly. His qi and blood surged through his body, and he dodged the black shadow in one swift motion.

Only then did he see that the black shadow was an arrow.

Jiang Yuan looked around and discovered that he was actually on a battlefield, where the sounds of slaughter shook heaven and earth.

Corpses lay everywhere. Blood dyed the earth red, and severed limbs were scattered about at random, a ghastly sight to behold.

A faint blue light flashed imperceptibly in Jiang Yuan's eyes, and he instantly saw black mist constantly gathering in the sky.

This mist rose toward the sky from every armored soldier around him.

This was...

Killing Intent! Those two words suddenly appeared in Jiang Yuan's mind.

Before he could think further, a saber light suddenly appeared before him. Jiang Yuan instinctively reached for his saber, only to grasp empty air.

With a wet slash.

An arm actually flew away. Jiang Yuan's instinctive block had cost him an arm. His facial muscles tightened, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans appeared on his forehead.

What is going on?! I don't have a weapon!

Jiang Yuan steadied his mind and continuously dodged the greatsaber attacks of a tall, armored brute before him.

At the same time, he gathered information about his surroundings.

Jiang Yuan had not expected the third simulated life to clear in one go like the second one had.

Jiang Yuan observed his surroundings.

The battlefield was divided into two groups. One group consisted of well-equipped soldiers clad in black dark armor.

The other group wore scattered armor. Their warriors were generally somewhat taller and broader than the dark-armored soldiers, and their facial features were slightly more pronounced.

It was like the difference between the people of the Central Plains and grassland people from Jiang Yuan's previous life.

The difference was not great, but one could still tell them apart.

Jiang Yuan himself wore black dark armor, revealing his faction.

He then sensed the strength contained within his body.

His body seemed to have been replaced. His originally robust qi and blood had been weakened considerably, leaving him with strength comparable to when he had first broken through to the Late Qi and Blood Stage.

His connection to the strange bone in his chest had also vanished.

Yet all the knowledge of those martial arts techniques remained in his mind.

As Jiang Yuan considered everything, he nimbly evaded the attacks. Even after being slashed several times, he did not cry out, only letting out a few muffled grunts.

This surprised his opponent somewhat. Then the man revealed a trace of admiration, and his attacks became even fiercer.