Morning.
Lu Chen held the Manganese Steel Sword that had arrived yesterday and practiced swordsmanship in the courtyard.
The sword was 1.1 meters long and weighed 1.85 kilograms. Its blade had a matte finish, understated and restrained, with no visible sharpness—yet it was absolutely razor-sharp.
An ordinary person could easily use it to chop through bricks. With Lu Chen channeling true qi into it, he could slice through steel bars as thick as a little finger as easily as shaving wood, without the blade curling in the slightest.
Placed in low-martial worlds like Legend of the Condor Heroes, such a sword would absolutely qualify as a divine weapon. In terms of sharpness and toughness, it was no less than the Azure Adamantine Sword, only somewhat inferior to such utterly unscientific weapons as the Profound Iron Heavy Sword and the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
For the past few days, Lu Chen had spent most of his time playing with Rong'er. His martial arts practice was limited to an hour or two at night, plus three or four hours from four in the morning until he left home.
Even so, his skills had not fallen behind.
His comprehension of the Sword Two Imprint was gradually bearing fruit. The transformations between hardness and softness, lightness and heaviness in his swordsmanship were growing deeper by the day. The light sword weighing only 1.85 kilograms could now unleash the force of a heavy sword weighing dozens of kilograms, or tremble and lash like a flexible sword, silent and sinisterly soft.
Naturally, he was progressing so quickly because he already possessed an exceptionally deep and solid foundation in swordsmanship.
Before unlocking the Sword Two Imprint, he had practiced heavy swords and light swords at sea, already mastering many principles of hardness and softness, lightness and