All-Out Effort

But... there was one skill that felt different when Xu Yanwu emerged from the space of will.

That was... the long sword.

Of all the skills Xu Yanwu had honed after leaving Yae Village, this was unquestionably his strongest.

At that time, Xu Yanwu's emotions had almost completely faded away.

And the blade Xu Yanwu had originally used... had been a heavier, larger saber.

When the people of Yae Village, those Mikos, saw the skills Xu Yanwu had honed, he showed no reaction.

However.

Later, a very special Miko appeared within Xu Yanwu's space of will.

Yae Sakura and Yae Rin's mother.

The Miko of the previous generation of Yae Village.

Like Yae Sakura and Yae Rin, Yae... had also appeared in Xu Yanwu's space of will when she was a child.

And Xu Yanwu had not originally intended to pay her any mind...

Yet...

For some reason, Yae had not studied the first thing she saw alongside the other Mikos.

Xu Yanwu still remembered that what she saw then was a hammer.

And Yae... clearly had no desire to learn something as crude as a hammer. She ran all over the space of will, and in the end...

She jumped down from the top of a wall and planted one foot right on the forehead of Xu Yanwu's main body's consciousness, who was meditating below.

And from that moment onward.

Many things changed.

The heavy saber Xu Yanwu had originally used was changed into a long sword somewhat similar to a Japanese katana.

Because Yae did not want to learn the hammer, but instead wanted to learn how to use Japanese swordsmanship.

Xu Yanwu changed the direction of his studies as well. His main body's consciousness and his incarnations studied how to use swords together.

And... there was one