The swordsmanship upgrade was complete. Su Xiao had roughly figured out the additional effects of Grandmaster-level abilities. Using his and Sin's abilities as references, Grandmaster Lv.10 abilities were mostly offensive, while Lv.20 abilities leaned toward defense. As for Lv.30, he had no idea for now. Su Xiao could not reach that level in the short term.
Upgrade Swordsmanship Grandmaster to Lv.20: Yes/No. Upgrading this ability requires 10 Soul Crystals + 300,000 Paradise Coins.
The "benefit period" of Swordsmanship Grandmaster had passed, and the upgrade costs had started to become exorbitant.
For some reason, Su Xiao had a strange feeling that Swordsmanship Grandmaster had yet to display its complete combat power. Perhaps he had not found the correct method yet, and discovering it would take time.
After studying it for a moment, Su Xiao temporarily gave up. Learning "Active Swordsmanship Abilities" through scrolls was fundamentally unreliable. Those active swordsmanship abilities could not receive the enhancement of passive effects. To put it bluntly, those flashy active abilities were not even as lethal as Su Xiao's basic slashes. They were all show and no substance.
Moreover, Su Xiao could see flaws in all those abilities. Since the techniques had not been developed by the users themselves, the stances they took when drawing their blades were somewhat stiff. Watching them made Su Xiao uncomfortable.
Su Xiao could not understand how those contractors endured such stiff opening stances. When a swordsmanship expert developed a technique, they would tailor it to their own physique, strength, arm length, the nature of their swordsmanship, and so on. Learning such abilities through scrolls without deeply studying and improving them was like wearing someone else's clothes. Stiff movements were inevitable. Swordsmanship not developed by humans was even worse.
Setting that aside for now, Su Xiao sheathed Dragon Slayer Flash and