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"Practice makes perfect. Start with the simplest approach, and only then can you reach a higher realm. How could you casually alter the sword technique the moment you started and immediately use it?" Li Guxian watched me with a beaming smile, as if she had seen my failure coming from the very beginning.
"Life and death are right before my eyes. The faster I master it, the better my chances of staying alive." I calmed the surging energy within me and used the Double-Cast Curse again. Li Guxian did not try to stop me, merely watching as I failed again and again, then picked myself up again and again.
The result truly proved the old saying: "If you won't listen to your elders, you'll suffer for it right before your eyes." In the end, I failed every time I used it. I even lost a large chunk of the Dao power I had already restored after failing several more times, frightening me into immediately entering recovery again.
Li Guxian giggled, then vanished without a trace. She probably did not particularly enjoy watching the process either. She wore her emotions openly, which was rather refreshingly straightforward.
During the recovery process, I had not neglected to study Li Guxian's sword arts. I was constantly mending my own shortcomings as well. However, I no longer dared to experiment and could only silently try it out in my mind. Though this inner-visualization practice could not verify the success rate, it was still a convenient shortcut. At least I had often used this method to create new sword techniques before, and it had never failed me!
Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, I had no idea how long had passed, and Jing Xiaoman stood outside the Dao arena at the appointed