Even in a dream, I couldn't forget to use trickery, could I? I was reminding myself that this wasn't really my junior sister—it was Sword Testing Lord's dream. Though I felt rather sorry for this junior sister and found her quite interesting, that was very likely only because I was in a dream. If I entered the dream to learn about Sword Testing Lord, only to be stripped clean by the other party, wouldn't I be the one getting played for a fool?
So, within reason, I would deceive her whenever I could. Once I had obtained the general principles of the Sword of Heavenly Punishment, how to practice it would be up to me, wouldn't it? One had to understand that the Sword of Heavenly Punishment's thirteen variations and the Twelve Chapters of the Heavenly Sword came from the same source, yet were completely different things. One was a complete sword art, while the other was a disassembled version transformed into sword spirits. The former could be used once learned, while the latter would be mastered simply by consuming it. The result was the same, but the process was different!
Of course I wanted the thirteen variations of the Heavenly Sword. With this, I would have something far more reliable than the sword manual for breaking the thirteen variations that Xia Ruize had won in a wager before. Xia Ruize's was too specifically targeted and wasn't of much use against other sword arts.
"W-what Sword of Heavenly Punishment...? What is Senior Brother talking about? This sword art of mine doesn't even have a name yet..." Lu Xian'er looked at me curiously, but soon continued, "Senior Brother, you really have had too much to drink again... But the name Sword of Heavenly Punishment is excellent. Then Sword of Heavenly Punishment