Mastery of Saber Techniques

When he opened his status panel, Lin Xiao's gaze swept over all his techniques. He skipped directly over the Yang Sha Technique and Yin Sha Technique. He didn't need to improve his internal energy for now; what he lacked wasn't power but martial arts.

It was worth mentioning that after becoming the Hall Master of the Great River Hall's Sixth Branch, he had obtained the complete Three Rivers Heart Method, all eight layers of it. However, he didn't want to practice this technique for the time being.

What was most important to him now were these three saber techniques and the Flying Heaven Steps, a movement technique. The Yin Sha Maiden had already passed on her most skilled Flying Heaven Steps to him. Lin Xiao was deeply impressed by this movement technique, estimating that the entire Great River Gang didn't possess such an exquisite one.

In this low-level martial world, the upper limit of martial power was only the peak of the second tier. Techniques were naturally limited to the two-star level, with the strongest being the Two-Star Supreme martial arts. The grade of a martial art corresponded to the level of martial power.

According to this classification, the One-Star High-Grade Three Rivers Heart Method, when cultivated to the eighth layer of great accomplishment, would make one's internal energy cultivation alone equivalent to the late-stage first tier, not counting other martial arts practiced. In terms of the martial world's ranking in this world, it was equivalent to a third-rate martial artist.

It might sound low, but being able to reach third-rate was already quite good, indicating one was already a notable figure in the martial world.

Below third-rate was "unranked," encompassing anything lower. This group constituted the largest and most mixed segment of the martial world.

Lin Xiao's status panel still had 26 Potential Points. Since he knew how to accumulate Potential Points, there was no need to save them; they had to be used to convert into his own strength.

The Three Rivers Saber Technique, a One-Star Mid-Grade saber technique, had four layers. As a martial art of almost the lowest tier, improving one layer consumed very few Potential Points. Entering the first layer only required one Potential Point, and going from the second to the third layer required three Potential Points. However, going from the third layer to the fourth layer of great accomplishment required five Potential Points, one more than he had expected.

Lin Xiao himself had already practiced this saber technique to the second layer for a long time. His previous display of power when killing Yang Sha had directly advanced him to the third layer. This meant he was only one layer away from great accomplishment.

His intention fell on the green plus sign behind the Three Rivers Saber Technique. With a thought, five Potential Points transformed into unknown energy and surged into his body. Instantly, countless illusions of practicing saber techniques appeared in Lin Xiao's mind, as if countless versions of himself were diligently practicing this saber technique. In this magical state, his understanding of the saber technique surged like a tide, quickly breaking through his current limits and reaching the great accomplishment realm.

The most miraculous thing was that with the improvement from Potential Points, it wasn't just his understanding and experience of the saber technique that increased. The Potential Points also transformed into a warm current that flowed throughout his body, actually increasing his body's memory of the saber technique, synchronizing with his experience. It was as if he had truly practiced this saber technique for many years, achieving great accomplishment through sheer hard work.

With the Three Rivers Saber Technique reaching great accomplishment, its power naturally increased greatly. However, Lin Xiao was not satisfied. His gaze shifted to the other two saber techniques below: the Dark Cloud Saber and the Riptide Saber Technique, both also One-Star Mid-Grade.

These two saber techniques were currently at the second layer. However, he had practiced them for a long time, and he estimated in his heart that he was not far from the third layer. According to the attribute panel's improvement rules, the experience gained from practicing a technique could actually reduce the consumption of Potential Points.

For example, if it required 10 Potential Points to advance a technique from the fifth to the sixth layer of great accomplishment, but if one had diligently practiced at the fifth layer for a long time and was already proficient, then using Potential Points to advance would consume fewer points, perhaps only seven, five, or even just two or three points to break through this realm.

Lin Xiao was currently in this situation. The Dark Cloud Saber and Riptide Saber Technique were almost ready to be promoted, similar to the Three Rivers Saber Technique. Therefore, he only spent one Potential Point for each, equivalent to a small push, to advance both saber techniques to the third layer. Then, he spent five Potential Points for each, bringing both saber techniques to the fourth layer of great accomplishment.

Thus, the three saber techniques cost him a total of 17 Potential Points, leaving him with 9 remaining.

After thinking for a moment, he spent 7 Potential Points on the Flying Heaven Steps, advancing it to the second layer. The remaining two Potential Points couldn't be used for anything.

With this, Lin Xiao's cultivation had become significantly stronger than before. Most importantly, his three saber techniques had reached great accomplishment. Even though these were only One-Star Mid-Grade martial arts, they were clearly not in line with his current cultivation. However, with the full power of two sixty-year cycles of internal energy, even the weakest among them wouldn't be too weak. Fighting against masters of the same level might be tough, but crushing weaker opponents was definitely possible.

This was also one of the reasons Lin Xiao didn't leave with the Yin Sha Maiden. If he left with her, he would have to face famous martial arts experts. By staying with the Great River Gang, he would eventually deal with the other two major gangs in Linjiang Prefecture. These three gangs fought every year, with skirmishes happening daily, which was perfect for him to accumulate Potential Points.

Seven days later, having initially adapted to his current power, Lin Xiao accepted a mission from the gang. Riding a horse with a Hundred-Forged Fine Steel Saber on his back, he left the main headquarters with over a dozen people.

To accumulate Potential Points, one naturally had to kill. However, the main headquarters was in the rear, with little combat except for occasional assassins and scouts. If he wanted to accumulate Potential Points, he had to go to the branch headquarters where the Great River Gang, Iron Boat Gang, and Salt Gang intersected. There were battles there every day, which was perfect for him to accumulate Potential Points.

The horse was a fine steed named Snowy Flight, bestowed by the gang leader. The saber was a Hundred-Forged Fine Steel Saber. Even ordinary steel, forged a hundred times, would be comparable to a divine weapon. All of this was a reward from the gang leader.

After all, the value of the Yang Sha Technique manual he had contributed to the gang was too high. It was a Two-Star High-Grade internal energy cultivation technique. Even the Great River Gang's previous town-guarding technique was only Two-Star Low-Grade. This was a full two grades higher, and its value was such that even making him a deputy gang leader wouldn't be excessive.

However, he had only recently joined the gang, and Lin Xiao himself had requested not to be given too high a position, so he was initially given the position of Hall Master. But the gang leader promised that if he was willing after some time, the gang leader would reopen a hall for him to become a new hall master, a new high-ranking member of the gang.

Lin Xiao didn't pay much attention to this. Not to mention hall master, he wasn't interested in gang leader either. He just wanted to accumulate some Potential Points and become stronger.

In this low-level martial world, with the help of the Great River Gang's information network, Lin Xiao knew that this world was basically an ordinary low-level martial world. There wasn't anything of significant value that he could bring back to the Primordial Gate. Therefore, cultivation was very important. He had to at least cultivate a super-powerful internal energy to return and feed back into his true body.

He hadn't expected to descend into the Void before. Even though his true body had practiced top-tier divine techniques and had abundant family resources, his true body's cultivation wasn't actually very strong. Not only had he barely reached the third tier, but the true essence he cultivated was not pure at all.

In the past, this would have been fine. But if he were to walk the path of a Void Descender, this cultivation level would definitely not suffice. Lin Xiao planned to compress his true body's cultivation to the standard of the Primordial Gate through the Primordial Gate upon his return, even if it meant a reduction in rank.

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