Song Qingshu was lost in memories as well. As a transmigrator, he had naturally watched Wind and Cloud, and he had been deeply impressed by Myriad Swords Returning to Origin and Sword Twenty-Three. By an extraordinary coincidence, he had somehow ended up mastering both techniques in this world.
The opening passage of the Myriad Swords Returning to Origin manual read: "All energies arise of themselves; the sword surges through ruined acupoints. Return to the origin of martial arts; the school reaches far, the skill endures long." Everything after that was blank paper. Most cultivators were utterly baffled and had no idea what it meant. From his godlike perspective, Song Qingshu naturally knew that the key to Myriad Swords Returning to Origin was first crippling one's own martial arts, turning oneself into a blank sheet of paper, then condensing Internal Energy anew and refining every strand of it into sword qi. Only then could one ultimately master Myriad Swords Returning to Origin.
By coincidence, Song Qingshu had been ambushed by Lord of Light atop Blackwood Cliff, leaving all his martial arts crippled. Only after he learned the Blissful Zen Method from Tibetan esoteric Buddhism did he recover his cultivation.
During that time, the principles of Myriad Swords Returning to Origin from his previous life would occasionally surface in his mind. Thus, when he rebuilt his Internal Energy, he deliberately refined it into sword qi.
Combined with the Blissful Zen Method's powerful ability to fuse techniques, he had unexpectedly succeeded. Yet since he had explored the path on his own, he inevitably encountered all sorts of messy problems along the way, leaving his Myriad Swords Returning to Origin far from perfect. It was not until he reached Hero's Island and cultivated the Tai Xuan Scripture that all the sword arts, palm arts,