After venting his frustrations on the little monsters, Wang Qi returned to the Immortal Academy feeling refreshed.
He first went to the Discussion Book Tower and fetched some draft paper. Then he recalled every move he had used during the trial and analyzed them with mathematical principles. After filling several sheets, Wang Qi derived more than ten formulas. He then took out the Thunder Sound Chord Blade Technique and Baize True Array Cut manuals he carried with him, comparing the formulas and their variations in the manuals against his own one by one.
After comparing them for quite a while, Wang Qi could not help sighing. "The more I practice, the more profound and vast these two blade techniques seem. Was I too confident before?"
In September, Wang Qi had spent a month mastering the specific blade moves of the Thunder Sound Chord Blade Technique, then obtained the Baize True Array Cut manual. Practicing the moves of the Baize True Array Cut had likewise taken a month. Then, amid countless battles with demonic beasts, Wang Qi began linking his blade moves into formulas using mathematics. Once he could wield the technique in an unbroken flow like great rivers and mighty streams, he would have completed the second level of the technique.
Wang Qi had originally thought that the second level of these two blade techniques merely tested mathematical ability more than the first. With his first-rate grasp of mathematical principles, he should have been able to master them within a month or two. But Wang Qi quickly discovered that he had been terribly mistaken. The second level of both techniques required a foundation of familiarity with the blade moves. Only after becoming thoroughly familiar with those moves could one bring mathematical principles into the blade. This was instead a grinding,