Becoming Strong by Being Weak

Of these, the first chapter differed little from the current Basic Swordsmanship, with only slight discrepancies in detail.

Among the following four chapters, the second deepened the first while incorporating the mysteries of the body-spirit and the cultivation of One-Origin Acupoints.

While continuing to deepen the cultivation mysteries of the former, it added the cultivation of the material body.

Building upon the former, it added the cultivation of consciousness and perception.

As for the fifth chapter, it was a summation and sublimation of the Primordial Spirit, the mind, the body-spirit, the material body, and consciousness and perception.

However, in the course of cultivation, it was impossible for anyone to attain the Dao by practicing this sword art alone.

Zhao Cheng's Basic Swordsmanship primarily provided only a rough framework. The flesh and blood to fill it out, and even revisions to the framework itself, had to be supplied by the practitioner.

It had always been swordsmanship adapting to people, never people following swordsmanship completely.

At the same time, this swordsmanship was also a rare ungraded sword art. It lacked a grade not because its grade was too low, but because this was already the Dao rather than a technique, and thus could not be assessed.

To create such a sword art, Zhao Cheng had truly pored over the classics until his hair turned white, expending no small amount of effort.

One had to know that, over Yanhuang's hundred years, countless brilliant talents had once joined forces just to create the most basic first chapter of Basic Swordsmanship.

Yet Zhao Cheng, by his own strength alone, had created the four subsequent chapters.

When some powerful figures saw the methods in the latter four chapters, they were even more shaken than they had been upon seeing the words left upon the moon.

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