Duan Yun had to admit that Twelvefold Spring Rain was truly difficult.
Even a cultivation prodigy like him, one in ten thousand, had encountered a challenge.
The basic moves of the saber included sweeping, chopping, parrying, shaving, skimming, pressing, slashing, and thrusting. This manual also used technical terms Duan Yun did not quite understand, such as pressing the saber, concealing the saber, and wrist-flower cuts. There were not even any illustrated notes.
This was the hardest part for Duan Yun.
Even though he had learned the sword, the Jade Sword True Canon did not really contain many sword forms. "Water-Moon Slash" meant horizontal or vertical slashes, "Jade Sword Finger" meant stabbing, and "Grasp Sparrow's Tail" meant visualizing a Dharma Aspect that slashed and stabbed alongside him.
The crucial thing was that those moves had illustrations, while this book did not.
Duan Yun rather missed the illustrations and thoughtful notes in the Jade Sword True Canon.
Still, after much fumbling, he finally finished the "fill-in-the-blanks." Things like pressing the saber, concealing the saber, and wrist-flower cuts—he more or less learned them according to his own understanding.
As for the later introductory sections on releasing and rotating Blade Qi, Duan Yun was much more familiar with them.
Releasing Blade Qi and releasing Sword Qi were somewhat alike, but the most distinctive part of "Twelvefold Spring Rain" was making the Blade Qi rotate.
In Murong Brothers' eyes, this was the essence of Twelvefold Spring Rain, as well as its most difficult part.
There were certainly not many saber cultivators in this world who could slash out Blade Qi, yet there were not few either. After all, once one reached the later stages of the Qi Sea Realm, one could condense true qi into Blade Qi and attempt to release it outward.
But making