He had once gone out of his way to inscribe several Wind-Stacking Formations on the Windfold Fan for this sword art. Back then, he had even thought it a brilliant method. Now, though, it seemed needlessly complicated and far too easy to counter.
After advancing to the Golden Core stage, Wen Xu had come to favor simple, swift ways to win. Yet after practicing the Nine-Turn Sword Technique for a few more days, he gained a different insight.
Who said complexity had to make a technique easy to counter?
He was wind. With wind at his back, he had an invisible advantage others lacked. Wen Xu suddenly asked himself whether his understanding of wind had been too narrow.
Did wind have to be something formless that merely blew past?
In a flash, he understood what he lacked. It was neither swordsmanship nor state of mind. His grasp of the Wind Spiritual Root and Myriad Things in Concert was simply too shallow.
With this discovery, Wen Xu was no longer so idle. He had always enjoyed learning, and a new insight naturally made him eager for another breakthrough.
He even took out the Wind-Riding Insights Lord Jun had given him and carefully copied them out. Perhaps it was his years of study in the Mortal Realm, but Wen Xu had a slight compulsion to copy things by hand. Jade slips were useful, yet only when he put the words on paper with his own brush did they truly feel like something he could make his own.
Insights were abstract, though, so Wen Xu did more than copy them. He expanded on them in three separate drafts according to his own understanding, gaining fresh insights with each one. To his surprise, he found a little pleasure in playing with wind arts.
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