My Profession Can Be Infinitely Upgraded Chapter 56

When he had studied Winter Solstice, he had thought that the Returning to Stillness Annihilation Sword he learned was unlike the Draw-Cut Technique, which emphasized ambushes. This was a sword of utmost courage, one that faced death head-on and saw through life and death.

But when he studied the First-Nine Sword Art, Jiang Xuan realized that he had spoken too soon—and too narrowly.

Winter Solstice was a Dao. It demanded that its practitioners possess the courage to face death.

But "First Nine" and "Second Nine" were different. These two sword moves, which had not been named after official solar terms, were merely techniques—the sharp blades Winter Valley disciples used to protect their Dao and kill.

And Winter Valley's forebears had been practical. They would not bind their own hands and feet. They wanted the valor of the Dao, and they wanted the lethality of technique as well. Thus, the First-Nine Sword Art that followed Winter Solstice carried several more chilling strands of guile.

The First-Nine Sword Art was called Frost Shadow in Pursuit. At the beginning, it merely allowed Jiang Xuan to condense the chill of ice and snow into a small flying sword, then fire it when the enemy exposed an opening—after all, a flying sword was always faster than Jiang Xuan swinging a sword himself.

At the Second Realm: Skilled, it enhanced the hardness and sharpness of Jiang Xuan's ice flying swords.

Making use of freezing properties, ever greater and more biting cold would allow the ice flying swords Jiang Xuan condensed to become as solid as refined steel, peerlessly sharp.

But when Jiang Xuan cultivated it to Third Realm: Minor Mastery, everything changed. Only then would this sword art's true killing move reveal itself.

Minor Mastery used the properties of ice and snow to transform the ice