In the history of swordsmanship in the Far East.
There had long been a tradition of dressing up sword techniques in poetic language.
As a result, many sword moves sounded invincible, while their actual movements were quite simple.
Take the Kesa Cut, for example.
It was essentially a diagonal slash down from the shoulder, named for following a line similar to the front of a monk's robe.
Or the Reverse Kesa Cut.
That was an upward slash tracing the same path as the Kesa Cut in reverse.
Ultimately, it was just a matter of giving them impressive names.
For the same sword move, a scholar's "Heaven Descends into Nine Abysses" sounded more profound than an ordinary person's "Black Whirlwind Downward Chop."
However, the sword forms passed down alongside Breathing Styles were somewhat different.
They were not merely combinations of technique and force application.
Rather, they were movements that followed the rhythm and frequency of the Breathing Style itself, flowing with it.
Or rather, when using certain Breathing Style sword techniques, one had to actively adjust the rhythm of one's breathing to match.
Sword forms were born from Breathing Styles.
Breathing Styles gave rise to sword forms.
This was a principle Xia Xi had only gradually understood after his Thunder Breathing reached LV.4 and he trained hard under Igarashi.
It was like how stretching while yawning felt more comfortable.
Or how people unconsciously bounced their legs to warm themselves when they felt cold.
Without sufficient training, people never saw anything unusual about these instincts, but once they reached a certain level, they gradually realized these were fundamentally two separate things.
They just happened to work together according to a certain pattern.
All the Breathing Style sword forms passed down through the generations.
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