After upgrading his newly acquired secret sword art, Li Qiuzhi looked at his remaining seventy-thousand-plus Experience Points and decided to upgrade his other skills as well.
He planned to upgrade Kamisato Art Swordsmanship. Once he maxed it out, he could fuse it with his other sword arts.
Experience Points -44999 Kamisato Art Swordsmanship: Secret Art Lv.1 (1/1000) → Kamisato Art Swordsmanship: Secret Art Lv.10 (Max) [Your Secret Art-level skill has reached its maximum level. Please choose an enhancement direction.]
As before, three options appeared:
[Clear Mind: Enter a focused state during combat, free from distracting thoughts.]
This enhancement overlapped somewhat with Myriad Style Swordsmanship's "Clarity."
[Cold Qi: When swinging your sword with grace and agility, coat the blade in a layer of cold qi that has some shield-breaking effect.]
This also seemed to overlap somewhat with his "North Wind" specialty.
[Blowing Snow: Expand the elemental combat environment created during battle, allowing slow, automatic recovery of expended Elemental Power.]
After briefly studying them, Li Qiuzhi chose the enhancement called "Blowing Snow."
Relatively speaking, this one was a little more useful.
A wealth of knowledge about Kamisato Art Swordsmanship appeared in his mind.
As Li Qiuzhi dissected Kamisato Art Swordsmanship, he could indeed find traces of Origin Swordsmanship in its basic sword forms.
However, they were only partly similar. After all these years, Inazuma's many sword schools had undergone improvements over generations and had long since become different from Origin Swordsmanship.
Of course, that did not mean they were stronger than Origin Swordsmanship. That was clearly impossible.
Swordsmanship had different schools simply because people with different aptitudes and wisdom developed different directions based on their own insights and research.
After all, even swordsmanship as powerful as Origin Swordsmanship was not necessarily suitable for everyone.