Miss Ming probably would not mind, and it was not some precious secret manual anyway. He was already planning to leave a manuscript at the Martial Arts Hall.
"It might just be a little hard to read." Pei Ye hesitantly spread the book open between them.
The reason this Sword Theory Primer, praised alike by Miss Ming and Zhu, had not spread to every Jianghu sect was not that the major sects were monopolizing it. No single school owned it, nor did it concern any martial secrets. So long as someone was willing to print it, they could have as many copies as they wanted.
The reason many people had never heard of it was simple: it genuinely could not find a broad readership.
Its vantage point was simply too lofty, its conception too elevated.
No one read it.
People like Miss Ming and Zhu naturally considered it the best introduction. After reading it, they could form an understanding of the entire mountain of the Sword Dao, knowing where the sword in their hands stood, how it had evolved and branched off, what swords lay above their heads and what swords lay beneath their feet, and so on.
But most ordinary cultivators would muddle through it, then lower their heads to look at the swords in their hands and find themselves utterly unsure what they were doing.
Before I even learn the sword, you insist on first enumerating the strengths and weaknesses of the Dongting Sword, then discussing the subtleties of the Yunlang Sword. After finally struggling through all that, I look down and find that the sword art in my hands is called the "Willow-Supporting Sword." It is already the best manual in the Martial Arts Hall, and with my aptitude, I would thank heaven and earth if I