"With so many sword arts, you absolutely must not rush ahead. Cultivate them step by step. For now, each of you should master just one inheritance a day. You must not use these divine sense imprints too much or exhaust them each day, or you'll damage your spiritual sense. The loss would outweigh the gain."
"Yes."
"Stop your usual nightly cultivation for now. Instead, teach each other, practice your swordsmanship, and consolidate your foundations. These sword arts and moves will keep you busy for a long time. Although the spiritual sense imprints engrave the sword arts into your hearts and make you thoroughly familiar with them, truly mastering them, wielding them freely, and bringing out their power will take patient grinding. It cannot be accomplished in a single leap."
"Understood."
"Also, you must remember-absolutely must remember-to give these sword arts new names. If you can use the sword intent you've cultivated yourselves to change their existing forms and add some other variations, all the better. With your Moon Soul Blazing Sun foundations, this won't be difficult. It will just take patient grinding."
"...As for Xiao Duo's hammer arts... you can already begin practicing the first three, and there's no harm in using them freely. Only that last one must never be used unless you face a life-or-death enemy. And once you strike, you must keep going until you've hammered your opponent to death!"
"Understood."
What worried Zuo Changlu most really was the Thousand Souls Hammer.
Hammer arts excelled at overpowering enemies through strength, following the principle that one mighty force could subdue ten clever techniques rather than being renowned for exquisite moves. Yet the Thousand Souls Hammer followed its own path, with such distinctive characteristics that it could neither be modified nor disguised.
Every high-level martial artist on the entire