Hou Niao was enjoying his days, because he had discovered that he did not need to hurry. There would always be someone else who was anxious.
His days were full. Every day, he studied the understandings and applications of the five elements great Dao brought from the upper realm together with the two True Persons. This was the foundation of foundations, something not only he but the two True Persons needed as well.
He spent the rest of his time on his swordsmanship, an undertaking that required constant perseverance. The period of soaring growth in his swordsmanship was over, and he had begun the painstaking stage of carving and polishing. This was something every Sword Cultivator had to face; indeed, it was a process every cultivator had to undergo.
He needed to settle down and use time to polish his skills until they were flawless.
For him, another leap forward in swordsmanship required breakthroughs in three areas.
One was the conceptual essence of the great Dao, something extremely difficult at the Golden Core stage. Even now, he was only learning; he could not yet integrate it fully, much less comprehend something uniquely his own. That was a domain he could only touch upon at the Nascent Soul stage.
Another was mental power. He had the Azure Sky Sword Lineage's mental power cultivation method, which was already far superior to the Quanzhen Sect's. This, too, was a step-by-step process, barring some exceptional stimulus brought by a chance encounter. Unfortunately, these upper realm visitors from the Daoist Sect were extremely cautious when it came to mental power. They had disclosed no cultivation methods related to it. Presumably, even for them, in the upper realm, mental power cultivation lay at the very core of a lineage's inheritance.
The last was the Five Elements