Wang Chong was very satisfied with the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique. After all, this divine sword art was powerful, and he had repeatedly achieved victories with it, defeating several formidable enemies. But there was one thing about it that dissatisfied him: it really consumed too much True Qi. He also wanted to learn an "ordinary" sword technique for everyday use.
Although he knew another weapon art, the longer he spent in the army, the fewer occasions he had to use his Folding Fan skills. Not only did he rarely use the Twelve Flower-Plucking Kills he had learned later, even the Hundred Styles of Wind and Cloud he had once used so often saw little use now.
Mi Ang knew he was the Empress's own son. Although he was nominally only a lay disciple, who would dare treat His Highness the Prince of Yan as merely a lay disciple? Teaching him martial arts and sword techniques hardly counted as passing Wudang's supreme arts to an outsider. Besides, Mi Ang wanted to forge a friendship with Wang Chong. Seeing His Highness the Prince of Yan's power grow, he thought there might truly be prospects in it.
Mi Ang immediately taught Wang Chong the Suppress the Canghai sword technique first. Like the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique, it had seventy-two moves, drawing its meaning from the blazing sun suppressing the ocean tides. To practice this sword art, one first had to cultivate the Innate Pure Yang Formula to the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Entwining stage. Only then could one condense its majestic sword intent and suppress all who refused to submit.
The Candle-Bearing Sword Technique sought only speed. By consuming enormous amounts of True Qi, it drove sword speed to its peak, even producing candle flames from the blade, but it placed no emphasis on sword intent.
The Empress