Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 109: New Path

Since he was alone, he decided to train his sword way, which he had put on hold because he really hadn’t had time for it before, but now that he was free, it was the perfect time to get started again.

He was close to reaching the next stage in it. Crossing stages in weapon mastery is similar to cultivation, and similarly, the heavens will reward you. If his proficiency reached the Sword Disciple level, he would know it immediately.

It is similar to absorbing laws; the more he absorbs, the more he gets attuned to them. Weapon laws exist too, but instead of absorbing, you have to practice your weapon until you feel yourself getting attuned to it.

Of course, it is not as easy as it seems. It also depends upon your talent, similar to cultivation; the better your comprehension is, the less practice you would need to reach the next stage compared to ordinary cultivators.

Lesser time is in comparison to ordinary cultivators; it will still take quite a lot of time.

Jiang Hao lost himself in practicing. He already knew what the basic sword moves were, and every other technique is created from these basic moves. To increase your understanding of the sword’s way, you can keep practicing basic moves.

You might think that you have perfectly mastered it, but once you reach the next stage, you will find that there are still something missing in your execution of basic movements.

You can also practice some other sword techniques created by mighty figures in place of basic movements, and you can still improve your understanding of the sword’s way, but Jiang Hao wasn’t keen on doing that.

Senior Huan Caiyi had said that if you do that, then you will be following the path of someone else; it will not be your path.

Maybe you will be able to surpass the person who created that technique if you practiced hard enough, but it is very difficult, as surpassing the shadow you were following is almost impossible.

So, instead of following someone else’s path, it is better to create your own. Maybe it will not be as strong as other existing sword techniques, but in the end, it will be yours, and your strength with it will be higher than the strength you would have gained by following someone else’s technique.

He had understood it quite well; that’s why he decided to only use the basic movements of the sword to improve his sword’s way.

He practiced for the whole day and went back to the cave at night to cultivate. He followed this routine daily.

Fifteen days passed, and he was still at the Sword Beginner level, but he knew that he was very close to reaching the next level. It was his inner feeling, as he could feel the sword in his hand becoming more natural to hold.

After two more days, he finally felt that he had entered the new stage of his sword’s way. His sword strikes became more refined, and he even corrected his stance to better suit him.

It was a totally surreal feeling; it was similar to how he felt when his proficiency in array arts had increased when he reached the Apprentice level.

This stage of weapon mastery was called Weapon Disciple, so he had reached the Sword Disciple level.

Still, no one had come out of their cultivation abode. Cultivation is an arduous process; it tests your patience and will. He wondered how he would have fared if he didn’t have his physique.

Well, given that he had quite good patience with extraordinary will, he wouldn’t have had any problem, not to mention his talent was similar to supreme geniuses. Even without his physique, he would have cultivated easily, not to mention peacefully. It was all just a thought, as nothing mattered anymore.

He continued his routine, and after two more days, Ming Yue came out. She had reached the Mid Stage of the Core Formation Realm.

When she saw he was practicing the sword way, she came to him.

"Junior brother, have you reached the Sword Disciple level?"

"Yes, I have, senior sister."

"Good, let us have a duel, junior brother."

Jiang Hao nodded.

After that, they both had a good fight. They didn’t know how long it would take for Huan Caiyi and Zhi Hui to breakthrough, so they continued cultivating and training.

This routine continued for four more months when finally Zhi Hui broke through first, followed by Huan Caiyi three days later.

Even using perfect-grade pills all the way, it took them about five months to break through, not to mention they had cultivated previously to reach at least halfway through the late stage.

The amount of perfect pills they consumed might make others cry in injustice, as it really was a waste to use pills like this.

In four months, Jiang Hao had almost balanced out his affinity in the laws of Fire, Ice, Thunder, Water, Earth, Wood, Metal, and Wind.

It is not like he was keen on balancing everything out, but since he had enough spirit herbs, he did so anyway.

Yin Ni had asked him one question, which he really wasn’t able to answer. Her question was:

What’s the point of having mastery in every element? Tell me, would any of your attacks be stronger than your attack using your refinement laws?

No doubt it will increase your versatility, but do you really need it right now?

This question had really made him think deeply about it. She was right; no matter how many laws he absorbed, they could never reach the level of his refinement laws. And for killing anyone, he doubted that any other laws he possessed would be better than his own refinement law.

Before he had the Nihility Sphere, he thought he had to increase his affinities to other laws to increase his strength, but after seeing what the Nihility Sphere could do, he understood one thing clearly: a celestial physique is complete in itself; it does not need other sources to increase its strength.

He also understood that there is nothing like cultivation physiques or battle-type physiques in the celestial physique category, at least. They are as whole as they can be.

So after balancing this out, he would not actively try to raise other laws; they could just increase on their own when he used any particular spirit herbs to cultivate.

She also told him a better way, in fact the most logical way. It was a matter regarding his physique.

She herself had a celestial physique and had gone through everything, so there might be no one better than her to give him advice regarding this.

She had said that refinement would become his main Dao, and it was not his decision but a matter of fact because his physique would follow that path.

As for the matter of a second law, there isn’t any better law than the Chaos Law, and with his physique, he might have a chance of following that path, not to mention he had someone who could help him easily.

Jiang Hao had understood what she was implying, but he didn’t comment on it.

Although, she had warned him that the Dao of Chaos isn’t like any other Dao; his physique might not even be able to refine it, or if it really could, then it would definitely be very minuscule compared to his imagination.

Jiang Hao had nodded. Although his refinement was quite extraordinary, even he wasn’t confident in refining the Chaos itself. He doubted any spirit herb attributed to chaos even existed.

So, does that mean he would have to comprehend chaos just like other people do? Well, it didn’t sound like a bad idea, but he had still asked this question to Yin Ni, who had laughed at this, which confused him at that time.

But after listening to her, he really learned one more aspect he didn’t know before.

Instead of answering, she had asked him a question:

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The answer was simple, so he had answered that it was the laws present in it.

After hearing his answer, she had said to him:

Then why do you need a spirit herb to absorb the law? Can’t you absorb them from the attacks of your enemies? After all, laws are used to create those attacks, so basically every attack will have some law. Of course, you have to take the hit, but is that a problem for you?

You are weak now to absorb the laws directly from the attacks, but right now your physique is also evolving. There is a stage where it evolves quite predominantly — every physique does — and it is when you will reach the Heavenly King Realm.

So wait for it; you will definitely see how easy it will be for you to gather laws. You won’t lack spirit herbs; what you will lack are cultivators who can constantly hit you.

To Jiang Hao, it was really a stunning answer. This answer had even shown him the path of how he would cultivate after the Heavenly King Realm.

After this, he cleared his mind of future problems and decided to cultivate using spirit stones from now on, as they gave him more spirit qi than spirit herbs.

This would increase his speed of cultivation, and even with the amount he needed, he could still cultivate faster than before.

The only one who could somewhat match his speed of cultivation would be Senior Sister Ming Yue. Of course, she would have to be in an environment that consisted of Yin qi. Creating an artificial environment doesn’t really create the exact level of qi which a naturally formed environment can provide.