Chapter 334: Chapter 296: Arrival at the Imperial Capital, Minor Success of Sword Heart!

When Chu Huaixu left the Daoist Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm, the progress bar for his Sword Heart was at 56%.

During these days, he sparred with Han Shuangjiang in various ways, acting as her sparring partner.

He just upgraded [Six Out of Seven] to Great Perfection.

These actions all contributed to raising the Sword Heart progress bar.

The former actually had minimal effect, because when sparring, he didn’t want to hit the Big Ice Cube too hard. At most, he would playfully smack her plump behind and feel the jiggle of the flesh — it’s just some harmless teasing.

He couldn’t really injure her, could he?

She wasn’t very strong, didn’t practice Body Refining, wasn’t resilient to injury, and could only recover by taking medicine, unlike Xiaoxu and him who could regain strength more quickly.

As a result, Chu Huaixu would hold back too much during sparring, making it relatively meaningless.

But upgrading an Earth Level Swordsmanship to Great Perfection significantly enhanced the Sword Heart.

The combination of both actions brought the progress bar to 69%.

Chu Huaixu looked at it and realized that if he wanted to upgrade using Experience Points, he still needed 960,000.

He quickly did the math in his head and arrived at a conclusion.

“So, if the progress bar were at zero, fully relying on Experience Points, it would actually take nearly 3.1 million points to upgrade from Sword Heart Coherence to Minor Success.”

At this thought, Chu Huaixu gasped.

Three million Experience Points, what does that represent?

It means he could risk his life 3 times to learn [Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Root (Advanced)]!

He could be “scammed in a telecommunication scheme” three times!

This made him suddenly understand why those who achieved Sword Heart Clarity were so rare.

Why so many Sword Cultivators have already entered the Seventh Realm, even formed a Sword Domain, yet their Sword Heart remains unable to reach the Transparent Realm.

As mentioned earlier, [Domain] naturally forms once someone reaches the Seventh Realm.

The Sword Domain and Sword Heart are not directly linked.

Take, for example, Chu Huaixu’s second master, Chu Yinyin. She has already broken into the Seventh Realm; apart from advancing step by step to the Seventh Realm Third Heaven, she was also consolidating her Sword Domain.

However, she is only at Great Success of the Sword Heart, not Sword Heart Clarity.

In the entire Daoist Sect, only Jiang Zhi and Shen Man have reached such a realm.

This was also why everyone initially believed Chu Huaixu could only become Shen Man’s disciple.

“Just reaching Minor Success requires 3 million. For Minor Success to progress to Great Success, it will take at least five or six million. From Great Success to Great Perfection, it might even exceed ten million?” Chu Huaixu was stunned.

He previously had no concept of this.

Because before he crossed over, Sword Cultivator players at most achieved Sword Intent Great Perfection, never reaching the high-end version like[Sword Heart].

This also made him realize just how high-grade his [Spiritual Embryo: Heart Sword] and its awakened Spiritual Embryo Divine Techniques were!

Ever since entering Junzi Temple, Chu Huaixu had acquired so many masters, as well as an unreliable ancestor teacher.

He filled in a lot of gaps regarding some high-level knowledge in the Cultivation Realm.

It was only recently that he came to know, for Sword Cultivators, when advancing to the Seventh Realm, the grade of the [Sword Heart] would affect the grade of the [Sword Domain].

The higher the Sword Heart level, the higher the probability of obtaining a more powerful Sword Domain when advancing to the Seventh Realm.

“The reason the first master is acknowledged as the strongest in the Seventh Realm is because she achieved Sword Heart Clarity before advancing to the Seventh Realm, enabling her to form a powerful Sword Domain. That’s one of the reasons.”

“I just wonder, with me currently having two Sword Hearts, will they provide a boost when the time comes?” Chu Huaixu was puzzled.

Of course, he was only in the Third Realm right now, so he could not get an answer yet.

No Sword Cultivator before him had ever possessed two Sword Hearts.

He didn’t have any reference material either.

“Let’s upgrade.” After hesitating for a moment, Chu Huaixu thought.

960,000 Experience Points, he decided to grit his teeth and spend them.

“Such mysterious experiences like those in the Daoist Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm are unlikely to come by again.”

“There’s no need for upgrading swordsmanship recently.”

“Upgrading Sword Heart will most likely depend on Experience Points.”

Chu Huaixu didn’t hesitate any longer and chose to upgrade.

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Meanwhile, the ten giant eagles of the Sword Sect were flying through the sky.

The Sword Sect prodigy, Geng Tianhe, had been meditating on the sword technique [Green Falling Lodging Fire] ever since he obtained it.

If he didn’t understand something, he would ask the Sword Venerable.

Initially, he was quite restrained, a bit hesitant to ask, afraid his uncle-master might find him annoying or foolish.

But after asking once, Geng Tianhe found his uncle-master to be incredibly patient, completely different from his master.

Whenever he had doubts, Situ Cheng, his master, would indeed clarify them.

But each time during the explanation, he would self-aggrandize fiercely, then express disdain for his disciple, stating that his talent was, at most, only half of his own.

“If you had half of my skills back in the day, you wouldn’t ask such questions!” This was something Situ Cheng often said.

Additionally, Situ Cheng wasn’t particularly good at teaching disciples.

In Sword Dao terms, he was more of an “experiential practitioner.”

He was somewhat like Jiang Zhi in this regard.

They achieved Enlightenment through battles, sometimes even life-and-death confrontations.

Therefore, when it came to teaching disciples, they often couldn’t clearly articulate their insights because they arose in the midst of breaking and rebuilding in life-or-death situations.

“It can only be understood, not explained.” These eight words were something Situ Cheng often told Geng Tianhe.

Figure it out yourself!

But the middle-aged scholar was different.

His explanations were more detailed.

There’s no choice, the contemporary Sword Venerable was undoubtedly a “theory practitioner.”

Situ Cheng often couldn’t help but mutter: “You achieved the Sword Venerable realm by reading books!”

When explaining to Geng Tianhe, he would be more specific. Each time, he would go from simple to complex.

What excited and surprised Geng Tianhe even more was: “I asked all about [Green Falling Lodging Fire], but after listening to uncle-master, many of my other perplexities regarding the Sword Dao suddenly became clear!”

— No comparison between the master and the uncle-master.

And furthermore, [Green Falling Lodging Fire] indeed had some compatibility with Geng Tianhe’s Great River Sword Intent.

The most significant feature of this sword technique was that each sword strike was stronger than the last.

Until the ninth sword when it reaches its peak!

This was somewhat similar to the torrents of a great river, wave after wave.

While delving into this Earth Level Swordsmanship, Geng Tianhe felt that his own Sword Intent had also seen considerable improvement.

In addition, the middle-aged scholar adopted a rare encouraging teaching style.

Perhaps from praising his junior so frequently in daily life, he had developed this habit.

When teaching Geng Tianhe, the Sword Venerable would always gently praise him a bit.

Geng Tianhe had considered him his idol, with admiration for him as boundless as the flowing rivers.

With the praise, his state of Sword Enlightenment became significantly better!

At that moment, on the giant eagle, the middle-aged scholar looked at the young man who had closed his eyes in Sword Enlightenment and smiled, saying: “Junior Brother really accepted a good disciple.”

“Given the current progress, this child Tianhe should formally master this extremely challenging sword technique before the East and West Continent Competition officially begins.”

“And during the competition, he might reach the Realm of Minor Success.”

“Such talent is truly rare.” He simply praised.

After praising, seeing that his junior brother didn’t react much, the middle-aged scholar instantly realized something and added: “He bears the style you showed back in the day.”

Upon hearing this, Situ Cheng was pleased and nodded contentedly.

After a while, the middle-aged scholar looked ahead and said with a smile: “We’ve arrived at the Imperial Capital.”

After a simple examination by the Great Cultivators of the Moon Country, they were allowed to pass.

Among them, one of the Great Cultivators happened to be a Sword Cultivator.

When he learned that the middle-aged scholar was the legendary Sword Venerable, his gaze at him became noticeably more reverent and passionate.

The giant eagle continued to fly forward.

The middle-aged scholar sat atop the giant eagle, overlooking the nightscape of the Imperial Capital.

In recent years, he seldom descended the mountain.

He had come to the Imperial Capital of the Moon Country only three times in his early years.

And these three times were all alongside Situ Cheng.

The Sword Venerable glanced at a restaurant nearby where they used to dine together, about to point it out to his junior brother, when he suddenly paused.

The first thing the middle-aged scholar observed was the area where Chu Huaixu resided, and he let out a:

“Huh?”

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