Over the past nine days, everything Mu Yanxi had learned in the sect was about how to serve high-level cultivators.
Physical cultivation was to make her body more attractive, and pill refining used herself as a furnace. This sword cultivation method was so normal that it actually made her feel something was off.
“The golden sword path charges forward without hesitation—man and sword as one, transform body into sword.”
“When the Lingyue Sword Art is trained to its peak, your own body becomes the strongest immortal sword. With no sword in hand but the sword in your heart, no sword surpasses the sword!”
Beiming Shuang taught while dancing her sword.
She was indeed teaching a proper sword cultivation method. Essentially, all sword cultivators took this path.
For an extreme sword cultivator, all their cultivation and divine abilities were condensed into a single sword, ultimately achieving man and sword as one—the person is the sword, and the sword is the person.
The only thing that struck Mu Yanxi as odd was whether she was teaching too quickly.
Originally, Mu Yanxi had thought the first sword dao class would only cover some basics or a few sword techniques, but instead she directly taught the sword cultivation method.
After all, sword cultivators were extreme cultivators who concentrated all their resources and divine abilities on the sword path.
Now, with so many disciples not even having decided whether to become sword cultivators, wasn’t it too rushed to directly teach a sword cultivation method?
Moreover, sword cultivation heavily relied on talent, since almost all resources were poured into the sword, so cultivation advancement mostly depended on innate talent.
But talented disciples had already been taken in by heaven-grade great sects. It was hard to say how many disciples here actually had the talent to become sword cultivators.
If one couldn’t become a sword cultivator, then cultivating a sword cultivation method would do more harm than good.
Mu Yanxi looked at the disciples who were enthusiastically and earnestly practicing their swords under Beiming Shuang’s guidance. She couldn’t help but sigh, then had no choice but to join in.
As Mu Yanxi began practicing, the voice of the immortal brain sounded at just the right moment:
“Would you like to enter the Heavenly Tome Library to study the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’?”
Not wanting to hesitate anymore, Mu Yanxi directly said:
“Learn it.”
It really had come after all. Having reached this point, Mu Yanxi no longer hesitated and directly said:
“Learn it.”
In the next instant, her consciousness sank into the Taiqing Immortal Domain. The general outline of the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ and the experience notes of various predecessors unfolded before her like a scroll, vast knowledge available for her to harvest.
But this time, there was a difference: at the highest point of the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’, nineteen pages were black.
Mu Yanxi looked up, and the immortal brain displayed:
[The final chapter of the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ has been encrypted and is protected. Your current permissions are insufficient to view it.]
‘Insufficient to view? Not even allowed for purple gold members?’
Mu Yanxi was a bit surprised. Previously, all the cultivation methods she had seen were fully displayed before her, including the core cultivation method of Spiritual Moon Palace, the ‘lingyue art’, which had no secrets. This ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ actually required higher permissions.
At this moment, Mu Yanxi remembered that there was indeed a similar situation.
The ‘Lingyue Ascension Song’, the complete version of the ‘Lingyue Ascension Song’, was also encrypted and completely closed to the public, not even viewable by purple gold members.
But the ‘Lingyue Ascension Song’ couldn’t be viewed at all, while the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ could be viewed for the most part, only the last chapter was inaccessible. This was very strange.
With no other choice, Mu Yanxi could only look at the earlier parts first.
This was indeed a very orthodox sword dao cultivation method.
It included how to convert mana into Sword Qi, several matching sword techniques—Turn Sword into Thread, Sword Shadow Splitting Light, Sword Aura Shield, Man and Sword as One, Transform Body into Sword, and so on—all proper sword dao divine abilities.
Even compared to the sword dao divine abilities from Mu Yanxi’s previous life, the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ was superior in detail and sophistication.
If some big shot in her previous world obtained this ‘Lingyue Sword Art’, they could completely rely on it as the Sect-Suppressing Cultivation Technique to establish a sword cultivator sect—except that it could only accept female disciples.
That’s right, the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ was also a cultivation method that could only be cultivated by women.
The general outline stated that this sword dao cultivation method was compiled based on a woman’s body, so men could not cultivate it.
But in the vast majority of the cultivation method, Mu Yanxi saw a very normal sword dao cultivation method, and she could not see where it prevented male cultivators from practicing.
Either her cultivation was too low and her experience too shallow to see the points of conflict with male cultivators, or the parts that prevented male cultivation were placed in the final volume, which Mu Yanxi could not see.
But after reading it, Mu Yanxi felt even more puzzled.
Because this ‘Lingyue Sword Art’ appeared complete, from Qi Refining all the way to Mahayana Stage, all the cultivation methods were there, the process was very complete, and even the minor realm cultivation was written clearly.
Then what was the hidden final chapter?
‘Could it be some kind of mutual destruction ultimate move?’
Mu Yanxi couldn’t help but think.
At this moment, she had a sudden inspiration. Maybe looking at the notes of the great predecessors would yield some discoveries?
The reason she couldn’t see it now was because her permission was too low. Then those predecessors at the Dao Integration Stage and Mahayana Stage should be able to see the final chapter, right?
Even if they didn’t write it directly, they should have hinted at it in their experience notes.
In the end, Mu Yanxi was overthinking.
The experience notes of high-level cultivator predecessors were like listening to a heavenly book—abstruse and utterly incomprehensible. In the end, she could only withdraw and start learning from the lower levels.
Regardless, after synchronizing with the Teaching Illusion, Mu Yanxi quickly mastered the introductory sword techniques. Even among the crowd, she wielded her sword with grace, and her body emitted a faint moonlight.
Shangguan Yun looked at her and said with a smile:
“As I thought, I wasn’t wrong. Yanxi’s comprehension is extraordinarily high. Should I call her a little genius?”
After teaching a complete set of sword techniques, Beiming Shuang announced free practice—they could practice individually or in pairs.
Yu Qiuyu directly approached Mu Yanxi and asked for a spar.
“Alright.”
Mu Yanxi raised the White Edge Sword.
Yu Qiuyu also raised her pitch-black broadsword.
The two faced off in identical stances.
Then, they simultaneously struck.
Sword Qi like scarlet moonlight intertwined in the air, and then their swords collided in midair with exactly the same posture, immediately launching into an identical second move.
Mu Yanxi was astonished to discover that Yu Qiuyu, like herself, had also mastered the basics of the ‘Lingyue Sword Art’, and her understanding even seemed slightly deeper.
She had directly synchronized the memories of those predecessors practicing swords, but Yu Qiuyu probably hadn’t entered through the same method.
Their sword techniques were exactly the same, and even the moonlight-like Sword Qi they released had the same range and trajectory.
They were taught by the same master, so no breaking each other’s moves.
But that was the point of sparring—by competing with each other using the same sword technique, they could learn from each other and correct their own shortcomings.
After finishing the set, both sheathed their swords with satisfaction, held their swords in a salute, and indicated they would spar again next time.
At that moment, there seemed to be some commotion from the neighboring class not far away.
“What’s happening?”
Mu Yanxi looked over and saw a second-year disciple lying on the ground, convulsing.
‘That short indigo-blue hair—wasn’t that the girl she had seen earlier taking drugs to train?’