The Brilliant Fighting Master
The Brilliant Fighting Master - Chapter 11: Sword Practice

Chapter 11: Sword Practice

Gao Yue said helplessly, 鈥淛iang Chen, don鈥檛 be too upset. It鈥檚 better to break up with that kind of woman.鈥?/p>

鈥淚 will not sign the disengagement agreement,鈥滼iang Chen said, 鈥淚 will write a certificate of divorce instead.鈥?/p>

鈥淏ut in this way the Sus won鈥檛 send people over here.鈥?Cher felt this was a losing proposition.

鈥淲ith the Su鈥檚 attitude, even if they send people over here, it would be difficult to send them away later. We will probably have to try our best to please them, but they won鈥檛 necessarily give us any help,鈥?Jiang Chen said.

鈥淪on, are you sure?鈥?It was difficult for Gao Yue to make a decision.

鈥淵es.鈥?/p>

Jiang Chen was sure. He took pen and ink to write the certificate of divorce and then asked a servant to send it over to the Su鈥檚.

The Su鈥檚 could refuse to accept the certificate of divorce. Su Qian could claim that she hadn鈥檛 been cheating on Jiang Chen, so he couldn鈥檛 divorce her for no reason.

But they were the ones who wanted disengagement. Jiang Chen had put them into a dilemma.

鈥淏ut what should the east courtyard do?鈥?Gao Yue was very worried.

鈥淢other, we should reduce the establishment and focus on our core industries. As for the other things, it鈥檚 fine to hand them over to the west courtyard.鈥?/p>

Jiang Chen went on, saying, 鈥淎fter all, it will depend on grandpa whether the west courtyard can replace the east. The industry is only one of the things that grandpa evaluates. The more important thing is me.鈥?/p>

Gao Yue nodded. She understood what her son meant.

鈥淚f I can achieve the Gathering Yuan State before the spring festival, whatever the west courtyard has done it will only be in vain,鈥?Jiang Chen said.

鈥淥nly three months to go until the spring festival. Won鈥檛 it be too difficult?鈥?/p>

鈥淢other, did you forget?鈥?/p>

Gao Yue recalled that old man with the white beard and nodded seriously.

鈥淏esides, I am already in Cloud Seven.鈥?/p>

Jiang Chen鈥檚 state had been enhanced in seven days through panaceas and the sky level method.

鈥淵ou are?鈥?Gao Yue looked at her son excitedly. All of her worries had disappeared instantly.

鈥?/p>

The news that Gao Yue hadn鈥檛 gotten any help spread quickly, as well as the disengagement with the Su鈥檚. This way, the east courtyard鈥檚 decline had become a consensus in the Southwind Ridge. Even Jiang Chen鈥檚 brilliant achievement in the winter hunt couldn鈥檛 reverse people鈥檚 opinions. There even had been rumors floating around about the west courtyard petitioning the old lord to give the east courtyard to them.

Jiang Chen didn鈥檛 bother with those rumors. He contributed all his time to practice. He achieved Cloud Nine in two months. Maybe it was because he had been in Cloud Nine. Although the loss of genuine Qi resulted in state degradation, starting all over again and repeating the whole process, of course, was faster than the first time. However, he was at a crucial point that he was unable to break through.

It will be a qualitative leap to cross the big gap between two states. With the aid of the sky level method and the holy pulse, it鈥檚 a piece of cake to break through. But the thing is, there is only a month to go until the spring festival. But it鈥檚 no use to be anxious. I鈥檒l just take the chance to study some martial techniques.

At the time of the spring festival, things wouldn鈥檛 end with reporting your state level. There probably would be a fight.

Jiang Chen could hunt fierce beasts, but beasts didn鈥檛 have wisdom. The human beings would be much more difficult to deal with. People gain strength from practice. But that鈥檚 not enough. They have to make use of the strength they get. If you have the strength to move five hundred kilograms, but not even 10% of it can be put into use, your strength has no use. But things were like this a long time ago until forefathers with great wisdom created effective fighting methods like the fist method, palm method, sword method and the knife method. All of these are called martial techniques.

The practice of martial techniques is very stringent. For example, the powerful sword method can be given full play only when the person practicing it has great swordsmanship attainments. Swordsmanship doesn鈥檛 come from nowhere. It requires practice of entry-level swordsmanship and accumulation of experience. The swordsmanship and other martial techniques collected in the Over Cloud Palace are for master level powerhouses.

If Jiang Chen insisted on practicing them, they would only do him harm instead of good. So, Jiang Chen called Fan Tu over. He asked Fan Tu to show him a basic martial technique, better than a sword method.

鈥淵oung Lord, you鈥檝e been back to Cloud Nine? That鈥檚 fantastic. You will be someone big even without the holy pulse!鈥?Fan Tu was a direct man. No one else in the east courtyard had the nerve to mention the holy pulse in front of Jiang Chen. Fan Tu continued, 鈥淭he master learnt his swordsmanship from the Taoist Priest Skywind. It cannot be spread out. Even though it could be, it wouldn鈥檛 be useful to Young Lord.鈥?/p>

Jiang Chen understood what he meant. It was for the same reason that he was unable to practice the swordsmanship of the Over Cloud Palace. In short, if a person who practiced it with level one swordsmanship attainments persists in practicing a level four sword method, he will get nowhere.

Of course, martial techniques and swordsmanship attainments are not classified in such a simple way. But the logic is the same. Jiang Chen鈥檚 current state didn鈥檛 allow him to practice any of the martial techniques collected in the Over Cloud Palace. He gave Fan Tu that Dorje Subduing Demon because the latter was in the Gathering Yuan state and he had been practicing fist methods for decades. But even Fan Tu was only able to achieve the entry level after months of practice. Among all the martial techniques Jiang Chen knew, Dorje Subduing Demon was an inferior one.

Jiang Chen wanted to find a sword method suitable for him. It was for this purpose that he called Fan Tu over.

鈥淵oung Lord, wait for a second!鈥?When Fan Tu got Jiang Chen鈥檚 attention, he left the room and soon came back with some servants, who were carrying lots of books. The floor was heaped with books instantly.

鈥淭hese martial techniques are the east courtyard鈥檚 collection. Although they were dedicated to the Jiang Mansion, people from the east courtyard are not allowed to practice them, let alone the Young Lord.鈥?/p>

Jiang Chen watched the sword methods carefully. He had a yearning to be a swordsman. No one knew why. But in the Sacred Zone, eight out of ten top-level masters were swordsmen.

鈥淵oung Lord, what do you want? Generally speaking, what you like is what suits you.鈥?/p>

鈥淪words.鈥?/p>

Once he got the answer, Fan Tu picked the sword methods out for him.

Jiang Chen browsed them one by one and kept shaking his head. He thought to himself, these are insignificant for swords. What鈥檚 really important is only the sharpness of a sword.

Jiang Chen finally found a suitable one. The Sword Method of the Holy Spirit.

鈥淵oung Master, you want to practice swords now? All right!鈥?/p>

The two of them came to the spacious yard. Fan Tu found him an extremely sharp iron sword, which had been edged.

Jiang Chen felt very emotional holding the sword.

The number one Sword Master in the Sacred Zone Yin Qianmo picked up a wooden sword when he was three. Without any experiences of practicing any sword methods, he reached the entry level just with some casual waves of the sword, and in this way beat his ten-year-old brother, who had practiced sword methods for five years.

The Sword Saint Dugu Yu was a knifeman at the beginning. He gave up the knife and picked up the sword when he was twenty. He became enlightened overnight on the 鈥楾he Sword Method to Kill鈥?and then killed ninety-nine brutal vicious scoundrels in three days. The whole Sacred Zone was shocked by his feat.

How far will I get?

The Sword Method of the Holy Spirit was laid open to the first page on the ground. The first movement was shown by a little man on the page, with annotations below it.

Jiang Chen didn鈥檛 stop reading until he memorized everything. With key points in mind, he started to wave the sword in his hand.

鈥淐an鈥檛 wait to see Young Lord鈥檚 sword skills.鈥?Fan Tu looked hopeful. His master was adept in using swords. For sure, the young lord had inherited this ability!

However, soon after, his face became embarrassed for what he was seeing.

Jiang Chen looked so clumsy when he was practicing sword methods.

Yes, very clumsy.