Chapter 39: Unusual Conditions

Han Li felt the voice of the other spy was very unfamiliar; he should have never seen this person before. However, judging from the voice, he was relatively young, about twenty-something years old.

Unfortunately, for the sake of safety, Han Li didn't dare to take a peek, fearing that the two had pure cultivation and could sense his gaze, thereby discovering that there was an outsider nearby, which would be more than the loss was worth.

After experiencing this incident, the rest of the journey was very peaceful.

After a long time had passed since dinner, Han Li finally returned to his residence.

As usual, Doctor Mo didn't even have the interest to take a look at Han Li's mysterious return. Usually, apart from sending some prepared medicines, he was completely hands-off regarding all of Han Li's actions and behavior.

If Han Li hadn't seen that the medicines sent by Doctor Mo were all prepared from precious medicinal materials he had collected during his last trip down the mountain, he would have thought that the other had given up on his expectations and was preparing some other vicious scheme.

The current Han Li didn't look down on the so-called precious medicines sent by Doctor Mo at all, but in order not to make the other suspicious, he would still pinch his nose and swallow them.

He wasn't afraid that the medicines sent would be mixed with poison; if the other harmed him now, it would only mean harming himself at the same time.

Regarding the Wild Wolf Gang spies he met halfway, Han Li had already thought of a good way to deal with them on the way back.

Although he didn't have deep feelings for the Seven Mysteries Sect, he was still half an inner-sect disciple, so he couldn't just ignore the harm to the Seven Mysteries Sect happening right under his nose.

Moreover, he had already found the best candidate to handle this matter for him—Li Feiyu, Senior Brother Li.

According to Han Li's observation, perhaps because of taking the "Corpse Worm Pill," Li Feiyu's desire for fame and fortune was much heavier than ordinary people, and he had quite a bit of ambition. He had always dreamed of entering the upper echelon of the Seven Mysteries Sect and becoming a focus of more attention.

Han Li once guessed that the other probably wanted to make himself even crazier and more glorious in his final time.

Now, he was personally delivering such a great merit to his door, which would surely make him jump for joy. This could also be considered as repaying the big favor of him getting the sword manual.

Thinking of the "Blinking Sword Manual," Han Li felt a burst of excitement in his heart.

Regarding the matter of the "Blinking Sword Manual," he hadn't lied to his friend. The sword manual was indeed not suitable for the other to practice, but Han Li hadn't revealed many of the details.

For him, keeping some little secrets in front of anyone was his golden rule for survival.

Even if the other seemed to be intimate with him, it was no exception.

However, the things recorded in these secret manuals were truly very different from ordinary martial arts.

In Han Li's view, rather than calling them sword arts, it would be more appropriate to call them sword techniques. They were completely a kind of assassination secret technique that synthesized various factors such as time, place, and people. They were very rare, pure killing techniques where one would die as soon as the sword was drawn.

In these books, various techniques for killing the enemy with one sword strike under different environments and at different times, using the mysterious sword techniques he had painstakingly practiced, were described.

It taught those who learned this sword technique to borrow the grass and trees of the terrain they were in, and the different angles of light strength, to cause visual errors for the opponent, grasp the enemy's weaknesses in an instant, see through the opponent's flaws, and kill the opponent in a split second.

This was a secret technique that placed great emphasis on skill; without a little bit of talent, it was impossible to comprehend and master this sword art.

Therefore, those who practiced this secret technique must have extraordinary five senses, with vision, hearing, and so on far exceeding ordinary people, to have hope of achieving success.

If it were just the above conditions, it would be fine; there would always be some disciples who would choose to practice it because they coveted its power.

But the excessive part was that it had even harsher conditions, requiring those who practiced this secret technique not to have pure internal power in their bodies; otherwise, it would conflict with the techniques of exerting force, making cultivation extremely difficult.

Even if one were lucky enough to pass the test, in actual combat, because the true qi in the body was too vigorous, the sword moves would unknowingly become deformed, leaving quite a few flaws for the opponent, thereby causing a fatal disaster.

Such a condition basically cut off most people's intention to practice. One had to know that there had always been a saying in the Jianghu: "Practicing boxing without practicing Kung Fu, in the end, it's all for nothing."

For them, not practicing internal Kung Fu was a huge taboo. To abandon their own true qi cultivation for this unknown, nameless sword art would truly make them the laughingstock of the Jianghu.

In this way, there were only a few people left who still had the intention to continue practicing.

But even for these people, even if they had talent and no problems with true qi, there was still the final hurdle blocking them, completely dispelling their intention to continue pestering it.

That was that this kind of sword technique had too many complex moves and too many cumbersome and detailed application conditions.

Looking at the large pile of thick secret manuals in the package, ordinary people would be intimidated.

Basically, each sword manual represented a sword move, and each sword move would be broken down into hundreds of sub-sword moves, and each sub-move had to be particular about the various different techniques to be employed under different environments and different times.

Such a huge number of sword techniques, let alone practicing, just reading them would make one's head ache, not to mention that one still needed to memorize them all and then comprehend and practice them on one's own.

The above perverted cultivation conditions didn't know how many disciples who had the intention to learn this sword technique they had hindered, making them curse the elder who created this unique skill in their hearts.

With the passage of time, the Seven Mysteries Sect gradually lost interest in this sword art, believing that it was impossible for anyone to master this martial art. This set of martial arts was probably fabricated by that elder before he died, otherwise, how could there be such outrageous cultivation conditions? This was clearly making things difficult for the disciples who didn't know its background, so these secret manuals were shelved and no one asked about them anymore.

===== CHAPTER 40 =====