Chapter 1460: Unexpected

In the exclusive room, Su Xiao, holding a scroll and a medal, was thinking about something. He had already gathered the conditions to promote to Sword Grandmaster, but there was one more point: after promoting swordsmanship to the Grandmaster level, how high would the improvement cost be?

Through the previous trial challenge, Su Xiao realized that Sword Master and Sword Grandmaster were by no means the same level of ability. Su Xiao suppressed the trial mirror image Silesia in all attributes, not to mention various abilities.

Even so, in the first exchange, Silesia actually fought Su Xiao until he had no power to fight back. If it weren't for making up for the gaps with various abilities, coupled with the fact that he had become accustomed to Silesia's moves after multiple battles, he would never have been able to defeat Silesia.

If it were a life-and-death battle, Su Xiao would be dead now, dead in the hands of Silesia, who only had one Grandmaster-level ability.

From this, it could be seen how exaggerated the gap between Master-level abilities and Grandmaster-level abilities was. More importantly, Grandmaster-level abilities had a not-low floor in the initial stage. Silesia's Melee Combat Grandmaster Lv. 10, X, showed the gap between the two.

Su Xiao tossed the medal in his hand. The 【Proof of Glory】 flying in the air suddenly shattered.

【Proof of Glory has been consumed.】

【Master's Power (Complete) has been consumed.】

【Sword Master rank is being promoted...】

Su Xiao's pupils gradually dilated, and a large amount of fragmented knowledge rushed into his brain. These were all techniques, insights, and secret skills regarding swordsmanship.

I don't know how long it took, but Su Xiao's eyes regained their luster. He stood up and walked toward the room next door.

This was a room Su Xiao specifically used for practicing swordsmanship. On one side of the room stood 20 pillars as thick as buckets. Some pillars were metallic, some were crystalline, and the hardest ones were some kind of ore and alloy.

The pillars were numbered from 1 to 20. Pillars 1 to 6 had already been cut off.

These pillars were rare materials Su Xiao spent a large amount of Paradise Coins to exchange for. The exchange cost of these materials was only 10% of the original price. Don't think they were cheap; these rare materials had two identical characteristics: 1. They were hard, 2. They could not be brought out of the exclusive room, which was why they were so cheap.

The reason for spending a lot of money to exchange for these pillars was very simple: to test slashing power. Now, the 7th pillar was full of fine slash marks, indicating that Su Xiao still couldn't cut through this material called 'Moro Composite Metal'.

Su Xiao stood in front of the 'Moro Composite Metal Pillar'. He had tested it before; X definitely couldn't cut through this thing.

Su Xiao took a deep breath, his right hand slowly tightened around the hilt, and the long blade was drawn from the sheath. With a 'shrala', a blue thread flashed past. The 'Moro Composite Metal Pillar' still stood there, but Su Xiao knew that he had already cut through this thing—cut through it without any hesitation, unlike before, when he would slash for a long time and only leave a large number of slash marks on the Moro Composite Metal Pillar.

Su Xiao didn't know why he could do this. In his feeling, he could just do it, as normal as raising his arm or blinking.

With a loud 'clang', the 34-ton Moro Composite Metal Pillar smashed to the ground. The density of this thing was terrifying, and the weight was naturally not light.

"Obvious improvement."

Su Xiao smiled, Zhan Long Shan returned to the sheath, and he walked out of the sword practice room, checking his swordsmanship ability by the way.

【Sword Grandmaster: Lv. 1 (Passive Skill)】

Skill effect: Increases blade-type weapon attack power by 240%, neural reflex speed +3%, immunity to mental-type control, immunity to spiritual-type bewitchment, induction, etc.

Initial additional ability: X,

Blade Aura Lv. 50: Blade aura flight speed +150%, sharpness value +30, armor penetration +25, blade aura is an energy-based entity.

After swordsmanship was successfully promoted to the Grandmaster level, the attack power bonus of blade-type weapons decreased instead of increasing. This was a normal situation because the Sword Grandmaster level was only Lv. 1.

Compared to the decrease in the attack power bonus of blade-type weapons, Su Xiao was very satisfied with the newly added 3% neural reflex speed. The 3% bonus seemed small, but in fact, this was an enhancement that could be increased.

In other words, from now on, every time Su Xiao raised his Sword Grandmaster level by 1, his neural reflex speed would improve. Over time, it would become a very terrifying bonus amount.

As a melee fighter who used a blade, what Su Xiao feared most was mental or spiritual control. Although the two were very close, they could not be lumped together.

Mental control was an ability derived from the intelligence attribute, while spiritual control was derived from the charm attribute. The gap between the two, to use a vivid metaphor:

Mental control was like an old witch holding a staff, forcibly interfering with your judgment. While the experience was extremely terrible, it was also very eye-stinging.

While spiritual control was much more pleasing to the eye—it was like a naked girl posing in front of you. Although it was equally lethal, the experience was significantly better.

Like melee fighters such as Su Xiao, whether it was the old witch or the naked cute girl, neither was a good thing. Once controlled, it was a 'cool' song sent to oneself.

Su Xiao developed his swordsmanship to this extent, and swordsmanship could naturally make up for this shortcoming. Otherwise, this ability wouldn't be worth him investing so many resources. Although the previous swordsmanship could also be immune to mental control, the range was limited. It was immune to decidable mental control and some ignore-judgment control.

For mental control abilities that took effect directly regardless of judgment, Su Xiao had a certain probability of being unable to be immune to this type of control before.

Sword Grandmaster was different. This ability was completely immune to mental and spiritual control.

Contractors who were good at swordsmanship being immune to mental and spiritual control was common sense in the Reincarnation Paradise, just like most tanks being immune to blunt impact and knockback, and most mages having astonishing elemental resistance. This was all common sense.

Swordsmanship cultivated the heart, body, and technique, with the heart in the first place. If one couldn't even be immune to mental and spiritual control, then what was the point of cultivating the heart? 'Cultivating Immortality' was clearly more reliable.

Improving swordsmanship was both the polishing of willpower, body, and technique. Precisely because of this, swordsmanship was regarded by Su Xiao as his core ability.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the bed, with the black maple tree planted in a large flowerpot placed on the bedside table. He was meditating.

This meditation was very different from previous meditations. Su Xiao felt that the black maple tree, which was only thirty centimeters tall, was like a signal amplifier. Through this black maple tree, he could more intuitively perceive the surrounding environment, or rather, perceive this world.

It was a pity that the black maple tree could only be placed in the exclusive room for now. At least he had to wait for the black maple tree to grow to 50 centimeters tall and have a certain resistance to the outside world before he would try to take the black maple tree out of the exclusive room.

Being in a natural environment and meditating with the black maple tree as a medium, the effect of meditation was the best.

After meditating for a few hours, Su Xiao had a preliminary understanding of the changes in his swordsmanship. Of course, there was another thing he cared more about: the cost of raising Sword Grandmaster Lv. 1. He tried to raise Sword Grandmaster, and a prompt appeared.

【Yes/No to raise Sword Grandmaster Lv. 1? Raising this ability requires Soul Crystal (Large) x1 + 50,000 Paradise Coins.】

Su Xiao blinked, confirming he hadn't misread it. The cost of raising it was different from what he had expected. Not only was it not exorbitantly expensive, but it was actually very cheap—one Soul Crystal (Large) + 50,000 Paradise Coins. For a core ability, this was simply a cabbage price.

Su Xiao suddenly realized that he seemed to have finally seen the light after the darkness. His investment in Sword Master was not wasted. From the cost of raising Sword Grandmaster in the early stage, it could be seen that this was a case of accumulating and then breaking out. In the period that followed, his combat power would improve rapidly. ===== CHAPTER 1461 =====