Chapter 429: This Wave Is the Brain and Hands Failing to Cooperate (10/5, Autumn)

His body learned every operational difficulty of the Nine-Turn Chain Blade in minutes, as if his comprehension were extraordinarily high.

But when it came to actual practice, Lord Han personally explained it to him at length, yet Fang Yue couldn't understand a word of it—his body alone knew how to apply these abilities.

Lord Han didn't know how to describe this bizarre combination.

But if he could convey his own feelings to Fang Yue, Fang Yue would surely find the perfect adjective right away.

"Isn't this just a baby piloting a Gundam!"

All the physical performance of a Gundam, plus the system's 'Comprehension' stat boost.

Yet in reality, his knowledge, thinking, memory, ability, and basic accumulation couldn't keep up at all.

He only knew the how, not the why behind the how.

Like a math problem where you see the opening and know the answer, but not the process.

The result is beautiful, the process utterly abstract.

That is exactly Fang Yue's current state.

The Nine-Turn Chain Blade—after leaving Yingzhong Cun, in just over a day of traveling, he had fully grasped the operational method of the first strike.

The force of the draw, the stance, even the way the wind was released—he understood all of it, but how to combine these operations into a complete first strike became the problem.

"How about you try mastering the counter-flow method of those wind pressures first."

"Alright!"

The Nine-Turn Chain Blade—Fang Yue had crossed blades with it personally.

Back then, 【Dragon Head Cutter】, once unleashed, the airflow driven by internal force locked down the area around the enemy, forming a collision zone—however they moved, the wind-pressure currents would push them toward the center, making this strike absolutely unavoidable.

This strike, whether in concept or practicality, was brilliant—even Lord Han gave it a small compliment.

The best part was, this strike could directly chain into the second strike! Forming a perfect combo, pushing the Nine-Turn Chain Blade's power to a new level.

And the key lay in the changes of airflow driven by the internal current.

The first step was counter-flow lockdown, the second was turning the counter-flowing currents into rotating thrust, and finally, accompanying the attack, they became blade edges that struck the enemy.

The two combined made the power rise yet another level.

Back then, 【Dragon Head Cutter】's usage of it was completely wrong.

Dragon Head Cutter had practiced the Nine-Turn Chain Blade for so long, yet Lord Han, in just a day or two of study, had researched it more thoroughly.

This is what you call professional—this is professional!

An elder at home is a treasure indeed!

"Your counter-flow airflow is condensing too slowly—you can slow down the circulation speed of your internal force."

"Oh! It's maintaining frequency, same principle as the Fire Blade of the Ningtai Ring—once the counter-flow airflow takes shape, immediately maintain the frequency, adjust at any moment, and finally lock the enemy within the wind pressure, caging them like drawing a prison, unable to move."

...... Well, although Lord Han's teaching was truly earnest, listening to Lord Han always gave Fang Yue a feeling that he wasn't very smart.

But the problem was, he'd only been practicing the Nine-Turn Chain Blade for a single day—how could results come so quickly?

"Lord Han, good things take time, everything is hardest at the start, don't rush."

"I'm not rushing—you're doing it wrong. I'm correcting your improper usage."

...... So you're just a heartless correction machine??

Although he really wanted to say that, Lord Han was after all doing this for his own good, so Fang Yue could only silently endure Lord Han's patient instruction.

This often reminded Fang Yue of being yelled at by the instructor beside his ear when taking his driver's license test.

The only difference was, Lord Han spoke much more gently, and every word was logical, impossible to refute—and that was what hurt his pride the most.

Fang Yue seriously suspected that one day Lord Han would blurt out something like "How can you be this stupid, why don't you just die of stupidity."

Although Lord Han made Fang Yue feel very frustrated, the Blade Technique's progress was genuinely fast.

Any mistake that appeared would be corrected immediately, given the most accurate solution.

It was just that, when Fang Yue put Lord Han's words into actual practice, various problems always arose.

A day quickly passed, and after this special training, Fang Yue could already control the wind pressure of the Nine-Turn Chain Blade's first strike on both the front and back sides.

At first glance, this was one-half complete.

In reality, he was still far from it—when the third side of wind pressure appeared, new adjustments would be needed.

Still, the progress was undeniably real.

After truly learning the Nine-Turn Chain Blade, Fang Yue realized that the previous 【Dragon Head Cutter】 might actually have been a genius!

Such a difficult-to-master Blade Technique, and he could practice it to perfection.

Unfortunately, his strength was lacking—acquired Second-rate Realm, like a mid Black Grade anomaly, was simply not taken seriously by Fang Yue anymore.

A Blood Grade anomaly—he had fought one to the death, and it was a royal of the Wuyu Tribe, probably a strong one among the strong even among Blood Grade anomalies.

By comparison, the ones encountered along this journey—what a bunch of trash, Fang Yue couldn't even muster the energy, honestly, and the attribute rewards were few, making him even less motivated.

Better to cultivate Martial Techniques and raise overall strength.

Ahead, another village appeared.

Only Fang Yue's group had no intention of stopping, passing right by.

They had already restocked everything they needed at the previous village.

The road ahead was a straight dash to Qingsi County.

Fang Yue's days became simple as well—practice blade, practice blade, still practice blade.

After all, Heart Methods couldn't be casually cultivated, but practicing the blade could be done even on horseback.

Three-sided wind pressure, four-sided wind pressure, wind pressure fusion, Wind Pressure Lockdown, wind pressure variation.

One difficulty after another was overcome, and with Lord Han's help, Fang Yue's progress was astonishingly fast.

Under continuous effort, finally, when the outline of Qingsi County could be seen in the distance......

"System notification: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】, through unremitting effort, for learning 【Nine-Turn Chain Blade (Incomplete)】."

"Name: Nine-Turn Linked Blades (Incomplete)."

"Grade: Houtian Third-Rate (Xiantian Third-Rate)."

"Requirements: 100 points of Control, 100 points of Discharge."

"Description: An incomplete blade technique with only three forms; if completed, it can be upgraded to a Xiantian Third-Rate blade technique."

"Effect 1: First blade, increases Control by 100 points, forming 【Wind Pressure Lockdown】."

"Effect 2: Second blade,????"

"Effect 3: Third blade,????"

"Note: The ancestors were glorious once, but now fallen — so I'll call you Three Axe Strokes."

Got it!

Fang Yue was overjoyed.

These past few days of effort had finally paid off.

Although he had long known that learning a Martial Technique without directly studying from a manual was an extremely difficult thing.

But he hadn't expected the difficulty would be this high.

These past few days, Fang Yue had practically opened his eyes to practice the blade and closed his eyes to practice the blade; even when going to the latrine, his mind was full of how to execute the Nine-Turn Linked Blades.

His whole being had plunged into study and obsession, and combined with Lord Han's master-level insight, teaching, and guidance, that was how he could achieve his current results.

With the Nine-Turn Linked Blades as a foundation, Fang Yue had finally patched the gap in his blade technique, giving him more confidence in making his way in Qingsi County.

10 updates, going to sleep now.

(End of this chapter)