27: Qi and Blood Blade Qi

Everyone was incredibly excited to hear about visiting the Secret Realm over the weekend.

Almost everyone had only seen scenes of the Secret Realm in videos, so they were looking forward to the weekend visit.

When class ended, most students stayed in the training hall.

"Brother Sheng, what martial arts do you plan to learn?" Wu Xingyang asked, not waiting for Zhang Sheng to answer.

"It seems there's nothing suitable for my greatsword!"

However, at that moment, Zhang Sheng was thinking about Teacher Xu's words. Since it was just a visit, why did he specifically emphasize preparing well at the end?

It seemed like there was more to his words.

Turning to the fatty, he said seriously, "Xingyang, find a movement technique that lets you run fast. Being good at fighting isn't as good as being good at Running."

"Huh? That's too cowardly!" "Fine, I'll listen to you. Anyway, I don't have an offensive Talent. Just thinking about participating in Secret Realm subjugations in the future gives me a headache."

"Secret Realm subjugation?"

"Yeah. Our War God Academy will participate in Secret Realm subjugations in a month at the earliest. It's related to our assessments and the resources we'll be allocated later."

Zhang Sheng didn't find it strange. After all, the purpose of First Cultivation University's establishment was to Cultivate top-tier Talent, especially combat Talent.

Currently, China's Secret Realm conquests were still handled by the military; it was they who protected China's billions of people with their own bodies of flesh and blood.

Zhang Sheng directly pulled out his phone and filtered through the Secret Manuals. China had obtained a large number of martial arts manuals from White-Grade Secret Realms.

They were divided into movement techniques, footwork, fist techniques, palm techniques, saber techniques, sword techniques, spear techniques, and so on.

Zhang Sheng's selection criteria were that the movements had to be few enough and practicing once had to be fast enough.

Movement technique manuals were all similar; Zhang Sheng chose the "Roving Dragon Movement Technique," which was free.

Then there were the saber techniques. Among the saber technique manuals, the name of one technique caught Zhang Sheng's attention.

"One Cut Slash"

He opened the introduction and saw that it really was just one cut.

I'll choose you! Zhang Sheng was very excited; his Talent needed this kind of simple and unpretentious move.

This manual was also very cheap; Zhang Sheng only spent 10 academic credits.

Most students, like Zhang Sheng, were downloading and learning these manuals on the spot.

Sitting on the ground, Zhang Sheng opened the folder and quickly memorized the two manuals.

He then began to follow the instructions in the manuals, moving his feet and feeling the circulation of blood-qi within his body.

Once, twice, thrice.

Finally!

"Learnable skill detected—Roving Dragon Movement Technique. Learn it?"

After learning the Roving Dragon Movement Technique, Zhang Sheng immediately began learning the One Cut Slash.

This was an explosive technique that circulated the blood-qi in the body. With just one cut, Zhang Sheng successfully reached the Beginner level.

Wonderful!

Indescribably wonderful!

Zhang Sheng then gripped his Tang saber with both hands and continuously swung it in place.

"One cut!"

"Two cuts!"

"Three cuts!"

..."Brother Sheng, what are you doing?" the fatty asked as he hurried over.

"Xingyang, can't you see I'm practicing saber techniques?" Zhang Sheng replied while hacking forward.

"Is there any saber technique that's practiced like this? Don't try to fool me."

"It's called 'One Cut Slash,' search for it yourself!" Zhang Sheng said helplessly.

"I knew you were fooling me. How can a saber technique be called One Cut Slash? Why not Two Cut Slash or Three Cut Slash?" Wu Xingyang muttered while searching on the campus network.

"Holy crap! Brother Sheng, there really is one called 'One Cut Slash'! I want to learn this too!"

"This is a saber technique. You use a greatsword, so what the hell are you going to learn?" Zhang Sheng was speechless.

"It's fine, it's fine. I'll go to the warehouse and exchange it!" Wu Xingyang ran out of the training hall excitedly.

While the two were chatting, One Cut Slash had already reached the Proficient level.

One minute later,

Proficient level,

Ten minutes later,

One Cut Slash entered the Transcendent stage!

"Skill: One Cut Slash (Transcendent: 1/100,000)"

A flood of insights rushed into his mind, and the long saber felt like an extension of his arm. If a saber master were to notice Zhang Sheng's swings and slashes at this moment, they would surely feel a trace of divine charm within them.

He could continue practicing "One Cut Slash" back at his apartment; for now, he should Cultivate the "Roving Dragon Movement Technique" first.

Zhang Sheng left the training hall. Although the space wasn't small, there were many people, and Zhang Sheng didn't want others to notice anything during his practice.

So, he simply went to the sports field to practice his movement technique.

With a Perfected State Running skill, Zhang Sheng didn't expect that Cultivating the "Roving Dragon Movement Technique" would be twice as effective with half the effort.

In just half an hour, Zhang Sheng had Cultivated the Roving Dragon Movement Technique to the Transcendent stage!

His Talent was actually so useful in Cultivating these martial arts.

At this moment, Zhang Sheng's body was as if he had practiced the "Roving Dragon Movement Technique" for several years; there was no need to deliberately circulate the blood-qi in his body. Between walking and stopping, his movement technique was as natural as breathing.

By now, Zhang Sheng realized that when Xu Anmin defeated Li Yuan in the training hall, he had used some kind of movement technique, and his technique had reached at least the Proficient level.

If he were to face Xu Anmin now, he would certainly be able to contend with him.

He didn't deliberately try to Cultivate the movement technique to the Perfected State, as that would take at least half a day. The day after tomorrow was Sunday, and there were more important things to do now.

He returned to the training hall once more,

and from afar, he saw Wu Xingyang hacking away in place with a large saber.

"This guy is serious!"

Zhang Sheng didn't disturb him but went to the second floor to practice firearms.

Last time, due to insufficient academic credits, Zhang Sheng hadn't grinded his Firearm Shooting skill to the Transcendent stage.

One academic credit for a thousand rounds of ammunition.

Zhang Sheng directly purchased two thousand rounds of automatic rifle ammunition.

Soon,

"Skill: Firearm Shooting (Transcendent: 990/100,000)"

Transcendent marksmanship, never missing a shot. He also gained a special ability—Mastery of All: using other types of firearms would automatically grant a Proficient level.

A Proficient level of general shooting was already enough.

Carrying his alloy Tang saber, Zhang Sheng returned to his apartment.

As a student of the Spiritual Plant College, the fact that Zhang Sheng's spirit field hadn't been planted with spirit plants was soon learned by Dean Yan.

The Dean issued a warning: if spirit plants weren't planted in time, academic credits would be deducted, or the five mu of spirit fields would have to be returned to the school.

After returning them to the school, if he wanted to apply for spirit field cultivation again, it would cost academic credits.

Zhang Sheng checked and saw that reapplying for one mu of spirit field cost 10 academic credits, so he simply returned all the spirit fields to the school.

Anyway, if he needed spirit plants in the future, he could just buy them.

Over the last few days, Zhang Sheng had also discovered that the one thing First Cultivation University didn't lack was farmers. Those students who found it hard to earn academic credits had all joined the farming brigade, and even the price of golden spirit rice was showing a downward trend.

Back at the dormitory, Zhang Sheng began his tedious Cultivation, swallowing essence food pills while repeating the process of Refining Essence into Qi.

When he got bored, he continued to Cultivate "One Cut Slash."

At this moment, in the eyes of an ordinary person, Zhang Sheng's slashes were only a blur of afterimages. Under a single cut, all was silent, yet the power was explosive.

So, Zhang Sheng attempted to Cultivate it to Perfection.

It took a full three hours. Sweat soaked the floor, and Zhang Sheng's body was a dark red, with steam rising from him. Even the temperature in the room rose by several degrees.

One hundred thousand swings!

Finally, it reached the Perfected State!

"Skill: One Cut Slash (Perfected State: 100,000/100,000) PS: Comprehended Slasher Saber Intent!"

A mysterious and profound feeling surged into his heart.

Zhang Sheng had a sudden realization. At the same time, he quickly took an essence food pill to replenish his consumed blood-qi.

He hadn't expected that the Perfected State of "One Cut Slash" would actually allow him to reach the martial Realm of Saber Intent.

More importantly, this!

Zhang Sheng pressed his two fingers together, and a blood-red Protective Aura emerged from his fingertips. This was—blade aura.

Performing a slash with the Perfected State "One Cut Slash" was no longer limited to the saber itself; everything in the world could be a saber.

However, this blade aura consumed the blood-qi power in Zhang Sheng's body. With his current blood-qi, he couldn't use it many times, so it was best not to use it unless it was a critical moment.

Having obtained a powerful trump card, Zhang Sheng was in an exceptionally good mood.

After a brief rest, he continued Refining Essence into Qi.