Man and Sword as One, and Heaven and Man as One

When the user of the sword art has cultivated it to its fullest extent, any part of the sword can be used as a weapon! After reaching the stage of man and sword as one, merging with a sword, and the next stage of heaven and man as one. The user himself, without his sword, can be regarded as a sharp sword drawn!

The young man's imagination fired wildly as he continued reading. He was daydreaming about when he could enter the legendary realm of Man and Sword as One, and Heaven and Man as One. After which, he shook his head.

"A journey begins with a single step. He should stop dreaming and start with the basics. After all, even taking into account the experiences of my genes, I have no experience in the path of the sword. I just dabbled in exercises like practicing sword strikes. Those were just empty postures filled with air with no real substance behind them".

As I read on, in addition to the main basic attack position methods, which consisted of Hook, Hang, Point, Carry, Pierce, Slash, the book also, in great detail, explained how much force had to be exerted for each blow, the position of the sword, the posture of the body, as well as the methods of breathing that could be used. Aside from the descriptions, there were also images showing a human wielding a sword in the various forms of sword attacks.

The more Suzu read, the more confused he was - "How can the techniques of the << Basic Sword Techniques >> be so complex? If this is the case, what about the higher-level sword arts? How could I even start training on them if I don't even understand the basic techniques? "- He said while he was lost in contemplation.

Every time he saw an image, he related it to the details indicated in the description and practiced them. Using his fingers instead of a sword, he held the book in one hand and practiced the basic forms of attack: Hook, Hang, Point, Carry, Pierce, Cut. One blow after another, relentlessly pursuing perfection.

The young man continued to practice him as time inexorably passed. He did not know the exact amount of time that passed since he is completely immersed in his training. Suzetsu, similar to a madman, practiced almost to the limit of energy deviation, continuing her journey to understand the truth behind the path of the sword. Kirisu watched with a smile as the brat got lost in his study, fortunately for him, no powerful beast approached and the weak ones that prowled the way felt uneasy and did not face him.

"Doing my best is the only way to improve, even if I have to get close to the limit of my body, I must succeed!" - He said with determination in his eyes.

Suzu did not lack perseverance or determination. He understood well that it was similar to metal. Metal needs to suffer the blows of the blacksmith's hammer and be refined in the fire before it can become a good sword. Besides that, he was also improving his spirit and mind, granting him a high level of understanding. That, when combined with his unshakable personality, as well as the effects of his innate qualities, meant that nothing would be impossible for him!

A period of 20 days passed, Suzu had learned many things in the last time. He was also in nature where he was able to contemplate the meaning of the 5 elements, as well as try to obtain information about the heart of the heavens.

The state of a person's heart was very important. For people with a big heart frame, they could naturally hold more stuff. People with a narrow heart could be compared to a frog living in a well, unable to imagine or appreciate the beauty of the vast outside world.

A wild boar was hunted by the young man after feeling hungry. After which, he removed the bristles, opened her stomach, removed the intestines, blood, internal organs, then scraped the carcass clean, even the boar's head was not saved.

Fortunately, this boar could be considered muscular and fit, there was no excess fat on his body. During this period of time, what he ate the most were wild boars. Especially the pig trotters… Delicious, they were to die for. To satisfy his palate, the young man hunted many wild boars and experimented with them to practice his culinary skills, he even used his sword instead of the knife, he wanted to get acquainted as soon as possible.

Currently, he felt that his culinary skills could be considered good enough, as to surprise the girls in the Gremory house who had always pampered him. After all, he felt that the food he cooked had a superior taste compared to other fine inns or restaurants, after all, he used medium or high-level beasts with rich energy levels.

After finishing his dinner, he stored the three remaining hands inside the ring. He then walked over to the side of the fire to cook and picked up a wooden stick that was 60 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide from the ground.

He had mastered the basic sword forms of Hook, Hang, Point, Carry, Pierce, Slash, and Slash. Now, he wielded the wooden staff, as he would have wielded a sword, the staff almost seemed to be alive in his hand, vigorously executing each of the basic sword forms to perfection. After all, both of his arms had already been trained to an extremely agile state, including his palm, wrist, fingers, and all other parts of his hands due to practicing his fists in the morning, as such, a long time ago had achieved good agility.

The arts of the sword were immeasurably profound, he knew deep down in his heart that if he wanted to master the way of the sword, he would definitely have to expend enormous amounts of effort and time. In any case, Suzetsu wasn't worried. After all, he has an enviable body for anyone.

The sword follows the body, the body leads to the sword, the sword user must be able to achieve the state of sword and body as one, body and chakra as one, chakra and Spirit as one. Although Suzu was only in the initial realm of sword users, he could still roughly understand some of the depth laws of the sword arts!

What he understood was that, when using chakra to control the sword, the breathing and execution of the sword techniques must complement each other, as well as form and footwork. However, considering chakra and spirit as one, he had no idea about it.

However, he didn't need to fully understand this now. What Suzetsu currently needed to achieve were the three mantras associated with the sword arts! Fast, precise, decisive. Especially for the first mantra, Quick!

Fast! Suzu to understand the meaning of speed, incessantly tried different forms of sword attacks, altering their angles.

Thus, he decided to practice the most elemental form of all sword movements. Taking his sword out of the scabbard, Returning his sword to the scabbard, Iaido. What he currently wanted to master was the Iaido technique.

This was because Iaido only emphasized speed. Once the sword is drawn, the kill must be done. Fast to the point of dazzling your opponents, leaving the opponent unable to defend themselves!

As he assiduously began his practice of mastering the path of Iaido, he stood there as images of sword shadows flashed through his mind as he visualized the most simplistic of all sword movements.

After exhausting himself, he would take a break and drink water from the river, eat the wild beasts that he had hunted, and even read his books.

If the people of the Devil World knew that he was so obsessed and spent a great deal of time and effort in mastering the simplistic kind of movement of drawing the sword and returning it to the sheath, they would certainly call him a fool's fool.