Cultivation

As I woke up, I felt like a brand new person. The sense of vagueness I experienced earlier has now transformed into that of rather familiarity. The one thing that remained was the fact that I transmigrated into a novel, as a villain.

Unlike yesterday, I was feeling calmer and composed. In such a situation… that was so… not like me at all!

Perhaps this body was slowly influencing me or my personality.

This realisation frightened me. After all, who would want to be a completely different person when they wake up the next day?

Especially in my case, where I'd be a villain, a pathetic one.

In a way, this was somewhat helpful. Instead of clinging to futile beliefs such as- waking up back on earth, I now began thinking more about ways to survive.

Even if there weren't any, I could create one… I hoped I could.

For that, I had to proceed patiently yet fast.

First, I need to check the strength of my body. Was I as strong as Ye Han in the novel? Could I fight like him? Could I Cultivate?

I should at least get strong enough to survive the attacks from Shen Ming.

Instead of going outside, I decided to check everything inside the room, as I didn't want much attention. My actions from yesterday might have weirded out those other disciples for sure.

I couldn't help but gulp, whenever I thought about what I did yesterday.

Their reactions were making sense now as Ye Han was considered a terrifying existence throughout the Northern Edge.

Sitting on the bed, I stared at my fingers. There were golden rings engraved with exquisite designs on four of my fingers. Three on the left hand and one on the right. They were probably dimensional rings that could store things.

I somehow managed to open them easily. As if it was a muscle memory.

In the deep black background were hills of weapons and treasures. I was rich. After all, I was the 'number one genius'.

I furrowed, trying to focus on a sword among them as it appeared in my left arm. It was too easy.

As my hand and the sword came in contact, I could feel a strange energy rising around me. A strange feeling that made me think I could use it effortlessly.

This had the same reason as the dimensional rings, I think. Even if I had no theoretical knowledge on such stuff, I knew how to use them.

Maybe I can use all of Ye Han's abilities as well?

If I'm not wrong, I'll have to battle Shen Ming in almost a month, since the death of Ye Chen was about a month before their confrontation. There was no way to improve my cultivation till then.

Even if I get stronger than him, there's no way I'd survive if I fight him, because he had 'that thing'.

The best thing to do was to avoid the battle. But unfortunately, that too was a dead end.

In any case, I decided to increase my strength.

I've already figured out a way to increase it, which was by increasing my talent. But I wasn't sure if that would work, as I didn't even know if I could fight like Ye Han or not.

Ye Han's Talent was at the lowest of the ternate width.

'Width' is the quantity used for measuring one's talent. Talent widths ranged from Inactive, basic, ternate, predominant and variant.

In this world, every single person was born with equal talent. One can increase their talent by increasing their comprehension towards themselves. Such was everyone's Idea about talents. Although it was the truth, it had more complex and deeper meanings which no normal person knew.

Every talent level had their own method of increasing it. These methods are considered the secret of the heavens. If someone were to expose these secrets, that person and the ones who heard it would be instantly punished by the heavens. As the protagonist, Shen Ming knew of theses methods naturally. And as a reader, I knew of it too.

The method of increasing talent at the ternate width was by comprehending more about one's fated/favourable weapon. In my case, it would be a sword.

Ye Han's strength was so high that everyone in the entire northern edge considered him the best genius, even though he had such average talent. While still in the rebirth stage, he could fight on par with those at the Core Foundation stage.

The reason was his unique sword dao inheritance. But he used it wrongly, causing his talent to get stuck.

Most of the demons had something called 'bloodline power' while the humans had 'Inheritance'.

If I corrected him by using the inheritance in the right way, it would increase my talent as well as strength.

Almost all of the inheritances were used in the form of a separate skill. Just like a battle skill that in nowhere connects to other skills.

Ye Han did the same with his inheritance. He created another powerful battle skill using his inheritance, which was a complete flaw.

Ye Han's inheritance wasn't similar to others, as it was a 'dao inheritance'. The correct way to use it was by merging it with other skills instead of using it as a separate one.

Looking at the scabbard in my hand, I closed my eyes.

Ye Han's sword dao inheritance was called… Hmm? What was it again?

Anyway, It was about- how a sword cultivator could use anything as his sword. Even if it's just a piece of wood, in the hands of a sword cultivator, it could be a sword that cuts through countless swords.

Truly! That was straight-up overpowered.

The method of practising it was by imagining a scabbard to be an unsheathed sword, which was what I was trying to do.

Poor Ye Han, instead of considering it as a 'power up', he used it as a whole separate one.

He even named it the 'Sword God's scabbard arts'. Where he used a scabbard as his weapon.

It for sure was powerful enough to get him the name of the 'number one genius'. But the cost was too high.

As I tried to imagine a sword in my mind, I felt an immense pressure rising around me. My body started feeling hotter, and I could hear my heartbeat speeding up.

When I opened my eyes, I could see sharp edges formed on the scabbard, as if it was a sword. This was enough for me to understand that I had entered the state of inheritance usage.

These sharp edges were infact an illusion, but my hands could make it more powerful than swords.

In this state, any moves I use would be immensely powerful, no matter what I choose as a weapon. But using an unsheathed sword was the best, as that was the way of forming foundation.

Use the sword sheath to enter this state, unsheath it to strengthen the foundation.

That was the right way.

I unsheathed the sword and a surge of golden light hit my eyes.

This feeling!

I calmed myself down for a bit, as I thought I might go insane.

I brought up my left hand and swung the sword, as lightly as possible. I could feel the spiritual qi slowly thickening itself around my sword while doing so. That light swing caused the spiritual qi in my room to get cut in half.

I snapped out from the state of inheritance shortly after. As expected, I felt my power rising. I assumed it to be because of the barrier, which blocked my talent, breaking.

Perhaps, in a month, I will become twice as strong as I am now.

Ye Han's sword arts had already reached such a stage where he could cut through the Qi itself. He also had perfect control over its destructivity.

Although the way he practised was entirely wrong, he was still able to pull such battle prowess.

I wonder how powerful he'd have become if he practised normally from the start.

Till now, I had been using my left hand, which was strange, for a right-handed person.

I decided to try the same thing using my right hand but it felt rather weird and unfamiliar.

This too had the same reasons.

I don't own anything in this body except for my soul. I'm not him, but my brain... No, Ye Han's brain and nerves still work exactly like how they did in the past.

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Battle skills are skills used in a fight. They come in various strengths and rankings. Right now, I am trying to list out all of the battle skills known by Ye Han.

Finding Ye Han's battle skills without his memories was tough. I had to completely rely on the feeling of familiarity to figure them out. Up until now, I managed to figure out three of them.

One was a fist technique. It used the skin on my left hand to form a circle of qi, circulate it in a timely manner and pressurise it. This technique was the easiest to figure out since I felt this weird feeling in my left hand.

I didn't know any of the names of these skills, so I decided to name them myself.

This fist technique is mostly based on concentrating the pressure. It's kind of basic but powerful.

I named it the 'Arm of pressure'

The next technique was a sword skill. Actually, a heaven-class battle skill. This was shown in the novel, which was why I figured it out easily.

It was done by condensing spiritual qi into crystals and releasing them in a certain way. It was so powerful that I couldn't test it right now. Because that'd create huge destruction.

I decided to check it and if possible- strengthen it, after going somewhere far.

Now that I'm using my inheritance in the right manner, this sword skill should also strengthen up.

I couldn't remember its name either. And I named it 'Crystal Sword.'

The third one was a movement technique. It used spiritual qi to create shades and afterimages, in a ridiculous speed.

I named it the 'Shady steps'

I spend some more time trying to list out more of his battle skills and techniques. And I did list out much more, but they were mostly basic.

That almost used up all my stamina.

I took out a pill, which had the effect of healing, and sat there after consuming it. Almost in an instant, I recovered my stamina by half. That was the effect of a high grade healing pill, I guess.

I could identify and use almost all of the items owned by Ye Han, including this pill.

I slowly circulated the qi inside my dantian and entered a state of meditation. My body and mind felt relaxed as I got rid of everything that concerned me.

This was cultivation!