Crimsontail

It's Da Liu, not Jiang.

Is "Worldly Society" a translation of "Jianghu"? 🤔

Not really. It was Hao who chose to reject her because her ambitions hurt his pride. After all, Hao was the one that encouraged Ruxue to join the Sword Saint. But when she became dedicated to the Sword Dao, he suddenly decided he didn't like that anymore and decided to abandon her, even though she has always had him in her heart.

No, for the bottleneck stages, like the 3rd, 6th and 9th stages, he also needs to unlock the corresponding bottlenecks in the arts. In other words, he can only have as many martial skills at the 9th stage as he has artistic skills at the 9th stage.

I don't know why you even bother. For the past few months, I've only been reading this novel using the free reading day that comes once every two weeks.

Not really. If the author wanted to help, there were plenty of occasions in the past when Hao could have done so, but chose not to. Right now, the author wants Hao to help only so that Hao gets back into trouble. Looking back, almost every single time Hao or someone else has made a choice that wasn't consistent with their earlier actions, it has always been because the author wanted to force some other stupid plot development down our throats.

I strongly suspect that the author doesn't know what "softness" in martial arts, especially in swordsmanship, actually means. 👀😮‍💨

Lolwut? The rusty sword is named Tetanus?

If he didn't mention who his enemies were, then how did he explain his circumstances I swear, this author just tries to handwave away all inconsistencies.n