Unlike what the strike's name would tell, the spirit master didn't need to hit anything at all while charging up his sword.
In fact, the strike name was related to the use of one's spirit power. With moving the sword around in star shaped moves, one strike would be counted, and a little star shaped light would appear along the edge of the sword.
Twenty circles, twenty strikes, twenty little stars… Then the technique would be ready to get unleashed.
With the sword edge that was filled with twenty little stars, the spirit master could finally release his stars towards his target.
The attack didn't need the sword to hit the target, but the target shouldn't be too far from the spirit master. The distance should not be more than ten metres for the twenty stars to be unleashed.
Each star would fly around the target to cover up a distance of ten metres radius, before finally exploding.