After being homeschooled his entire life in his isolated farm, Alex finally makes his way to a big city where he finds out about a new VR game called Eternal Cultivation. By luck, Alex receives the Inheritance of the Alchemy God as his reward. Using that inheritance and masters that care for him, Alex begins to learn about the new world he has found himself in while pursuing both Alchemy and Cultivation to the pinnacle. Join my discord: https://discord.gg/ru3rgCKFvx
After reading through the hilt, Alex still was capable enough to read through most of the blade of the sword.
He started reading, focusing only on the words of the blade as well as understanding the meaning behind it. He couldn't just look at the words and try to understand them later by remembering everything.
Because the Intent tended to imprint itself onto one's mind, Alex would have to doubly fight back against the intent if he tried to learn it later.
As such, even if it was a bit harder, he had to learn everything at once.
Alex wasn't just fighting back the Intent on the blade either. He was using it as a whetting stone for his own Intent to get it to become sharper and stronger than it already was.
If he could handle it all to a certain extent, his Intent would improve by leaps and bounds. And if his Intent improved a lot, so would his usage of Dao.