This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

"You only need to recommend me, and everything else will proceed according to the rules. I am quite confident in my own strength," Lu Qingshan said leisurely.

Dantai Qingrun looked at Lu Qingshan with skepticism.

—A Sword Cultivator who hasn't mastered the Sword Control Technique and the Flying Sword Technique, where does this confidence come from? Don't you have a realistic assessment of your own abilities?

"Fine, I'll arrange it as soon as possible. Prepare yourself, and once it's ready, I'll notify you." Dantai Qingrun flicked out a token, which flew towards Lu Qingshan.

Lu Qingshan took a look at it as he caught it, and it was indeed the Zhenjiang Tower token.

Saying it was one thing, but Dantai Qingrun was very keen to keep Lu Qingshan at Zhenjiang Tower, so she was quite straightforward in giving the token.

After all, as far as she was concerned, Lu Qingshan was like a never-ending treasure trove in her eyes.

Having achieved her purpose in seeking Lu Qingshan, Dantai Qingrun naturally did not engage in idle chatter with him.

With a command of the Spirit Concealment Sword, she leapt into the air and transformed into a streak of cyan sword light, disappearing in a flash.

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Seeing Dantai Qingrun leave, Lu Qingshan took out the jade slip given by Dantai Qingrun from his storage ring.

A row of data information appeared before his eyes.

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[Liuyan Sword Control Technique]

Casting Requirement: Can only be executed using a Sword Artifact

Description: An Escape Skill for Sword Cultivators, maximum level 20

Skill Effect: Sword Control flight, extremely fast, at a certain speed, it will appear as a streak of Liuyan.

Additional Description: The more spiritual power consumed, the faster the Sword Control speed.

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Indeed, the Sword Control Technique is not an attack spell.

In the traditional sense, the Sword Control Technique should be referred to as an Escape Skill, reserved for Sword Cultivators.

In fact, Cultivators from different sects master different types of escape skills.

Each Escape Skill also has its own characteristics.

For example, Dharma Cultivators' Five Elements Escape Technique is versatile and adaptable to various terrains.

Nether Cultivators' Shadow Escape Technique and Smoke Escape Technique are hidden and unpredictable, difficult to guard against.

Spiritual Cultivators' Teleportation Technique is connected to the spirituality of heaven and earth, profound and unfathomable.

Each has its own strengths.

As an Escape Skill for Sword Cultivators, the Sword Control Technique, like the Sword Cultivator profession itself, is extremely unique.

Its biggest and sole advantage is "speed"!

The ultimate in speed, compared to other escape skills, there is no contest in how much faster Sword Control Technique is.

Beyond that, the Sword Control Technique doesn't have any additional functions.

However, this also aligns with the occupational traits of Sword Cultivators.

Sword Cultivators typically have two common attack strategies.

One is to stay within the effective range of the Flying Sword and continuously harass the enemy with attacks.

The other is to charge in explosively and use Sword Techniques to swiftly slay the enemy.

Both of these attack strategies rely heavily on speed.

Speed is the Sword Cultivator's tool for traversing the battlefield successfully.

Naturally, the importance of the Sword Control Technique to Sword Cultivators, being on par with the Flying Sword Secret Technique, comes as no surprise.

In Lu Qingshan's memory from his previous life in the game, there were some Sword Cultivator players who took an unconventional approach, focusing mainly on mastering the Sword Control Technique. Among the brutish Sword Cultivators, they pioneered a "guerrilla warfare" playstyle.

The essence of guerrilla warfare is retreating when the enemy advances, harassing when the enemy is stationary, striking when the enemy is exhausted, and pursuing when the enemy retreats.

These Sword Cultivator players fully embraced the profound mysteries of "retreat when the enemy advances, pursue when the enemy retreats."

In every battle, they would approach the enemy using the Sword Control Technique, and when within range for the Flying Sword attack, they would activate their Flying Swords to strike.

As soon as the enemy countered and the situation turned unfavorable, they would immediately use the Sword Control Technique to flee.

After the enemy pursued for a while and gave up, these Sword Cultivators would shamelessly turn around and continue provoking with their Flying Swords.

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In truth, Sword Cultivators who specialized in the Sword Control Technique didn't deal much damage with their Flying Swords.

But these players didn't care about that—while they might not kill you, they could certainly annoy you to death!

For some "mentally twisted" players, irritating others was the ultimate pleasure.

Although these players glorified their style of play as "guerrilla warfare," there was another name that was more widely known and better captured the essence of their approach—"Sneaky Style."

In the subsequent versions, "Sneaky Style" Sword Cultivators also became a trend in "Nine Heavens" for a while.

This also made the disdain that "Nine Heavens" players had for Sword Cultivators rise another notch.

The Sword Control Technique was thus listed as one of the most cancerous skills in "Nine Heavens".

Although its reputation wasn't very pleasant, this also reflected the speed and power of the Sword Control Technique from another perspective.

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Lu Qingshan's Divine Sense penetrated the Jade Slip, and the various Dharma and techniques of the Liuyan Sword Control Technique were imprinted in his mind.

"Skill detected: [Liuyan Sword Control Technique], would you like to spend 500 Experience Points to learn?"

"Learn!"

The not-so-abundant Experience Points that Lu Qingshan had quickly decreased by another 300 points.

"Learning in progress, please do not interrupt...1%...55%...…99%"

"Learning successful! You have mastered [Liuyan Sword Control Technique]!"

After mastering the Sword Control Technique, Lu Qingshan took out another Jade Slip.

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[Flying Sword Technique]

Activation condition: Can only be executed through a Sword Artifact

Description: A Sword Cultivator's offensive technique, maximum Level 20

Skill effect: Command the Flying Sword to attack the enemy from thousands of miles away.

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The name of this Flying Sword secret technique wasn't as flashy as the Liuyan Sword Control Technique, even appearing somewhat plain.

However, the tier of this Flying Sword secret technique wasn't high, which matched its straightforward name.

As signature skills of the Sword Cultivator, the Experience Points of Sword Control Technique and Flying Sword Secret Technique could be inherited.

This meant that if Lu Qingshan learned higher-tier Sword Control Techniques and Flying Sword Techniques afterwards, the newly learned techniques would override the old ones and inherit all the Experience Points of the previous ones.

And not open a new skill altogether.

This also made perfect sense.

For instance, if you have already practiced a Sword Control Technique to a high level, there is no reason you'd have to start from scratch like a beginner if you were to learn a more advanced Sword Control Technique. Naturally, you would be able to pick it up much faster than a Cultivator who has never learned Sword Control Technique.

It was for this reason that Lu Qingshan could, at this stage, invest a large number of Experience Points into low-grade Sword Control Techniques and Flying Sword Secret Techniques without any concerns.

Lu Qingshan then allowed his Divine Sense to explore the contents of the Jade Slip, and with a boom, the techniques for operating the Flying Sword emerged as images before his eyes.

Spiritual Power flowed from the Dantian, swirling within the body, charging toward the Niwan Palace at the center of the forehead with an imposing momentum, blending into a strand of Divine Sense within the Niwan Palace, then attaching to the Flying Sword and charging at the enemy.

This move gathered the Spiritual Power from within the Sword Cultivator's Dantian, the power of the Divine Soul between the eyebrows, and the inherent strength of the Flying Sword itself.

Once the Flying Sword is deployed, it's an invincible force.

"Skill detected: [Flying Sword Technique], would you like to spend 500 Experience Points to learn?"

"Learn!"

"Experience Points -300, learning in progress, [Flying Sword Technique], please do not interrupt...1%...55%..."

"Learning successful! You have mastered [Flying Sword Technique]!"

The killing ability of the Flying Sword, apart from the level and tier of the Flying Sword Technique itself, depends on three fundamental values.

The quality of the Flying Sword itself, the Spiritual Power of the Sword Cultivator, and the Sword Cultivator's Divine Sense.

Only when the Spiritual Power attached to the Flying Sword is sufficiently pure and profound will its power and speed be sufficient to deter others.

And the Flying Sword, unless guided by Divine Sense, can only make rigid and straightforward movements without the ability for nuanced control or change.

The effective attack range of a Flying Sword is determined by Divine Sense.

The Flying Sword is an animated weapon of slaughter only within the range of the Cultivator's Divine Sense.

Divine Sense is an attribute column that Cultivators start to develop from the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Whether in the arena of Magical Combat or in the myriad arts of Cultivation, Divine Sense plays a vital role.

In the Cultivation World, Divine Sense is considered an important attribute on par with Spiritual Power when measuring the strength of a Cultivator.

To strengthen Divine Sense, there are two approaches.

The first is to wait for your own advancement in Cultivation. Whenever a Cultivator's Spiritual Power Value reaches a certain fixed level, Divine Sense will naturally strengthen with the improvement of the Cultivator's power.

This method is too passive though, as the rate of enhancement is slow and the degree of improvement is very limited.

The other pathway to strengthen Divine Sense is to practice spells that can train Divine Sense.

While Cultivation Techniques that train Spiritual Power are easy to find, spells for training Divine Sense are exceedingly rare and only possessed by some powerful forces.

Hence, most Cultivators have no way to acquire systematic Divine Sense training spells.

For Cultivators, although strengthening Divine Sense is just as important as cultivating Spiritual Power, most Cultivators can only rely on advancing their Cultivation to enhance and strengthen their Divine Sense.