You promised yourself to be a caged bird, but you became the supreme young master?

"As long as you can master a cultivation technique, no, even if it's just the skill or art of making spiritual food."

My situation might be very different now.

Looking at the panel that included "Basic Sword Techniques", Lu Heng's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

You have to understand that even if he stays in the outer courtyard of the Lu clan to obtain resources, he actually faces extreme exploitation every time he exchanges resources.

Even the low-grade spirit rice that ordinary people can grow, when processed using spirit food making techniques, can cost one tael of silver for a single serving of this inferior spirit food, about the size of a rice ball, when placed in the outer courtyard.

Outside the local market, it would cost a full three taels of silver to buy one.

This also meant that, apart from the imperial court, aristocratic families, and even sects, only the wealthy among ordinary people could support a cultivator.

This does not include the threshold for obtaining the "Basic Body Refining Method" mentioned by the steward of the Internal Affairs Hall.

This might be negligible for aristocratic families, but for ordinary people, it would likely be an impossible task.

Moreover, even without such restrictions, ordinary people would have no chance of raising enough resources to support practitioners.

As ordinary members of a branch family of the Lu clan, they are not fundamentally different from ordinary people in the outside world.

This meant that the initial resources were far from keeping up with the cultivation process.

Even if Lu Heng solved his short-term cultivation resource problem by taking out loans, and was even confident that he could break through to the Qi Refining Secret Realm within a year.

But one question still lingered in his mind.

That is, if you want to break through to the Qi Refining Secret Realm within a year, resources are indispensable.

Even a panel cannot violate the law of conservation of energy.

Lu Heng's original plan was to earn enough resources to cultivate to the Qi Refining Realm after completing missions in the middle stage of the Body Refining Secret Realm.

But that would still be somewhat risky.

From the many miscellaneous books he read, Lu Heng learned that this world was actually very dangerous.

In the untamed wilderness, demons and monsters roam freely.

The reason he hasn't encountered any danger in the month or so since he arrived in this world is that he lives in what is usually the safest place in the world—a human city.

Going out on a mission with the cultivation level of the Body Refinement Realm when one's own wings are not yet fully grown is an extremely dangerous thing.

Even if nothing happens once, if you walk by the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet eventually.

If there was no other way, Lu Heng would naturally have to bite the bullet and carry out the mission.

Now it seems that he has other ways to obtain his own cultivation resources.

Furthermore, mastering a cultivation technique is actually necessary.

It's one thing for the main branch of the Lu clan to allow its members to grow to the Qi Refining Realm, but it's another thing to consider the subsequent resources needed for cultivation in the Qi Refining Realm.

Many things require planning ahead.

But now…

The biggest obstacle to learning cultivation techniques is not the difficulty of the practice or the resources required.

Rather, Lu Heng felt that acquiring the knowledge of cultivation techniques was an extremely difficult task.

Leaving aside the questionable value of cultivation techniques and knowledge, Lu Heng currently doesn't even have a channel to purchase them.

It's incredibly frustrating that while one could easily get started and even master cultivation techniques through the panel, there's simply no way to access them.

With a slight sigh, Lu Heng felt he had gotten used to this world after being here for so long.

There's always a way out; things will work themselves out. We should just take it one step at a time.

Lu Heng reopened "Basic Sword Techniques," but his eyes held a somewhat inexplicable expression.

Compared to "Basic Body Refining Method", "Basic Sword Technique" has notes on some points that require attention.

Unlike the former, many points that need attention are assumed to be known by the practitioner.

Perhaps it wasn't intentional, but simply that they didn't notice or didn't care.

However, it's more troublesome for ordinary people like Lu Heng who don't even know the basics of perfect Foundation Establishment.

However, "Basic Sword Techniques" is different.

Or rather, there are very few things to pay attention to in "Basic Sword Techniques".

In fact, if we really want to discuss it, there's only one point.

That means practicing the "Basic Sword Technique" requires consuming daily practice attempts!

Cultivators in the Body Refining Secret Realm can only practice a maximum of ten times a day. Even if they practice the Basic Sword Technique once, it does not count as one practice session.

But Lu Heng, who was racing against time, found this somewhat intolerable.

I was just thinking about the martial arts competition ten days from now.

Lu Heng finally made up his mind.

At least raise your Basic Swordsmanship to the proficient level.

Now that the decision has been made, there's no need to hesitate.

Lu Heng drew his sword once again, but this time it wasn't for observation.

It was for practicing swordsmanship.

The space required to practice the Basic Sword Techniques is not very large.

The room he's in now is just right.

Close your eyes and recall the content of "Basic Sword Techniques" that you just read.

Take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

When Lu Heng opened his eyes again, he was completely calm.

The moves in "Basic Sword Techniques" are very simple: chopping, slashing, thrusting, and parrying, with only a few moves repeated over and over.

But the simpler the move, the more skill it reveals.

This seemingly simple "Basic Sword Techniques" appears to be no different from ordinary sword techniques.

There is a fundamental difference between them.

The biggest difference between combat tactics and ordinary martial arts is clearly explained in "Basic Sword Techniques".

It lies in the control of one's own Qi and blood.

The beginner level of "Basic Sword Techniques" requires that every movement should mobilize more than 30% of the body's Qi and blood.

This is the biggest difference between ordinary people and cultivators in the Body Refinement Secret Realm.

The purpose of combat tactics is to maximize the advantages of cultivators in the Body Refinement Secret Realm.

Furthermore, the Basic Swordsmanship and the Basic Body Refining Technique actually share one thing in common.

That is, through cultivation and self-adjustment and optimization, one can become more in harmony with oneself.

The so-called perfect foundation is essentially the adjustment and optimization to the limit in the stage before you even begin to learn.

With each breath, Lu Heng, slightly out of breath, completed his first practice of the "Basic Sword Techniques".

What made him slightly relieved was...

Compared to the "Basic Body Refining Method," the energy consumption for him to practice the "Basic Sword Technique" once is less than 1/10 of the former.

Lu Heng even estimated that if he only cultivated three times a day, it wouldn't affect his cultivation.

In other words, proper practice of the "Basic Sword Techniques" will not slow down his own cultivation speed.

Furthermore, compared to the current methods that require more than an hour for each practice session, the practice time for the Basic Body Refining Method is negligible.

Lu Heng glanced out the window. After a long day of running around, it was getting late.

Considering that I have to get up early tomorrow, and the martial arts exercise in ten days.

He made his decision.

Since that's the case, let's start learning "Basic Sword Techniques" today.