Under One Person: Starting with the Dual Cultivation of Body and Soul

Seeing the white shockwaves lingering in the air, Li Chang'an had an idea. He tried to infuse his Qi into the sword and then swung it out, wanting to see if he could unleash sword energy.

The reason he wanted to try it was because his family's Yuyang Sword Technique was not a sword technique that primarily relied on sword energy to injure the enemy.

His family's swordsmanship emphasizes using a single sword to break a spear, achieving oneness between man and sword, and making the sword an extension of the body.

Within three feet, everyone is an enemy.

You can't hit anything more than three feet away; you have to get close to shoot. That's why you need a broken gun.

If a sword can unleash a sword aura several meters long, what's the point of breaking a spear?

The spear pierced the sword's aura.

Li Chang'an swung his sword.

"laugh!"

A faint, pale white sword aura flew out from the blade, traversing three meters through the air before striking the courtyard wall, leaving only a shallow white mark.

Li Chang'an walked over, reached out and touched the white mark, then shook his head and chuckled.

"Sure enough, without a special method of circulating Qi, simply pouring Qi into the sword and striking it out is no different from striking out Qi directly. Although it looks impressive, it doesn't actually have much power. At most, it can only clear away some weeds."

Li Chang'an was not surprised by this result.

Simply having a large amount of Qi is meaningless.

Take Feng Baobao for example. Her Qi is almost inexhaustible, but if she doesn't use any special techniques and just throws out the Qi ball, it has no destructive power at all.

The "Ejaculation in the Middle" and "Continuous Ejaculation in the Middle" techniques from the "Awei Eighteen Styles" she came up with look like the Kamehameha, very impressive, but it can only knock one or two cans away.

Therefore, the key to becoming a superhuman lies in one's cultivation of life force and magical abilities, not in the amount of Qi one possesses.

Qi is like money. Slapping someone with a wad of cash has very little lethality but is extremely insulting.

However, if you use Qi to construct methods, it's like buying weapons with money; the power of the weapon depends on what kind of weapon you can buy.

Now that they've bought the weapons, they're naturally subject to company oversight.

Therefore, the company defines "extraordinary people" as those who can use Qi to construct methods and form extraordinary abilities.

In theory, all individuals with supernatural abilities should be subject to the company's control, and Li Chang'an was registered with the company.

It was Lu Jin who arranged it for him. The company came to his door to register him and recorded some of his basic information, such as his height, weight, the time he gained Qi, and the skills he cultivated.

At that time, he had not yet mastered the first level of Qi transformation in the Reverse Life stage, so the ability he wrote was "Yuyang Sword Manual".

After this apprentice-acceptance banquet, I estimate that someone from the company will come to update the files.

After testing the sword energy, Li Chang'an gave up and honestly began practicing the Yuyang Sword Technique.

The Yuyang Sword Technique also emphasizes injecting Qi into the sword, but instead of releasing it, it condenses it within the sword. This not only enhances the sword's power but also allows the sword to become one with the user, achieving a state of perfect harmony between the sword and the user.

He infused it with Qi, and the eight-sided Han sword began to gleam with a cold light. Then he began to practice.

The Yuyang Sword Technique is a very simple sword technique, and its core essence lies in thrusting.

Li Chang'an thrust out with his sword.

"call out!"

A single, cold star suddenly appeared.

Then came the second point, the third point, the fourth point...

Li Chang'an thrust his sword into the void ahead, one strike after another at incredible speed. The blades moved in unison, almost transforming into a sky full of silver streaks of light.

At this moment, anyone who was watching would surely be horrified.

Because it didn't look like a rapier, but rather like a chilling rain of swords. Anyone who dared to stand in front of it would be riddled with holes in a second.

But after practicing for a while, Li Chang'an stopped and looked at the sword in his hand.

He discovered that he had entered a state of reversing the flow of Qi into his physical body.

This magic sword, which had always worked very well, suddenly became less effective.

It's not that it's inconvenient to use; he has already reached a state of perfect harmony between man and sword, so it's convenient to use it no matter how he uses it.

Instead, when he infused his Qi and intention into the sword, making the sword and his body connected, the sword could no longer withstand the strain.

He even had a feeling that if he unleashed his full power, he might break the sword.

"While magical artifacts are stronger than ordinary weapons, they still have their limits!"

Li Chang'an muttered to himself, and then he thought of Quanxingyuan Tao.

Yuan Tao was a weapon refiner who had spent his entire life refining magical artifacts. His proudest creation was the Nine Dragon Sons. However, he encountered the Celestial Master, who effortlessly crushed the Nine Dragon Sons with just two fingers, as easily as popping bubble wrap, providing a great stress relief.

And the quality of this magic sword is probably not even comparable to the Nine Dragon Sons that Yuan Tao has been refining his whole life.

"Sure enough, once you reach a certain level of skill, it becomes incredibly high. Once you reach this level, the first thing that can't keep up with the pace is actually this sword."

Li Chang'an sighed.

That being said, it's not like he would actually throw the sword away; after all, it's been with him for so many years.

Moreover, magical artifacts are hard to come by, and purely offensive magical artifacts like swords are even harder to find.

Because of company regulations, such magical artifacts designed solely for killing should be kept to a minimum.

Therefore, weapon-refining sects such as Tiangongtang tend to create functional magical artifacts, such as jade pendants and thumb rings for protection.

If he doesn't use this sword, he might have to revert to the brute fighting style of the Sanyi Sect for a long time, using his hands as swords.

"Using your hand as a sword isn't so bad, but..."

Li Chang'an looked at the Han sword in his hand and suddenly had an idea.

Since the magical artifact is not powerful enough, why not refine it to make it more powerful?

Refining magical artifacts is generally the job of artifact refiners.

A weapon refiner can imbue a magical artifact with abilities, creating it from nothing.

For example, if Li Chang'an's sword were in Ma Xianhong's hands, he could easily modify it, adding a bit of Qi to it, so that it could unleash sword energy capable of injuring people, or even make the sword spew fire and lightning, and so on.

However, becoming a weapon refiner is not something that can be achieved simply by wishing for it. Weapon refiners are somewhat similar to innate extraordinary individuals; they must possess innate talent.

Only those born with the talent to become weapon refiners can become weapon refiners. Without talent, one can never even get started. Therefore, this profession is very rare, magical artifacts are also very rare, and high-end weapon refiners are even rarer.

Li Chang'an had no intention of getting involved in the art of weapon crafting, a school of thought that purely relied on external objects.

What he called "refining" was actually using his own Qi to nurture the magical artifact.

This gentle nurturing won't give the magical artifact any fancy new abilities, but it will make it harder and sharper.

For example, the sushi knife that Feng Baobao has called Okamoto 0.01 is so good at cutting through iron and splitting a car in one stroke because she often uses her own Qi to nurture it, which causes a qualitative change in the material of the knife.

"This should be called material transformation, right? After successfully transforming a material, if you know the art of controlling objects, you can use something like a flying sword. Jiajia Village is good at this."

While pondering, Li Chang'an tried to nourish the sword with his own white qi, but found that the sword was not affected at all when the white qi flowed through it.