Douluo: The Op-Op Fruit, skilled at researching them

Chapter 23: Level 23 Great Soul Master

"I wonder if there are any places in Nottingham City that teach swordsmanship..." Luo pondered as he walked beside Xiao Wu.

He reflected on his battle with Tang San and realized that he couldn't rely solely on the power of the Op-Op Fruit and his soul skills. He should also utilize the power of Yama and develop swordsmanship sufficient to protect himself.

After all, the Yama Martial Soul has evolved. Whether it is sharpness or hardness, it is in no way inferior to ordinary high-level Martial Souls. Moreover, Luo's second Soul Skill "Crippling Strike" has a passive ability that makes the damage caused by Yama have a severe injury effect.

If Enma is only used as a tool to unleash the power of the Op-Op Fruit, Law feels it would be a terrible waste. This katana should be able to perform much more powerfully in his hands.

Law felt like he was Trafalgar Law from One Piece, with all his strength concentrated in his Devil Fruit ability. If his Devil Fruit ability were destroyed, he would have no other way to protect himself.

Trafalgar Law's battle with Blackbeard is the best example of this. Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit rendered Trafalgar Law's Op-Op Fruit ability useless, and Trafalgar Law was quickly defeated.

If Trafalgar Law's swordsmanship is very strong, even if it's only half as good as Hawkeye's, then it's really hard to say who would win in a fight between him and Blackbeard.

After much deliberation, Luo decided to go to Nottingham the next day to see if there was a place in the city where he could teach swordsmanship or knife skills.

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At this moment, seven months later, on the day before Notting Junior College's holiday, the time has come.

In the early morning, in the grove of trees shrouded in a light mist, glistening dewdrops still clung to the grass, shimmering with a soft and refreshing light.

Golden rays of sunlight pierced through the layers of dappled tree shadows, gently sprinkling onto the damp grass.

In this tranquil and peaceful atmosphere, a series of firm and powerful shouts broke the silence from the depths of the grove.

"Hey ha! Hey ha! Hey ha!"

Following the sound, one could see a young man intently practicing sword-drawing techniques in a small open space.

He planted his feet firmly in a horse stance, his body as steady as a mountain. His left hand gripped a gleaming steel katana, while his right hand rested lightly on the scabbard. Every movement of drawing and sheathing the katana was extremely smooth, like flowing water, without the slightest hesitation.

The boy was about 1.6 meters tall. Although he was not particularly strong, he had a slender figure and a lively air about him. His long, silky black hair was casually draped over his shoulders.

He wore an asymmetrical red short-sleeved battle robe, with his left shoulder and arm exposed. His skin was fair and delicate, like porcelain. A black gauntlet was wrapped around his left wrist, which added a touch of heroism and revealed an extraordinary style.

The lower half of her body was paired with a black horse-face skirt, and a hideous demon mask hung from her waist, tightly bound by thick hemp rope, making her look both mysterious and awe-inspiring.

For ordinary people, it is already extremely difficult to skillfully complete the series of actions of drawing a sword and sheathing it simply by relying on their sense of touch.

But for this boy, even in the blind, these operations were performed with ease and grace, as if they were instincts he was born with, as natural as eating.

Over the past seven months, Luo's soul power level finally broke through to level 20 on the night before the academy's holiday, thanks to his unremitting efforts. This was an expected result.

After all, the first spirit ring he absorbed was an unprecedented 100,000-year spirit ring. Even though he sealed most of its spirit power, it still brought him a significant boost of level five spirit power.

With the addition of Xiao Wu's 100,000-year-old left arm bone soul bone, he gained an extra level of soul power, which meant that Luo's soul power level had already reached level sixteen seven months ago.

Over the past few months, Luo gradually unsealed the immense soul power contained in his first soul ring, which allowed him to advance four levels in one go and greatly increase his strength.

Of course, such a rapid increase in strength can only have a significant effect when his strength is still weak. As his strength continues to improve, the soul power that the first soul ring can provide will become increasingly limited.

However, this was not Luo's biggest gain. His greatest achievement this semester was mastering an extremely proficient "Iai" technique.

Luo originally wanted to find a martial arts school to systematically learn swordsmanship, but unfortunately Notting City was too small and there was no martial arts school that could teach him swordsmanship.

Left with no other choice, Luo had to have a steel katana made by imitating the appearance of Enma from a blacksmith shop, and he began to study swordsmanship on his own.

Law doesn't know any other moves; he just imitates Netero from the Hunter x Hunter world and practices his sword-drawing slash, or "Iai," every day.

As the saying goes, "The greatest truths are the simplest, but they are easy to know and hard to do." The simpler something is, the more difficult it is to stick to it every day without fail.

Just like Netero in his youth, what he did every day was to get into a horse stance, punch with gratitude, pull back his fist, and then punch again, day after day, year after year, punching 10,000 times every day without fail.

Initially, it took Netero at least eighteen hours to throw ten thousand punches, but after he turned fifty, he could throw ten thousand punches in just one hour, thus gaining more time for prayer.

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After descending the mountain, Netero's punches were faster than sound. When he challenged other dojos, he only needed to throw one punch to impress the dojo master, who was so moved that he knelt down and worshipped him as Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Luo didn't have Netero's perseverance. His goal was to practice five thousand sword strikes every day with the most standard posture and without distraction.

To achieve the best training effect, Luo added 30 pounds of weight to his body; the wrist guard on his left arm was one such weight.

In addition, he also had a weight on his right arm, legs, and waist.

At first, Luo couldn't keep it up at all. He only trained for three or four hours a day before he was so tired that he lay on the ground and cried out, "I can't take it anymore." He also began to waver and wanted to give up.

If it weren't for the physical enhancement brought to him by the 100,000-year-old soul bone, Luo would likely have given up in the very beginning.

Fortunately, he persevered!

As the saying goes, "everything is difficult at the beginning," but as long as you don't give up at the start, the rest will fall into place naturally.

Luo could easily unleash five thousand sword strikes in five hours, using the most standard technique.

The result was that Luo had now reached a state of "tranquility"!

(End of this chapter)