Chapter 39
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Chapter 39: Understanding Sword Intent
“Chief!”
As soon as Yi Chen returned, Rog and the tribe members were very cautious, not daring to ask too many questions.
“It’s already taken care of. You all continue!”
Yi Chen waved his hand.
“Already taken care of?”
“Did the chief kill that poisonous wolf?”
“As expected of the chief! A fierce beast that we couldn’t handle was easily dealt with the moment he stepped in.”
“I knew it! The chief must be a reincarnation of a deity; there’s no fierce beast he cannot defeat!”
“That poisonous wolf really sought its own demise, wasting the chief’s time and forcing him to come personally to handle it!”
After a brief moment of surprise, Rog and the tribe members immediately became excited.
They showered Yi Chen with flattery and admiration.
The audience in the live room couldn’t help but be amazed.
No matter whether in their interstellar era or on the savage exile planet, flattering the strong has always been an important way to seek favor.
Yi Chen smiled and returned to the valley alone.
Along the way, he pondered the question of creating swordsmanship.
By the time he got back to the valley, a significant amount of iron ore was already piled outside the spirit mine warehouse.
The high priest was directing the workers, melting the iron ore into molten iron.
He believed that it wouldn’t be long before they could start forging iron swords.
Entering the wooden house, Yi Chen did not rush to practice.
Instead, he sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, contemplating the process of creating swordsmanship.
First, he needed to understand sword intent.
The question was, how should he comprehend this sword intent?
Creating swordsmanship seemed different from creating the Cloud Treading Technique.
For the Cloud Treading Technique, he could study and observe the laws of wind, the movements of flying birds, and animals to enhance his understanding of speed.
But when it came to swordsmanship, he felt completely lost.
After some thought, Yi Chen got up and left the wooden house.
Just as Little Gold Ball, who had just laid down to take a nice nap, jumped up and hurried to follow.
Though its status had risen quite a bit, it understood very well that it did not yet have the right to protest Yi Chen’s sudden departure after just returning.
…
Yi Chen walked into the forest in the south.
He casually snapped off a branch and tried swinging it a few times.
The wind whistled as he moved it back and forth.
The soft branch swayed side to side.
Beside him, Little Gold Ball jumped off Yi Chen’s shoulder and picked up a small branch, imitating him as it swung the branch with great enthusiasm.
The branch was thicker, and in Little Gold Ball’s hands, it felt as stiff as a wooden stick.
Yi Chen realized something.
Though they were both branches, their flexibility resulted in completely different power and form.
Sword intent, clearly, was much the same.
It involved speed, sharpness, and lightness… it was the momentum formed by various characteristics.
Without hesitation, he held the branch, closed his eyes, and quietly pondered the mysteries of sword intent.
From time to time, he would swing and stab with the branch, each movement bringing him different insights and inspiration.
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“This, this… could this be a sign that Yi Chen is creating a new skill?”
“Exactly, Yi Chen definitely has some new inspiration and plans to create a new skill.”
“Oh my goodness, why does it feel like creating a new skill is as easy as eating and drinking for him? Seems like he gets new ideas and concepts every few days?”
“The complete version of the Cloud Treading Technique hasn’t even been taught yet, and now there’s going to be a new skill… I’m starting to hope he runs out of ideas sooner rather than later!”
“I feel the same way. Just when I haven’t learned one skill, another one pops up, making it hard to concentrate.”
“Everyone, don’t panic! I feel like Yi Chen is definitely going to take a detour this time. This new skill is bound to be useless.”
Someone confidently stated, “Based on Yi Chen’s actions and the high priest making iron swords in bulk, the skill he’s going to create will undoubtedly be one that uses iron swords.”
“Can the power of cold weapons compare to that of hot weapons?”
“Absolutely not!”
“Yi Chen was born in a savage era and has never seen the power of hot weapons, so he doesn’t realize that history has proven cold weapons to be obsolete.”
“His research should focus on the Flying Blade Technique, which resembles hot weapons.”
As soon as this was said, the audience in the live room suddenly realized.
“Indeed, even in the era of cold weapons, there’s the saying that longer is better. The Flying Blade Technique, being a ranged attack, clearly has more advantages.”
“What Yi Chen should be doing is finding ways to increase the attack speed and power of the Flying Blade Technique, rather than chasing after the less critical research into cold weapons.”
“Too bad Yi Chen hasn’t realized that with enough speed, the power of a ranged attack can be enhanced.”
“He only knows that it took hundreds of thorny fruits to take down the green leopard, but if he had struck with an iron sword, the damage would have been far greater.”
“Little does he know, if the speed of the thorny fruits could be increased by one or two times, their hardness could actually penetrate the green leopard’s skull and kill it instantly.”
“Now that you mention it, there doesn’t seem to be much to worry about.”
“I hope that once Yi Chen creates the new skill, he realizes it’s not as powerful as the Flying Blade Technique and doesn’t get too frustrated.”
“Don’t worry! A genius like Yi Chen won’t be discouraged by a temporary failure.”
“An occasional failure will only fuel his drive to move forward. I actually hope he fails a few more times so that once the complete version of the Cloud Treading Technique is taught, he can create an incredibly powerful new skill in one go.”
“Exactly, after the complete version of the Cloud Treading Technique is taught, Yi Chen will gather his experiences from failure and create an even stronger skill!”
The hundreds of billions of viewers in the live room all felt reassured.
In everyone’s minds, no matter how strong cold weapons were, they could never surpass hot weapons.
And the Flying Blade Technique was the closest thing to a hot weapon.
Once Yi Chen created his new skill, it would surely end in great disappointment.
Normally, considering the interests of all humanity, they should want Yi Chen to create a powerful skill.
They shouldn’t be hoping he wastes time due to misguided ideas or runs out of inspiration to create skills in the future.
However, clearly, interests and emotions are two different matters.
The viewers in the live room were more worried about what would happen if a powerful skill emerged before the complete version of the Cloud Treading Technique was learned, fearing it would be too much for their hearts to handle.
As for whether Yi Chen truly had taken a wrong path by creating a skill with cold weapons, only he would know.
“Hey, look at the news! Everyone, hurry and check the news!”
Just when everyone was relieved that Yi Chen’s new skill might be worthless,
an announcement on the federal government’s official website caught the public’s attention.
It rapidly spread throughout the entire galaxy at an astonishing speed.
Even those in opposing races received the news from insiders right away.
