Chapter 115: Chapter 42 Mastering a New Skill
After leaving the Martial Arts Hall, Jiang Ning went straight back to his house in the east of the city, adjacent to the Luoshui River.
Back in his yard.
: Canglang Blade Skill (Master 1/200)
He glanced at his panel.
“The next plan is to first practice the saber! With small success in the saber technique, you can stack Triple Power explosive force.”
“With Great Success in the saber technique, you can stack Five Layers of Power explosive force.”
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“With my current efficiency in practicing the saber, by temporarily setting aside the practice of Refining Skin and Five Animals Fist and focusing solely on the saber, it will take at most a few days to achieve small success with the Canglang Blade Skill.”
Having made up his mind, Jiang Ning drew his blade from its sheath.
Swoosh—
With a crisp sound, the long blade was instantly unsheathed from his hand.
Just as he was about to practice the blade.
Standing on the small slope in his yard, looking at the Luoshui to the east, Jiang Ning had a pensive look on his face.
The Canglang Blade Skill was inspired by the endless tumultuous waves of the river.
And right now, on the Luoshui, the winds were fierce, and the waves were raging.
Even at this mont, standing in his own yard, Jiang Ning could feel the gale blowing from the surface of the lake.
“This saber technique is inspired by the endless tumultuous waves of the rivers. Might my efficiency increase if I enter the water to practice the saber?”
Upon this realization, a glint of enlightennt flashed in Jiang Ning’s eyes.
“It’s worth a try!”
Having made his decision.
Swoosh—
He tossed the blade’s sheath to the side on the grass and leaped.
In a few bounds, he quickly left his yard.
After climbing over the tall boundary wall, Jiang Ning arrived in front of a stretch of Rough Stone Beach.
Behind him was the large mansion he had previously purchased.
In front of him lay the Luoshui Lake with wind-swept waves.
Rumble rumble—
Waves driven by the fierce wind surged toward him—splashing upon Chaotic Beach, bursting into countless white sprays.
Seeing the fierce wind and tumultuous waves before him.
Jiang Ning took a deep breath.
The next mont.
He leaped.
Boom—
His legs released terrifying explosive power, shattering the stones beneath him, his form soaring like a great eagle.
In a single leap, he covered dozens of yards.
Landing on a piece of broken rock, he pushed off with his legs once more.
Boom—
The shattered stones under his feet were once again forcefully kicked apart by him.
After several more leaps and bounds, he plunged into the tumultuous Luoshui Lake, holding his icy long saber in hand.
Upon entering the lake, Jiang Ning imdiately felt a surge of waves rushing toward him, the water pushing his body, tumbling him around as if he were in a rolling washing machine.
“Such strong undercurrents!” exclaid Jiang Ning inwardly.
Quickly, he worked hard to adjust his posture and stabilize himself.
After about thirty minutes.
Suddenly, there ca an epiphany.
Following the flow of the water, Jiang Ning quickly adjusted his posture.
At the sa ti, a prompt appeared before him.
[Swimming Experience Value 1]
: Swimming (Beginner 1/100)
Seeing his panel at that mont, Jiang Ning had a mont of clarity.
“So that’s it, I sohow stumbled upon the Skill of Swimming, no wonder I feel much more adapted to the water.”
The next mont.
He energetically pushed through the lake, moving deeper.
Because he needed to go to the deep-water area in order to practice the saber without restrictions.
In the shallow near-shore area, he could be swept away by a large wave at any mont, then smashed against Rough Stone Beach.
A while later.
He had penetrated several dozen yards deeper into the center of Luoshui Lake.
“That should be enough!”
Jiang Ning surfaced, looked back at the shore, and murmured to himself.
He then turned to look toward the center of the lake, which seed endless, like the sea.
As for the actual size of Luoshui Lake, Jiang Ning didn’t know.
Because nobody had actually asured it, there were only speculations and records.
So said that Luoshui Lake covered more than 70,000 square miles, others said it was 100,000 square miles, and so even claid it was 230,000 to 300,000 square miles.
These claims, nobody knew which were true and which were false.
But all who lived near Luoshui Lake knew it was imnse, truly imnse!
As if it had no boundaries.
Jiang Ning thought any of these speculations could be true, or perhaps the actual size of Luoshui Lake was even much larger.
Because in his previous life, he had visited the lake known as the largest in the world, which asured over 300,000 square miles in area.
Let alone in this magical world.
: Water Elent (Beginner 10/100)
Looking at his panel once more, Jiang Ning thought to himself.
“This experience value is rising so fast! At this rate, if I spend a few days in the water, I should be able to reach Perfection and then Break Limit!”
The next mont.
He gently kicked the lake beneath him, allowing half of his body to surface.
Then he slowly exhaled the impure energy from his belly.
Although he felt that he could hold his breath for much longer, even after nearly an hour (one stick of incense), his lung capacity had beco so vast after refining his internal organs and with the breakthroughs of the Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill.
This nearly one stick of incense’s worth of breath-holding ti was far from his limit.
But in order to practice the saber without disturbance later, he chose to first surface and breathe before diving back into the water to practice the blade.
Three breaths later.
He had replaced all the impure air in his belly with fresh air.
Then he plunged back into the lake.
[Swimming Experience Value 1]
His vision once again flashed with a prompt.
Jiang Ning was indifferent to it.
A mont later,
he sank several fathoms.
He gripped the long saber in his hand, recalling the practice thods of the Canglang Saber Technique.
The next instant,
he began practicing his saber technique.
As the blade in his hand moved, it split the flowing water, and he felt the resistance of the heavy currents, felt how his saber technique stirred the undercurrents.
At the sa ti,
surges of currents attacked him.
Beneath the surface of the lake, a glint flashed in Jiang Ning’s eyes as he made an instant decision.
No longer going with the undercurrents, he chose to resist them.
Imdiately,
Power coursed through his muscles, and with one slash, he cut through a surge.
Then there was another slash, and then another.
Even while he was resisting the forces of nature, he was still practicing the Canglang Saber Technique.
The undercurrents were endless, and so were the slashes from his hand, one after another, never stopping.
[Canglang Saber Technique Experience Value 1]
[Swimming Experience Value 1]
[Swimming Experience Value 1]
[Canglang Saber Technique Experience Value 1]
[Swimming Experience Value 1]
[Swimming Experience Value 1]
[Canglang Saber Technique Experience Value 2]
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Watching the frequency with which prompts appeared before his eyes, Jiang Ning felt extrely satisfied.
Judging by the speed of increase in experience value, he confird that practicing the saber in the lake was indeed effective.
Moreover, resisting the surges and the forces of nature gave him the occasional sense of accomplishnt.
At the sa ti, as his experience value for the Canglang Saber Technique grew, his experience value for Swimming was also rising rapidly.
The experience value of two skills was increasing at the sa ti, bringing him double the harvest.
His mood was naturally extrely uplifted.
After half an hour,
Jiang Ning leapt out of the water.
“Ha—”
“Ha—”
He rapidly expelled the impure energy from his belly, breathing in the fresh air voraciously.
After a few breaths, his rapid panting gradually returned to a calm pace.
“Even while practicing the saber, to be able to hold my breath for half an hour, my lung capacity is indeed extraordinary,” Jiang Ning mumbled to himself, his expression revealing a hint of joy.
Testing his lung capacity this ti left him exceptionally pleased.
Practicing the saber was incredibly strenuous and consud a great deal of physical strength.
Under these circumstances, he could hold his breath underwater for a full half hour, which was certainly a satisfaction.
If it were under normal conditions, it ant he could last for at least two hours.
This had already surpassed the limits of the mundane.
To Jiang Ning, this was transcendent.
[Skill]: Canglang Saber Technique (Master 11/100)
He glanced at his own panel again,
and Jiang Ning’s expression imdiately brightened.
“It’s really completely different!!”
“I’ve only been practicing the saber in the lake for about half an hour, and it’s already brought a ten-point increase to my experience value in the Canglang Saber Technique!”
“At this rate, I can breakthrough the small success of the saber skill today!”
“The efficiency is exaggerated!!”
[Skill]: Chopping Wood Blade Skill (Triple Break Limit 4000/4000) (Trait: touch and understand, Blade like a Swift Wind, God-like Blade Control)
[God-like Blade Control]: Increases affinity with sabers and improves talent in the way of the saber.
“Perhaps it also has to do with the new trait I acquired from recently breaking the limit of the Chopping Wood Blade Skill.”
He glanced at the Chopping Wood Blade Skill section on his panel and mumbled to himself.
Soon after, his gaze shifted slightly downward.
[Skill]: Swimming (Beginner 48/100)
“The efficiency of progress in the Swimming skill is really quite fast; it’s almost more than halfway there!”
“Practicing the saber in the lake waters seems to be imnsely beneficial to !”
“It allows to increase experience values for both skills at the sa ti, and I can look forward to the trait I’ll get after breaking the limit of Swimming.”
“After all, the first break limit costs only ten Source Energy Points, and given the rate at which my Source Energy Points are increasing, I’ll have enough in three or four days!”
Then,
after he thoroughly caught his breath at the surface of the lake,
Jiang Ning dove back into the waters to continue his saber practice.
Another hour and a half went by.
[Skill]: Swimming (Master 0/200)
At the mont Swimming broke through, advancing from beginner to master, Jiang Ning instantly felt different.
Beneath the surge of the currents, he could clearly sense the changes in the water flow; he could adjust his position with ease in the midst of the undercurrents.
At this mont in the water, he felt as comfortable as a fish in water,
and he also felt exceptionally safe.
Unlike just before when, despite knowing that the lake’s undercurrents couldn’t do him any harm, he still couldn’t help feeling a bit uncertain.
The kind of uncertainty that cos from not having solid ground under one’s feet.
Now that Swimming had broken through to the master level,
that feeling of uncertainty had completely vanished.
After briefly testing and feeling the changes in himself, Jiang Ning nodded in satisfaction.
He saw the Swimming skill as a particularly practical one.
If there were dangers in the future, with his outstanding swimming ability, once he entered the water, he would be like a fish in the ocean; who could contend with him?
Thus, he valued this skill highly.
It was a very practical skill,
and now increasing experience points for this skill was incredibly simple, which made him even more satisfied.
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