【Location: St. Louis College, Tino City】

"Ah? Lord Kulin, you are going there too?"

Louis was a little surprised and said, "Haven't you rarely gone out in recent years?"

Sword Master Kulin was getting older, and there was no hope of breaking through to the legendary level. He no longer had the idea of ​​making rapid progress, or in other words, he faced the reality.

His main task now is to train the next generation of the Enther Empire.

Otherwise, even if St. Louis College offered good treatment, how could it possibly invite the Sword Master to serve as the Dean of Classification? Kulin pinched his beard and said, "It just so happens that I need to go out for a technical exchange. In fact, it's not just me, that bastard Kino is also going there."

Louis was stunned for a moment: "Teacher Jinuo is going too? It's not good to be away for a long time and not stay at the palace, right?"

Kulin shook his head and said, "It's okay. This trip was expected. The Guards are back, and the Emperor's chambers will be guarded by them."

"The main force of the Imperial Guards is back? No wonder the palace felt a lot more lively yesterday."

The current duties of the Royal Guards are mainly to protect the safety of the Imperial Palace and the city of Tino.

But in fact, the royal guards have expanded greatly in recent years.

Because only a part of the guards who were originally guarding the palace were left to garrison, and the rest went out to carry out the emperor's mission.

The composition of the Guards is complex.

Rather than being an independent legion, it would be more accurate to say that they are a team composed of the top players selected from various legions by the Emperor and trained by him personally.

White Raven Legion, Raven Guard, Royal Guard, Iron Guard, Wild Wolf Regiment...

These powerful teams in the Unther Empire are never short of talent.

However, genius is only the threshold to enter the Guards.

In the early years, the Iron Guards occupied the majority of seats in the Guards with an absolute advantage.

But now the Iron Guards have suffered heavy casualties, and the proportion of the Royal Guards has also changed.

Louis had little dealings with the Guards.

After all, their true leader is the Emperor, not Beatrice.

Beatrice didn't interfere much in the affairs of the Royal Guards, so he naturally followed his wife's footsteps and didn't communicate much.

——Although Beatrice’s orders can really affect the Royal Guards.

More than 80% of these people had left the palace before, and Louis knew where they were going.

They split into four and headed to the Gate of the Abyss, the Shadowfell, the Eye of Terror, and the Dungeon.

Among them, the Gate of the Abyss is the main battlefield.

Each legion is responsible for different areas.

The Shadowfell Underworld is mainly under the charge of the Raven Guard.

The main force in the dungeon is the White Crow Legion.

The Eye of Terror is where the Wolf Pack conducts long-term missions.

It’s just that the timing of the Guards returning from their mission was a bit coincidental, and it seems to be the Emperor’s will.

In fact, under normal circumstances, he should have known the situation last night.

But at that time, he was enjoying the happiness of Beatrice's beauty, and he didn't want to leave. How could he have the time to care about the return of the Guards? Uh... In normal circumstances, Louis still puts his career first, and he really shouldn't forget this matter.

But there are some emotions that he can't control even if he wants to.

When I get busy, I really have no concept of time.

"Don't be distracted, kid. Don't you want to master the Invisible Realm? Master it quickly and teach that brat Jinuo a lesson."

"good!"

The Invisible Realm is the strange realm where Sword Saint Kulin could exert legendary power even before he became a legend.

He had begged and pleaded for a long time before he was qualified to study. Even if the sky fell, it could not stop him from studying the Invisible Realm.

——Unless the first wife comes to him for intimacy.

…

"Huh~Huh~This thing is more troublesome than I thought."

Louis fell into deep thought as he looked at the invisible gust of wind that was wrapped around him.

The martial art most used by Sword Master Kulin is the "Hurricane Sword" he created himself.

It's not an elemental swordsmanship that attaches a hurricane to the sword, but rather it describes the sword of the sword master as giving people a sense of urgency like a hurricane pressing down on a city.

Just as Louis had described his swordsmanship before, perhaps due to the limitations of the human body, Sword Saint Kulin is not like Teacher Kino, who is obsessed with using great force to create miracles.

His sword skills are like a chessboard. Through precise control, he presses his opponent step by step until he completely surrounds him.

In order to create this sense of urgency, his Hurricane Sword must be "threatening enough".

It's not that kind of wide-area damage.

Wide-area damage means the force is more dispersed.

Even if the power displayed seems great, when facing an opponent who is far stronger than itself, martial arts with wide-area damage will pale in comparison.

The kinetic energy created by a breeze blowing through your body is definitely greater than the kinetic energy of a mosquito biting you.

But the breeze blew and nothing happened. I was bitten by a mosquito and got a big bump.

Hurricane Sword is such a martial art.

The source of power for Nine Swords professionals is blood. In other words, people with strong physiques will naturally have more blood than their peers.

But the blood and energy that comes from the force of life, when truly controlled, is extremely violent and restless.

This is a good thing.

The source of a martial artist's destructive power lies in this restless and dangerous force.

But restlessness also means it's hard to control.

The life of a Nine Swords professional is a struggle between making the blood more dangerous and restless, and controlling the more restless blood.

The ninth-level martial art [Time Stop] is to use an extremely tenacious will to remove excess impurities from the blood and transform the blood that spreads out to the surroundings into a purer power essence that can be controlled.

This kind of power is easier to control than blood and energy under the control of a strong spirit.

When pure power covers the surrounding world, the strong spirit instantly freezes it.

Therefore, all the major objects attached by the pure force were forced to stop moving at this moment.

The wind is good too.

Clouds are good too.

Atoms are fine too.

At this moment, everyone will be restrained.

There is no physics in this world, but there are always a group of monsters who can use their power to bring physics to its limits.

When the effect of absolute motion disappears due to human will, it will create an effect close to "time stopping".

This is the essence of the ninth-level martial arts skill [Time Stop] - to stop the movement of a local area.

However, to control this pure power, one needs sufficient soul resilience.

Although this pure power can be controlled more precisely - after all, you can even make it completely still - but the limited mental strength consumed too much when faced with the huge pure power.

Even [Time Stop] is a form of low consumption. It is the simplest and purest means that people before the Nine Swords thought of, and it can also exert huge destructive power.

But Sword Master Kulin didn't think so.

He explained his ideas to Louis in detail.

Pure power is highly controllable, but is difficult to utilize due to limited mental strength.

He has seen the realms of legendary strongmen.

There are many Nine Sword masters in the empire, who were trained by him to become legends or even demigods.

He knew very well that the essence of a legendary strongman's [domain] was to interfere with the real world with his own spirit, thereby strengthening a specific domain and achieving a high degree of control.

The demiplane, which was originally only cultivated when one reached demigod level, has changed from controlling a single area to dominating most of the space.

This is the [demiplane].

Starting from the legend, the direction of the strong people of each race becoming stronger has changed from scattered to focused, from purely improving strength to dominating domains and demiplanes.

The human body itself is a complex entity controlled by consciousness, and the essence of life has a high degree of control and dominance over the human body.

It can even achieve the effect of almost stopping time.

After figuring this out, Sword Saint Kulin began the journey of tempering his blood.

He gradually purified the impurities in the blood and energy that drove the battle. His original idea was that if he could use this pure power to completely replace the blood and energy, perhaps he would not need to break through the legend to possess legendary power.

But the facts proved that even if he had tempered this absolute power, he did not have enough mental strength to activate it.

Not to mention that this method of tempering is not universal at all.

So he changed his thinking.

The consumption of pure power is too great, so can it be made less pure, but still highly controllable? The blood is too violent, which means that the extraordinary power from the body is destructive enough, but not controllable enough.

So is there anything that can move at will while maintaining destructive power?

His choice is mental strength.

Since mental power is required to drive it, why not just extract the pure mental power and integrate it into it?

And this is the origin of the Hurricane Sword.

The pure mental power was combined with that pure strength to form an invisible gust of wind.

The invisible gust of wind that moved at will in his mind allowed him to concentrate his strength in every attack and break through the surface with just one point.

This is all about focusing on one point and reaching the pinnacle.

"Louis, concentrate. Learning the Hurricane Sword is not difficult for you. The Invisible Realm is."

The voice of Sword Saint Kulin sounded.

Louis came back to his senses, looked at the Gucheng sword in his hand which was entangled by invisible strong wind, and closed his eyes in deep thought.

"Do you know why humans are afraid of darkness?"

Louis said: "It is the fear of the unknown in the darkness, not the fear of darkness itself."

"You're right. It's the fear of the unknown in the darkness that makes people so eager for light. But people have different levels of mental toughness and different thresholds when facing the unknown. So how do we tear apart the fear?"

Louis said calmly: "It's very simple, just make the unknown no longer unknown."

"Yes, that's the answer, idiot. If you already have the answer, why are you still standing there?"

So Louis closed his eyes.

Most people’s fears come from the unknown. Once the unknown is eliminated, most of the fear will dissipate.

However, the five senses can be blocked by special means, but mental power can overlook the world from a higher perspective.

The first difficulty in the Invisible Gang Realm is to combine pure strength with mental power to form an invisible Gang wind that is easier to control.

At this time, every attack you make is equivalent to releasing a hurricane sword.

The second difficulty of the invisible spiritual world is to use the hurricane sword as an extension to spread the invisible spiritual wind, forming a hurricane layer with the projection radius of the invisible spiritual wind as the boundary.

This level tests the stability of Louis' mental strength.

To be honest, he didn't get the hang of it on his first try.

But he has his own ideas.

This time he directly switched the Gucheng Sword to the Tianxin Sword.

As the original version of an ancient weapon, the Tianxin Sword is not as powerful as a divine weapon, but it also possesses various unusual powers.

[Nightmare Strike] can increase the upper limit of Nightmare Sword·Jade's power, making every attack he makes be regarded as releasing Nightmare Sword·Jade once.

[Heart of Steel Soul] can gain a portion of the insight shared by the Tianxin Sword masters of all generations, which improves the ability of all Steel Soul martial arts to see through the enemy's actions.

[Focus on Balance] can sharpen your mind and allow you to control your body more easily.

[Acceleration] Can be used five times a day to speed up body movements.

[Intuitive Dodge] allows you to dodge instinctively before encountering danger.

[Freedom of Movement] can force the holder to regain control of his body.

【Time Stop】can directly release the ninth level martial arts time stop.

The Tianxin Sword itself is an unrivaled divine weapon, and now that it has so much power, it is even more priceless.

But the question is, what is the essence of these magical effects of Tianxin Sword? The answer is... the additional use of pure strength and mental power.

Perceive, control, dominate and release, the skilled craftsmen of the past have engraved their understanding of the source of the power of [Time Stop] on the Tianxin Sword.

Louis is not a genius who can create a system, he is just good at imitating.

It's just that he imitated too much and exceeded the cognitive boundaries of genius.

Stabilizing your mental strength and spreading the invisible strong wind is a step that you usually have to take on your own.

Sword Master Kulin could only show it to him, but he couldn't let Louis feel his vision.

But it doesn’t matter, the Tianxin Sword will help him do this.

So when he drew his sword again, the Tianxin Sword stabilized Louis' mental strength with its own weapon characteristics, and in the stunned expression of Sword Saint Kulin, it instantly expanded the invisible strong wind layer to five kilometers away.

The entire St. Louis College was surrounded by a layer of strong winds.

Most people were unaware of the existence of the invisible wind, only a few of the Exemplary Nine Swords frowned, raised their heads and said:

"Strange, why is Lord Kulin releasing the invisible wind?"

On the training ground, Kulin coughed, sweat oozing from his forehead: "Well done."

But in his heart he shouted angrily: "Kino, you deserve to die!"

This kind of learning talent should not be given to that brat Kino, it will only ruin his future.

But Kulin didn't know that it was precisely because Louis followed Kino's path that he acquired such an amazing learning ability.

Under the influence of numbers + mechanisms, he has already completed the path of an ordinary demigod Nine Swords professional.

He is qualified to learn all the martial arts under the entire Nine Swords system.

Now that his career level has been upgraded and he has mastered these martial arts, his understanding of the invisible罡风 far exceeds that of ordinary people.

It was precisely from this high-level perspective that he was able to discover the secret of the Tianxin Sword inheritance.

Kulin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "If you can use the sword as a carrier to release the strong wind layer, you will have the foundation to break away from the five senses to perceive the world."

"Everything within the range of the gale layer cannot escape your eyes. Even if someone tears the gale layer apart, it is equivalent to telling you its existence."

"The next thing you need to do is to abandon the sword and turn the invisible wind into instinct. Everything in the world can become the carrier of the invisible wind. This step is not easy to take, and it requires more mental stability..."

Louis let go of the Tianxin Sword, and along with the sound of the Tianxin Sword being inserted into the stone slab, the invisible gale remained motionless.

Because greed and desire for knowledge were triggered.

Although it is a method of stabilizing mental power that is achieved through the Heavenly Heart Sword, but...

When faced with the voracious desire for knowledge that one can quickly learn and master simply by looking at it, mastering it once is equivalent to mastering it all.

Kulin's mouth opened slightly, and when Louis turned his head, he slapped his chin shut.

"Sir Kulin, what's the next step?"

In a trance, Kulin remembered that Kino had talked to him privately and said that Prince Louis was a thief.

What were his original words?

"Louis, that kid, is a thief of martial arts, no, he has all kinds of supernatural powers."

This is what he said one day when he was drinking.

Kulin was at a loss whether to laugh or cry at the time. A genius is a genius, but what the hell is a thief?

Now, he seemed to suddenly understand what Kino meant.

(End of this chapter)