Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 229 - 140: Good, It’s Not Shut Out

For example, right now he’s calling a name in his heart, feeling anxious:

"Vast Sea!"

In the next second, the gentle voice of Vast Sea echoed in his mind:

"I’m here!"

"Good, no problem."

Su Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much more at ease.

This proved that the Sword Palace’s shielding wasn’t invincible. At least the God-given Heart Link wasn’t shielded, so his Dual Talent couldn’t be either.

With a talent that even the Heavenly Dao can’t detect, the priority is definitely above the Heart Link.

Putting his worries aside, Su Yu tried to communicate with other things that were shielded and found that indeed, apart from the Heart Link and his talent, everything else was completely blocked, including the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, which was in a sealed state.

He could communicate with his Dao companion, Vast Sea, located inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl through the Heart Link, but he couldn’t sense the Pearl itself, nor could he enter it or retrieve items from it.

"But this is enough!"

Everyone else was reduced to a blank slate, and he still had his talent to use, so what more is there to say?

Calming his mind, Su Yu checked the panel to understand the situation of the Sword Palace’s second round assessment.

After three minutes, he touched the panel lightly with his finger, and two streams of light flew out and entered his forehead. Su Yu opened the panel to see a Basic Qi Refining Heart Skill and a Basic Sword Formula appeared on the bare panel.

Primordial Heart Skill: Advanced Qi Refining Heart Skill.

Each level raises Qi and Blood by 20 points, Mana by 40 points, Magic Power by 20 points, and Mana Recovery by 0.1/second.

Primordial Sword Scripture: Advanced Basic Sword Skill.

Each level raises Flying Sword damage by 30, Attack Speed by 20, and Sword Control speed by 20 km/h.

He quietly looked at the panel, and after a few seconds, a familiar fluctuation swept over, changing the two cultivation skills.

Primordial Heart Skill: Advanced Qi Refining Heart Skill.

Each level raises Qi and Blood by 40 points, Mana by 80 points, Magic Power by 40 points, and Mana Recovery by 0.2/second.

Primordial Sword Scripture: Advanced Basic Sword Skill.

Each level raises Flying Sword damage by 60, Attack Speed by 40, and Sword Control speed by 40 km/h.

"Hehe!"

Su Yu looked up at the sky, softly calling:

"Enhance cultivation!"

In the next second, starlight fell from above, with endless cultivation points and Dao achievements pouring in with the starlight. The newly practiced Primordial Heart Skill and Primordial Sword Scripture continued to advance, stopping only when they reached level thirty.

Primordial Heart Skill Level Thirty: Qi and Blood +1200, Mana +2400, Magic Power +1200, Mana Recovery +6/second.

Primordial Sword Scripture Level Thirty: Flying Sword damage +1800, Attack Speed +1200, Sword Control speed +1200 km/h.

Then he extended his hand, summoning two identical Flying Swords into his hands.

Starlight (Level Six): Divine Weapon, Starlight Condenses into a Divine Weapon.

Attributes: Attack Power 200-300, Attack Speed 150-200, Sword Control speed 150-200, Sword Formula Bonus 50%.

Thus, the cultivation for the next phase was fixed.

According to the rules, in this phase, everyone is reduced to a blank page, all uniformly possessing level thirty Primordial Heart Skill and Primordial Sword Scripture, as well as two blank slate level six Divine Weapons.

Normally, cultivators have only one Flying Sword slot before achieving Loose Immortal through tribulation, but the assessment temporarily adds one.

For the next month, they will stay in this space, where the Sword Palace provides many sword techniques for practice and offers illusions of past opponents, whose cultivation is similarly shielded, for practicing Swordsmanship. Competitors can also challenge and compete with each other in Swordsmanship, among other activities.

Anyway, within a month’s time, regardless of how they improve their Swordsmanship, there will be an assessment a month later, with those failing directly eliminated.

Those who pass have two more months to improve, followed by another assessment two months later, with those failing eliminated.

Those who pass a second time have another three months to improve, followed by another assessment three months later.

A total of six months of trials, but the Sword Palace has adjusted the flow of time, so only a few days will have passed outside.

Those who pass this time will have successfully completed the second round assessment, with a minimum of second-tier rewards.

In simple terms, this phase will eliminate all external factors, bringing everyone to the same starting line, solely dependent on individual Sword Dao talent.

Su Yu fully understood the rules of this round, and with a thought, he summoned the dual swords and began practicing sword techniques.

Cyan Dragon Welcoming Guests, White Carp Leaping Waves.

Fierce Tiger Roaring on the Hill, Ten Thousand Horses Galloping.

In reality, he had already mastered several sword techniques to perfection, even breaking down all the sword moves into basic techniques to create new sword moves himself.

The Sword Palace could shield cultivation, but it couldn’t shield memories, so the moves were still remembered.

After rehearsing several times, he re-familiarized all the moves. Su Yu opened the panel and chose a projection of a former participant rated as one star.

In the next second, a beam of light descended, and appeared a lithe young girl dressed in practical attire.

When the light screen disappeared, the girl propelled twin swords and charged forward.

Naturally, Su Yu wasn’t intimidated and advanced with his dual flying swords to meet her attack.

The girl was a projection of a past competitor, with the same attributes as Su Yu; level thirty Primordial Heart Skill and Primordial Sword Scripture, and two identical level six blank slate Flying Swords, but her Sword Formula Bonus was only half of his.

Su Yu’s Attack Power was 300+900=1200, Attack Speed 200+600=800, Sword Control Speed 200+600=800 km/h.

The typical competitor’s Attack Power was 300+450=750, Attack Speed 200+300=500, Sword Control Speed 200+300=500 km/h.

In actual combat, this meant that the moment the two Starlight Swords made contact, they were overpowered by him.

From start to finish, it was a complete crush, with no chance to fight back.

"No difficulty at all."

This time, he chose a two-star projection.

A few seconds later, as the second previous contestant’s projection summoned a flying sword, the rolling thunder sounded, and Su Yu’s eyes lit up. He immediately urged his twin swords to meet the challenge.

The moment the twin swords crossed, it was clear that the two-star projection was significantly stronger than the one-star projection.

Although his just slightly achieved Sword Qi Thunder Sound was not enough to bridge the gap, it did pose a certain threat to him.

This time, he did not go for a quick victory but chose to engage in a steady, solid swordsmanship duel. Even though he gradually gained the upper hand with stronger power and speed, he did not take advantage but slightly held back to let his opponent recover and continue fighting.

Simply defeating them had no meaning; there was no reward.

The greatest use of these projection opponents is to provide them with a steady stream of evenly matched opponents to improve their swordsmanship and comprehend the Sword Dao realm.

But unfortunately, even though he held back, the projection didn’t last long before running out of mana.

However, it was no big deal; he could continue challenging.

In this way, through constant repetition and combining with previous memories and experiences, Su Yu successfully regained his understanding of Sword Qi Thunder Sound by the time he defeated the eighth opponent.

After defeating the opponent, he immediately opened the panel to check the ranking list, which showed that 76 people had regained Sword Qi Thunder Sound, and 2 people had successfully mastered Condensing Sword into Silk.

He immediately sent a message to Luo Qingchan asking:

"Have you already mastered Condensing Sword into Silk?"

"Yes!"

"Impressive!"

In just a moment, two-thirds had regained Sword Qi Thunder Sound, and someone had even regained Condensing Sword into Silk. The Sword Dao talent is too strong.

"But I don’t worry."

Su Yu smiled slightly and decisively chose to challenge a three-star projection.

The thunder roared, deafening for a moment, as two strands of Sword Qi as thin as fingers descended from the sky. Four Starlight Swords intertwined, and two strands of Sword Qi were shattered on the spot. Sword Qi flashed through the neck, and as it blacked out, a layer of clear light rose to block the sword edge, and the three-star projection vanished as if everything just now was an illusion.

"Wow, that’s intense!"

Su Yu touched his neck, defeated in an instant just now.

"At least a proficient Sword Qi Thunder Sound and a mastery-level Condensing Sword into Silk, but the Sword Light Division is definitely understood, yet not used."

"The gap is too large."

Next, he sensibly chose a two-star projection to grind his swordsmanship.

Here, there was nothing to do but practice sword, duel swords, practice again, and duel swords, continuously improving skills.

In this state, everyone has one thought in their minds, which is improving swordsmanship. In their minds and actions, there is only the sword, nothing but the sword.

Even Su Yu is no exception.

Outside, swordsmanship was just a means to protect his Dao, though he tried, it was not his only focus, not even a third of his mind was on swordsmanship.

But at this time, in the special environment created by the Sword Palace, he had to focus all his thoughts on swordsmanship.

Everyday, the first thing he did when he opened his eyes was practice sword, putting all his thoughts into it.

The passion for the sword!

Only then can one wield the sword!

In such extreme conditions, anyone’s level of swordsmanship would improve rapidly.

From the ranking list, it can be seen that in less than a day, everyone has already mastered Sword Qi Thunder Sound.

After three days, half grasped Condensing Sword into Silk.

After ten days, at least twenty people mastered Sword Light Division.

After the tide recedes, we know who was swimming naked. Over time, many contestants’ Sword Dao talents became apparent. Those truly with strong Sword Dao talent have extremely high Swordsmanship realms.

While those with average talent, who forcibly piled up their so-called swordsmanship in other ways, had all their true forms exposed in this test.

Except for Su Yu.

Because he was one of the twenty contestants who mastered Sword Light Division.

Indeed, his swordsmanship talent was quite lacking, likely the worst in the field, but it didn’t matter because he didn’t worry.

Talents are solidified; any progress made will permanently solidify and exist, allowing further progress to be solidified on the current foundation.

Every day awakening to cultivation, with all thoughts focused on swordsmanship, engaging in duels with hundreds of projections of diverse styles and higher swordsmanship than his own, his swordsmanship level was bound to improve rapidly.

Such growth speed, it would be strange if it wasn’t strong.

In just one month, Su Yu’s swordsmanship realm caught up with who he was before being screened.

First level swordsmanship realm [Sword Qi Thunder Sound], adept.

Second level swordsmanship realm [Condensing Sword into Silk], proficient. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Third level swordsmanship realm [Sword Light Division], small accomplishment.

Fourth level swordsmanship realm [True Sword Intent], not yet entered.

Not just him, none of the 122 people have mastered True Sword Intent, including Luo Qingchan.

Although she had already mastered Sword Intent in reality, none of her swordsmanship realms in this test reached the level of mastery needed to achieve the minimum mastery standard.

This is also why, although many contestants from previous sessions had already mastered Sword Intent, half of them ultimately only stopped at the second stage. This is mainly because some contestants’ understanding of Sword Intent was not entirely reliant on themselves but influenced by external factors.

At this time, all external factors in the Sword Palace were shielded, so it was uncertain if they could once again understand Sword Intent.