High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 263 - 225: The One-Zhang Forbidden Zone Returns, Technique Approaches the Dao!

Chapter 263: Chapter 225: The One-Zhang Forbidden Zone Returns, Technique Approaches the Dao!

"If the sword momentum is pure power, then the sword technique is pure skill."

"The Cold Weapon Cultivation Room is not for cultivating power, but for the ultimate control of power, the pinnacle of skill!"

In Su Mu’s heart, understanding gushed like a spring.

His heart gradually calmed, and his eyes grew deeper and more humble, for a true master always holds the heart of an apprentice.

Initially, he was merely curious about the so-called Weapon Cultivation Room, but now Su Mu became completely serious.

With the movement of the sword, a figure twisted and turned within it.

As the three walls continued to switch randomly, the blade effortlessly crushed every wooden ball that shot out, and Su Mu handled it with increasing ease.

During this process, he felt utterly exhilarated. Reflecting on it, Su Mu realized he had indeed become somewhat lax in cultivating the sword technique since comprehending the sword momentum.

Now, this was not just a process of revisiting and renewing but also of elevating his skill level; the month he spent reading into sainthood was a month of power consolidation for Su Mu, during which he revisited techniques like the Surging Waves Saber Technique, Blade Qi, Flaming Sun Saber Technique, and Sword Nurturing Technique repeatedly.

Many insights had not been fully digested, but driven by his seventy percent proficiency in sword momentum and triggered by the Weapon Cultivation Room, Su Mu was absorbing and digesting these insights at an astonishing speed, swiftly compensating for the shortcomings in his blade skills.

Gradually, the sword light wove into an impermeable web of blades, reestablishing a one-zhang no-jump zone!

This time, it was a one-zhang no-jump zone formed by sword technique interweaving; no wooden ball could advance even half a step into this thunderous area, instantly crushed into powder upon nearing.

The airflow from the sword scattered the powder, sprinkling it onto the ground.

Soon a spectacle appeared: there was nothing underfoot for Su Mu, yet a thick layer of wood dust accumulated within a one-zhang radius centered around him.

Alas, this shocking scene was witnessed by no one at present.

...

As time ticked away, expressions of surprise and doubt appeared on many faces outside the Sword Technique Cultivation Room.

"Why hasn’t that guy from the second company come out yet?"

"Could he be hiding inside to stall for time?"

Hearing the discussions, Wu Song snorted coldly with a wry smile. Each stage within the cultivation room has a time limit and cannot be stalled for too long; he didn’t believe Jiang Mu could hide in the cultivation room forever!

Heads turned, and in the center of the crowd, Zhang Mingcheng was fixated on the Sword Technique Cultivation Room, continually recalling Jiang Mu’s figure and his calm and indifferent profile.

"Seems somehow familiar?"

"I should have met Jiang Mu... Is he also from Saint Martial University?"

The arrogant Zhang Mingcheng felt a sense of wariness, but soon dismissed this idea, knowing the three from his company who came from Saint Martial University; none of them was Jiang Mu, and they were all defeated by him, Zhang Mingcheng.

"Hm, even if Jiang Mu and I are both from the South China Saint Martial University, so what? My third stage has over a 50% pass rate, and I’m the top recruit in this East District batch!"

Cold weapons—be it sword, spear, or staff—all share the same realm of skill division.

The First Realm, Foundation Realm, as the name implies, using sword technique as an example, a singular technique through relentless practice over time can reach the Martial Arts Foundation Great Perfection. A talented individual might need several years of arduous effort to reach this level, while those without talent may need seven to eight years or even over a decade of hard work.

The Second Realm, Perfection Realm, once achieving Martial Arts Foundation Great Perfection, one has the opportunity to advance to Perfection Realm. This realm represents the peak of skill a typical martial artist can achieve in a singular martial art, hence the name Perfection.

The Third Realm, Micro Realm, is a watershed level unattainable by ordinary people. With keen perception of minor details, a sword technique at the micro level can be called the Sword Dao Grandmaster, enough to establish a school.

This realm is like the Grandmaster Realm for martial artists; many who mainly wield the sword do not necessarily reach this stage even after being promoted to grandmaster, illustrating its difficulty.

Normal martial artists promoted to grandmaster are not recognized as Sword Dao Grandmasters unless their sword technique reaches the Micro Realm or controls more than fifty percent of sword momentum; such is the requirement for Sword Dao Grandmaster, as well as for Sword Dao Grandmaster and Spear Dao Grandmaster.

In battles of the same realm, a Sword Dao Grandmaster, Sword Dao Grandmaster, etc., are often much stronger than ordinary Martial Arts Grandmasters.

Reaching over eighty percent in the Micro Realm qualifies one as a Sword Dao Great Grandmaster.

Above the Three Weapons Realms, the Fourth Realm is Control, the Peak Mastery Realm. This is an almost legendary realm, one that even Martial Saints rarely achieve.

In a millennium of human martial arts, only one known individual may have mastered this realm: the Human Great Sage, who is both a Martial Saint and humanity’s first Sword Saint.

...

"Oh, why did it stop?"

Su Mu looked puzzled.

Beep—

"Congratulations on perfectly passing the third stage, with a pass rate of 100%. After perfectly passing the third stage, you can choose to continue to the fourth stage training."

Even after perfectly passing the third stage, one cannot skip directly.

Su Mu was aware that the next difficulty was likely to leapfrog significantly. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and slowly exhaled, clearing an area of wood chips flying.

When he opened his eyes again, Su Mu greedily devoured and digested the earlier experiences and understandings; given his proficiency in the Sword Dao, achieving this was not difficult!

"Bring it on."

Su Mu’s eyes narrowed, and this time he was not faced with the expected four walls; one by one, the walls lit up with blue light until all five were illuminated.

Even before the five walls, Su Mu felt a slight ripple within himself.

Beep—

After the countdown ended, the five walls simultaneously launched projectiles.

But this time, not all were wooden balls; there were metal balls mixed in, and even the initial speeds of the two types were different, with speed not consistently defined—metal balls weren’t necessarily faster.

Light and heavy.

Fast and slow.

A patternless randomness!

Su Mu’s eyes burst with brilliance; the difficulty indeed suddenly increased.

In the next instant, he drew his saber and slashed out, the blade precisely cutting through several metal balls, shattering three to five wooden balls simultaneously, while the second cut flickered right after the first.

The saber in Su Mu’s hand grew faster and faster, too rapid for the naked eye to catch, like a phantom, yet strangely, the swift blade made little sound.

Once again, the one-zhang restricted area was displayed, this time denser and less sparse, leaving no doubt that even if a torrential downpour came, not a single raindrop could penetrate this one-zhang boundary.

In movement and stillness, only the sound of metal and wooden balls shooting out and being shattered remained in the cultivation room.

Su Mu’s eyes grew brighter as he vaguely felt an invisible thin film; as he kept approaching it, he unexpectedly sensed the newly broken-through Sword Momentum had signs of another breakthrough.

This made him intensely excited.

Beep------

A mechanical prompt sounded.

But the fourth-stage training had not finished. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

After the metal and wooden balls, the sizes of the balls also started to vary; balls of various sizes made of plastic, even paper, appeared, filling the sky with different kinds.

The blood within Su Mu’s body began boiling hot, fine droplets of sweat emerged from his entire body, quickly evaporated by his heated body.

White vapor continually rose from his entire being.

At this moment, Su Mu felt utterly delightful; after mastering Sword Momentum, under the powerful and terrifying momentum, most enemies could not withstand a single slash from him.

He had never been forced to the extent of using Sword Technique for maneuvering.

But now, Su Mu had been driven into such a desperate situation, within which a flaw in his one-zhang restricted area appeared, as a lightweight white ball was about to hit the ground.

After Su Mu’s slash, he realized the thing drifted away again.

Cotton?

Su Mu took a deep breath; the rhythm of his slashing was not disrupted. With astonishing speed, he crushed other balls about to hit the ground, and the instant before the cotton touched the ground, a cold light flashed.

The cotton shattered into pieces.

"I caught up!"

Su Mu’s body trembled slightly, not from panic but extreme excitement, a feeling he first experienced at the alien battlefield when reverse slashing his first Fifth Level Alien Race.

After this, the saber in Su Mu’s hand grew even faster, becoming elusive at a certain speed, like an antelope hanging its horns, leaving no trace.

Continuously switching between extreme speed and slow, gradually gaining fluidity from the initial stagnation,

Hovering like floating clouds, swift like a startled dragon!

At this moment, Su Mu finally tangibly reached that layer of invisible film and, in an instant, saw the path leading to techniques verging on the Dao.

Although still vague, he genuinely saw it!

"Yin and Yang... lifting heavy as though light, lifting light as if heavy!"

In an instant, Su Mu felt the Cold Moon, weighing a thousand pounds in his hand, lose its weight, lighter than a feather.

But with that seemingly slow slash, a vacuum appeared before him instantaneously, every ball turned to dust at once.

"The next step is to approach the Dao in skill..."

"No longer just simple mastery of weapons, but mastering the body’s strength, mobilizing every bit without losing a fraction..."

"Plucking flowers, touching leaves, making grass and wood into soldiers might just be like this."

"This, in fact, is somewhat similar to a martial artist closing the Three Jiao Gate... no, it actually resembles the Cyan Lotus Martial Seed even more... to fully control, mastering both weapons and strength, this is the pinnacle of skills!"

Control!

These two words suddenly emerged in Su Mu’s mind and instantly occupied it; a wave of enlightenment as mighty as giant tides struck him.

Su Mu slowly closed his eyes.

Several light cotton flowers fell to the ground.

The fourth stage of training had ended.

"Congratulations on passing the fourth stage, with a pass rate of 95%..."

Afterward, no more prompts echoed because Su Mu had already completed all the training in this Sword Technique Cultivation Room, with the fourth stage corresponding to the Micro Realm.

...

"Why hasn’t he come out yet? How can Jiang Mu from the second company be dawdling like this..."

Before the voice faded.

The entire Cultivation Tower suddenly resounded with melodious chimes, everyone’s pupils sharply contracted, and then they showed astonishment.

"Chimes?"

"Is this... someone triggering the final training in a cultivation room?"

"Besides the Weapon Cultivation Room, there are several Gravity Cultivation Rooms in this building; could it be a commandant from the war zone persevering to the last level..."

Everyone immediately flocked to the railing, gazing downwards eagerly; the first floor was where the Gravity Cultivation Room was located, the Gravity Cultivation Room was acknowledged as the easiest type of cultivation room to trigger the final training.

And the Weapon Cultivation Room was also recognized as one of the war zone’s most challenging cultivation rooms.

However...

At that moment, behind everyone, a dazzling golden light flashed.