9 THRONES

CHAPTER 50: THE LAST LETTER

Vann kept turning the pages on the book in his hand, every time he opened a new page then Vann's eyes re-shone.

The original 5 Elements Sword Technique was indeed extremely frightening, at least hundreds of times more powerful than the 5 Elements Sword in the Wood Sword Academy.

The Sword of the 5 Elements split into 9 each, in the initial 5 stages, users must change the elements they use in each stage while the last 4 stages are combining the 5 elements that have been learned into a unique attack and defense movement. Because it must be able to control the 5 elements that make many people give up, however it is very difficult to control the 5 elements at a time.

Especially opposing elements such as fire and water, the difficulty of combining the 2 elements is too high due to each other.

But in the original 5 Elements Sword Technique explained how to reduce the use of energy when using this ability that is to change the previous element into a new element.

At the 1st stage of the 5 Element Sword, Myro used the water element and the 2nd stage was the wind element.

Therefore, in order to reduce the sum of energy, water in stage 1 does not need to be discarded, but Myro must convert it into wind and use stage 2 directly.

This book is really valuable, after all the 5 Element Sword Technique is a grant of the 5th throne holder, anyone must know how powerful this technique is because the throne holder himself uses it.

When he reached the last page and Vann was ready to close the book, suddenly a letter fell from the last page of the book.

The curious Vann immediately took the fallen letter and opened it to read what was there, although the letter was a little dusty but the writing on the letter could still be read.

[For anyone who manages to find this place means you are the successor I choose! I don't need you to be like me or do anything for me, the purpose of me writing this letter is so that you don't mind continuing my 5 Element Sword Technique. Had I not died young from an illness, I would have been able to go further and further into becoming a high-level cultivator, but fate said something else that made me have to die faster than any other cultivator.

Although my teacher gave me the 5 Element Sword Technique, he also gave it to the other 4 disciples. So we developed our own style of 5 Element Sword Technique which made our techniques different. If you are the one who discovered my technique and do not mind continuing my 5 Element Sword Technique, then I am very grateful. But if you already have a better sword technique so as not to plan on taking my 5 Element Sword Technique, I hope you burn the book in my hand, do not give it to anyone.

Then you won't have to bury me in the Wood Sword Academy, as long as you don't mind, you can bury me here.

Founder and Head of the Wood Sword Academy,

Herith]

Reading the letter, Vann instantly burned it without hesitation.

He stared at Herith who was a corpse and slightly bowed "Senior Herith, we may have never met while you were alive, but Vann was not an ungrateful person! I will continue my 5 Element Sword Technique, besides I will not teach it to others like you said! Thank you, Senior Herith".

Not wasting any more time, Vann opened a sizable hole in the ground and carefully placed Herith's body there.

After that, Vann again closed the hole using soil and placed a stone on the tomb that read "Herith, Founder of the Wood Sword Academy".

After finishing all that, Vann stored the 5 Wood Sword Technique book full of caution before returning to the top of the cave again.

He should not tell anyone about today's events, as long as the people from the Wood Sword Academy knew Vann had obtained the original technique from the 5 Elements Sword, he would have been hunted down and even killed.

Even if an academy or a mid-level cultivator's strength had, they definitely had a strong background.

Shortly after Vann left the cave, the whole cave suddenly shook and the falling stones closed the way back down to the cave where Herith was buried. Now, it's very difficult to find Herith again.

Fortunately Vann had gone from the cave, if he was late then there is a possibility Vann buried the rock in the cave. Although there was a possibility, the cave was destroyed as a result of the actions of someone waiting for Vann to leave first.

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At the bottom of the cave, the figure of the suspicious man that Vann had seen earlier reappeared.

The suspicious figure stared at the empty table and his corpse was buried without any problems, a smile appearing on the face of the suspicious figure.

"Now that I can get away from here!", the suspicious figure turned into a golden light before disappearing.

At the last moment, it could be seen that the suspicious figure just now had the same face as Herith except that he was a little young.

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Vann stared at the destroyed cave and then looked back at the place where the corpse of the snake monster was, but the snake monster was no longer there.

No, it seemed that what Vann was fighting earlier was not a snake monster but rather a test from someone. As long as Vann was defeated by the snake monster, he would not obtain the 5 Element Sword Technique. Hence, the corpse of the snake monster disappeared after the test was over.

Raising his head while looking at the sky, now the sunlight in the sky had almost disappeared and the night was very close.

Vann decided to look for another cave before staying there for the night, he started a fire in the cave that would be his place for the night even though cultivators of his level were resistant to the cold air.

When the fire is turned on, Vann cooks rabbit meat which he happens to find on the street before eating it.

Vann often cooked meat in the past using fire like this, more precisely Vann's father who taught this ability when Vann was small. Most likely when he was young, Vann's father often went to places such as mountains and forests that made him very skilled in the ability to survive in nature.

After he finished eating, Vann did not go to sleep immediately but instead practiced swinging his sword according to the New 5 Element Sword Technique.

Although he mastered the 1st stage of the 5 Element Sword Technique, it was incomplete that made Vann have to learn it again.

For Vann, the advantage of hunting monsters was not as great as training the 5 Element Sword Technique for now.

So Vann continued swinging the sword nonstop for hours before going to rest.