The Journey to Heaven

Battles

"More sharp!"

"When you use the sabre, the least permissible thing is doubt."

"Sabre is fast, sharp, and firm."

"If the sword is called the weapon of the kings, then the sabre is the weapon of the generals."

"If the sword symbolizes honor, then the sabre symbolizes strength."

A man in all black clothes, was training a little boy in a gray suit.

The little boy was practicing using the sabre, he looked very focused even though he only practiced simple movements.

WuChang who had started the path of cultivation and was now studying the art of sabre. He will now begin the body refinement stage at the muscle level, at this stage physical training takes precedence.

Muscle training is the most basic and easiest level, because an ordinary human being can do it. After passing through the new muscle level then WuChang will train in various ways.

Yin Jing was the best sabre cultivator in the world, he was known as the Invisible Blade. This mention of him could be because no cultivator at the same stage could see his sabren blade, other than a few people like Yang Jian.

The art of the Yin Jing sabre focuses on killing, therefore the essence of the sabre is speed and accuracy.

In this first sabre training, Yin Jing only ordered WuChang to swing his sabre from top to bottom over and over again.

It is intended that WuChang understand what the weapon he is holding, what it feels like, its weight, and the meaning of the weapon.

"WuChang you will only practice like this continue until this day is over."

"Tomorrow when Yang Jian will train you, he will probably do the same as me."

"Of course with the sword."

WuChang who was training remained unperturbed by what Yin Jing said, and continued to continue his practice with complete focus and calmness.

Seeing WuChang's expression, Yin Jing only smiled and recalled how he and his brother used to train together.

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While WuChang and Yin Jing were practicing, currently Huozhan and Yang Jian were on their way to the place written on his grandfather's letter.

The two of them started the journey earlier this morning, on the way Yang Jian did not forget to train Huozhan in his cultivation.

Yesterday Huozhan had broken through to the qi gathering stage, and last night he consolidated his cultivation.

"Huozhan, are we close?"

"Hmm. quiet uncle Yang, I still remember that place like my own palm."

"Why do you keep looking in all directions?"

"Hehehe..your uncle must have misunderstood, I kept looking not because I forgot the direction but I was vigilant uncle."

Smiling at Huozhan's reasoning, Yang Jian also began to look around. In Qilin Peak is rarely seen carnivorous animals even completely absent, the most inhabitants here are deer-like animals.

"Oh Uncle Yang! look over there, it's grandfather's secret cave."

Looking at the direction that Huozhan was pointing, Yang Jian felt a different energy from the energy he felt at qilin peak.

Huozhan who was about to run immediately was stopped by Yang Jian.

"So so..."

"What is so uncle?"

Ignoring Huozhan's question, Yang Jian kept looking at the cave he was up at.

'Why are there no carnivorous animals or demon beasts, it is because they all gathered from here to the top.

Maybe this was done by the grandfather so that these two children were not injured, this grandfather he did everything perfectly.'

"Uncle Yang... Will we just shut up?"

Hearing Huozhan's question, Yang Jian returned from his daydream. Glancing in all directions, he was able to confirm that the demon beasts here possessed the power of a tier 1 to tier 7 gathering qi.

Yang Jian thought of the best solution of this, if he decided to advance then he could pass through easily. Yet he thought this result was not what grandfather Huozhan wanted.

"Of course we will continue, but only you alone will go."

Confused by Yang Jian's statement, Huozhan simply stood up and scratched his head.

"Uncle why am I the only one left alone?"

"Because, that's what your grandfather wanted."

"Huozhan from this place to the cave may be a lot of demon beasts blocking you."

"So you go alone, if you feel you can't continue then go down and try again, we'll just go home until you get the gift that your grandfather left behind."

"understand."

Huozhan who was usually toying around, was currently showing seriousness on her face. Hearing that this might be a test from his grandfather, Huozhan felt it was time to show the results of his training.

Sensing Huozhan's fighting spirit, Yang Jian started looking for some items that could help Huozhan.

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"Let's rest for a while, we'll resume the exercise after lunch."

Lowering his sabrenya, WuChang walked towards Yin Jing who had already prepared lunch.

"WuChang listen, finish this training I will teach you the body refinement cultivation technique."

"I hope you can be at the muscle training level tonight."

Why did Yin Jing teach WuChang another body refinement cultivation technique, whereas WuChang had already obtained the Heaven's Gate body technique yesterday.

This was because Heaven's Gate was not aiming as another normal body cultivation technique, but rather towards refining a trained body refinement technique.

When one practiced normal body techniques and successfully completed the body stage, it was certain that the training would not be perfect and had plenty of room for improvement.

Heaven's Gate serves to maximize and perfect the flaws of that training, this technique relies on the 5 elements of the spirit root that a cultivator possesses.

Utilizing every element of the five element root spirit, Heaven's Gate will make the trained limb become like the element chosen at each level.

Knowing the true meaning of the Heaven's Gate technique, then Yin Jing decided he would give the best body technique he had.

Yin Jing who was the best cultivator of the heretic stream definitely had the best body technique anyway, because the heretical flow was known to have better body techniques than the orthodox flow.

In contrast to the orthodox school that focuses on qi training and considers body training to be only complementary.

Heretical flow attaches great importance to body training on par with qi training, this is because heretical flow cultivators need strong bodies, to cultivate with their notoriously vicious and dangerous cultivation techniques.

Feeling it was time to start training again, Yin Jing stood up and said.

"WuChang continue your training."

"Huozhan I know you're used to using your bare hands in fighting."

"But since I don't have a glove-type magic weapon, I'll give you this wand."

Taking out a stick that seemed to be made of sturdy metal, Yang Jian gave it to Huozhan. How Yang Jian could have a stick on him was for sentimental reasons.

Back when Yang Jian was a child, he and his brother practiced using wooden sticks instead of weapons. With that wooden stick they began to understand how to fight with weapons.

After he and his brother became the two strongest cultivators of the continent, Yang Jian had always kept a long stick inside his spatial ring.

As a swordsman, Yang Jian kept his main weapon of the sword, and sticks of various levels as a collection in memory of his childhood.

Grasping the staff Yang Jian gave him, Huozhan began to weigh and swing it to get used to his latest weapon.

This stick is slightly longer than usual, which is about 2 meters. This weapon is also not an ordinary stick, but a normal-profound tier magic weapon.

In the Fertile Star Continent magic weapons have various levels, namely mortal, profound, spirit, and essence.

Then this level is divided into three according to its quality, namely normal, high, and super, but there are several other levels such as low for semi-finished products and supreme which is still debated existence.

In addition to giving weapons to Huozhan, Yang Jian also distributed some useful objects when Huozhan's qi was depleted and when he was injured.

Making sure all the preparations had been completed, Yang Jian told Huozhan to leave immediately.

"Well all the preparations are quite complete, you can start now."

"Remember one thing Huozhan, salvation is paramount, understand."

Nodding in understanding Huozhan immediately stepped forward. Although he prepared many items, Huozhan did not hold anything in his hand, not even his long staff, as they were stored safely in the small ring that was worn on Huozhan's finger.

The distance to the cave above is quite far and also uphill, the road is open surrounded by trees and the width can contain about ten people at once.

Just a few steps there was already one that would be Huozhan's first opponent, seeing that his challenger was only a level 1 qi gathering Huozhan did not take out his new weapon.

"Little wolf please step aside and let me through."

"Gerrr..."

"Are you angry, well I'll teach you a lesson for not listening to me."

"But you can rest easy, because I won't kill you because I don't eat wolf meat."

The wolf who was offended by Huozhan's words immediately jumped at the 10-year-old.

Huozhan only raised one hand as the wolf leaped towards him, seeing Huozhan underestimating him the wolf would smile before something choked his neck.

Huozhan gripped the neck of the demonic beast as if holding a dead chicken, feeling that the wolf in her hand had lost consciousness Huozhan immediately threw it away without killing him.

Huozhan said she would not kill him, of course the reason was because she had never eaten wolf meat and she had not been willing to try it.

Continuing his pace Huozhan had met many demonic beasts from level 1 qi gathering to level 4, previously he had already been able to kill a level 4 demonic beast while still at the Huotian stage.

Several times Huozhan was injured as a result of the wolf attacks, as they now not only appeared one by one but instead started coming up with groups.

Fortunately he had a body that was strong enough, so his injuries were not deep enough and he also made sure that his injuries were not in vital areas.

At this moment the demonic beast that was blocking him was at level 5, now he was sure the demonic beast guarding the cave was all wolf-type.

Facing the level 5 demon beast Huozhan was not afraid, Huozhan was confident that with his first level gathering qi, he could defeat that opponent.

Still without his magic weapon, it was Huozhan who started the attack. With his head higher, Huozhan moved quickly and launched a fist strike at the wolf's head.

Seeing Huozhan's full blow, the wolf cunningly dodged down and aimed at the child's feet. Seeing his opponent eyeing his leg, Huozhan let the wolf pounce on his leg.

When his leg was about to be bitten, Huozhan directly hugged the wolf's back. Gripping it firmly, Huozhan lifted it up and immediately threw the beast back.

Not waiting for the wolf to get up, Huozhan immediately rushed towards the falling wolf and swung his legs from top to bottom on the animal's head.

Holding his feet fixed above the wolf's head, Huozhan added pressure to his feet until a sad whining sound came from below.

Pulling Huozhan's leg and kicking the wolf into a tree. Hitting the tree violently the wolf stood up in a daze, feeling the fear of the demonic beast instantly turn around and run away unsteadily.

In the distance one watched Huozhan quietly, looking on his face he was quite amazed by Huozhan's fight.

Laymen would probably judge Huozhan's fight to be boring, as there were no beautiful and cruel attacks to the point of blood splattering.

But to an expert, the child's battle techniques were full of calculations. When facing a level one to three demonic beast, he only used as little energy as possible.

Only when he faced a level four opponent did Huozhan begin to use even greater energy.

Huozhan's greatness was not only in the use of energy, but also in his techniques. He fought very efficiently, since he did not attempt to kill his opponent then there was no need to use fancy attacks.

The technique he uses is only in the form of punches, kicks, giggles, and dings. All of these techniques are used with the aim of putting pressure on the opponent's body, until finally the opponent loses control of his body or may lose consciousness.

At the time of fighting a tier four demonic beast, Huozhan did something he had never done in a fight before, which was a trick.

His first attack in the form of boxing was just a trick, the purpose of the fist was to let his opponent off guard, so that he could win that supposedly difficult fight easily.

But what amazed Yang Jian the most was Huozhan himself, the child's abilities always increased as time went on, as if he would grow stronger in each of his meetings.

"I just realized, this Huozhan doesn't have any martial techniques."

"Don't exhaust his qi, he hasn't even channeled the qi into his body at all."

Looking at the figure of Huozhan who had a large body compared to his age, this cheerful child would definitely become a cultivator with the strongest body.

He might be able to defeat an opponent on the same level as him, just by using the strength of his body. On him using his qinya, then defeating cultivators with higher cultivation levels was not impossible.

Thinking of the special bodies of the two children, Yang Jian grew even more curious. He had calmed down because WuChang already had a cultivation manual that matched his body.

Now it was only Huozhan who had yet to obtain his cultivation manual. The boy had trained up to the peak of the body refinement stage with a cultivation technique that he himself did not know.

All along he had only been training according to what his grandfather had taught, Yang Jian had seen the technique but was unable to find the specialty of the technique.

If there was anything special about Huozhan's body technique, then it was his extremely basic technique even compared to other techniques.

Yang Jian and his brother suspected that the technique was an ancient technique from ancient times. Although Yang Jian could not confirm it, he was sure that the technique was only made specifically for Huozhan's special body.

So, other than Huozhan no one would be able to practice with that technique, not even his own brother WuChang.

Yang Jian hoped that the gift would help them, as he was sure that the grandfather would definitely not let his granddaughter's talent be wasted.

Leaving his mind, Yang Jian refocused on Huozhan. Currently Huozhan was resting after fighting three tier 5 wolves.

Huozhan who had managed to defeat three fifth-tier demonic beasts at once, was treating the wounds he had sustained and this wound was quite serious compared to the previous one.

Feeling it would be difficult to continue empty-handed, Huozhan took out her new weapon.

That normal-profound tier wand now felt comfortable in Huozhan's hands, before it started climbing Huozhan had been training by swinging the stick around.

Starting to swing his staff again, Huozhan was now ready for the next challenger.

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