Naked Sword Art

later into Xiao Hei ’s training session, Xiao Hei stopped holding back, or at least she didn ’t realize it because she was having too much fun.

Xiao Hei ’s attacks started to get faster and faster.
She didn ’t look like she was training anymore, but playing a game of tag.
Su Yun thought it was a clever teaching method because it seemed to be helping her adapt to controlling her clone a lot faster than the standard teaching methods.
But Xiao Hei was fast, and she only seemed to be going faster.

’Just how much is she holding back against me, ’ Su Yun frowned.

The stronger Xiao Hei was, the more difficult it was for Su Yun to see what she was doing wrong.
She would need to focus less on identifying her flaws and more on simply dodging her attacks.

Suddenly, Xiao Hei ’s eyes became sharp.
She had found an opening.

In the next moment, Xiao Hei pounced towards Su Yun with the full strength of her Profound Realm Body, and appeared in front of Su Yun in a blink of an eye.

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Su Yun ’s eyes widened in shock, but she couldn ’t panic because she didn ’t have the time to.

Su Yun immediately jumped to the right to dodge, but Xiao Hei was able to adjust her attack path just on time to compensate.

”I got you, ” Xiao Hei said with a large grin on her face.

However, the moment Xiao Hei touched her, her hand went right through Su Yun ’s body.

”What!? ” Xiao Hei thought in confusion.

Looking back, Xiao Hei saw that Su Yun was still standing in the same place as she was before.
Her real body had never dodged to the right, she used an Illusory Body technique to make her think that she did.

”What kind of technique was that? ” Xiao Hei asked with expecting eyes.

Su Yun stared at Xiao Hei with a strange expression on her face, because when Xiao Hei went all out, she inevitably revealed her true body cultivation realm.

’Profound Realm…
Was I imagining it? No, I know what I felt.
That was definitely the aura of a Profound Realm cultivator. ’

This completely destroyed Su Yun ’s theory that Xiao Hei ’s cultivation path more closely resembled Tiered Beasts.
She was no different than a normal human cultivator.
However, for her to already be at the Profound realm seemed unbelievable, unless she was several decades older than she looked.
This again wasn ’t too hard for Su Yun to believe because she didn ’t know anything about a spirit pet ’s lifespan.
It could be more than double a human for all she knew.

Su Yun looked back at Xiao Fang who was meditating on the grass.

’Just where did he find this spirit pet from? ’ she wondered.

Getting no reply from Su Yun, Xiao Hei asked her question again.

”Master, that technique just now… ”

”Huh? Oh right.
It ’s called [ False Shadow ].
It ’s the 1st out the 3 levels of the Profound realm technique called [ Misdirection ].
Although it ’s a Body cultivation technique, you still need to be in the 1st stage of the Spirit Refinement realm to learn it. ”

Xiao Hei turned her head and looked at Xiao Fang with yearning eyes.
Xiao Fang was deep into meditation so he didn ’t know what was going on.
It was obvious what Xiao Hei wanted, but it wasn ’t like he could just breakthrough to the 1st stage of the Spirit Refinement realm whenever he wanted to.

Su Yun continued teaching Xiao Hei new ways to use her clone in combat, but she was still a long way from learning how to create more than 1 clone, but to make it easier on herself she created 3 clones to help her against Xiao Hei.
The thing she felt Xiao Hei needed the most practice with was how to distinguish illusions from the real thing.
Since she was learning the method, the only thing she needed was time, but time was limited.

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Still sitting on the grass, Xiao Fang had his legs crossed into the lotus position and he had his qi continuously circulating through and around him.
He spent the next few hours trying to make a breakthrough to the 9th stage of the [ Illusory body ] Spirit Foundation realm, but he was unsuccessful.
He wasn ’t too disappointed though, because he was able to reach the 8th stage in 2 weeks.
That itself was a major accomplishment.

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Xiao Fang ’s Cultivation Realm:

u003e Divine Sword: 1st stage profound Body realm

u003e Dual Cultivation: 6th stage Spirit Core realm

u003e Death Reaper: 1st stage Spirit Refinement realm

u003e Illusory Body: 8th stage Spirit Foundation realm

+ True Immortal Lightning Tribulation

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Xiao Fang sighed.

’I ’m practicing too many cultivation methods, ’ he thought.

Similar to cultivation techniques, cultivation methods could also be categorized into specific types (offense, defense, support, area control, taboo, etc).
Most people would only cultivate 1 or 2 cultivation methods, but Xiao Fang already had 4.
From what he knew, his current method types were:

u003e Divine Sword – offense

u003e Dual Cultivation – taboo

u003e Illusory Body – support

He didn ’t know what type of cultivation method his Death Reaper method was.
Just from the techniques written on it, he assumed it could be either an offense or support cultivation method.
However, judging by the name alone, he wouldn ’t be surprised if it turned out to be another taboo method