The Third Sword threw a booklet in front of the children.
“Learn this from today.”
On the cover of the booklet, four characters were written: 分需心法 Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique1.
As the children looked at them with puzzled expressions, the three swords continued.
“I’ll give you three months. You must learn this within that time. After three months I’ll check your progress and if you still haven’t mastered it, I’ll cut your throat off with my own hands.”
The children did not answer.
Because they were commanded to remain silent in any case.
The three swords looked around the children with cool eyes and said.
The Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique is a cultivation method that the corps obtained with much difficulty. The main characteristic of this method is that it is easy to learn. No matter how dull you are, if you use it consistently for a year, you can feel qi and build up your internal energy. So it’s perfect for a beginner like you. A person who has achieved outstanding achievements in Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique will be given an even better mind method, so it would be better to work hard.”
The children’s eyes lit up.
The more you get a better mental method, the more likely you are to become stronger. The children listened to the words of the Three Swords, knowing that the stronger they became, the higher their chances of surviving.
The Third Sword explained to the children how to operate the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique in an easy-to-understand manner.
The biggest feature of Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique is that it is easy to learn, just like the three swords mentioned a while ago. Even if one did not read the booklet containing the method of cultivation but knew the overall gist, a person could already execute it immediately.
The children listened to the explanation of the three swords.
The Third Sword explained it in detail so that children could easily understand it.
More than half of the children did not know how to read. They couldn’t even read the booklet after it was handed out to them so they didn’t pay it any attention at all and just focused on the voice of the Three Sword.
Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique was a fearsome weapon that a soldier who had been assassinated by the Blood Phantom Group.
The warrior himself assassinated by the Blood Phantom Group was only a second-rate martial artist, but the method of cultivation he possessed was exceptional. The uninhabited man also obtained the method of cultivation by chance, so even he did not know its origin.
The reason why the Blood Phantom Group left the cultivation method unattended even after acquiring the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique is because it was judged that this method is only suitable as an introductory method for those who do not know any martial arts techniques at all.
The Blood Phantom Corps will not accept those who have not mastered any skill. To become accepted as a member of the group, they have to be verified to possess a certain level of skill so they did not feel the need to learn the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique, which is a method for beginners. Hence why it has been neglected until now.
Complex methods could not be used to make children a tool to use in the next six years. The idea is to create a foundation using the simplest method as possible to let them acquire the necessary skills fast.
Learning skills quickly is possible, but instead the path to ascension (常勝) was blocked.
There are many sects and warriors in Jianghu, but there are not many clans who possess the deep cultivation method that can reach the mystery of ascension.
It is because it deserves to be called a prestigious political faction of a strong man just because he has a mental method that embraces the mystery of ascension. (상승의 묘리를 품고 있는 심법을 가지고 있다는 것만으로도 강호의 명문정파라 불릴 만하기때문이다.)
Even within the Blood Phantom Corps, there were only a few who had learned the technique of ascending. It was all about the Blood Phantom Corps’ Captain and the Seven Ghost Swords. (혈영단의 단주와 귀혼칠검(鬼魂七剣) 정도가 전부였다.)
Even that was only possible because the Blood Phantom Corps had been active for a long time and obtained quite a number of strange books (奇書 kisho).
First Sword, Second Sword, and Third Sword were all members of the Seven Ghost Swords.
However, they were old enough to retire from the front line. The Blood Phantom Group Captain had ordered them to train the new batch of assassins.
While the children were fighting in the underground cavity, the three swords studied the method of cultivation. This is so they can pass on the method to children and to smoothly move on to the next step.
The Third Sword explained to the children the details of the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique that he had studied so far.
The children were fascinated by his words.
“…Okay, that is all. If you have any questions, read the booklet and study it on your own.”
The Third Sword forced the children to sit cross-legged, and then to breathe according to the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique. The masked men surrounded the children and watched to see if they were doing as instructed.
The masked men were also assassins, acting as custodians and guards. No matter how simple the method was, there was no one who could execute it properly from the beginning.
Not to mention, none of the children here had learned martial arts outside.
No, there were a significant number of children who didn’t even know that cultivation even existed.
It was impossible for such children to feel the inner workings from the beginning. Still, as the three swords taught, the children tried to breathe and feel qi.
Pyo-wol was one of them.
He frowned heavily and breathed as the three swords had told him.
Inner Qi or internal energy (Naegong) is not created by practicing cultivation for just a day or two.
The human body is at its purest right after it comes out of the mother’s womb. If you utilize the breathing method at this time, you will be able to get a tremendous amount of internal energy.
Because it is impossible to do so, the prestigious clan sects instead performs a practice of cleansing the bone marrow and cutting their hair (二伐毛洗蘭 fá máo xǐ suǐ) to put the children’s bodies in an optimal state for building internal energy.
The achievements of children who have been subjected to bone marrow cleansing are unmatched by those who do not.
That was the difference between those coming from prestigious sects and the not-so-famous ones.
Differences in birth have created a gap that is difficult to overcome.
The fortunate thing is that bone marrow cleansing is not something that everyone can achieve and that only a few selected people in the whole of the stronghold of Jianghu are blessed.
If Pyo-wol and the children had undergone bone marrow cleansing, they would have felt and accumulated inner qi at once, but it was impossible in the first place.
First of all, they had to create a state of the body where they could feel the inner air.
They had to nurture a field in which seeds called qi (氣) could gather by stroking the dantian (丹田) with their breath.
The breathing method, which they are now practicing, was the very first process. The process of cultivating a field is tedious and laborious, because it is impossible to know when the seeds of qi will germinate.
Those who have developed a sense of qi can feel it completely in a month or two, but those without talent wouldn’t be able to feel the presence of inner qi at all, even after years of learning.
Now they’re in the process of cultivating the dantian that could contain ki.
The three swords watched with sharp eyes to see if the children were using the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique properly.
Fortunately, all of the children were immersed in the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique.
The three swords said to the custodians.
“If there is a guy who is fooling around or has other thoughts, kill him immediately.”
“Yes!”
The custodians responded in unison.
Their eyes as they looked at the children were full of life.
Although they are serving as custodians because of the orders of the Blood Phantom Group Captain, their main occupation was actually being an assassin.”
A person who kills others for money.
With no cause or belief.
To them, money was their belief and cause.
Even though they were promised to be paid a decent price, there was no way they could be happy nurturing young children in such a dark place, when they can be strolling outside.
Because of that, their faces were full of poison.
The thought that they would not let it go if even one small twig was caught was revealed on their face. Under their bloody surveillance, the children were forced to immerse themselves in the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique.
The custodians pushed the children harshly.
They split the day in half doing two things, except for sleeping, in the morning they spend the time learning how to do the Thunder-Splitting Cultivation Technique, and in the afternoon they train their physical strength.
The custodians made the children run nonstop.
“The final battle over there is your goal. I will give the person who arrives the earliest to take a break. Conversely, I will let the person who arrives last know what hell is.”
At the words of the three swords, the children all started running in unison.
There was no time to think.
When it was time to roll their heads, they had to run toward the target at least one step faster than the other children.
“Uaah!”
“Damn it!”
Shouts erupted from the children’s mouths.
They ran with all their might.
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