Chapter 170 Harvest Season

There was heavy snow on Mount Huashan, but at this time there were hundreds of people climbing up the mountain path.

The man in the lead had fluttering robes, and with a casual move of his feet he could float far away, and behind him were all young disciples.

These are the people from Huashan Sword Sect who have returned from the Central Plains battlefield. The leader is naturally Xin Zhen, while the hundred or so disciples following behind are the ones who will participate in the battle between good and evil.

Xin Zhen was impressed by the training that Chen Zichi and the other three had received in the great battle, and he subsequently mobilized outstanding disciples from the sect to go into battle. First, the sixty true disciples, and later the sixty newly recruited true disciples were also mobilized to join the battle.

The campaign was indeed very effective. Among the more than one hundred true disciples, more than forty were able to master the Zixia Gong. Most of them also made great progress in swordsmanship. More than twenty of them reached the level of winning with one move without any move. It seemed that the success rate was not high, but in fact it was extremely amazing.

Chen Zichi and the other three have achieved the self-sufficiency of Zixia Gong and reached the realm of winning with moves rather than without moves. It is not that these two things can be achieved easily, but that the aptitude and understanding of these four people are first-class, so they can achieve them quickly.

As for the true disciples who came later, their talents and understandings varied, and Xin Zhen was already extremely excited that they could achieve such an achievement.

After all, it only takes ten years for a disciple to achieve Zixia Gong on his own, and the worst achievement he can achieve is at least Yue Buqun.

As for the disciples who can reach the state of being better without any moves, when they return to the mountain, I will teach them to practice Dugu Nine Swords. After ten years, their worst achievement will at least be as good as Feng Buping.

A disciple who possesses both Zixia Gong and the ability to defeat opponents with no moves may not be as good as Xin Zhen in ten years, but it will not be difficult for him to reach Zuo Lengchan's level.

And there are exactly... twenty-seven disciples who meet these two conditions!
Ten years later, Huashan Sword Sect produced twenty-seven masters of Zuo Lengchan's level... Doesn't it sound scary?
Hmm... twenty-seven masters at Zuo Lengchan's level, plus about twenty masters at Yue Buqun's level...

This is the multiplier brought by the magical power and Dugu Nine Swords.

Internal strength will allow the practitioner to accumulate internal strength six times faster than the average person, and can accumulate sixty years of internal strength in ten years.

This level of accumulated internal strength is enough to make a person one of the few people with the most powerful internal strength in the martial arts world. Moreover, when this internal strength is combined with the Zixia magic skill, the improvement in combat effectiveness it brings is extremely terrifying.

For a person who has mastered the Zixia magic skill for sixty years, even if he only knows the basic Huashan swordsmanship, his combat power is still very amazing.

The Dugu Nine Swords is even more of a cheating device. As long as you have the qualifications to practice the Dugu Nine Swords, even if your internal strength talent is average, you can use the Dugu Nine Swords to defeat most people. So ten years later, the worst person will still be Feng Buping.

If he possessed both of them at the same time, that is, sixty years of Zixia Divine Art internal force plus ten years of Dugu Nine Swords, in fact, becoming Zuo Lengchan was already quite an underestimate. After all, Xin Zhen had only practiced Dugu Nine Swords for a few years and Zixia Divine Art for a few more years.

Of course, Xin Zhen's talent and experience are not comparable to those of ordinary people, but even if it's not 100%, 70% to 80% is also amazing.

Xin Zhen was eager to return home and was the first to climb the North Peak of Mount Huashan.

It had been a year since he last saw Ren Yingying, and Xin Zhen had already missed her terribly, as well as his master, fellow apprentices, and nephews, and the beautiful scenery of Mount Huashan.

Xin Zhen’s return immediately caused the Sword Sect to boil over.

Disciples, senior and junior brothers, Ren Yingying, Feng Qingyang all came out and gathered together, talking about their experiences over the past year, all laughing and talking. That night, the Sword Sect held a banquet to welcome the returning people.

Xin Zhen and Ren Yingying traveled in Huashan for three days. After three days, they gathered the disciples who had broken through the level of "winning without any moves" and taught them the Dugu Nine Swords.

Feng Qingyang also had good news to tell Xin Zhen. After a year of hard work, the secret manuals on swords, spears, swords, halberds, whips, ropes, and hidden weapons, which were created with the Dugu Nine Swords as the core, were finally successfully published. They have now been stored in the database, and interested disciples can read and practice them at any time.

According to Feng Qingyang, some disciples who were not very talented in swordsmanship chose to practice secret techniques such as swords, guns, whips, ropes, and hidden weapons. The results were surprisingly outstanding, and they had their own characteristics. Maybe in a few decades, they would be able to create new skills on their own.

Xin Zhen nodded repeatedly.

I haven't been back for a year, and so many changes have taken place in the Huashan Sword Sect.

Of the four hundred disciples, more than one hundred went out to participate in the war, and the remaining two hundred or so did not waste time, and basically practiced the basic Huashan swordsmanship to a very high level. After all, Xin Zhen was determined to pass on the sword manual without reservation. They might still be young, or have slightly poorer aptitude, but with such a peerless secret manual to practice, even if they were inferior, they were much stronger than disciples of other sects.

Xin Zhen made a comprehensive investigation and praised these disciples' foundation in swordsmanship.

Even if these disciples do not have the opportunity to practice Zixia Divine Art or Dugu Nine Swords in the future, they will only practice the Huashan Sword Sect's secret techniques. In twenty or thirty years, they will still become great masters admired by everyone in the world.

After all, Hunyuan Gong is also a very good internal power secret book in the martial arts world, and Huashan's Yangwu Sword Technique and Xiyi Sword Technique are also very superb sword techniques in the world, not to mention the Chunfeng Sword Technique and Xiaotianxia Sword Technique, which are seven sword techniques that are one level higher than Yangwu Sword Technique.

If these disciples can practice Hunyuan Gong steadily for twenty to thirty years, and choose a sword technique and practice it solidly for another twenty to thirty years, then when they enter the martial arts world, they will at least be first-rate masters.

They just develop slowly, not that they cannot develop.

In fact, this is the development path of most people in the martial arts world, and people like Xin Zhen are extremely rare.

For Xin Zhen now, the seeds have been planted. All he needs to do next is to take good care of them. He only needs to wait ten years, and a group of gourd dolls will come to protect the Huashan Sword Sect and him, the old grandfather.

The joy of harvest is incomparable!

After returning to the mountain this time, Xin Zhen rarely went down the mountain. His daily focus was still on two things.

One thing was to train disciples. He taught the Dugu Nine Swords to twenty-seven disciples, and then continued to teach the rest of the disciples the Essentials of Sword Classics. The Essentials of Sword Classics was profound and it was not enough to teach it for only three months. Xin Zhen made it a permanent course, teaching not only the basic swordsmanship, but also the Yangwu Swordsmanship, the Chunfeng Swordsmanship, the Xiaotianxia Swordsmanship and so on.

These courses are loved not only by the inner disciples, but also by Feng Buping, Cheng Buyou, Cong Buqi and others, oh, and Lin Pingzhi and Ren Yingying.

Sometimes even Feng Qingyang would come to listen to the lectures, and he thought they were very helpful.

Feng Qingyang believed that Xin Zhen's understanding of swordsmanship had actually surpassed him by a lot. He estimated that if he fought with Xin Zhen now, Xin Zhen could defeat him within a thousand moves.

(End of this chapter)