Unable to summon his Spirit means he can't use Soul Skills, and being unable to use Soul Skills diminishes a Soul Master's combat power by at least eighty percent. Even for someone like Xu Yang, it's reduced by at least fifty percent.
Xu Yang looked at Chen Xin in confusion, wanting an answer.
"Didn't you want to learn the Seven Kill Swordplay? I used a secret technique to temporarily seal your Spirit. This is the first step for a non-Seven Kill Sword Spirit Soul Master to learn the Seven Kill Swordplay. Next, you need to follow me in cultivation without using your Spirit."
After Chen Xin gave Xu Yang an explanation, he continued walking forward. Xu Yang quickly followed. This time, they were going to cultivate, so they didn't choose any means of transportation, opting to walk instead.
Even his storage-type Soul Tool was taken away. If he was thirsty, he had to find water himself; if he was hungry, he had to hunt, cook his own meals. The purpose was to temper Xu Yang's will.
For the first few days, Xu Yang found this kind of life novel and interesting, but as the novelty wore off, he felt extremely awkward and uncomfortable. In his two lifetimes, whether as a workaholic shut-in in his previous life or as an orphan in this life, he had never worried too much about life.
And now, although he wasn't starving every other day, he often didn't get enough to eat.
As the sun set, Xu Yang endured the hunger in his stomach and found Chen Xin, who was holding a wooden stick on the grass. He summoned his Sun Sacred Blade External Spirit Bone and charged directly, wielding his blade to fight Chen Xin.
Chen Xin was teaching him the Seven Kill Swordplay, but the method wasn't the demonstration Xu Yang had initially imagined. Instead, he was learning directly through combat. Chen Xin used the wooden stick in his hand to guide his learning.
Chen Xin showed no mercy when he attacked. Every strike of the stick left a bluish-purple mark on Xu Yang's body. After each training session, he was bruised and swollen, without a single good spot on his body.
Fortunately, Chen Xin only sealed his Spirit and not his Soul Power. He could still use those self-created secret techniques to quickly recover his condition and maintain a certain cultivation speed.
He could now last for half an hour, up from just over ten minutes at the beginning. Even if his arms couldn't muster a shred of strength, he tried to persevere as long as possible.
For Xu Yang, this should be the best learning opportunity. As the saying goes, everything is hard at the beginning. The initial perseverance is undoubtedly the most painful, but once you get used to this pain, you have the motivation to keep going.
After seven days of adapting to the use of healing secret methods, he had become accustomed to this life. For seven days, he spent his days traveling, hunting, and roasting meat, and his nights sparring with Chen Xin, learning the Seven Kill Swordplay, meditating, and visualizing cultivation.
Although life was hard, Xu Yang's eyes became brighter, and his handsome face was filled with determination.
One month later, the two arrived at a plain. Xu Yang's hair was messy, as if gnawed by a dog, but his eyes shone like the Sun in the sky, clearly full of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
Chen Xin took out a map, glanced at the grassland in front of him, and smiled, "We're here!"
"Here where?!"
Xu Yang looked at the empty grassland in front of him. Apart from the small valley in the distance, he couldn't see any life. He looked at Chen Xin with a puzzled expression.
"Your first cultivation ground. According to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's information, there is a small group of Wolf Bandits in the valley in the distance, numbering about thirty. Your task is to kill them all!" Chen Xin pointed to the valley in the distance, explaining the purpose of coming here.
Xu Yang's face immediately became solemn, and his brows furrowed.
Wolf Bandits were not to be trifled with. As a combination of Gale Devil Wolves and humans, they not only possessed the Gale Devil Wolf's physique, speed, and ability to control wind, but also had human intelligence. Each Wolf Bandit had the strength of a Great Soul Master to a Soul Elder, and they were naturally bloodthirsty, fighting to the death once engaged, making them extremely difficult to deal with.
And he was now just a Soul Sect, and a Soul Sect whose Spirit had been sealed. It would be difficult to kill all thirty Wolf Bandits at the same time.
Moreover, there would definitely be a Wolf King among these thirty Wolf Bandits, whose strength would definitely be above Soul Elder, making it even more impossible.
He glanced at Chen Xin, who still had a indifferent expression, Xu Yang took a deep breath, his eyes becoming firm: "I understand!"
After speaking, he ran towards the valley in the distance without hesitation.
Watching Xu Yang's back, Chen Xin's figure gradually rose into the air, and he murmured with a somewhat complicated expression: "Kid, since you want to learn my Seven Kill Swordplay, how can you not experience slaughter?! These Wolf Bandits are naturally bloodthirsty, fighting to the death, making them the most suitable training target for you. Not only can they teach you the Seven Kill Swordplay, but they can also change your awkward mentality, so you don't look before you leap and are overly cautious before every battle."
Caution itself was not wrong, but being overly cautious was wrong. This subconscious thought was the reason why Xu Yang couldn't unleash his full strength. In Chen Xin's eyes, as long as he could unleash his full strength, thirty Wolf Bandits were not a big problem for Xu Yang, even if Xu Yang was only a Soul Sect.
Xu Yang ran extremely fast, but he slowed down as he approached the valley, lowered his footsteps, controlled his Soul Power to be completely contained within his body, and quietly sneaked over.
Facing thirty Wolf Bandits equivalent to Great Soul Masters or even Soul Elders, facing them head-on would be an idiotic act. What he had to do was to eliminate as many Wolf Bandit soldiers as possible, even the Wolf King, without alarming the Wolf Bandit group.
As he approached the valley, Xu Yang noticed four Wolf Bandits patrolling the entrance. On either side of the mountain waist, there were two more Wolf Bandits guarding, forming a strategic position that gave them a clear view of the valley entrance. It would be difficult for anyone to approach without being detected, which showed that these Wolf Bandits were not inferior to humans in terms of intelligence.
"Relying on stealth to enter the valley from the front is impossible. Any slight movement will alert these Wolf Bandits."
Looking at the Wolf Bandits' sentry formation, Xu Yang frowned, constantly scanning the surroundings of the valley, trying to find a way to kill these Wolf Bandit sentries without being discovered.
"Although these Wolf Bandits are clever, they are still beasts at the end of the day, and have not systematically learned any methods of deploying troops. I still found a flaw, which is in the northeast corner of the left mountain waist."
Soon, Xu Yang found a flaw, a cold smile hanging on the corner of his mouth. In the northeast corner of the left mountain waist, although the mountain was steep, it was still very easy for a Soul Master to climb a hundred meters high. As long as he sneaked up from there, he could solve the Wolf Bandits stationed on the left mountain waist, silently enter the valley, and find an opportunity to assassinate the Wolf King.
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