Chapter 136: Ancient and Modern Dao
Having his fill picking on the little demons, Wang Qi skipped back to the Immortal Institute in a good mood.
He dropped by the library first to get some paper, then recalled the entire process of his fights to analyze each and every move through math. A couple of scribbled pages later, Wang Qi stared at ten expressions. He took out the Thunder Resonance Blade Art and White Marsh True Array Divider to compare his results with the arts’ formulas.
Wang Qi sighed at one point. “The more I practice, the more it feels like these two blade arts are more abstract than I thought. Did I get too cocky?”
Wang Qi spent the whole of September training in Thunder Resonance Blade Art’s specific blade strikes, and then he got the White Marsh True Array Divider. Practicing the latter’s strikes also took a month. As he used them in live combat against many, many demons, Wang Qi started thinking of coming up with a formula that linked his moves. When the training would result in a battle with no stalled moments, flowing smoothly like a river, he’d have reached the second stage.
Wang Qi believed the second stage of the two blade arts was more of a test of one’s mathematical knowledge, thinking his top-notch skills would overcome it in two months. Reality proved just how wrong he was. The second stage needed real and genuine practice of the art’s moves, applying math only after one got truly familiar with its every strike, not like his watered-down version.
At this rate, graduation would catch him with these two arts untrained.
A certain bookworm found this outcome inexcusable. As Su Junyu said, genuine clansmen trained in their top art since childhood, familiarizing themselves with the moves before entering the Qi Refining Stage. Wang Qi was stuck doing what they had already done. Failing to improve his bladesmanship would result in amateurish moves.
His only fortune was his superior math skills.
He organized his problems before looking into the blade moves for weaknesses and flaws. The research brought about new questions and problems that Wang Qi arranged as well.