Chapter 135: Incense.
The mission Xiao Lian got was actually something Lee had in mind. Their task was to go to a smaller sect in a remote region and pick up a delivery for the Mission Hall.
Lee’s guess was that no one wanted to spend two months on the road, away from the sect’s cultivation resources and, maybe, social life. He, on the other hand, was thrilled to have a personal teacher who dedicated his time to teach Lee how to read and write.
In a few days he became capable of freely understanding what exactly was written in the techniques they bought, and after a month he was pretty confident he could write down almost anything that came to mind.
Of course, the boys didn’t neglect the training. Xiao Lian was slightly upset he could practice his fancy cultivation technique only during the morning and evening cultivation sessions, but until they were back in the sect, there was no way around it.
The combat techniques were another cup of tee, though. While on the road, they mostly practiced staff combat since it was much more complicated if compared to one-attack sword technique. They rushed along the road, waving their staffs around, while a rare traveler who saw them laughed at the boys fooling around.
Lee’s idea was that first they could spend the time they had to get used to wielding the weapon in the first place. Later, after returning to the sect, they could start to learn to fight other people.
When camping for the night, if no one was around, they practiced the sword technique. Obviously they attacked bushes or smaller trees and not each other, since the whole principle of the technique revolved around a sudden and quick thrust of a sword, amplified by the burst of elemental energy.
If the opponent was caught by it, even slightly, their chances to survive were almost non-existent. At least in theory.
In practice, neither could use reasonable amount of elemental energy yet, but it was a deadly move nevertheless. Lee even tried to use it by learning how to unsheathe the sword if the staff was on his back, but the motion of doing it over his shoulder was clearly too wide. It openly telegraphed his intention, but he really liked the idea and continued to work on it.
To pass time, on the way, they began to perform genocide on wolves, sometimes actively looking for packs of them to practice on in the wilderness. The further away from the sect they went, the more wildlife, including wolves, they met.
At some point Lee was worried they might run into a dangerous beast that had ignited its spark, but Xiao Lian assured him that such beasts lived in extremely remote regions if at all, and that was the reason why the hunt for sparks usually happened with the sect arranging missions to the other worlds.