The Supreme God of Martial Arts

As for the three swordsmanship skills, your understanding of sword intent is not yet good enough at the moment to practice them.

There are three swordsmanship skills in total which | have mastered. The first is the Swift Thunder Swordsmanship; the second is the Five Elements Swordsmanship; and lastly, the Deadly Swordsmanship.

You can only begin practicing the first Swordsmanship, Swift Thunder Swordsmanship, once you have mastered the level five sword potential. But not until then will you be able to do so.

After that, once your sword cultivation base has improved even further to level ten sword potential, the top level of sword potential, can you only practice the second swordsmanship, the Five Elements Swordsmanship.

As for the final swordsmanship, the Deadly Swordsmanship, your cultivation base in swordsmanship must be high enough to develop your own sword world. Only then can you practice it.

Right now, you can only receive my lessons about swordsmanship. But once you have reached the corresponding levels required from you, you will then get the three swordsmanship skills from this statue. Don't forget this." Afterwards, the Sword Emperor explained to Austin about the statue of the Sword Emperor in detail.

Austin listened carefully and intently, while making sure to keep the instructions in mind. Failure to do so might cost him his life.

"Of course, besides those which | have already told you, the statue has another function. But | will keep it a secret for now. When your cultivation base reach the level of Basic Sacred Realm, you can enter my palace in the PrMartial World. It's called the Sword Treasure-house. Only then will you be able to know this secret function.

Remember, you mustn't go to my Sword Treasure-house before you reach Basic Sacred Realm. My instructions are absolute. A failure to comply them will surely get you killed!" the Sword Emperor said in a solemn voice, stressing out the last sentence.

The words left Austin dumbfounded and confused.

‘The Sword Treasure-house? The Sword Emperor has already departed the PrMartial World, but he left behind a palace known as the Sword Treasure-house.

His words clearly hinted that the statue has something to do with the palace. But he expectsto search for it myself, ' thought Austin.

He didn't ask for further details about it since the Sword Emperor wasn't willing to give any more information.

Just as Austin pondered the whereabouts of the said palace, the Sword Emperor suddenly released his spiritual sense into Austin's Soul Sea. It contained a map depicting the Sword Treasure-house's exact location. The map gave Austin ssense of relief, but Austin knew that he was not strong enough to enter the palace yet. So he saved this information in his Soul Sea so that he could pay a visit to the palace after he reached Basic Sacred Realm.

"Since all of that is sorted out, | will now pass down the lessons about swordsmanship to you," said the Sword Emperor.

The very instant he finished speaking, the brilliant light screen broke apart, reverting back into numerous streaks of sword aura.

They looked like a large school of fish which caused swirling eddies as they swam and spiraled up and down in Austin's Soul Sea.

The streaks of sword aura then began to combine together, and were interwoven in different ways as they were transformed into multiple paragraphs composed of ancient desolate characters which Austin's spiritual sense could recognize. The characters flowed in his Soul Sea at a slow pace, giving Austin room to absorb its contents within his memory. It was as if he was reading a book only in this case, the words floated by as he read through them.

As soon as the paragraphs containing the Sword Emperor's lessons about swordsmanship were deeply fused and understood into Austin's memory; he realized that his level one sword potential was polished and upgraded.

Austin studiously focused his entire attention on these precious lessons about swordsmanship. Who would have thought that his then stagnant sword potential would suddenly improve in a blink of an eye. He was utterly amazed with the improvements.

All the obstacles, puzzles, and problems he had encountered before were instantly solved. In his Soul Sea, his spiritual souls were going out of control and had begun practicing all of the swordsmanship he had previously mastered. It was as if they were fed with so much energy and gusto to start practicing again.

Every movement was flawless, natural, and smooth like flowing water. It was difficult to predict which movement he would use next.

Each movement would generate different energies from nature. For example, the clouds energy and the thunder and lightning energy would be triggered together in perfect sync.

It was definitely hard to believe how much his swordsmanship made such a great progress in just a short amount of time. It was as if he already had it in him, and only needed something to stimulate his progress.

The Sword Emperor was satisfied with Austin's performance. He nodded and wore a happy smile.

‘This young man has an encouraging determination. He is a well-behaved fast learner. He is indeed quite a promising man and will definitely rock the martial arts world in the future, ' thought the Sword Emperor.

Austin's spiritual souls were multitasking at the moment, as they try to maximize the opportunity presented before them. They were decoding the lessons about swordsmanship from the Sword Emperor which was continuously flowing into his spiritual sense, and at the stpracticed the swordsmanship that he had mastered.

Suddenly, there was a crack in his soul. He had reached level two sword potential in just a few minutes.

The speed of his progress didn't end there. Before Austin even knew it, he had already reached level two sword potential. The cracking sound which usually marked this progress, was akin to the cracks created from an egg when a new life had begun to emerge. Austin's souls shook for a moment.

Crack! And then another crack! He was already at level three sword potential! Everything was happening in a blur. Just a few minutes after he started receiving the lessons about swordsmanship from the Sword Emperor, he was already able to make a breakthrough twice, and achieved level three sword potential in a blink of an eye! Because of this unprecedented speed of his progress, Austin intended to take his chances and push even further by understanding more about the lessons from the Sword Emperor. It was such a rare opportunity to create more breakthroughs after all.

But the Sword Emperor who had been watching him the entire tread his mind and stopped him as he explained, "Now hold your horses. Remember, no matter what level you are breaking through, you mustn't be too hasty. Making progress is a process which takes time. If you start acting rashly, your realm won't be stable and your future cultivation base level will certainly be affected in a negative way.

For now, you should solidify your level three sword potential first before proceeding further." Austin followed the advice and stopped obsessing over the additional lessons flowing through his Soul Sea.