Level Up in Martial World

Chapter 204: Cultivation Technique

Lu Zhen's eyes widened as he witnessed the scene unfolding before him. He felt a chilling aura emanating from the blood-red sword, as if his vitality were being drained merely by standing near it.

"Mother, what is this sword?" he asked, his expression revealing a sense of shock.

Lu Ying tenderly touched the sword with a gentle gaze. As if obeying her command, it ceased emitting the terrifying, bone-shivering aura and disappeared from her hands.

"This is our ancestor's weapon from our bloodline clan," she explained without looking back.

Lu Zhen nodded, his eyes still reflecting surprise.

"Mother, shouldn't it be in the hands of our clan? Why is it here?"

"They are all already dead," Lu Ying stated simply, deep in thought.

"Wait, what?" he exclaimed, a question mark adorning his face.

"I mean what I said."

Although Lu Zhen was shocked, he nodded after pondering for a moment.

"Is that why you were hiding from the outside world? Not because you were in seclusion?"

"Yes," Lu Ying simply nodded.

A frown appeared on Lu Zhen's face as he pieced everything together in his mind.

"How did you practise with your body until now?"

"Well, hmm, I just trained my body until it almost reached the strength of the third-stage martial artist with just my raw strength. Then you gave me the cultivation technique to harness Wood Qi, so I practised it until I was able to sense Qi the moment I did..." Lu Zhen told the entire story to her without a single lie.

Lu Ying nodded her head as she looked at him with a strange light. "Your bloodline purity is slowly thinning out. Looks like the thing that was holding you back the most was this cursed bloodline all along."

Lu Ying attributed the unbelievable feat of Lu Zhen to simply his natural talent in cultivating the body, but it was blocked by his bloodline since childhood. It was suppressed, making him seem like a talentless mortal. However, now that Lu Zhen had awakened his bloodline, his talent bloomed.

Although the bloodline helped, it only boosted his combat ability and increased his talent a little, given that the bloodline was so thin.

So, for Lu Zhen, the bloodline was simply a curse—at least, that was what Lu Ying thought.

Thinking of this, she experienced a mixture of emotions.

"Mother, why are you so sad?" Lu Zhen asked, observing the expression on Lu Ying's face.

"Nothing."

"Well, if you say so," he didn't ask further since she didn't want to answer.

"The way for your body to progress might be producing intent naturally from your body," Lu Ying said, shaking distracting thoughts out of her head.

"What does that mean?" Lu Zhen frowned. Although he had heard a lot about intent, there was very little knowledge he had about it. Most of his knowledge came from the Verdant Blade cultivation technique, but it was still a cultivation technique. It showed how to reach that realm but didn't explain what it would actually do.

"Well, let's talk about normal martial artists who reach the first-stage martial realm and achieve their signature intent."

"It all boils down to how the cultivation technique is made. Every cultivation technique till now, or at least that I know of, has all been created with the inspiration and enlightenment of other creatures or things, whether animate or inanimate. It could be a beast like lion or it could be a tree like ours while it could even be a shooting star or even the sun or moon."