Immortality Starts With Ignorant Heart Sword Art

Chapter 12: Unity of Knowledge and Action

"Damn it, I misjudged!"

Utter shock caused foul language to burst from You Tao's mouth. But after the shock subsided, a look of delight appeared on You Tao's face.

"Phew... luckily, even though I misjudged, the strange feeling in my heart never made me give up on him. On the contrary, I have always taken care of him and our bond remains strong."

With these thoughts in mind, You Tao couldn't be bothered to entertain Yan Lingdie. Instead, he quickly went to Zhong Cang's side and gave instructions to the bewildered group of companions around him.

"All of you, stay by his side and don't let anyone disturb Zhong Xiong's rest."

"Yes, Supervisor You."

Not only did he give instructions to the companions, but in order to establish a good relationship with Zhong Cang, he even stood guard by his side, protecting him.

By doing so, he showed his confidence in Zhong Cang.

At this moment, he no longer cared about the negligence of the companions' supervisor.

In this world of cultivation, where power is paramount, no matter how strong one's business acumen is, it cannot compare to innate martial talent.

Just like the supervisor of the training ground, this position is not determined by who has better customer service or stronger recruitment skills. It is determined by who has greater strength.

Zhong Cang and You Tao were able to secure their positions as supervisors not because of their outstanding abilities, but because of the presence of Zhong Kang and You's father, both at the ninth level of Qi Refining, which allowed them to obtain these lucrative positions.

From this, one can see the importance of strength.

Zhong Cang may not have great "business" talent, but his strength makes it necessary for You Tao to establish a good relationship with him.

"I am satisfied with my current position, but my father has more than one son. I need to compete with others in order to secure the position of the top supervisor. However, my father does not favor me. In order to secure my position, I need to find external support... With Zhong Cang's talent, it is difficult for him to keep up with the elite children of the family. But becoming an inner disciple, or even a Foundation Building cultivator, is still possible."

"If I establish a good relationship with him now, when he grows up, a single word from him will secure my position as a supervisor!"

You Tao had thought about this a lot.

On the other hand, Yan Lingdie also quickly missed Zhong Cang.

Don't misunderstand, she didn't fall in love with Zhong Cang, but rather fell in love with the feeling of sparring with him.

Although she was immediately assigned companions at the fourth level of Qi Refining after leaving Zhong Cang's side, these companions had stronger cultivation than Zhong Cang and could spar with Yan Lingdie.

But these people lacked the spiritual essence of Zhong Cang's swordsmanship.

With them, Yan Lingdie could tell what moves they would make with just one glance.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Her current experience of battle was like forging iron, competing to see whose strength and cultivation were stronger.

Once you have experienced the vastness of the sea, ordinary water will no longer satisfy you.

After experiencing battles with Zhong Cang, she felt the tension and the thrill of potential defeat with even the slightest mistake.

Now, when she fought against these people, Yan Lingdie couldn't feel any satisfaction, only boredom and monotony.

After knocking down another person in half an incense stick's time, an annoyed Yan Lingdie swung her heavy sword and looked displeasedly at the supervisor of the companions beside her.

"Don't you have any companions with stronger swordsmanship?"

"Uh..."

Feeling Yan Lingdie's displeasure, the supervisor forced a smile and said, "Miss Yan, we do have cultivators with strong swordsmanship, but they are at least at the sixth level of Qi Refining and require advance reservations."

"Then make a reservation for me!"

"Well, today might not be possible, at least not until tomorrow."

Powerful individuals are in demand everywhere, so Yan Lingdie had no choice but to accept this, even if she was unhappy.

After another session of sparring for the duration of an incense stick, Yan Lingdie, with a displeased expression on her face, returned to Zhong Cang's side.

Glancing at Zhong Cang, who was still in a state of nurturing his spirit with closed eyes, Yan Lingdie spoke directly.

"Hey, when can you spar with me?"

"Right now."

Waving his wrist and sighing at the effectiveness of the elixir used by the descendants of the family, Zhong Cang stepped onto the arena with his sword, standing opposite Yan Lingdie.

In fact, after defeating Yan Lingdie once and resolving the crisis of being her sparring partner, Zhong Cang had no intention of participating as a sparring partner again.

He would rather continue his cultivation.

However, Yan Lingdie had given him too much.

In their two battles, she had given Zhong Cang a total of 20 spirit stones.

Although Zhong Cang couldn't obtain all of these spirit stones, it was enough for him to buy several elixirs.

What surprised him even more was that after the battles, Zhong Cang had opened his attribute panel.

Then, he discovered that his proficiency in the "Ignorant Heart Sword Art" had increased by 7 points.

"???"

Initially, Zhong Cang was confused when he saw this.

"Can battles increase proficiency?"

But soon, he realized that it was perfectly normal for battles to increase proficiency.

"In the Immortal Cultivation World, there are two ways for cultivators to increase their proficiency in techniques. One is through arduous cultivation, and the other is through battles. There are many examples of breakthroughs achieved through battles."

"The attribute panel only grants me the characteristics of 'Heaven Rewards Diligence' and 'Once Proven, Forever Proven.' It doesn't mean that I can only increase my proficiency through cultivation. Therefore, it is also feasible for me to increase my proficiency through battles."

After comparing, Zhong Cang found that the proficiency gained through battles was even greater than that gained through cultivation.

This made Zhong Cang even consider abandoning cultivation and solely focusing on sparring to increase his proficiency.

However, he quickly gave up on this idea.

Firstly, he realized that sparring could only increase his combat experience and not his cultivation.

For example, the "Ignorant Heart Sword Art," which Zhong Cang currently focused on, would increase in proficiency through battles.

But the proficiency of the other two techniques, the "Qi Consumption Technique" and the "Five Beasts Infusion Technique," would not increase through battles.

Secondly, Zhong Cang speculated that the reason why he gained 7 points of progress in the "Ignorant Heart Sword Art" after the first battle was not solely due to battles increasing proficiency.

It was because he had previously advanced the "Ignorant Heart Sword Art" through the Dao of the Knife (Sword) and gained experience and characteristics of this sword technique through enlightenment during the advancement.

However, he had never used it before.

Without the integration of knowledge and action, there was still a gap between him and this sword technique.

In the first battle, he achieved the integration of knowledge and action, practicing the knowledge he had gained in actual combat. It was this assimilation that allowed him to gain so much experience in just one sparring session. Therefore:

"Giving up arduous cultivation and solely relying on sparring to improve technique proficiency is not feasible."

"However, pure cultivation without sparring is also not feasible. The best way to cultivate is to spend most of the time practicing and intermittently spar with others, using battles to verify one's own learning. Only through the integration of knowledge and action can technique proficiency be improved faster."

Now that Yan Lingdie was willing to spend spirit stones and allow Zhong Cang to verify himself, he naturally didn't hesitate to engage in battles.

However, he made a decision to only spar with two or three people in the future.

"Engaging in too many battles will definitely delay the cultivation of other techniques. If injured, even more time will be wasted. Therefore, if unnecessary, I cannot engage in too many battles."

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