Published: March 8, 2025
“What’s wrong?” Wei Wuyan said speechlessly, “Do you not realize that you are simply defying the heavens?”
“What do you mean by that?” Chu Yang frowned. He had always done things this way and felt nothing out of the ordinary.
Wei Wuyan sighed, “I am not surprised by your sword techniques, nor your ability to defeat them, and I am certainly not surprised by your fighting style. What I am talking about is the strength of your heart!”
“The strength of the heart,” Chu Yang repeated.
“Because just now, you were not focused on just one thing! Nor were you multitasking!” Wei Wuyan said, “You were wholeheartedly fighting while simultaneously comprehending your sword techniques; but at the same time, you were also wholeheartedly learning from your opponent’s moves!”
Wei Wuyan’s eyes nearly bulged out, “Do you understand what I mean?”
Chu Yang was puzzled, “Isn’t this called multitasking? What’s the big deal? That’s exactly what I was doing.”
Wei Wuyan said frantically, “This is not multitasking! This is not just one heart working on three things! This is three hearts working on three things!”
Chu Yang was stunned, “I don’t have that many hearts.”
Wei Wuyan turned in circles, “Did you not feel transcendent just now? Did you not feel that you could not sense anything else? These three things were happening in your heart simultaneously without disturbing each other? And did you not feel like you made a breakthrough?”
Chu Yang frowned, recalling the state he had just experienced, but found he could not enter it again. He pondered, “Indeed, it was like that.”
“This is not multitasking; this is the dao realm,” Wei Wuyan sighed, his eyes showing a hint of disappointment and envy. “The dao realm is the highest spiritual realm in the practice of martial arts. Once you enter such a realm, any martial arts problem can be easily resolved! However, this realm is something that can be encountered but not sought. It usually only appears during intense battles when one’s mind cannot be distracted, and one might only experience it once or twice, elusive and intangible, without any certainty...”
“The dao realm…” Chu Yang contemplated, “So this is the dao realm!”
Wei Wuyan spoke regretfully, “In that battle, you really should have prolonged it; the longer you stay in that realm, the greater your gains would have been... Generally, this kind of situation only occurs after reaching the saint level, where one might experience it once among countless battles! Some supreme masters may not experience such a dao realm even once in their entire lives... You are only at the imperial level, yet you were able to enter this dao realm and easily ended the battle, giving up the chance for further enlightenment. It’s such a pity.”
Chu Yang felt frustrated, “I didn’t know before.”
Wei Wuyan comforted him, “It’s already quite good! The appearance of this dao realm allowed your peculiar sword technique to reach completion, and you even secretly learned two unique skills... With such gains, you can be considered to have returned with a full load!”
Chu Le’er finally rushed over, “Big brother... you were so impressive just now.”
The little girl’s face was still somewhat pale, clearly not having shaken off her earlier fear. The first thing she did was grab Chu Yang’s sleeve.
Chu Yang frowned and patted her shoulder without saying anything.
At this moment, whether it was comforting or anything else, would not benefit Chu Le’er; this kind of mental cultivation must be experienced by her alone.
Chu Le’er’s eyes showed a hint of grievance; naturally, the little girl was hoping for her brother’s comfort...
Seeing this, Wei Wuyan felt a pang of sympathy and was about to offer some words of comfort when he was stopped by Chu Yang’s glance.
“Let’s keep moving forward,” Chu Yang said.
“Aren’t we going to bury these corpses?” Chu Le’er said somewhat reluctantly.
“There will be people to bury them,” Chu Yang said calmly, glancing up at the increasingly numerous black monstrous birds in the sky. With the bloodthirsty aura emanating from the ground, the vicious black birds had gathered in a dark mass.