"I can't give up. It'll make me a laughingstock. No matter how much I don't understand, I still have to pretend that I do. Maybe I’ll actually get it one day." Tianming listened to the explanations again and again. While some of the terms used were rather obscure, the structure of what they were saying wasn't actually that complicated. The really hard part was actually putting it into practice.

The two sword strikes were incredibly unconventional. Tianming attempted them tens of times and noticed that, while his strikes superficially resembled them, they were lacking some kind of core. His Delayed Capture didn't have the aspect of time, while his Unistrike Singularity lacked the aspect of space. The two peak-level sword arts were worthless in his hands.

"Am I a fool after all? It's far too hard! Thankfully no one saw me, or I’d be completely humiliated. I bet Lin Jianjia can do it far better than I can." Fortunately, he wasn't one to give up. He knew that he hadn't even begun to take the first step to learn those moves, but...