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When I first tried to learn Starvation Death, the Heavenly Demon had been disappointed.
“What? Three to four days? You’re saying that the longest you’ve ever starved in your life was maybe three days?”
She hadn’t acknowledged my efforts and had given up on me after briefly watching me swing my sword. She just turned around and left.
“There’s just no talking to you.”
“If you don’t even know this, how will you learn the Demonic Heaven Arts?”
The Heavenly Demon had tested me only to give up on herself. There was—no, there should be nothing more for her to expect from this world.
“Forget it. It’s my fault!”
That was what happened when I learned about hunger. However, she became completely different after I began to learn about thirst.
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“Your sword is too simple,” the Heavenly Demon commented as she watched me fight the jiangshi.
I could feel the way she looked at me had gradually changed. Even when I sometimes swung my sword clumsily, the Heavenly Demon didn’t look away, although she would frown. She even gave me advice.
“I can’t find any applications or exquisite principles in your sword. It’s too honest, which gives it many vulnerabilities.”
The Heavenly Demon began to place her hopes on me.
“It seems your sword was made to fight the world, not people. Strangely, it’s closer to the sword of the Righteous Faction.”
At first, the martial artist zombie killed me in a single blow, but I could fight it better each time. It was only natural since the zombies Preta and the skeletons brought killed me every night. The more I experienced the trauma of those who died of thirst, the stronger my sword became.
When it was strong enough, the Heavenly Demon finally got into her lesson.
“I’ll teach you a simple method of mind practice.”
“What is ‘mind practice’?”
“…It means a secret or...
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