Leonard sparred with around thirty Black Dragon Knights like so, giving them objective assessments afterward. 0

Though the matches lasted shorter than ten exchanges, he could tell with his eyes closed how much progress they had made in two months. And with his Dragon Eyes, he could see in even more detail.0

All thirty-two knights have reached the tenth stage of their respective cultivation arts. Reaching the eleventh stage requires them to resonate their training with Visualization, so in practical terms, they have reached the highest level of mastery.0

They learned incredibly fast, even for Transcendence Tier experts. Sure, there were some cultivation arts such as Thirteen Lightning Flashes that benefited greatly from elemental affinity, but techniques such as Passage Sword Arts and Five Returns were very difficult to master.0

It was possible that training in the House of Cardenas’s unique, formless swordplay for so long actually helped them learn these new techniques. 0

Thanks to their mana cores, they also learn cultivation methods very fast. Most of them have reached the fifth or sixth stage, and some have even reached the seventh.0

Leonard had picked out cultivation arts that weren’t too heavily steeped in Daoism or Buddhism, then gave simplified explanations of scriptures that required philosophical knowledge. It worked, but it inevitably came at the price of sacrificing some of the essence and profundity behind some of the ideas. However,...0