This senior could shatter the void; even on our continent, he would be a godlike figure. His legacy is surely far superior to the basics I have been practicing.”

The young man muttered to himself, having already made a decision about his own future.

……

“Edward Carter, are you still cultivating here? By pushing your potential like this, even if you break through the third level of Sword Practitioner and reach the first level of Sword Initiate, your body will be ruined!

For a swordsman, the body is fundamental. How can you put the cart before the horse? Was your previous talent just an empty reputation gained by secretly squeezing your own potential? If so, then you are truly disappointing!”

A young woman dressed in a purple gauze dress, beautiful and coldly elegant, spoke in an extremely icy tone.

At this moment, she stood atop the stone wall by the lake, her jet-black hair flying like a waterfall, a faint and spiritual sword aura swirling around her. Her robes fluttered, the purple gauze dress trailing on the ground, making her extremely eye-catching.

She was the number one genius beauty of the Zhou family, Lillian Carter.

She was also the goddess in Edward Carter’s heart, the one he had secretly admired for a long time.

Originally, he should have been excited to explain, or nervously lowered his head to admit fault—these were things he would have done immediately in the past.

But this time, he did not do so. Perhaps it was the influence of that grandmaster’s soul, a kind of fundamental change. He looked at the girl indifferently, a hint of a roguish smile appearing at the corner of his mouth: “Did I disappoint you? When have I, Edward Carter, ever not disappointed you?”

With a teasing smile and a somewhat unruly tone, he instantly made the girl standing high on the stone wall frown.

At the same time, Edward Carter, who spoke these words, couldn’t help but feel a bit strange inside.

It seemed that speaking this way felt casual, comfortable, and liberating. There was no need to be on edge, no need to hide anything—everything was as he wished, even his thoughts flowed freely.

He was a bit surprised at why he would act like this, but after doing so, he felt that it was actually quite good.

“So you’ve grown up, and this is how you talk to me now?” The girl’s tone carried a hint of playful anger, mixed with a cold sneer.

Edward Carter couldn’t have discerned these subtleties before, but this time, he felt his senses were incredibly sharp, and he could even grasp these subtle emotions.

“And how have you spoken to me? In the past, you never cared about anything of mine. I was good to you, always obedient to you… only because I loved you, which made me humble myself to the extreme. But now, my ambition lies in the way of the sword. If I succeed in swordsmanship, there will naturally be plenty of women.”

Edward Carter spoke with strength and conviction, his words ringing out powerfully.

The girl, Lillian Carter, looked at Edward Carter in surprise, her pretty face showing a mix of anger and coldness. She raised her eyebrows: “It seems you really have gone mad! Then I’ll see, at the talent and physical assessment in a month, what you can do!”

Suppressing her anger, the girl flicked her sleeve and floated away.

As for Edward Carter, he looked at the lake surface, which had somehow already melted, and at his own frail and weak body, a bitter smile appearing on his face.

It was as if he had become a different person. Things that once seemed natural now appeared ignorant and childish to him; thinking back, some things he had done even felt stifling.

For example, humbling himself and groveling just because he liked a woman—he hadn’t thought much of it before, but now, he felt it was a disgrace.

So, even though he had driven Lillian Carter away with his words, he felt not the slightest bit uneasy.

He took a deep breath, circulated the vital energy within his body, lifted his legs, and with a leap, flew out of the lake, landing on the stone wall by the shore.

Then, facing the moonlight, he took a deep breath and began to gather his energy.

This time, Edward Carter felt a special, powerful energy hidden within his body. As the grandmaster had said, in the area known as the ‘dantian’, there was a powerful force!

This energy seemed not to belong to him.

“If this is inner strength, then I must refine it and make it my own!”

Edward Carter thought to himself.

With this in mind, he began to breathe and circulate energy according to the sword technique mental method he practiced.

However, as soon as he started, he found that the energy gathered by his so-called sword technique was not enough to move this small mass of energy!

He couldn’t help but frown, pondering bitterly.

After a moment, Edward Carter suddenly recalled a special “Nine Yin Nine Yang Heart Sutra” from the grandmaster’s soul fragment memories, and instinctively began the first stage of this breathing and energy circulation method!

The method was the same, but the way he circulated energy through his meridians followed the pattern of his family’s sword technique!

This time, that mass of energy instantly became violent, like a divine sword descending from the heavens, rampaging through Edward Carter’s body like a god of slaughter!

Countless obscure meridians were all cleared under the impact of this sword-like, violent energy.

From Zhangmen, along the path of Huiyao, Taixu, Yuanchong, Shouren, Qidu, Zuyao, and other mysterious meridian points, all were broken through in one go!