After coming out of meditation, William Carter didn’t feel the fatigue of a whole night’s cultivation. On the contrary, thanks to the exquisite Heavenly Demon Spirit-Tempering Technique, he looked full of energy. Moreover, after standing in stance for half the night, his vitality, energy, and spirit had all reached a peak state, sweeping away all the exhaustion from the previous day.

In the morning, William Carter didn’t attend Jane Howard instructor’s class. The pace of Jane Howard instructor’s lessons was too slow. For ordinary students, every class required careful study and understanding, but for William Carter, a former swordsmanship grandmaster, he could see through it at a glance. Therefore, he didn’t go to learn the Myriad Streams Dueling Sword Technique taught by Jane Howard instructor, but instead attended a morning class on the methods of stimulating vital energy and blood.

In the afternoon, he reappeared at that training ground, paid five silver coins, and reserved the training ground from one to six o’clock.

After cultivating in the training ground for a short while, Jane Howard instructor had already walked over. As soon as she entered, she asked, “You didn’t practice the Myriad Streams Dueling Sword Technique this morning?”

“That sword technique doesn’t help me much.”

William Carter answered truthfully.

But Jane Howard instructor thought William Carter meant that this sword technique wouldn’t help him in his duel, and nodded slightly: “It’s true that it’s too late for you to learn this advanced sword technique now. The most important thing at the moment is still to practice the Burial Sword Technique. Only by reaching the introductory level in this sword technique will you have a foundation. By the way, how is your practice of the method to stabilize your vital energy and blood going?”

“I’ve mastered it.”

“Hmm, not mastering it in a day is normal. Back then, it took me half a month… Wait, what did you say? Mastered it? You’ve mastered the method to stabilize your vital energy and blood?”

Jane Howard instructor looked utterly astonished, her repeated questioning expression as if she thought she was hearing things.

William Carter shook his head.

“It’s not the method to stabilize vital energy and blood that I’ve mastered. I’ve mastered the Burial Sword Technique.”

“It’s not the method to stabilize vital energy and blood that you’ve mastered, but the Burial Sword Technique?”

Jane Howard instructor repeated in astonishment.

Immediately after, the look of shock on her face disappeared. Not only did she not seem happy that William Carter had mastered the Burial Sword Technique, her expression even turned cold: “It doesn’t matter if you can’t master it. Back then, it took me half a month to learn the method to stabilize vital energy and blood, and that was with my great-grandfather, Swordmaster Frank Howard, personally instructing me. I went through countless hardships, but after half a month, my great-grandfather still praised me as a swordsmanship genius… For ordinary people, not mastering this sword technique in three months is normal, let alone you’ve only practiced for a day. But what I hate most is people who lie. In life, the most important things are honesty and credibility. For every word you say, you must be truthful and practical.”

At this point, Jane Howard seemed thoroughly disappointed in William Carter, and waved her hand impatiently: “Alright, that’s it. I’ll just pretend I never gave you any extra instruction in this sword technique. If you feel I wasted your afternoon class, I’ll find time to make it up to you…”

William Carter said nothing.

“Clang!”

The sword left its sheath.

The moment he drew his sword, his entire aura changed dramatically. At the same time, the vital energy and blood that had been faintly emanating from him just now completely vanished, leaving no trace at all…

Two seconds, maybe just one.

In an instant, the sword tightly gripped in his hand seemed to come alive, thrusting out fiercely. He was like a peerless swordsman, hiding all his sharpness before the strike, and in the instant of the thrust, the sword’s edge burst forth with a chilling brilliance, its fierce sharpness piercing the void. That kind of aura was earth-shattering, making no one dare to look directly at it.

Even standing beside William Carter, Jane Howard, who already possessed the cultivation of an advanced swordsman, was shocked and instinctively leapt back, her sword at her waist instantly drawn…

“Whoosh!”

The sword’s edge dissipated.

The air in front of the sword’s tip seemed to be pierced through, making a soft sound at this moment, while a gust of sword wind was stirred up, blowing in the direction the sword pointed…

Sensing this sword wind, William Carter frowned slightly and sheathed his sword again.

Demonstration complete.

“This… this is the Burial Sword Technique!? How is this possible? Am I hallucinating? The Burial Sword Technique? Am I hallucinating?”

Jane Howard placed her slender white hand in front of her mouth, as if this would keep her from screaming out of composure, but the disbelief in her eyes as she looked at the area swept by the sword wind could not be concealed.

“The Burial Sword Technique? The Burial Sword Technique! Was that just now the Burial Sword Technique? The legendary sword technique, the Burial Sword Technique?”

After a while, Jane Howard seemed to come back to her senses, suddenly turning her head and loudly questioning William Carter.

“Although there are still many flaws, it was indeed the Burial Sword Technique.”

At this moment, William Carter was already thinking about the effect of air currents on the Burial Sword Technique.

“The Burial Sword Technique, you actually mastered the Burial Sword Technique, and in just one day!? I only taught you the method to stabilize your vital energy and blood, I didn’t teach you how to guide your energy, nor the method to stimulate your spirit. How did you do it?”

Jane Howard pressed urgently, no longer as calm as before.

“You demonstrated the Burial Sword Technique in front of me once. I saw clearly how you guided your energy and stimulated your spirit… no, your mind.”