My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 522 - 371: Beyond Top-Level_1

Chapter 522: Chapter 371: Beyond Top-Level_1

Owen Bertram walked with head high towards the tower gates. A spiritual light surged up like a fog, touched the golden token in his hand, and automatically opened a gap to let him in.

The first layer of the tower immediately lit up with light the size of a bean. From the shadows came a violent cough, and a hunchbacked man with disheveled hair, shrouded in a cotton robe, slowly walked out and irately called out, "It’s the middle of the night, does one not get to sleep?"

"I apologize for disturbing you, elder." Owen Bertram gave a salute. He was unable to determine the cultivation level of the hunchbacked elder, which made him secretly alert. The depths of the general government seemed far more profound than he had imagined.

The hunchbacked man reached out, and the golden token that was originally in Owen’s hand flew toward him. The elder carefully checked it and nodded, "Go up by yourself. Be light-footed as you go, so you don’t disturb my rest."

"Yes." No sooner had Owen answered than the elder had turned and walked back into the darkness. Owen raised an eyebrow and began ascending the tower. The Horizon Bureau’s "Rewarding Merits Tower" had seven layers, each classified with different volumes of books including talismans, formations, heart methodologies, divine skills, weapons, hand-to-hand combat. Sword skills were categorized under "weapons".

However, after Owen directly went to the third layer, he found that half of the vast space was filled with books on sword skills. He had initially thought that the majority of the remaining would be about knife techniques, but they were about spear techniques.

He concentrated on browsing the books on sword techniques. Those included within the tower were all top-level sword techniques in the world, but not every top-level sword technique was suitable for Owen to practice.

Moreover, there was also a subtle pecking order among the top-level sword skills.

Owen quickly classified and chose the ten sword techniques most suitable for himself, then started seriously familiarizing himself with the first one. He intended to pick the one most suited to him from these ten as the fundamental sword technique for his long-term future practice.

Even for top geniuses like Catherine and Glenn Mitchell, they would only choose one high-level flying sword technique. The level of flying sword technique consumed a significant amount of spiritual energy in both practice and application. Therefore, the geniuses would also choose some relatively weaker but more accessible "ordinary flying sword techniques" as a support and supplement. To deal with common adversaries, these techniques were more than sufficient, producing overwhelming power when executed by Heaven’s Chosen.

Owen planned his training the same way: selecting one top-level sword technique, then collecting a few weaker ones. The top-level technique should ideally combine talisman and sword techniques or mechanical techniques and sword techniques.

This could be counted as Owen’s first time cultivating without the support from his brother. So, Owen gave great thought to the process. He had self-awareness and had determined the principles "strong adversaries are for Brother, mysterious adversaries are for Alexia, and ordinary adversaries are for me to manage." Thus, he wasn’t very confident about cultivating high-level flying sword techniques on his own.

He applied the same strategy he used when studying for exams in his past life, reading the flying sword technique carefully first, identifying the hard parts, tackling the more manageable sections, and then one by one overcoming the hard parts.

Half a shichen (one hour) had passed, and Owen raised his head. With a thrust of his palm against the void, the flying sword came rushing out, smoothly executing the flying sword technique.

Though still rough around the edges, Owen practiced it three more times and felt... like he had mastered it?

"It wasn’t difficult at all," Owen noted in surprise.

Baffled, he picked up the second flying sword technique. Again, after one shichen, he had nearly mastered this technique as well! At this point, Owen began to doubt, "Could it be that I’m actually a once in a millennium swordsmanship prodigy?"

He devoted himself entirely, immersing himself in sword techniques, oblivious to the passing of time. Outside, day turned into night, and Owen had practiced all ten top-level flying sword techniques.

He never encountered any "difficult parts" throughout.

Owen had never really felt confident about his cultivation aptitude - relying on Brother’s support, even when he encountered a bottleneck, with a surge of warm current from Brother, he could easily overcome it.

He always thought that his aptitude should be normal, but now it seems, "In terms of swordsmanship, my aptitude seems to be quite good!"

Owen stood up, smiling as he paced back and forth across the third layer. He later calmed down and analyzed the reasons why he found it so easy to practice these flying sword techniques: "Indeed, my aptitude for swordsmanship is above average, but there are some other reasons that I can’t ignore: First of all, my spiritual energy is immensely robust, several times that of a cultivator at the same level. This is Brother’s credit.

The higher the flying sword technique, the more spiritual energy it consumes in practice. Even for someone like Glenn Mitchell, after practicing this level of flying sword technique, nearly all their spiritual energy would be consumed and they would have to meditate to regain their energy; naturally, this would slow down the process. But I do not have this obstacle.

Another reason is... my knowledge from my previous life. My understanding of four-dimensional and five-dimensional spaces surpasses that of the geniuses in this world. The deeper levels of the flying sword techniques have many common points with these high-dimensional spaces; they are not just about drawing a sword in the air."

After some analysis, Owen had to admit that his swordsmanship aptitude was quite good but not as extraordinary as he had imagined.