Path Of Sword Master

"Master, I understand that you want me to score first in the upcoming entrance exam, it's just how will I get the Sacred Heart Academy to choose me, I don't think they will choose me, even if I were the strongest and performed exceptionally", said Li Jie with concern washed over his face.

Mr.Teacher simply smirked towards Li Jie, "It is a fact that none of the academies will choose you, even if you were to perform exceptionally after all their main focus of the study is Essence energy cultivation, not Body refining cultivation, which is not much developed here in this continent, but thankfully you have an amazing inheritance, which will help you reach the peak if you were to use it effectively and keep all of it's points in your mind, as for the matter of the Sacred Heart Academy to choose you, don't think much about it, just do your best, I am sure your efforts will not go in vain, just have faith in yourself too", said Mr.Teacher with a smile in a mysterious way.

Li Jie was more confused, but he decided to leave it for later, because not only him, but the whole continent will agree with him, in the case of getting admitted to the Sacred Heart Academy, who are the most strict towards, their students having pure, high-grade bloodlines, whereas the others, especially the Dragnoth Demonic Academy is the one with the lowest criteria, where they even accept those with lower grade bloodline, as they have some special technique, which helps in increasing the grade of bloodline, of course, they are not as effective as they sound plus they come with various defects, the reason being they have the most harrendous cultivation techniques to exist, for which one has to do various horrible acts, where the cultivator's cultivation speed increases with the help of their criminal activities, while the least vile ones just require one to bath in blood of a cultivator or a beast with high potential, the most vile ones require one to drink blood of humans or even eat them, there are even some in which one has sacrifice small human babies, whereas Li Jie doesn't even have a bit of bloodline, so technically he cannot be accepted into any academy with his bloodline, which is nonexistent.

Now Li Jie can only wait for that moment and see if he will be able to get into the Sacred Heart Academy, where only the top prodigies of the whole continent go to further their knowledge related to cultivation.

"Master, I forgot to ask, but what are these manuals for", asked Li Jie, when he looked around him at the huge pile of manuals, which were kept in some order.

"Well, it's good that you ask me, you see apart from your own sword, strength, and skills, what is the most important is knowledge, a very simple word yet containing vastness in itself, as a matter of fact, it is knowledge, which eclipses them all in it's own usefulness, for example, let's say you went to a forest, where you find a herb which has distinctive properties, and you find it to be extremely precious and right beside that herb you find a mud, which is as simple as mud can be, so you pick up the beautiful looking herb and take it to sell, now you can't eat the herb right away, what if it has poison, and let's say you went to sell, but there you found out that it's a heaven-defying item, now considering your strength, do you think those who are stronger than you would leave you after knowing you who is weaker than them possess a heaven-defying treasure, so instead of getting profit, you will end up dead, now if you already had knowledge about it, you would know that this is a heaven defying treasure, which you will have to keep with you, and not show it to others, and if you had more knowledge, then you would realize that the simple looking mud was more precious than that herb, and it's not like you can just keep looking for mud all day, so you must have knowledge to identify items, then you must have knowledge of utilising it, so what if you have the precious mud, but what can you do with it, if you don't even know it's uses, the main point here is that there are various kinds of knowledge and knowledge can be as vast as the sky, so you must be patient when learning bits and pieces of knowledge and you must properly comprehend about them, now all these manuals here cannot contain all the knowledge this world has to offer, but these are enough for the current you, they are set in rows, where the manuals placed in the first row has the knowledge related to herbs and natural treasures and everything about them, from it's use to it's properties, the second row of manuals consist knowledge regarding beasts, as well as their characteristics, strength, and weaknesses, and what to do if you see one, the third row is related to pill recipes, which I want you to memorize completely, and the last row has all the knowledge related to formations and runes, which you will be memorising about and later I will also teach you in the art of refining pills and art of formations, but let me be clear, I will only be teaching you the basic version in both, and as for the stages above basic, that you will have to learn on your own if you want to, if you don't want to, I am ok with that too", said Mr.Teacher in a nonchalant manner.

Li Jie was excited at the idea of learning both alchemy and basics about runes and formations, these are extremely prestigious occupations, that can be found on this continent, nonetheless, he was confused when he heard his master telling him that he will only be taught basics, and the rest he will have to learn himself, thought Li Jie.

"Well, it's true that nothing is free in this world, he understood the value of these occupations and how prestigious they were, which is why he swore to himself, that even if they might seem hard, he will try his best to learn these occupations on by his own", thought Li Jie.

"I have also something to tell you, that you should prepare as much as you can, I don't think I have to explain to you, how much you need to prepare for the forest, as we will be going there next week, so you know what to do", said Mr.Teacher.

"Yes master, I understand but I have a doubt that I would like to clear from you, why is it that everything that I am learning has no relation to swordsmanship, when will I learn to use the sword", asked Li Jie with curiosity.

Listening to Li Jie Mr.Teacher just smiled with a mysterious glint in his eyes and said, "Well, when the time comes, you will know, for now just focus on what is in front of you, and we will see to it when the right time comes"

Li Jie nodded to his master's reply and went on with his training, where he first went towards the manual and started to get an overview about them, what he will be learning about, and everything.

First, he started with the row about various herbs and natural treasures, which had records about many wondrous herbs, about which he hasn't even read about in the Li family library, which means that these manuals are not from the Li family library, but Mr.Teacher's personal collection.

There were records about some herbs which after consuming could purify a human's bloodline, while there were also some herbs with their own affinities, which could only help those who have affinity similar to them, the most common type of plants were those which increased a cultivator's essence energy, while some help in stabilizing the cultivation after breakthrough, and there were also some rare ones which helped in breaking through in cultivation.

The herbs which can help a cultivator with breakthroughs at higher stages of cultivation are far more expensive, while the rarest of herbs were those which had unique properties, any herb which had unique property could cause a war between continents!!!

Li Jie was baffled after reading how those herbs with unique properties could even change someone's fate, there were some could make someone extremely lucky for a certain period of time, while there were some which granted a cultivator with a legendary physique, and there were also some which helped with the increase in comprehension of a cultivator, but the most overpowered herb of them all was the only one, which had just one result after eating, besides the picture of the herb, there was just one simple line, "After consuming the "NIHILITY FLOWER", any mortal even without cultivation, can directly step into the "ELEMENT SEVERING REALM"!!!!