Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 019 - Falling Star

For a week, Yao Han continued to practice Iron Fist until he no longer remembered how many times he practiced it in a day.

Once enough was felt, Yao Han took a whole day to meditate, then took turns learning from Meirong.

"I was thinking of teaching you about magic, but it could follow later. Besides, I've found a sword style that's right for you as a start."

This sword move was named Falling Star, which consisted of five moves, the first star to the fifth star. Meirong swung his right wing, appearing a black-gloved short sword.

Before teaching swordsmanship, Meirong explained about heirlooms.

"There are many forms, types, and heirloom functions. You've seen rings and space bags, also have space bracelets. Plus the unique heirloom of the Pagoda Dimension entrance that's tucked away on your forehead..."

Heirloom levels are divided into several classes, the lowest being Mortal, then Ancient, Earth, Sky, Heavenly, and Eternal. Each class is divided into smaller levels, namely low, middle, and high.

Yao Han did not tell how vast the storage space of his space bracelet was, if his three teachers knew of this they would consider his space bracelet to be an Eternal grade heirloom.

Meirong explained the history of the sword, then its shape and size for almost an hour, as he felt this matter was necessary as Yao Han's basic knowledge.

"This sword includes a high level of Mortal Heirloom..."

Yao Han took out the short sword and took it out from the sword sheath, visible silver-colored sword eyes. He looked at the sword enthusiastically because all this time he was only holding a toy sword made of wood.

"The position of your body is good and the way you hold the sword is also good..." Meirong sounded enthusiastic, "You never said you ever learned swordsmanship..."

Yao Han shook his head, he was interested in swordsmanship, but he had only been taught the three basic moves of swordsmanship, namely slashing, cutting, and piercing. In his hometown, he had continued to perform these three moves for the past three months before the incident of being struck by golden lightning.

"Hm, not bad."

Meirong adds in addition to other basic movements such as pulling, twisting, and swinging. This combination of basic movements resulted in the sword technique. Cultivators were able to develop it further with the help of Qi, "This is what is known as the Sword Dao..."

For starters Meirong asked Yao Han to do a basic sword move. Meirong did not say how many times he had to repeat, but Yao Han planned to repeat a hundred times each basic move to get used to it.

Tomorrow...

"Is this a teacher?" Yao Han asked in astonishment staring at the three jade bars along the index finger that Meirong had given him.

"This jade slip, a unique heirloom capable of storing various information in the form of writing, sound, and images. It can also hold someone's memory."

Yao Han was still flipping through the jade green thing in his hand as Yutian said something that surprised him.

"You said you wanted to see our human form. Just yesterday we had the thought of storing the memories of our two faces onto this jade slip..."

It was obviously strange to channel the memories of his own face into the jade slip, so Yutian put his memories of Meirong's face and vice versa.

Yao Han inspected two of the three jade slips, his mouth opened wide for quite a while then exclaimed.

"I-This is Teacher Hong?! It's gorgeous!"

Meirong chuckled at Yao Han's reaction, she had to thank Yutian for portraying his appearance so well. He also described Yutian's face as equally good, but Yao Han's reaction was not like Yutian's expectations.

"Han'er, you've seen our faces through the jade slip, but you're just praising Meirong, not me?"

Yao Han's smile faded slightly and looked at Yutian somewhat awkwardly, "Teacher She..."

Yutian clucked softly and grumbled, "I should have raised a female disciple as well. At least he could be proud of having the most handsome man ever as his teacher..."

Meirong stared lazily at Yutian, 'Ck, why can't this lousy snake stop praising him excessively?'

Yao Han paid no heed to Yutian's grunts, he took a few steps away from his two teachers then knelt down and looked at the sky.

"Thank you to the Master of the Universe who gave me the destiny of immortality and a lot of luck. Now I can cultivate. Having a great teacher like Teacher Feng, a beautiful teacher like Teacher Hong, and a good teacher like Teacher She... I, Yao Han, will try to live a good life and become a devoted disciple of my teachers."

Yao Han then kowtowed three times towards the sky, then returned to approach his two teachers who were laughing with his manner. Feng Xian who was looking from a distance smiled faintly while shaking his head, then continued his painting activities.

"Han'er, you can be called the heir disciple, because we will bring down all our knowledge, from the ordinary to the best. You also get abundant resources for living in this place. So, you have to master all our science well."

"Murid understands, Teacher."

Meirong then pointed to the one remaining jade slip, "In this one contains the five moves of the Falling Star sword stance. For a while you could only follow the instructions through this jade slip because I still could not change my form."

This sword style does not rely on Qi but is purely steeped in swordsmanship. One of the swordsmanship of Meirong. Suitable for beginners like Yao Han.

The downside, if the male used it, could only bring out at most eighty percent of the abilities from this sword stance.

Yao Han took out the jade slip and to be able to see the contents, he had to drain the Qi. A memory appeared in his mind. Standing up a domed woman in red was holding a sword and as if smiling at Yao Han. That woman is Meirong.

Next Yao Han saw Meirong was doing some sword moves and agile footsteps. His body movements looked graceful, and his sword movements were gentle but sharp.

"Teacher Hong indeed deserves to be called the Goddess of the Fire Sword..."

"I'm happy with your compliment, but try not to get the focus wrong, Han'er."

Yao Han looked wrong. He looked back at the jade slip then meditated. A few minutes later took out a sword and made the first star move.

His initial movements were slow and careful, even so he was able to complete the first move quite well. Meirong did not comment because he wanted to see the extent of the results of Yao Han's unique learning.

The ten repetitions Yao Han performed were always the same move, then the next ten moves were faster and more organized. Until the fiftieth return, then Yao Han did it exactly the same as the movements according to the instructions on the jade slip.

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