Shocking Talent

Beside Tyr, Ed watched the magical glow radiating from the surface of Tyr's body with a look of utter shock.

As the person in charge here, he naturally had to pay constant attention to the changes in magic power within Tyr's body. If he hadn't misseen just now, Tyr had successfully run the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 after only a single attempt.

As a technique that required connecting multiple acupoints, the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 was by no means a simple cultivation method.

Since he became the person in charge here, the fastest person he had ever seen still required five attempts to successfully run the technique.

He had also read the records of other Callis family members; the fastest among them took three attempts, which had always been the record in the Sword Prison.

But today, he had witnessed someone running the technique on their very first try, and the flow of magic power in the middle didn't hit a single snag.

From this moment on, the record for the fastest comprehension of a technique in the Sword Prison had been shattered.

Good heavens, he really is a little monster.

“I'm going to release the magic power barrier. You'll have to hold on yourself.”

Seeing that the magical glow on Tyr's body already covered his entire skin, Ed warned him before immediately removing all the magic power barriers surrounding Tyr.

In an instant, countless strands of sword qi in the training field swept toward Tyr, leaving trail after trail of wounds on his body.

As the sword qi cut into his flesh, Tyr's face turned pale. This feeling was even more intense than the medicinal bath he had just taken.

If the pain of the medicinal bath earlier felt like countless steel needles piercing his skin, then the pain he felt now was like death by a thousand cuts.

If there was any difference between this and death by a thousand cuts, it was that the sword qi on the training field was endless. Sweeping in from all directions, the sword qi hacked at him much faster than a person slicing with a knife.

As sword wounds appeared on his body one after another, Tyr could feel a surge of vitality welling up inside him, rapidly repairing his body that was being torn apart by the sword qi.

At this moment, if one were to observe with the Eye of Magic, they would see threads of cyan light interwoven across every inch of Tyr's skin.

Every time Tyr was sliced by the sword qi, these threads acted like needle and thread, sewing and patching his body back together.

As these cyan threads moved, they emitted a faint cyan glow that rippled outwards, gradually rising to the surface of Tyr's skin and forming a thin, faint cyan film over his body.

This was precisely the effect of the medicinal bath he had soaked in earlier. Formulated from over a hundred kinds of high-grade healing potions, its purpose was to repair their bodies from the damage sustained during the tempering process.

The 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 had to be practiced in conjunction with the medicinal bath. Otherwise, before the technique could even be mastered, the cultivator would have already been minced into mincemeat by the sword qi.

Clenching his teeth, Tyr endured the excruciating pain of the sword qi battering his body and continued to run the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》. Under the guidance of the technique, the sword qi that entered his body began to temper his physical form bit by bit.

During this tempering process, his body would suffer secondary injuries under the rampaging sword qi.

And this time, the injuries were not external, but internal.

Fortunately, thanks to the healing effects of the medicinal bath, the moment these internal damages appeared, they were connected and healed by the cyan threads.

Who on the outside could have imagined that the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》, the top-tier technique hailed as the foundation of the Callis family, would turn directly into a suicide method if practiced without the medicinal bath?

Standing beside Tyr, Ed looked in astonishment at Tyr, who had completely entered a state of cultivation. “To be able to endure the pain of thousands of sword qi battering his body on his very first attempt at cultivation... This boy is going to be extraordinary in the future.”

Despite arriving later, he was the first to reach the training field. He had successfully run the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 on his first try, and he possessed such resilient endurance against pain.

Ed was almost certain that as long as no major accidents happened in the future, this child would definitely become one of the candidates.

Just then, the heavy doors of the training field were pushed open. The Letitia and Silas siblings walked in, followed by another boy, Barry.

Before Tyr arrived, these three had been the outstanding figures among this batch, and the ones Ed thought highly of.

But after witnessing Tyr, the light of these three in Ed's heart was instantly eclipsed by Tyr.

Looking back at their previous achievements now, well, they were only so-so.

The Letitia and Silas siblings looked at Tyr, who hadn't made a single sound in the training field, a trace of wariness flashing through their eyes.

They had experienced firsthand just how painful it was to be battered by the sword qi. That feeling of death by a thousand cuts was something they still found hard to endure, even though they had already been cultivating here for some time.

Yet Tyr, who was here for the very first time today, didn't make a single sound. Did this guy not feel pain?

Seeing the three enter, Ed waved his hand, and three magic power barriers appeared, enveloping them.

“Go cultivate.”

“Yes.”

The three complied, each finding a spot to begin cultivating the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》.

Once they had fully run the technique, Ed removed the magic power barriers protecting them.

“Hmph!”

“Sss!”

“Ah!”

As thousands of sword qi hit their bodies, intense pain swept through them, causing all three to let out painful groans.

Looking up at Tyr, who was cultivating normally amidst the sword qi as if he couldn't feel any pain at all, Silas clenched his teeth and forced his screams back down his throat.

Not just Silas; Letitia and Barry also forcefully suppressed their screams. Veins bulged on their foreheads, showing how agonizing it was for them to endure.

Ed glanced over in surprise, then looked down at Tyr beside him, a corner of his mouth curling up.

Who would have thought there would be such an effect?

Originally, the Letitia and Silas siblings along with Barry were the benchmarks here, whom all the other children strove to emulate. Now, the benchmark had been replaced by Tyr.

However, the children who entered afterward did not possess such remarkable endurance.

Screaming while undergoing the baptism of sword qi was the true norm of the training field.

A few children were in so much pain that they couldn't cultivate at all, doing nothing but rolling on the ground. If Tyr were to look, he would find that these children were the exact same ones who had been dilly-dallying in the medicinal bathhouse.

Ed could only envelop them with magic power time and again, releasing the barriers only after they managed to run the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》.

The cycle repeated.

Ed watched these children with cold eyes. He would not let them leave just because they were crying their eyes out.

Every cultivation session on the training field was dictated by the medicinal power within their bodies. Only when the healing medicinal power was on the verge of exhaustion would this round of cultivation be considered over.

Before the medicinal power ran out, no matter how many times they were overwhelmed by the pain, they had to drag themselves back up and continue cultivating.