I Can Complete Any Cultivation Technique

Every cultivation manual in the world is incomplete.

Ye Cheng, an outer-sect laborer of the Qingyang Sect, swept the floor of the Scripture Pavilion for three years and copied seventeen manuals. Then one day, he noticed that the character for "through" in the phrase "force passes through the back of the blade" was missing a stroke.

It hadn't been eaten by bugs or worn away. Someone had scraped off that single stroke with a fingernail.

He restored it and practiced the technique once. That night, a single stroke of his blade split open the stone lock left behind by the former sect leader. According to sect rules, no one below the Condensing Origin realm could break that stone.

He was only at the second level of Body Tempering.

From that day on, he realized that there wasn't a single complete cultivation manual on the whole mountain. Missing one stroke reduced its power to less than a tenth. Complete the stroke, and a Yellow-tier technique could unleash the power of a Profound-tier one.

And Liu Yan, the sect's most promising genius, had been holding his blade incorrectly for ten years.

The outer-sect tournament is in seven days. A laborer whose name isn't even on the tournament roster must win three consecutive matches with a notched woodcutting blade to enter the inner sect.

Liu Yan once said in public, "A floor sweeper has no business studying blade techniques."

Ye Cheng knelt and handed him the book without saying a word.

In seven days, he'll return those words on the tournament stage.