Demon Hunter and His Cabin
Chapter 584 - Chapter 584 Chapter 524 Young Man Come Learn Swordsmanship

Chapter 584: Chapter 524: Young Man, Come Learn Swordsmanship with Me (Two in One)_2 Chapter 584: Chapter 524: Young Man, Come Learn Swordsmanship with Me (Two in One)_2 “Although our training can extend lifespan and slow down the aging process,”

“in the end, everyone has a day of decay.”

“From this perspective, the monster within her is truly bizarre.”

The return trip was quick, and after parking the car, Higurashi Chika promptly made a simple lunch.

The air outside the window carried a hint of coolness, and while eating the simple food and looking at the beautiful girl across from him, he was surrounded by the scent of grass and trees in the courtyard.

It gave off a sense of peaceful years.

In some ways, Higurashi Chika was quite traditional. To be honest, Roger had grown accustomed to the lively and unrestrained Western girls recently, so coming here, to an environment that should have been familiar to him, he felt somewhat out of place.

Eat without talking.

After finishing the meal, Higurashi Chika tidied up the bowls and chopsticks, sitting quietly across from Roger until he finished eating. Then she spoke, “Come find me in the afternoon.”

“We will officially begin swordsmanship training.”

…

Training Ground.

When Roger entered, Higurashi Chika had already changed her clothes, no longer wearing the white samurai clothing from before, but a simple aqua one, casual yet beautiful.

Swoosh.

With a light flick of her wrist, Higurashi Chika sent a longsword flying from the rack, tossing it towards Roger.

Without even looking, Roger casually caught it.

If he didn’t have even this bit of skill, Higurashi Chika would probably have sent him off to a regular kendo dojo, as she was a transcendent, not an ordinary swordsmanship coach.

Higurashi Chika led Roger to a shrine set up deep within the training ground.

“Although I can’t teach you the true swordsmanship secret technique, since you have learned our Autumn Water Faction’s swordsmanship, some rituals are still necessary.”

Roger stood in front of the shrine, now closer than before, giving him a clearer sense of the uniqueness surrounding it.

The energy was very active, and Roger even entertained the illusion of entering another world, but after looking around, the environment hadn’t changed.

“You’ve noticed it too.”

Higurashi Chika did not show any sign of surprise, “Because of your identity, you must have encountered some shrines, right? The energy inside them is much more abundant than here.”

“But there’s nothing we can do about it; after all, the path of the samurai is very difficult, and their upper limit is far below that of an onmyoji.”

Roger nodded, appearing to agree, but deep inside he was completely confused; his understanding of the Sunrise Transcendent World was superficial, not nearly deep enough to know about shrines and onmyoji matters.

However, it wasn’t long before teacher Higurashi Chika cleared up Roger’s confusion.

“You onmyoji naturally sense spirits due to your special constitutions, and once you’ve accumulated enough, you can directly communicate with spirits and then gain power, forming your own guardian spirits.”

“Samurai, on the other hand, have a much harder time; without a method of communication, they can only find another way.”

Higurashi Chika held up the weapon in her hand.

“Swordsmanship for spirit communication.”

“Without the Contemplation Method, all we can trust and entrust is the sword in our hands.”

“Honestly, I don’t have much hope for you taking this path, because it is truly a last resort; many powerful onmyoji are also great masters of swordsmanship.”

“Of course, that is something they pursue once they have reached a certain level of strength. You have a great talent, and it would be a terrible waste to distract yourself with learning swordsmanship now.”

Higurashi Chika advised.

“Life is short and fleeting, you should cherish it well.”

Roger looked at Higurashi Chika, her eyes showing seriousness, and after thinking it over, he could only offer a casual explanation, “I want to give it a try.”

“That’s fine then,” Higurashi Chika nodded.

“But you should set a time limit for yourself, one year. If after a year you haven’t made much progress, then give up on swordsmanship training completely and focus your attention on learning onmyoji techniques.”

“After all, our true golden age is very brief,”

Roger nodded in agreement, somewhat familiar with this fact. Unlike the transcendents of the Western World he had encountered, in Sunrise, whether they were samurai or Onmyoji, their normal life spans were much shorter than those of Western transcendents.

This was possibly an inevitable result of different developmental directions.

Western transcendents pursued the purity of bloodlines, a transition from human to non-human. Once they consolidated Pale Blood, although they still appeared human, their internal structures were vastly different from those of true humans.

In Sunrise, as far as Roger understood, they practiced power cultivation, using the human body to manipulate spiritual power to the greatest extent possible, achieving the unthinkable.

Based on Roger’s guess, in battle, their performance would definitely exceed that of Western transcendents of the same tier, and their growth rate was faster.

In the Western World, Roger had encountered Fourth Tier transcendents in Europe, each of whom had lived for dozens or hundreds of years. The time it took for them to transition from Third to Fourth Tier was astoundingly long.

After entering the Fourth Tier, their lives would continue to extend, like Ms. Corinna, the leader of the Nature Association’s witches, a woman whose true age surpassed two hundred years.

And according to Uma’s estimation, this woman, even in the twilight of her life, could live at least another 30 years.

However, in Sunrise, as far as Roger knew, the lifespans of these cultivators mostly did not exceed the natural limits of human life.

150 years.

This was the limit they could reach without their combat power declining too much.

One had a long training cycle but an extended life, focusing more on bloodline and its connections in heritage.

The other grew rapidly, but could not escape the physical limitations of being human, with traditions stemming from the application of power.

The East and the West showed different forms of power and characteristics in their heritages, which also aligned with the history and culture of their respective regions.

Under these circumstances, in Sunrise, there should be numerous cultivators above the Third Tier; however, according to Uma, very few Third Tier transcendents could actually be seen in the real world.

Because they all had more important matters to attend to, they had gone to a common place.

A place known as Everworld.

Noworld was their general term for the real world, and Everworld was its counterpart, an immensely vast Cursed Land.

No, it could even be described as a separate Transcendent Kingdom.

There was not much information Uma could find about that place. In Europe, the Privy Council, being the supreme transcendent force, was completely hidden behind the scenes.

The world in which they existed was also closed off to the outside, but the situation in Sunrise was entirely different.

The real reason, perhaps, would become known to Roger once he entered there.

Since the power increase in the real world was limited, now that he had come here, Roger would find a way to enter that world.

So Higurashi Chika’s advice was entirely well-intentioned.

“You understand the issues with Onmyoji without me having to elaborate, so let me just briefly introduce what a samurai should pay attention to during their training.”

What do you mean I understand? Roger grinned and interrupted, “You might as well discuss it together, having a clear contrast makes it easier for me to understand.”

“Alright,” Higurashi Chika nodded.

“Their ultimate goals are completely the same; upon reaching the Third Tier, both need to consolidate their own Guardian Spirits, it’s just that the methods of consolidation are different,”

“The Onmyoji’s Contemplation begins in stillness and moves to action, with different contemplation methods of various schools corresponding to different Guardian Spirits. They bring spirits existing in the void into themselves, achieving control over spiritual power.”

“Samurai, on the other hand, begin with action in swordsmanship and move to stillness. In the swordmanship traditions of different schools, the core is not the technique, but the Sword Momentum, creating change through action and connecting to spiritual power through those changes,”

“Therefore, in terms of versatility, the Guardian Spirits consolidated by samurai are less functional than those of Onmyoji, but in certain aspects, they show extraordinary performance,”

Higurashi Chika’s expression turned solemn.

“For example, the lethality of the Autumn Water Fraction swordmanship,”

“This even allows us to harm monsters whose real bodies are in Everworld,”

“Unfortunately,” he continued, unable to help but sigh, then pointed at the shrine placed in front of Roger,

“The Guardian Spirit of the Autumn Water Fraction has been lost.”