I am an Eldritch Entity

Eryndor hid all the parts he had taken out in a corner and disguised it with the surroundings.

He then took a deep breath and held his daggers in front of him before activating the first cultivation art.

Air Cleaving Slash.

In the daytime when he was practicing in the training hall, he realized that what if it was monitored?

He could trust the Academy to a certain extent, since they also needed the trust of their students for the situation to not get worse.

Just imagine what would happen if it was exposed that the Academy had betrayed the trust of the students. Many of them had families, but not everyone was fighting for them.

Would they feel like fighting for the people who aren't treating them nicely? People who couldn't even trust them? People who tried to spy on their secrets secretly by deceiving them?

The cultivation world had no such concerns though.

It was a stable world with no invasions.

There was a high chance that they would rather grasp everything about the disciples so that there would be no uncontrollable factors which might disturb the current peace.

This was one of the reasons along with being quite tired that he had stopped training in the training hall.

If anyone monitored his footage, they would think - 'Why was Clarence training the cultivation arts he already knew?'

True, it wasn't weird to practice the cultivation arts one already knew as people always wanted to increase their mastery of it, therefore increasing the efficiency of the cultivation art.

However, the problem was that Eryndor didn't know at what level was Clarence's mastery of the relative cultivation arts.

Again, Eryndor had godly control, and there was more than a ninety percent chance that he would learn the cultivation art at first try, but his first try would obviously be far worse than Clarence's version of using it, right?

In short, no matter how good Eryndor was, there might still be a few differences.

For now, Eryndor only hoped that they would overlook this minor inconsistency since he had still practiced for around ten to twenty minutes.

Well, that shouldn't be much of an issue since there can always be a situation where a disciple didn't use a particular art for a long time and their mastery of it regressed.

There may also be many such situations where their mastery of a cultivation art faltered.

It would certainly be weird if it happened to a lot of cultivation arts but only to one? That should be fine. I anyway exposed only the Air Cleaving Slash.

With a sigh, Eryndor continued practicing that specific cultivation art.

As mentioned before, it was something which showed its greatest effects only when performing a 'slash'.

If he circulated Qi along the route of meridians for this cultivation art while doing any other action other than slashing, then effects would be less than optimal, or more like, borderline abysmal.

It was the same if you didn't have any sharp object while performing the 'slash'. The effects would be quite disappointing.

These types of cultivation arts came under a category called weaponry skills.

It meant that they were suitable to only be used with a weapon.

Air Cleaving Slash was still only just a single action.

There also existed cultivation arts where there were a series of actions.

In that, one had to coordinate and perform that respective action when their Qi was going through that specific area of meridians corresponding to that action.

In short, that was even more mentally draining than single action weaponry skills.

Those with multiple actions were called chain action weaponry skills.

Eryndor could already execute the cultivation art, and he could also perform the movement of slashing at the same time as the Qi finished the meridian loop.

The problem was actually using it in a fight.

There was no real or even simulated fight to help him get a grip on this cultivation art.

He had a relatively lower confidence because this art depended on a weapon.

In Internal Fist and Sky Piercing Palm, the cultivation art was being executed through your own body part.

You had full control of it. You felt every second of your movement and every inch of your body.

That was not the case with an external object though.

Even though it was held in your arm and quite literally connected to it, you couldn't really feel it like your own body part.

If you weren't careful or focused there was a chance that you might make a mistake with the timings.

After around thirty minutes of practicing the same cultivation art, Eryndor panted and thought.

Is this where the term 'one with sword' or in fact 'one with any other weapon' came from?

The fact that one needs to accurately connect with their weapon to get the timing of your cultivation art right?

After he finished thinking that random thought, Eryndor moved on to the next cultivation art.

Void Pierce.

This one was a little more advanced than the Air Cleaving Slash, therefore had a more complicated route of meridians.

Whereas the Air Cleaving Slash only strengthened and sharpened the 'slash', Void Pierce actually skipped a little distance while stabbing, as if the weapon had pierced the void and teleported directly in front of you.

Of course, it wasn't so exaggerated.

The distance skipped was only a tiny amount since this was still just a Qi Condensation realm cultivation art, but among this realm this was one of the best and most complicated offensive art.

For example when you used a spear and stabbed at the opponent, it would suddenly skip a small distance depending on when your Qi completed the route of meridians of the cultivation art.

It was even more difficult to master than the Air Cleaving Slash, so Eryndor took a deep breath and put his full focus on the cultivation art while he began practicing it in the dead silence of the jungle under the darkness of night.