I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

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“Like this?” she turned around and asked.

Xu Xiaoshou was completely dumbfounded.

“Okay, your Sword Soaring Technique is wayyyy better than mine,” he thought.
“What’s there to even teach, then?”

Yet, he was unable to just throw away his big brother façade, so he just nodded and said, “Doing fine.

“But that’s not what I’m about to teach you.
What I’m about to teach you is the legendary ‘Riding Sword Flight.’”

Su Qianqian looked like she’d just realized something, and her expression seemed to say “I know this one too.” Then she leapt and lightly landed on her sword.

Her white attire billowed as she zipped about riding her massive sword, looking like some female sword fairy.

Xu Xiaoshou was completely dumbfounded again.

“So, I was the one who was holding her back, then?” he thought.

“That girl learned nothing but a single move of the White Cloud Sword Techniques after following me around for a month.
How come, after not seeing her for a little more than a year, it seems like she’s learned everything?”

“Very well.
Nice progress.” He kept himself calm and then said, “But what I’m about to teach you is nothing so simple as that.”

“Oh?” Su Qianqian hopped down from her sword.
This was simple?

She remembered having worked at it for almost half a day to pick it up.

“So, what is it, then?”

Xu Xiaoshou wore a mysterious smirk and blurted every single word out slowly: “Reverse Sword Subduing!”

“Reverse Sword Subduing?” Su Qianqian couldn’t help but wonder what that was.
She noted that it sounded awesome and that it wasn’t something even her master had brought up before.

“Well, I bet you don’t know this one, no?” Xu Xiaoshou looked pleased with himself.

“Yeah.”

“You wanna learn it? I don’t just teach anyone, you know…”

“I wanna learn this!”

“Alright.
Greet me first, then.”

“Brother Xiaoshou!”

Xu Xiaoshou nodded satisfactorily, and his expression seemed to suggest that he’d found himself a good student.
“To learn ‘Reverse Sword Subduing,’ we shall first learn the ‘Reverse Sword Style.’”

“Huh? What is ‘Reverse Sword Style?’”

“Hehe, here’s the tricky thing about it.”

“This is the supreme technique that your Brother Xiaoshou here personally created after witnessing the ‘Fleeting White Clouds’ at work.
With this technique, I carved my way through the contest, reigning supreme over all, to finally become the champion of the contest!”

“You personally created this?” Su Qianqian’s eyes flew open, her curiosity piqued.
It was apparent that she was aware of his emphasis on the move.

He… created his own spiritual technique?

That was something only the likes of masters could pull off!

“Not that much of a big deal, actually.” Xu Xiaoshou nodded humbly.
“I see that you can’t wait.
Let’s get to it, then.”

The two of them, one tall and one short, drew their own swords at the front of the compound and started to work at it.

“Well then, come here.
We’ll first turn our swords around…”

“Umm, why do we have to do that?”

“Of course it’s because… well umm, I’m not gonna answer something so simple.
Put your brains to work for a little bit and think about it.”

“Why? Can’t you sense the sword’s sentience without turning it around?”

“Nope, you have to turn the sword around.
That’s the essence of the move.”

…

“Alright, I give up.
Throw the sword out now and summon it back after you’ve thrown it extremely far… d*mn, how can you control the direction of its return?”

“No! You have to aim it at yourself!”

“Don’t ask.
It’s just the essence of how it works.”

…

Moments later, Xu Xiaoshou looked up at the sky, feeling exasperated.
He wondered if this was what the difference between talent and mediocrity looked like.

It’d taken him one whole night back then to finally figure something like this out, yet it’d only taken the little girl a little while to figure it out.

See…

The girl was already having her sword fly in the reverse direction up in the sky…

Su Qianqian was having fun up there.
The move had indeed opened up her mind quite a bit, yet it didn’t take long for her to start feeling a little dizzy.

“Brother Xiaoshou, why am I feeling dizzy up here?”

Xu Xiaoshou took a deep breath and suppressed his frustration and the feeling like his heart was in pieces.
Then he answered casually, “That’s something to train your will.

“If you can’t even get over sword-sickness, how are you gonna fight someone in the sky in the future?”