On their first day here, they basically just watched others sparring and dueling with swords.
By the second day, after understanding the situation, Su Yu felt a bit eager. It was rare to encounter so many swordsmanship experts of the same age; it would be a waste not to spar a bit. He specially took out two flying swords, placed them into their scabbards, and carried them on his back, signaling that he was willing to accept challenges from others.
As soon as the swords were on his back, a young man quickly flew over to him, cupped his hands, and loudly asked:
"Chen Qi, may I ask for guidance?"
Su Yu cupped his hands and responded:
"Su Yu, please enlighten me!"
"Please!"
Su Yu said to Luo Qingchan beside him:
"I’ll be right back!"
The two ascended into a deserted part of the sky. Without a referee, they cupped hands in salute to each other, and then both summoned their flying swords to fight.
Chen Qi’s two flying swords emitted a brightness indicative of tier seven flying swords, but Su Yu showed no fear, activating Thunderbolt to confront him. In the blink of an eye, the four flying swords interlocked, creating a dense clanging sound like firecrackers going off in rapid succession.
Unconsciously, both only used two flying swords to tangle and spar, merely testing their swordsmanship skills. Swordsmanship levels complemented each other, and they refrained from using any other techniques outside swordsmanship.
The four flying swords crossed back and forth, colliding with each other at incredible speed. Swordsmanship skills merged into the flying swords, constantly changing.
Both parties exhausted their sword moves to try and overpower their opponent with technique, with no less than ten variations of moves occurring every second.
In terms of flying sword grade, Chen Qi had the advantage.
In terms of sword skill grade, Chen Qi also had the edge.
But Su Yu had double talent, and under the double boost, the attributes of his fundamental Sword Formulas surpassed those of Chen Qi, making them evenly matched in this aspect.
When it came to Sword Dao level and swordsmanship skills, Su Yu had the upper hand.
The most crucial factor was that his skills, influenced by talent solidification, were not affected by any external factors, maintaining a very stable state.
Su Yu methodically showcased his swordsmanship techniques, without emotions, just pure skill. He slowly gained the upper hand by leveraging his advantages in technique and Sword Dao level, and with talent solidification, made no mistakes, successfully expanding his advantage until achieving an absolute lead to defeat Chen Qi.
"Thank you for letting me win!"
Facing Chen Qi head-on and defeating him, Su Yu cupped his hands in respect.
However, Chen Qi was not disheartened by the defeat and instead excitedly said:
"Mr. Su, your swordsmanship is exquisite, without a single mistake from beginning to end. I am sincerely convinced of my loss."
Following the notion that everyone lifts each other up, Su Yu also praised:
"Mr. Chen’s swordsmanship is also exquisite. I believe it won’t take long for you to reach a higher level again."
"Haha, thank you for your kind words."
After exchanging pleasantries, they returned to find Luo Qingchan watching with surprise, as if meeting him for the first time.
Su Yu paused for a moment, then immediately realized why she was surprised and smiled, saying:
"Since he praised me, I must praise him back, right?"
She covered her mouth with a light laugh, her eyes curved like crescent moons.
After only a few words, another person came to challenge him, and Su Yu readily accepted.
The fact proved that indeed, battling peers of similar skill levels provided numerous advantages. After several fights, he could clearly feel the progress in his swordsmanship.
Each progression was permanent and would not regress or deteriorate due to a long period without practice.
Seeing how much he was enjoying himself, Luo Qingchan also drew her flying sword and joined in the dueling.
Here, every day consisted of dozens of sword duels. Opponents varied in strength, with weaker ones being far from his match, defeated within a minute.
Stronger ones were far more powerful, making it impossible for him to match even with all his might, watching as he was overpowered until defeated.
However, after a week of continuous dueling, with nearly a hundred matches fought, he hadn’t encountered anyone who could rival Luo Qingchan.
It wasn’t a matter of swordsman factors; in swordsmanship, several could match her, and there were even two with sword skills superior to hers, but no second opponent had comprehended the True Sword Intent as she had; she was one of a kind.
After dueling with other players each day and feeling slight progress, he would invite Luo Qingchan for a sword match to share and verify each other’s progress during this period.
This exchange had always existed between them, occurring often when training or traveling with idle time; it was just not as frequent as now.
While they practiced their swordsmanship, every day numerous flying ships came from all directions. With hundreds arriving each day, more and more people gathered here.
The growing crowd did not affect them, instead, it meant new opponents to choose from every day.
After a week of sword duels, Su Yu witnessed the diversity of people.
Most were like Chen Qi, with stable personalities; however, there were also quite a few with eccentric or fiery tempers.
Some could afford to lose; a loss was a loss, and they would fight again next time.
But some people felt they couldn’t afford to lose; after losing, they would sulk immediately, and some would insist on fighting another match right away, leaving him quite speechless.
Apart from these, there are also some arrogant and domineering competitors, all young people, who were probably used to being arrogant in their local areas and didn’t hold back here, which is very annoying.
Su Yu kept his distance from these competitors, unwilling to get close to them.
He preferred to engage with those competitors who had normal personalities. After a week, he really got to know a lot of competitors he could talk to and formed a small group.