No Common Sense

"Hu! That was hard." Inside the sea of consciousness, Mac released a breath and sat down. Hearing his words, Li Xian's face twitched. He took a deep breath and didn't argue with Mac. He was feeling tired after the fight with the leopard.

Fortunately, he noticed things quickly and escaped after killing the leopard. His sword aura attracted many beasts. If he hadn't finished the leopard that quick then he would be surrounded by the monsters. While thinking of this, he shook his hand a white round pill appeared on his palm.

Body Healing Pill, the pill in his hand could heal minor injuries such as scratches, cut, and bruises. Although the wound on his stomach could be healed naturally within few days, he didn't have time to wait here.

While swallowing the Body Healing Pill, he took a look at Xiao Feng's sword form. It was mainly because of this sword, he was able to use the last attack so efficiently. Propelling himself with the speed close to the leopard, he was able to launch three strikes of Shadow Kill.

In Shadow Kill, a person needs to swings his sword three times. Two times from side and one from straight vertical. An attack needs to be very fast as well as deadly sharp. For that, his Sword Aura played a big role.

Although his current sword aura was only three centimeters thick, it had intensely fused with his sword. Unlike his previous sword aura, this sword aura penetrates deep into his sword's structure and empowers it from the very inside.

Gradually he understood the power of his sword aura and Xiao Feng's sword form. Using these two properly, he could easily fight against Low-Level Monsters. If the enemy is not unique as Purple Shadow Leopard, he could easily take them down.

"Xiao Feng, how can I air bend?" When propelled himself, he found his speed was equal to the speed of Third Stage Junior Swordsman. Normally, his current speed was three feet in a single second. The moment his foot leaves the initial position, he can cross three feet in a single second.

That's why he found if he can learn air bending, he could use her powers in a much easier way. The sword stayed silent for a moment until Xiao Feng finally spoke.

"Young Master, the easiest way to manipulate air is by meditation. Through meditation, you can feel the air around you. And once you feel the air, you can feel its movement, and then you need to let your heart link with the air so that you can air bend."

"Normally, it takes a long time to link your heart with air. That's why the best way for you would be to use me. As long as you can feel the air, you can use me to manipulate it. If your control improves, then you would be able to do a bunch of different kinds of stuff such as Air Blast, Air Bomb, and even Levitate"

"Levitate, you mean I can fly without using any flying art?" When Li Xian heard levitate, he got agitated. Flying, everyone child, everyone mortal, and every swordsman wants to fly. But they need to either reach a certain realm or use flying art to fly.

Flying Art is part of Movement Arts. Sword Flying is the most common route of the swordsman. Martial Artists use certain flying arts to levitate using their spiritual energy. Flying was very common for the high-level cultivator but for him, it was very far.

That's why he got excited when he heard he could Levitate.

"Yes, but Levitation requires an intense amount of meditation. In fact, you might even need to burrow the help from Wind Aura to improve your control over wind." While Li Xian was beaming with happiness, Xiao Feng decided to pour cold water on him.

Hearing her words, Li Xian was a little confused. He thought for a while and then asked "I don't understand what the difference between Wind Aura and Air Bending is? Aren't both used to control the wind?"

"Hmm!" Xiao Feng hummed for a while thinking, after few minutes, she explained "Wind Aura can control the wind. But Air Bending does more than that. The wind is the flow of air due to the uneven pressure around them. A cultivator uses wind aura to control the movement of the wind around him."

"But Air Bender uses his concentrate to transform air into the wind. That means he is creating the uneven pressure around him that helps him to conjure wind. Former is easier because you just need to use the moving air around you as you want."

"Later is hard because you need to create an uneven pressure with your concentration. This requires lots of mediation and fluent movements of body parts. Of course, that's only for humans. For spirits like me, we can easily can those pressures with our thought alone."

"Since we are connected to the world spirit, we are naturally accepted by the air around us."

Hearing her words, Li Xian remained silent for some time. Suddenly, a thought struck his mind and he blurted out "Wait, does that mean you are not the wind yourself?"

"No, I am the wind. But spirits are the beings that have awakened their consciousness after a long period of time. Once we have consciousness, we don't need to do everything as the circumstances. Such as the heat of the sun makes the wind hot and move up."

"But, we can immediately escape from it and find a shady place. That way our body won't change and we will be what we were. Sun is kind of a bully. We are easily suppressed by the sun but unless awaken our consciousness, we can't do anything."

"And as I said, I am the wind but I wasn't the wind. I was air. I moved under different circumstances transforming into the wind but even so, most of the time I remain still, and that is Air. Only when I awaken my consciousness, I became the wind. Because now, I can freely move as I want."

"Okay, let's stop here! I don't think I can take more lessons than these." Saying so, he asked Xiao Feng to enter the Pagoda. Now, the pagoda wasn't hanging in his neck. Rather it was inside his body, inside his consciousness.

"Tch! You are such an idiot. How come you didn't even know about wind and air? That's a natural law, you know." When Li Xian gave up learning more, Mac snorted at him with disdain on his face. As an earthling, he has a better understanding of science and he knows most of the basic concepts of wind and air.

And that's why he decides to be a martial artist rather than being a swordsman. Although swordsmen practice other elements in their sword art, they don't have a tendency to focus on anything else than the sword.

On other hand, Mac had knowledge about the elements. Although this was basic knowledge, it can come in handy against the people of this world. From Li Xian, he understood the people of this world are just like the people of those novels.

With the confidence beaming in his heart, he sat down and start further planning. At this time, Li Xian was already healed, so he decided to leave. But the problem was in front of him. Li Xian looked around and shouted "Elder Brother, why did we walk to the left?"

"Because monsters were coming from the front, behind, and right. Or why else I would ask you to go left." Hearing Li Xian's yelling, Mac yelled back with irritation on his head. He also understood the problem they were facing right now.

"And thanks to your amazing direction, WE ARE NOW STUCK AT THE INNER CORE OF THIS MOUNTAIN RANGE. Hush!" Li Xian didn't dare to yell outside, so he entered his voice inside the room and yelled. As for outside, he could only sigh.

"Hey, you should be thanking me. Otherwise, you were rushing towards the front. And there were insane numbers of monsters coming from that place." Mac also got agitated by Li Xian shouted from his mind.

"Alright! I don't have time to argue with you. I need to go out of this inner core fast. I can feel a chill back in my spine just by hearing the growl of the monsters. Not to mention, my current sword aura can't hide my presence." Li Xian walked between two trees and tried to hide first.

He felt powerless inside this inner core.

"Did you give it a try before complaining?" Mac sighed from his consciousness and asked.

"Didn't you feel it? It had the fire attribute. Although it wasn't complete fire, it has the power to burn things around it." Li Xian replied as he passes through few branches and extended trees.

"Then, why did it disappear when you fought against the Leopard? Not just it disappeared, your sword was a lot faster and sharper. Technically, it shouldn't be fast as Xiao Feng, but it was. So, why?" Mac sighed and spoke from his head trying to give him a heads-up.

"Yeah, I couldn't feel the burning power from the sword aura at that moment. Instead, it was sharp and fast, more than the usual. But why?" Li Xian also realized but still couldn't understand the reason.

"BECAUSE OF YOUR EMOTIONS, IDIOT!" Finally, Mac couldn't keep his calm and ended up yelling at him.