Perception.

"Not good, it doesn't feel sleek enough" Logan said dumping the sword back.

"Hmm, too heavy."

Logan continued to walk to different swords examining them but none of them gave him the vibes he wanted.

He finally saw a sword that fit his imaginary description 'Not too long, not too short, has a nice balance, has a firm handle. It feels just right.'

He walked over, picked up the slight silver sword and swung it a few times and felt satisfied with his choice.

"Great choice," the instructor praised him, "This is one of the peak elementary swords. It will suit you perfectly."

He handed him a slip "That contains some basic and advanced sword techniques you could practice. You could also get a cultivation room for better results"

'That's right, I read about something like that before'

Logan thanked him and left the armoury.

'Seems I'll be going to a cultivation room' He decided to go into seclusion in a cultivation room so he could practice and train peacefully.

Cultivation rooms were special rooms that had a high concentration of nature essence. Large arrays were used to gather the essence of nature from the surroundings and it usually required beast cores to power them.

The quality of the essence depended on the quality of the beast cores.

Logan paid for one of the highest-level cultivation room with some essence stones that Jason had given him before.

Essence stones were mined from places where the essence of nature had condensed greatly.

They also had grades that corresponded to the beast cores. Logan only needed to pay ten rank two essence stones for the room.

He entered the room and felt the rich essence of nature.

'This feels great!' he exclaimed with a smile as he greedily sucked in a deep breath.

He did not waste any time since the tournament was at hand, he took out the fire jade slip.

'How do I go about this? Do I just look at it? Oh I think I just stare at it and try to envision my essence condensing in a similar fashion. By envisioning it and condensing his essence of nature in a similar fashion Logan never knew he had unlocked a unique and divine secreted way of mastering cultivation skills, kudos to him being an otherworlder.

He meditated on it for a while and tried to comprehend the mysteries of the flame sword.

To his surprise, he was able to understand everything about it in just two hours.

He felt the strange illusory vision of the flame sword as he channeled his essence in a similar fashion, his movement was fluid and he moved his palm slowly, soon a burst of orange flame emerge from his hand, he was pleasantly surprised 'I finally did it! I can command the essence of nature at my finger tips!'

After that he picked up his sword and decided to follow how he envisioned the skill to be, Logan closed his eyes and immersed himself inside a world of calmness, sparks started to surface on his sword as a fiery orange light started to form from the hilt of his sword all the way to the tip.

'Hah' he sliced forward and the thin red line shot out of his sword. A little explosion occurred and Logan smiled seeing what he had done 'Just how I imagined it. Now all that's left for me is to do it to people. Haha'

'This is quite strange, how can I be able to learn cultivation skills so fast?'

He thought it was strange because normally it would take at least three weeks for someone with a purple grade affinity whereas he only took two hours.

He then moved on to the water barrier skill, but he found out that he could also understand it in two hours.

He was shocked. "What kind of monstrous perception do I have? Could it be because I'm an otherworlder? Or perhaps it's that strange Dream I had." He asked himself, but he could not find any answers.

He picked up his sword and started to practice the basic moves.

He expected his monstrous perception to be at play once again but this time his perception did not help him much.

'Just when I was thinking myself to be the main character' He was a bit disappointed, but he also thought it was fair. He could not have everything so easily.

He continued to practice diligently, hoping to master the sword skills as soon as possible.

Logan practiced some slashes and swings with his sword, then moved on to the sword stance.

The slip said: "Each weapon requires a different stance to achieve the best effect. The stance of the sword! -"

Logan read through the slip and dropped it walking slightly away from it he then took a stance. 'I see. I always thought it was strange for sword users in movies to pose like the world belongs to them but it seems it's part of the sword stance.'

He continued to practice and soon mastered the sword stance perfectly.

He read further down the slip and found only one advanced skill: "Sword intent". He began to ponder on this advanced skill. A week passed and Logan had barely touched the threshold of this skill.

He decided to switch to the sound element skill: "The essence of vibration".

This was the sound element skill that had an incomplete beginning. 'I don't have the sound element but I should be able to gain some inspiration from this!'

As he studied the jade slip, he entered a state of enlightenment. His connection with the physical world was cut off and entered his own world of essence.

In this world, he saw the skill "Essence of vibration" at the 5th level.

He reached out to grab it, but he felt a sharp pain in his body.

He was shocked to see that his hand was injured from just touching the skill with multiple cracks spreading vividly through his hand all the way to his arm. He sat down in a lotus position and stared at the vibrating jade slip in the air.

He tried to follow its movement, and soon his body started to vibrate too. He vomited a mouthful of blood. "Wow, this is extremely difficult," Logan sighed.

He tried again but failed. He tried again and again but failed every time.

After the hundredth attempt, Logan felt like giving up.

But at that moment, he felt a resonance with the jade slip. He opened his eyes in his essence world and saw the jade slip that had almost killed him several times. He reached out again, and this time he did not feel any resistance.

He smiled faintly because he just realised that he had been able to master a sound element skill, this was surprising because he had read that once someone had awakened there is no chance for awakening again but he realised just now that he had awakened the sound element,

Sound element! One of the strongest rare element, since he watched that senior the other day use the sound in such a way he had a unique fear for someone using the skill, but now he didn't have to fear because the user of the skill now is him and others would have to fear him.

Logan was extremely happy because he realised he now had two of the rarest elements. Two! He opened his eyes to the real world, hoping to practice the skill. But then he saw that he had received several messages.

He checked them and found out that the tournament had already started.