Chapter 16 | Reincarnated as a Duke's Son, I Walk the Sword God's Path

This agonizing, excruciatingly painful medicinal bath lasted for a full hour and a half before it finally came to an end.

Within the bath barrel, Tyr could no longer feel any pain.

This should be what that man meant by the medicinal bath's effects fading, right? Tyr stood up and stepped out of the barrel.

Throughout the entire process, the man did not stop Tyr, showing that Tyr's guess was indeed correct.

After stepping out of the medicinal bath barrel, Tyr noticed that the liquid, which had been cyan and dotted with speckles of medicine earlier, had now become completely clear.

At this moment, Tyr felt his body was extremely light, but as for his physical strength, he didn't feel any noticeable improvement.

So this medicinal bath isn't meant to increase physical strength? Then what's the point of soaking in it?

It couldn't possibly just be pain tolerance training, right?

With these thoughts in mind, Tyr quickly put his clothes back on.

Once he was fully dressed, Tyr realized that he was actually the first one to emerge from the medicinal bath barrels.

“You did very well. Head over to the training field.”

The faster the medicine was absorbed, the stronger one's talent was.

“All right. Thank you.”

After thanking him, Tyr left the medicinal bathhouse.

“Hmm... Just like the teacher said, he's a very polite child. He really doesn't seem like he has the Callis bloodline.”

Watching Tyr's departing back, the man raised a hand to stroke his chin and muttered to himself.

When Tyr came downstairs, the old man was still tinkering with various potions on the experimental table. He didn't even lift his eyelids when he noticed someone coming down.

Not wanting to disturb the old man, Tyr pushed open the door and left the pharmacy directly.

In his past life, a friend of Tyr's who did scientific research had told him that when someone was busy doing an experiment, one must never go up and disturb them.

Put away all your politeness and etiquette; keeping as quiet as possible at this time is the greatest politeness you can show them.

Leaving the pharmacy, Tyr walked toward the training field from yesterday.

The burly man was still standing outside the training field. Seeing that Tyr was the first to arrive, a look of surprise clearly flashed across his face.

Although the stronger one's talent was, the faster they absorbed the medicinal power, the other children had arrived much earlier than Tyr.

They had taken the medicinal bath more than once, so their absorption speed was bound to be faster than when they first started.

Among them, the Letitia and Silas siblings, along with another named Barry, were the standouts of this batch, and their talent could definitely be considered top-tier.

Yet the first one to arrive here now was Tyr, which showed that this little fellow's talent was even more monstrous.

“I'm the person in charge of the training field, Ed Weddell. Since this is your first time here, let me explain the rules to you first.”

Ed conjured a magic power barrier to envelop Tyr, then led him inside.

Upon entering the training field, Tyr was shocked by the scene before his eyes.

Countless swords were thrust into the ground of the training field. Among them, several swords emitting a terrifying aura were tightly bound by multiple iron chains.

Those chains were engraved with dense runes, and a faint magical glow shimmered on their surface.

“Hum... Hum...”

Those knightly swords emitting terrifying auras were constantly trembling, as if they were locked-up people struggling with all their might to break free and escape this place.

“Clang! Clang!”

Magic power flowed along the chains, locking the fluctuating swords in place far away and producing crisp, ringing sounds.

At this moment, Tyr truly realized why this place was called the Sword Prison.

This place was a prison for confining swords.

“How is it? Are you shocked by the scene here?”

Ed, who was walking ahead, turned his head and saw the change in Tyr's expression. He could basically guess what Tyr was thinking.

“When I first came here, I was pretty much the same as you.”

It should be said that almost everyone who came here for the first time had more or less the same expression, completely awestruck by everything.

“All the sharp swords here were confiscated by the Callis family from their enemies. In the end, they were imprisoned here to serve as fuel for nurturing the descendants of the Callis family.”

“See those swords at the very center? Those were the handiwork of the Grand Dukes of the Callis family throughout the generations.”

“However, what you see now are just their phantoms. The real physical swords aren't here. Otherwise, the moment we stepped in, we would have been shredded into mincemeat by the sword qi.”

For just a weapon to cause such a commotion, with each requiring several chains to seal it, the current Tyr found it hard to imagine how powerful their owners must have been.

“Alright, kid, start cultivating the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》. Once you can run the technique smoothly, I will remove the magic power barrier and let you face the sky full of sword qi on this training field yourself.”

“Just a friendly warning: if you don't cultivate the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 well, you can die here. Quite a few people die here in every batch.”

The Grand Election of the Callis family gave everyone with Callis blood a chance, but opportunity also meant paying a corresponding price.

“Understood.”

Tyr nodded, sat cross-legged, and began to run the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》.

He had already studied the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 thoroughly yesterday. To put it simply, it used magic power to stimulate the acupoints on the body, causing the body to burst with a massive amount of vitality, thereby utilizing the sword qi to temper the physical body.

Of course, there was no such concept as acupoints in this world. The reason Tyr believed it stimulated acupoints with magic power was because the nodes of the magic power pathways in the technique all passed through these acupoints.

As a descendant of an ancient martial arts family, Tyr naturally understood the acupoints in the human body.

According to the 《Huangdi Neijing》, there are 365 acupoints in the human body, corresponding to the solar terms of a year. All acupoints are places where qi, blood, and spirit travel in and out.

However, there were only 128 acupoints in the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》, which wasn't even half of the human body's acupoints.

Tyr didn't know whether the technique could only utilize these 128 acupoints, or if it was due to the cultural limitations of this world that they had only discovered these 128 acupoints.

He felt it was likely the latter. After all, acupoints were invisible to the naked eye, and even the science of his past life could not prove their existence.

Tyr did have plans to modify the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 to see what would happen if he connected all the acupoints.

But for this first time, he still intended to honestly cultivate the family's 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》. Ed had said that people could die here.

Tyr didn't want to joke with his own life. He planned to make his own attempts only after cultivating the existing 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》 to a certain level.

With this in mind, Tyr calmed his mind and began to channel the magic power within his body. Following the description of the 《Sword Qi Body Tempering Technique》, he directed the magic power in his body to flow through the aforementioned acupoints one by one.