I Became a Supporting Character in a Martial Arts Novel (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 56

Summer passed safely.

Even though it was just living through an ordinary life with no real changes, because my mindset had shifted, I had been so unexpectedly busy each day that I hadn’t even noticed the season changing.

Having resolved to show a bit more courtesy toward life, the first thing I implemented was temporarily stopping what I’d done until now—devoting entire days solely to cultivation.

It’s an undeniable truth that cultivation always translates into skill, but until now I’d practiced with such obsessive compulsion that this break was merely a brief period of recovery.

Thus, I started talking a little more with my fellow disciples, with whom I’d unintentionally kept distant, and occasionally even read ordinary books.

‘Though in Dao Sect terms, “ordinary books” inevitably meant Daoist scriptures.’

I considered it meaningful in terms of broadening my knowledge and cultivating my mind.

By practicing just enough to avoid losing my edge and spending the rest on other activities, when I later increased the time I held my sword again, I began by shedding my modern consciousness and eliminating the instinctive fear of pointing a blade at another person.

Through this effort, I experienced several minor epiphanies in martial cultivation.

My sword path became much more refined, my hesitation vanished, and I could execute sword techniques far more delicately than before—proof that this rest had been worthwhile.

Simply changing my perspective had brought about numerous improvements in a much better direction.

Because so much had happened even in this short period, I suddenly recalled my former goal—now rendered meaningless—only after the solar term Chuseo (End of Heat) had passed.

‘Was it just about safely reaching eighteen? If nothing major happens in the remaining months, I might even achieve that meaningless goal, at least in hindsight…’

Thinking this way always gives me the feeling that something is bound to happen, but logically, that shouldn’t be the case.

After all, the Sect Leader, having heard from me about the Demonic Sect following the recent Seongchang Merchant Guild incident, is now deliberately and discreetly inspecting the sect internally.

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