Learned from the Azure Cloud Sword Manual, earned by defeating Sensei Yun. Fight with any sword (sword, longsword, uchigatana, tachi, the Bandit Dao or the Azure Cloud) in combat mode.

Techniques

• Cloud Step Slash · Thousand Drizzle · Heaven-Splitting Crescent
• Secret: Swallow Returns · Finisher: Last Rain Over the Clouds

Passive: Flowing Cloud Stance

While this art is your main style, a strike that lands gives 1 Qi (once per swing) and a perfect parry gives 6 Qi and opens a riposte.

M1 strikes

Pick four of six for your left-click chain in the manual (click a slot, right-click for the previous). The fourth must be Rising Cloud or Falling Rain.

• Drifting Cut ×1.0, quick horizontal cut · Returning Cut ×1.0, the backhand
• Piercing Mist ×1.1, long thrust, ignores 20 armour · Rising Cloud ×1.0, lifts the target
• Falling Rain ×1.25, knocks down, also your air attack · Wind Step ×1.1, sprinting attack, 3 targets

Quests

• The Patient Blade: perfect-parry enemies 0/10, then cut enemies with Cloud Step Slash 0/5 → Thousand Drizzle
• Above the Sea of Clouds: ring the sanctuary bell 0/1, then end 3 combos of 3+ hits with a knockdown → Heaven-Splitting Crescent

Mastery & evolutions

Each technique gains +1 mastery (out of 100) per cast that hits; the passive +1 per 8 strikes that land. Style mastery is their average.

• 30 · Thousand-Li Cloud Step: a second dash within 1.5 s is free.
• 60 · Storm of Needles: a wider flurry, plus a Qi needle (×0.5) piercing 8 blocks.
• 90 · Azure Heaven Crescent: adds a vertical Qi blade (×1.0) piercing 10 blocks.