I think you guys might have a wire or two crossed. Gryphon doesn't know the Jyuraian Jei technique, which involves using an object (normally a carved piece of wood) as a focus for manifesting and controlling a blade composed entirely of the wielder's own concentrated spirit energy. That's a trick that very few, if any, people outside the Jyuraian royal family can do, and it isn't in his repertoire.

You made be conflating it with the shinseina tamashiken, Katsujinkenryš's trademark "Inviolate Soul Blade" technique, in which a normal weapon is reinforced with the wielder's ki to make it abnormally resistant to inconveniences like breakage and being cut in half by someone with a lightsaber. Both methods can be used to fight a high-level esper battle with a stick, but the implementations are a bit different. :)

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