Love of the Sacred Spirit

According to what Duàn Yì knew, within the Dugu Lineage of Peerless City in this world, there were actually two sword arts capable of reaching the World-Shaking Sword Dao of Sword Twenty-Three: one was Peerless Swordplay, and the other was Sacred Spirit Swordplay.

Peerless Swordplay, like the power of Peerless City and the Dugu Lineage itself, had been created by the Dugu Lineage's founding ancestor.

The Dugu ancestor's true name and life story could no longer be verified, but the Dugu Lineage's title of Sword Saint had been forged through that ancestor's own strength. The might of Peerless Swordplay was evident from this alone.

Sacred Spirit Swordplay, meanwhile, had appeared in a most peculiar fashion. There had been no sword dao saint like Dugu Jian from The Wind and Cloud, one obsessed with the sword, mad for the sword. Instead, it had emerged as suddenly as the Yuwen Lineage's Ice Profound Energy.

And once it appeared, it shone across the heavens like a comet, sweeping over the earth and becoming another pinnacle of the sword dao.

Duàn Yì's understanding of Sacred Spirit Swordplay mostly came from information he had learned in his previous life.

The name Sacred Spirit Swordplay had actually been taken from a pair of lovers. "Sacred" referred to the Central Plains Sword Saint, Dugu Jian, while "Spirit" referred to the Sword Saint's wife and lifelong beloved, Miyamoto Yukirei.

Legend had it that Dugu Jian was a genius born for the sword. He began learning the sword at five, achieved success at seven, surpassed his teacher at nine, made his name with a single sword at thirteen, and had already comprehended a higher realm of sword dao.

Yet Dugu Jian had remained unsatisfied. He had been determined to create a flawless swordplay, but unfortunately, he himself was not