That was not even the worst of it. When their lifespans ran out, the Tribulation of Vital Energy they encountered was also far stronger than that of ordinary cultivators.
As everyone knew, for cultivators undergoing the Tribulation of Vital Energy, each time was harder than the last, but the first time was always very simple. As long as one's divine abilities were not too weak, far inferior to cultivators of the same rank, one could basically transcend the tribulation with ease. But sword cultivators, despite being far stronger than cultivators of other schools at the same rank, often had as many as seventy percent perish during their first Tribulation Transcendence, to say nothing of the second and third...
Thus high-level sword cultivators were pitifully few. In that great war that lasted ten thousand years, there were actually only two Tribulation Transcendence Realm existences among the sword cultivators. It was said they were a pair of dual-cultivation Dao companions, and both were only at the early stage. Yet it was precisely this husband and wife who led a group of Spirit Division Realm sword cultivators to clash head-on with Tribulation Transcendence Realm existences from the various great schools. Each time, they were besieged by enemies several times their number, and there were even Loose Immortals participating.
Even so, they escaped again and again, and in the end it was only with the help of a formation that they were finally exterminated.
From this point alone, one could see that the combat strength of sword cultivators was indeed ferocious.
But what use was that? Their flaws were far too obvious. Cultivators of other schools had no interest in them and burned those classics to ash in a single fire. As for sword cultivators, they were wanted across the entire Spirit World, killed