Rules came from reality, yet transcended reality.
Cultivation was exactly that.
As a Supreme Douluo, one needed to observe the laws by which heaven and earth operated, and comprehend the principles behind all things in the universe.
In this process, the mind served as the catalyst, drawing threads from the tangled complexity of the world, peeling away the layers, refining one's own understanding, and then smelting that understanding into rules.
Soul Power and Mental Power were borne by the physical body; intent and conception required the support of Mental Power; and a domain required a virtual soul as its foundation.
Rules, likewise, needed a vessel of their own before they could manifest.
Just like Chen Zixiu—he used his own will of the heart to bear that illusory, intangible Sword Intent.
The will of the heart and Void Sword Intent fused with each other, and only after constant refinement did their true meaning gradually reveal itself.
His Void Sword Intent had been sublimated from Selfless Sword Intent, and its quality was already a cut above others. Naturally, fusing with it was fraught with difficulty.
Strictly speaking, intent and conception were actually attribute-based manifestations of Mental Power. Then, by attaching Soul Power and magnifying them through the Martial Soul, one could greatly enhance abilities such as attack and defense.
If one used a cultivation progress bar to describe it, then it went from the initial intent, to the small accomplishment of Selfless Sword Intent, then to the great accomplishment of Void Sword Intent, and after that, through constant refinement, the process gradually moved toward perfection.
When that refinement reached its limit and brought about a qualitative change, that was the formation of rules. In truth, this shared the same underlying principle as the compression of Soul Power.
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