Zhou You stared at the eyes on the blade and suddenly discovered all manner of mysteries.
This eyeball was neither flesh nor blood, nor was it condensed from the sword's metal. It was formed from countless interwoven patterns.
Those patterns looked familiar. They were, astonishingly, tripod patterns—patterns belonging solely to the Nine Tripods.
Nine Tripods patterns forged into a sword—could such handiwork have come from that Sword Saint?
The first Martial Saint to attain sainthood through the Sword Way was also the first Sword Way Martial Saint since ancient times, known simply as the Sword Saint.
Among martial artists throughout the land who used swords as weapons, whether the Heavenly Southern Divine Sword or Lord of Broken Brow Mountain, all such supreme sword sects regarded the Sword Saint as their ultimate goal.
Yet only the Sword Saint could possibly forge a sword from tripod patterns.
After all, although Zhou You had seen the Nine Tripods more than once and had even refined the Nine Tripods True Pupils using tripod patterns, he still could not turn them into tangible objects.
Even someone as cunning and calculating as Lord Chongyang had sacrificed a life merely to refine two eyeballs into physical form.
The Tongzhu Sword in Sleeping Bamboo Empress's hand was not only the vessel of her profound art, but also a Martial Saint divine weapon and a vessel for Nine Tripods patterns.
The power of two sets of Nine Tripods patterns confronted each other across the void. In an instant, this land was dragged into the world of the Nine Tripods.
It was just like the world everyone had entered during the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony at the Imperial Palace of Heaven Worship.
The difference was that on that day, the Nine Tripods had stretched across heaven and earth like celestial bodies.