The True Meaning Within the Sword

The reason Shen Miaoling had been able to achieve Qi Introduction so quickly, aside from her single-minded focus, was mainly because she had continually deepened her connection with spiritual qi.

The man in black had once said that these three sword techniques were the Three Swords of Heaven Earth Man.

Perhaps the first move, Man's Sword, also required one to continuously strengthen one's connection with the sword in hand. Only after comprehending the method of becoming one with the sword could it be learned.

Xu Chunniang closed her eyes, withdrew her divine sense, and focused all her attention on the sword in her hand.

Countless sessions of sword practice had long made her sword moves exquisitely polished.

What she lacked was not practice, but a connection with the sword.

Becoming one with the sword required absolute harmony with it. The sword was her, and she was the sword—wielded as naturally as an arm and directed as freely as the heart desired.

The reason the man in black could control the wooden sword and unleash those three sword techniques was because his understanding of the sword had already reached an extremely profound level.

Xu Chunniang was merely a cultivator of the Dao arts. She had never encountered swordsmanship before, yet she had learned the sword in the habitual manner of a Dao arts cultivator.

Thus, though she practiced the sword day after day, she had learned only the surface and failed to understand the true meaning of sword techniques.

Sword moves had never been singular or fixed. They changed with the intent of the sword wielder, displaying different effects.

Xu Chunniang imagined herself as a sword—not sharp enough, yet sufficiently weighty, just like the sword embryo in her hand.

What the sword pointed toward was not worldly righteousness or evil, good