The Choice of the Sword Dao
The second Sword Intent was the Five Elements Sword Intent, something Gong Qi had never seen before. It evolved from the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
Compared to the first Sword Intent, the second was so weak it was unbelievable.
With a casual stroke of her sword, Gong Qi shattered the second Sword Intent.
The second Sword Intent turned into countless streams of light and merged into Gong Qi's body. In an instant, she had gained an entry-level grasp of the Five Elements Sword Intent.
She found it somewhat baffling, yet also rather novel.
Gong Qi went on to defeat ten more sword souls, absorbing ten more Sword Intents.
Two of those ten Sword Intents were ones she had comprehended before. The sword souls were clearly nowhere near as strong as those tied to Sword Intents she had not comprehended.
As she fought, Gong Qi could not help feeling uneasy.
First, comprehending Sword Intent seemed far too easy. It was like gathering puzzle pieces—once she collected them all, could she comprehend a Sword Intent to its ultimate extreme?
Wasn't that a little too easy?
Having lived for more than three thousand years, Gong Qi had never seen such an effortless method of cultivation.
Second, she was still influenced by that previous great master of the Solitude Sword Intent.
Comprehending so many Sword Intents at once perfectly matched what that great master had called being broad but mixed. Would it affect her future cultivation?
Yet what puzzled Gong Qi was this.
With that great master of the Solitude Sword Intent, she had chosen to comprehend it herself, only to be told in the end that the more Sword Intents one learned, the more easily one would descend into chaos and delay