Gong Qi showed not the slightest hint of disappointment. Instead, she carefully reviewed everything that had happened before, corrected her mistakes, and adjusted a new Immortal Qi circulation path.
She had long since become thoroughly familiar with this state.
Her second attempt—failure!
Her third attempt—still a failure...
Even Gong Qi herself had lost track of how many times she had tried. As long as the Immortal Qi in her body had not been exhausted, she would keep casting it.
Of course, she was not casting blindly.
Before using the Phoenix Annihilation Sword each time, Gong Qi would revisit the sensation from her previous execution of the sword move, striving not to make the same mistake twice while also catching new flashes of inspiration and putting them into practice.
Around the twenty-ninth attempt, the phantom of an ice phoenix finally condensed around Gong Qi's sword tip. Its aura was steady yet razor-sharp, carrying a powerful oppressive force.
At first glance, it actually bore some resemblance to Gong San's scarlet phoenix soul.
Gong Qi suppressed the excitement in her heart. Once the phoenix phantom hung in the air, sword shadows should have soared into the heavens.
Yet the instant those sword shadows began to condense, the ice phoenix phantom struck and scattered them.
Gong Qi was stunned as well.
"Was that... because the two auras conflicted with each other?"
Or perhaps the sword soul and phoenix soul simply could not coexist.
When using Myriad Swords Return to Soul, the sword intent in the surroundings was all governed by the sword soul, which possessed complete offensive awareness.
But when it came to the Phoenix Annihilation Sword, it seemed entirely different.
Gong Qi recalled how Gong San had used the Phoenix Annihilation Sword as Immortal Qi quietly circulated within her body.
"Third Sister's sword