Xiang Yang was a pure martial artist. He had his own insights and understanding of the martial path; in a sense, he could also be called an extraordinarily pioneering researcher.
He had created many martial arts himself, including the ten first-rate blade techniques of the age he had previously given the Fifth Family as betrothal gifts. Yet no martial art had ever made him so cautious.
The Myriad Manifestation Divine Skill of Self-Liberation was a method inclined toward the demonic path. Using it even once would greatly consume a martial artist's reserves and foundation, and it could not be employed lightly.
Take the three treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit. For a whole person, consuming one part over a short period—such as mental strength, blood vitality, or true qi—was no great matter, because recovery could be supported by the other one or two aspects.
But consuming all three at once was far more rash, carrying enormous hidden dangers and backlash.
Martial arts like this were generally explosive techniques akin to the Heavenly Demon Dissolution Great Law. The Blade Wielding Technique and the Little Li Flying Dagger could both be counted among such martial arts—trump cards kept at the bottom of the chest, methods to decide victory.
Besides draining cultivation and one's foundation, this martial art had another terrifying aspect: the achievement previously mentioned, something akin to an external incarnation.
Xiang Yang wanted to make a blade, pouring his own Essence, Qi, Spirit, and blood into it. It was equivalent to granting it flesh and soul, creating another self.
It would have no human body, yet it would possess a blade's body, a blade's soul, and the Blade Wielding Technique's terrifying bloodthirsty capability.
For every master it killed, it could plunder the essence of their flesh and blood, possessing limitless potential