Based on the intelligence Xiang Yang had gathered about Blade Obsessed and Sword Obsessed over this period, he knew that the martial arts they cultivated were split versions of an overwhelmingly powerful art—a complete blade-and-sword combined attack martial art, divided between two practitioners.
The elder brother, Blade Obsessed, practiced the blade, while the younger brother, Sword Obsessed, practiced the sword. As their realms rose and their horizons broadened, they had each struck out along a new path, adding to and altering their respective arts until they had departed from the original martial framework.
Sword Obsessed hung motionless in the air. A sword-light flashed from his eyes like lightning and pierced toward Xiang Yang, drawing forth an immense sword qi several zhang long from the void. It took the form of Sword Unraveling Rock, and a stern Divine Might surged into Xiang Yang's primordial spirit.
A sword was a swordsman's life. To hold a sword was to hold one's life; to abandon it was to abandon resistance. Sword unraveling, sword unraveling—it contained a vast sword intent that dismantled an opponent's will to resist.
With supreme cultivation, Sword Obsessed drove the Insight Technique to unleash his first sword strike. It was both a probe and a greeting.
No matter how lofty one's cultivation or powerful one's martial arts, anyone lacking a steadfast will was unworthy of crossing blades with Sword Obsessed.
"Excellent cultivation. Xiang admits he cannot match this move."
Xiang Yang spoke within that fleeting interval, his praise utterly sincere.
In his early years, within the Divine Constable Gate dungeon of Qingjiang Prefecture, he had obtained the cultivation method for the Insight Technique from a swordsman. He had trained it painstakingly and had once believed he had mastered it completely.
An ordinary martial artist, caught by his Insight Technique, would suffer