The sword technique stage above the Sword Realm—the Sixth Realm of Sword Dao.
It was called Sword Spirit!
During the Deity Transformation Heavenly Tribulation, Jiang Ding had not understood much about the Heavenly Sword Son's swordsmanship. He had only felt lost amid clouds and mist, knowing it far surpassed his own but not how exactly.
Now, after thousands of years of cultivation and accumulation, he understood.
The Heavenly Sword Son of the upper realm had surely just broken through to the Sixth Realm of Sword Dao, the Sword Spirit Realm!
At this realm, when a sword cultivator struck with a sword, sword intent formed its bones. Beyond Sword Light Differentiation, Thunder Sound, indestructibility, and the sword realm, a kind of "spirit" was born.
The spirit of Sentient Sword Techniques!
With one sword strike, the sword technique itself gave birth to life, assisting the sword master in controlling the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth and the order of Great Dao Rules, causing the sword cultivator's strength to surge almost by leaps and bounds.
The Heavenly Sword Son had grasped such swordsmanship the instant he broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage. It was truly terrifying.
This was what it meant to be born stronger than you, to possess a superior inheritance, and to learn faster than you as well—without a single shortcoming, software and hardware alike holding an all-round, cliff-like lead that drove people to despair.
"This is exactly how it should be."
"Even a sliver of hope for becoming a True Immortal is this wonderful!"
Fervor appeared in Jiang Ding's eyes.
A sword son from an upper-realm Near-Immortal Grade Power undoubtedly possessed a faint and ethereal hope of ascending to immortality. That possibility might be incomparably tiny, but it truly existed.
And the sword cultivator who slew such a