Inside the cultivation room.
Jiang Ding wielded his sword in a dance, internal energy condensed within the blade without dispersing in the slightest. A streak of sword light swept past, evenly cleaving the air in two and leaving behind a sword shadow suspended in the air.
One after another, the sword strikes grew faster and faster, and the sword shadows multiplied until they filled the entire cultivation room.
The sword was sheathed.
The sword shadows vanished in succession, and the somewhat congested space gradually cleared.
"These sword shadows... are utterly useless. Just superficial decoration."
Jiang Ding had no strength left to complain.
After expanding his reading continuously these past days, he had finally figured out where his inexplicable comprehension of sword shadows had come from.
It was precisely the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Great Brightness Sword Art.
In the past, quite a few Qi Refining Realm and Foundation Establishment Realm disciples of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, had favored this school of sword art. Many practiced it, and it often achieved unexpected results against enemies.
Despite all the "great" and "brightness" in its name, this was actually an exceedingly sinister and cunning sword art—including its name.
Its principle was to use light-element spells to create one or several grand and righteous Sword Qi attacks with a certain degree of power. Their power was weak, but their strength lay in being able to draw endlessly upon the Great Sun.
Yet its true killing move was an invisible Sword Qi concealed beneath those light-element Sword Qi attacks!
This was the true essence of the Great Brightness Sword Art. The name of the sword art and the grand, majestic Sword Qi were all for the sake of this sinister, vicious strike. Often, before the opponent understood