Threads upon threads of pain appeared in the lake of his heart, only to be suppressed by the Destructive Sword Intent, unable to affect his True Heart.
The next moment, an image appeared before Jiang Ding.
It was the scene of a boy practicing swordsmanship in Shallow Water Village. He was eleven or twelve, still underage. Every day, he logged into Sword Ascends the World and, with the system's help, practiced Shallow Water Village's distinctive Basic Sword Technique, Fish Slaying Sword Art, tirelessly until his allotted game time as a minor ran out.
His dream was to enter the Adult Sword Dao Department and become a handsome, dashing sword immortal like those in television shows and films.
"This is good. The Immortal Sect's youths have new dreams..."
Jiang Ding muttered, his vision blurring for a moment.
In a daze, he became that youth, practicing the sword day and night, carrying an immature dream in his heart, curious about everything, utterly forgetting the more than two hundred years of his own past.
Clang!
The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword rang.
"The remnants of Blazing Sun Spirit Iron's Sword Dao Will..."
The influence was only slight, and clarity returned to Jiang Ding's eyes.
The will of a mortal was insignificant to a Golden Core Cultivator. Yet after being tempered in the Illusory Realm, then forged, purified, and put through countless processes at Blazing Sun Spirit Iron Factory No. 1, it was enough to send most Nascent Soul Cultivators into Qi Deviation. It was exceedingly dangerous.
This was the hidden danger of Blazing Sun Spirit Iron, and also the reason the Taiyin Lineage existed alongside the Great Sun Lineage within the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion.
"These... are nothing much."
Jiang Ding said indifferently.
His divine soul and Sword Intent actively sank into those remnants