"You'd better not bring out that so-called swordsmanship to make a fool of yourself."
Jiang Ding walked within the resplendent Destruction Sword Domain.
The surrounding space shimmered hazily. Great Sun Destruction Sword Intent blanketed all directions, heat waves billowing as the temperature reached tens of thousands of degrees Celsius—enough to turn any carbon-based lifeform into charcoal and ash. It had already begun to possess one ten-thousandth of a true sun's majesty.
One had to know that even the temperature at the sun's core was only twenty million degrees Celsius.
Calling it a juvenile star that was still growing was not much of an exaggeration.
"Indeed... this old man has made a fool of himself."
Xu Yan staggered backward while vomiting blood, using his sword as ground to steady himself in the void. His voice was low.
He knew that his two thousand years of solitary exploration, his arrogant ambition to carve out a Heaven-Soaring Void Refinement path all by himself, had been nothing more than an illusory bubble.
At this moment, let alone ascending to Void Refinement through this path, he could not even defeat a Nascent Soul Realm Great Sun Sword Son. He had been crushed brutally and directly.
This path had been declared a failure.
Exploring alone, at most with the participation of some unworthy Xu family descendants, had ultimately produced nothing but a balloon riddled with holes. One casual flick, and it burst apart.
It was not because his talent or aptitude was lacking.
Rather, the difficulty of opening a path alone was simply too great!
No matter how extraordinarily gifted someone was, without the orderly inheritance of predecessors, without outside assistance, without the shared efforts and mutual encouragement of countless fellow Daoists—
Such a feat as opening a great path was fundamentally impossible!
No matter how