Supreme Clarity Flying Sword
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- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background & History
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Law Annihilation
- 6.2Sword Light Differentiation
- 6.3Sword Qi Thunder Sound
- 6.4Refining Sword into Silk and Advanced Sword Techniques
- 6.5Electromagnetic and Array Acceleration
- 6.6Material Absorption and Refinement
- 7Relationships
- 8Notable Quotes
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Supreme Clarity Flying Sword (太清飞剑) |
| Alias(es) | Taiqing Flying Sword; Great Sun Flying Sword |
| Species/Race | Sentient natal flying sword / Magic Treasure |
| Affiliation | Great Sun Sword Pavilion lineage; Jiang Ding |
| Occupation/Role | Jiang Ding's Destiny Magical Sword and primary weapon |
| Status | Active; later refined into a Ninth Tribulation Supreme Imperial Weapon 2240 |
| First Appearance | Supreme Clarity Divine Iron Sword Embryo 145 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Clarity Divine Iron Sword Embryo | 145 | Jiang Ding engraves its initial three-dimensional formations. The embryo can gradually strengthen his divine soul, but is dangerous to carry. 145 |
| Top-tier magical artifact | 280 | Clashes continuously with the mid-grade Magic Treasure Li Yun Sword and chips its blade despite the disparity in grade. 280 |
| Second Earth Fiend Restriction | 509 | Tempered with Synthetic Geng Metal No. 21, a Sunflame Crystal, and a Moonstream Crystal through the Great Sun Heavenly Pool Sword Refining Method. 509 |
| Infant Treasure | 679 | Reaches Earth Fiend Great Perfection and survives a Magic Treasure Heavenly Tribulation amplified by the Myriad Magnetic Thundercloud Array. 679 |
| Second Heavenly Dipper Restriction | 756 | Jiang Ding completes the second Great Sun Divine Restriction after refining Blazing Sun Spirit Iron into the sword. 756 |
| Mid-grade Primordial Spirit Treasure | 1017 | The twenty-four Great Sun Heavenly Gang Rune Stars unite after the final Heavenly Gang Divine Prohibition is inscribed. 1017 |
| Pinnacle Primordial Spirit Treasure / Quasi-Emperor Weapon | 1173 | Its thirty-six Sun God Forbidden Arts reach Great Perfection, exhausting the limits below the Great Emperor Weapon tier. 1173 |
| Void Refinement Magic Treasure | 1285 | Evolves from the Great Sun Destruction Order into the Great Sun Destruction Rule and passes its Void Refinement Magic Treasure lightning tribulation. 1285 |
| True Eighth-Order Sword Embryo | 1554 | The Dream Heaven Crystal smelted from Ice Crystal Dream Butterfly Wings merges into the sword, elevating it from quasi-eighth order. 1554 |
| Nine-colored flying sword | 1773 | Its aura solidifies surrounding spiritual essence and destabilizes heavenly tribulation lightning before cutting the tribulation apart. 1773 |
| Quasi-Immortal Tier Sword Embryo | 1932 | Absorbs Natural Treasures and the Natal Magical Treasures of the Nine Great Dao Children, undergoing a Nirvana-like metamorphosis beyond prior limits. 1932 |
| Eighth-step quasi-immortal Sword Embryo | 2033 | Refined for nearly a century with sun-extinguishing rule materials, entering the eighth-tier ultimate Magic Treasure rank. 2033 |
| Immortal Grade Flying Sword Embryo | 2120 | Forged from Supreme Great Sun Spirit Gold, Fusang Divine Wood, Sun Immortal Fruit, and countless Natural Treasures over nearly two hundred thousand years. 2120 |
| Ninth Tribulation Supreme Imperial Weapon | 2240 | Becomes a future Imperial Dao King Artifact born from the Great Dao of Law Annihilation. 2240 |
Background & History
The sword began as a Supreme Clarity Divine Iron Sword Embryo. Jiang Ding engraved formations into its semi-liquid divine-iron body with metal liquid produced by his Blue Gold Sapling, establishing its connection to his divine soul and enabling its long-term soul-enhancing effect. 145
It later incorporated Law-Breaking Immortal Gold alongside Supreme Clarity Divine Iron. This combination gave its blade innate Law Annihilation properties: even without activating a sword technique, its strikes could break laws and exceed a Mid Golden Core cultivator's full-power attack. 661
As an Infant Treasure, it faced its heavenly tribulation directly rather than accepting protection from Jiang Ding. The sword was heavily damaged by the manifestation of the tribulation, but its willingness to endure destruction reflected the self-destructive and transcendent tendencies embedded in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's refining method. 679
Its refinement increasingly depended on rare materials. After becoming an Infant Treasure, fourth-grade metal-attributed Natural Treasures became the minimum acceptable refining resources; lower-grade materials could be digested, but would leave it dissatisfied and slow its growth. 673
Jiang Ding later changed from gradual refinement to a more dangerous path: forging the sword through combat, powerful enemies, and increasingly advanced divine metals. The sword repeatedly underwent qualitative transformations alongside Jiang Ding's Sword Soul and Dao Body. 1383 1402 1408
Appearance
The Taiqing Flying Sword is most often depicted as a three-foot blue-gold blade, radiant yet compact. Its appearance changes markedly as its material foundation and Law Annihilation inheritance advance.
- Blue-gold blade — Its early established appearance, carrying scorching, sharp, and law-breaking sword light. 478 661
- Sun God Wood form — During repair and cultivation, it can transform into a thousand-meter-tall blue-gold tree that absorbs solar essence and spiritual qi. 756
- Nine-colored sword — At a later stage, it appears as a sword of luminous green with eight dim colors, capable of freezing the spiritual essence of heaven and earth. 1773
- Colorless, seven-hued form — Following Nirvana, it appears pure white and colorless from one angle, yet dreamlike and seven-colored from another. 1932
- Twilight dark-gold form — As an Immortal Grade Sword Embryo, it is described as hazy and dark gold, forged from Supreme Great Sun Spirit Gold. 2120
Personality
The sword possesses a simple but distinct spiritual consciousness. It communicates in incomplete thoughts and regards dangerous refinement, battle, and even destruction as desirable paths toward growth. When Jiang Ding questions whether it truly wishes to confront its tribulation, it answers that it is happy and that this is what it wants. 679
Its spirituality is an extension of Jiang Ding's own will rather than an outside influence. Jiang Ding identifies its destructive, killing-oriented tendency as an externalization of part of his own spirit, inherited through the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's sword-forging tradition. 679
The sword is also highly responsive to Jiang Ding's ambitions. It vibrates in agreement when he decides to pursue the complete Sun Sword Refining Method and strengthen its foundation by slaying powerful enemies. 1383
Abilities & Skills
Law Annihilation
The sword's core trait is its ability to break, suppress, and annihilate spiritual laws.
- Its Supreme Clarity Divine Iron and Law-Breaking Immortal Gold composition gives it inherent Law Annihilation effects. 661
- It can sever spirits and directly threaten spiritual entities rather than relying solely on physical sharpness. 479 2046
- When coated in the black-yellow light of the Yellow Springs River, it dissipates spiritual substances, rules, and Heavenly Dao Law Nets with almost no resistance. 1562
- As a Law Annihilation sword, it is naturally resistant to spatial sealing, rule sealing, and Great Dao suppression techniques. 2046
Sword Light Differentiation
The Taiqing Flying Sword can divide into multiple identical sword lights to form sword arrays.
- It creates nine identical flying swords at the peak of the first Sword Dao realm. 478
- Jiang Ding combines the differentiated swords with the Magnetic Field Spirit Energy Gathering and Killing Array, covering an area of roughly ten kilometers. 479
- The differentiated swords retain its law-breaking and destructive attributes. 478
Sword Qi Thunder Sound
Through Sword Intent, the sword can enter a semi-material, semi-energy state and reduce spatial resistance.
- Sword Intent creates a “spatial superhighway” along the sword's path, drastically increasing its speed. 663
- This state allows Golden Core-level power to threaten or pierce Nascent Soul defenses. 663
- The sword's speed can surpass the perception of Nascent Soul spiritual sense. 648
Refining Sword into Silk and Advanced Sword Techniques
The flying sword carries Jiang Ding's advancing Sword Dao techniques, including Sword Qi Thunder Sound, Refining Sword into Silk, Sword Realm, and the Spirit of Sword Techniques. 1513
- Refining Sword into Silk condenses sword qi and will to an extreme, combining hardness with an outwardly soft sword light. 855
- Its extreme speed can strike multiple distant targets from identical angles without relying on Sword Light Differentiation. 779
- At higher stages, its Sword Soul can identify weaknesses in spell structures, allowing it to break a heavenly tribulation lightning rule using less than one-fifth of the lightning's power. 1536
Electromagnetic and Array Acceleration
Jiang Ding can amplify the sword through large-scale formations and mechanical systems.
- The Magnetic Field Spirit Energy Gathering and Killing Array provides extreme propulsion and supports long-range sword arrays. 318 479
- The Dyson Solar Sword Domain can manifest through the sword alone, greatly expanding Jiang Ding's spiritual-energy control and divine-sense calculations. 956
- The Six Paths of Reincarnation can function as successive electromagnetic accelerators, repeatedly increasing the sword's velocity and destructive force. 1513
- Passing through the Yellow Springs River further removes friction from the immortal environment and pushes its speed beyond Dao Integration spiritual-sense perception. 1562
Material Absorption and Refinement
The Taiqing Flying Sword continually grows by consuming and refining metal-attributed Natural Treasures, divine gold, and defeated enemies' Magical Treasures.
- It requires increasingly high-grade materials as its rank rises; at the Infant Treasure stage, fourth-grade Natural Treasures are its baseline refining resource. 673
- During its eighth-order refinement, it absorbed millions of tons of Natural Treasures without increasing in visible size. 1554
- If stripped of sentience and Jiang Ding's restraint in a spiritless universe, its mass would cause it to become a white-dwarf-like star with immense gravity. 1554
- It later absorbs the Destiny Magical Treasures of Divine Sons, Buddha Sons, and the Nine Great Dao Children to deepen its inheritance. 1880 1932
Relationships
- Jiang Ding — Owner, Sword Master, and spiritual counterpart. The sword is his Destiny Magical Sword, and its advancement directly enhances his magic power, divine sense, Sword Soul, and combat ability. 1017 1285 2033
- Yu Qianzi — Rival sword cultivator whose moon-white flying sword repeatedly clashes with the Taiqing Flying Sword. Yu Qianzi envies the Taiqing's spirit-enhancing ability. 479
- Great Sun Heavenly Pool — Its principal refining site and source of specialized Sword Dao resources, including the Sunflame and Moonstream Sword Refining Rivers. 509 1553
- Yue — The Great Sun Heavenly Pool's spirit, who acknowledges Jiang Ding's commands to activate the Sword Refining Formation Array for the sword's advancement. 1553
Notable Quotes
"...No... Happy... This is what I... wanted..." 679