It wasn't just me—even Li Poxiao wore an incredulous expression when he heard this. Li Taichong looked at his disciples and continued, "No one has cultivated the Heavenly Secrets Path for a long time. You don't know this because hundreds of years ago, your predecessor Li Taigan took it away from the Qiankun Dao. As a result, none of you knew that the Heavenly Secrets Path had once been one of the major branches of our Qiankun Dao—the lineage once cultivated exclusively by sword attendants."
"Exclusively cultivated by sword attendants...? But we'd never heard of that. Didn't sword attendants cultivate the Qiankun Dao too...?" one disciple hurriedly asked, disbelief written across his face.
"Heh... They did cultivate the Qiankun Dao. After all, long before my generation, the Qiankun Dao had already stopped cultivating the Heavenly Secrets Path. Its techniques were too fierce and deadly, its power peerless—so much so that even the Qiankun Dao could not compare." Li Taichong smiled bitterly.
Another female disciple was instantly astonished and hurriedly asked, "Then why didn't they choose the Heavenly Secrets Path if it was even more powerful than the Qiankun Dao? That doesn't make sense... Ah, could it be..."
It had to be said that no disciple capable of entering the Qiankun Dao lacked intelligence and talent. Li Taichong nodded slightly and explained, "That's right. The Heavenly Secrets Path is immensely powerful and contains boundless heavenly secrets, but because it pursues the ultimate sword intent, no one without a powerful spirit can fully control it. Some people were even driven mad by it. So I think that was why our predecessors made sword attendants give up cultivating the Heavenly Secrets Path. It was also meant to reduce the killing."
"Reduce the killing... Sword attendants exclusively cultivated the Heavenly Secrets Path... Could it