"Impossible. I'm fairly handy with swordsmanship." I smiled, then casually pulled an ordinary longsword from my storage bag. Quite a few immortals had fallen by my hand, so naturally, I had all kinds of divine weapons and sharp treasures on me. Of course, although this longsword wasn't anything special, it was more than enough to deal with Xin Lei.
Xin Lei stood there proudly. I leaned forward, instantly turning into a streak of sword light and arriving in the arena as well.
"Sword-Transformation Step!"
"Could it be that he really cultivates the sword as well?"
"That's impossible. He must be using some other spell to fool our eyes!"
"Exactly. How could anyone cultivate every kind of spell?!"
The immortals all clicked their tongues in amazement. They had all seen the shadow of a sword cultivator in my movement technique, but most of them still clung to the belief that I was deceiving them.
"Daoist Xin Lei, please." I flourished the sword in my hand and took up a stance.
The sword techniques of the Eight Desolations were actually simple and brutal, without too many fancy moves. If the sword techniques of Proving the Dao Heaven were endless, then the sword techniques here in the Eight Desolations were merely several major lineages branching into various minor variations. Thus, I had basically studied them all once over. I had also mastered all the sword techniques, martial skills, ultimate moves, divine abilities, and mental cultivation methods here.
The sword techniques of the Eight Desolations World were actually much the same as its other internal and external arts. There weren't many truly close-range attack methods, so most relied on Sword Qi. The higher one's cultivation, the faster the Sword Qi dispersed and the greater its quantity. What affected these two aspects were martial skills,