Xie Lingfeng drew several deep breaths to calm himself, then said in a low voice, "Brother Xu, continue!"
"Do you really want me to continue?"
Xu Yan hesitated.
"Continue!"
Xie Lingfeng gritted his teeth.
"All right."
Xu Yan nodded and continued, "After Bone Refining comes Organ Refining... When your bones and muscles thunder and your Vital Energy is like Steel Aura, you have merely entered the martial path. And I have already reached perfection in the Qi and Blood Realm!"
After Xu Yan finished speaking, Xie Lingfeng felt as if his head were about to explode. A buzzing rang in his ears, accompanied by a burning sensation.
His brain seemed to have caught fire!
He panted, his eyes gradually losing focus as he began to question his entire life.
He had cultivated the martial path from the age of six, entering the sword path at six... Everyone praised him as the greatest sword genius of Sword Venerate Cliff in a thousand years.
He had thought so himself.
Looking across the Inner Domain, there were only a handful among his peers who could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
And in the art of the sword, he was the number-one among his generation.
Yet after coming to the borderlands, he seemed to have discovered a cruel truth: he had never even stepped through the gate of the sword path.
Even the martial path he cultivated was a False Martial Dao!
Hu Shan panted heavily, his eyes bloodshot. Gritting his teeth, he growled, "Stop spouting nonsense! How could the inheritance of Sword Venerate Cliff be a False Martial Dao?"
Xu Yan did not get angry. Instead, his gaze was filled with pity. Truly pitiful—after cultivating for most of his life, he had only now discovered that what he practiced was a False