The sparring between the two had not stopped.
Cultivation often had many paths...
The first was self-enlightenment!
Every cultivation method in this Chaos had been created by living beings.
All techniques had roots, then branched and spread, growing fuller by the day and forming different schools...
The very first cultivation method had been formed through self-enlightenment.
The second was instruction!
With their master above them, they passed down everything they had comprehended throughout their lives, generation after generation, forming schools, sects, and sacred lands...
This was instruction from the top down: treading the paths forged by those who came before. It was also the most common method of cultivation among the countless living beings.
The third was tempering!
That meant verifying what one had gained through constant real combat—perhaps gaining profound insights, perhaps achieving sudden enlightenment in a single moment, or perhaps suddenly unraveling a confusion in one's heart.
In truth, tempering could also be considered a form of self-enlightenment.
Hua Tianming could no longer gain much from Beginning Origin Swordplay, so he could only choose the path of tempering and press onward.
Yet it was only after ascending that he realized how crude the sword arts of the universe were!
There might also be some peerlessly exquisite sword arts in this universe, but unfortunately, Hua Tianming could not go there...
That Sword Pavilion, that Slaughter Sword Mountain, that Sword Washing Pool...
Hua Tianming, in the Divine Sea Realm, had not revealed too much of himself in the Rank Ten sacred lands. After all, he was only in the Divine Sea Realm. If the Great Powers within those sacred lands coveted Hua Tianming's inheritance, he would probably run into enormous trouble.
But now, in this Dreamlike Battlefield, his reputation had spread throughout the entire universe. Facing Luo Zheng, he could