Robbing Swords

Small-scale cultivator battles emphasized planning, stratagems, and all manner of methods, with many possible twists and turns.

Large-scale cultivator battles, when everyone swarmed together in a chaotic charge, instead placed greater emphasis on straightforward shifts between offense and defense.

If one side held an advantage in either attack or defense, their chances of victory were much greater.

The conflict with Duanjin Gate was the same.

With Metal-Suppressing Armor capable of blocking metal-element Dao Methods, those of equal cultivation would gain the upper hand once the melee began.

But that was against ordinary Duanjin Gate disciples.

Ordinary Duanjin Gate disciples cultivated metal-element techniques, metal lingli spells, and martial arts.

Even if they cultivated sword arts, they cultivated ordinary metal-element sword arts or the introductory Gold-Breaking Imperial Sword Art.

Metal-Suppressing Armor could block those.

But core disciples were different.

"Then what is the higher realm of 'man and sword as one' like?" Mo Hua asked.

This was the concern of orthodox Sword Cultivators, and it seemed to have little to do with him.

"Body Cultivators rely on their fleshly bodies, Spirit Cultivators rely on their Qi Seas, while a Sword Cultivator's entire cultivation depends greatly on their sword."

"A Sword Cultivator with a sword and a Sword Cultivator without one are entirely different kinds of cultivators, as far apart as heaven and earth."

"There is a common saying in the cultivation world: a Sword Cultivator with a sword is a dragon, while a Sword Cultivator without one is worse than a dog. It is somewhat exaggerated, but it shows just how important a sword is to a Sword Cultivator."

Although Situ Jian explained it well, Mo Hua still did not have much of a tangible sense of it.

But using it to counter the Gold-Breaking Sword Art was somewhat wishful thinking.

"Gold-Breaking