Before he knew it, Zhang Yu had already landed on the ground.
Amid the bombardment of countless flying sword fragments, he no longer tried to suppress the flying swords. Instead, he raised swathes of earth and stone for defense.
At the same time, he activated two Dharma Treasures: the Golden Thread Jade Bi and the Two Forms Yin-Yang Shield.
Deep Frost Rays shot out from the Golden Thread Jade Bi, continuously hindering the flying swords' movements.
Meanwhile, the Two Forms Yin-Yang Shield spewed out streams of icy mist, freezing the air and further obstructing the flying swords' assassination attempts.
"Shattered into powder, yet still able to fight and keep automatically locking onto targets. Just as Mo Shang Jin said, is this the Sword Spirit of Heaven Sword University?"
Zhang Yu recalled what Mo Shang Jin had once told him.
To assist with the Remote Operation of flying swords, Heaven Sword University possessed its own proprietary rudimentary Intelligent Artifact Spirit technology, which they called Sword Spirits.
These Sword Spirits were almost utterly incapable of conversation, creation, or thought. Their strongest abilities lay in image recognition and automatic target locking.
Combined with Heaven Sword University's proprietary cultivation method, which allowed cultivators to nurture Sword Spirits with their cultivation, once they wielded a sword, they no longer needed excessively fine control. They only needed to use the most violent Magical Power and fiercest strength to send the sword hurtling viciously at its target.
The Sword Spirit would assist the cultivator, guiding the flying sword through various cutting, collision, and flight maneuvers.
When paired with different sword-wielding techniques, it could produce all manner of marvelous effects.
It was said that cultivators who specialized in this path could use Sword Spirits and Patrolling Sky Swords to build a Spirit Realm Network, allowing them to perform