From Lofty Halls Fall Kings and Lords; From a Humble Room Emerges a Pillar to Hold the Beam

Was that... the old immortal? Cao Erzhu's jaw dropped so wide he could have stuffed a little wild boar piglet into it! Against the backdrop of that sky-filling, savage Sword Manifestation, where was the old immortal's former kindly, benevolent appearance?

He was like a sword drawn from its sheath, its edge laid utterly bare.

Even if his next slash cleaved through the heavens, Cao Erzhu would not have found it surprising.

Yet what astonished him now was not merely the vastly transformed old immortal Mei, but the Sword Manifestation itself!

This Sword Manifestation looked profound and unfathomable, invincible, and impossibly distant...

But it seemed he knew the essence of the structure that made up its power? The answer was right in his head?

"Isn't this one of the six Transformations of Divine Mind Penetration—the release type?"

At that thought, Cao Erzhu froze completely.

He carefully analyzed the Sword Manifestation's power structure inside and out, only to discover that it really did seem to be exactly as he had thought...

It was simply Divine Mind Penetration! His father had been right: everyone in the Spirit Refining Realm was an expert.

Cao Erzhu had not even entered the Spirit Refining Realm, yet he had already seen Divine Mind Penetration twice on Qingyuan Mountain—once from the old man, and once from August.

Both of their Divine Mind Penetrations had been release-type. Their specific manifestation was Sword Thought: able to leave the body, with extraordinarily high penetrating and cutting power.

This was a manifestation of release-type Divine Mind Penetration that pushed offensive attributes to their absolute limit.

Old Immortal Mei's method of use, however, was different.

He focused on all-round development. By materializing the nine great sword arts of the Ancient Sword Arts Dao, he developed Divine Mind Penetration's offense, defense, speed, transformation, unpredictability...