"Where... am I?"
Waking from utter darkness, Xu Xiaoshou stared at the pristine white room, somewhat dazed.
He remembered being in East Heavenly King City, in the Central City District, even teasing Rao Yaoyao, one of the Seven Sword Immortals.
Then, the very next second, Rao Yaoyao drew her sword, and he became this miserable wreck.
The facts proved that the Seven Sword Immortals truly could not be teased...
"Red Dust Sword?"
It seemed that even while unconscious, all the information surveyed and heard through his holy sense could still feed back into Xu Xiaoshou's spiritual world.
And regarding Rao Yaoyao's sword strike, there was no need for anyone else to explain it.
Having experienced it himself, Xu Xiaoshou knew what that sword was.
One of the Nine Great Sword Arts—the Emotion Sword Art, Red Dust Sword!
The Red Dust Sword severed the seven emotions and six desires, cutting away a person's thoughts and intentions.
Xu Xiaoshou had long asked Ba Zunan about all the basic information concerning the Nine Great Sword Arts.
The other man had not taught him much substance, but he had laid out the concepts with perfect clarity.
The Nine Great Sword Arts were also divided into realms, making eighteen realms in total.
Each sword art possessed a first and second realm.
Only the Emotion Sword Art had a third realm, while the Hidden Sword Art had only a first realm.
These realms were similar to the profound meanings one comprehended after perfecting the Way Realm of the Throne, making them exceedingly rare and difficult for ordinary people to grasp.
The sword Rao Yaoyao had used on him was precisely the first realm of the Emotion Sword Art: the Red Dust Sword.
Trapped within the red dust, yet sustained by holy power feeding back into him,