Gu Qingshan froze for a moment.
This was the one part of his deductions he had thought least likely to go wrong.
Yet this was precisely where something unexpected had happened.
What Xie Guhong had taken was the Ancient Sword Technique, not the Era Reflection technique.
Where had the Era Reflection technique come from?
If it had come from the Desolate Ancient Race—or even the True Gods of the Eternal Abyss—why would they have given such a powerful technique to the Human Race?
It seemed there were still many variables in this era that he had yet to notice.
Gu Qingshan stood before the floating jade slip, lost in thought.
He sent his divine sense into the jade slip and scanned it again.
"Enemy-Killing Swordplay..."
"Why does that name sound so familiar?"
Gu Qingshan murmured to himself, racking his brain.
Suddenly, he pressed a hand to his Storage Bag and began searching through its contents.
The thing he was looking for was so enormous that he spotted it at once.
—An oversized jade slip.
It had been a gift from Xie Guhong.
Xie Guhong had stored everything he had learned in his life inside this jade slip.
Gu Qingshan had once skimmed through its contents, and the name "Enemy-Killing Swordplay" had left a faint impression on him.
But the name "Enemy-Killing Swordplay" sounded far too plain, and the requirements for learning it were far too high. He had glanced at it once and paid it no further attention.
Who could have guessed that this was actually a sword technique from the Extremely Ancient Era?
The Extremely Ancient Era...
What had sword techniques from that era been like?
Gu Qingshan eagerly searched for the technique.
Beside it, he found a note Xie Guhong had written:
"This is a sword technique beyond