Although Lu Xiaotian was extremely wary of the sword embryo, whenever circumstances allowed, he would do his best to avoid letting his cultivation in the sword-embryo path surpass his attainments in Buddhism, the Primordial Unity Scripture, or body cultivation.
However, the Floating Heaven Sword Embryo he had swallowed this time was simply too powerful. Rather than passively fuse with it, it was better to actively refine it with all his strength and grow his physical body as quickly as possible. Otherwise, with such a powerful sword embryo fused into his body, he would be an irresistible piece of fat in the eyes of anyone else who cultivated the sword-embryo path. If he did not grow stronger at the fastest possible speed—
once Wu Changlian came looking for him, it would be the death knell for both him and Ye Ziyu. Ye Qianxun had saved the two of them before, but there was no second Ye Qianxun now.
Even knowing that this sword embryo was poison, Lu Xiaotian had no choice but to shut his eyes and swallow it in one gulp.
Once he stopped resisting the sword embryo as he had before, Lu Xiaotian discovered that his speed of refining it had improved by leaps and bounds. His progress even far surpassed the benefits the Bodhi Star Spirit had brought him.
With his five hearts facing the heavens, he looked inward upon the universe. Lu Xiaotian seemed to sense that the transparent little sword inside his body possessed a life of its own, breathing faintly in and out. Meanwhile, the Floating Heaven Sword Embryo within him was like a dazzling sun. Every time the transparent little sword connected to his mind breathed, a thread of light from that dazzling sun would be drawn into his body and assimilated into a