What Lotus Avatar had to face next was subduing—or, more accurately, accommodating—the sword intent of the Seven Suppressing Swords. Naturally, he did not take the hostile sword intent permeating the void too seriously. If he could not even handle this level of difficulty, how could he unite and absorb everything, encompassing the sword paths of the world?
For Lotus Avatar, aside from the tribulation of the Five Declines of Heaven and Man, his greatest difficulty was the sword intent of the Seven Suppressing Swords, which refused to submit. They had lain dormant for so many years and now risen again; they certainly had not returned to submit to anyone or play second fiddle. If Lotus Avatar had made the Seven Suppressing Swords his foundation, things would have been easier, and there would have been far less mutual restraint after the two sides merged. But what Lotus Avatar was trying to do now was not entirely that.
Once disagreements arose, the ensuing conflict would inevitably be fierce. Lotus Avatar had been mentally prepared for this long ago. When he had incorporated the sword embryo into his Supreme Sword Dao, had it not been the same?
The sword intent of the Seven Suppressing Swords continued spreading through the void, like seven giant dragons roaming between heaven and earth. They were independent entities, yet also echoed one another from afar.
Lotus Avatar released his own sword intent, weaving it together with the sword intent in the void. Lotus Avatar had already fused with the sword intent of the Seven Suppressing Swords and taken it into his body. It was just that his cultivation had been relatively low at the time, so the amount of sword intent he could contain was limited. Moreover, after the Seven Suppressing Swords had suffered some damage while battling