Refinement, Benefits

The Taiyi Sword could have continued battling the Demon Slayer Sword, but in the end, it finally conceded.

In truth, when Shen Mo had tried to persuade it, the Taiyi Sword Spirit had already been swayed; it merely needed a step to descend, a reason to convince itself to switch allegiance to Shen Mo.

Then, in its struggle against the Demon Slayer Sword, it had regarded that sword as nothing more than a junior rising late to prominence, yet it could contend with it for days and nights without a victor... This was enough to prove that Shen Mo had not exaggerated before. His attainments in the sword dao ran no shallower than Gu Song's.

Acknowledging Shen Mo as its master was not necessarily a bad path for it!

Thus, in the end, the Taiyi Sword simply borrowed the slope to get down from the tiger, finding an excuse to rein in its edge and bring this contest to a close.

Shen Mo vaguely perceived the Taiyi Sword Spirit's thoughts and smiled as he withdrew the Demon Slayer Sword.

When he had set the rules for their contest, he had already foreseen this outcome. The two spirit swords possessed nearly equal attainments in the sword dao; unless the Taiyi Sword violated their agreement and used its sword body to forcibly chop the Demon Slayer Sword apart, it had no chance of winning.

Even if they continued fighting, at most they would drain the spiritual power contained within each other, and it would still end in neither victory nor defeat!

It was like two cultivators of the same realm sitting down to discuss the dao. Unable to use any magical power and only able to expound their respective principles, they might argue for years without reaching a conclusion.

If they truly