All things in the world followed the same principle: understand one, and you understood a hundred. This was true of saber arts, spear arts... and sword arts as well. Ultimately, the strength of a sword art depended only on the cultivator's own strength, the strength of the sword in his hand, and how much spiritual power he could gather to wield it. Of course, more important still was the wielder's essence, energy, and spirit. That was the true meaning of the sword dao.
From the moment Bi Fan obtained the giant sword until now, it had never taught him a single sword art. That was because the giant sword chose its master. It valued talent, but placed even greater importance on whether Bi Fan's essence, energy, and spirit were in harmony with the sword dao.
Clearly, the giant sword had already recognized him as its master. Bi Fan could hardly be incompatible with the sword dao, so even if the giant sword taught him nothing, one day he would still grasp the true meaning of the sword dao.
Bi Fan wasn't a fledgling cultivator. He had already learned a great many things, so even without anyone teaching him sword arts, his understanding of them was naturally no shallow thing.
The same had been true of the Sky-Swallowing Great Sage.
That was why no sword art of the Sky-Swallowing Great Sage had ever been passed down to the world.
But some people were destined to stand atop all living beings from the moment they were born, just like the Sky-Swallowing Great Sage.
From the moment the Sky-Swallowing Great Sage obtained the giant sword, he had never practiced sword arts. But just as all rivers flowed into the sea and all methods shared the same origin, the giant sword in the Sky-Swallowing