After entering the Dao Sect, Ye Xing came to understand a more detailed framework concerning Sword Immortals, one far easier to grasp than what Jin Chang Geng had taught. Thus, she was no longer so anxious about her cultivation realm lagging behind her two elder brothers. Thereafter, she plunged headfirst into it, like a sponge drinking in water, absorbing every last piece of information the Dao Sect possessed regarding the Sword Immortal cultivation system.
After understanding it herself, Ye Xing put in considerable effort to compile another copy and sent it to you. These were matters known within the Dao Sect, and could be considered a benefit extended by Dao Sect disciples of status and standing to their relatives and Lineages.
Thanks to this, you also learned that the system was divided into four stages: "Form and Skill," "Heart and Intent," "Dao and Law," and "Nothingness and Emptiness."
The first was "Form and Skill," which could further be divided into the realms of "Initial Sword Qi Formation" and "Sword Momentum Like a Rainbow." Initial Sword Qi Formation was the most basic level. It emerged when mortal martial cultivators first came into contact with primal energy. At this point, cultivators initially mastered Primal Force and attempted to condense it into Sword Qi. Once they could release it to wound enemies, they could be said to have achieved Initial Sword Qi Formation. Strictly speaking, they still belonged to the ranks of Sword Cultivators, though more loosely, they could be called Sword Immortals.
Its defining trait was Sword Qi like mist, its edge only beginning to show. It still required the aid of external objects, and one could not fight entirely with Sword Qi. "Skill" remained the focus, and their techniques had yet to break free of the mortal sphere.
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