Little Aunt, This Won't Do!

Mu Youqing sheathed her sword and landed, then ran excitedly to Lin Xuan. Her beautiful eyes brimmed with admiration.

"Brother-in-law, you're incredible! With just one sentence, you created a quasi-Sword Immortal!"

Lin Xuan smiled faintly.

"This was mainly due to your own diligent cultivation. Otherwise, you would not have advanced so quickly."

"As the saying goes, thick accumulation leads to a sudden burst. The one you should thank most is yourself."

Mu Youqing giggled. She knew this was merely Lin Xuan being modest.

One had to know that the path of the Sword Dao was extremely difficult to cultivate and demanded extraordinarily high standards.

Between a Sword Saint and a quasi-Sword Immortal, there seemed to be only a single step.

Yet only those who cultivated the Sword Dao could truly understand the chasm as vast as the heavens between those two realms.

Especially at the level of a Sword Saint, one was already among the finest sword cultivators, with attainments in the Sword Dao as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns among all sword cultivators in the world.

At such a level, taking even one more step forward was simply far, far too difficult!

Who knew how many Sword Saints had exhausted their entire lives without ever entering the realm of a quasi-Sword Immortal?

And who knew how many Sword Saints had clearly been only one step away, yet forever missed the quasi-Sword Immortal realm by a hair's breadth, carrying regret for the rest of their lives?

Mu Youqing was only seventeen. To consecutively advance to Sword Saint and quasi-Sword Immortal within half a year—such an opportunity was something she would never have dared dream of in the past.

Yet after several rounds of Lin Xuan's guidance, she had reached the realm of a quasi-Sword Immortal and even raised