On the way back to the sect, Jiang Tian had tried to study the many secret manuals Ji Yuan had given him. Among them, the Heartless Sword had been his first choice.
He had thought that with his golden World-Shocking Wisdom trait, comprehending such a sword art would be as easy as drinking water.
Yet the moment he had opened the first page, its vastness, obscurity, and bone-chilling murderous intent had struck him like a wave, shaking him to his core!
Every word seemed to contain the coldest laws between heaven and earth, pointing straight to the essence of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires. Even with his intelligence, reading a few lines had left his soul aching and dizziness surging over him.
This was no ordinary art!
He had spent the journey pondering it with all his might, but had only just grazed its surface, barely managing to step over the threshold of minor mastery.
At first glance, the Heartless Sword at minor mastery seemed to have something in common with the Seven Emotions Gu and Six Desires Gu wielded by Sikong Xuanyin. Both involved the path of emotions.
But their essences were worlds apart!
The Heartless Sword did not control or twist other people's emotions.
It was more domineering, more thorough—it emptied them!
With supreme sword intent, it became a Wisdom Sword that severed the threads of emotion, forcibly stripping every living being within a targeted area of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness; love, hate, obsession, and rage!
For a brief moment, it plunged them into a state of absolute, icy "heartlessness," as if the Heavenly Dao itself were looking down upon all living things!
No sorrow, no joy, no fear, no dread—not even the instinct to fight could escape the slowing grip of that ultimate "emptiness"!
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