By the time Chi Jiuyu reached the foot of the mountain, more than half the sky had already darkened.
Stars glittered one by one, while a faint wash of blue-gray still lingered in the direction where the sun had set.
Walking along the little path leading to her cave abode, she looked at the perfectly regular hexagonal crystal in her hand.
'Extreme Sword'...
Chi Jiuyu knew her current state very clearly.
Just as mentioned before, because of the ascension missions, she had made up for the gap in her accumulated foundations within only a few short years.
Five years ago, her greatest trump cards had been three divine abilities.
The first was the Four Symbols Destruction Sword Wheel, which she had created by using the Great Void World-Deriving Observation Method to comprehend the changes within the Cave Heaven.
Then, while carrying out an ascension mission in the Spirit Cloud Realm, she had gained insight into the Spirit Cloud Dao Sword through fighting Gu Xingyun's sword-dao incarnation.
The last was the Annihilation Sword, of which she had learned only the rudiments from Xu Xing before, through unremitting effort, successfully gaining entry and refining it into something better suited to herself.
After years of continuous refinement, these three techniques were already far beyond what they had once been.
Beyond that, over these five years, she had observed the unique sword-dao styles within one mission world after another, absorbing the sword-dao heritage of those worlds. Building upon those three swords, she had comprehended another four—
Moon Mist Seven Sword Styles
Chi Jiuyu planned to incorporate them into her First Sword Canon once her cultivation reached fruition.
Though these swords still bore many traces of others, and her current cultivation was still far from the level required to create a "Sword Canon."
But if