Sun and Moon as Swords, Slaying Flowing Years

The Supreme Clarity Sword Pool was an independent Grotto-Heaven. Within it lay a sword pool, a sacred ground where generations of sword cultivators from the Profound Bright Church tempered and refined their sword intent.

Direct-line true-inheritance sword cultivators of the Profound Bright Church could come to the Supreme Clarity Sword Pool to practice swordsmanship once they reached the Golden Core level.

Gao Xian, an outsider, had already been a Nascent Soul True Lord when he joined the Profound Bright Church. A fine place like the Supreme Clarity Sword Pool naturally would not have been available to him.

At the time of the Nine Provinces Assembly, Daoist Lord Xuanyang believed Gao Xian ought to focus on cultivating the Five Qi Wheel, and had never considered sending him to cultivate at the Supreme Clarity Sword Pool.

Now that Gao Xian was going to condense his Sword God, the Supreme Clarity Sword Pool was naturally the most suitable place.

The sword pool spanned a full thousand li, its water clear and pristine as jade. Viewed from above, the flat, limpid pool resembled an enormous jade-colored mirror.

No matter how wind and clouds churned within the sword pool, its waters remained heavy as mercury, almost without the slightest ripple.

Taichu practiced her swordsmanship beside the pool every day. Through the reflection cast by the vast sword pool, she could see the flaws and omissions in her sword arts.

Such minute transformations were precisely what made the Supreme Clarity Sword Pool so wondrous.

The sun hung high at the center of the sky, the time of day when yang energy was at its fullest. Taichu generally did not practice her sword at the two hours of zi and wu; at those times, yin and yang energies transformed into one another, throwing the qi currents of