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Sword Pavilion.

Ninth Layer.

Su Ye looked at the empty world before him.

There was nothing in this world before his eyes.

This nothingness was not that he could not see anything—it was that there truly was nothing at all, just an ordinary void.

At first glance, Su Ye thought something had gone wrong with the Sword Pavilion. Perhaps, due to age and disrepair, Spatial Displacement had occurred, causing him to be teleported into an empty void.

But very quickly, he sensed that this was not the case. This was the ninth layer of the Sword Pavilion.

Su Ye smiled and said, "The Sword Pavilion—so long as one can break through the Nine-Layer Sword Realm, one can comprehend one's own Sword Intent. It really wasn't boasting."

He closed his eyes, then went over the Sword Intent he had comprehended from the first layer to the Eighth Layer, savoring it all again before slowly beginning to practice.

An intense Sword Intent spread from his entire body, as if the moment that Sword Intent emerged, it could split open this dark prison of a world and allow him to leave this place, returning to the Reality World.

But he did not release the Sword Intent within him. Instead, he continued practicing. At first, his movements were extremely practiced and filled with beauty, but slowly... they became nothing at all. Even the powerful sword qi around him kept dissipating.

Because he had forgotten. He had forgotten the Sword Intent he had learned. Now, he was merely waving a sword around, and doing it very poorly at that.

And this was the test of the ninth layer.

Only by forgetting could one comprehend a Sword Intent that belonged to oneself.

"So that's the situation. Do you have any good ideas?"

The Black Emperor