Before the incredulous eyes of the gathered experts, Zhao Cheng's dharmic power surged again and again, more than doubling in the span of a moment.
At the same time, an intense essence of the sword path emerged around Zhao Cheng.
That essence was as vast as a river of stars, yet within that vastness lay a deep, potent demonic nature—an utter tyranny that made one feel fundamentally incapable of standing against it.
Although Zhao Cheng's Daoist body had condensed a great divine ability such as the Demonic Heaven Seven Tribulation Sword, this ability was in truth sustained entirely by demonic nature. The sword-path Ultimate Technique it contained was actually quite shallow. After all, though demonic corruption was extraordinary, it still used Zhao Cheng himself as its vessel.
But now, Zhao Cheng used the Ten Directions Samsara Chapter to devour Daoist Sheng Kong's lifetime Dao fruit. As a Sword Immortal of his generation, Daoist Sheng Kong had practiced swordsmanship from childhood; even when he slept, he slept with a sword in his arms. Not only was he a peerless prodigy in cultivation, he was likewise among the foremost in the world when it came to the sword path.
Or rather, it was precisely the union of those two qualities that had forged such a Sword Immortal.
A hundred years of studying the sword, practicing the sword, comprehending the sword, tempering the sword—unfallen cultivation had created Daoist Sheng Kong's boundless realm of the sword path.
Yet now, all of it returned to Zhao Cheng's Daoist body, directly making up for this body's weakness in the sword path.
The transformation involved was not merely equivalent to Zhao Cheng gaining over a century of sword-path experience. Rather, Zhao Cheng's own cultivation wisdom complemented, fused with, and collided against Daoist Sheng Kong's century-plus of sword-path