Crack! Crack!
At that moment, a tremendous change took place in Zhao Cheng's spiritual world, like a block of ancient ice shattering and melting away.
The thing undergoing this change was none other than the Sword Nurturing Technique he had acquired long ago.
Indeed, he had always been making use of the Sword Nurturing Technique's power.
It could even be said that the reason he had been able to grow so rapidly to his current realm was largely due to the Sword Nurturing Technique.
Without the Sword Nurturing Technique's power of smelting and refinement, even with Starfire Descends, he would have needed to spend a great deal of time gradually wearing down the Wisdom of all living beings. There was no way he could have grown so quickly.
But Zhao Cheng also knew that, despite how wondrous the Sword Nurturing Technique was, he had never truly brought out its effects.
Because the thing called the Sword Nurturing Technique—its so-called sword nurturing—was merely an outward manifestation. Its essence was something far beyond him.
Even if it could not compare to his Panel, it was still exceedingly close.
Zhao Cheng had never forgotten what he saw when he first obtained the Sword Nurturing Technique.
Sword Nurturing Technique (???): The opening chapter of a supreme sword path of mysterious origin. It uses one's various experiences as nourishment to write chapters of the sword path, nurturing a supreme sword. Its principles cannot be known, cannot be spoken, cannot be conceived, cannot be imparted—eternally unique.
This was the Sword Nurturing Technique's description.
Yet the words in that description were merely its surface. The true content lay in that cluster of question marks representing the unknown.
That was the Sword Nurturing Technique's essence, its core, its most extraordinary aspect.
Even though Zhao Cheng had