Unlike the warriors of the main world's orthodox canon, whose so-called "lightness skill" relied on brute force to stomp on the air before gliding long distances.
The Intent-Force martial artists of this world, upon merely reaching the second realm, Divine Entry Meditation—namely, the level of a Level 1 entry.
Could actually use their artistic conception to interfere with gravity, thereby achieving the supernatural, "floating" sort of lightness skill seen in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
That is, they could drift about on the wind as though they had no weight at all, standing firm and racing across blades of grass and tree branches.
Even though Zhang Sanxian had created the Dog-Beating Sword Art, he still had not fully understood the fundamental principles hidden within it.
Thus, he could only attribute it to the inherent ability of a martial artist's artistic conception to manifest fantasies, slightly warping material reality and the laws of physics.
But it did not matter. Though the principles behind this world's lightness skill were exceedingly vague, as long as one understood its overall rules, one could play with it quite adeptly.
For instance, the current Zhang Sanxian could step on his right foot with his left, repeatedly borrow force three times, and forcibly kick himself a hundred meters into the air.
Don't ask where that force came from. Those were simply this world's rules; just use them and stop worrying about so much.
Perhaps once his martial realm and mastery of lightness skill became higher in the future, Zhang Sanxian might even be able to fly by grabbing his own hair.
As for ordinary jianghu folk who had not reached this realm, their lightness skills were far weaker, and they could not achieve such supernatural effects.
At most, they could leap two zhang high, but they