Yu Ci did not know what the Creation line of thought was, nor could he guess it.
But compared with his earlier discoveries, he found it rather interesting.
The reason Yu Ci had chosen the hard road over the easy one and refrained from using talismans was not because he insisted on preserving a false identity that was likely no longer secure. It was because he had seen the methods Wan Tengshan used while controlling the sword formation.
To coordinate with the sword formation's operation, he had paid close attention to how Wan Tengshan wielded and transformed his sword intent. After all, the sword arts they cultivated shared the same origin, making the sensations especially clear. He discovered that when Wan Tengshan arranged and adjusted the sword formation, he used an exceedingly simple method of judgment to achieve greater efficiency.
He was still pondering the more specific methods, but judging from this pattern, it resembled some sort of method for analysis and deduction.
It seemed that when Flower Lady had mentioned the arts of deduction, she had specifically excluded Sword Discussion Pavilion. So what was going on here?
But thinking one layer deeper, if deduction emphasized "principles" and "laws," then it truly better matched the nature of a domain: "unquestioning, unconfused, knowing of itself without relying on another."
But could this still be called sword cultivation?
As the thought passed through his mind, he saw that beneath the hundred-li ice seal, the black tide of blade waves had frozen as well. More than a hundred Blade Ants had been frozen by the cold tide, then pierced through by Sword Qi. Over half died outright, while more than half of the remainder struggled in vain. In the end, only eight broke free from the ice, and on closer inspection, every one