Once a layer of burden was shed, it was a whole new world.
At this point, how could Yu Ci not know that he had unintentionally broken through another barrier and entered the sword cultivator's special state of being?
Ever since borrowing Gui Yan's physical shell, achieving a True Person-realm differentiated thought, and dealing a few times with the cultivators of the Sword Discussion Pavilion, Yu Ci had once pondered a question:
Cultivation was cultivation, yet those sword cultivators clearly did not walk the same path as ordinary practitioners of the Xuan Sect, the Buddha Gate, or even the Demotic path; when the latter three achieved longevity, no matter how powerful they became, what they all sought was a "compromise."
That is to say, no matter how complete and thorough the "spontaneously generated" principles within the realm were, when truly breaking into longevity, they always had to reach an "agreement" with the Heaven and Earth Law Will, each taking a step back to form a temporary state of symbiosis.
Yet looking at sword cultivators, with their indomitable momentum, how should such a "compromise" be carried out?
Now he knew: where sword intent reached, it would rather snap in its straightness than seek wholeness through bending.
There had never been any compromise, nor was there any reason whatsoever; what was demanded was this completely unified purity, severing the bonds of heaven and earth to wander unfettered beyond.
The burden he had cast off was precisely the portion of the Heaven and Earth Law Will that had previously restricted and bound him.
Yet before Yu Ci had time to carefully savor this wondrous feeling, he saw the tribulation fire blazing all around, cyan, white, and red flames forming a massive furnace that enveloped his ascending will.
Right at the eighth revolution, the