The realm of swordsmanship above the Sword Realm, the sixth realm of the Sword Dao.
It was called Sword Spirit!
During the Spirit Transformation heavenly tribulation, Jiang Ding had not understood Heaven Sword Heir's swordsmanship very well. It had seemed shrouded in clouds and mist, far beyond him, but he had not known exactly how.
Now, after thousands of years of cultivation and accumulation, he understood.
Heaven Sword Heir's swordsmanship in the higher realm had surely been the newly broken-through sixth realm of the Sword Dao, the Sword-Spirit Realm!
At this realm, when a sword cultivator struck with a sword, sword intent formed its bones. Beyond Sword-Light Division, Thunderclap, Indestructibility, and the Sword Realm, a kind of "spirit" was born.
The spirit of swordsmanship gaining intelligence!
With one sword strike, the swordsmanship itself would come alive, assisting the sword master in controlling the spiritual qi of heaven and earth and the order of Great Dao laws, causing the sword cultivator's strength to surge by a near-leap.
To have mastered such swordsmanship the instant he broke through to the Spirit Transformation stage—Heaven Sword Heir had truly been terrifying.
This was what it meant to be born better than you, to possess a stronger inheritance than you, and to learn better than you. There were no shortcomings anywhere—software and hardware alike held an all-round, cliff-like lead that drove one to despair.
"This is precisely how it should be."
"Even a sliver of hope of becoming a True Immortal is this beautiful!"
Eagerness appeared in Jiang Ding's eyes.
The sword heirs of near-immortal forces in the higher realm undoubtedly possessed a faint, ethereal hope of ascending to immortality. The possibility might be unimaginably small, yet it truly existed.
And any sword cultivator capable of slaying such a sword heir would surely possess that