Discovery of Another Seed of the Nine Great Immortal Sects: Netherbright Sword Grotto-Heaven

Clang!

Jiang Ding drew his sword and slashed at the stars, leaving a thin black line thousands of kilometers long across space.

The line hung motionless in the void. No matter how the cosmic storms surged, it did not change, as though it had existed for eternity.

"This line..."

Jiang Ding looked closer.

He found that divine sense could not perceive the black line. The instant his divine sense touched it, it vanished without a trace. There was no sign of an attack; it simply disappeared, as though it had entered a world where divine sense itself did not exist.

He could only observe the line with his eyes and use divine sense to examine the space around it.

"Materialist!"

"Inside this line, there are no laws, no spiritual energy. It has become like the mother universe. The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword has lost all its divine radiance, leaving only sharpness, speed, and durability to cut through everything..."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

And sharpness and speed!

Those were the foundations of the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword, its greatest strengths. Every Void Refining spatial treasure he had refined into it over thousands of years had reinforced those qualities. It was a path taken to the extreme.

This was the ability the Materialist Solar Sword Soul had brought him.

His strength had changed dramatically. Perhaps matching a Void Refining cultivator was no longer his limit.

Perhaps he had begun to surpass some Void Refining cultivators...

Naturally, that was only a guess.

Until he saw the blood of a Void Refining cultivator for himself, nothing could be certain.

Jiang Ding ended this stretch of cultivation, exchanged places with his clone, and ate with his family. Then he arrived at the deepest part of the Great Sun Celestial Pool, a place of