Between heaven and earth,
everything was shrouded in the terrifying light of flashing lightning.
The lightning flashed on and on, until something fundamental began to change.
In the occasional gaps between flashes, a haggard, deathly pale, and terribly weak young man in azure robes could be glimpsed sitting cross-legged between two swords of lightning.
More than ten years passed.
The lightning and destructive radiance faded from the world.
Jiang Ding's aura had grown even weaker. His face was waxen, he looked sickly, and his body swayed as though the oil in his lamp had burned dry.
"Hahaha!"
"Hahaha..."
Yet he was laughing, laughing wildly without end.
"Supreme Clarity Flying Sword,"
"you're now a quasi-seventh-tier sword embryo!"
Jiang Ding held his bonded flying sword in both hands and shouted with joy. "Just refining a wisp of essence from the Thunder-Destroying Flying Sword was enough to leap to a quasi-seventh-tier sword embryo!"
"Becoming a seventh-tier sword embryo in the future will be as easy as breathing. There's no way it could be difficult."
Seventh-tier and sixth-tier sword embryos referred to a flying sword's potential, foundation, and reserves, not its magical treasure rank. Those were two different things.
When Jiang Ding first obtained the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword embryo, he had been a mortal, not even a Qi Refining cultivator. Yet the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword had already been a sixth-tier sword embryo.
The tier of a sword embryo and the rank of a flying sword were entirely different things.
"An eighth-tier sword embryo!"
"Sword Heir, what kind of sword dao prodigy did you kill on this journey..."
Moon Spirit of the Great Sun Celestial Pool recorded this world-shaking moment in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's annals. She murmured to herself, shaken to her core.
Clang!
The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword conveyed her