"The secret art for sealing the aura of a great tribulation is classified at the highest level."
"The complete inheritance of the Netherbright Sword Grotto-Heaven should have it..."
Jiang Ding pondered in silence.
This was the minor world where he had attained his Dao. Unless forced to, he would not abandon its living beings.
If all went well, everything here could be resolved.
"Give me your flying sword."
Jiang Ding spoke softly.
"Yes."
Without a moment's hesitation, Gong Caiyu took out her Dao-Soldier flying sword. The snow-white sword, at the peak of Spirit Transformation, settled into Jiang Ding's hand. A Spirit Transformation cultivator had spent nearly ten thousand years refining it.
Jiang Ding gently stroked the sword.
Forged through the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Dao-Soldier Sword-Forging Method, it held the will of a former Great Sun Sword Heir. That will had given it an edge far beyond what it should have possessed, and was one reason the sword had continued to advance.
If the Great Sun Sword Lord chose to invest more of his imperishable will, the flying sword would grow stronger still.
Clang!
Jiang Ding beckoned, drawing a strand of Sword Qi from beyond the world and fusing it into the snow-white flying sword.
It was the Sword Qi of a Void Refining-stage Great Sun Sword Lord, with power on the level of Dao Integration!
To a Spirit Transformation cultivator, it was practically a divine treasure. Its effect on the snow-white flying sword was immediate: the blade hummed, its edge grew several times sharper, and its body twisted without cease, nearly snapping beneath the force of that single strand of Sword Qi.
And that was after the Sword Qi had sealed away most of its own power, surrendering its combat strength to serve instead as nourishment for the flying