Jiang Ding traveled through the dark void between worlds, like a young planet blazing with light.
The Ten-Thousand-Mile Radiant Sword's display of light and sound caused him no end of trouble. A faint warning stirred in his heart. He was not used to traveling in a way that exposed him to everyone.
"I'm certain now."
"These light and sound effects are deliberate!"
Jiang Ding sounded annoyed.
The Great Sun Sword Pavilion's inheritance was rather like white tigers and multicolored butterflies in the natural world. Its whole approach was to flaunt brilliant colors, warn predators, and make hunting harder, thereby tempering one's Sword Intent and sword heart.
Opponents, especially suitable opponents, were precious.
To a Great Sun Sword Heir, they were a nonrenewable resource. They had to be protected and strengthened to some degree, or they could not provide the best possible tempering.
And without the best possible tempering, there would be no breakthrough... beyond Void Refining!
That was the goal the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had pursued single-mindedly for hundreds of thousands of years.
Everyone, including the Great Sun Sword Heir himself, had to serve that goal. Producing a single Void Refining sword master was not enough; they scorned such an outcome.
If a Great Sun Sword Heir lacked the potential to rise beyond Void Refining in this barren domain...
Then he could go and die.
Fortunately, this was the Immortal Sect's heartland, where a Void Refining formation could support him at any moment. Otherwise, Jiang Ding would have turned around and left, only returning after he had finished modifying his movement technique.
Jiang Ding wound his way through the void between worlds, occasionally passing Immortal Sect warships and Starry Sky Fortresses and exchanging nods with them.
Now and then, he entered a minor world or two and used their