[Xuanji gazed intently at you and saw the thirty-six strands of sword intent around you beginning to converge, like water returning to the sea, gradually merging into one.]
[He had once walked this same path, cultivating the "World-Covering Sword Classic" and condensing the same thirty-six strands of sword intent.]
[Yet once those thirty-six swords became one, the natal sword each person formed was utterly different.]
[Take him and his three fellow disciples: although all four had reached the eighth tier, the sword each had comprehended took its own form, with none alike.]
[This was the most profound mystery of the "World-Covering Sword Classic"-it offered no fixed sword moves, but thirty-six roots, thirty-six possible paths.]
[The sword ultimately formed reflected the cultivator's own understanding of the sword way. It was a sword way belonging to them alone.]
[The sword Xuanji had formed back then was the sword of "First Cause, Last Effect."]
[It was said that Xie Guan, a cultivator who had ascended to this world tens of thousands of years ago, had once wielded this sword. Its sword intent contained the transformations of cause and effect.]
[Once the sword swung, no matter how an opponent dodged or maneuvered, there was no escaping it. They could only endure the strike.]
[This sword did more than guarantee a hit. It concealed many other wondrous uses-it could briefly reverse cause and effect, silently transfer wounds suffered by its wielder, and even take a life without a trace in a single stroke.]
[This was the sword intent Xuanji had comprehended through a lifetime of effort, his proudest sword and the natal sword he relied upon most.]
[Xuanji truly found it difficult to imagine how, tens of thousands of years ago, cultivation had still been in an age of declining Dharma, and spiritual energy had