Surplus Blade, Deficit Blade.
Together, they formed the Surplus-and-Deficit Blade.
Surplus meant excess; deficit meant insufficiency.
These were two utterly different realms. The Surplus Blade pursued the idea that more was beauty and greater was strength. If a single slash could transform into hundreds of millions of slashes, that would be beauty beyond beauty.
The Deficit Blade pursued simplifying the complex. If one slash could kill, there would never be a second. If a battle could be resolved within an inch, it would never spread beyond that inch.
Chen Yidao remembered. His original name was Chen Yidao, and the cultivation art he practiced was called the "Victory-Contending Transformation True Art." It was a cultivation art of the Surplus Blade through and through.
He had walked the path of the Surplus Blade for countless years, gradually cultivating from one slash per second to ten quadrillion slashes per second—equivalent to one slash per femtosecond. Although he felt that he could become even faster, perhaps two slashes per femtosecond, three slashes per femtosecond, there was no longer any meaning in it.
The upper limit of power had already been locked in place. No matter how much faster he became, battles against opponents of the same Level would remain much the same.
After countless hesitations and struggles, Chen Yidao finally decided to go against the grain. He temporarily sealed his memories and power, then began cultivating the Deficit Blade anew.
If every slash he made possessed the power of his former ten quadrillion slashes, then once his memories returned and he regained the power of the Surplus Blade, he would enter an entirely new realm.
This was the legendary Way of the Surplus-and-Deficit Blade.
He had deliberately chosen a world that was about to be captured by the Abyss and decided to begin again.