True Martial Continent.
Sword Martial Palace.
Inside the Cultivation Chamber, Qin Hao sat cross-legged. Scenes of worlds and living beings of the Star Sea perishing still surfaced before his eyes.
Qin Hao did not immerse himself in them and sink into Endlessness grief. Instead, he began to ponder.
"What is Sword Heart?"
Qin Hao asked himself.
"Sword Heart means following the heart without restraint. The heart is the sword, and the sword is the heart."
Qin Hao had long since reached the Sword Heart Realm.
Reaching the Sword Heart Realm was not difficult. As long as one settled down to practice the sword, even someone with poor aptitude could hope to reach it after years upon years of effort.
The difficult part was the No-Sword Realm!
Even understanding the No-Sword Realm was incredibly difficult.
The sight of so many living beings of the Star Sea being slaughtered and world after world being destroyed had shaken Qin Hao profoundly, but it had also given him a different understanding of the No-Sword Realm.
At first, Qin Hao had not connected this understanding to the No-Sword Realm. He had merely felt something stir within him. Only when the Spirit Venerable told him to try comprehending the No-Sword Realm did he truly gain insight.
"They died, but they're still alive," Qin Hao murmured to himself. "This isn't conjuring something from nothing, nor is it an empty fiction. They still live in everyone's hearts."
"As long as we don't die, they're still alive."
"The same is true of the sword."
"What we call No-Sword means having no sword in the heart, yet With Sword truly exists."
Qin Hao half-closed his eyes and murmured to himself, "The beginning of being is rooted in nonbeing!"
"All things under Heaven are born from being, and being is born