Jiang Xuejun broke out in a cold sweat. She had trusted in her pair of flying swords, which her master had helped her forge when she first entered the Dao all those years ago. After several hundred years of nurturing and refinement, they were surely no worse than any rare divine weapon.
Earlier, when they had counted the nine divine weapons capable of resisting the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Swords in the cave in the Qinling Mountains, they had included these two flying swords. They had even counted them separately, believing each could counter one Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword.
Yet the moment she used them, both were ground to fragments!
She finally realized that she had grossly underestimated the strength of the demon Shi Feiyang. Or rather, his own formidable power still had its limits; what she had truly underestimated was the might of the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Swords.
She had cultivated over several lifetimes, accumulating more than a thousand years of practice. Her millennium of cultivation was fundamentally different from that of those on the unorthodox path. She practiced Yan Yingmu's orthodox Mystic Sect arts, whose quality far surpassed that of the so-called "thousand-year-old monsters" of the unorthodox path.
Shi Feiyang had cultivated for just over eighty years, even counting generously. As for his former magical power as a black dragon, even ten thousand years of cultivation would only have brought him to Long Meng's level. A mere three thousand years was nowhere near comparable to a human cultivator's practice. Later, he had encountered many fortuitous opportunities, consumed numerous spiritual herbs, and used Five Elements essence to cultivate more than three hundred years' worth of Five Elements essence qi.
In terms of actual cultivation power, Shi Feiyang could not match Jiang Xuejun or Zhu Youmu. The Dao could be grasped