Grotto-Heaven Wonders

"I could only now be said to have barely reached a level in sword cultivation commensurate with my cultivation. Though I had used the Demon Subduing Sword to battle Huntian before, I had relied more on my vast power to break all techniques with force."

Gu Yuanqing understood this clearly.

Though sword cultivation had been the first path he cultivated, after his Mountain Gazing Enlightenment, he had cultivated myriad Daos concurrently. Sword cultivation was merely one among them.

Sword cultivation emphasized an utterly pure sword heart, merging Dao into the sword and using the sword to break ten thousand laws.

Given his circumstances, this was naturally difficult for him to achieve. Thus, his cultivation in sword Dao had relied more on his own higher realm of cultivation to drive his progress in sword Dao.

Yet today, within this Qingping Grotto-Heaven, tempered by the sword formations left behind by those before him, he had cast aside all other Daos and relied solely on sword Dao for this trial. At last, his sword Dao had advanced another step.

Especially within this Myriad Sword Tomb, stimulated by the wills of countless sword Daos and using the swords of those before him to hone his own sword heart, Gu Yuanqing finally possessed something of the bearing of a great sword Dao cultivator. At last, he had not disgraced the title of inheritor of the Demon Subduing Sword!

Climbing this mountain was like climbing the summit of sword Dao, using the Dao of great sword cultivators throughout the ages as steps to ascend straight into the clouds.

Three days later.

Gu Yuanqing reached the mountaintop and immediately saw a sword tablet standing at the peak.

The tablet stood ninety feet tall. It was neither gold nor jade, its material resembling congealed eternal night, yet fine