``` [A gentle breeze blew, fluttering your sleeves.]
[You strolled casually through Heavenly Sword Peak. Sword cultivators occasionally passed nearby, yet none noticed you, as though they could not see you at all.]
[Space subtly warped around you. A thousand years of cultivation had deepened your understanding of its essence. Moreover, after refining the Void Whale's essence blood, you often transformed into a Void Whale to experience the workings of space on a deeper level.]
[At that moment, you appeared to be standing there, but were actually within another layer of space.]
[Other cultivators could neither see you nor touch you with their attacks.]
[Of course, this inability to touch you applied only to those below the Spirit Transformation Period. At the Heavenly Monarch level, a casual blow could tear space apart, so they could naturally still reach you.]
["Cultivation is hard-harder than climbing to the blue heavens..."]
[You sighed inwardly. Over these thousand years, your attainments in the Formation Path had crossed into the fifth tier more than three hundred years ago, making you a Fifth-Tier Formation Path Celestial Master.]
[In addition, seven or eight of your other crafts had reached the fourth tier, which also counted as progress.]
[Your cultivation, however, advanced slowly. You were still at early Spirit Transformation and had not even reached the early-stage peak.]
[Your expression remained calm, without much disappointment.]
[Over the hundred thousand years of the Near Ancient Era, so many dazzlingly brilliant Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords had been trapped at early Spirit Transformation. The Heavenly Monarchs of Heavenly Sword Peak who inherited the Sword Lord's legacy were no exception.]
[You did not consider yourself special. In terms of talent and aptitude, you were certainly inferior to the Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords of past generations.]
[Your greatest strength lay in your ability