[The Sword Master's Notes was a palm-sized booklet with somewhat worn edges. It looked little different from an ordinary mortal book and gave off no extraordinary aura.]
[Yet you held it in your hands with a solemn expression.]
[There were no words or markings on its cover.]
[You gently turned the cover over and looked at the first page.]
["The sword Dao of the Human Realm began with me. The sword cultivators of the Human Realm..."]
[Lines of ancient writing met your eyes as you quickly leafed through the pages.]
[A moment later, your expression grew slightly strange.]
[The first half of the notes did indeed contain accounts of the Sword Lord's daily cultivation.]
[But everything was inconceivably simple. Creating an entire path of sword cultivation from nothing had taken him only one night. Advancing from Core Formation to Nascent Soul? He had thought about it for a while, and it was done.]
[Then you reached the final few pages.]
["Hmm?"]
[Your expression shifted slightly, for you felt resistance when you tried to turn those last pages.]
[You looked at the Armored Guardian God. Concerned that you might destroy the notes, you did not immediately force the final pages open.]
[You told the Armored Guardian God about this and asked for a solution.]
[The Armored Guardian God remained silent and gave no answer, evidently knowing little about the final pages of the Sword Master's Notes.]
[After a little thought, you decided to try channeling your own magic power into it first.]
[Whoosh-]
[As magic power continually poured into the Sword Master's Notes, faint fluctuations began to emerge.]
[Reassured, you continued feeding in magic power.]
[Only after you had poured in more than half the magic power of your Spirit Transformation cultivation did the final three pages of the Sword Master's