The Three Sovereigns Dao Palace.
"Old Palace Master, it seems we truly misjudged him."
Yun Shiliu stood motionless, her head tilted as she watched the image projected by the Spirit Mirror. Suddenly, she gave a helpless smile.
"Using that blade technique as the guiding thread, together with the Immaculate Realm Blood Qi Body Tempering Art, the Dragon Whale Physique at the Ultimate Realm, the power of the second-layer blade domain, blade qi transformed into lightning, and Origin Returning True Fire thunderflame... he ultimately fused all these originally unrelated Martial Dao cultivation techniques and spells into a single slash."
"At least in his mastery of the blade, this young man already shows the bearing of a true self."
The Old Palace Master, who likewise stood motionless beside her, first nodded, then offered his assessment with great solemnity.
At the words "already shows the bearing of a true self," a trace of astonishment immediately flashed through Yun Shiliu's beautiful eyes.
The so-called bearing of a true self meant that, when cultivating the techniques of their predecessors, cultivators did not merely copy them wholesale, but continued to make breakthroughs and improvements upon those foundations, attaining heights their predecessors had never reached.
"This bearing of a true self is exceedingly rare among other cultivators, but for blade cultivators, it really amounts to little. After all, those lunatics have never thought much of anyone but themselves."
The Old Palace Master added this a moment later.
"That... is true."
Yun Shiliu giggled.
The moment she recalled that Xu Taiping was a blade cultivator, she suddenly felt at ease.
Since ancient times, blade cultivators had been existences that could not be measured by common sense. When their killing power was great enough, they could kill someone in the Transformation Realm while only at Spirit Refining.
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