Like martial artists who pursued Martial Dao Ultimate Intent, once sword cultivators reached a certain stage of cultivation, they had to pursue Sword Dao ultimate intent and extreme law, or even the ultimate Dao, if they wished to advance further.
And to pursue ultimate intent and extreme law, they had to find a destined opponent through their trials and contend with them in Sword Dao ultimate intent or extreme law.
Only then could they continue climbing higher along the path of the sword.
Clearly, Su Chan was A Meng's destined opponent in his contest of sword cultivators' extreme law.
Until A Meng defeated Su Chan in a contest of extreme law, even if his cultivation broke through to Heaven Shocking or even the Dao Integration Realm, he could not perfect his sword heart, much less take his place among the half-immortals and thus qualify to ascend to heaven.
Precisely because of this, A Meng had preferred to endure infamy and lose the Sword Inquiry at the Mountain Gate rather than expend the sword strike he had saved for Su Chan today.
And today, although his Commoner's One Sword had not slain Su Chan,
in Sword Intent, he had firmly surpassed Su Chan, rightfully winning their contest of extreme law.
With this victory,
even though A Meng had used the power of Liberation by Violence to unleash this strike and was about to fall into the mortal world as a hidden banished immortal, his sword heart had already reached perfection.
Someday, once A Meng found his Dao heart in the mortal world and awakened again, he would very likely break through on the spot and rise straight to the Heaven Shocking Realm.
The Shangqing Realm would also gain another Sword Saint who had reached perfection as a Sword Immortal.
Moreover, a