The Divine Soul Mark came undone.
An unfamiliar scene appeared in Xu Taiping's mind.
In that unfamiliar scene, a longsword with a strange golden marking and a nearly transparent blade skimmed across the water like a streak of light.
Just then, a thick cloud resembling Hanging Mountain blocked the sun.
In an instant, a vast shadow appeared on the lake's surface.
And the longsword skimming over the lake flew into that shadow at precisely that moment.
Then, to Xu Taiping's astonishment, the longsword abruptly vanished upon entering the shadow.
It vanished so completely that even his divine soul could not sense it.
Even when Xu Taiping tried using true intent, it was useless.
At this sight, Xu Taiping immediately said in delighted surprise:
"So the divine intent passed down by the Chengying Sword allows it to hide within shadows, undetectable by anything outside?"
Hiding something from a cultivator, particularly a practitioner of true cultivation who had already broken through the Transformation Realm, was all but impossible unless one's cultivation exceeded theirs by an entire major realm.
Thus, the Chengying Sword's divine intent, which allowed it to conceal a sword within shadows, was extremely useful in combat.
But just as Xu Taiping thought this was the entirety of the Chengying Sword's divine intent, the scene before him abruptly changed to a sword cultivator entering a shadow with Chengying in hand.
Much to Xu Taiping's surprise, after the sword cultivator entered the shadow with the sword, not only did the Chengying Sword disappear, but he himself vanished into the shadow as well.
Xu Taiping immediately exclaimed in delighted surprise:
"This divine intent of Chengying's is practically a greater-divine-ability-level Concealment Divine Ability!"
Although it could only be used within shadows, Xu Taiping had truly never heard of divine intent with such a concealment