Gu Changqing's words rang out.
"From now on... just cultivate the way of the sword!"
His voice was quiet, yet it reached the ears of every disciple on Golden Ao Island with perfect clarity.
For an instant, all of Golden Ao Island fell deathly silent.
Every Jie Sect Disciple froze.
Cultivate the way of the sword?
That was right!
Cultivate the way of the sword!
Wasn't the very foundation of their Interception Sect the great Dao of the sword, which could pierce anything and sever everything?!
Wasn't their Master, Sect Master Tongtian, the foremost sword cultivator in the Primordial World?!
Of course, perhaps that title should now belong to Gu Changqing.
The immortal Dao?
What even was that?!
All they had ever needed was a sword capable of cleaving through everything!
After the deathly silence came an uproar like mountains roaring and seas surging!
"Senior Brother Changqing is right! Why should we cultivate some immortal Dao!"
"For us Jie Sect Disciples, the three-foot blade in our hands is enough!"
"Hahaha! A killing tribulation of the immortal Dao? What does that have to do with us? We cultivate the sword, not immortality!"
"From this day forward, I will cultivate only the sword Dao! I am willing to follow Eldest Senior Brother and open another path!"
Countless Jie Sect Disciples raised their arms and shouted, their expressions feverish beyond measure.
They looked at Gu Changqing with a fervor that bordered on worship.
The lingering confusion and unease brought on by the severing of their immortal Dao foundations were swept away completely at that moment!
In their place came an unprecedented fighting spirit and heroic resolve that soared to the heavens!
They could almost see it already: in the near future, with a longsword in hand, they would fight their way through the