--"One Sword Across the Ages": a supreme technique created by the thirteenth-generation patriarch of the Demonic Sword Remnant Lineage. This sword art discarded all feints and variations, compressing a lifetime of cultivation, every ounce of spirit and will, and even the resolve to shatter jade and stone alike and sever everything, to the utmost limit before unleashing them in a single strike. Wherever its edge pointed, it pierced metal and split earth-nothing could withstand it!
On the way back.
Lu Changfeng claimed his reward.
In an instant, countless insights into the way of the sword, simulated agony from compressing True Qi to its breaking point, and that solitary, uncompromising sword intent capable of severing all things were engraved deep into Lu Changfeng's Martial Way instincts and soul, like a brand of refined iron hammered ten million times.
He slowly opened his eyes.
No Sword Qi spilled out around him. His aura was even quieter and more restrained than before, yet anyone meeting his gaze now would have felt a piercing chill, as though an invisible blade were pressed between their brows.
Deep within his eyes, a concentrated speck of crimson light seemed to flash and vanish.
Lu Changfeng instinctively raised his right hand, pressed his thumb against his middle finger, curled his ring finger and little finger slightly, and used only his index finger as a sword's edge to lightly "slash" through the empty air a foot ahead.
There was no roar of wind or thunder, no shrill whistle of Sword Qi tearing through the air.
Yet where his fingertip passed, the air seemed to be silently sliced open by an invisible "line," and a thick tree nearby instantly split in two!
Lu Changfeng nodded in satisfaction.
Precisely because of this, the technique placed an immense burden on