The swordlight shone bright as the moon.
During this Immortal Ascension Tribulation, the Daoist had received Houtu's gift and refined all his Dharma Treasures into immortal artifacts, preparing for today's battle as well. With enough immortal artifacts, even if his ability to draw on spiritual power in this world was restricted, his own immortal power and the reserves within the artifacts alone would give him ample confidence.
Moreover, during this refinement, the Evil-Slaying Female Sword had undergone a marked change. All along, the Daoist had effectively been borrowing Celestial Master Zhang's treasured sword. Although the immortal sword was willing to cooperate, it belonged to someone else, after all, and bore none of his own aura. Whenever he used it, he felt he could not wield it as freely as his own arm or communicate with it mind to mind. He had essentially used it only as a weapon that cut through iron like mud, missing out on some of its wondrous transformations. This time, before undergoing the tribulation, the Daoist had invited the immortal sword, which had always hung outside his body, to enter one of his bodily apertures and face the Immortal Ascension Tribulation with him-the sword had been coy and evasive, neither agreeing nor refusing. Then, a moment before triggering the immortal tribulation, seeing that the sword still would not give him a definite answer, the Daoist had tried drawing it in himself-the sword had not resisted.
Thus, even though the Evil-Slaying Female Sword was already a divine object of numinous-treasure grade, after undergoing the Daoist's utterly unprecedented Immortal Ascension Tribulation and the repeated baptism of earthly energies of metal, water, wood, fire, earth, wind, lightning, yin, and yang, its quality had climbed another step beyond the top of the hundred-foot pole. More importantly, the Daoist could now