Radiant Exchange

Murong Qingcheng was not particularly surprised that Ye Chen had instantly slain the flaming giant bird and the hook-nosed man. Even before entering the Half-Step King realm, Ye Chen had possessed strength close to that of the strongest Half-Step Kings. Now that his cultivation had increased severalfold, his strength had naturally risen with the tide, reaching unfathomable depths. But Ye Chen's Sword Domain truly opened her eyes.

She could tell that any single azure sword within the Sword Domain was not especially powerful, only at the Late Spirit Sea Realm level. After all, the azure swords were merely condensed from Sword Qi, without the amplification of a treasure or the activation of a Mystic Martial Art; they possessed only pure destructive force. Yet when tens of thousands of azure swords shot forth together, their momentum was no less than a combined strike from several thousand Late Spirit Sea Realm masters.

"Is this a change brought about by the Azure Lotus Swordplay?" Murong Qingcheng asked.

Ye Chen nodded. "After the Azure Lotus Swordplay advanced into a Heaven-grade Cultivation Method, it gained many wondrous uses. At present, I've only discovered the Sword Domain. Of course, a Heaven-grade Cultivation Method is still a Heaven-grade Cultivation Method. Its rate of recovering True Essence is ten times what it used to be, and True Essence circulates extremely quickly as well."

Cultivation methods generally did not increase combat power by much, but they were immensely important. In a prolonged battle, one could not keep relying on swallowing pills. Take too many pills, and one's True Essence would become impure and difficult to mobilize. Thus, one's own rate of recovering True Essence had to be considerable. At such times, the advantage of a high-grade cultivation method became obvious. Furthermore, when two sides clashed in battle, there would