"That sword strike..."
"A sword cultivator like you-why have I never heard your name?"
As the sword light dissipated, Xu Ruoshan's previously relaxed body instinctively tensed. His hand clenched the Sea-Hearing Token tightly in his palm, and his eyes fixed on Bai Yi.
Although he had never met Bai Yi, he had distinctly sensed the power of the Sword Dao Fourth Realm in that strike.
Unlike ordinary body cultivators and spell cultivators, sword cultivators devoted their passions entirely to the sword, and their souls and Nascent Souls were closely bound to their own Sword Dao.
Having sacrificed the versatility and defensive capabilities of Daoist arts, the power of the Azure Edge in their hands could be said to far surpass the Daos of ordinary spell cultivators.
Even comprehending it was far more difficult than reaching the fourth realm of ordinary Daos. The vast majority of sword cultivators at the perfection of Spirit Transformation had never even touched the Sword Dao Fourth Realm.
Yet now, before their very eyes, a sword prodigy who had touched the Sword Dao Fourth Realm had appeared.
How could he not be horrified?
After all, with his comprehension of the Way of Mountains and Metal-Stone, combined with his secret arts and cultivation methods, his protective Daoist arts and physical strength were sufficient to rival even talented body cultivators of the same realm, despite his being a spell cultivator.
He could often withstand his opponents' manifestations and Daoist arts head-on and crush them.
But against a sword cultivator of the same realm who had comprehended and touched the fourth realm, that advantage became as useless as chicken ribs.
With a sword cultivator's offensive ability to shatter ten thousand arts with a single sword, he dared not use his body to withstand even an ordinary strike.
"I came