Huang Xiao heard Liu Tengfan's words and felt they made a great deal of sense.
Gaining insight into the Sword Dao from it could bring such an enormous increase in strength. Even if it could not compare to the increase in the Demon Hall Master's strength, the point was that this cliff face at the Three Immortal Mountains allowed many people to study it.
It was not like the Demon Hall Master, where only one person could grow stronger.
Once a few Sword Dao geniuses emerged in the Three Immortal Mountains, they would have several more experts, and their numbers could at least make up for some of their lack of strength.
That way, it probably would not have been so easy for the Demon Hall to sweep across the world back then.
"There was another touch of fate: this cliff face was destined to fall into Li Bai's hands," Liu Tengfan said. "Something forgotten in a corner, buried beneath a pile of things, and you still managed to dig it out. That is destiny."
"It also had to be an expert in the Sword Dao. Otherwise, even if someone dug it out, they would probably toss it aside again," Huang Xiao added.
"You flatter me," Li Bai said with a smile.
"No, in my view, not just any Sword Dao expert could grasp the mysteries within it," Shi Hen said. "The forebears of the Three Immortal Mountains who first obtained this cliff face could not all have had such poor judgment. Even if they were not proficient in the Sword Dao, they must have understood something about swordsmanship, surely? By rights, they should have discovered at least some of its mysteries. Yet a treasure like this ended up buried in obscurity. All we can say is that even a