Hou Niao was somewhat dissatisfied with his performance.
He had wanted to finish this fight using only the flying sword stance, but Yu Kuohai's three opening tricks had still forced him into the sword-wielding stance.
He treated an occasion like this as an opportunity to practice his swordsmanship, focusing on the weakest of his three sword stances-the flying sword stance.
It sounded rather incredible. A Sword Cultivator of the Ke Sect Quanzhen whose strength did not lie in flying swords?
Yet that really was the case for him. His greatest strength was the sword-wielding stance. In nearly forty years of cultivation, not a day had passed without him fighting someone to the death in the Soul Realm. Next came the Body Sword Technique, because its exceedingly unusual method of controlling the sword made it all but impossible to guard against, completely overturning many of the foundations of flying sword combat. Moreover, he still had unlimited room to improve his Body Sword Technique.
Only with the currently mainstream flying sword stance could he no longer remember the last time he had used a flying sword to kill someone or defeat an enemy.
It had been a very interesting process. When he first entered Profound Connection, dissatisfaction with his flying sword's offensive power had driven him to keep searching, until he finally found the Body Sword Technique. Yet looking back now, his understanding of Flying Sword Art had still been far too shallow.
In truth, Flying Sword Art was nowhere near as inadequate as he had imagined. The three sword stances should, in fact, complement one another. It was not a question of one being stronger or another weaker. What mattered was choosing and combining them flexibly according to the environment and the opponent. Only that constituted a genuine system.
He decided