During his battle with Duan Wu Qian, at the final moment when he killed the man and his Purple Mansion collapsed, he had glimpsed a sliver of the truth behind his Flying Sword Art.
That was, when the man died, he had seen no flying sword escape!
The flying sword was gone? How was that possible?
If he, Hou Niao, were killed, the Nameless Lonely Sword would certainly remain, either taken by someone or escaping on its own. There could be no third possibility, yet Duan Wu Qian had presented precisely that third possibility.
There had been no physical flying sword, only spreading fluctuations of incomparably pure energy, as though what he had cut down was not a person but a mass of energy.
An onlooker would have thought this was the strange phenomenon of a cultivator's immense Law Power running out of control, but Hou Niao knew it was not, or at least not entirely. Hidden within the collapsing Law Power was another, unfamiliar form of power. His intuition as a Sword Cultivator told him that this was the flying sword inside Duan Wu Qian's Purple Mansion!
Only, his flying sword had no physical form. It was fundamentally a mass of energy, which was why he could split his sword light while still in the Heavenly Connection Natural Realm, dividing it into five beams of sword light that were like five flying swords.
This was why Duan Wu Qian's Flying Sword Art was so peerlessly formidable, and what Li Chuping had called his talent for the Sword Dao.
He admitted that Duan Wu Qian's talent was indeed astonishing. The man had dared to imagine what others dared not imagine and do what others dared not do, raising mainstream Flying Sword Art to a new level; Hou Niao, meanwhile, had