Senior Zhou Ziyin and General Bai Qi had actually lived in the same era?
Song Yan pondered.
Didn't that mean he only needed to search through records and ancient texts to learn when General Bai Qi had been active in the Immortal Dynasty, and he would have a rough idea that, at least back then, Sword Cultivators had not yet vanished entirely from the world?
The farther he traveled along the path of a Sword Cultivator, the more he felt how powerful Sword Cultivators were.
He was still only an utterly ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm Sword Cultivator. He truly could not imagine what it would look like when Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation Realm Sword Cultivators struck.
How could people with such extraordinary fighting prowess have vanished from this world without a sound...
Even if he lacked the ability to uncover the true answer and investigate the reasons behind it, he could at least avoid following in their footsteps and take some precautions.
Having made up his mind, he put Shufeng away.
He took out the Jade Fang Zhang and extended his spiritual perception into it.
The Sword Form recorded within the Jade Fang Zhang was the one that Senior Zhou Ziyin's master, Daoist Qianya, had taught Bai Qi.
It was called Blameless.
He did not know whether Senior Qianya had done this to accommodate Bai Qi's background as a martial warrior, or whether it had always been this way.
Blameless was actually a close-combat Sword Form.
But that was nothing unusual, really. Even the Void Sword Chapter contained several Sword-Controlling Techniques modified and developed from sword moves used in the mortal martial world.
Ultimately, the original purpose of the Sword-Controlling Technique was to extend a Flying Sword's striking range, until one could take an enemy's head from a thousand