Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

The sky, flashed with lightning, harnessing the Flying Sword to tear through space and travel swiftly.

”You...”

Jin Lingfeng was dumbfounded, ”You’ve broken through to the second realm of the Sword Dao, the Sword Qi Thunder Sound?”

Sword Cultivators were the most terrifying and brutal enemies that Xianmen had ever encountered.

Back in the day, they nearly faced the fate of national extinction, and even today, the textbooks of Xianmen contain extensive introductions to Sword Cultivators, including how to guard against them, how to kill them, and how to distinguish their strengths and weaknesses.

An Siyan was also shaken.

Sword Intent had always been what countless Sword Cultivators ardently sought after, powerful enough to fight across different levels from the Foundation Establishment to the Qi Practicing Realm. Sword-light Diversification allowed Sword Cultivators to dominate amongst their peers in the Golden Pill stage.

And the Sword Qi Thunder Sound could threaten a Nascent Soul from within the Golden Pill level!

They weren’t necessarily opponents of Nascent Soul Monks, being inferior in terms of defense and maneuverability, but a Golden Pill Sword Cultivator with the Sword Qi Thunder Sound possessed incredible speed and could breach the defenses of an Immortal of Nascent Soul!

No need for a terrifyingly powerful Divine Soul and Flying Sword; swordsmanship alone could do it!

”Hmm, you could say it was the right conditions coming together, or you could say it was a breakthrough forged in the midst of sword combat.”

”No wonder every Sword Cultivator is so eager for combat with their peers; it’s a shortcut that can turn one’s destiny upside down.”

Jiang Ding gazed at the Taiqing Flying Sword before him.

On its sword body, indistinct lightning appeared at some point, sometimes bright and sometimes hidden, due to the breakthrough that had just occurred and not yet stabilized. True Sword Qi Thunder Sound was not actual thunder, but a state of the Flying Sword.

A state between energy and matter.

”Great Sun Sword Sutra” has a line, the sword has not arrived, but the sound is already heard, the force like thunder.

This seems to go against common sense.

Shouldn’t the sword arrive first, followed by the thunderous roar of sound?!

The speed of the Flying Sword has already far exceeded the speed of sound, tearing through space; only that makes sense.

Until now, Jiang Ding was muddled by it, the books didn’t explain it clearly, and only after truly entering this realm did he have an epiphany.

Sword Intent.

This is the core of the Sword Cultivator’s profession.

It is what distinguishes Sword Cultivators from Body Cultivators, Magic Cultivators, Puppet Cultivators, and Ghost Cultivators among others. Those without Sword Intent are not considered Sword Cultivators, just Cultivators who use swords.

The key core,

lies in interfering with matter using Sword Intent!

Understanding Sword Intent and infusing it into the Flying Sword can give the sword greater speed and sharpness.

Further, by the time one reaches the first realm of Sword Dao, Sword Intent becomes stronger and can control Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi to diversify into nine identical Flying Swords, with the same power, greatly increasing strength.

And when Sword Intent grows stronger, or when swordsmanship is strong, that’s the Sword Qi Thunder Sound!

At this time, Sword Intent can change the Flying Sword, transitioning it from a material state into a semi-material state where energy and matter coexist, greatly reducing spatial resistance.

This is not the end.

Upon reaching the Sword Qi Thunder Sound realm, Sword Intent can directly interfere with space, affect space, and change space, creating a ’spatial expressway’ on the trajectory the Flying Sword is about to pass through, thus greatly increasing its speed and reaching the frightening degree of breaking the Nascent Soul shield with Golden Pill strength.

This is the true meaning of ’the sword has not arrived, but the sound is already heard, the force like thunder.’

Before the Flying Sword even arrives, it forges a spatial expressway directly between the sword and the target’s Divine Soul, which would greatly increase even an ordinary Flying Sword’s speed.

How the Great Sun Sword Pavilion understands it, I don’t know, but Jiang Ding understands it this way regarding his Sword Qi Thunder Sound.

”It would have been better to say so earlier.”

Jiang Ding complained, ”Always so vague, we’re all disciples of our own Sect, not outsiders.”