Vol 23 Chapter 8 (1/2)

Book 23, Endwar, Chapter 8 – Nameless Sword-Art, ‘Heartsword Stance’

The black-robed Ji Ning stretched out a finger A rainbow-colored sword an to use to execute sword-arts

Whoosh!+ Whoosh!+ Whoosh!+

His sword-shadows flowed through the air, as illusory as dreahout the area, with an occasional hint of sharpness appearing

At first, Ning had a puzzled look on his face as he began training However, a look of delight slowly began to appear on his face In fact, he began to let out cries of delight and ahs

Swoosh

The sword-light flashed one final ti into the void

“What a fine [Hidden Edge] technique” Ning cauise the excitement in his eyes “World God Northrest truly went all out in his efforts to guide ht stone steles have led hts into the sword I a in the [Nameless] sword-art”

“Both of these stone steles focused on hiding one’s sharpness I’ve now thoroughly mastered them”

“The ninety-eight stone steles…I’ve mastered them all!”

Ning waved his hand, and the jade shrine instantly appeared next to him He entered the jade shrine, and as he did he looked at the countless sword-diagrarams recorded the most important technique which World God Northrest had ever possessed…the [Nameless] sword-art Even someone like World God Northrest had only been capable ofall of the techniques; he was only able to actually master a portion of them

Being able todidn’t mean that you could truly understand and master it

Daoist Three Purities, for example, had been able to memorize all nine of the Nine Chaos Seals However, when he fashi+oned the I Swords, he had only been able to understand seven of them!

“This [Nameless] sword-art is co said softly “According to what World God Northrest said…so the sixth stage of swordforce”

The sixth stage of swordforce was the ‘Sword World’ stage This was a stage of true perfection

If a FiendGod could truly reach this stage of power, then one could use the ‘Sword World’ to serve as the core of the body and remake it to become a World God!

If a Ki Refiner was to reach this stage of power, the ‘Sword World’ could be used as the nucleus for causing the Jindan region inside the body to be re him to step into the Chaos Immortal level!

The ‘Sword World’ realm was a level of mastery that was on the same level as the Heavenly Dao of Primordial Chaos!

The Heavenly Dao of Primordial Chaos was one of theto what World God Northrest said, more than 99 of World Gods and Chaos I the Heavenly Dao of Primordial Chaos! This was because the pris It didn’t matter what Heavenly Dao youin any Heavenly Dao, such as the Heavenly Dao of Water you would also be able to begin training in the Heavenly Dao of Primordial Chaos

The primordial chaos could be divided into the duality of Yin and Yang It could also be divided into the essence of life and the essence of destruction, or the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth

If you trained in any of the other nine Heavenly Daos you trained it, you were also training in the Heavenly Dao of Primordial Chaos! This hy only Daofathers were able to draw upon the energy of primordial chaos and able to train in that Dao As a result, World Gods and Chaos I the Heavenly Dao of Primordial Chaos were extremely, extremely common

As for reaching that level through understanding the true essence of the Sword and reaching the ‘Sword World’ stage? Very, very few World Gods and Chaos Immortals had ever done so

However, every single World God and Chaos Ih e was an incredibly powerful figure with shocking offensive capabilities! Ordinary Chaos Immortals and World Gods simply couldn’t compete with them

But…

Each stage of swordforce was a hundred times more difficult to master than the last

To advance froe was fairly easy, and to reach the third stage wasn’t that hard either The fourth stage, however, was extremely difficult

As for reaching the fifth stage of ‘Sword God’, the number of people in the Three Real so could be counted on one hand More people had becoe!

As for advancing to the sixth stage of ‘Sword World’…this would be evena World God or Chaos Immortal!

“The [Nauides ht to the essence of the sword itself, a peerless sword-art that can allow the user to reach the ‘Sword World’ stage” Ning stared at the sword-stances recorded on the walls of the jade shrine

The [Nameless] sword-art as recorded before him had a total of seven stances! This was, of course, just part of the real technique; it was so incomplete that World God Northrest himself didn’t even know the actual name of this sword-art

World God Northrest hi as one could master the third stance, one would be able to reach the ‘Sword World’ stage

“Forget about three stances This first stance alone…if I can reater” Ning stared at the walls of the shrine

If Ning could master even just the first stance, then in terms of pure sword-arts it would be almost impossible for him to find an equal as not a World God or Chaos Immortal Far less than one in ten thousand Elder Gods and Ancestral Immortals would possess an equal level of skill in the sword

The black-robed Ning carefully inspected the jade shrine,on the first stance