Vol 33 Chapter 7 (2/2)
Ning’s perfor He had risen to profreak, and his poas second only to Winesage! The Dao Alliance was naturally going to invest its resources in hi, they chose to just go ahead and gift the entire [Heartsword] to Ning! But of course, Ning was not permitted to transmit this to any others
“Howthe [Heartsword] art, the more stunned he felt The [Heartsword] art was a supreme sword-art that represented the perfect co principles, and Heartforce Cultivation principles
Emperor Heartsword’s sword-arts, on a stand-alone basis, were merely on the same level as Emperor Mirrorsnow’s! However, this perfect combination of all three paths of cultivation made it so that his rather unre levels of power that surpassed even the likes of the eight lords of the Sacred Cities, putting hiemon level! He was known as the Ee a concept was this?
“My current sword-arts have already transcended both space and ti mused “If I can master the fifteenth stance of the [Heartsword], I’ll have eclipsed the eight lords of the Sacred Cities and be very close to the Hegemons as well”
Mo more than a fantasy Ever since Emperor Heartsword had departed, there had never been a second cultivator capable ofthe fifteenth stance of the [Heartsword]! This was because this sword-art was simply too arcane and abstruse
The first stance was known as the ‘Heartsword’ stance The second stance, the ‘Killsword’ stance The third stance, the ‘Great Fire’ stance The fifth stance, the ‘Silent World’ stance The sixth stance, the ‘Unicorn’s Heart’ stance The seventh stance, the ‘Cosmic Heart’ stance
The first six stances were at least understandable Starting froly abstruse Thankfully, Ning was incredibly talented in sword-arts and thus he htshore Kingdoained an elementary level of mastery in the [Heartsword]
However, this was still nothing more than an elementary level of mastery The later stances were even more difficult to comprehend!
The eighth stance was named ‘Ineffable’
The ninth stance was named ‘Blissheart’
The tenth stance was named ‘Killheart’
The eleventh stance was named ‘Teardrop’
The twelfth stance was named ‘Swordtide’
The thirteenth stance was named ‘Snowland Blood’
The fourteenth stance was named ‘Remorseless Unto Death’
The fifteenth stance was named ‘One Sword, One World’
These stances were all incredibly abstruse, but they could be divided into several different tiers The eighth stance to the tenth stance represented the first ‘tier’! Most cultivators skilled in the [Heartsword] were stuck here in the first tier, unable to advance any further
The eleventh and twelfth stances represented the second tier Supposedly, cultivators who reached this level would see the power of the [Heartsword] technique skyrocket, but in every generation the number of cultivators who could reach this level could be counted on one hand
The thirteenth and fourteenth stances represented the third tier According to the records, only a single major power aside from Emperor Mirrorsnow had ever reached this level, but his name was a mystery! The records stated that at this level, one’s level of poould skyrocket by such a level that using the [Heartsword] art provided an even greater boost in power than using a Universe treasure!
The fifteenth and final stance! Only Emperor Heartsword, the creator of this technique, had ever reached this level! By relying on this stance, he had been able to unleash quasi-Hegemon levels of power from his fairly mundane sword-arts
“If I can even reach the third tier, I ht once I beco mused This truly was an unearthly, incredible set of sword-arts, but it was also the hardest of all sword-arts to train in The actual movements to each stance were not that important; what really mattered was the ‘heart’
“Tiin”
Even the tallest of buildings have to start fro held all six Northboords as he fought, occasionally injecting some of the ‘Cosmic Heart’ elements into his stances At other tihth stance, ‘Ineffable’ The [Heartsword] art focused on the heart, not on the actual stances, and so it was incredibly difficult to train in Ning was incredibly talented in heartforce and had the largest heartworld of all the supreme Daolords in the Endless Territories, but he still found training in this technique to be extreenerate part of the ‘feeling’ of the eighth ‘Ineffable’ stance
The ‘Ineffable’ stance couldn’t be manufactured intentionally One had to follow one’s own heart and co had to follow the natural flow… and when you were able to sense it, it would have been completed
The eighth stance actually wasn’t that bad The later ones were even more abstruse and more difficult to study