Chapter 1379: The Racial Class Unique to the Hegemon Species of the Endless Starry Sky

Jiang Ding's eyes shone brightly as he took out the eighth-grade sword embryo, placed it before him, and scanned it bit by bit with his divine sense and sword intent.

This once brilliant, terrifying Thunder Destruction Flying Sword, with the death of its sword master, had its spiritual light dimmed beyond compare, ordinary as any mundane object, all its inner spirituality completely dissipated.

This is the sword cultivator's truth: when the sword master lives, the sword lives; when the man dies, the sword dies as well.

Just as a cultivator's Ben Ming Fa treasure—once the cultivator dies, the Ben Ming Fa treasure will drop by more than one grade, and can never advance again for the rest of its existence.

For sword cultivators it is even more extreme: the moment the sword master dies, the flying sword instantly becomes scrap iron.

Theoretically speaking, this eighth-grade Thunder Destruction sword embryo is now an unusable waste treasure—at least according to the immortal dao knowledge of the Upper Realm.

Or rather, even if one could utilize this waste treasure, it would require several times the amount of eighth-grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures to make it possible, a complete losing proposition.

The immortal sects currently have no possibility of transcending this universal law.

This is eighth-grade material!

All the existing technical reserves of the immortal sects contain no technology that involves such super-high-grade materials.

Not to mention that this Thunder Destruction Flying Sword was refined primarily from an eighth-grade Destruction Thunder Flame Dao Crystal, a treasure of heaven and earth, making its handling difficulty far beyond ordinary top-grade eighth-grade materials.

This kind of material, theoretically, can only be used by beings above Dao Merging.

Yet, looking at the confident expression of the blue-robed youth, he seemed completely unconcerned about this issue, entirely looking like the overall situation was settled and the feast was about to begin.

Only the question of how to refine it existed, not whether it could be done.

"Sword cultivator!"

"The racial class of the human race of the Endless Starry Sky Hegemon species!"

Jiang Ding once again recalled his inheritance path: "It's not that cultivators of other races cannot become sword cultivators—in fact they can as well. Sword cultivation is merely a body of knowledge; there's no monopoly, no situation where only you can do it and others cannot."

"However, the sword cultivator class is still most suited to the human race."

"Because this class was developed by the ancient sages of the human race; all the supporting facilities and supreme inheritances exist solely within humanity."

"In the final battle, the sword souls of myself, Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, Xuan Shui Canghai Tianjun, and Zhen Huo Canghai Tianjun clashed in a final slaughter, and the overflowing resonance of our sword souls destroyed all living beings except the human race. Several Void Refinement cultivators perished, yet not a single mortal of the human race was harmed."

"This was no coincidence—the human race's ancient sages designed it precisely this way."

"This is a class born on racial battlefields, naturally granting damage immunity to allies... though now it seems to be used more for internal wars."

"This is one of the supporting facilities of the sword cultivator class."

"If a sword cultivator of another race gives birth to a sword soul, his sword soul sounds will likewise be harmless to the human race; this is

the underlying logic of the sword cultivator class, unalterable save by a true immortal."

Jiang Ding clearly knew his own path.

"The second supporting component of the human race's sword cultivator inheritance is the Glory Sword Duel!"

"When two sword cultivators engage in a Glory Sword Duel and a victor emerges, the victor can very easily smelt the loser's Ben Ming flying sword.

For the victor of a Glory Sword Duel, the defeated cultivator's Ben Ming flying sword is not scrap iron at all, but rather the most suitable sword-sacrificing material for oneself in the world!"

"The Glory Sword Duel process itself is a smelting process."

"During the sword duel and life-and-death struggle, the defeated cultivator's flying sword will unknowingly have all its resisting spirituality worn away. After the sword spirit perishes along with its sword master, the remaining husk will undergo a transformation, shifting toward what the victor needs—of course, there is a limit to this."

"Water attribute will not transform into fire attribute, yang attribute will not transform into yin attribute; there is a range."

"It can be said that the moment every human race sword cultivator begins cultivating a sword dao Gong Fa, such a transformation appears: when they become the victor, they can obtain more; when they become the defeated, they will lose everything, causing the husk of their Ben Ming flying sword left behind to become nourishment for the victor's advancement."

"In the end, such a result must certainly appear."

"After numerous human race sword cultivators die in Glory Sword Duels, an absolute powerhouse of the sword dao will inevitably emerge."

"It must certainly appear!"

"This is the foundation and bedrock of the Endless Starry Sky Hegemon species. It is not a probabilistic event—for an individual sword cultivator it is chance, but for the species it is an inevitability!"

"This is the racial class designed and created by the human race's ancient sages."

"So then... Daoist friend Chong Guang Lei, my daoist friend, walk well on your journey!"

Jiang Ding gently stroked the Thunder Destruction Flying Sword in his hand.

This inheritance sword cultivator of the Thunder Yang Heavenly Sword realm, whether alive or dead, was his daoist friend. There was no hatred between them, only the pursuit of advancing further, of taking another step toward the path of longevity, deciding life and death in a Glory Sword Duel.

That was all, nothing more.

This is the most orthodox method of sword cultivation.

"Let me see what the utilization rate is..."

Jiang Ding's Materialist Solar Sword Soul surged into this Thunder Destruction Flying Sword, carefully scanning every part, silently evaluating.

Utilization rate refers to how much of a defeated cultivator's flying sword a sword cultivator can utilize. Generally depending on the attributes of both parties' Gong Fa, the victor's talent, the strength of the Ben Ming flying sword, and the sword technique realm, each person's efficiency in smelting a defeated cultivator's flying sword differs, and the differences are very large.

It is worth noting that only Glory Sword Duels trigger this racial sword cultivator attribute.

If a higher-realm sword cultivator slaughters a lower-realm sword cultivator, the higher-realm sword cultivator likewise cannot utilize the lower-realm

sword cultivator's flying sword; it is like scrap iron, utterly worthless.

The residual spirituality within flying swords that have lost their sword masters will not submit to a higher-realm sword cultivator; smelting these flying swords would cost at least ten times their value, or even more.

Additionally, as a class unique to the human race, sword cultivators possess another ability notorious throughout all races.

Namely, a sword cultivator can forcibly designate prodigies of other races, making these alien prodigies assume a role similar to one party in a Glory Sword Duel. Slaying these same-realm alien prodigies likewise grants the sword cultivator tremendous growth.

Of course, there is one subtle difference.

If an alien prodigy wins, they gain nothing except a flying sword as worthless as scrap iron.

Jiang Ding's sword soul carefully scanned the sword embryo in his hand.

"Thunder rule, destruction rule..."

"These two rules are quite compatible with the Taiqing Flying Sword."

Jiang Ding revealed a look of delight, rapidly evaluating the utilization rate: "The Taiqing Flying Sword can probably utilize ninety-one point seven percent of this Thunder Destruction Flying Sword."

"The remaining unusable and harmful parts need to be discarded."

"For at least the next thousand years, all my time will be spent smelting this eighth-grade sword embryo, all of it devoted to thickening my foundation and reserves; I will not be distracted elsewhere."

"After a thousand years, my strength will surely increase significantly, approaching that of the Dao Son of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong in the Upper Realm..."