Chapter 655: The Great Sun Sword Disciple Being a Single Dog is Tradition

"Should I just hand it over to that fairy?"

After such a massive loss, Jiang Ding stared straight ahead at this shameless fairy.

"Oh my,"

Yu Yu Qianzi suddenly stumbled, and a dull gray jade slip fell from her sleeve, accidentally landing on the ground.

"You seem to have dropped something."

Jiang Ding's expression was blank.

"Yes, it is what I dropped."

Yu Yu Qianzi pouted: "But, I picked this up long ago when I slew a sect rebel. Do you know its owner?"

"I do."

Jiang Ding nodded and picked up the dull gray jade slip.

This was necessary.

Disciples of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong have severe soul-sealing prohibitions on their persons to prevent their sect's inheritance from leaking; unless one becomes a sect master, one cannot break free from them.

He probed into it with his divine sense.

"The Great Yin Sword Refining Art"

"..."

After a title, there was a vast expanse of blank space; only after several pages did characters appear.

Jiang Ding frowned slightly, did not explode, and continued reading.

"... Refine the essence of the Great Yin Star to forge the sword... Great Yin Divine Prohibition... Combining Great Yin and Great Sun Divine Prohibitions, creation is born..."

Jiang Ding fell into thought.

This jade slip very much resembled something extracted from someone's soul by extremely high-handed means, bypassing the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's inheritance soul prohibitions, but for that reason it was incomplete, a fragment of a fragment, with almost no practical application value, usable only for reference.

And this phrase: "Combining Great Yin and Great Sun Divine Prohibitions, creation is born."

This was nothing strange; it was the path of the Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion. Pure Great Sun or Great Yin easily leads to qi deviation because the power is too extreme and prone to self-destruction.

The Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion follows the path of Yin and Yang interaction, mutual complementation and mutual generation, implicitly aligning with the Great Dao of Yin-Yang balance.

Only when the Great Sun Sword Disciple and the Great Yin Sword Disciple exist simultaneously is the Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion at its peak; otherwise, it will degenerate to the bottom of the Badaxian Sect, as the Gong Fa has huge flaws.

This path is upright and peaceful, a Great Dao leading to the heavens.

Then,

it was despised and scorned by the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

The Great Sun Sword Pavilion believes that the Sword Dao must be destruction, must be blooming; the fact that the pure Great Sun path easily leads to qi deviation is not a flaw but an embodiment of the Great Sun sword's sharpness.

Qi deviation is the stupidity of the sword-holder, not a problem of the pure Great Sun path.

Yin and Yang interaction, mutual complementation and mutual generation, upright and peaceful.

This is the path of the Daoist cultivator, not the path a Sword Cultivator should walk.

A Sword Cultivator must constantly be accompanied by danger, life and death always by their side, walking on the blade's edge at all times, self-reflecting every moment; only thus can one maintain a humble heart and forever advance toward the goal.

These are two road philosophies heading in opposite directions.

The Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, though sharing the same origin, are two completely different sects, utterly distinct.

The Great Sun Sword Pavilion,

has a strong tendency toward self-destruction and madness on its path.

"... Great Yin sword forging must have Cold Yin Spirit Iron; this iron is forged from the Crystal of the Heavenly Moon, the Divine Radiance of the Nine Heavens... melted into one furnace, undergoing forty-nine days... utmost Yin and utmost Cold..."

"... Mutually generating with Blazing Sun Spirit Iron... merging spirits..."

After that, there were long stretches of blank space, nothing more.

"Cold Yin Spirit Iron..."

Jiang Ding seemed to have an epiphany.

The Great Sun Sword Pavilion's inheritance and the Moon Lineage's inheritance share common ground; he saw at a glance that in the Great Yin Flying Sword Infant Treasure stage, a material named 'Cold Yin Spirit Iron' is essential and can greatly accelerate the sword-forging progress.

However, its existence carries considerable danger; being of utmost Yin and utmost Cold, it requires the Great Sun Sword Disciple's assistance to proceed more smoothly; otherwise, the Great Yin Flying Sword is merely a Ban Cheng Pin.

Obviously, the Moon Lineage did not produce a fierce figure like that Great Sun Sword Master of that generation to reform their own Gong Fa; they still followed the Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion's old inheritance. Existing alone is possible, but it is not the perfect state.

Similarly, the Sun Lineage, not necessarily the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, also has something named 'Blazing Sun Spirit Iron'; being of utmost Fire and utmost Heat, it can greatly accelerate the consecration and refinement speed of the Great Sun Flying Sword, but it also carries the huge flaw that a slight carelessness will burn the Sword Disciple's meridians to nothing, requiring the Great Yin Sword Disciple's assistance.

"Blazing Sun Spirit Iron, Cold Yin Spirit Iron..."

Jiang Ding murmured these two terms.

He glanced at the moon-white palace-skirted maiden before him; she was also looking at him, her beautiful eyes clear and calm.

Looking closely,

there seemed to be some expectation hidden within, but looking again, it vanished, as if it were merely an illusion.

"Just fragments of techniques, nothing concrete? This seems unkind."

Jiang Ding withdrew his gaze and asked.

An answer unrelated to the question.

Yu Yu Qianzi's face slowly grew cold; no longer expecting anything, she said indifferently: "If you are willing to provide the technology for Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin and ensure the Great Yin Sword Sect can learn it, synthesize it, or help build a Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin factory, then specific techniques will be available, and some unimportant Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritances can also be discussed."

"That is impossible."

Jiang Ding said regretfully.

Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin is the pinnacle work of the Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao industry; it cannot be exchanged, at least not to exchange for unimportant Great Sun Sword Pavilion inheritances. Whoever dares to bring it out for exchange, the first person to draw a sword and chop up the exchange partner would be Jiang Ding himself.

The Immortal Gate's interests are his interests.

"Impossible?"

These words deeply pierced Yu Yu Qianzi's heart, making her face turn cold once more; her whole body radiated chilling air, the space creaked, and groups of Jin Dan cultivators nearby were about to be frozen into ice statues.

Breathe, deep breath, another deep breath.

Back then, the Sun Pulse was like this; now, it is like this again...

Her chest heaved violently, as if on the verge of losing control; suppressing her rage, she coldly flicked her sleeve.

"Escort the guest out."

Boom!

The Guanghan Xiangong suddenly blazed with light; accompanied by a sound of tearing the air, a beam of Ice Soul Divine Light shot out from the hall, striking Jiang Ding. Before he could react, it blasted him far away, hurling him out of the territory where the Guanghan Xiangong stood.

Thousands of li away,

a beam of Ice Soul Divine Light shattered the void, smashing a youth in green robes here, before Xu Xu vanished from sight.

"Ice Soul Divine Light, the sword technique of the Moon Pulse..."

Jiang Ding's clothes were even more torn; he coughed incessantly, barely suppressing the injuries within his body.

This Ice Soul Divine Light seemed to be a state of the Great Sun Flying Sword, appearing at the Primordial Spirit Treasure stage, manifesting after merging with a certain Heaven and Earth Divine Light.

The Great Sun Flying Sword has it too, but it merges with Heaven and Earth Divine Light of the Yang attribute.

"The inheritance of the Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion is balanced and harmonious, capable of going further; the inheritance of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion is too self-centered, extreme, and destructive."

Jiang Ding thought silently in his heart.

"But I do not like the inheritance of the Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion."

"Entrusting one's own path, life and death, honor and disgrace, and stance entirely into another person's hands—how... naive. This path has already proven to be a failure."

"The path of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion is correct. The scorching heat and brutality of the Blazing Sun Spirit Iron are not obstacles, but excellent whetstones for tempering sword intent; no one is needed to assist in grinding it down, for a single sword strike can cut it all to pieces."

(End of this chapter)