"A High-grade spirit artifact…" Yaoguang mumbled as he stood in front of his workbench.0

From the very beginning, sword cultivation involved continuously tempering one’s true qi together with a flying sword, eventually refining the life-bound flying sword into something akin to an outer core.0

However, an outer core was ultimately not the sword cultivator. Thus, the farther the life-bound flying sword moved from its wielder, the weaker the sword cultivator’s perception and control became.0

Without sufficient cultivator control, no matter how fast or lethal a life-bound flying sword was, its largely linear flight trajectory made it easy for agile sword cultivators to evade.0

Great cultivators fared somewhat better. Their control range over a life-bound flying sword could extend to dozens of kilometers. Those who practiced special methods such as the Supreme Perception Sword Art could even command their swords as effortlessly as their own limbs from fifty kilometers away.0

But high-tier sword cultivators were different. Their effective killing range dropped directly to five kilometers, or even just two or three kilometers. As a result, to ensure they could contribute, high-tier sword cultivators often had to charge to within a few kilometers, sometimes less than half a kilometer, and engage in life-and-death combat.0

Such combat was extremely dangerous...0