After returning to the Disciple’s Residence, Mo Hua didn’t rush to cultivation, but instead went over the guidance from Patriarch Dugu in his mind.
He transcribed the key points into a Jade Slip, so he could review them regularly in the future and avoid forgetting.
Afterwards, he formally attempted to practice the "Godslaying Sword".
With the guidance from Patriarch Dugu, Mo Hua finally understood:
This Godslaying Sword Style, he had indeed practiced it incorrectly!
The Godslaying Sword is not practiced in the way he had been doing it.
The so-called self-slashing of the Life Soul does not mean actually cutting oneself. This "slash" implies abandoning, signifies transformation.
It requires embodying a heart seeking the Dao, abandoning the ego, achieving the greater self, comprehending the Sword Dao origin, and achieving a transformation in Divine Thought and Sword Dao.
Mo Hua felt a complex mix of emotions, and then took out an ancient and simple Sword Dao Bamboo Scroll.
On the bamboo scroll, the Sword Pattern was simple yet profound.
The ancient Sword Intent roamed amidst the Sword Pattern.
This is the Sword Stream...
Mo Hua held his breath, focused his mind, sat in meditation, fully concentrated, and then began to formally visualize the "Tai Xu Sword Flow" engraved on the bamboo scroll.
By abandoning self, forgetting his own Sword Dao, with a heart of emptiness, he visualized the Tai Xu Sword Flow, comprehending the Sword Dao origin, thus approaching the source flow of the sword, fully understanding the Tai Xu Sword Dao.
After fully understanding the Sword Dao, he could follow the ancestor’s words, integrating the Sword Dao origin into his Divine Soul, executing the true, powerful, and god-slaying "Tai Xu God-Slaying Sword"!
Mo Hua’s Divine Sense sublimation was extremely deep-rooted, proficient in Formation and various Divine Thought Skills, having also absorbed a large number of Evil Spirits, through meditation, purged a massive amount of cluttered thoughts.
He had even dabbled a little in "Planting Devil in Taoist Heart".
Therefore, in terms of "Cultivating Heart" foundation, Mo Hua was stronger than many Golden Core Cultivators hundreds of years old.
"Abandoning ego, forgetting the Sword Dao, heart in emptiness, visualizing Tai Xu Sword Flow," he did all this with ease.
But the problem lay in what came next.
Mo Hua visualized for a long time...
Within the Tai Xu Sword Flow, the ancient Sword Intent remained exactly as it was, without the slightest change.
Mo Hua did not feel the sensation of "Sudden Enlightenment".
His Sword Dao level was still as shallow as ever.
His comprehension of swordsmanship hadn’t improved in the slightest.
Mo Hua focused intently, staring at the bamboo scroll for a long time, finally having to admit that he had done it all for nothing...
He couldn’t understand the Sword Stream.
Nor did he gain insight into Sword Dao.
Mo Hua assumed it was because he hadn’t put in enough effort.
On the next day, after class, Mo Hua returned to the Disciple’s Residence and stared at the bamboo scroll for a full three hours.
Yet he still couldn’t make anything out.
The so-called Sword Stream’s profound meaning, Sword Dao origin, Swordsmanship Great Dao... there wasn’t a bit of shadow of them.
Mo Hua furrowed his brow, then, after some reflection, gradually understood.
The problem lay in this "self".
Slay the self, achieve the Sword Dao.
But Mo Hua didn’t even have a "self".
The "self" in Sword Dao is the foundation accumulated by a Sword Cultivator from childhood, nurturing the Spirit Sword, practicing swordsmanship, comprehending the Sword Dao, and so on, forming the "foundation" of Sword Dao.
This is what Heaven Void Ancestor called the "self", but in reality, it is not small at all!
Mo Hua put himself in the shoes of Patriarch Dugu, roughly gauged that starting from scratch, to cultivate the Sword Dao to the "self" realm in the ancestor’s eyes...
That would require a genius like Linghu Xiao, starting Sword Cultivation from a young age, practicing for several decades, even up to a hundred years, reaching Golden Core, Sword Dao reaching a minor accomplishment, only then could one cultivate the "self" of Sword Dao.
This kind of "self" is qualified to be slashed.
And using such a realm of "self" as a foundation, as a stepping stone, after slashing it, one can climb further up, to comprehend the Sword Stream, to ascend to the Sword Dao origin.
Mo Hua felt his heart chill.
He finally understood why the ancestor had always told him to cultivate the sword, and said that his Sword Dao foundation was insufficient, thus unable to learn Divine Thought into Sword.
The ancestor was actually not wrong.
The Divine Thought into sword True Jue is fundamentally built upon the "Sword Dao" foundation.
If the Sword Dao foundation is insufficient, the sword cannot be formed.
If the Sword Dao attainment isn’t deep, if the swordsmanship hasn’t reached a minor accomplishment, then one cannot slash the self at all, cannot comprehend the Sword Stream, and cannot learn the final "God Slaying Technique".
And currently, he didn’t even have the "self" in Sword Dao to be slashed.
Nor could he dream of comprehending the Sword Stream, the origin, or the Great Dao...
"After all this effort, still can’t learn it..."
Mo Hua sighed, somewhat disappointed.
On further thought, it’s actually quite reasonable.
The Tai Xu Divine Thought Sword True Jue is the highest sword technique in the Taixu Gate’s Sword Dao, if it were truly so easy to learn, it wouldn’t be worthy of being considered a "supreme" heritage.
Moreover, he wasn’t even a Sword Cultivator.
To attempt learning a supreme Sword Dao heritage without any Sword Dao foundation was indeed a bit fanciful.
But Mo Hua didn’t want to give up.
He pondered repeatedly, discovering yet another "deadlock".
To cultivate the Godslaying Sword, one must self-slash the Life Soul;
To self-slash the Life Soul, one needs to slash the self;
And to slash the self, one must cultivate a realm of Sword Dao "self" to slash...
He didn’t have this realm of Sword Dao "self", thus there was nothing to slash, unable to proceed from the very start.
Mo Hua felt a complex and indescribable emotion.
This Godslaying Sword, he had practiced into a complete mess. This update ıs available on novel★fire.net
The legitimate way, he couldn’t manage.
The way he practiced, not only was it incorrect, but it also injured his Divine Soul.
Every day self-slashing a sword, the injuries in the Divine Soul accumulated quietly, eventually requiring "Divine Marrow" for repair.
And "Divine Marrow" is now exceedingly scarce, needed not only for Divine Soul repair but also for breaking through the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
All things considered, it’s a vicious cycle.
Without learning the Godslaying Sword, the day to slay the Evil Embryo seemed indefinitely distant.