“Teacher, with your cultivation, can you train in using flying swords?”

“I can.”

“Then those who control flying swords, most of the time, are they able to react in time, able to use their flying swords to intercept incoming arrows?”

“I was originally wondering what you were going to ask. After beating around the bush for so long, isn’t it still because you feel like arrows aren’t as nimble as flying swords?”

“Teacher, please help me dispel my doubts.”

“You have to understand that even though flying swords move according to the heart, extremely agile, move like one’s own fingers, the arrows fired by powerful cultivators not only use one’s entire body’s cultivation, they could also use falling force, even the penetrative force of special arrows. That is why for normal cultivators of the same level, the power of arrows released with all of one’s power will be a bit greater than flying swords. This means that even though arrows have no way of changing their trajectory in midair, in many situations of favorable terrain and timing, they could deliver an even more devastating strike. Moreover, the arrows of cultivators far exceed two hundred steps, while the most...