A small knot in Lu Yun’s heart loosened after he refined Yan Beifei’s memories and learned where the man had obtained Origination Mountain. Everything proceeded naturally after that and he entered mid soul separation.

Once he set foot into this stage, the black shadow that was one with the sword pagoda turned silver. It was a few hints more solid and his image of heaven and earth also increased in power.

“Although I’m mid soul separation, I’m still unable to deploy the fourth stroke of the Nine Oscillations of the Heavenly Sword… I probably won’t be able to until I break through to combination stage,” Lu Yun mused.

The Nine Oscillations of the Heavenly Sword was the accumulation of nine strokes overlaid on top of each other. The first three were sufficient power for Lu Yun to destroy some of Great Xia’s empyrean immortals.

The gap between Great Xia’s empyrean immortals and those of the worlds of cultivation was similar to the difference between the dynasty’s cultivators and those from the worlds of cultivation. Immortals...