Flying Sword? In Shang Xia’s eyes, it was nothing but a flashy technique. 

He had long since learned how to do something like that. Due to his insistence to train in multiple sword manuals, he gained a strong insight into the way of the sword. He couldn’t be bothered with a sword technique that only focused on outward appearances. It might look cool to shoot a sword at their opponent, but it had no practical use!

For a sword cultivator who hasn’t congealed their divine sense or reached the realm of becoming one with their sword, throwing out a sword like that was basically giving their weapon away. Unless the opponent was a lot weaker than them, they could forget about dealing any sort of substantial damage.

At that point, even if one managed to send out the sword containing their divine sense, it would be kind of useless...