At that moment, Ye Liuyun had already engraved the saber’s displayed intent deep into his heart

A few days later, the very blade meant for his demonstration suddenly shifted form; the solid weapon blurred, turned ethereal, and then condensed into a streak of saber-light that slashed outward

Within that slash lay the will of heaven and earth—an unstoppable, all-cleaving tyranny. Such intent could split not merely a man or a planet, but the entire starry sky itself

The abrupt transformation of this saber-intent left Ye Liuyun unable to keep up. Yet the light vanished just as quickly, sinking back into the stone pillar

“That’s it? That’s the strongest saber-intent?”

He was skeptical, but the pillar held no one to answer him

“From substance to void—it fits the law of breakthroughs, but what comes after?”

He surmised that the intent pillar had not shown the full path. Perhaps it wanted him to comprehend and elevate it gradually, or perhaps even the pillar itself did not know what lay beyond

Ye Liuyun and his two avatars halted cultivation at once. They had trained for quite some time and needed rest. He sent the First Avatar to find the Spiritual Demon: seal the secret realm inside the spatial world first, then distribute the top-tier resources for everyone’s training

The Spiritual Demon had already marshaled the realm’s high-order vicious beasts to wipe out every He clan disciple and guard; the realm’s link to the He family was severed completely

The First Avatar, cloaked in an invisibility mantle, cooperated with the Spiritual Demon to whisk the realm away in an instant, then quietly withdrew to an inn inside the city and resumed cultivation

The He clan was utterly bewildered. The scheduled expedition period had passed; when they sent scouts, they found the connection severed. Not a soul emerged, and the realm itself had vanished. With no clues, they had nowhere even to begin an investigation

Once inside the First Avatar’s spatial world, the Spiritual Demon was startled—so many planets floated before him. Protected by the avatar, he was perfectly safe, and he immediately set to work managing the realm

Ye Liuyun let everyone cultivate freely within the realm. After finishing their intent training, they could explore every corner. The Spiritual Demon had already handed over the realm’s premium resources to Ye Liuyun

Among them were thirty-plus strands of five-colored heavenly-punishment lightning source. Ye Liuyun, his avatars, and Lei Ming divided them at once. Their lightning spirits now shimmered in five hues, leaping vividly amid crackling power

After comprehending the lightning intent, their thunder attacks could truly shatter heaven and earth. Ye Liuyun tested them on a pack of beasts: the entire horde was annihilated, and even the Unity-Seven beast king could not escape the five-colored lightning

The golden mineral veins he had dug inside the realm were all used for body refinement. The Spiritual Demon produced an even higher-grade metal—white in color, dubbed “white-gold.”

Its tempering effect did not disappoint. Once absorbed, it filled the gaps left by the five-colored tempering stones, letting Ye Liuyun and his avatars forge bodies as tough as metal itself, impervious to blows from Unity-realm experts

Now, even if the Devil Vine, Snow Wolf, metal puppet, and Leng Yuan attacked together, he could endure it; the puppet’s war-blade could no longer scratch his flesh, leaving Leng Yuan and Snow Wolf green with envy

The Spiritual Demon also produced rare herbs for soul and bloodline cultivation, but their scarcity meant Ye Liuyun gave them all to the Second Avatar. Several yin-yang flames went to both avatars to boost their firepower

The First Avatar did not short-change the Spiritual Demon: he granted it a planet to fuse at leisure

The Spiritual Demon, though heartbroken over the treasures he had hoarded for years, could only watch as others claimed what they found. Yet when the First Avatar allowed it to devour a planet’s origin energy, it leapt up in excitement. From then on it served as the diligent steward of the First Avatar’s spatial world

Afterward Ye Liuyun ceased formal cultivation; each day he sparred with the metal puppet to consolidate saber-intent. The puppet never tired—given energy, it could drill endlessly—so even the wisp of soul inside it advanced in saber-intent

The saber-intent seed in Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness often struck on its own, as if tempering itself. Each strike far surpassed Ye Liuyun’s own, able to blast the metal puppet away

He observed the seed’s intent each time and refined his own accordingly. In the end he could repel the puppet with nothing but intent alone, and only then did he pause

He and his avatars devoted themselves solely to the saber for over three hundred days inside the spatial world—the longest focused saber training he had ever undertaken—and his saber-intent soared

He sensed it had risen another level, yet he had no name for this tier; borrowing from cultivation ranks, he labeled it True Intent

Still, he felt room for further growth within this True Intent tier; it had not yet reached the stage of cleaving every obstacle

But he could not train saber-intent alone; other aspects of strength demanded attention, so he reluctantly stopped.

Yet he remained intensely curious about the metal puppet’s material. Day after day, Ye Liuyun and his clone hacked at it without leaving a scratch. Tong Xin and the other weapon-refining master couldn’t identify the alloy either; they could only confirm they had never seen such a metal before.

As for the great bow Ye Liuyun had bought at the auction, they understood it even less. Not only was the material unrecognizable, but the rust clinging to it couldn’t be removed either.

Tong Xin, Qiong Qi, and the rest of the weapon-refining master tried every trick they knew, yet the rust ignored flame, frost, lightning—every elemental force they could summon. At their current level, the corrosion was simply beyond their ability to refine away.

Ye Liuyun had no choice but to stow the bow in his spatial world, planning to study it later rather than write it off as a loss. At the same time, he felt more keenly than ever that Tong Xin and the others urgently needed to raise their craft.

But to capture the high-level weapon-refining master of the Huoyin star system, he would need greater strength to be sure of success. So Ye Liuyun resumed cultivating his divine essence, pushing his realm higher.

He and his two clones took turns cultivating; one of them always had to delve into spatial intent or the intent of heaven-and-earth forces. The three of them trained from dawn till dusk every single day, with no time left to rest.