Gu Yu did not completely annihilate Chen Yi but only extracted the part of his consciousness related to sword techniques, scattering his remnant soul into the shady mound.
This person's devotion to the sword had reached a fanatic level of worship, to the point of forgetting the essence: the sword is but a tool, and man is the wielder.
Indeed, he could unleash the power of sword techniques, yet in terms of the Great Way, he was severed from self-progress, unable to advance an inch further.
Such people harbor obsessions, and with obsessions, their remnant souls often linger. Through the influence of the shady mound, what Chen Yi would ultimately become was the sole reason for his meager survival.
The crane returns to the ancient column; fleeting are the years.
In the blink of an eye, eight years had passed since the gathering of heavenly beings on Tianzhu Mountain.
