At the moment of swinging her sword, Li Shuang naturally recalled the first character on the stone wall.
She had been practicing the sword technique inscribed on that character for several months.
She had mastered the form of the sword to perfection.
However, the essence of the sword had always eluded her.
This time.
Looking at the destructive lightning in the sky, a vague understanding dawned upon Li Shuang.
Some sword moves.
Emphasize harmony.
Some sword moves.
Emphasize concealment.
Some sword moves.
Emphasize continuous flow.
However, the first sword technique on the cliff had no subtlety, no layering, no preamble.
That sword technique was nothing but straightforward power, absolute...
Destructive force!
This kind of power was even somewhat similar to the lightning tribulation.
Both were...
Unreasonable destruction.
Naturally, a hint of destructive power was infused into this sword strike.
When the sword light and lightning converged, the two forces collided with a thunderous roar!
"Lili."
"Present!"
The Black Abyss sword shimmered with flowing light, as if it had completely merged with Li Shuang.
Li Shuang, holding her sword, met the lightning like a shooting star.
The last heavenly tribulation.
Fell from the sky.
The colossal lightning possessed astonishing power—it was the wrath of heaven.
The slender girl, gripping her treasure sword, fought against the heavens!
Time seemed to freeze at this very moment.
Man against heaven.
Victory.
Or defeat.
Inside the City Lord's Palace.
Yujin gazed fixedly at Li Shuang's bronze eye.
The bronze eye had remained unchanged for a long time.
She couldn't discern what stage Li Shuang was in, so she could only wait silently.
Though these individuals had endured countless lonely years since guarding the formation,
This short wait for the outcome still felt incredibly long.
Just a junior in the Soul Transformation stage, yet she had captivated the attention of humanity's strongest, proving that Li Shuang was indeed the first of her kind.
Suddenly.
The five Supremes collectively looked at the bronze eye.
How keen their senses were.
In that instant, they vaguely perceived that the bronze eye seemed to have undergone some change.
A white light emerged, slowly replacing the bronze color.
"This is..."
Ye Hongyao was delighted: "Li's bronze eye has evolved!"
The Eye of Myriad Laws was divided into three tiers.
The Bronze Eye.
The Virtual Silver Eye.
And finally, the Gleaming Gold Eye!
The Virtual Silver Eye was a transformation the Eye of Myriad Laws underwent when a cultivator reached the Integration stage.
As for the Gleaming Gold Eye, that was reserved for experts in the Tribulation Crossing stage!
Now.
The bronze eye was evolving.
What did this prove?!
Li!
She had succeeded!
They had witnessed someone achieve perfect advancement in the Integration stage!
Yujin's face showed a nonchalant smile: "Look at how anxious you all are. I always believed Li would succeed."
The others couldn't help but sneer at her.
You're acting calm now.
Your sleeves are torn from picking at them, didn't you notice?
Yujin remained perfectly calm: "I was merely playing along with your act. Don't you understand?"
Everyone: "..."
"Let's go, let's go. I'd rather zone out than listen to someone's nonsense."
"Together, together."
The projections of several human Supremes vanished one after another.
Yujin couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Jealousy.
Naked jealousy.
These people were just jealous that she had discovered a peerless genius like Li Shuang.
Yujin waited contentedly.
Li Shuang had already advanced to the Integration stage, so she must be stabilizing her realm right now.
In a few days, she would send a message to Li Shuang, asking her to come and meet her.
Yujin was also curious.
What level of combat power would a perfectly advanced Integration stage cultivator possess?
The desolate hill...
No, now it was a flat plain.
On the plain.
Heavenly nectar descended, and Li Shuang sat cross-legged on the ground, her injuries healing at a visible rate.
Perfection was hard to attain.
But if achieved, the benefits gained were immeasurable.
Everyone received different boons when reaching the Integration stage, depending on the difficulty of their advancement.
And for someone like Li Shuang, with nectar falling from the sky as if unlimited, it was likely a first.
This rain of nectar.
Li Shuang absorbed it for ten days and ten nights.
Not only her; even Lili got her fill, then went into the sword dao space to digest the power.
The power she had suppressed could finally be fully released!
After she had absorbed all the nectar.
Her soul and spiritual energy cultivation not only transcended the early Integration stage but directly reached the mid-Integration stage.
The further one progressed in cultivation, the harder it became.
Normally.
Transitioning from the early to mid-Integration stage, even for a peerless genius, required decades of arduous effort.
This heavenly nectar rain directly saved Li Shuang decades of time.
Just this nectar alone made Li Shuang quite satisfied.
Moreover.
Her gains this time were not limited to just this.
Firstly, there were the changes in Black Abyss and Lili.
Li Shuang had long prepared the forging materials for the Black Abyss sword.
But without this heavenly lightning, the Black Abyss sword could never have been forged to its current state.
The current Black Abyss was vastly different from before.
Its once pitch-black surface now subtly shimmered with a hint of purple. Lightning patterns faintly appeared on its blade, making it look much cooler than before.
Lili also successfully transitioned from incorporeal tocorporeal this time.
Her physical form was immeasurably more solidified than Long Yan's had been back then.
Furthermore, due to Black Abyss, Lili also subtly gained the ability to control lightning.
Secondly.
Li Shuang, feeling the might of the lightning tribulation, successfully grasped the first character: "Destruction."
When she unleashed that final sword strike, the previously incomprehensible characters suddenly became clear to Li Shuang, and the previously elusive artistic conception was suddenly mastered.
This first character.
Was "Destruction"!
At this moment.
In her Sea of Consciousness, a character was emerging, precisely that first character: "滅" (destruction). This character was originally very arrogant, wanting to occupy the central position, but as soon as it floated over, it was firmly suppressed by the Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace.
Now, the "滅" character talisman was dim; its power had been exhausted by Li Shuang's sword strike against the heavenly tribulation and had not yet recovered.
Li Shuang vaguely had a premonition.
Once the "滅" character talisman was fully recharged, she would be able to use the power of "destruction" again.
That was a kind of world-destroying, almost tribulation-like, violent power.
One "滅" character talisman gave her another trump card.
However, her former trump card, the Hidden Dragon Stone, couldn't withstand this heavenly tribulation and was destroyed.
Li Shuang looked at the greatly changed Black Abyss sword and couldn't help but sigh.
Be it her.
Or Black Abyss.
Both were vastly different from before.
The traces left by those of the past were also slowly disappearing.
But she didn't even have time to pause and reflect on the past.
She had to... keep going.
Besides these, finally, there was the change in her own strength!