In a remote jungle nestled between Chu City and Whitewater City within the Da Xuan Country, a thin and frail figure was leaning against a thick tree trunk. Both of his legs were spread apart in a relaxed manner. This figure belonged to a thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenager. Aside from his unusually pale face, the boy had fairly common facial features. His clothes were loose-fitting and a bright shining steel sword was carelessly thrown by his side.
Sha Tongtian stood firm at the base of the stairs, his gaze flickering slightly as he pinched a sword technique in his hand, and with a slap on the white skin pouch at his waist, a dazzling cyan light shot up into the sky. After circling around, a blade-like cyan flying sword appeared horizontally in front of him.
The next moment, Sha Tongtian's hand technique changed rapidly, and the cyan flying sword burst into even more brilliant light while a piercing sword aura emanated from his body.
After a flash of cyan, his body was wrapped in a misty sword light.
Suddenly, with a loud booming sound, a shadow of a sword several zhang long, enveloping Sha Tongtian, shot straight up the stairs in a flash.
"Sword and body as one!"
The sword-flying technique Sha Tongtian used was none other than the "Sword and Body as One" secret technique Liu Ming had only recently comprehended.