As Sword Maiden achieved the ultimate breakthrough in Sword Dao, she felt her mind as if it had detached from her body, rising continuously... rising and rising.
As if she had transcended all bounds of time and space, she connected with an indescribable, incomprehensible "place."
Meanwhile, an overwhelming sensation of ecstasy flooded into her soul, bringing immeasurable joy to all the personas within her mind.
Without needing to communicate or speak, Sword Maiden understood her state in that instant.
"After countless lifetimes, paying countless prices, plunging into madness at the moment of the final breakthrough, I…"
She felt the words emerging in her mind and thought, "Have I created a new form of Ascendence?"
Boundless as the heart, limitless as the sword: the heart as the edge, thoughts as the blade, nature as the spine, life as the hilt, and the heavens and earth as the sheath, to cleave all beings between two realms.
