His father then gifted him a short, slim sword, which he had sculpted from a rare, low-quality metal element, and also had placed a sliver of fatal sword intent, which could save him if he was in a life-or-death situation. "I have taught you the basics, to build your foundation as a stellar swordsman, you should comprehend your sword intent and then hunt some beasts to sharpen it " , his father told him as he sent him away.
Austin was now meditating in his room, his sword floated and rushed towards the wall, impaling it several inches deep. As he opened his eyes, his father, who had suddenly rushed to his door sword drawn, was shocked as he muttered as if in a trance," You just expressed sword intent, that means your sword is essentially part of you, at only nine years old, I thought someone was kidnapping you ".
Austin, on the other hand, was ecstatic not because of his sword intent, but because when he perceived his sword intent, he broke into the second level of the mortal body shedding realm and perceived his soul sense, an inferior version of the divine sense. But because of his faint true essence body, it was so powerful that his father didn't notice it spreading past him and covering a radius of 500 metres.
He saw various cultivators in the third level, even an old man in the fifth level who was hammering a sword, who suddenly turned and resumed working, but he knew that he felt someone was spying on him, and it left as fast as it came. He also saw his mother's shop, and two streets below was a shop with three men who were constantly looking at his mother's shop. "Interesting, just what I needed to sharpen my sword intent, not some mere mortal beasts ".
As he snapped out of his comprehension state, he saw his father, who was still in the door and replied to him, "Yes, I finally understand what to sever karma means", who then looked at him, even more shocked than he had already been as he was just muttering in retrospect during that sparring session not thinking that even a talented child as his son would finally understand the basics of it.