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Wooden Sword

Heavenly Wonder embodying “Sword”The physical wonder remains autonomous; its principles are separately comprehended and manifested as techniques

The Wooden Sword is the unadorned physical manifestation of the Heavenly Wonder [Sword], a treasure aligned with the sword principle of the Xuanhuang Realm. Its simple appearance conceals an independent will: even after Shuo Feng builds his foundation upon it, the sword does not consistently obey him (Chapters 283, 659).

History

Shuo Feng’s retraining

Shuo Feng abandons his former path, enters the ruined Heavenly Sword Sect’s Sword Tomb, and finds the Wooden Sword at the center of more than a million blades bowed toward it. He uses the natural treasure for Foundation Establishment and wields it in battle, first as multiple white-light sword manifestations and later as the apparently crude wooden blade itself. His custody follows acquisition and foundation use, but the sword’s resistance prevents complete mastery (Chapters 283, 659).

Li Fan at the Sword Tomb

In a later timeline, Li Fan reaches the Sword Tomb before Shuo Feng’s known acquisition. He sits near the buried Wooden Sword and comprehends its sword intent but deliberately refrains from seizing it, partly because it was left by Mr. Bai and may participate in a larger design. He also observes it giving special attention to a black sword that seems close to becoming another conceptual body (Chapters 890–893).

The phantom Wooden Sword

Li Fan later develops a phantom Wooden Sword movement technique from comprehension rather than from custody of the original object. He rides the phantom through the Darkest Star Sea and Remnant World Great Wall, carries companions within its protection, and uses it to evade many restrictive forces. Strengthening of Truth’s reality–illusion transformations later improves the phantom technique, confirming it as a derived manifestation rather than the Sword Tomb artifact itself (Chapters 1312–1350).

Description and function

The physical wonder is plain, undecorated, and so crudely carved that it resembles a child’s wooden toy. It bears no visible engraving or mysterious aura, yet the swords of the Heavenly Sword Sect’s tomb bow toward it as to an emperor. Its lack of ornament expresses the principle that myriad sword forms return to one simple essence (Chapters 659, 890–893).

As [Sword], it is less a manufactured weapon than a natural condensation of the sword Dao. A leaf or other ordinary object can acquire sword-like sharpness under its influence, while practitioners studying it gain direct insight into sword principles (Chapters 659, 890–893).

Abilities and limitations

Reflection and counterattack

The Wooden Sword can intercept attacks and return their force with greater speed and sharpness. Shuo Feng’s use against Li Fan shows reflected sword light retaining enough power to resist a Nascent Soul domain even though Shuo Feng has restarted at Foundation Establishment. The demonstrated expression favors response and redirection; Li Fan infers that its incomplete control limits straightforward offensive use (Chapter 659).

Multiplicity and sword-domain influence

Shuo Feng manifests several identical wooden swords to confront multiple opponents, while the physical Heavenly Wonder influences the million-sword tomb and can alter how nearby things express “sword.” These effects are not proof that each manifested blade is an independently owned copy; they are extensions of one heavenly principle (Chapters 283, 659, 890–893).

Phantom movement

Li Fan’s derived phantom crosses immense distances, carries passengers, reduces the Remnant World Great Wall’s echoing-star-force influence, and ignores many restraints. It still consumes spiritual power and, more importantly, heavily exhausts the mind. Violent Star Sea fissure forces can destabilize it and threaten the user with severe injury unless its reality–illusion basis is strengthened (Chapters 1343–1350).

Custody and users

Shuo Feng finds and wields the physical Wooden Sword in the timeline where he retrains, but openly admits that it can resist his summons and will. Foundation use therefore creates an intimate bond without reducing the Heavenly Wonder to obedient property (Chapters 283, 659).

Li Fan later has access to the Sword Tomb and studies the Wooden Sword at close range. He neither removes it nor becomes its physical owner in that sequence. His phantom Wooden Sword is a secret divine ability produced by comprehension and Truth-related transformation, not evidence that the original sword changed hands (Chapters 890–893, 1343–1350).

  • Truth strengthens Li Fan’s later phantom manifestation through deeper transformations between truth and falsehood (Chapters 1349–1350).