“Sword Intent is divided into nine levels, and the 9th level is called the perfection-stage. Every single level will allow your strength to experience an obvious increase. For example, the 1st level of Sword Intent is capable of allowing your strength to improve by 30%, whereas, the 2nd level improves your strength by 60%, and so on and so forth. It isn’t just this, Sword Intent’s ability to suppress and restrain your enemies is the same. If you fought a weaker opponent now, then you don’t have to make a move at all, and just utilizing Sword Intent would be sufficient to suppress your enemy to the point of being unable to arouse the intention to resist you!” ~ Emperor Zhou(C129)
"Attaining 1st level Heaven Realm Sword Intent represents that one’s Sword Intent can rely on the strength of the world, and that’s something which only Monarch Realm experts can accomplish." ~ Zuo Dengfeng(C600)
"After Sword Intent attained the Heaven Realm, it would undergo another qualitative transformation, and that was the ability to condense into form and become material. Once 12th level Sword Intent was attained, it represented that the Sword Intent had gained true intelligence and was sufficient to govern itself."
“The unique trait of 3rd level Heaven Rank sword intent is its ability to merge with sword techniques, the space, the heavens and the earth, and even the energy of the Laws." ~ Sword Spirit(C796)
"Sword intent that has attained perfection in the Heaven Rank still leaves traces behind. Since there are traces, it represents that it has flaws. However, Void Rank sword intent leaves no traces behind. It truly merges into one with the world. It's 10 times stronger than Heaven Rank sword intent, it’s extremely mysterious and is truly capable of killing without leaving a trace behind" ~ Daoist Gu(C882)
“The Void Rank, the Void…. It exists yet doesn’t. It’s material yet ethereal. From nothing to something, and then from something to nothing…. The essence, the essence of all things. The laws that govern all things. The beginning and the end of all things. The essence of all things and the essence of sword intent" ~ Yang Ye(C958)
Sword Intent Ranks:[]
| Ranks | Levels | Powers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earth Rank | 1-10 | |
| 2 | Heaven Rank | 11-13 | |
| 3 | Quasi Void Rank | Early Stage
Mid Stage Late Stage Peak Stage |
On par with the world's laws |
| 4 | Void Rank | Surpasses the world's law's | |
| 5 | Rebirth Rank | ||
| 6 | Quasi Returnal Rank | ||
| 7 | Returnal Rank | ||
| 8 | Zenith Rank | Utmost limit of the sword | |
| 9 | True Rank | The truth is the quintessence, it’s the original form | |
| 10 | Enlightened Rank | It’s not within the five elements, not in the heavens and the
earth, completely untraceable, and can merge into all things |