Sword of Coming Season 2 Episode 9 Indonesia, English Sub

In Jian Lai, there are two cultivation paths: Qi Cultivators (who require the Bridge of Longevity/Immortality) and the Martial Artists’ Path.

The path of Qi Cultivators is mainly divided into three groups, each consisting of five levels:
-5 LOWER REALMS: 1st Copper Skin Tier, 2nd Grass Root Tier, 3rd Willow Tendon Tier, 4th Bone Qi Tier, 5th Furnace Molding Tier
-5 INTERMEDIATE REALMS: 6th Abode Tier, 7th Sea Observation Tier, 8th Dragon Gate Tier, 9th Golden Core Tier, 10th Nascent Soul Tier
-5 UPPER REALMS: 11th Unpolished Jade Tier, 12th Immortal Tier, 13th Ascension Tier, 14th Dao Integration Realm, 15th (equivalent to founding a Teaching/religion)

The path of Martial Artists is mainly divided into three groups, each consisting of three levels:
-3 BODY REFINING TIERS: 1st Clay Embryo Tier, 2nd Wooden Embryo Tier, 3rd Mercury Tier
-3 QI REFINING TIERS: 4th Heroic Spirit Tier, 5th Gallant Soul Tier, 6th Martial Courage Tier
-3 SPIRIT/SOUL REFINING TIERS: 7th Vajra Body Tier, 8th Far Roaming Tier, 9th Mountain Summit Tier
-Then there is the 10th Tier called End Tier, which is further divided into 3 levels: Qi Sheng (Abundance of Qi), Gui Zhen (Return to Truth), and Shen Dao (Divine Arrival).
-Finally, there is the legendary 11th Tier called Martial God Tier.

Normally, it would not be possible to practice both cultivation paths at high levels, but there are specific techniques that allow it. Furthermore, many qi cultivators also practice martial arts to strengthen their bodies, but without going beyond the 6th realm of martial arts.

Among the qi cultivators are the so-called sword cultivators. These are people with a good aptitude for cultivation who are born with one or more innate flying swords. These innate flying swords have unique and special powers. [For example, one of Chen Ping’an’s innate flying swords, called “Moon in the Well,” is shown in the very first episode. This innate flying sword’s power is to multiply into hundreds of thousands of flying swords.]
Sword cultivators are the cultivators with the highest killing power and have a very robust physique, second only to martial artists. Sword cultivators have the possibility of reaching the 14th realm either by choosing their own Dao path (just like all qi cultivators) or as “pure sword cultivators,” which represents the pinnacle of swordsmanship. To do so, they must develop an appropriate Dao heart. The mindset must be that of a swordsman, straightforward and decisive, free of excessive calculations and convoluted reasoning (obviously, this doesn’t mean being stupid and/or acting recklessly).
Attention: being a cultivator capable of bare-handed combat doesn’t automatically make them a martial artist, just as cultivators who fight using swords don’t make them sword cultivators. This is important because there are martial artists who fight with a sword, and there are martial artists who are born with an innate flying sword (and therefore are sword cultivators) but they don’t practice qi cultivation (which is obviously a waste).
In terms of strength, the 11th realm of martial artists can be considered on par with the 14th realm of qi cultivation.

On average, the path of qi cultivation is considered superior to that of a martial artist. This is because not only does the path of qi cultivation include more levels, but also because compared to a martial artist below the 11th level (who can live a maximum of 300 years), qi cultivators can live significantly longer.

The Qi Cultivation path requires talent and the presence of the Longevity Bridge to draw qi from outside, while the Martial arts path requires not only talent but rather hard work and proper guidance from an expert: in practice, you should think of a martial artist’s body as “iron, and all the blows it receives are like the blows the blacksmith gives it to create his creations.” So, to move from one level to another, a martial artist must often find himself in life-and-death situations. To maximize this path, being mentored by a very high-level martial artist is practically guaranteed success (“practically” because if the disciple is weak, he’ll die under those blows). In fact, in the first season, when Li Er was about to stop fighting Song Changjin because he thought he’d accidentally kill him if he continued fighting.

ON AVERAGE, a good martial artist is stronger than a Qi Cultivator of the same level. However, this isn’t always the case, as talent and the solidity of the martial artist’s level foundations must be considered (there will be situations where martial artists, through training, find themselves on the verge of breaking through to the next level, and if their foundations are solid enough at that point, they will have the opportunity to skip multiple levels, like going from 3rd level directly to 5th level. However, this isn’t advisable because it would leave the martial artist with a very fragile 4th level foundation, which would compromise their future success in reaching higher levels), this doesn’t apply to qi cultivation where skipping levels is just cool.
For martial arts foundations, I’ll give you an example: think of the martial arts path as the construction of a high-rise building, where each floor corresponds to a martial arts level. If a floor has a solid foundation (and therefore the body is well tempered through combat), then there is hope of moving forward to build the next floor (and therefore of advancing to the next martial arts level). Therefore, you understand that if a martial artist want to reach the maximum martial arts levels (which for now correspond to 10th level plus 11th level, which is the legendary level), they have to START RIGHT AWAY by tempering their body very well, otherwise “the building cannot support the construction”. In the first season, after the fight between Li Er and Song Changjin, Li Er asks his master (Mr. Yang) why, despite him and Song Chan both being at 9th level and Li Er’s martial arts foundations being more solid than Song Changjin’s, only Song Changjin managed to break through to 10th level. At that point, Old Yang points out that Li Er was not in a life-and-death situation and therefore was unable to break through to the next level.

Or someone is planning something. Keep in mind that these are young sword cultivators with great talent and a real chance of advancing to the five upper realms.