Sword cultivators were among the most extreme group of combat cultivators, known by the world as Sword Madmen. It can be said that every true sword cultivator was capable of defeating enemies beyond their own level.
Take the Beixuan Sword Sect of Bingzhou, for example. This sect actually didn't have many members compared to other 1st grade sects, possessing only about one-third or even fewer of the cultivators of other sects, due to their very strict recruitment criteria.
But every member of the Beixuan Sword Sect was a sword cultivator. They dedicated their lives solely to the sword, and thus, despite their small numbers, they consistently secured a position among the top ten 1st grade sects.
Among the nearly a hundred 1st grade sects on the Nine Provinces continent, if one were to say which 1st grade sect was the most formidable, it would undoubtedly be the Beixuan Sword Sect. Even other 1st grade sects would not dare to provoke them lightly.