What you have been creating here is the core of the light sword. You need the core to remain that pale yellowish-white color, but gradually transition into the outer glow. In order for this to happen, you need to blur the core. Before this, however, turn the opacity of the pale yellow solid from 30% back up to 100%.
Now that you have the mask, you need to blur the image a bit. Set blur to about 3.0% and add a fast blur to the pale yellow solid stick.
Add a Fast Blur to the pale yellow solid, and set Blurriness to around 3.0. This will blur the core (obviously) and give you a softer edge.
You also want to bring up the exposure of the blade a tad, so add an Exposure effect (Effects>Color Correction>Exposure) to the pale yellow solid, and set the Exposure up a little bit. In this case, 0.6 …
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