Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

The rugged mountains suddenly trembled, clouds surged like boiling water. A blue-gold sword light burst from the ground, where it passed, rocks shattered, tearing open a blackened void rift in mid-air.

The ancient sword hovering in the sky was swirling with star patterns, its sword edge hung with thousands of silver threads, as if slicing the firmament into countless fragments.

Nature’s spiritual energy gathered madly, transforming into a golden beam shooting straight towards the skies, crashing violently with the sword light, emitting a deafening roar. The beast hordes within a few hundred miles prostrated and wailed, even the demon beasts entrenched deep in the mountains felt the pressure and dared not forge ahead.

The sword’s hum grew stronger, ancient runes emerged along the spine, radiating with great brilliance. The light pierced through the clouds, dyeing the entire mountain range an eerie blue-gold.

On Cangyu Mountain, towering trees spread their enormous and dense canopy like a giant umbrella, shading the whole mountain beneath it.

Within the canopy, a petite, comely woman suddenly opened her blue eyes, looking towards the direction where the ancient sword lay.

Her gaze penetrated through layers of concealing leaves, as if seeing the ancient blue-gold sword.

”Green Gold Sword! Indeed, his sword was left at Hidden Sword Mountain!”

A flicker of dim light passed through her eyes, she finally withdrew her gaze and closed her eyes, continuing to cultivate.

The Green Gold Sword, the Spiritual Artifact of the Heavenly Sword True Monarch.

As a Sword Cultivator, the power of Heavenly Sword True Monarch even among Golden Core Cultivators was a relatively strong force, and his sword possessed incomparably powerful might.

The ancient sword transformed into a flowing light, blinking across thousands of miles, arriving above Wuxiang City.

The fierce and dominant pressure spread, causing everyone inside and outside Wuxiang City to feel a sting in their Heart Spirit.

Yang Zhenshan’s eyes widened, his gaze fervently fixed on that ancient sword.

What a terrifying Spiritual Artifact!

Spiritual Artifacts are divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. The Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace is a mid-grade Spiritual Artifact, but compared to the sword before him, the furnace seemed somewhat frail.

The Golden Crow was still trembling.

”Is this a top-grade Spiritual Artifact?” Yang Zhenshan asked.

The Golden Crow nodded, its voice trembled as it said: ”It’s not just a top-grade Spiritual Artifact, I feel it might already be a Holy Spirit!”

”Holy Spirit! What is that?” Yang Zhenshan was puzzled.

”Above Spiritual Artifacts are Spiritual Treasures. The Artifact Spirit of a Spiritual Treasure is a Holy Spirit, an immortal Holy Spirit, even if the Artifact body is destroyed, the Holy Spirit won’t dissipate!” the Golden Crow explained.

Yang Zhenshan suddenly understood, a Holy Spirit, a kind of Spiritual Body nurtured from a Spiritual Artifact, has already broken free from the limitations of Magical Treasures and Spiritual Artifacts, becoming a special kind of being.

Holy Spirit!

Unexpectedly, Hidden Sword Mountain still holds such a trump card.

Above the firmament, the Green Gold Sword hovered before Jian Changhe, his eyes burning as he looked at the ancient sword, his whole body seemed to tremble.

Meanwhile, Sheng Youhuang had already fled, in just a breath’s time, she had escaped tens of miles.

Her icy face was filled with fear, the sapphire rainbow light shot rapidly.

Jian Changhe formed a sword technique, his gaze locked onto Li Xuanxiao, who was a step behind.

”Wait!”

Li Xuanxiao had no trace of arrogance left, he shouted fearfully.

”Sword Slash!”

Jian Changhe wouldn’t waste words with him, he joined fingers, pointing at Li Xuanxiao.

A sword beam as large as a sail shot forth, Li Xuanxiao wanted to escape and dodge, but unfortunately, this sword beam was so fast and incredibly sharp, the thought of dodging had just arisen, the sword beam had already sliced through the air.

This sword strike wasn’t grand, not even comparable to the casual strikes of Jian Guyun and the others before, but its sharpness surpassed everyone’s understanding.

The sword fell, Li Xuanxiao’s head and body parted, his eyes immediately dimmed.

Blood spilled across the sky, the corpse fell from the air, and the Divine Soul instantly faded.

The sword didn’t just cut down Li Xuanxiao’s vitality, but also his Divine Soul was slain together.

Li Xuanxiao died, just like that.

A Divine Soul Realm Martial Artist was so effortlessly slain by a single sword.

Neither Yang Zhenshan nor Yun Xiao could believe it.

”That’s the Sword Intent left by the Heavenly Sword True Monarch!” Yun Xiao muttered softly.

”Sword Intent!”

Yang Zhenshan pondered as he looked at Jian Changhe, his Spiritual Sense enveloped the entire sky, both Jian Changhe and the ancient sword were under his Spiritual Sense’s coverage.

Although only observing through Spiritual Sense, he could feel a sharpness that’s incomparably fierce, as if his Spiritual Sense dared not approach the ancient sword.

He couldn’t closely observe the ancient sword, but he could observe Jian Changhe.

At this moment, Jian Changhe’s state was very poor, his Mana was exhausted, his aura unstable, seemingly on the verge of collapse.

”Controlling this Spirit Sword seems very difficult for Jian Changhe! Moreover, he seems to only be able to command this Spirit Sword with his own Mana!”

”This Spirit Sword should merely be a Spiritual Artifact, not yet at the Spirit Treasure level, otherwise it wouldn’t need to drain Jian Changhe’s Mana!”

Yang Zhenshan thought quietly.

If it were a Spirit Treasure, it could draw in Spiritual Energy on its own, it would not need to consume someone else’s Mana, so the sword before him was still only a Spiritual Artifact, not a Spirit Treasure.

Of course, the Golden Crow wasn’t wrong either. Although this sword isn’t a Spirit Treasure, it’s likely on the verge of ascending to become one, perhaps only needing nurturing for a period of time to become a Spirit Treasure.

However, wanting to nurture such a Spirit Sword isn’t an easy task either, given Hidden Sword Mountain’s foundation, it’s likely hard to elevate this Spirit Sword.

Yang Zhenshan compared the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace and the Spirit Sword, finding there’s no comparison to be made between the two.