Legend of Swordsman

It was indeed a pity for that rough man, Hu San, as he couldn’t revive the woman he loved. However, regenerating his severed arm was not difficult for Jian Wushuang. He also granted him a life of wealth and prosperity, which could be considered as repaying the first kind- hearted person they had encountered.

After doing all of this, he re-consolidated the ancient demon’s essence blood into three fleshy orbs.

He then dropped a single drop of his own essence blood onto the three bodies.

The life level of each of these bodies had reached ten thousand times the norm, and that was just the baseline. How much more they could advance would depend on the strength of the person occupying the body.

Naturally, these three bodies were given to Xiang Yang, Jiang Ni, and Immortal Jiu Chen himself.

As it stood, there was only one Jiu Chen, without the distinction between a true self and a clone.

After completing all of this, he stored the three into the Nine Prison Pagoda.

He had given them the seeds of life, along with all the treasures he had plundered from the Crimson Eye Realm, enough to help them reach the level of Origin Spirit.

There was also a grand soul-advancement formation, with the seeds of life as nourishment.

It was enough for them to master the bodies of the Special Life Forms, and once they emerged from seclusion, they would transcend.

Having done all of this, Jian Wushuang was free of lingering concerns.

Using his form as a sword, he slashed open the space of the Crimson Eye Realm and ascended to the Ancient Domain.

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In the Upper Realm, within the Ancient Domain.

The Ancient Domain hadn’t been in existence for very long, only a few hundred thousand years.

But within these few hundred thousand years, several brilliant eras had arisen.

The first era saw the rise of the One Hundred and Eight Ancient Domains and the One Hundred and Eight Ancient Demons, unmatched in their might!

This era was long, reigning over the cosmos for a full hundred thousand years.

After a hundred thousand years, the Ancient Demon Era was destroyed by the Human Race’s Ancient Court.

Most of the Ancient Demons fell, while the rest were suppressed, forming countless mortal worlds.

Their essence blood scattered across the realms, sparking the Ascension Era.

During the Ascension Era, the Ancient Domain was entirely ruled by ascendants.

Even the remaining seventy-two Ancient Domains were firmly under the control of the ascendants.

The founder of the Ancient Court, ”Yuan Zheng Celestial Venerable,” formally stepped down during this time, passing the title of Lord of the Ancient Court to his disciple, the strongest of all ascendants!

This was ”Zhen Xian of the Three Talents!”

This was the age of the ascendants, but it was a brief one, lasting only a few tens of thousands of years.

The power that supported the mortal worlds, derived from the Ancient Demons, was quickly exhausted.

The Ancient Domain entered a new era.

The Era of Divine Eye!

The Divine Eye techniques had existed since the birth of the Ancient Domain, and the strength of the human race was inseparable from the legacy of the Divine Eye.

However, because the ascendants were numerous, and most of them combined Divine Eye techniques with powerful physical bodies, they dominated the Ascension Era.

But as one mortal world after another fell into ruin, new ascendants from the Ancient Domain grew fewer and fewer. The Ascension Era came to a complete end. The Era of Divine Eye that followed was brought forth by one being who fused two different legacies into one.

His emergence not only altered the Ascension Era but also changed the entire power structure of the Ancient Domain.

In the first two eras of the Ancient Domain, the Ancient Court ruled as the hegemon, governing all seventy-two Ancient Domains.

However, with the integration of the two legacies by the Divine Eye inheritor, a Divine Eye Sacred Land was summoned.

The arrival of this Sacred Land shifted the balance of power, breaking the Ancient Court’s dominance.

From that point on, the seventy-two Ancient Domains were split into two major factions. One was the Ancient Court, and the other was the Divine Eye Sacred Land.

The one who summoned the Sacred Land became known as the ”Sacred Lord,” a title akin to the Lord of the Heavenly Court.

The two forces frequently clashed, with each side ruling thirty-six Ancient Domains, both flourishing in their own right.

Of course, there was always a gap between the new and the old factions.

For instance, the old faction represented by the Ancient Court was more conservative and balanced.

Although the Divine Eye Secret Technique was powerful, it was merely a stepping stone on the path of divine power in the future.

Therefore, they did not regard the Divine Eye inheritance as their true path.

The new faction, on the other hand, was more extreme. Not only did they burn their immortal divine power using the Divine Eye inheritance, but they also integrated it into their own path, even to the point of burning their own path for it.

xplosive power surpassed other experts of the same level.

Countless Divine Eye inheritors tried to emulate this, which caused disdain from the old faction. They believed such actions would ruin all cultivators in the Ancient Domain, leading

to a split.

The Ancient Court represented balance, while the Holy Land represented extremity.

In truth, neither side was wrong; it was simply a difference in understanding. Burning one’s path wasn’t inherently problematic, but it depended on how it was done.

To be precise, it needed to be controlled. One couldn’t blindly burn their own path marks just to increase battle power, as this would affect their future path to becoming an Emperor.

If one prematurely overdraws their path’s power, although the strength gained is formidable, once they reach the point of merging with the Dao, problems would arise.

The path after immortality is relatively smooth, with the merge with the Dao being the most challenging checkpoint.

After merging with the Dao, one’s battle power would transform drastically.

One shouldn’t sacrifice their future merge with the Dao just to increase power in the immortal

phase.

This was the crux of the conflict between the Ancient Court and the Holy Land. Burning one’s own Origin Source path would lead to immense glory during the immortal stage, but they would be left dumbfounded when it came time to merge with the Dao. However, there were exceptions. If not, the Holy Land wouldn’t have risen so quickly.

This was because one particular inheritor who fused two major sequences succeeded in merging with the Dao. Not only did they succeed, but their battle power after merging was so formidable that they could take on a hundred opponents alone.

Even the ancient Yuan Zheng Heavenly Lord and the number one expert among the ascenders, ”Zhen Xian of the Three Talents,” were no match for him.

Additionally, due to the Divine Power Secret Technique, he became the absolute strongest in the Seventy-Two Ancient Domains.

Besides him, three other experts from the Holy Land also successfully merged with the Dao.

Although their strength wasn’t as overwhelming as that of the Holy Master, they could rival Yuan Zheng Heavenly Lord.

It was rumored that these three, when combined, could challenge two generations of Ancient

Court Masters.

However, for most Holy Land experts, succeeding in merging with the Dao was exceedingly difficult. After a hundred thousand years, only four had succeeded.

One of them had fused two major sequences, while the other three had merely perfected two sequences without choosing to merge them into the Dao.

Only four Emperors had emerged in a hundred thousand years. Though each of them was

incredibly powerful, the number was too small.

They were far outnumbered by the Ancient Court.

The Ancient Court had the oldest inheritance and prided themselves on taking the correct

path.

The strength of one’s path varied, but those who cultivated a powerful Origin Source path would not be weaker than the Holy Land inheritors after merging with the Dao.

Even those with weaker paths had an advantage, as the difficulty of merging with the Dao was

reduced.

Thus, the Ancient Court had the most Emperors, with a full hundred Emperors in their ranks.

Among them, the strongest was Zhen Xian of the Three Talents, followed by Yuan Zheng Heavenly Lord, and lastly, the third-generation Master of the Ancient Court.

The strength of these three individuals was also not to be underestimated, which was why the

Ancient Court’s development remained the most stable.

They did not have the intense conflicts found in the Thirty-Six Ancient Domains within the

Holy Land.

In contrast, they were relatively peaceful.

At present, what Jian Wushuang sought was this very peace.

A hundred years had passed since his ascension.

Now, he stood within the Holy City of the Heaven Altar in the Ancient Domain of the

Overturning Sea.

In these hundred years, he had simultaneously studied the Nine Prison Pagoda Token and meditated on his own path.

His current realm remained the same as when he ascended, still at the peak of the Great

Perfection stage.

There hadn’t been much progress.

Mainly because, during these hundred years, he hadn’t ventured out in search of treasures to

break through his own limits.