Yin-Yang Creation as the Furnace, Calamity and Chaos as the Fuel

Sever.

Not the path of severing fortune, but the Heaven-Cutting Sword alone.

The Heaven-Cutting Sword was the strongest Divine Ability Jiang Sheng had developed through his own insight since he began cultivating. It also embodied his Dao Fruit, his arts, his Dao Heart, and his will. What it represented went far beyond a single sword strike of profound power.

It had begun with the arts of Wind Thunder and Water Fire, then advanced to the way of the Four Symbols and yin and yang, and then to the intent of the three calamities and tribulation annihilation. Now, time and Karmic Cause and Effect were contained within a single sword strike.

Jiang Sheng had drawn different depths of meaning from the word "sever" in the Heaven-Cutting Sword and the Jie Character Sword Art. From that came the Yin-Yang Calamity Three-Transformation Five-Element Method.

The Nine-Tailed Great Sage's Celestial Fox Secret Canon, meanwhile, recorded his own insights into Pure Yang, along with some of his views on the Dao-Entering Realm and the Dao-Wielding Realm.

Dao-Entering Pure Yang and Dao-Holding Pure Yang did not mean mastery over a single Great Dao. They concerned understanding the Great Dao and putting it to use.

Where did the Great Dao come from?

Who had opened this path?

Beyond Dao-Entering Pure Yang, Dao-Holding Pure Yang, and Dao-Ruling True Yang, what came next?

The Nine-Tailed Great Sage had recorded too much, on too many subjects, and much of it was startling. Even Jiang Sheng could not help marveling at the extraordinary reach of the Great Sage's thoughts.

Cultivation was, in a sense, a process of seeking the Dao, resolving doubts, and seeing the truth. This was something all living beings of all races throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds acknowledged.

Across the Middle and Lower Six Realms, one