Chen Ping'an shot up from the ground. Azure light blazed across the blue heavens, dazzling in its splendor. The sword light was vast and magnificent, its sword intent rich and surging, enough to terrify cultivators above a continent's mountainside.
On the sword rack in the study of the Great Li National Teacher's Manor in the capital, and upon the wall of his private Daoist grounds at Fuyao Foothills, a sheathed sword at each location had long been ringing and roaring like dragons.
"Night Roaming," a sword forged from the tip of the Taibai Immortal Sword and sheathed in Dragon Lord's ceremonial robe; and "Duckweed," a longsword transformed from half the Sword Qi Great Wall ruins.
Both had automatically followed their master, Chen Ping'an, accompanying that figure in azure robes as he rode his sword through the blue heavens.
The sea of clouds over Treasure Bottle Continent churned once more, until seven immense, ever-moving vortices emerged. A Natal Flying Sword called "Northern Dipper" became seven streaks of golden sword light, pointing from beyond the heavens at the human world, waiting for their moment.
The Great Li Earthly Branches lineage likewise transformed into rainbows, following Great Li's young National Teacher, Ascension Realm sword cultivator Chen Ping'an, out of the Great Li Capital City. Following the formation through escape techniques, they each took their positions amid the mountains and rivers of Treasure Bottle Continent.
Beyond that, Treasure Bottle Continent's Five Mountains also made their move.
Previously, according to calculations by the Great Li Ministry of Justice and Imperial Observatory, once the Earthly Branches lineage was fully completed, it could kill an Immortal Realm cultivator who was not a sword cultivator.
Unfortunately, the formation eye had always been reserved for a Pure Martial Artist, and that vacancy meant that the killing power of Great