In the martial world of the present-day Nineteen Provinces, powerful experts emerged one after another, while heavenly prodigies coexisted beneath the same sky, like stars strewn across the heavens, each vying to shine. Yet the Dao Attainment realm was, in the end, not so easily reached. It was a realm one could gaze upon but never attain.
At present, there were quite a few prodigious masters renowned throughout the martial world of the Nineteen Provinces. Among them, the most outstanding were Taixu, heir to the Daoist Supreme Dao Sect; Fanputi, Buddhist Son of Myriad Buddha Cave; the Three Heavenly Men of the Earth Demon lineage of the Demonic Sect; Guan Zhong, the unparalleled hero of Great Zhou's northern military; Mu Zhifeng of a reclusive aristocratic family; and others.
Yet no matter who it was, however exceptional or formidable their combat strength, they remained at the Heavenly Man level. None had taken that final step, and in a short time, none would find it easy to take that step and achieve Dao Attainment cultivation.
Yet there was one man who, though young and born in humble circumstances, had risen like a comet. He had fought and killed his way forward, and in a mere dozen or so years, he had already attained Dao Attainment cultivation.
Not long ago, Emperor Shengwu of Great Zhou had issued an edict appointing him the eighth Divine Constable of the Divine Constable Gate, granting him the title Heavenly Saber. Revered by the whole world, that man was Xiang Yang.
Zhou An originally could not have guessed Xiang Yang's identity. Yet Xiang Yang's peerless strength was one flaw, and what he had learned from Zhou Tong—that Xiang Yang intended to investigate the extermination of the Wen family—was another.
With those two points, Zhou An vaguely guessed Xiang