"It was no wonder you thought so. In truth, quite a few masters had speculated that the Demon Emperor had already broken through the Calamity of the Three Gates and become an invincible expert standing shoulder to shoulder with the Sword God.
"But the Demon Emperor was like a divine dragon whose head was seen but whose tail never appeared; people had heard of him but never seen his face. He was simply far too mysterious. It was truly difficult to ascertain his martial arts and cultivation realm, and I could not say for certain either."
Tian Xingzi paused, his clear brows knitting slightly. He seemed deeply wary even of the legendary figure known as the Demon Emperor, before continuing,
"As for how the Sword God broke through the Calamity of the Three Gates and maintained it for so many years, that was beyond the knowledge of people like us. Otherwise, after all these years, he would not be the sole publicly known supreme expert of the Three Gates in this world.
"The Sword God's martial arts were unmatched beneath heaven. No one dared force him to do anything he was unwilling to do.
"Moreover, from ancient times to the present, generation after generation of outstanding talents had pressed onward one after another, using themselves as templates to study methods of breaking through. It could not be said that they had gained nothing. They had indeed explored a clever shortcut capable of suppressing the Calamity of the Three Gates for a short time.
"But unless this trouble was resolved completely, the suppressed calamity would only accumulate more and more, until it ultimately slaughtered its victim with an even more incomparably violent force. That was unavoidable."
The information Tian Xingzi revealed greatly invigorated Xiang Yang. Sure enough, mankind was a race