What Exactly Is It?

"I...!"

Xiao Chen was unwilling. He was deeply attached to this mortal world; his parents and family were here. He did not want to sever his mortal ties.

But he had no choice. Before the thought had even faded, he had already vanished from this world.

Amid the starry sky, Gu Shaoshang silently watched everything unfold.

Behind him, a massive river that seemed to envelop this entire world could vaguely be seen.

The river surged onward, seeming both illusory and real, as though it truly existed.

This was the Martial Path river born within this world. Its source was him, and its end was also him. Between its beginning and end lay the Martial Path that generations of outstanding figures in this world had tirelessly studied over thousands of years.

"Martial... I..."

Gu Shaoshang murmured softly.

There were countless worlds within this Longevity World. The world Xiao Chen and the other had gone to, known in this world as the Longevity World, was actually the Martial World.

Among the many worlds, it could only be considered average.

Within this world, martial cultivation, immortal cultivation, curse cultivation, divine cultivation, and other paths coexisted. Martial cultivation was merely one of them, though it was also the orthodox path of cultivation for humanity.

The avatar Gu Shaoshang had sent to the Longevity World had long since advanced to the peak of the Ninth Heaven of Ancestral Gods, with one foot already stepping into the realm of Supreme Ancestral Gods. Its combat power was even comparable to that of a Supreme Ancestral God. Building upon the foundation Gu Shaoshang had left behind, it had deduced and organized the Martial Path anew.

It had transformed his Martial Path into a great river of martial cultivation and imprinted it upon heaven and earth. Only then