Shenwu Kingdom.
Within a luxurious room at the embassy, Jiang Dali sat cross-legged on the bed with his massive frame, holding the thick-backed Eagle Saber across his knees. He carefully sensed the strange power within the blade while recalling his final conversation with Ying Yuan about "Shattering the Void" before he had left the residence.
"Master Ying, there is something I do not understand. Since you said the Eagle Saber once contained all of your father Chuan Ying's lifelong martial arts experience, including that final move with which he shattered the void on horseback, why did you ultimately choose to erase it?
"The feeling you give me is also rather peculiar, as though you could break through at any moment, yet also as though you cannot. You are neither particularly strong nor weak. Why is that?"
"I knew Brother Jiang would ask this. Let me tell you now: Shattering the Void may not necessarily be a good thing. At least, I am unwilling to take that step. Once, through the Eagle Saber, I relived my late father's magnificent life. It was equivalent to gaining another cycle of his experiences. At that time, I had already taken half a step across, yet I shrank back in fright. What terrified me was how the final move of Shattering the Void could be so simple, and yet so terrifying."
"What exactly did you sense? Why were you so afraid? Could it be that the ultimate end of Shattering the Void is like Bodhidharma opening his Heavenly Eye, seeing some dreadful thing that should not be seen?"
"Not quite. Shattering the Void is merely one of the ultimate paths in the pursuit of martial arts, much like the Heavenly Human Realm or the True Return Realm we are in now. Are those not other