In the dim, deathly silent starry sky.
A rising sun rose from the world wall of the Minor World.
This rising sun was so brilliant that, even from seven or eight hundred thousand kilometers away, its light and sword intent had already arrived, shining upon the two people in the starry sky.
The two who had been fighting stopped.
One was a middle-aged cultivator with a long beard. He had a majestic build and heroic features, with a neatly groomed long beard beneath his chin. Its style was related to an aesthetic trend once popular in the Northern Plains Cultivation World some ten thousand years ago. At the time, male Northern Plains cultivators considered long beards beautiful and were called "Gentlemen of Beautiful Whiskers."
Back then, if a male cultivator possessed a beautiful beard, he might even entice a high-ranking female cultivator to willingly marry beneath her station.
Legend had it that this was how the female cultivator known as True Orchid Heavenly Mother, the progenitor of the maternal bloodline of the Northern Plains Bloodline Family, had acted. While still a Golden Core Cultivator, she married a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
She had not taken him as a furnace cauldron. Instead, she had brought an immense dowry and married an obscure male cultivator simply because he possessed a beautiful beard, causing quite a sensation.
That Foundation Establishment cultivator used this as his starting point and began soaring through the ranks. He broke through Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and even Spirit Transformation, before becoming invincible beneath the heavens.
That male cultivator was none other than this Gentleman of Beautiful Whiskers ten thousand years later—Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch!
Opposite the bearded cultivator stood an ordinary-looking cultivator whose entire body radiated boundless light. Endless destruction and scorching sword intent surfaced around him. From afar,