"Third Realm!"
"The Eighth Sword Immortal—another Third Realm! And the Mysterious Gate he opened with his sword was of the Myriad Sword Technique!"
Within Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, after Ba Zunan had abandoned his physical body, the people of the Five Domains had followed him back into the dream.
Naturally, within this dreamscape where distance no longer imposed limits, even those in the Southern Domain could witness with their naked eyes the opening of yet another Mysterious Gate.
Ancient sword cultivators everywhere had completely erupted.
If Ba Zunan's previous achievement—entering the Dao through illusion and dreams, opening the Mysterious Gate with his sword—could rival Sword Ancestor Gu Louying's, then...
After all, one had used the Emotion Sword Art to open the Third Realm and become an Ancestor, while the other had used the Illusion Sword Technique. Their paths differed, but their heights were the same.
Even if one examined and debated the matter further, the only gap between them was the seemingly insignificant realm of "Ancestor God."
Ba Zunan had not become an Ancestor God.
Yet everyone knew perfectly well that Ba Zunan's combat strength had long since reached the level of an Ancestor God.
And now, Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns had yet to end, yet this second Mysterious Gate was about to be opened as well.
What did that signify? Even Sword Ancestor Gu Louying had only reached the Third Realm in the Emotion Sword Art!
"Ba Zunan... a new generation's Sword God?"
"At this very moment, his achievements have already surpassed Sword God Gu Louying's."
"We're witnessing history again! I told you Eastern Domain Sword God Heaven would surely produce a Sword God!"
"The Eighth Sword Immortal truly did not deceive me. He did not disappoint me!"
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