Time Domain, Breakthrough to Grandmaster Realm

"Simple!!!"

"You, an inexperienced little girl, dare to spout such arrogant nonsense, calling the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation simple!"

Though this was merely the simplest first stance of the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation, the variations contained within numbered in the hundreds.

Even the prodigy disciples of the Sword Sect wouldn't dare claim this first stance was simple.

"Young Master, it really is simple!"

Seeing Ye Jing's disbelief, Qiuyue snatched the branch from his hand and demonstrated it right before him.

At first, Ye Jing's eyes held a trace of disdain, but as he watched, his expression gradually shifted. By the time Qiuyue finished, his face had changed dramatically.

Shock filled his eyes as he stared at Qiuyue, feeling a strange unfamiliarity.

Though her demonstration wasn't perfectly identical, it captured about seventy percent of the essence. Only her lack of cultivation kept her from grasping the true power of the sword technique, leaving her with the form alone.

Yet, just by watching him demonstrate the first sword of the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation once, she had comprehended seventy percent!

Such talent! Ye Jing found himself at a loss for words.

Seeing Ye Jing staring at her with such a strange look, Qiuyue was baffled. "Young Master, did I demonstrate it wrong?"

"No, no, your demonstration was perfectly correct."

Ye Jing pondered for a moment, then asked, "By the way, Qiuyue, do you still remember your parents?"

Ye Jing recalled that Qiuyue had been found by his mother in a heavy snowstorm, brought back to the estate.

"Young Master, what are you talking about? I was only three years old back then—how could I remember anything from that time?"

Qiuyue shot Ye Jing a glare.

Ye Jing knew full well she had been just three, but the talent she had just displayed was far too astonishing. It made him suspect there was something strange about Qiuyue's origins, stirring unease in his heart.

The Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation were the Sword Sect's forbidden ultimate art. In three hundred years, no one had ever fully mastered all thirteen swords.

This showed just how difficult the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation truly were.

He himself had only managed to comprehend all thirteen swords in a single day thanks to his Heaven-Defying Comprehension, though his cultivation level prevented him from executing the last eight.

But Qiuyue, after watching him demonstrate just once, had grasped seventy percent of the first sword. Though it paled in comparison to his own achievement...

Such aptitude—even if Zhu Yang were resurrected from three hundred years ago, he would be far inferior to Qiuyue!

Damn, he had only wanted to give Qiuyue a way to defend herself, and instead he'd stumbled upon such a huge secret.

In truth, it was the original owner's oversight. Qiuyue had been exceptionally clever since childhood, learning anything with ease.

Ye Jing sifted through the original owner's memories again and realized that Qiuyue had indeed been extraordinary from a young age.

Now, Ye Jing found himself in a bind.

With talent like this, failing to nurture it would be a waste of such fine jade. But he could only activate his Heaven-Defying Comprehension while reading books.

Everything he had came from the system. How could he possibly teach Qiuyue to cultivate?

He decided to copy out the Qi Refining Realm techniques from the Imperial Pole Dao Proving Scripture and give them to Qiuyue.

After all, the Qi Refining Realm was just about condensing heaven and earth's spiritual energy into the body—nothing too complex. For now, Ye Jing couldn't think of a better way to handle Qiuyue's situation.

"By the way, Qiuyue, don't show anyone what I taught you today unless it's a life-or-death situation."

Though the Sword Sect and Great Wei were ten thousand li from the Imperial Capital, Ye Jing still warned Qiuyue out of caution.

After explaining some key points about the Qi Refining Realm to Qiuyue, Ye Jing left her to cultivate.

Late at night, seeing that the candle in Qiuyue's room had gone out, Ye Jing finally stepped out of his own room.

With a light leap, he cleared the eaves and vanished into the night.

Arriving at a desolate mountain outside the city, Ye Jing confirmed no one was around and began preparing to break through to the Grandmaster Realm.

The Grandmaster Realm was the first step into domains. As long as one comprehended a domain, they could break through to Grandmaster.

But domains varied in strength. The more powerful the domain, the more the heavens resisted its emergence. Some heaven-defying domains even drew heavenly punishment.

Ye Jing adjusted his breathing, mobilized the true qi within his body, and began condensing his domain according to the Imperial Pole Dao Proving Scripture.

The Imperial Pole Dao Proving Scripture recorded an extremely heaven-defying domain—the Time Domain.

Among the three thousand Great Daos, space reigned supreme, and time was honored as king. Though the Sword Dao boasted the strongest offensive power, the Great Dao of Time had held the top position since ancient times.

The Time Domain recorded in the Imperial Pole Dao Proving Scripture contained a sliver of the Law of Time, making it the absolute sovereign among countless domains.

Logically speaking, though Wei Donglai was undeniably the greatest figure in Great Wei's millennia-long history, the Time Domain was the most powerful domain of all.

Throughout history, fewer than ten people had ever comprehended it. Given Wei Donglai's aptitude, he could never have grasped the Time Domain.

Ye Jing didn't understand why the Imperial Pole Dao Proving Scripture contained records of the Time Domain, but he was certain the records were correct.

Closing his eyes, Ye Jing immersed himself in cultivation.

Gradually, a dazzling, multicolored phantom light screen began to appear around him. Meanwhile, in the void above his head, a churning sea of dark, flickering thunder was brewing.

The phantom light screen grew more solid, and the thunder sea in the void radiated an increasingly terrifying aura.

By the time the light screen fully solidified, the thunder sea's momentum had reached its peak.

Ye Jing slowly opened his eyes, faintly visible within the void sea of lightning were Tribulation Dragons surging.

The Time Domain was the most heaven-defying domain in the world; once it appeared, lightning tribulation would descend.

Nine Tribulation Dragons let out a single dragon roar, flicked their tails, and charged straight at Ye Jing.

Having already cultivated the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation and the Indestructible Golden Body, Ye Jing faced these Tribulation Dragons without a trace of fear.

A three-foot-long Primordial Sword Qi appeared in Ye Jing's hand, and a golden light radiated from his body.

With a single swing of his sword, a vast, righteous sword qi swept toward the nine Tribulation Dragons with an overwhelming momentum, instantly severing four of them.

The remaining five Tribulation Dragons roared even more fiercely, striking down at Ye Jing's head with lightning speed.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."

The Indestructible Golden Body was divided into nine layers; each layer refined increased the golden body's height by one zhang. Legend had it that when cultivated to the ninth layer, even the Great Dao of Time would struggle to corrode it.

Although Ye Jing had fully comprehended the Indestructible Golden Body, due to his cultivation level, his golden body was only three zhang tall. Even now, having broken through to the Grandmaster Realm, it was merely four zhang.

But despite being only four zhang tall, its defensive power was astonishing.

Relying on the Indestructible Golden Body, Ye Jing withstood the remaining five Tribulation Dragons head-on.

After finishing the tribulation, sensing someone approaching, Ye Jing dared not linger and immediately got up to return.