Chapter 1037: Another One? Three years earlier.
Qingluo Three Thousand Realms, Heaven-Stabilizing Continent.
Willow Sea, Listening Willow Temple, central Southern Bright Region.
A young man in an ink-black Daoist robe rode a glossy black horse away from Listening Willow Temple.
The sword cradled in his arms had also changed from that nameless gray longsword to the Listening Willow Sword.
Chen Yan slowly lowered his head and looked at the Listening Willow Sword in his arms.
Its scabbard was green all over, the tender green of willow buds newly unfurled in early spring, with a faint, downy texture on its surface.
There were no decorations on the scabbard, only a willow-leaf-shaped piece of jade inlaid near its mouth.
The jade was as thin as a cicada's wing. He could even see veins as fine as strands of hair within it, stretching from the leaf's stem toward its tip, growing ever finer until they were almost invisible to the naked eye.
The hilt was the color of white jade. It was said to have been fashioned from a willow tree that had already been growing in this region fifty-six million years ago.
Now, more than fifty million years had passed, yet the sword still showed no signs of aging.
After all, it was an immortal sword.
It had once been the Listening Willow Sage's lifebound sword and had guarded the Great Dao Boundary Stele.
But Chen Yan had no interest in this immortal sword, nor in the Innate Sword Intent it contained—the Willow-Brushing Intent.
He still had an unevolved immortal artifact blank of his own.
Moreover, Chen Yan now possessed the Falling Star Sword. With his Void Intent, he had no need to comprehend anything through the Willow-Brushing Intent within the Listening Willow Sword.
Yet he had come all the same, attending