[You were delighted by your child's breakthrough. You took one of the three Longevity Pills and went to the Blazing Sun Holy Land to place it in Ye Chen's hands. Ye Chen did not truly lack lifespan, but over the years, the resources you had given this child were indeed not much compared to your other children. You gave Ye Chen this Longevity Pill in the hope that he could exchange it for some resources within the holy land and have an easier time.]
[In the Four Hundred Fifty-Second Year, your cultivation broke through to the initial Spirit Condensation Realm.]
[That same year, because you had broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, Mysterious Grade pills had become almost negligible in their effect on your advancement. You decided to move to the Yang Prefecture provincial capital. With your current strength, you could be considered among the very best even there. Only there could you frequently purchase Earth Grade pills through auctions.]
[That same year, the Min Family of Pingcheng offered half their family fortune as an apology. When you truly stepped into the Spirit Condensation Realm, the Min Family finally panicked. Afraid that you might one day remember them and wipe out their entire clan, they hurriedly came to offer gifts and apologize. You had never intended to destroy the Min Family, but you accepted these gifts without hesitation.]
[After all, once you moved to the Yang Prefecture provincial capital, you would need a vast sum of money to exchange for Earth Grade Treasure Pills to sustain your future cultivation and ensure your progress would not be held back. Only after you accepted the gifts did the Min Family's two Ancestors truly set their minds at ease.]
[You saw all these moves clearly, yet they only strengthened your resolve to become stronger. Though you seemed imposing now, the Min Family's trembling caution showed you the truth of things. You did not want yourself or your family to one day become like the Min Family, bowing and scraping before an Infant God Realm expert. The solution was to become stronger than others. Only then would you have a voice and no longer need to keep your head lowered.]
[In the Four Hundred Fifty-Third Year, you led some members of the Ye Family to gain a foothold in Jiancheng, establishing the Ye Family's clan grounds there.]
[Among Jiancheng's many powers, the Imperial Court's was the strongest. The officials assigned there were all from the Blazing Sun Holy Land. Yang Prefecture's current Prefect was the strongest martial artist in all of Yang Prefecture, and it was said that his cultivation had reached the Mid Infant God Realm.]
[The Prefect was also called the Governor. Apart from the Prefect, the Yangzhou Governor was likewise an Infant God Realm expert. These two stood above every power within Yang Prefecture. Beyond the official forces, the strongest experts among Jiancheng's other three top powers were in the Spirit Condensation Realm. The three powers were all quite uneasy about your entry into Jiancheng, but none dared make a move against you immediately.]
[That same year, after the City Lord's Mansion learned that Ye Chen was a member of the Ye Family, it invited you to a banquet. At the wine table, the Yangzhou Governor was exceptionally warm toward you. Only after speaking with him did you learn that the Yangzhou Governor, Shi Wenming, was actually your youngest son Ye Chen's third senior brother.]
[After Ye Chen rose to become one of the Blazing Sun Holy Land's Golden Twelve Sons, he caught the eye of the Third Elder and was accepted as his disciple, becoming the Third Elder's fifth personal disciple. This was also the final personal disciple slot of the Third Elder. After this banquet, Jiancheng's official powers became exceedingly close to you and the Ye Family, practically treating you as half their own.]
[Because of this banquet, Jiancheng's other Three Major Powers intensified their investigation into the Ye Family. They soon learned that Ye Chen was one of the Blazing Sun Twelve Sons, and they grew even more wary of you, becoming still less willing to make a move against you.]
[You had no particular reaction to the Three Major Powers' actions. You were more than happy to see things unfold this way. To advance your cultivation steadily and peacefully, without mishaps, was your lifelong pursuit.]
[In the Five Hundred Eighty-Fifth Year, the First Ancestor died after exhausting his lifespan. It was the first time you experienced the feeling of someone by your side leaving you.]
[That same year, because of the Ancestor's death, you purchased a Heavenly Origin Pill at a Jiancheng auction and gave it to your mother, Lin Lan. After Lin Lan consumed the Heavenly Origin Pill, years of accumulated effort allowed her to break through to the Earth Origin Realm Late Stage. Then, with the immediate boost from a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pill, she broke through once more into the Heavenly Origin Realm. Her lifespan rose from one thousand years in the Earth Origin Realm to two thousand years, leaving her with more than a thousand years still to live.]
[In the Seven Hundred Twentieth Year, you took the essence and discarded the dross from your Mayfly Step Slash and Thousand Mountain Snow, merging the two Sabre Techniques into a new one. Based on this technique's traits, you named it Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow. Its grade advanced to Mysterious Grade Middle Rank, breaking through Peak Attainment and reaching the Return to Simplicity Realm.]
[That same year, because Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow had reached Return to Simplicity, your physical constitution underwent enormous growth. At that moment, you truly felt invincible. You knew it was an illusion, but if you had to describe it, even ten of your former self would not have been enough for you to fight.]
[At the same time, you sensed that Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow's limits did not end there. Afterward, you gathered Martial Skills of the Sabre Technique in great quantities, but most were merely Mortal Grade Martial Skills and were useless to you. What you needed were Martial Skills that had at least reached Yellow Grade.]
[In the seven hundred fifty-sixth year, ever since creating Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow, you had gathered Sabre Techniques through all manner of markets, though the results had been poor outside of auctions. From auctions, you collected six Yellow Grade Sabre Techniques and spent an enormous sum to purchase a Mysterious Grade Low Rank Sabre Technique.]
[Even in a great city like Jiancheng, few people were willing to sell Martial Skills. This was not without reason. It was not only because Martial Skills were precious, but also because no one dared accept copied Sabre Techniques; there were too many tricks that could be played with them. Only originals could be sold, and an expert could tell at a glance whether a Martial Skill was an original. Originals retained the mark of the person who first created the Martial Skill.]
[For thirty-six years, you had been searching for Martial Skills that could be incorporated into Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow. Only this year, when you finally cultivated a Yellow Grade Low-Rank Martial Skill to the consummate Peak Attainment realm, did you once more sense the insight you had felt when merging Martial Skills before.]
[You incorporated some of this Yellow Grade Low-Rank Martial Skill's strengths into Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow, but Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow remained only Mysterious Grade Middle Rank. You knew this was still far from enough, but you were willing to continue deducing it for the sake of Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow.]
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[In the Seven Hundred Eighty-Eighth Year, your cultivation advanced to the Mid Spirit Condensation Realm.]
[That same year, through your arduous training, you cultivated the remaining five Yellow Grade Sabre Techniques to the consummate Peak Attainment realm. You deduced these Martial Skills, removing their impurities and incorporating every advantage suited to Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow into it.]
[You succeeded, but Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow remained only a Mysterious Grade Middle Rank Martial Skill.]
[In the Eight Hundred Sixty-Fifth Year, your Mountain Shaking Fist advanced to the Return to Simplicity Realm. Because your understanding of Mountain Shaking Fist was exceptionally deep, you attempted to merge it into Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow. Yet one was a fist technique and the other a Sabre Technique, and the difference between them was immense. Still, you could sense that merging the two was not impossible, and you did not abandon your deductions toward fusing the two Martial Skills.]
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