Once again, they returned to the original question.
Was it simple to alter the "realms" without anyone in the world noticing?
The answer was: "Very simple."
That foreign immortal had killed many masters, while all the "former Free and Unfettered Cultivators" who had been certain of advancement had advanced during that battle. The group of "Free and Unfettered Cultivators" had not actually changed members.
Five hundred years ago, advancing from the Primordial Spirit stage to Void Refining had been far less easy than it was today. There had been far fewer cultivators who had touched the Nirvana and Void Refining realms.
They only needed to manage the small number of people at the Nirvana stage, and this stretch of history could be covered over.
At last, the final missing piece of human history in Wang Qi's understanding had been filled in.
Five hundred years ago, why had all of Divine Land descended into chaos, with aristocratic clans swallowing up sects, yet no powerful cultivators emerged to suppress it?
The reason was that the powerful cultivators, every last one of them, had already been battered and broken, with little time left to live.
The Free and Unfettered Cultivators' prolonged absence also gradually emboldened those Ancient Method clans that had once submitted, only to be stirred up again by the Demon Emperor.
Moreover, back then Unforgiving Taoist had apparently lost his mind. Moved by the "greater righteousness of family and nation" spoken of by the Demon Emperor, he had tried to design a special artifact with exceedingly low requirements and immense power, so that the Demon Emperor, a "Modern Dharma Cultivator," could use it as well.
That was the Sky Sword.
In the hearts of those "Ancient Method Cultivators," obtaining the Sky Sword probably meant gaining the capital to speak as equals