This rusty sword should have been the eighth-order Returning Origin Sword that Forging Immortal Divine Venerable had helped forge.
According to the Forging Immortal Cauldron, the Returning Origin Sword Immortal had fallen a little over a decade after leaving.
That must have been when the war between humans and devils was at its fiercest.
The Returning Origin Sword Immortal had obtained the Returning Origin Sword not long before then, so it probably had not yet birthed a complete artifact spirit.
There were five such unformed artifact spirits within his Yinglong.
It was not entirely impossible for the Returning Origin Sword Immortal's soul to have fused with an unformed artifact spirit.
Wang Daoyuan asked, "Master, why didn't Second Senior Brother bury your remains elsewhere? Why did he insist on placing them within this Absolute Heaven Abyss?
"Should this disciple move your grave somewhere else?"
The Returning Origin Sword Immortal let out a long sigh. "Your Second Senior Brother was helpless as well. When I achieved nirvana, he was only at the mid mahayana stage.
Your Eldest Senior Brother had reached the realm of Great Power, but he had already died in battle before I achieved nirvana.
As a junior who was not even a Great Power, he did not have much say in the matter.
Since I could sever Ancestral Dragon Mountain with one stroke and carve out the Absolute Heaven Abyss upon the earth, I naturally possessed the ability to destroy the entire Qianyuan Realm.
The Heavenly Dao and those Earth Immortals feared that my legacy would spread, leaving the Qianyuan Realm without peace ever again.
Thus, they placed my grave within this Absolute Heaven Abyss and left the Returning Origin Sword here as well.
Your Second Senior Brother's talent was not particularly outstanding. He had not learned the essence