A child who, by Phoenix Creek's banks, saw a sword soar through the azure heavens—and thus glimpsed the extraordinary world.
A youth who, outside Huanzhen Temple, was barely clinging to life, yet fished a Vein-Opening Pill out from amidst mangled flesh and thick blood—and thus set foot upon the road to the extraordinary...
He had now reached the unprecedented ultimate limit of True Insight. Since Heaven and Earth were first cleaved apart, he was the strongest True Insight cultivator.
But he alone knew this.
Only those who had truly seen his sword could understand.
The world might not know it; the world's strongest might not acknowledge it.
Only by being like Xiang Fengqi in those days—fighting all under heaven without an equal, beating every True Person in the world into submission—could one truly establish such a "name."
A name was power. A name was strength.
One had to withstand everyone's gaze, and everyone's scrutiny. From obscure anonymity to being known throughout the world, from the depths of ravines to the absolute summit—this was the process by which a True Person was crowned.
A True Person's coronation was to become a [True Lord]!
Of course, not every True Person was thus. Only the strongest among all True Insight cultivators under heaven had the right to walk such a road—the road of being invincible across the world.
It was a grand ceremony of ascension, climbing step by step to the pinnacle of the extraordinary path beneath the gaze of the entire world.
Just as the Empress of Great Mu crowned the High Priestess beneath the divine crown, establishing the sovereign decree and divine mandate, thereby laying down the supreme majesty of steppe kingship.
After fighting his way across the world, Xiang Fengqi had carried that immense momentum with him and, in the