"Void Refining techniques!"
"Dao Integration techniques!"
"Techniques beyond Dao Integration!"
Yuan's shout quickly drew everyone's attention away from their own projects. They jolted and scrambled to open the Immortal Sect's online library, fumbling as they searched for techniques at Void Refining and above.
The first results were nothing unusual: the Daoheart Demon-Seeding Slave Scripture, the Mountain-Pushing, Sea-Treading, Myriad-Flame True Refining Scripture, and several other imperial-grade body-refining scriptures. All had been seized from the Horn Nether Domain and were among the most important spoils of the realm war.
But what came next was different.
Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord took a deep breath and slowly examined the Immortal Gate Library, whose collection had suddenly swelled.
"The Great Sun Sword Scripture!"
"A Dao Integration scripture! And one of the very best—half a step beyond those of the Nine Great Immortal Sects. The kind that could make someone invincible even at Dao Integration."
"The Great Radiant Infinite Sword Scripture!"
"A Dao Integration scripture created by the sixth Great Sun Sword Lord, better suited to that Sword Lord's path."
"The Pure Yang Sword Scripture!"
"A Dao Integration scripture created by Xi Yuan, the seventeenth Great Sun Sword Lord."
"Every generation's Great Sun Sword Lord was among the most gifted minds in the realm. They placed little importance on so-called Dao-body aptitude, so most could create techniques best suited to themselves. Two of those techniques reached the level of Dao Integration scriptures."
"Below them are twenty-seven Void Refining scriptures: the Heavenly Radiance Illuminating the World Sword Scripture, the Imperial Radiance Sword Scripture, the True Sun World-Annihilating Sword Scripture..."
"Why are they all sword scriptures?"
One Heavenly Lord voiced the question.
At the same time, realization dawned on many of the others.
Swish!
Swish, swish, swish!
In an instant, countless gazes turned toward a tender-faced, sixteen-year-old boy