At some point, the forces of the upper realm that were watching the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm closely noticed something.
Civil war had begun in the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm!
This was no mere clash, no dispute over some prize. It was a fight to the death. Both sides sent war troops and their strongest cultivators into the lower and middle domains, and even a few upper domains. Brutal battles erupted. Corpses littered the land, blood ran deep enough to float oars, and no one knew how many cultivators died.
Many enemies of the Immortal Order and members of other races rejoiced in secret.
Many of the Immortal Order's allies frowned with worry and sent the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm requests to mediate.
But they soon discovered that the civil war was confined to the Pure Yang Lineage, the Pure Yin Lineage, and factions such as the Force Sword Lineage, the Beast-Spirit Sword Lineage, and the Ghost Sword Lineage. The Inherited Sun-Taiyin Lineage, the true ruler of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, remained entirely at peace. Nothing there had changed.
The Inherited Sun-Taiyin Lineage made no response to the fighting among the sword factions under its command.
It was as though the two sides were fighting over something of vital importance.
Many Immortal Orders poured tremendous effort into investigating the matter.
Before long, they understood.
Some Immortal Orders had initially paid little attention, but the civil war in the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm showed them how important the matter was. Their senior diviners therefore threw themselves into examining it.
Strangely, though, none of them could divine anything about the central figure: the Pure-Yang Sword Heir.
It was truly inconceivable.
He was merely a Spirit Transformation cultivator. That he could withstand the full divinations of an Immortal Order should have been