Founding Great Yan, While Cold Moons and Warm Suns Boil Away a Life (Combined Chapter)

[The Five Absolutes!]

[The top ten of the Awakening of Insects Ranking were peerless masters of the age, though a few young heroes had also made the list.]

[Wanyan Yunshan, the "Wolf King" of North Wind, was thirty. In his early years, a distinguished monk of Numinous Rhinoceros Temple had favored him and taught him the Buddhist School's orthodox Marrow-Changing Classic. Returning to North Wind, he joined the great Kṣitigarbha Temple and painstakingly cultivated the Asura Blood Body. After years of biding his time, he killed the temple's abbot in a single battle and entered the ranking's top ten.]

[Li Lanjiang, the "Sword Saint," was the orphaned son of the previous generation's Sword God. Amid the surging river, he grasped sword intent and tempered his Sword Heart. Through thirty summers and winters, he inherited the essence of his father's Sword Way and created the Yangtze Tide Sword. His sword strikes surged like a mighty river tide. Driven by a blood feud, he slew a Supreme One elder of the Six-Eyed Demon Sect in the Great Grandmaster Realm despite being only in the Grandmaster Realm, and claimed a place in the top ten.]

[Gongsun Zhongshu of Great Chu was also among the top ten. Having cultivated White Deer Academy's Song of Righteous Qi Respiration to profound depths, he used the Chess Sword Art to derive sword techniques from black and white pieces on a board. He slew a Martial Great Grandmaster of Great Chu and entered the top ten.]

[Over these ten years, storms had swept the martial world. Powerful fighters stood thick as trees, heroes gathered along the martial path, and martial arts had climbed to new heights.]

[In eight hundred years, so many Grandmasters had never appeared at once. Experts of the Master Realm were springing up everywhere.]

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