"The Ten Ascenders!"
Yu Ke had heard that name before. Their fame rang through this world like thunder; everyone knew of them.
Yet no one could name all ten. The world knew only two.
One was the source of the Sword Sect's lineage, now a mighty sect renowned throughout the Central Lands.
All the world knew of him was his name: Jing Nian.
He had left behind not a word in his lifetime, nor any relic or inheritance. Yet whenever a cultivator pursued the Sword Way and sought to attain Golden Core Fruit Status, they would, as though guided by fate, encounter the intent he had left behind.
He was one of the Ten Ascenders.
The other held sway over the south, his supreme might bearing down upon an entire region. He was the founding patriarch of the Celestial Master Mansion.
Any cultivator who chose to follow the great paths of fire or water among the Five Elements revered this Celestial Master as their forebear.
He, too, stood among the Ten Ascenders.
According to later generations, the Ten Ascenders were the pioneers who first set foot on the path of cultivation in Primordial Antiquity.
Whether they were alive or dead today remained unknown.
The forebears and myriad beings of that ancient age had honored them together as the "Ten Ascenders." Each was a mighty figure who commanded two or more sources of power. Some had even founded sects and established supreme lineages uniquely their own.
It was said that every cultivator beneath the heavens who practiced the paths of Grand Yin or the Sun Dao Fruit traced their lineage to one of the Ten Ascenders.
That was why, even today, as the sun rose and the moon set, three great suns hung in the sky, all drawing their source from