[The Sword Ancestor's fourth disciple!?]
[You gazed at the middle-aged man in white before you, your heart trembling slightly. In this world, the Sword Ancestor's name thundered in everyone's ears. With his void-certification fruit status, he had once swept across the universe, all but unrivaled.]
[The lineage of the sword way he had left behind remained vacant to this day, with no one able to attain its fruit status.]
[Thus, in the hearts of sword cultivators everywhere, the Sword Ancestor was almost a god.]
[Even someone like the Azure Void Sword Immortal revered him as a celestial being, a deity.]
[The Dao the Sword Ancestor had attained differed from the Five Elements fruit statuses. Through void certification, he had actually suppressed every Dao of the Five Elements.]
[Moreover, the divine abilities and arts he passed down allowed later cultivators to cultivate both the sword way and a Five Elements fruit status. In the earlier stages, sword cultivators often possessed greater combat strength than others at the same realm.]
[One had to understand that attaining a fruit status through one of the Five Elements made cultivating another element's Dao impossible. A fruit status attained through void certification, however, was not subject to that restriction.]
[Your father, for instance, could cultivate the sword way despite already holding the azure water fruit status, precisely because of this.]
[The Sword Ancestor's influence on later generations of cultivators was profoundly far-reaching. Yet he was a figure from ten thousand years ago, and most accounts of his life were recorded in ancient Dao Canons, their truth difficult to distinguish from fiction.]
[Opinions differed even more wildly about his ultimate fate-some said he had attained the Dao and ascended, breaking free of this world; others said he had died of old age within it.]
[More baffling still,