``` [You had yet to leave the secluded chamber within the Dragon Palace.]
[After succeeding to the position of Dragon Monarch, you had moved your main hall from Tai Chi Hall into the present Azure Sea Dragon Palace.]
[Your seclusion had lasted sixty years. After attaining Eighth-Tier cultivation in the Three Stars Water Fruit Status, you had cultivated it to perfection over those sixty years.]
[Your Sword Dao Fruit Status had also reached perfection.]
[You had even mastered every divine ability recorded in the Pure Water Life-Ordering Book and the Blazing Sun Chamber Fire True Canon.]
[Thirty years earlier, your grandfather Jiao Xiu had sent you an Eighth-Tier Hearth Fire spiritual item, helping you raise your Hearth Fire Fruit Status to the Eighth Tier as well.]
[In other words, you now bore three Eighth-Tier fruit statuses: Can Shui, Hearth Fire, and the Sword Way!]
[Yet advancing another step into the Ninth Tier would be difficult, for whether in the Sword Way, Can Shui, or Hearth Fire, a cultivator already occupied the Ninth-Tier seat.]
[There was only one fruit status at that level, so you could not ascend to it.]
[Unless its holder's cultivation of the fruit status became unstable, allowing you to take their place.]
[Your grandfather was still in his prime, while the Sword Ancestor, the source of the Sword Way, remained hidden somewhere in the world and had yet to emerge.]
[In the Can Shui lineage, your father was trapped in the Jianmu secret realm, his fate unknown. Yet he still held the authority of the Ninth-Tier fruit status, and no one else could take his place.]
[You slowly reined in the surging aura around you. The divine radiance of your three fruit statuses shone upon one another, while your purple natal body, a true dragon, swayed behind