"Nine hundred and ninety-nine sword peaks."
"Nine hundred of them only infuse you with Heaven and Earth Energy, improving your aptitude and granting some insight into sword intent."
"Ninety of them grant a seal of Heaven and Earth Energy that continually improves your physique and helps you comprehend sword intent, while also slightly enhancing your cultivation methods and combat skills."
"Only nine correspond to nine different core inheritances. These are the true legacy Yun Potian left behind."
"But of those nine, only three inheritances can trigger the gateway to the Eighth Layer."
Chu Zhou quietly watched Yun Yun receive the inheritance of power. The process lasted nearly twelve hours.
The moment the sword seal between Yun Yun's brows fully formed, something changed above her head.
Hum!
Without warning, rings of visible ripples spread through a patch of space, like a stone dropped into a still lake.
At the center of the ripples, a halo emitting faint spatial fluctuations slowly revolved, as though summoning something.
At that very moment, Chu Zhou vanished from where he stood as though teleporting, appearing before Yun Yun, who had just opened her eyes, a trace of confusion and immense delight still lingering in them.
Before Yun Yun could share the inheritance she had received, a gentle yet irresistible force swept her into the newly formed spatial ripples!
The dizzying sensation returned, seeming to last ten thousand years and yet only an instant.
When her vision cleared, Yun Yun found herself in a space completely different from the one before.
Beneath her feet stood a thousand-zhang peak of indescribable grandeur!
This mountain was no longer a translucent mass of azure energy. Instead, it possessed a dark metallic sheen, as though it had existed since time immemorial. Its surface was smooth as a mirror, yet covered in