"I am still Jingyang."
Most of those present did not understand Jing Jiu's words. Some vaguely understood what he meant, but could not be certain.
"I would like to explain this matter."
Yuan Qijing took two steps forward, his gaze sweeping over the faces of the Green Mountain sword cultivators around him and the representatives of the various sects on the Cloud Terraces.
The murmurs and uproar gradually subsided.
Who dared disregard the authority of the Green Mountain Sword Law?
Yuan Qijing's gaze finally settled on the Zhongzhou Sect's Cloud Terrace, on White True Person's face.
"Back then, just as Martial Uncle Jingyang was about to succeed in his ascension, he was unexpectedly ambushed by certain shameless rats. He suffered grave injuries and nearly lost his life and his Dao."
Yuan Qijing withdrew his gaze and looked solemnly at Fang Jingtian. "Faced with this calamity, Martial Uncle had no choice but to use the Thunder Soulwood he had prepared beforehand, attaching his Divine Soul to the One Sword for All Things and returning to Chaotian Continent through it. He took the sword as his body, which accounts for the unusual signs you described."
"He himself admitted that he is Oneness of All Things," Fang Jingtian said gravely. "Senior Brother, why must you keep covering for this monster?"
Jing Jiu looked at him quietly and said, "If I am a sword like this, then what is your master? A piece of dead wood?"
When identifying a living being, was the body or the Divine Soul what mattered?
Was a black cat with a human soul a human or a cat?
Was a demon living inside a human body a human or a demon?
For ordinary people in the world, this was a profound and difficult question.
During the previous dynasty, mothers