Tong Yan told the Nether Master that True Person Taiping had underestimated someone. At the time, the Nether Master thought he meant Jingyang, but he actually meant the Blade Sage, Cao Yuan.
Like most mortals and cultivators on the Chaotian Continent, whenever this world faced destruction, they would always think of that name first.
No matter how high the cultivation realms of True Person Jingyang and True Persons Tan and Bai were, theirs were heights that could not be seen.
Cao Yuan was different. He was Fruitful Accomplishment Temple's Treading the Mortal World Heir. For countless years, he had remained in the mortal world, leading the Wind Saber Sect in slaying evil and demons and resisting the Snow Nation.
A lone saber guarded the wind and snow, protecting the human race. This was strength and fearlessness everyone could see.
But few had ever seen his true face. He had always stayed in that small temple. Whenever he left, it was to fight the queen on the snowfield. He had done so only a few times, and each time he had returned utterly defeated.
Even those who crossed the threshold and entered the small temple could only hear his voice and see that golden Buddha, without knowing where he was.
Today, the clouds split apart, and daylight shone down upon the sea. The waves moved silently, falling toward the depths beneath the earth. The yaoshou let out mournful cries and cheers of release, leaping from the transparent walls of water toward the enormous Buddha in the Great Whirlpool... So the golden Buddha in the small temple was Cao Yuan himself!
Fruitful Accomplishment Temple cultivated Buddhism, and Precious Thoroughfare Zen Monastery and Water-Moon Convent also worshipped the Buddha, but there was no Buddha in this world.
Cao Yuan held all