Return to the Sect and Set the Dharma Assembly

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Dharma-Ending Land.

At a hidden altar by the edge of a swamp in the Southern Border, a gaunt man dressed in gaudy colors was sitting cross-legged in meditation. Strange and grotesque venomous insects buzzed through the air around him. He suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing within them, and his whole body shuddered, sending every insect flying more than a foot away.

"I actually broke through the barrier that had constrained all the previous Grand Elders." He muttered to himself in delight. "It seems there truly is a road ahead!"

In Linked Clouds Province of the Central Plains, within a martial arts hall, a man in his thirties wielded a sword before the admiring gazes of the crowd. Its transformations were exquisite and marvelous, leaving them in awe.

Suddenly, his sword flew out and struck the wall, burying itself to the hilt. The disciples of the hall stared dumbfounded. This was merely an ordinary iron sword, while the hall's walls were built from hard marble; ordinarily, even if an iron sword snapped, it could not leave a mark deeper than an inch. "Could it be that Master's cultivation has broken through again, surpassing every sword grandmaster in history?"

The middle-aged man likewise stared blankly at his own palms for a moment. At last, he murmured in