Ancestral Shrine Sword Marks

Chu Mo's voice seemed to come from the dawn of creation. Six different attributes of sword light blended on the Broken Sword – the azure of the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant, the violet of the Primal Beginning Jade Pendant, the crimson of the Heart Burning Jade Pendant, the blue of the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant, the silver of the Extreme Frost Ice Pendant, and the black of the Chaos Sword Body – together forming a seven-colored sword beam capable of tearing space itself.

Xiao Yixiao's pupils constricted. He finally understood why his grandfather, Xiao Zhantian, had been defeated by Chu Muxue – the young man before him was recreating, single-handedly, the earth-shattering sword strike the Chaos Sword Master had used to confront seven Divine Venerables.

"Boom—"

The sword beam slashed down, and the Heaven Defying Fate Altering Array shattered like paper. Xiao Yixiao's battle halberd broke in two, his Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi was pulverized by the Chaos Sword Qi, and he himself was sent flying by the aftershock, crashing into the stone monument of the Ancestral Shrine. The blood he coughed up traced sword patterns identical to the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant on the monument.

"Do you know..." Chu Mo slowly walked closer, the tip of the Broken Sword resting against Xiao Yixiao's throat, "that when your grandfather cut off my mother's arm back then, she was holding me, just a hundred days old, in her arms?"

Xiao Yixiao watched in terror as chaotic currents surged in Chu Mo's eyes. Within those currents, he saw a reflection of his grandfather, Xiao Zhantian, having his arm severed by Chu Muxue – it turned out the Azure Ripple Jade Pendant was not just a key, but a crystalized memory his mother, Chu Muxue, had sealed with her life.

"Spare... spare me..." Xiao Yixiao trembled, taking out the last jade piece. "I have... the coordinates of the Demon God's core..."

"No need." Chu Mo coldly interrupted, the Broken Sword giving a slight tremor. "I will personally investigate the Demon God's location. As for the blood debt your Mysterious Yellow Divine Dynasty owes my mother, you will repay it today."

A flash of sword light, and Xiao Yixiao's figure completely vanished. Chu Mo turned and saw Yun Che and Su Hanxue standing before his mother's ethereal Sword Intent. The former had tears in her eyes, while the latter held the Dao Protecting Jade Slip taken from the skeleton's hand.

"Brother Chu Mo, the jade slip records the true cause of the seven Divine Venerables' deaths." Yun Che's voice choked with sobs. "They didn't die from internal strife, but after being corrupted by the Demon God, they deliberately split their Sword Domain, just to buy time for future Sword Masters to gather the keys..."

Su Hanxue nodded, the silver light of the World Suppressing Seal sweeping over the jade slip. "No wonder the Grand Profound Sect's ancient texts record that the Heaven Suppressing Saintess and the Chaos Sword Master would reincarnate every ten thousand years. It turns out this was a plan laid out by the seven Divine Venerables with their lives – through the growth of the twin Sword Masters, they would eventually purify the Demon God's origin."

The ground of the Ancestral Shrine suddenly vibrated, and the six key fragments arranged themselves in the air, projecting the coordinates of the Divine Realm's "Uncertain Divine Sea." Chu Mo gazed at the star map in the void, finally understanding the meaning of his mother's dying words, "Find the sword that belongs to you" – that sword was never the Broken Sword itself, but the mission to restart the Primordial Chaos and purify chaos.

"Next, we go to the Divine Realm." Chu Mo clasped Yun Che and Su Hanxue's hands. Chaos Sword Qi condensed into a cross-realm teleportation array in the center of the Ancestral Shrine. "The key to the Uncertain Divine Sea should be related to the boundary-guarding sword steles left by the seven Divine Venerables back then."

Su Hanxue suddenly frowned, the World Suppressing Seal heating up in her palm. "Wait, the end of the jade slip mentioned that the day the three seals merge is the day the World Suppressing Seal returns to its origin... Chu Mo, Yun Che, perhaps I..."

"Don't say it." Yun Che interrupted her, placing the Heaven Suppressing Seal and the World Suppressing Seal together in Chu Mo's palm. "From the moment I saw your past life in the Extreme Frost Ice Abyss, I knew our three destinies were already bound together. It's not so much that the keys need us, but that the Myriad Realms need us to fight side by side."

The light of the teleportation array flared, and the moment their figures vanished, new sword patterns suddenly appeared on the stone monument of the Ye Family Ancestral Shrine – it was a pattern of the three forces, Chaos, Heaven Suppressing, and World Suppressing, intertwined, the final key to restarting the Primordial Sword Domain.

Divine Realm, Uncertain Divine Sea. Beneath the surging gray clouds, seven inverted sword steles floated on the sea surface. Each stele was carved with different law patterns, and on the central main stele, the seventh key, the "Uncertain Jade Pendant," emitted a faint light.

"Brother Chu Mo, the sword marks on the steles..." Yun Che's Eyes of Reversed Time captured past scenes. "They are the inherited Sword Intent left by the seven Divine Venerables!"

Chu Mo nodded, and the Broken Sword flew out on its own, tracing over the seven sword steles in sequence. The moment the Chaos Sword Qi resonated with the steles, a large amount of information flooded his Sea of Consciousness: the water of the Uncertain Divine Sea could strip away all laws, and only the Chaos Sword Body could absorb it; beneath the central main stele, the "Primordial Chaos Battle Armor" left by the Divine Venerables back then lay dormant, requiring all seven keys to awaken it.

"Be careful!" Su Hanxue suddenly pushed Chu Mo away, the World Suppressing Seal condensing into a shield above her head. A gray sword light shot out from under the sea, piercing directly through the shield and leaving a bone-deep wound on her shoulder – it was the "Law Stripping Sword" unique to the Uncertain Divine Sea, capable of forcibly separating a cultivator from their connection to laws.

"It's the Divine Ship Guards!" Yun Che exclaimed. She had seen such beings in the memories of the Heaven Suppressing Seal. "The sword cultivators under the Divine Venerables back then, now corrupted by the Demon God, becoming the tomb guardians of the Uncertain Divine Sea!"

Seven figures rose from under the sea. The armor of each figure was carved with the same patterns as the sword steles. They simultaneously raised the long swords in their hands, and the water of the Uncertain Divine Sea suddenly boiled, transforming into millions of law swords, enveloping the three of them.

"Yun Che, use your Eyes of Reversed Time to lock onto the main stele!" Chu Mo continuously swung the Broken Sword, channeling the power of the stripping swords into his Sword Domain. "Su Hanxue, use the World Suppressing Seal to stabilize space! I'll cut off their connection to the steles!"

Three-colored light erupted in the center of the Uncertain Divine Sea. The Chaos Sword Qi stripped away the corrosive power, the Heaven Suppressing Seal reversed the trajectory of the law swords, and the World Suppressing Seal stabilized the spatial coordinates. When Chu Mo's Broken Sword slashed at the Demon God's claw print on the main stele, the seventh key, the "Uncertain Jade Pendant," finally fell into his palm.

"Ding—"

The seven sword steles simultaneously emitted a clear chime, and the central main stele slowly sank, revealing a passage leading to the depths of the Divine Realm. Chu Mo looked at the seven keys in his hand and suddenly felt a strong summons from the Primordial Sword Domain, a resonance more urgent and almost boiling than ever before.

"Brother Chu Mo, your sword..." Yun Che pointed at the Broken Sword. At this moment, the Broken Sword was completely restored, the seven key fragments on its body arranged like the Big Dipper, and the Primordial Chaos Sword Seal on the hilt resonated with the light at the end of the passage.

Su Hanxue wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, revealing a relieved smile. "With the seven keys gathered, the remaining two should be in the Heart Burning Demon Abyss of the Demon Realm and the Myriad Monsters Blood Pool of the Monster Realm."

Chu Mo nodded, his gaze fixed on the depths of the passage. There, more powerful law storms, more mysterious Divine Realm sword cultivators, and the Demon God slumbering in the core of the Primordial Chaos awaited them. But at this moment, looking at his two companions beside him, his heart was filled only with determination—

The path his mother had paved for him with her life, the plan the seven Divine Venerables had laid out with their fall, and the bond Yun Che and Su Hanxue protected with their blood, all made him understand that the mission of the Chaos Sword Master was never to walk alone.

The waves of the Uncertain Divine Sea gradually calmed, and the three of them stepped onto the stairs leading to the depths of the Divine Realm. The chime of the Broken Sword, the thunderous roar of the Heaven Suppressing Seal, and the clear cry of the World Suppressing Seal combined to form a battle song belonging to the Myriad Realms. And their figures were taking the crucial step towards the Primordial Sword Domain, a step that would determine the fate of the Myriad Realms.