"It's good that you all know about this!"
After a moment's thought, Wang Hao nodded and explained, " The Net Trap is known as an all-encompassing net that can penetrate anywhere in the world. It was originally established by King Wu Ji Fa in order to completely exterminate the King of Shang and the Blood Essence Martial Path inheritors represented by the Ancient Emperor Bloodline."
During the Zhou Dynasty, they almost completely wiped out the Ancient Emperor Bloodline in the ancestral land of the Central Plains, leaving only a small group of people with thin bloodlines who were extremely difficult to Awakening, and who were thus able to survive by integrating into the common people.
The Blood Essence Martial Path were completely severed in the Central Plains ancestral land with the cooperation of the Zhou Dynasty and the Net Trap. Even in our overseas martial arts world, there is no such inheritance, only the Blood Sacrifice Instruction used to Awakening bloodlines.
The Net Trap organization was originally a mindless assassin organization, but it changed after the emergence of the second Net Trap leader. He created a demonic art that could plunder the Ancient Emperor Bloodline Lineage, and secretly kept Awakening members of the Ancient Emperor Bloodline to cultivate the demonic art.
Just as his demonic powers were about to reach their peak, King Wu Ji Fa discovered them. A great battle ensued, and the Zhou Dynasty, represented by King Wu Ji Fa, paid a heavy price to destroy the Net Trap. However, some remaining members managed to escape.
From then on Net Trap officially broke away from the Zhou Dynasty and went into hiding, continuing to hunt down Awakening individuals of the Ancient Emperor Bloodline Lineage, and even capturing and keeping them in captivity.
Due to the inherent secrecy of the Net Trap, it has almost integrated into various forces in the Central Plains over the centuries, and even once infiltrated the remnants of the Hundred Schools of Thought and almost infiltrated our overseas martial arts world.
To stop this, our overseas martial arts world mobilized dozens of experts at the Celestial Person Realm to prevent it, but in doing so, we suffered heavy losses.
Having successfully deceived everyone, Wang Hao glanced at their horrified expressions, feeling quite satisfied. He then continued his deception, " The Net Trap is the largest and most terrifying mysterious organization in the world. According to intelligence obtained by our Taoist School, its core consists of six top-tier assassins, known as the Six Sword Slaves."
As their name suggests, the Six Sword Slaves have forgotten their own names. From the moment they picked up the Six Devil Swords inherited from the Net Trap, they only had the names of the Devil Sword themselves.
The Six Sword Slaves themselves are merely vessels; the six Devil Sword are their core.
It is said that the six Devil Sword were forged by the Third leader of the Net Trap (Net of Heaven) by collecting the remains of the second-generation leader of the Net Trap, which had been destroyed by King Wu Ji Fa, and fusing them with rare and precious metals from all over the world.
Each generation of the Six Sword Slaves would integrate all their cultivation, including their soul and true spirit, into it.
Over thousands of years, the power of the Six Devil Swords has accumulated to an extremely terrifying level; there are even rumors that the Six Sword Slaves are capable of contending with experts at the Shattering Realm...
Wang Hao was very serious about his deception, basically using the organizational structure of the Net Trap from the Legend of Qin to convince people. However, he also incorporated some Hydra elements from American comics, making the Net Trap's concept even more terrifying.
Upon hearing the description of the Six Devil Swords, many martial arts practitioners instinctively looked towards the eight Confucian School patriarchs, or more precisely, the ancient swords in the hands of the eight Confucian School patriarchs.
As far as they knew, these eight ancient swords had been refined by the Confucian School using some secret method for nearly two thousand years to acquire such terrifying power. It was even said that each generation of Confucian School patriarch would infuse his own cultivation into those eight ancient swords before his death, a setting similar to that of the Six Devil Swords!
Could it be that Confucian School is truly connected to the Net Trap?
The eight Confucian School patriarchs involved were visibly shocked, their faces turning green with disbelief as they glanced at the ancient sword in their hands.
They were also very puzzled. Could this secret method of Spirit Refinement really be related to the Net Trap?
Upon realizing this, the eight Confucian School patriarchs felt even more terrified, and the expressions of the surrounding martial arts practitioners grew increasingly hostile, as if they were about to start a fight immediately.
Upon seeing this, Wang Hao calmly said, " The Confucian School Eight Divine Swords are indeed related to the Six Devil Swords of the Net Trap, but it is not what you think."
Master Kong and my Taoist School once jointly created a secret method for Spirit Refinement, aiming to forge a divine sword capable of countering the Six Devil Swords of the Net Trap.
Unfortunately, the Confucian School school had already been infiltrated by the Net Trap of Heaven). Under the instigation of these Net Trap agents, the Confucian School split, and my Taoist School was also attacked and killed by the Six Sword Slaves of the Net Trap, falling into pieces. In the end, the main branch had to relocate to the overseas martial arts world.
The divine swords you now wield should be the product of that secret technique from back then. Unfortunately, it seems you haven't inherited the complete technique, haven't refined it into a protective divine weapon, and have even forgotten your original mission!
Gazing at the ancient swords in the hands of the eight Confucian School patriarchs, Wang Hao shook his head and sighed slightly.
This was a genuine sigh, but unlike the outward appearance, it wasn't a sigh about the forgotten mission of Confucian School, but rather a sigh about the inability to seize those eight ancient swords now.
These eight ancient swords represent a significant part of the Confucian School's heritage; they are incredibly precious. If they were to be stolen, the Confucian School would undoubtedly go berserk, and other forces would also covet the Confucian School's dominant position, potentially leading to war.
This is not what he wants to see. Otherwise, once war breaks out, given the current state of the Central Plains, it would be impossible for a new dynasty to emerge in less than a decade.
After the war, the population of the Central Plains will inevitably decrease sharply, and it may even become a tragedy of nine out of ten houses being empty. He will never allow this.
So although he had the opportunity to incite many martial arts practitioners to kill these eight old Confucian School scholars here, he weighed the matter for a long time and ultimately gave up.
Given the cultivation levels of those eight old Confucian School scholars, wielding ancient swords and setting up the Eight Extremes Sword Formation, even with numerous powerful figures present, it's unlikely they could stop them from escaping.
The fact that their group of martial arts experts belonged to various factions and were disorganized was one reason, but another reason was that those eight ancient swords were simply too powerful.
According to his estimation, if he were to disregard everything and unleash the full power within the eight ancient swords, he might be able to demonstrate a portion of the combat strength of the Celestial Person Realm expert.
Therefore, it would be very difficult to spare or even kill the eight patriarchs of Confucian School unless they were determined to fight to the death. Otherwise, if they were allowed to escape, it would inevitably cause endless war, since Confucian School is now the absolute hegemon that controls nearly half of the power in the Central Plains.
Of course, most importantly, he wanted the complete ancient sword. Once he forced those eight old guys into a corner and unleashed all its power, the ancient sword itself would be ruined, and even if he obtained it, it would be nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.
Therefore, we need to carefully consider the matter of these eight ancient swords. However, before that, we can try to reduce the importance that those eight old guys place on the ancient swords.
Wang Hao's explanation eased the tense atmosphere and put the minds of the eight Confucian School patriarchs at ease, followed by shame and remorse.
To be honest, they didn't know where their family's secret method for forging ancient swords came from, because their Confucian School had suffered several calamities in the past, but they only thought about preserving the martial arts tradition and were not interested in those ancient records, so they were completely ignorant of what had happened before.
However, it now seems that Chunyangzi has no reason to lie about this, which means that what the other party said is true.
They never imagined that Confucian School would bear such a grand mission, but it failed because of the conspiracy of Net Trap, and even Confucian School was torn apart into eight major branches.
And they are descendants of the eight major branches, which means that their ancestors were also involved in what happened back then.
What shames them even more is that they have forgotten such a grand mission—it's truly disgraceful!
They even claim to be the orthodox Confucian School, yet they failed to inherit not only the Literary Qi Nourishing Method created by their ancestors, but now they haven't even been able to carry on such a great aspiration. How unfilial!
"We humbly request the Daoist Master to bestow upon us the complete secret method. We, the disciples of Confucian School, are willing to inherit the mission of our ancestors, forge Spirit Refinement, and fight against the Net Trap until the very end!"
The eight Confucian School patriarchs immediately stepped forward and solemnly spoke, their expressions very sincere, which moved many martial arts practitioners, who now believed they had misunderstood the Confucian School.
But upon closer reflection, they all secretly cursed the Confucian School for being cunning, wanting to obtain the secret method for forging true divine weapons without making any substantial contributions, just by shouting a few times.
Even getting something for nothing isn't like this!
"It's too late, it's already too late!"
Shaking his head slightly with regret, Wang Hao glanced at the ancient swords held in the hands of the eight Confucian School patriarchs and said regretfully, "Although I do not know what your Confucian School has done over the years to accumulate such a vast amount of Karmic Cause and Effect, most of this Karmic Cause and Effect is now carried on those eight ancient swords."
Such terrifying Karma might be able to be refined into demonic weapons, but there is absolutely no chance of it becoming a divine weapon.
These words alarmed the eight Confucian School patriarchs, who hurriedly interjected, "Is there really no chance at all? Last time, the Divine Lord Ximen Chuixue said that these eight ancient swords had the potential to become divine swords."
" Ximen Chuixue possesses the Divine King Physique, inheriting the Fortune of the Ten Ancient Emperors. He is also one of the Tribulation Lords of the Ten Directions Chosen by the Great Heavenly Demon. His own Fortune is comparable to that of the Protagonist of the Era."
His resources are indeed sufficient to suppress an ancient sword and refine it into a divine weapon, but he can only suppress one at most; he cannot suppress more than that.
As for you...
At this point, Wang Hao shook his head slightly again, not saying anything more, but the meaning he was expressing was already quite clear.
Many martial arts practitioners around secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then became quite gloating. They had been genuinely afraid that Wang Hao would pass on the so-called complete secret technique of the Confucian School.
The Confucian School school was already terrifyingly powerful; if it were to become even stronger, no one in the Central Plains would be able to subdue it, and the Confucians would have little chance of survival.
Fortunately, Confucian School has committed enough sins to destroy its own hopes, thus truly eliminating any chance for them.
Contrary to the gloating of the crowd, the eight Confucian School patriarchs were as black as the bottom of a pot. The ancient swords they had Central Plains. If they hadn't been rational, they would have wanted to throw the eight ancient swords away.
"Aren't there many Shattering Realm experts in the overseas martial arts world? Even if they joined forces, they wouldn't be a match for the Six Sword Slaves of the Net Trap?"
A martial arts practitioner voiced his doubts, which were also the doubts of everyone present.
Meanwhile, Wang Hao was secretly delighted and felt very gratified for the person who asked the question.
Finally, someone brought up this topic, so I can take advantage of the situation to continue deceiving them until they are completely fooled.