Too Absorbed in Studying Swordsmanship to Stop

[Age 120: With the sword carvings on the cliff, Shaolin, Wudang, and Mount Hua produced Innate Realm and Grandmaster Realm experts one after another. Before long, they became the three great holy lands of the martial world. The Great Ming imperial court felt tremendous pressure, and Zhu Zhanshan invited you to the Capital. You gladly agreed. You read countless manuals in the Great Ming imperial family's scripture repository, and your understanding of martial techniques gradually reached the point where mastery of one art brought mastery of all!]

[Age 130: You left a stone stele inscribed with the Sword Dao for each of the Eastern and Western Depots and the Brocade Guard. When experts holding the rank of hundred-household commander or above studied the steles, it was as though a Shattering the Void Realm expert were personally guiding them. Breaking through bottlenecks became as easy as eating and drinking. Top experts emerged in the Great Ming imperial court one after another, forming a powerful deterrent to the various sects and schools of the martial world. Cases of martial heroes using their skills to break the law gradually decreased!]

[Age 140: The heads of the various sects and schools kept sending you invitations. However, you no longer needed to borrow their martial arts manuals, so you politely declined them all. You began to consider what path to take next!]

[Age 150: A sudden realization struck you. Wudang's Taiji was Zhang Sanfeng's martial True Intention, while Shaolin's Seventy-Two Supreme Skills were Patriarch Bodhidharma's martial True Intention. Their understanding of technique had reached the pinnacle, allowing them to create martial arts as they pleased. This gave you great inspiration!]

[Age 160: You looked back on the past and discovered that your comprehension of Five Qi Converge at the Origin was the deepest. You decided to begin studying martial techniques from there!]

[Age 170: There were countless Cultivation Methods that imitated animals. This pointed you toward a way to create your own Cultivation Method!]

[Age 180: Drawing on Five Qi Converge at the Origin, you used the Qi of the five elements to imitate the sacred beasts of the five directions and created the Five Elements Sword Instruction. It was the first Shattering the Void Realm Cultivation Method in the Wuxia Great Ming world. You gave it to the Great Ming imperial court, but it was too profound. Officials of the rank of hundred-household commander and above studied it together, yet none could comprehend it!]

[Age 190: You split the Five Elements Sword Instruction into five Celestial Person Realm Cultivation Methods. You felt these five methods were already quite simple, but only Zhu Zhanshan, who was in the Celestial Person Realm, could barely understand them!]

[Age 200: Using the ten Heavenly Stems, you split the five Celestial Person Realm Cultivation Methods into ten Grandmaster Realm Cultivation Methods. The vast majority of Grandmaster martial artists could comprehend only one, while a very few could comprehend two. One general at Grandmaster Peak comprehended the Geng Metal Sword Instruction and the Xin Metal Sword Instruction. He combined the two into one, comprehended the Metal Element Sword Instruction, and broke through to the Celestial Person Realm!]

[Age 210: Rumors spread through the martial world that comprehending two of the ten Grandmaster Realm sword instructions with the same attribute would allow one to combine them into a Celestial Person Realm sword instruction and break through to the Celestial Person Realm. Comprehending all ten would allow one to combine them into the Five Elements Sword Instruction and reach Shattering the Void. Countless martial-world figures yearning to shatter the void and ascend in broad daylight scrambled to join the Great Ming imperial court, all so they could attain the rank of hundred-household commander or above as soon as possible and learn the ten Grandmaster Realm sword instructions!]

[Age 220: To attain the rank of hundred-household commander or above as soon as possible, martial-world figures all rubbed their fists and palms, waiting for a chance to earn merit and win promotion. Whenever a major case occurred, they were sure to swarm in. In time, the notorious bandits were gradually killed off, and the mountain bandits and robbers all fled. Public safety reached the point where doors were left unlocked at night and no one pocketed things found on the road!]

[Age 230: Using the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, you split the ten Grandmaster Realm Cultivation Methods into sixty Innate Realm Cultivation Methods. Since hundred-household commanders of the Principal Sixth Rank could cultivate Grandmaster Realm sword instructions, the Great Ming imperial court decided to lower the requirement for the Innate sword instructions to any civil or military office of Subordinate Ninth Rank or above. Martial-world figures from all walks of life each displayed their own abilities and became court officials by various means. The sixty Innate sword instructions gradually became the martial world's sole mainstream Cultivation Methods!]

[Age 240: Since the Five Elements Sword Instruction was, in essence, a Shattering the Void Realm manual, splitting it into sixty Innate Realm manuals was already the limit. You began considering the creation of a new Cultivation Method!]

[Age 250: Since you had split the high-quality Five Elements Sword Instruction into lower-quality manuals, you decided to do the opposite: create a basic manual of the lowest grade, then gradually upgrade it into a high-quality one!]

[Age 260: You thought of the eight basic movements of swordsmanship on Earth. You adjusted them based on your martial experience and ultimately created the basic Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords!]

[Age 270: You expanded the Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords to the Innate Realm!]

[Age 280: You expanded the Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords to the Grandmaster Realm!]

[Age 290: You expanded the Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords to the Celestial Person Realm!]

[Age 300: The Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords became the second Shattering the Void Realm manual in the Wuxia Great Ming world. Its cultivation approach, which began from nothing and progressed steadily, was clearly more in line with the expectations of martial-world figures. It swiftly became a manual that everyone in the martial world possessed!]

[Age 310: The Five Elements Sword Instruction you created went from high to low, while the Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords went from low to high. Through these two utterly opposite sword instructions, you thoroughly mastered the true essence of the Sword Dao!]

[Age 320: You tried to create all kinds of manuals for sabers, spears, fists, and kicks. However, your Chaos Sword Gang meant that you were merely applying what you knew by analogy, turning sword techniques into other moves. At their root, they were still swordsmanship. You abandoned all those muddled ideas and devoted yourself wholeheartedly to studying swordsmanship!]

[Age 330: You created the Great Sun Sword Instruction of the Shattering the Void Realm. Because the supreme yang and supreme hardness of the sun's radiance were far too overbearing, anyone in the martial world who tried it suffered the agony of True Solar Fire burning their body. No one but you could take the first step in cultivating it!]

[Age 340: You created the Supreme Yin Sword Instruction of the Shattering the Void Realm. To your surprise, you discovered that Zhu Zhanshan's Like Water Sword Intent could transform into Supreme Yin Sword Intent without the slightest hindrance!]

[Age 350: Zhu Zhanshan mastered the Supreme Yin Sword Instruction and used the Taiji Sword Gang within his body to attempt to cultivate the Supreme Yang Sword Instruction!]

[Age 360: Zhu Zhanshan fused the Supreme Yin Sword Instruction and the Supreme Yang Sword Instruction, finally reaching the Shattered Void and ascending in broad daylight!]

[Age 370: Zhu Zhanshan's reaching the Shattered Void and ascending in broad daylight gave you a sense of the potential of Wudang's Taiji Sword. You expanded it into a Shattered Void Realm manual!]

[Age 380: You expanded Shaolin's Bodhidharma Swordsmanship into a Shattering the Void Realm manual!]

[Age 390: You expanded Mount Hua's Nourish My Swordsmanship into a Shattering the Void Realm manual!]

[Age 400: Your Sword Dao had reached a level beyond mortal skill. Shattering the Void Realm swordsmanship came as easily as picking something up at hand, and you tried to create swordsmanship that surpassed the Shattering the Void Realm!]

[Age 410: Your true body had once claimed the Dao Fruit-Longevity Instruction. You decided to draw on its principles and create the Longevity Sword Instruction according to yin, yang, and the five elements!]

[Age 450: You created the Longevity Sword Instruction, which surpassed the Shattering the Void Realm. The Wuxia Great Ming world underwent a transformation and ascended because of it!]

[Because the world's transformation and ascension were full of randomness, it might interact with surrounding worlds. The uncertain factors could not be predicted. Simulation forcibly terminated!]

[Based on your life, please choose a Dao Fruit-]

[Sword Dao comprehension] [Longevity Sword Instruction] [Seventy-Two Earth Sha Swords]