Azure Heaven Sword, One Sword Yin Yang, Sky Breaker

Early the next morning.

Su Changge slowly opened his eyes, his gaze brilliant and bright. After another round of consolidation, his Dao Foundation gradually stabilized.

After all, breaking through too quickly could easily destabilize his Dao Foundation, leaving the seeds of disaster along his future Great Dao Path instead.

At that moment, his aura was as deep as an abyss and as vast as the sea. Ethereal immortal light drifted around him, Dao resonance suffused the air, and he possessed an air that transcended the mundane.

"Changge, are you there?!"

Just then, the Returning Origin Holy Master's voice came from outside the Returning Origin Holy Hall.

The Holy Master? Why would he come here?

Su Changge was somewhat puzzled, but he still rose and slowly pushed open the door.

The instant the door opened, he saw the smiling Returning Origin Holy Master striding toward him.

While still several zhang away, the Returning Origin Holy Master laughed heartily. "Changge, I heard all about what happened at the Sword Burial Abyss and the Returning Origin Martial Arts Arena yesterday!"

"I must say, you truly have the bearing of a Divine Son!"

Su Changge smiled faintly and returned his greeting. "You flatter me, Holy Master."

Then the Returning Origin Holy Master added, "Changge, I heard you used a fist technique at the Returning Origin Martial Arts Arena?"

He looked deeply at Su Changge, his smile fading and his tone turning somewhat solemn. "Did this cultivation art also come from a Heavenly Dao Blessing?"

Su Changge paused. Almost every holy land knew about this, so he simply nodded slowly and said yes.

The Returning Origin Holy Master, whose eyes had harbored a trace of anticipation, instantly wilted like a shriveled cucumber.

"Just as I thought..."

The Returning Origin Holy Master gave a bitter chuckle, feeling even more sour inside!

Back when he had been cultivating, he had risked his life to obtain a supreme cultivation art.

Now someone else could obtain one as easily as spitting into his palm. How infuriating!

At that thought, he laughed at himself again. Comparing himself with Su Changge-wasn't that just asking for suffering?

Su Changge's gifts were beyond anything he could envy his way into.

"Changge, I know your Sword Dao Talent is no weaker than your Physical Body Talent."

"So the ancestor ordered me to give you this Ancient Sword Art."

The Returning Origin Holy Master took a Jade Slip from his robes.

"This sword art was left behind by a senior of our holy land in ancient times. He was also a sword cultivator of the Mighty One Realm, obsessed with the sword throughout his life. He left this sword art before his passing. Its name is One Sword Yin Yang."

"This sword art is said to be an immortal's technique, but that senior departed in haste, so only a fragment remains."

"Although it is only a fragment, it still ranks among the finest cultivation arts in the North Abyss Dao Domain."

"If you can cultivate it to mastery, you might sense a trace of the intent of immortality within it."

The Returning Origin Holy Master patiently explained it to Su Changge.

[Ding! New mission detected. Option one: request a different cultivation art. Reward: Mountains and Rivers Diagram.

Option two: accept this cultivation art. Reward: One Sword Yin Yang (complete version).]

The complete version of One Sword Yin Yang? Wouldn't that be an immortal art?

Seeing Su Changge silently pondering, the Returning Origin Holy Master assumed he did not want this cultivation art. "If you don't want it..."

"I do! Holy Master, this is the one!" Su Changge hurriedly snatched it.

Hearing the system announce that the choice was completed, excitement surged in his heart. This was a legendary immortal art!

Seeing that Su Changge had decided to learn it, he smiled in satisfaction. "I have studied this technique before as well. Over four years, I have mastered much of it. If you need anything, Divine Son, feel free to come to me. I can guide you in your cultivation."

Inside, however, he was suppressing laughter. What four years! I've cultivated it for ten years! Ten years just to achieve a little success! I refuse to believe he can learn it in a day!

When the time comes, he'll definitely come to me himself to ask how to cultivate this art.

Then I can knock this brat down a peg and show him that I, the Holy Master, am extraordinarily gifted too!

At that thought, the Holy Master's smile grew even brighter.

When the Divine Son came to him, his reputation as Holy Master could rise too!

Unfortunately, imagination was beautiful, but reality was cruel!

What was Su Changge?

He was a cheater! Anyone hoping to get the better of him would have to wait until his system died!

After seeing the Returning Origin Holy Master off.

Su Changge took the complete version of One Sword Yin Yang from his system inventory.

[One Sword Yin Yang (complete version): created by an unknown sword cultivator of the Mighty One Realm from a lifetime of insight. It emphasizes defeating the enemy in one move: One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Techniques, One Sword Subdues Ten Meetings.]

One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Techniques? No matter what flashy tricks there are, I only need one sword strike?

"Interesting."

Su Changge was quite satisfied with it. The great Dao was simplicity itself. This was exactly what he wanted.

"Use One Sword Yin Yang."

Hum-

Suddenly, a ball of light sank into his mind.

Immediately afterward, an abstruse Dao resonance arose within his body.

In just an instant, he had actually comprehended this cultivation art!

After letting this insight settle, Su Changge slowly opened his eyes. "What would happen if One Sword Yin Yang were combined with Yin Yang Sword Qi?"

Acting was better than merely feeling tempted. Su Changge came to an open area.

He held his breath, focused his mind, and mobilized his Yin Yang Sword Qi.

Two terrifying streams of sword qi appeared as though tearing through the void, like two immortal beams of divine light coiling around him.

One side was cold to the utmost, as though it would freeze everything.

The other was scorching to the utmost, as though it would reduce everything to ashes.

At that moment, boundless Sword Intent also rose within Su Changge's eyes.

Countless great Daos flowed through the resonance within his mind, while countless ancient characters formed sentence after sentence.

"One sword."

He formed a sword finger with his right hand, pointed diagonally into the void, and slashed!

"Yin-Yang!"

Whoosh-

A sound rang out as something sliced through the void.

A dazzling sword shot straight into the clouds and vanished into the depths of the sky!

"Hm? Did it not work?"

When there was no reaction for quite a while, Su Changge was indeed somewhat puzzled.

Hum!!

Yet just then, deep within the firmament, a blazing, cold star seemed to flicker.

Then that cold star, like the sole glimmer of light on a pitch-black horizon, instantly expanded without limit!

Beneath that dazzling radiance, the terrifying sword qi even turned the sky a brilliant daytime white for a brief moment!

This terrifying sight also startled everyone in the holy land.

"Holy shit! Enemy attack!!"

"Damn it! What suicidal bastard has attacked our Returning Origin Holy Land?!!"

The Returning Origin Holy Land disciples who had been cultivating were also roused by this sword qi.

Someone even rushed straight out bare-chested, holding up his trousers.

His face was filled with fury, as though he wanted to find the culprit who had interrupted his pleasure.

Within the Returning Origin Ancestral Land.

The ancestors looked at this sight and could not help exchanging bitter smiles.

Everything in the Returning Origin Holy Land lay within their perception, so they knew everything Su Changge had just done.

"That child Changge... he certainly doesn't let us rest easy..."

Yet there was not the slightest reproach in their voices, only boundless indulgence.

After all, having such a powerful Divine Son was an immense opportunity for their Returning Origin Holy Land.

In another direction.

The earth-shaking noise also startled the Returning Origin Holy Master.

Especially when he sensed that familiar aura, realization struck him!

This was the very sword art he had given Su Changge!

"He's already learned it?!"

How little time had passed, and he had already learned it!?

"Is he even fucking human?"

Still finding it somewhat unbelievable, he turned into a streak of light and returned to the Returning Origin Holy Hall.

But after he arrived at the Returning Origin Holy Hall, the dense sword qi lingering in the area.

Filled him with terror once more.

"Ch-Changge... y-you..."

Su Changge noticed the Returning Origin Holy Master as well and smiled. "Holy Master, you've come at just the right time. I feel that last sword strike was still missing something in its power."

"Could you help me improve it?" There was a hint of shame in Su Changge's voice.

After all, the Holy Master was certainly a top-tier expert. His performance just now had probably still disappointed him somewhat, hadn't it?

The Returning Origin Holy Master nearly spat out a mouthful of blood, while countless grass-mud horses stampeded through his heart!

Was this bastard even human?!

Was there still any royal justice?!

Was there still any law?!

He had cultivated it to this level in less than half an incense stick's time. What did that make him?

He had toiled at cultivation for decades!

He had intended to seize the chance to get the better of Su Changge, but never expected that-

He would bolt upright from his deathbed, only to find the clown was himself!

"Holy Master?"

Looking at the Returning Origin Holy Master's face alternating between green and white, Su Changge was somewhat puzzled.

Was face-changing popular in this fantasy world too?

"Holy Master, perhaps its power was still a little lacking because I didn't use my own weapon just now?" Su Changge murmured to himself after thinking it over.

After all, with the Azure Heaven Sword's support, that strike would only become more terrifying.

"Oh... oh... yes...!"

The Returning Origin Holy Master patted Su Changge on the shoulder, looking thoroughly seasoned. "Ahem... Changge! There is still a great distance between you and me."

"However, I believe you will certainly surpass me!"

"Try using your weapon, then. Show your true strength, and don't disappoint me again!" the Returning Origin Holy Master said against his conscience.

Why could he say something so shameless without blushing or his heart skipping a beat?

Because just a moment ago, his heart had died!

Back then, he had spent so long miserably cultivating the Dao, and had even been thrown into a world of demonic beasts by the ancestor to temper himself.

In the end, the demonic beasts had driven him into a remote mountain forest, where he could only eat tree bark to stave off hunger. He had finally managed to complete the ancestor's task, and even that had required a fortuitous opportunity.

But now, seeing Su Changge...

What had all his years of seeking the Dao been for?

"Thinking back to that figure running beneath the setting sun-that was my vanished youth...!" The Returning Origin Holy Master's soul seemed to ascend at that moment.

Then Su Changge took the Azure Heaven Sword from his system inventory.

"High Heaven, this is your first time showing your edge to the world. Don't disappoint me." Su Changge stroked the Azure Heaven Sword with a smile.

Hum-

The Azure Heaven Sword trembled with a soft hum, as though responding to Su Changge.

Su Changge's smile faded.

He drew the sword back to his left hip, loosely closing his left hand as though forming a sheath.

Suddenly.

Faint sword qi runes spread around the blade, and endless sword qi gathered toward the Azure Heaven Sword.

The power gathering there alone seemed capable of slicing through the entire void.

"Hiss..."

"This sword... is no ordinary weapon...!"

The instant he saw the Azure Heaven Sword, the Returning Origin Holy Master sensed how extraordinary it was.

Especially when the Azure Heaven Sword began awakening, even he, a Holy Master, felt a chill of fear. He had never seen such a terrifying divine weapon!

At that moment, Su Changge slowly closed his eyes.

It was as though he alone remained between heaven and earth.

He merged himself with the sword.

Man and Sword as One, his heart united with the Dao!

At that moment.

There was no self, no other-only the sword in his hand.

Whoosh-

As Su Changge exhaled a breath of stale air.

His tightly shut eyes suddenly snapped open!

Keen Sword Intent flashed through his eyes!

Godslaying Sword Intent-one thought to commune with the divine!

"Slash!"

A sword soul as radiant as moonlight swept out, its dazzling sword light shining like a vast full moon.

Amid the howling sword qi, a straight beam of sword light slashed across the heavens!

At that moment, all things fell silent, and the world froze!

Only the dazzling sword radiance left by the passing blade remained in the void, scattering streaks of lingering light!

When the scene became clear again.

Su Changge was already holding his sword horizontally, his body like an ancient pine, as though he had never moved.

Had it not been for the soul-seizing cold gleam flowing along the blade in his hand.

It would have looked like a motionless picture.

The Returning Origin Holy Master was somewhat puzzled. What kind of move was this?

Crack!!

But just then, a heart-stopping sound of shattering resounded throughout heaven and earth!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

A region of the sky actually shattered inch by inch like a spiderweb!

Within it lay a pitch-black expanse, like empty nothingness and chaos!

"This... did this shatter a region of space?"

The Returning Origin Holy Master was utterly stupefied with fright!

The cracks kept spreading, and as the diameter continued to expand, terrifying spatial storms churned within!

"Divine punishment! This is divine punishment!"

"The sky actually shattered! Is this the end of the world?!"

"Has the Immortal Path opened? Only an immortal could cause such a terrifying phenomenon, right?!"

"It looks like it's coming from the Returning Origin Holy Hall! Could it be the Divine Son?"

The many disciples of the Returning Origin Holy Land were already stupefied with fright! Just what kind of monster was their Divine Son?

Shattering space in the Purple Mansion Realm?

As a supreme aura drifted out from the direction of the Ancestral Land, the shattered void was slowly restored.

"Changge, you'd better give me an explanation!"

Ancestor Po Jun had appeared within Su Changge's sight at some point, a trace of anger on his face.

Was this brat really going to poke a hole through the heavens?

Would he tear the entire Holy Land apart tomorrow?