Chapter 354: The Sword Sovereign's Treatise on the Golden Mysteries of Emptiness
Chapter 354: The Sword Sovereign's Treatise on the Golden Mysteries of Emptiness
When Lv Yang emerged from the Hall of Reception, he was met with Dangmo True Man’s resigned gaze. “I honestly didn’t expect you to successfully burn incense for the Ancestral Master.”
“Follow me,” Dangmo True Man sighed, leading Lv Yang into a streak of shimmering light. Soon, they arrived at the peak of Sword Pavilion’s mountain gate.
Here, the view was majestic—mountains dwarfed beneath them as a grand hall stood solemnly in the distance. Streams of light flickered around it, revealing figures of Foundation Building True Men. Without delay, Dangmo True Man retrieved a thick tome from his sleeve.
“Today, disciple Yan Xiao has entered the Hall of Reception to burn incense for the Ancestral Master,” he declared solemnly. “By the Ancestral Master’s decree, he shall be recorded as a Swordseed of our sect. Through this life and beyond, he must cultivate diligently and uphold the righteous path.”
With that, he inscribed Lv Yang’s current avatar name into the Cultivation Manual.
“You are my first disciple, belonging to the Ming generation. I bestow upon you the dharma name Minghe—strive to live up to it.”
Lv Yang bowed deeply. “Disciple greets Master.” He respectfully received the token symbolizing his Swordseed status before stepping back.
“A Swordseed’s status equals that of a Foundation Building cultivator. Carry this token to claim a cultivation cave in Extreme Heaven Cliff. Given your profound foundations from past lives, cultivate diligently to restore your former True Man realm.”
As Lv Yang departed, Dangmo True Man’s expression darkened.
Almost immediately, another Foundation Building True Man approached, smiling. “Congratulations, True Man. With this new disciple, the day to resolve your karmic debts draws near.”
The speaker was Ye Cheng, a disciple of the Ye family. His face bore unrestrained delight. “I heard this one ruined Xing Feng—only fitting he repays his past misdeeds!”
Dangmo True Man’s face tightened further.
Sword Pavilion had a rigorous process to integrate outsiders: the Hall of Reception was critical.
“All outsiders joining Sword Pavilion first have their past-life memories erased, then burn incense at the Hall of Reception to drain their fortune, which is reforged into Sword Pavilion’s fortune. I thought Lü’s talents were insufficient, that failing to learn The Sword Sovereign’s Treatise on the Golden Mysteries of Emptiness still left hope. But now… it’s beyond remedy.”
He sighed again. “Heaven’s will.”
Sword Sovereign’s Treatise was Sword Pavilion’s most renowned First-Rank True Art. Yet few, even within the sect, dared cultivate it.
Only those reborn from outside the Pavilion—disciples reincarnated into Sword Pavilion—practiced this technique.
Inside Extreme Heaven Cliff’s cultivation cave, Lv Yang studied the tome.
Sword Sovereign’s Treatise was vast and profound, spanning ten thousand characters. It defied conventional cultivation systems.
What defined a sword cultivator? Normally, anyone wielding a sword qualified. Yet the treatise deemed such “left-path practitioners.”
True sword cultivators devoted themselves solely to the sword. Forsaking all else, they bonded with their blade day and night, attuning their spirit through sincerity until the sword became their Dao.
Only Dangmo True Man and Ye Guangji fit this ideal in all Sword Pavilion.
“This isn’t right,” Lv Yang frowned. Years at Primordial Sacred Sect had honed his instincts—he sensed deception.
“This is a First-Rank True Art? Unless… it’s a trap!”
And indeed, the technique abruptly ended at Foundation Building Perfection.
The Treatise was genuinely a First-Rank True Art, designed to forge a Sword Dao Fruit Position from absolute nothingness—an ambition surpassing even the No Heaven Realm, which relied on preexisting Dao foundations.
The Treatise sought to create a true, self-sustained Fruit Position—a feat requiring disciples’ lifetimes of cultivation to fill its void.
“Swordseed… Now I understand. We’re fertilizer for the Sword Dao Fruit Position. Without us, how could it take root and grow?”
Yet a sudden thought struck him.
"Wait—Dangmo True Man cultivated this too. He’s a pure sword cultivator. But he’s Sword Pavilion’s legitimate heir, a direct descendant of the Ye family. There’s no way he’s an outsider reincarnate!"
Then Yanluo Patriarch, observing silently from Ten-Thousand Spirit Banner, spoke:
“The thing that happened before will happen again. Could it be… Dangmo True Man’s prior cultivation was Wall Earth?”
(End of Chapter)
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