Refining the Primordial Foetal Sword of World Domination, Heading to the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty
Refining the Primordial Foetal Sword of World Domination, Heading to the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty
In Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s original world, the Sword Dao had flourished to its absolute peak.
Nearly everyone under heaven cultivated the sword, and those with powerful talent would even be born accompanied by an Innate Spirit Sword.
It was precisely because of his Innate Spirit Sword that he was able to join the Shu Sect, one of the most powerful sects in that world.
Unfortunately, while observing a Founding Ancestor’s tribulation, he was accidentally struck dead by heavenly lightning.
A wisp of his Remnant Soul refused to dissipate, drifting to this world and being reborn into the body of a man who shared his exact name.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao, the Third Young Master of the General Residence of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.
Their father, Tuo Ba Zhan, was the Grand General of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s armies.
His strength was formidable, he guarded an entire region, his power reached the heavens, and he was deeply valued by the current Emperor Yu.
Above Tuo Ba Xiaoyao was an older sister and an older brother, and below him was a younger sister.
His older brother currently served in the military as a commander, a renowned young talent of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty with boundless prospects and a bright future.
His older sister served as a lecturer at the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s Dao Academy, a beauty capable of toppling nations with terrifying talent, with countless admirers and suitors.
Even his younger sister was an extremely famous prodigy within the Great Yu Imperial Capital, powerful in strength, with no equal among her peers.
Compared to his many siblings, only Tuo Ba Xiaoyao appeared utterly mediocre, even giving off an impression of being dull and inarticulate.
Over time, even his father grew quite disappointed in him.
Within the Imperial Capital, there was no shortage of rumors and gossip about a tiger father begetting a dog son, which drew both laughter and exasperation.
However, toward these rumors, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao adopted an attitude of complete deafness, paying them no mind whatsoever.
Having lived several lives, he deeply understood the principle of keeping a low profile and playing the pig to eat the tiger.
In his previous life, it was precisely because he had been too high-profile, revealing his sharp edge at a young age.
He became known to everyone in the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, which attracted Gu Changge’s attention and brought calamity upon him.
So at the age of thirteen, after awakening the memories of his previous life.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao began hiding his capabilities and biding his time, practicing the sword day after day, waiting for the day when his accumulated strength would burst forth.
Back when he was a sword cultivator of the Shu Sect, he had learned many sword techniques that were revered as Divine Grade in their world.
After coming to this world, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao cultivated diligently from childhood, never daring to slack off.
His current attainments in the Sword Dao had long since surpassed what he had achieved in his original world.
After all, all things considered, he was a man who possessed the memories of three lives.
And it was precisely for this reason that many people thought Tuo Ba Xiaoyao was somewhat foolish.
He ignored the powerful Arts and Transcendent techniques of the Tuoba Family, instead practicing the sword day and night, making people feel as if something was wrong with his head.
Even Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s older brother and sister found his behavior difficult to understand.
“Based on the memories of my previous life, the reason Gu Changge wants to seize the Sword of World Domination is actually to find the Seven Tools of World Domination, and thereby open the Immortal Palace Treasury.”
“Now, using the Shu Sect’s supreme sword manual, I have refined the Sword of World Domination together with my Primordial Spirit into one, forging the Primordial Foetal Sword of World Domination.”
“If the sword lives, I live; if the sword perishes, I perish. There is absolutely no method in this world to break it.”
“If Gu Changge wants the Sword of World Domination, then he cannot kill me.”
Within the antique-styled room, a sharp gleam flickered in Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s eyes as he murmured in a low voice.
Toward Gu Changge, this future great enemy, he did not dare show the slightest underestimation.
Even though many events in this life had deviated somewhat from the trajectory of his previous life’s memories.
That still could not conceal how dreadful and terrifying Gu Changge was.
In Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s view, the Gu Changge of this life was far more terrifying than the one of the previous life.
His strength was even more unfathomable, beyond imagination.
Even though he had remained in the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty all this time, never leaving for anywhere else.
He had still been constantly paying attention to all news and rumors concerning Gu Changge, earnestly analyzing Gu Changge’s current methods, so that he would have countermeasures when the time came.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao knew that once Gu Changge gathered the other six Tools of World Domination, he would begin investigating the whereabouts of the Sword of World Domination.
And when that time came, he had to desperately conceal this information, otherwise he would absolutely invite a fatal disaster just like in his previous life.
“In my previous life, I wrongly blamed Feiya all along, believing it was she who exposed to Gu Changge the fact that I possessed the Sword of World Domination.”
“Later, she took a palm strike for me and was cruelly killed by Gu Changge. From that, it was clear she was not the one who leaked the information.”
“Then how did Gu Changge learn that the Sword of World Domination was in my hands?”
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s heart sank into deep contemplation.
This was also something he had never been able to figure out, and very few people knew the Sword of World Domination was in his possession.
“The fact that the Sword of World Domination is my Spiritual Sword is something even Father and the others never knew.”
“Could Gu Changge have determined it through the mutual sensing between the Tools of World Domination? Fortunately, in this life I refined the Sword of World Domination into the Primordial Foetal Sword of World Domination ahead of time, isolating all sensing, but I still must remain carefully on guard...”
Thinking of this, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao could not help but let out a long breath, setting his mind at ease.
According to the memories of his previous life, he would not encounter Gu Changge for the time being, so he could peacefully continue cultivating for a while longer.
“My cultivation has now reached the Half-Step Sacred Lord Realm. At full power, I could even battle a Perfect Prodigy, but against Gu Changge, I still have little chance of victory.”
A sharp light flickered in his eyes, then gradually faded back into stillness.
According to his memories, in a few days would be the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s traditional Hunting Event.
The prodigies and talents of the many forces within the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty would all participate, competing for the top spot to win a generous reward.
At that time, people from other Cults of Immortality would also come to observe the ceremony.
If Tuo Ba Xiaoyao remembered correctly, a great shocking upheaval would occur at this Hunting Event.
A prince of the Eternal Overcast Kingdom would appear in the world, attempting to form a marriage alliance with the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.
And the target of that marriage alliance was none other than Yu Feiya.
This time, he had to stop the Eternal Overcast Kingdom’s conspiracy, because according to the memories of his previous life, the Eternal Overcast Kingdom and Gu Changge were connected by a thousand threads and ten thousand strands.
The sky was pure, a stretch of azure blue, like an enormous crystal embedded overhead, without a trace of impurity within a million miles.
A flying vessel swept rapidly past, speeding like a rainbow, traversing ten thousand miles in the blink of an eye.
The Sky Domain was located in the central region of the Beyond, its territory boundless; even those whose cultivation reached the heavens and pierced the earth would find it difficult to reach its borders.
And adjoining the eastern edge of the Sky Domain was the Glorious Sky Domain, where the territory of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty lay.
“After Zijin left the Mortal Palace some time ago, she never came back.”
“According to her maid Xiu Er, she seemed to be entering the Ancestral Land of the Longevity Wang Family.”
“I don’t know what she went to do.”
“After that, I never heard any news of her again.”
At this moment, aboard the flying vessel heading to the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, hearing Gu Changge inquire about Wang Zijin’s whereabouts, Jiang Chuchu gently shook her head and answered.
She and Wang Zijin were, after all, different.
Behind Wang Zijin stood the Longevity Wang Family; her going to cultivate at the Mortal Palace back then was merely in the capacity of an honorary disciple, and she could return to her family at any time.
Whereas she herself had no father or mother, and had grown up in the Mortal Palace since childhood.
The Mortal Palace was her home, and she could not easily leave it.
Now, with the calamity of the Absolute Yin Heaven descending, she was even less able to leave; she had to preside over the overall situation.
“So she returned to her family.”
Gu Changge nodded, not asking anything further.
On this trip to the Mortal Palace, he had not met this fellow Transmigrator of his, which surprised him slightly, and that was why he had asked.
What Wang Zijin was doing, he actually did not care about at all.
Although this trip to the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty was made under the pretext of investigating the recently emerged Absolute Yin Heaven calamity, what Gu Changge was actually paying attention to was that ancient world which had yet to be opened up.
He had a premonition that before the Epoch Dao Fruit ripened, a great upheaval would occur in the Beyond.
These ancient worlds bordering the Beyond had not necessarily existed for a shorter time than the Beyond itself.
In Gu Changge’s view, those ancient worlds might still contain another Opportunity to Become an Immortal.
The Beyond appeared calm at present, but in reality undercurrents surged; many forces and Dao Lineages were still in the Eight Wastelands and Ten Domains, persistently searching for the Opportunity to Become an Immortal.
Therefore, Gu Changge had to come up with a suitable pretext to lay out the bait and the great net.
On the other hand, news of the Immortal Palace Treasury was also circulating among the various Dao Lineages, and many people placed their final hope of becoming an Immortal upon it.
That Gu Changge possessed several Tools of World Domination was something known to all in the Beyond.
Nowadays, his every move was being watched by many people.
And by acting under the name of the Mortal One, things naturally became much more convenient.
And soon, in the blink of an eye, half a month passed. The flying vessel traversed the void, crossing endless territory, and finally arrived near the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.
The Great Yu Imperial Capital covered a full ten million miles in expanse, grand and towering, with resplendent rosy light, dazzling radiance, and coiling immortal mist.
Viewed from afar, all manner of heaven-startling phenomena, a myriad of grand sights, Godly Islands floating in the air, immortal peaks settled upon the earth, and countless palaces and pavilions standing erect—it was like an ancient immortal city fallen into the mortal world.
Silver waterfalls cascaded down, immortal springs wound about, and all around, the stars of the heavens formed a grand array.
Whether by day or by night, one could see billions of rays of starlight descending, paving out a vast Astral River.
It was a magnificent sight; any cultivator coming to the Great Yu Imperial Capital for the first time would be shaken to the core by it.
“This is the foundation upon which the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty has stood unshaken for countless years—the Star Fiend Formation.”
“It draws upon the power of the stars of the heavens, inexhaustible and unending, capable of blocking the attacks of a True Daoist. There are even rumors that if the Grand Array operates at full power, no one below the Celestial Realm can break it.”
“That the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty has stood immortal through so many epochs is not without reason.”
“From this, one can see how terrifying the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s foundation is. Looking across the entire Beyond, there are probably few forces that can compare.”
At this moment, outside the Great Yu Imperial Capital, aboard a warship wreathed in clouds and mist.
A group of young men and women, their bodies covered in treasure light, were surveying the scene before them with curiosity and longing.
They all wore uniform attire, with special patterns at their cuffs, indicating that they came from the same sect.
“You must do your best. If you can make it into the top ten thousand this time, that will already bring honor to the sect. If you’re lucky enough to make it into the top five thousand, then when you return to the sect, you’ll receive generous rewards.”
“As for the top one thousand, this old man and the others dare not even hope for it. In all the recorded history of our sect, the best result was only a little past three thousandth place, and that person was none other than your Supreme Profound Ancestor, who is now on the verge of stepping into the Sacred Emperor Realm.”
Before them stood quite a few sect Elders and other such figures leading them, who spoke with sighs.
It was not that they were trying too hard to dampen morale, but rather that this Hunting Event had thousands upon thousands of participating forces, with prodigies as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river, beyond counting.
There were quite a few forces like theirs nowadays, all of them subordinate to the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.
Now they had come from all corners of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty to participate in this Hunting Event.
As a tradition of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, the Hunting Event was held once every hundred years.
Any force within the borders of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty could send disciples to participate.
For every force, this was an opportunity to rise to meteoric success.
Everyone would grip it tightly and never let go.
The young men and women who had come here were all the cream of the crop of their respective forces, carefully nurtured specifically for this Hunting Event.
The rankings of the Hunting Event concerned not only the future standing of the forces behind them, but could also attract the regard of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, which would bestow Arts, resources, divine weapons, pills, and more.
“However, I heard that the location of this Hunting Event seems quite special. There are rumors it’s related to the Absolute Yin Heaven calamity. I wonder if it’s true or false.”
Someone murmured softly; when mentioning the Absolute Yin Heaven calamity, there was an unease they could not conceal.
The outbreak of the Absolute Yin Heaven calamity within the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s territory was no secret.
By now, the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty had already dispatched many experts to investigate.
“Eh, there are people over by the Imperial City. Why do they look like members of the Imperial Family?”
Suddenly, someone let out a soft exclamation of surprise, looking toward the walls of the Great Yu Imperial Capital with an extremely shocked expression.
Hearing this, the others also looked over one after another, equally astonished.
The city walls were towering, like ranges of mountains, with terrifying chains of order hanging down, their radiance incomparably brilliant.
Yet at this moment, quite a few people stood there, standing atop the clouds, mist and haze billowing beneath their feet, as if waiting for someone.
The person at the head was burly and tall, wearing a dragon robe and a purple-gold crown, possessing an indescribable domineering pressure, every inch a figure of supreme authority, with terrifying auras surfacing between the opening and closing of his eyes.
This was an Old Imperial Ancestor, whose status and position were extremely fearsome.
Behind this Old Imperial Uncle stood many more people in sequence, all bearing the bearing of those in high positions, exuding might without anger.
Behind them, in turn, came some princes and princesses.
This scene left the Elders and disciples of the various forces who had rushed here utterly shocked—one look gave them all a fright.
Every single person there, whoever they were, possessed an extremely fearsome status; a single stamp of their foot would set off an earthquake in the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.
Ordinarily, they could not even hope for a single glimpse of such figures, yet now they had all appeared together outside the city, seemingly waiting for someone.
Many of the young men and women recognized several of the princes and princesses among them.
Those were the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s renowned Young Prodigies, supreme among their peers, dazzling with halos of glory.
Even in the Beyond, they enjoyed considerable fame.
“Could they be waiting for people from the other Cults of Immortality and Supreme Dao Lineages coming to observe the ceremony?”
“But even so, there’d be no need for such a grand display... If I’m not mistaken, that Old Imperial Ancestor is a True Daoist!”
“What kind of person could warrant such importance from the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty?”
The place erupted into an uproar of shock. The many forces that had come to participate in the Hunting Event all found it hard to believe, and what followed was intense curiosity.