Chen Xuantian spent some time reading the previous recap, and Tie Dan had already been in closed cultivation at Hidden Sword Manor for half a year, refining a pile of Heavenly Materials Treasures one by one.

Now, with the support of Heavenly Materials Treasures provided by those Divine Beast Sword Masters, the Red Evil, Xuanming, Returning Dust, Jidu, and Luo Hou Five Luminaries have seen a surge! Although a few months are hardly enough to fully digest these Daoist Collections, with My Sword directly devouring and refining, it is a real and solid thousand-year sword power increase!

With the comprehensive Spiritual Qi supply provided by the Investiture of the Gods, the Nine Luminaries can train simultaneously, achieving nine times multiplier cultivation! Plus, Tie Dan's remarkable talent has opened all ordinary and extraordinary meridians, with twenty meridians accelerating together! The speed of this half-year cultivation is at least equivalent to ten or more years of hard work for an average person!

This way, the Nine Luminaries unite, all combined! At the least, that's a solid thousand-year sword power! It's a force to contend with against the old Mystic Sect! So powerful! So terrifyingly strong! Pray tell, who else can stop him!

Who! Else!

Ahem, well, actually, it's still not enough. At least from the intelligence that Chen Xuantian has sent back, he once devoured old ancestor fierce generals of dozens of Nascent Souls, which should count as a thousand-year power, right?

The result was that a group of old monsters tore them to pieces with bare hands, utterly powerless to resist. It seems that mere thousand-year cultivation is already top-notch in this world, but to rank in the Mystic Sect, it might still be a little too weak...

However, if the truth be told, with this thousand-year sword power, it should at least withstand three thunders as a foundation. Joining the Sword Sect should suffice, right?

Calculating it, the Cloud Platform Competition is just around the corner, so Tie Dan no longer sits idly by. It's time to go out and warm up for Nine Yin Mountain.

And upon exiting his secluded cultivation, snowflake-like Flying Talismans sent letters immediately came pouring in.

Tie Dan casually opened the letters and found that during his half-year secluded cultivation, the world situation had taken a drastic turn.

In short, first, there was an internal struggle in the Immortal Palace, the Great General was assassinated, the Eight Captains started a rebellion, burning the Ziwei Constellation. The eunuch fled with the Immortal Emperor, and the Three Constellations Gate Valve Immortal Army turned against each other, causing chaos. Meanwhile, the army under the Heavenly King Stone Dragon took advantage to cross the Gen River, sweeping the Central Plains, and officially upgrading from rebel army to Heavenly King Army.

Seeing the Immortal Palace on the brink of defeat, on the verge of being overthrown, a sudden turn of events occurred when an unknown individual stepped up to reverse the tide.

This individual's name is Zhang Xun, reportedly a member of Prince Li's faction. He was previously appointed as the Prefectural Governor of Suiyang, avoiding disaster by not being in the Capital, but due to being a Party Member, despite his excellent governance and renown, he was never fully utilized. One moment he was promoted to the Capital for his merits, the next demoted to a County Magistrate, causing him to oscillate between these positions despite being a respected senior figure.

It wasn't until the recent lifting of the Party Ban that he was finally recommended as the Imperial Censor. However, he hadn't served long before facing the Royal Army's defeat, leaving him to confront the rebel's river crossing. So this old fellow resigned from his illustrious post and went to Suiyang, a place he used to govern, to start a resistance.

The rebel army's momentum was initially overwhelming, with state mansion after state mansion surrendering in its wake. But upon reaching Suiyang, they were unexpectedly repelled by Zhang Xun and his two to three thousand rebel army. The repeated desperate attacks of the rebel army were indeed a spent force, yet Zhang Xun personally led the charge, defending valiantly for over sixty days through more than three hundred battles, astonishingly unable to be conquered.

This unexpectedly halted the juggernaut momentum of Shi Hu's million-strong army at the gates of Suiyang City, preventing them from advancing into the Jiang and Huai region, leaving them as a cornered beast in a quagmire. Meanwhile, Zhen and Xun nations regained composure, and local Guard military lords were repeatedly dispatching forces to surround and annihilate. If not for the Three Constellations infighting at the time, the world might indeed have seen a glimmer of salvation.

In short, the world was plunged into chaos and tension, resembling an amateur theatrical troupe, ahem, much like a chaotic multiplayer contest where anyone could seize an opportunity.

Of course, the Mystic Sect wouldn't miss such an opportunity. With the Stone Dragon rebel army stuck in the Central Plains and the weather growing colder, witnessing the shifting Demon Tide about to surge south, Mystic Sect Disciples were spreading out in the Hebei region, recruiting local warlords, mountain bandit armies, and imparting cultivation and military formation methods, building fortifications, assembling forces for the impending great war.

Similarly, Hidden Sword Manor was no exception. A group of the Shen Family's sons and daughters captured and detained by Tie Dan couldn't just eat for free. So, they again raised the flag of Hidden Sword Manor, recruiting Jianghu members, and training a rebel army.

In Ye Capital's surrounding Gate Valves and powerful lords, aware of Hidden Sword Manor's formidable Sword Array which killed thousands of soldiers at a time, occasionally raided the Dragon Palace for plunder, like a sharp sword lurking behind the Heavenly King.

Hence, these Gate Valve members did not dare neglect, without needing Sword Sect to prompt, they promptly delivered money, grain, and supplies to the manor and sent their sons and daughters one by one to become outer disciples, at least sowing a seed of inheritance.

In short, it was all mundane trivial matters, Tie Dan casually skimmed through knowing all that was necessary, too lazy to bother with more.

What monkey business, whatever, as humans are naturally a species inclined to mutual slaughter, as long as they don't drive themselves to extinction, they'll be fine.

Besides, what good is protecting them, ultimately, cultivation relies on oneself. If you rely on the care of parents and others holding you in their palms, is there anything you can accomplish other than die under someone else's sword?

Based on his own experience, Tie Dan believes that the harsher the world, the sharper the sword grinded and the more deadly tribulations overcome, the sharper the sword forged.

So evidently, Chen Xuantian's inability to fight was mainly due to not experiencing enough tribulations, simply observing others' experiences without personally engaging, without personally killing a few to feel how hot blood runs and how sharp a sword can be.

Therefore, it should involve fighting and killing from the initial selection of disciples, completely introducing trials of killing directly, granting True Inheritance only to those who survive till the end, which is the sword embryo of My Sword.

No matter if you are born of a Heavenly Dragon or raised by monkeys, as long as you tread this path of blood and blade to the end, you are bound to be the True Inheritor of the Sword Sect.

"Who does things like this!"

So when Tie Dan suggested to Master Tian Yao that the sword boys in the manor are too noisy and not like a school, proposing to organize a real sword competition with trials of killing, the other party immediately opposed.

"They are still just kids! They barely recognize a few words and can't even memorize meridian diagrams, and you want them to slash each other with real swords? That's absurd!"

Oh, Master Tianyao is one of the Eighteen Flying Stars Vice Star, as Tie Dan was recently in secluded cultivation, he was temporarily stationed at Hidden Sword Manor to oversee and guard the Shen Family swords.

This person appeared benevolent and sagely, with kind eyes, white hair, and a youthful face, resembling a True Cultivation from the outside world, though in reality, he is merely a small Xuan Sect member with three thunders.

Hmm, looking so old generally suggests less prowess, likely sustaining internal injuries in youth, damaging meridians and lifespan. Of course, it does not rule out that some might just be feigning weakness to trick others.

"Hmph, at their age, I was already wielding a knife, chasing horses, sneaking into the Domain Army camps.

We're all Northern people, essentially sons and daughters of this Divine Monarch or that Great General, why can't they manage it."

Tie Dan retorted coldly,

"Moreover, they now have the True Inheritance of the Sword Sect at their disposal and are taught Jianghu techniques by Shen Family members daily, while surrounded by the Sword Intent I arranged and the manor's Spiritual Qi for strengthening and detoxifying meridians. How can they waste this prime foundational time reading dead books?

Quickly selecting a batch, those lacking in destiny, bravery, unwilling to draw swords and see blood, are unworthy of walking the Sword Dao, all should be dismissed. We have no time or resources to spare on useless trash."

"You!"

Master Tian Yao, having heard of Tie Infernal Tie's eccentric temperament, knew how difficult he was to deal with, yet he did not expect him to be this callous.

But by this time, Tie Dan's Daoist prowess was formidable, his body radiating intense sword aura, piercingly sharp, with mere eye contact, sword light illuminated like dust, dazzling and aggressive.

Master Tian Yao dared not confront him and had to huff,

"Fine, fine, since you have emerged from seclusion, you call the shots in this manor!

But in real sword contests, there would undoubtedly be deaths and injuries. I'll first have them compete with unopened iron swords, gauge their capabilities before... "

Tie Dan dismissed with a wave,

"Do as you wish, but a win or loss is a win or loss, those who lose will all be expelled.

Those uninterested in winning the sword fighting, are unfit to inherit my sword."

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