The vast Beidou Minor Immortal Realm.
Western Continent.
A newly established large sect.
Named 'Feathered Immortal Sect'!
A few years ago, the patriarchs of the five great sacred lands had planned for a long time to ascend to the Immortal Realm. However, after crossing the Heavenly Gate, they found themselves in the legendary Beidou Minor Immortal Realm, and they could never return to the mortal world.
First, they were shocked and angry as to why they had not ascended to the Immortal Realm.
After some time, they finally accepted this matter.
To avoid the growth of inner demons, they began to establish sects, preparing to leave behind their lineage and sects in this world.
Yao Zixuan was currently a true disciple of the Feathered Immortal Sect, but her cultivation was still only at the Golden Core stage.
The Feathered Immortal Sect was built on the place where they ascended, and it was extremely far from the Central Continent.
This trip to the Central Continent was to purchase some resources with the Grand Elder, and also to broaden her horizons.
She never expected Chen Jiuyang to appear in the Minor Immortal Realm.
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The Path of the Human King.
This is an ancient path for martial artists to advance from the Venerable Realm to the Emperor Realm. This path is fraught with danger, and only the martial arts prodigies of the current era can embark on this ancient path.
The Minor Immortal Realm still has too many immortal cultivators. Although the human race has multiplied in this world for many years, they have not fully explored it.
After Grand Ancestor 'Sleepless' learned information about the Path of the Human King, he told Chen Jiuyang and then disappeared.
Chen Jiuyang, carrying the Yan Sheng Saber, embarked on his journey alone.
In the vast world, towering mountains pierced the sky everywhere, and the rushing rivers were both beautiful and terrifying.
The night sky was brilliant, and mortals could not even walk out of a mountain range in their lifetime.
The power within a city was terrifying.
The Path of the Human King was in the Central Continent.
In the wilderness at night, many Primordial Remnants roamed, their bodies huge, like the demon races Chen Jiuyang had seen in the dream world of Meteor Immortal Cliff.
In this world, they were called Primordial Remnants.
As Chen Jiuyang moved towards the Path of the Human King, he also honed his martial arts again, walking out of 'Faith'.
He used the Yan Sheng Saber simply because the Yan Sheng Saber could devour life essence and bring him many benefits.
He also created many moves and several divine abilities through the Yan Sheng Saber.
He understood saber intent and could also perform saber dances, but the Shattered Prison Saber Intent was obtained from Jixia Academy, not something he comprehended.
He only believed in the Yan Sheng Saber, not the saber path.
Perhaps, he should comprehend the rules of the saber path?
"Boom!!!"
A Primordial Remnant, sixty to seventy meters tall, was killed by Chen Jiuyang with his saber, its huge body falling to the ground.
Chen Jiuyang slowly ascended into the air, surveying his surroundings.
Under the night sky.
Where humans lived, there were thin layers of formation light membranes illuminated.
"The saber is merely a weapon for combat."
"How should the rules of the saber path be comprehended?"
"My understanding of the saber path has not yet reached its true essence. Shikai."
Another ape-shaped Primordial Remnant, still carrying the scent of blood, attacked Chen Jiuyang.
Chen Jiuyang's size was not even as big as a finger of this Primordial Remnant.
But within Chen Jiuyang's body, there was terrifying power.
Since comprehending the Yuan Dao, Chen Jiuyang had often used saber auras or related moves, rarely using the saber for shallow strikes.
"Boom!!!"
The wind exploded, and gusts of wind swept through.
The ape-shaped Primordial Remnant swung a fist towards Chen Jiuyang, as if it were as simple as crushing an insect.
"Chii—"
Chen Jiuyang held the Yan Sheng Saber, not adding any true qi to enhance his power, but facing the attack with pure physical strength.
With one saber strike, he met the fist of the ape-shaped Primordial Remnant.
"Huala."
Several fingers of this ape-shaped Primordial Remnant were immediately severed by Chen Jiuyang, blood gushing out and soaking the ground.
This made the ape-shaped Primordial Remnant both pained and enraged, attacking Chen Jiuyang like a madman.
Chen Jiuyang met the attacks, continuing to improve his combat techniques.
To engrave the use of the saber into his instincts.
To pursue the original essence of the saber path.
After half an hour of fighting, this ape-shaped Primordial Remnant was covered in saber wounds and died from excessive bleeding.
Chen Jiuyang walked and killed, rested when tired, drank stream water, ate wild fruits, and picked some spiritual herbs, like a warrior in the tribal era.
The corpses of Primordial Remnants were quite valuable. The meat could be eaten, the hides were good for making clothes, the bones could be used as weapons, and the essence blood could be used to feed spirit pets.
However, every time Chen Jiuyang killed a Primordial Remnant, he would continue on his way, not caring at all.
Thus, the nearby humans reaped the benefits. When they found the corpses of over a hundred Primordial Remnants along the way, it attracted the attention of some people nearby.
"A martial arts great expert."
"When did such a martial arts great expert with such formidable physical combat power appear in our remote and desolate small place?"
"Judging by his bone age, he is not old, and he looks unfamiliar. The combat style he uses is also not from our vicinity."
"Then why did he come to this area?"
"Yes, there are no ruins or treasures in our vicinity that yield good things."
An elder said, "Have you forgotten? The direction he is heading is towards the first ancient city on the Path of the Human King."
"Hiss!!!"
"Could he be a prodigy participating in the Path of the Human King!"
"By following this prodigy, we have reaped many benefits, which can provide more food for the children in the town, and the surplus can be sold."
Chen Jiuyang was immersed in saber combat, his mind focused on nothing else, oblivious to external matters.
He was contemplating that he needed at least one decisive saber technique, or to create a peerless saber technique himself.
The Yan Sheng Saber and the Yan Sheng Method. The Yan Sheng Method is not a saber technique.
He had used the saber for so many years, yet he had never learned any saber techniques.
A ten-thousand-zhang tall building rises from the ground. Without saber techniques, how could he reach the heights, return to simplicity, ponder and understand the original essence of the saber path, and touch the origin and laws of the saber?
Why had he never considered such a simple truth before? Was it karma or obsession that blinded his expanding thoughts?
After a moment of realization, Chen Jiuyang cleaned the bloodstains from his body and placed the Yan Sheng Saber into its sheath to nurture it.
Then, he transformed into a stream of light and galloped rapidly towards the direction of the first ancient city on the Path of the Human King.
The Path of the Human King had a total of thirteen checkpoint ancient cities.
Each checkpoint ancient city was a trial method set up by past Human Emperors.
Some prodigies, geniuses, monstrous talents, and evildoers with extraordinary bearing, who disdained the immortal path since childhood, would choose the martial path.
Top martial arts prodigies, regardless of whether they had confidence in advancing to the Emperor Realm, would come to the Path of the Human King to try.
Here, prodigies gathered, and great experts were as numerous as clouds.
For countless years, geniuses from all over the Minor Immortal Realm had come to the Path of the Human King in the Central Continent, thus giving rise to a group of merchants who did business here.
There were even supreme aristocratic families and sects that came here to recruit disciples.
What if, by chance, they encountered a wild prodigy, monstrous talent, or evildoer with good aptitude and took them into their sect or family, wouldn't that be a huge profit?
The qualification requirements to embark on the Path of the Human King were extremely stringent: prodigies who entered the Venerable Realm before the age of fifty were eligible.