From ancient times, names and tools, all in the cultivator’s palm. A gentleman is skilled at borrowing from things, but things are not their origin.

Cultivators can all nurture tools, and a strong person’s personal weapon can often grow with them, gaining considerable power.

For example, Jiang Wang’s sword, which first came out of the furnace in Nanyao City, initially showed the appearance of a famous tool. But as he has grown to where he is now, receiving the divine power’s light day and night, and experiencing countless battles large and small, it is no longer what it was.

At that time, Chang Xiang Si would probably break upon contact in the Shenlin War, but today’s Chang Xiang Si can withstand the divine power of the sword performing myriad laws, and Jiang Wang holds it to fight true demons!

The quality of the current Chang Xiang Si is far beyond the cheap materials that Lian Que initially collected. Its foundation is the will and spirit of the sword master condensed within the body day and night, the experiences shared with Jiang Wang bit by bit, and that constantly sublimating past.

But back to the point. If Jiang Wang loses Chang Xiang Si, he is still an absolute world prodigy, the Marquis of Great Qi. If Chang Xiang Si leaves Jiang Wang, its divine light will fade over time, gradually returning to an ordinary item. It would require other cultivators to re-nurture it before its sharpness could be seen again.

Is only Jiang Wang’s weapon like this?

Like that ‘Pudu’, in Huang Sheli’s hand and in Huang Fu’s hand, there is also a fundamental difference. Even a true monarch’s weapon, once it leaves the true monarch, will gradually be decayed by time. Because the way of the tool has already been shattered! How can Sa Po Long Staff be an exception?

Precisely because it belongs to a transcendent strong one, it is already a transcendent tool!

Above the absolute peak, it transcends all matters. All the rules of the world can no longer constrain it.

Only with such a great transcendent tool could the Sa Po Long Domain stand firm and unmoved for tens of thousands of years, never being broken. It is fundamentally not an ordinary world. To truly extinguish the Sa Po Long Domain, one must break the Sa Po Long Staff.

This one staff transforming into one domain, suppressing the terror of the maze for tens of thousands of years, truly makes people sigh. Jiang Wang suppressed the shock in his heart and asked, “How does this Tian Fo’s power compare to the World Honored One?”

Yu Liyang said, “The levels above the absolute peak are not something I can judge. But I think there is no essential gap between him and the World Honored One. The so-called ‘Tian Fo’ means having already walked to the end of the word ‘Fo’, and the position that the World Honored One can reach, he can also reach. He is called ‘equal to heaven’, hence numbered as Tian Fo. Moreover, when he became Tian Fo, the war between the Human Emperor and the Dragon Emperor had not yet begun.”

The unsaid meaning within this Peach Blossom Immortal’s words is that an existence recorded in the history of the human race as ‘Long Fo’ later continued to grow significantly… truly a terrifying strong one!

Jiang Wang asked again, “Why is Tian Fo’s weapon here? Why did it transform into the Long Domain?”

“Like a sword in its sheath, partly to slow down enemies, and partly to nurture the tool,” Yu Liyang, looking very much like a venerable elder who knows everything, said leisurely, “This time it has been forcibly drawn out, losing the first opportunity and wasting a thousand years… Let’s retreat a little.”

As he spoke, he waved his large sleeve, and the entire human race army and he himself all retreated thirty li. As he spoke, he was also included in this.

Fortunately, the ‘Ji You battlefield’ had long become a barren land, so there was no need to worry about blocking the line of sight. The Sa Po Long Staff on the other side of the boundary river was still extremely conspicuous, still firmly occupying people’s vision.

Jiang Wang gazed far at the riverbank and suddenly realized what was abrupt.

With this wave of Yu Liyang’s hand, all three armies retreated, leaving only Cao Ji and the other four true monarchs standing alone in front of the boundary river. Jiang Wang looked at Yu Liyang with questioning eyes.

“When the sky collapses, the tall ones bear it,” Yu Liyang said without turning his head. “Don’t be alarmed, I will stay here and protect all of you.” Jiang Wang: ……

Yu Liyang said that the Sa Po Long Staff transforming into the Sa Po Long Domain was for nurturing the tool, like a sword in its sheath. Then at this moment, the Sa Po Long Staff has been forced out… the sword is out of the sheath, it will naturally be stained with blood!

So Jiang Wang completely understood where Yu Liyang’s word ‘protect’ came from. It’s just that whether this Yu Shangqing was protecting himself, or protecting himself and others, needs to be discussed separately.

As he spoke, changes were happening.

Beside the huge void where the Sa Po Long Staff seemed eternally suspended, a hand appeared.

Five fingers spread, vertically grasping this staff.

When this hand completely fit the vertical patterns of the Long Staff, grasping this ancient tin staff, Head Dress Sacrificial Crown, Body Wear Sacrificial Robe, Xuan Shen Emperor Master Rui Chong, then appeared incomparably clearly in people’s vision.

Although Xuan Shen Emperor Master is a divine path strong one, she was after all once of the dragon kind. After Tai Yong’s body died and her dao vanished, she became the most suitable person to hold this staff. At this moment, with her hand grasping the tin staff, suspended in the void, she was like an ancient era’s dragon god saint female, walking out from the depths of time. For a time, she alone occupied heaven and earth, as if grasping the entire maze!

And behind her, Wu Yuan Emperor Master Zhan Shou, Chi Mei Emperor Master Xi Yang, Da Yu Emperor Master Zhong Xi, stood in a row.

Although Xi Yang had previously fled heavily injured, and Zhong Jia had even been almost beaten to death, absolute peak strong ones recover infinite power with a single breath. With this array buffer, their injuries were not healed, but they had recovered several points of fighting strength.

This time, all the stars arched the moon, manifesting infinite power.

Rui Chong opened her mouth low, her voice solemn, as if praying devoutly in some formal sacrificial ceremony: “Heaven’s ancient gods decline, long years embrace the short. A vague life, how thin it is!”

The hand that grasped the staff was twisted and broken by tree patterns, and fresh blood flowed through her fingers, winding around the staff body.

She raised the dragon staff high, her voice gradually rising, and then sorrowful like a dragon’s cry: “Later generations are unworthy, disturbing the ancestor’s tool. I pray with this staff, to kill the incoming enemy!” An ancient breath was spreading.

That colorful boundary river, capable of decomposing everything, also stopped flowing at this moment. The Ji You domain was trembling!

No, the entire ignorant and unknowingly accommodating countless battles’ maze, all fell into great terror!

An indescribable terror, making even Jiang Wang, separated by a boundary river, thirty li away from the riverbank, with five true monarchs still blocking in the middle, feel his dao yuan stagnate and his breathing difficult!

He is a Divine Clarity strong one, who has fought and killed who knows how many Shenlin, but at the moment Xuan Shen Emperor Master raised the Sa Po Long Staff high, not to mention resisting or facing it, even seeing it from afar became a dangerous thing!

He involuntarily sank his heart and calmed his spirit, connected his five mansions, grasped his long sword tightly with his powerful will, and fought against his instinctive fear. But facing such terrifying changes, Cao Ji and the other true monarchs, who were quietly standing in front of the riverbank, all had no intention of acting.

……And then in

They stood, some hunched, some strong, just like this, wide-eyed watching Xuan Shen Emperor Master raise the Sa Po Long Staff high, stirring the wind and clouds of the maze… The next moment, a sword light opened the heavens!

Not only in the void where the Sa Po Long Staff was located, not only at the boundary river, not only in the Ji You domain, but as if the entire maze had cracked. That seemed like a feeling, yet it seemed to become real.

In the instant this sword light appeared in his vision, Jiang Wang clearly felt that his divine power light and divine soul were also as if they had been split into two halves.

He felt as if he had already been dismembered, but also realized his own existence in that kind of pain. He involuntarily broke out in a cold sweat, but even the sweat drops divided and flowed! How fragile the golden body and jade marrow were, how tiny the Divine Clarity. What level of sword light, from what kind of sword?! It had no specific shape, but possessed specific sharpness.

It appeared with the posture of chopping open the maze, and towered above the high raised Sa Po Long Staff, about to chop it down! Bang! A slight explosion sounded.

Xuan Shen Emperor Master Rui Chong’s right hand grasping the staff exploded on the spot, twisted into countless existences too fine to be captured by the naked eye. No matter dao principles, dao regions, dao blood, or sacrificial robes, bones, yuan force, when shattered so thoroughly, they were actually all so close…

Relying on the immortal red heart sitting in the five mansions, witnessing all this with Qianyang Red Pupils, Jiang Wang suddenly understood what ‘one’ is. What is the concrete and micro within the source sea. The power of one sword actually reached this point!

The Sa Po Long Staff was falling, and Rui Chong circled her body in the air. Her strange flower-patterned sacrificial robe was like a blooming, gorgeous flower. With her intact hand, she caught the dragon staff again, just like this, tightly grasping the Sa Po Long Staff, and with the staff’s sharp, spear-like tail, she drew a line—this sound was like tearing cloth.

Accompanied by the sound of the heaven curtain being torn open, the boundary river spanning before everyone, located in the Ji You domain, suddenly expanded a thousand or a hundred times! That terrifying chaotic rules’ turbulent flow surged wildly in this moment with more terrifying waves, as if it were a heavenly river. And Rui Chong had already let go.

The Sa Po Long Staff continued to fall, instantly spreading open, filling that huge void, and the Sa Po Long Domain reappeared in this realm! But amidst the broken mountains and rivers, and surging floods, it was a scene of ruins.

“What happened to you?” Zhu Biqiong’s concerned voice allowed Jiang Wang to escape from the suffocating tension. He struggled to look back with difficulty,

seeing Zhu Biqiong horizontally blocking in front of him, seemingly obstructing something.

In a sorry state, he looked left and right, only to discover that not only Zhu Biqiong and Zhuo Qingru were light and airy, but even the soldiers with lower cultivation behind them were all standing firm and unmoved.

This was obviously Yu Liyang’s masterpiece!

He said he would protect everyone, and he truly protected them. Even a battle involving the Sa Po Long Staff, even separated by a boundary river, and even with distance, was not something to be idly watched.

But his suspicion of Jiang Wang was also true… he protected everyone, except for a certain person surnamed Jiang.

“Nothing, no need to worry,” Jiang Wang replied to Zhu Biqiong, stepped forward a step to the side, just about to question Yu Liyang. “Do you know where this sword came from?” Yu Liyang suddenly asked. His attention was immediately diverted: “Where?”

“Cang Wu Realm,” Yu Liyang looked at the vast and incomparable boundary river, and said without turning his head. “Cang Wu Realm?” Jiang Wang vaguely thought of something.

“That is the Dao Gate’s third Venerable, Peng Lai Dao Master’s accompanying sword, ‘Zhao Cang Wu’, that is its name,” Yu Liyang explained patiently. Jiang Wang was stunned for a moment: “《Zhao Cang Wu》? This sword and that book… what is the relationship?” Yu Liyang obviously knew which book Jiang Wang was talking about, and only said: “It’s not clear.” ‘Not clear’ coming from the Peach Blossom Immortal’s mouth evidently proves the chaos of this matter.

“About the world-famous cultivation classic you mentioned, there are many sayings,” Zhuo Qingru said very rigorously from the side. “Some say it is Peng Lai Dao Master’s notes, some say it was made by a certain absolute peak cultivator under the name of Peng Lai Dao Master. Some say it is the cultivation knowledge edited by Peng Lai disciples combining forces, collected into a book, facing ‘Cang Wu’. There are also sayings that it is just some scattered people who compiled common cultivation knowledge, and the name just coincidentally happened to be similar.”

Jiang Wang asked, “The character ‘Zhao’ in this classic 《Zhao Cang Wu》, is it the Zhao of morning sun, or the Zhao of paying homage?” Zhuo Qingru thought for a moment: “I dare not conclude, still ask True Monarch Yu.”

Yu Liyang casually said, “The Zhao Cang Wu sword, of course, is the Zhao of morning sun. But regarding the Zhao Cang Wu classic, there is no conclusion, it can be called whatever you like. Many people, to distinguish it from Peng Lai Dao Master’s accompanying sword, will insist on calling it the Zhao of paying homage.”

Jiang Wang seemed lost in thought: “So this confrontation that has sustained the maze for tens of thousands of years is the confrontation between the Zhao Cang Wu sword and the Sa Po Long Staff, which is also the confrontation between Peng Lai Dao Master and Tian Fo?”

“You can understand it that way,” Yu Liyang said. “This is a game between Peng Lai Dao Master and Tian Fo that has lasted for tens of thousands of years. While playing chess, the two transcendent ones have also used the tens of thousands of years of war between the two races in the maze to nurture this transcendent tool.”

“Just now…”

Just now, in this encounter between the Zhao Cang Wu sword and the Sa Po Long Staff, Jiang Wang did not understand, only knowing that the Zhao Cang Wu sword seemed to have the advantage, but he did not know the result, nor did he see the affected location.

Could it only defeat Xuan Shen Emperor Master Rui Chong by one arm?

Yu Liyang said, “There are two things you need to know. First, just now the Zhao Cang Wu sword was not unsheathed, it only sent out sword qi, but the Sa Po Long Staff was shaken to its foundation. Second, the Sa Po Long Staff was just now controlled by Rui Chong, and the one urging the Zhao Cang Wu sword was a Peng Lai Island cultivator, Meng Yu.”

Meng Yu is also a considerable strong one, a contemporary true person, but compared to Xuan Shen Emperor Master, she is obviously not enough. The dao-created qi suppressing the fundamental shaking Sa Po Long Staff clearly embodies the gap in this war. The Zhao Cang Wu sword suppressing the fundamental shaking Sa Po Long Staff with one sword qi clearly shows the region

Rui Chong originally wanted to kill the enemy with the Sa Po Long Staff, but in the end, she only roughly expanded the boundary river and still returned to the Sa Po Long Domain. This loss was extremely great. Yu Liyang added: “And the Zhao Cang Wu sword is not stronger than the Sa Po Long Staff, or rather, there is at least no such gap.” So this is the fruit of victory that the human race seized in this war! Jiang Wang vaguely understood something.

The ultimate victory in this war still fell to the nine characters that Yu Liyang said at the beginning, ‘both lost the first opportunity, and wasted a thousand years’. What first opportunity was lost?

It was the first opportunity in the game between Tian Fo and Peng Lai Dao Master that had lasted for tens of thousands of years! The Sa Po Long Staff was shaken to its foundation, while the Zhao Cang Wu sword still hid its edge in its sheath. What was wasted for a thousand years?

It was the thousand years of accumulation that the Sa Po Long Staff nurtured in the maze!

The great victory fruit of this war came from helping Peng Lai Dao Master gain an advantage in the transcendent game! Looking at it this way, what was ultimately overturned at Long Chan Ridge in Yue Jie last time was not a Tian Fo Temple at all! It was clearly the sea race’s ‘race fortune’ of over a hundred years!

“Then…” Jiang Wang hesitated to ask, “Peng Lai Dao Master and Tian Fo… are they, still there?”

Yu Liyang’s palm was flat upwards, his large sleeves fluttered, as if he wanted to catch something. He said with some emotion, “I haven’t jumped outside this game, how can I say it clearly?”

Transcendent ones are beyond measurement in terms of life and death, even the stunning Peach Blossom Immortal can only say with emotion that it is not clear. Truly an unimaginable realm! Whether it is Peng Lai Dao Master or Tian Fo, both have not appeared for a very, very long time. Most of their great traces have also been covered by the dust of time. But at least here in the maze, their game is still continuing, and their weapons are still confronting each other. The remaining momentum of one game is still influencing the pattern of the entire world.

Jiang Wang thought more, and deliberately asked, “So the East Sea Dragon Palace and Tianjing Country…”

Yu Liyang did not shy away from Jiang Wang’s many doubts, because he now had the qualification to know these, the qualification to explore the truth of the world. And these words would not be heard by those who were not qualified to hear them.

“Those are more important places,” Yu Liyang said. Jiang Wang had already somewhat guessed: “Dragon Emperor and Human Emperor?”

Yu Liyang gazed at the broken dragon domain on the opposite shore and sighed, “The former is the palace of the Dragon Emperor, the latter is the ideal country of Human Emperor Lie Shanshi.”