Chapter 1344: Chapter 1342: The Mist of Historical Mystery (Updating for ’How Much Grief, How Much Madness’, 2/3)
In the seventy-thousandth year after the Sword Emperor’s disappearance,
another world-shaking event occurred, its impact was even comparable to the birth of the Sword Emperor. Because this time, the Supreme Life and Death Path, which had been hidden in the world, suddenly erupted.
The interwoven light of black and white filled the sky, as if it instantly turned the East Victory realm into two separate worlds of life and death, yin and yang, with the heavens and earth polarized.
The power to destroy the starry sky burst forth in the endless void, continuing for three days and nights until everything returned to calm. Later, some people recalled that in the firmament above, they saw a figure that seemed both concealed and visible.
"The Lord of Life and Death, an existence not inferior to the Sword Emperor!"
"Controlling the Life and Death Path, isn’t that equivalent to controlling the life and death of all beings in the East Victory realm? Who exactly is that person, a god or a devil?"
Fear and panic spread, no one wanted to be a pawn in the hands of others, with life and death not of their own volition. Fortunately, after one year, two years, when everything seemed normal again, people slowly settled down.
Indeed, with the Supreme power of the Lord of Life and Death, why would he be interested in them, mere ants.
While East Victory returned to peace, a few extremely secretive powers began to doubt the identity of the Lord of Life and Death.
"From the beginning of the Holy Monarch to the present thirty-three thousand years, only two or three people have grasped the martial path of life and death. Could it be one of them?"
"I have seen in unearthed ancient texts that the grand estate master of the past seemed to have comprehended the martial path of life and death."
"Him? Impossible, that is an ancient person from seventeen thousand years ago, afraid even their bones have turned to ash."
From the great changes in the rules of heaven and earth, the East Victory world had experienced several instances of spiritual energy exhaustion. Coupled with chaotic times, martial arts almost faced extinction. After a great rebirth, development had led to the present, where the Heaven Realm Martial Emperor represented the ultimate martial artist in the world.
Regarding events of the past, not to mention seventeen thousand years ago, even something from three thousand years back could only be found in the occasional unearthed texts, everything else had become misty history.
Of course, there were a few who had not been erased by history, still shining in the expanse of martial arts.
Like the grand estate master.
The people of today’s world hardly knew the real name of the grand estate master.
All they knew was that he was a highly mysterious, unprecedented and unique figure who once resolved a major catastrophe in the ancient East Victory world with his own strength, dominating several eras!
The one known as the first martial sanctuary of the East Victory world, Nine Heavens Mountain, which has been preserved to this day, its founding patriarch was this very grand estate master!
According to some unearthed texts, the grand estate master wielded the Chaos Swordsmanship, some say it was the Wind Thunder Swordsmanship, others claimed it was the Path of Life and Death... The most far-fetched claim was that the grand estate master had mastered various martial paths!
The people of today unanimously agree that these texts are compilations from the information collected by people tens of thousands of years ago, and the true facts can only be known to the ancients of seventeen thousand years ago.
But regardless, the Lord of Life and Death could not possibly be the grand estate master.
Time continued to pass, indifferent to human will.
In the meantime, the world of East Victory underwent a surge in spiritual energy, leading to unprecedented development in martial arts. Two thousand years later, the first Supreme Lord appeared, whose surname was Tang and came from a long-lost sect called Wudang Mountain.
He proclaimed himself the True Martial Supreme. (Chapter 882)
In the era when the True Martial Supreme lived, the world was turbulent, and geniuses emerged in great numbers. During this period, several peerless masters challenged him. Unfortunately, after several life and death battles, these all ended with the True Martial Supreme as the victor.
Everyone was shocked at the might of the True Martial Supreme, to the point that eventually no one was deemed worthy to challenge him. Wudang Mountain became the number one sect of that period.
Many said that the True Martial Supreme was unmatched, his prowess was such that he could be compared with the strongest figures in history.
There were even some who believed that ancient figures like the Holy Monarch, the grand estate master, and the Carefree Sword Venerable were merely hyped by the ancients, and their true strength may well be not as great as the True Martial Supreme.
About this, the True Martial Supreme just sneered mockingly, saying little.
One day, the True Martial Supreme suddenly walked into a range of rolling mountains and climbed one of the peaks, where all that was left was ruins and remnants seeming to indicate that buildings once stood there long ago.
"Master, why have you come to Nine Heavens Mountain?"
The personal disciple of the True Martial Supreme asked.
The location of Nine Heavens Mountain was not a secret, even many people had visited it. However, this legendary martial sanctuary seemed far from living up to its reputation.
True Martial Supreme said, "Nine Heavens Mountain? Who told you this is Nine Heavens Mountain?"
The disciple was taken aback.
But the True Martial Supreme had already walked ahead, touching some broken stones and looking at the overturned dirt, lingering for a long time, muttering, "Grand estate master, Carefree Sword Venerable, Bear Pure Sword Lord, Divine Dragon Sword Lord... do all of you no longer exist?"
"How prosperous the Nine Heavens Mountain of yesteryear was, even the weakest supreme beings were tenfold, a hundredfold stronger than me! If it were the grand estate master, I’m afraid I wouldn’t even be able to take a finger strike from him. It’s truly a pity I was not born in that era, unable to witness the heroism of the world’s warriors at that time."
The True Martial Supreme expressed his dejected feelings.
He was originally an ordinary person, but through a stroke of fortune, he entered the True Martial Formation and inherited the legacy of the Wudang Mountain from nineteen thousand years ago, revealing many earth-shaking secrets of that time.
Later, the True Martial Supreme encountered a diviner who astonishingly claimed that he was one of the twelve decreed by fate. The True Martial Supreme neither confirmed nor denied this, but he could not deny that it was with the diviner’s support that he was able to rule the world.
