"H-He’s dead?"
"Alu Tian is actually dead?"
"Did Lord Sword Venerable really just slay the Kun-eating Race’s Emperor Realm expert?"
"HAHAHAHA, the Human Race of the Kun Realm is saved...!"
Below Celestial Blood Peak.
Countless humans let out earth-shattering roars and cheers, and one expert after another wept with joy.
How many years had it been!
The Human Race and the Kun-eating Race had been locked in a bloody struggle within the Kun Realm, hating each other with a vengeance, each wishing to annihilate the other. The racial war that had lasted for millions of years had finally, today...
...ended!
And the one who brought it all to an end was not a legendary Demigod, nor a lofty Emperor Realm master.
It was just a young man at the Seventh Stage of the Human Emperor Realm.
In the Kun Realm, people called him—the Sword Venerable!
Jiang Chen stood suspended in the air, bathed in a brilliant golden light, like an invincible War God. With a sweep of the longsword in his hand, he pointed at the dense army of the Kun-eating Race and commanded, "Slaughter them!"
"Kill!"
"After today, the Kun Realm will belong to the Human Race!"
The Blood Jade City Lord took the lead, charging out with a host of experts who were already prepared.
This battle...
...was fought until the sky and earth went dark. It destroyed a full eight million li of land, turning it into a mountain of corpses and a Sea of Blood. The entire landscape was dyed crimson, and this flattened, blood-red battlefield would later be known by posterity as—the Sword Venerable Plains!
It was as famous as Celestial Blood Peak, which had been split in two and whose supreme Sword Intent would linger for hundreds of years!
It was etched into the hearts of the entire Human Race of the Kun Realm!
「Time flew.」
In the blink of an eye, three months had passed. Cities, towns, and villages were built all across the Kun Realm. Now, without the threat of the Kun-eating Race, the Human Race in the Kun Realm flourished.
After the Kun-eating Race was annihilated and Jiang Chen took control of the one hundred and eight altars, he returned to a quiet room in Blood Jade City to enter seclusion.
These one hundred and eight altars had been passed down through the generations of the Kun-eating Race. Even if a tribe was replaced, as long as the altars existed, the Kun-eating Race would eventually regroup into a new tribe!
He spent a full three months studying them.
Jiang Chen discovered a horrifying fact from the altars. They were actually a massive seal, and the reason the Kun Realm had no Spirit Crystals or Spirit Medicine was because of this seal formed by the one hundred and eight altars. Fortunately, now that Jiang Chen had slain Alu Tian and helped the Human Race of the Kun Realm exterminate the Kun-eating Race, the one hundred and eight altars, no longer powered by the Kun-eating Race, began to lose their sealing power.
Spirit Veins were continuously being discovered throughout the Kun Realm, and the various experts began to mine Spirit Crystals!
They searched for Spirit Medicine.
Many Demon Beasts also began to appear across the lands of the Kun Realm.
All of this allowed the Kun Realm to gradually develop in a positive direction.
In the blink of an eye, the one-year period was up.
「On this day...」
Jiang Chen summoned the Blood Jade City Lord and the others to bid them farewell. "Everyone, I am originally an outsider. Now that my mission is complete, it is time for me to leave. If I have the chance in the future, I will return!"
"Lord Sword Venerable, what is the outside world like?"
"I knew it was impossible for our Kun Realm to produce a peerless prodigy like Lord Sword Venerable. Looks like I wasn’t wrong!"
"Hindsight is 20/20!"
Everyone chimed in.
The Blood Jade City Lord shot them a helpless glance before turning his gaze back to Jiang Chen and smiling. "Lord Sword Venerable, before you depart, we have a gift for you!"
"Oh?"
Jiang Chen was taken aback.
Led by the Blood Jade City Lord, he flew to the location of Celestial Blood Peak. There, carved into the face of the ten-thousand-zhang-tall cliff, was a colossal statue.
The statue was ten thousand zhang tall.
Its long hair flowed, its black robes fluttered, and it held a Demon Sword Spirit Slayer in its hand, appearing like both a god and a demon!
Its deep, star-like eyes were incredibly lifelike, projecting a sharp glint that made it difficult for anyone to meet its gaze!
Jiang Chen’s heart trembled slightly.
’It’s a statue of me!’
"Lord Sword Venerable, if you have the chance in the future, you must visit our Kun Realm again!"
"Lord Sword Venerable, take care on your journey!"
Under the reluctant gazes of the crowd, Jiang Chen took the one hundred and eight altars and soared into the sky. He flew above Celestial Blood Peak and looked down at the majestic statue. His Spirit-Slaying Sword danced in the air, unleashing dazzling streams of Sword Qi that carved a single, flamboyant word on the other face of Celestial Blood Peak: "Sword"!
"I will leave a Sword Intent Seed here. If someone can one day comprehend its essence, I will be able to sense it, and that person will become my, Jiang Chen’s, Direct Disciple! I hope my legacy finds someone with a predestined connection..." Jiang Chen took a deep breath and then shot straight into the clouds.
He flew to the edge of the sky, where a massive spatial passage appeared. With a flash, Jiang Chen entered it.
He vanished from the world of the Kun Realm.
However, what he didn’t know was...
...this Sword Intent Seed he had casually left behind would, in the near future, create a peerless Sword Emperor for the Kun Realm, and even for the entire Qiankun Continent!
Of course...
...all of that is a story for another time.
「At this moment.」
Jiang Chen had passed through the spatial passage, left the Kun Realm, and returned to that dark space.
The majestic figure stood with his hands behind his back, smiling at him. His deep, star-like eyes seemed to see right through Jiang Chen as he said with a smile, "It seems your trip to the Kun Realm has been quite fruitful!"
"I had a small breakthrough!"
Jiang Chen smiled and presented the one hundred and eight altars. "Senior, here is what you asked for!"
"Mm-hmm."
The majestic figure nodded. With a beckoning of his hand, the one hundred and eight altars flew toward him, shrinking continuously until they disappeared directly into his mouth, causing Jiang Chen’s eyebrows to twitch involuntarily.
’Those altars are each several kilometers long and wide, yet he swallowed them in a single gulp!’
’Truly unimaginable!’
The majestic figure looked at Jiang Chen with a smile. "I know you have many questions. I will first take you to the location of the Mystic Sect and explain on the way."
"Yes!"
Jiang Chen followed closely behind him.
Wherever the majestic figure walked, space itself yielded, creating a huge spatial passage that left Jiang Chen marveling in amazement. The majestic figure’s calm voice echoed within the passage: "These one hundred and eight altars are indeed a seal. The reason I left it in the Kun Realm was to suppress the Kun-eating Race. The Kun-eating Race are a swarm of locust-like beings. If the Kun Realm had Spirit Crystals and Spirit Medicine, they would reproduce endlessly. At that point, even I would not be able to bear it!"
"You wouldn’t be able to bear it, Senior? Could the Kun-eating Race actually harm you?" Jiang Chen asked, confused.
"In truth... the Kun-eating Race are merely some parasites inside my body."
The majestic figure spoke calmly, but his words struck Jiang Chen like a bolt from the blue!
’Parasites?’
’Inside his body?’
How could he not know what parasites were!
They were like the roundworms in a human’s body or the horsehair worms in a mantis—all parasites. They lived inside other creatures, devouring the host’s flesh, blood, and essence.
’But the Kun-eating Race clearly lives in the Kun Realm!’
’Could it be...’
Jiang Chen’s eyes widened as he stared at the majestic figure in utter disbelief...