29: Mountains and rivers imprinted, a floating world of verdant mountains, an island in the clouds.

Xiao Ruolong led the civil and military officials and an army of 2.5 million to array themselves on Xuanwu Mountain!

This mountain was where the Grand Ancestor of Great Xuan began his reign and performed the Fengshan Sacrifice!

Now, as a descendant, Xiao Ruolong wished to emulate his ancestor, perform the Fengshan Sacrifice again, and forge a new path.

After a series of prayers, praising the high virtues of his ancestors and his own achievements, he asked heaven and earth to remember them, guided the army to form a grand martial array, gathered the strength of a million soldiers, and had the civil and military officials chant the imperial might.

Historians opened ancient tomes, singing the praises of past sages.

People across the land felt the prosperity of the Dynasty, taking pride in it, and lit up ten thousand household lamps in worship.

Xiao Ruolong combined and integrated all the experiences of Maitreya Buddha Saint, Daoxuan, Heavenly Demon Ancestor, and even Gu God.

He bowed to heaven, worshipped the earth, and offered sacrifices to the natural world.

A majestic heavenly might descended with overwhelming pressure!

This time, people truly realized that in this world, in this heaven and earth, there were unknown existences!

Were they gods of heaven and earth? Was it Tathagata? Was it Dao? The Heavenly Dao?

A grand sacrifice caused the heavens to cast down their gaze!

heaven and earth origin qi!

It reappeared!

That origin qi, seemingly imbued with the great power of heaven and earth, was like a reward from heaven and earth for those with great merit, or perhaps a bestowal upon those who surpassed their limits and dared to break through the Heaven-Human Realm!

It was what the essence of life most yearned for.

Or perhaps it was a symbol of the authority of heaven and earth!

Martial God? Perhaps!

Xiao Ruolong, the protagonist of this grand sacrifice, clearly perceived that he was insufficient to contain the heaven and earth origin qi!

He lacked the power to bear this heaven and earth origin qi!

The Heaven-Human Realm, or even breaking through the Heaven-Human Realm, was not strong enough; it was still a little lacking.

But that slight difference was like the difference between heaven and earth!

Xiao Ruolong tried to draw a trace of it into his body, but the heaven and earth origin qi could not be separated by him.

Helplessly, he resorted to plan B: he brought out the Imperial Seal!

The Imperial Seal, with ten thousand years of history!

It was a symbol of Fortune, an embodiment of power!

The glorious origin qi merged into the Imperial Seal!

In an instant, it was as if granted by heavenly authority, and imperial power bestowed by the divine!

A forbidden artifact! A forbidden artifact even more powerful than the Heavenly Mystery Compass!

Crack!

Three cracks appeared on the Imperial Seal!

As if representing the still-incomplete continent, with three other nations!

Incomplete!

This forbidden artifact was still incomplete!

However, Xiao Ruolong did not die!

No one died in this grand sacrifice!

It could be foreseen that after this, attempts at grand refinement of forbidden artifacts would begin!

Forbidden artifacts that surpassed and crushed the Heaven-Human Realm would be the ultimate weapons for various powers, equivalent to nuclear weapons!

And forbidden zones would be equivalent to nuclear radiation zones!

Immovable nuclear blast centers!

The Imperial Seal was renamed the Mountain River Seal.

It could condense Fortune, gather the power of mountains and rivers, and the will of the myriad people. Mobilizing its power and will, it could suppress everything and all disloyal individuals!

It consumed the holder's energy to mark those within the Great Xuan Dynasty's borders who did not respect imperial authority!

The heavy artifact of the imperial path must not be moved rashly. If Fortune is unstable, the people will suffer greatly!

The Martial Saints observed it multiple times, and this time it was even a damage-free artifact sacrifice. Their minds became active, and some were tempted.

Even those Martial Saints who had not yet reached the peak of the Heaven-Human Realm felt an itch to try.

Therefore, most of the Martial Saints who had gathered this time did not leave.

The Heaven-Humans temporarily resided in Cangshan Academy, deciding to discuss the Dao and give it a try.

You, calling yourself Wuji, from Divine Sword Manor, introduced yourself and joined in.

You originally wanted to be a low-key Martial Saint, but who knew your name was already thunderous among the Martial Saints.

Calling yourself Wuji, perhaps no one knew who you were, but calling yourself the Master of Divine Sword Manor, then many more people knew you.

The reason was that many powerful sword cultivators in the pugilistic world called themselves disciples of Divine Sword Manor, and even several Sword Saints present highly praised the sword scriptures of Divine Sword Manor.

The famous Rainbow Cat hero of the Great Xuan Dynasty once led the seven heroes, forming the seven heroes Sword Array, and contended with a Martial Saint for a moment.

Rainbow Cat often used the 'Heaven and Earth Share Life' technique, striking fear into the hearts of evil cultivators and earning the admiration of righteous cultivators.

You repeatedly waved your hands, humbly returning the greeting, secretly thinking with shame, 'It's all free-range, all free-range, I haven't taught a single move.'

Still, this name is awesome!

The seven heroes Sword was indeed named well.

You decided that after this event, you would summon these sword cultivators who had made a name for themselves and personally train them.

This would also fulfill the master-disciple relationship.

Otherwise, it would be somewhat undeserved.

A Fist Saint, a Heaven-Human Realm Two-Aperture Martial Saint, fully prepared, brought out his brass knuckles, led his disciples, offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, attempting to summon heaven and earth origin qi.

As a result, he didn't summon anything.

Failure!

A One-Aperture Sword Saint, a Three-Aperture incomplete Saber Saint, a Zither Saint, an Axe Saint, a Staff Saint...

Without exception, no one succeeded!

Numerous cases proved one point: those in the Heaven-Human Realm who had not yet achieved unity could not try!

Those whose martial path was not fully traversed could not try!

Those without the power to transcend limits could not try!

Finally, Old Man Cangshan refined his own Cang Mountain Scroll, validating his own Dao, encompassing all the colors of heaven and earth!

Another incomplete forbidden zone reappeared: the Cang Mountain Floating World Scroll!

Encompassing all the splendor under heaven!

It was refined into a semi-grotto-heaven forbidden artifact.

The Cang Mountain Floating World could be entered like a painting! Forming its own heaven and earth within.

Unfortunately, it was incomplete and could not house living people for long.

Old Man Cangshan's insights deepened. After all, he was a ruthless individual who had previously attempted to achieve Heaven-Human unity and forge a new path.

Old Man Cangshan felt that above the Heaven-Human Realm, perhaps a higher level of domain was needed, a domain beyond the Martial Saint level!

Or perhaps the martial will and one's Soul needed to break through limits, integrating all personal power, merging with heaven and earth origin qi, or being merged by heaven and earth origin qi!

Two meanings: one is to transform heaven and earth origin qi into a part of oneself!

The other is to preserve one's own consciousness, become a part of heaven and earth origin qi, and then reshape the body with heaven and earth origin qi!

To reach a Xuanwu like gods or demons!

Old Man Cangshan predicted that the new martial arts realm would be even more powerful than the Heaven-Human Realm.

Just as ordinary mortals looked up to Martial Saints, Martial Saints would also have to look up to this new peak!

One wave had not settled when another rose!

News came from the overseas islands that Jie Tian Cult Master intended to lead the Calamity Heaven Cult in a grand sacrifice to the world, to establish an island in the sky, and found a sky nation!

He wished for the entire nation to ascend to immortality! To share longevity with heaven and earth!

The Calamity Heaven Cult's steps were too big, too crazy!

After some understanding, it was learned that Jie Tian Cult Master had been dealt a blow by an old Daoist from the Myriad Laws Dynasty.

He admitted the orthodox status of the Dao Court; there was no way not to admit it.

So he wanted to overtake them by a different route, creating the Sixth Nation of Great Xuan!

Establishing a Heavenly Immortal Court! Becoming the orthodox of the Immortal Court, then no one would dare not admit it.

Jie Tian Cult Master investigated many forbidden zones on the Xuanwu continent, such as the Blood Demon Forbidden Zone, the Maitreya Forbidden Zone, and the Gu God Forbidden Zone, and also observed Xiao Ruolong's grand sacrifice to the world.

He felt he had complete confidence.

He wanted to refine the island at sea into an island in the sky!

Then ascend the throne as emperor, gain Fortune, and gain a forbidden artifact.

The forbidden zone of the Sky Island and the forbidden artifact of the Imperial Seal of Fortune.

Two in one.

Using the treasure of the forbidden artifact, merging his body with the artifact, crossing and breaking through barriers, becoming the first in the world to open the path forward.

The next realm, Jie Tian Cult Master called it Divine Forbidden! He called it Martial Venerable! He would be the first Martial Treasure Heavenly Venerable!

Ingesting the artifact with his body, refining the artifact with his body, becoming the artifact with his body!

Jie Tian Cult Master had already thought out the three-stage cultivation method!

He had complete confidence!

The Saints tried to dissuade him, but he took it as them not understanding his good intentions.

Jie Tian Cult Master felt that the brutes of the Xuanwu continent looked down on him, and that they were jealous of him.

He ignored their dissuasion and began the sacrifice to heaven, to the island, to his body, to artifacts, and to people.

And so, he died!

He died very quickly!

However, the Cloud Forbidden Zone was formed, and it became hidden in the sky, becoming a unique, higher-level place of inheritance compared to the secret realms opened by ordinary Martial Saints.

The Cloud Forbidden Zone was not as dangerous as other forbidden zones.

It wandered between heaven and earth, randomly capturing martial artists for trials to obtain inheritances.

However, most of the inheritances had some errors.

If one didn't practice well, it would drive people mad, or insane.

But it was very powerful!

This was a place where one exchanged sanity for strength.

The overseas islands were essentially ruined; Jie Tian Cult Master had sacrificed most of the overseas islands' fighting power.

Opening a new path was too difficult!

It consumed too many Martial Saints!

In these short few years, an unknown number of Martial Saints had died!

And the common people, an entire nation silenced, another nation half-ruined.

You felt the heavy burden of responsibility...