38: Chapter 38 Offspring's Filial Piety, Sword Dao Reaches Divine Prowess

Early the next morning.

In the Imperial Garden, Li Xuan, holding his just-awakened son, accompanied Su Muxue on a walk.

Overnight, the sickly pallor on Su Muxue's cheeks had faded, replaced by a healthy rosy glow.

Walking among the flowers, the blooming blossoms became mere background.

Li Changsheng had just learned to walk, but now, in Li Xuan's arms, he squirmed insistently, determined to get down.

His bright black eyes were fixed unwaveringly on a spot not far away.

A palace maid was holding a piece of broken iron.

It was precisely that piece of void divine iron that had fallen from the crow's beak yesterday.

Li Xuan was amused.

This little guy, born with the Supreme Sword Body, naturally reacted to such a divine object.

He took the fragment of void divine iron and held it in front of Li Changsheng.

The little one immediately grinned, stretched out his chubby little hand, and hugged the iron piece, which was larger than his head.

Then.

He opened his mouth wide and tried to stuff it in.

"Hey, this isn't food."

Li Xuan, torn between laughter and tears, took the iron piece away, but a thought flashed through his mind.

After obtaining the *Grass-Character Sword Manual*, he always felt something was missing.

The Profound Truth of "One blade of grass severing the sun, moon, and stars" remained beyond his grasp.

It was a state, a Realm.

Something he could only comprehend on his own.

But now, looking at his bargain-bin son who showed no interest in his Sword Dao Legacy and only wanted to gnaw on iron, the System's prompt sounded at the perfect moment.

A new function unlocked after he ascended to the Human Emperor.

Exclusive to offspring.

[Bloodline Resonance]

[Effect: The host may select one offspring to resonate with each week. During this period, the host will briefly experience their Bloodline talent.]

[Use?]

Experience the Supreme Sword Body?

Li Xuan's eyes lit up.

Talk about getting what you wished for.

If he couldn't figure it out himself, why not let this little cheat carry him for a ride?

"Yes. Target: Li Changsheng."

He gave the mental command.

[Command confirmed. Bloodline Resonance beginning.]

[Countdown: One stick of incense.]

*Buzz.*

The moment the System's voice faded, Li Xuan's world changed.

The Imperial Garden before him vanished.

His wife and his babbling son vanished too.

The entire world was deconstructed within his vision.

Wind.

Not the flow of air, but a torrent formed from countless streams of Sword Qi.

They collided, sliced, and swirled.

Light.

Not the illumination of rays, but billions of swords of light, traversing heaven and earth.

Flowers, grass, trees, mountains, stones, flowing water.

Everything lost its original form, transforming into swords of different attributes.

Wooden swords, stone swords, water swords.

Even the life aura of little Li Changsheng in his arms transformed into swords of life, one after another.

This Realm of heaven and earth was a Universe of swords.

He himself also became a sword.

A sword capable of understanding all this, of commanding all this.

The *Grass-Character Sword Manual*.

That obscure supreme sword scripture—now every character flowed through his heart as the simplest truths.

Sever.

Not a chop, not a hack.

It was the breaking of rules, the termination of Karma.

Grass.

Not weakness, not ordinariness.

It was the most fundamental life of the Universe, representing the ultimate Dao.

One blade of grass, one world.

One leaf, one sword technique.

When this comprehension reached its limit, severing the sun, moon, and stars was no longer an empty boast.

It was an inevitable outcome.

Because the sun, moon, and stars were themselves also swords.

As long as one found the right method, they could naturally be severed.

Li Xuan was stunned.

He raised his hand, extended a finger, pointed it lightly at the sky.

The action was very casual.

However.

An almost invisible wisp of Sword Qi emerged from his fingertip, instantly drilling into the sky and disappearing beyond the Void Realm.

Beside him, Su Muxue only felt her husband's aura change.

His gentle temperament vanished instantly, and his entire person became as sharp as a divine weapon.

No.

He himself was the very concept of "sword."

That sharp, transcendent Dao charm made her, a Peak expert of the Array Formation Realm, feel a pang of fear.

But this feeling flashed and was gone.

Li Xuan blinked, his eyes regaining clarity.

"Husband, you just..."

Su Muxue asked with some concern.

But Li Xuan smiled.

He looked down at his finger, then at Li Changsheng in his arms, drooling over the iron piece, feeling both shock and wild joy in his heart.

It was done.

In just that instant.

He had comprehended it all.

What bullshit Sword Dao Bottleneck? Before a true born sword immortal, it simply didn't exist.

"My good, big son, you are truly your father's lucky star!"

Li Xuan couldn't help but plant a big kiss on Li Changsheng's chubby cheek.

Li Changsheng looked up in confusion, babbling.

"Dad, why did you steal my milky scent?"

...

At this moment.

Over ninety thousand li away from the Imperial Capital of Great Xia, at the westernmost border.

A desolate Gobi desert.

Several thousand soldiers guarding the frontier fortress were patrolling under the sun.

Suddenly, a sentry pointed at the sky and screamed.

"Tha... that! What is that!"

Everyone looked up.

In the sky above, a massive fireball trailing a long tail of flame was plummeting towards them.

The fireball was nearly half the size of a city.

Still tens of thousands of zhang high in the air, the terrifying pressure and heat waves were already making the entire fortress's ground tremble, the air distorting from the heat.

"Meteor from beyond the heavens! Quick! Activate the city defense array!"

The fortress commander, a general of the Divine Treasury Realm, roared hoarsely.

His face was deathly pale, despair rising in his heart.

Such a natural disaster—forget their small fortress, even a city ten times larger would be instantly destroyed.

The soldiers fell into chaos, cries and shouts rising everywhere.

It's over.

Everything is over.

Everyone could only watch that burning "sun" grow larger and larger in their eyes.

But just one second before the meteor was about to plunge into the atmosphere.

Time stopped.

In everyone's eyes, a bizarre scene appeared.

No sound.

No light.

Nothing happened.

That gigantic meteor simply vanished... silently.

Not disappeared.

It was like a sand sculpture, blown by the wind, disintegrating from the outside in, instantly turning into cosmic dust.

A meteor capable of destroying everything within a thousand-mile radius was just... "erased."

The sky returned to blue.

The terrifying scene from moments ago seemed like a nightmare.

After a long time.

"Ju... just now... what happened?" a soldier stammered.

"I... I don't know..." another person collapsed on the ground, his body trembling uncontrollably.

That Divine Treasury Realm general stared blankly at the sky, his body rigid.

He had the highest cultivation here.

Just now, he had caught a trace of an aura.

Extremely faint, yet an aura that stood above heaven and earth.

That aura frightened him even more than facing the meteor.

Because, he actually couldn't comprehend what it was.

It was an absolute power beyond his imagination.

He suddenly remembered something. With a jolt, he turned towards the distant direction of the Imperial Capital of Great Xia and, with a *thud*, prostrated himself on the ground in the full kowtow position.

He didn't know what had happened.

But he knew that within the borders of Great Xia, only one person could wield such a divine method.

"Divine Might of the Retired Emperor knows no bounds!"

The general shouted with all his might, his forehead striking the scorching sand heavily.

Behind him, the several thousand soldiers who had narrowly escaped death also reacted, following suit, kneeling and kowtowing incessantly towards the direction of the capital.

At this moment, Li Xuan was no longer a man in their hearts.

But a deity among mortals.

[Ding]

[Congratulations, host, on fully comprehending the *Grass-Character Sword Manual*]

[Sword Dao cultivation has reached the 'Touching the Divine' Realm]

[Current ability to execute the sword manual's ultimate Profound Truth: One Blade of Grass Severs the Stars]

Back in the Imperial Garden, the System's voice ringing in Li Xuan's mind confirmed his guess.

He smiled with satisfaction.

This resonance was a huge gain.

Words becoming law, combined with Sword Dao touching the divine.

His hidden cards had grown considerably thicker.

"Let's go, Little Snow. Let's take our good, big son back for some milk."

In high spirits, Li Xuan, holding Li Changsheng and pulling Su Muxue along, returned to Zhaoyang Hall as if nothing had happened, leisurely and carefree.

He didn't notice.

Right at the moment he turned.

Li Changsheng in his arms looked back in confusion, glancing towards the direction of the far western border.

A flicker of confusion, incongruent with his age, passed through his clear eyes.

He seemed to have smelled something.

A familiar scent.