24: preaching the martial arts world

You killed Xiao Ruowu. There was no surprise; an Innate Grandmaster is nothing more than a junior brother in front of a Heaven-Human Realm expert.

You obtained the Xiao Clan's Way of Military Martial Arts heritage. This includes a Way of Military Martial Arts heritage that can touch the Martial Saint level, how to combine armies to form a Military Martial Arts formation, and even a Military Martial Arts domain that can contend with a Martial Saint!

In your previous life, when you became the number one Innate Grandmaster in the Grand Competition of the World, you once acquired seven Martial Saint inheritances, and the Way of Military Martial Arts was among them.

Unfortunately, you died too early in your previous life. At that time, you didn't thoroughly understand those seven Martial Saint inheritances. After acquiring resources, you just went into seclusion to break through to the twelfth level of True Essence, and then died shortly after coming out.

Now, you have once again acquired a Martial Saint inheritance. However, as you are already a Martial Saint, obtaining a Heaven-Human cultivation method now can only be considered icing on the cake, merely for reference.

The Way of Military Martial Arts is still very valuable for reference. This was the first Martial Saint's path to break through to the Heaven-Human Realm, the martial path of a senior who paved the way. Even now, the Way of Military Martial Arts remains enduring and flourishes among the Five Kingdoms.

You discovered that the Way of Military Martial Arts secretly aligns with formations. Perhaps the Bagua Martial Saint's formations were inspired by military evolutions.

You have some research in sword formations and have created several Heaven-Human level sword formations. You begin to consider Heaven-Human sword formations!

As you traveled the jianghu, you heard much news about the Five Kingdoms over the years.

The Heavenly Demon Ancestor vigorously promoted the demonic path, even spreading Heaven-Human demonic arts throughout the world, causing great chaos in the jianghu of various Xuanwus.

Previously, those with ordinary talent were keen on the demonic path. Those who were once bullied, after cultivating demonic arts, returned as kings, seeking revenge on their enemies, slaughtering clans and tribes, which was heinous.

From a certain furtive hawker, you bought a handwritten copy of a demonic art. It seemed familiar, a cultivation method practiced by those like the Heavenly Demon Cult's hall masters.

This was a demonic art of the hidden cauldron, where everything done in the end would serve as a wedding dress for the Heavenly Demon Ancestor.

You feel that the Heavenly Demon Ancestor has become almost insane.

The Calamity Heaven Cult from the overseas islands made a strong landing, attempting to dominate all methods, and the ancient barbarians and monks were fighting fiercely.

In the past two years, Heavenly Human Martial Saints rarely clashed, but starting last year, they no longer restrained themselves. Old Man Cangshan, a year ago, forcefully killed a Martial Saint of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty. This act shocked the world and caused tremors among many Martial Saints.

In previous years, Martial Saints rarely engaged in life-and-death battles. Most of their interactions involved mutual respect and social niceties. After all, having eight hundred years of leisurely life and being benevolent to those of the same realm, while being revered by all, was their normal Xuanwu.

Now, a Martial Saint's death in battle, which had not happened for almost a century, suddenly shocked their nerves.

While not everyone felt in mortal danger, they pretty much truly realized that the century-long calamity was no joke.

From then on, battles between Martial Saints occurred from time to time.

The old head of Daozhen Academy, riding a spiritual donkey backward, went west to the overseas regions and fought fiercely with a Calamity Heaven Martial Saint for half a month. After returning, he collapsed and slept, unable to be woken up no matter how much he was called.

And the Calamity Heaven Martial Saint also announced his seclusion, and both sides ceased hostilities for a time.

The Wrathful Vajra Martial Saint led three Great Vajra Arhat Martial Saints in a surprise attack on the Ancient Barbarian Sacred Mountain. It is said that he slaughtered a Martial Saint and only returned after his anger was appeased.

The three Great Vajras who accompanied him, however, were severely wounded, returning with missing arms and legs.

The Heavenly Demon Ancestor was nowhere to be found, but the Xuanwu Continent was filled with countless demonic cultivation methods.

You collected various demonic cultivation methods, secretly deciphered their weaknesses, and then created many sword techniques specifically targeting demonic arts. You made them into sword tokens and quietly circulated them in the jianghu.

Whenever you arrived at a place, you would make a brief stop, collect local demonic arts, and create sword techniques specifically designed to counter them.

This both enriched your sword dao and thwarted the Heavenly Demon Ancestor's schemes!

This time, you wanted to have a good game with him.

As a fellow Martial Saint, you didn't believe he could instantly kill you again in this life.

Of course, you remained very cautious.

You created sword techniques, selected sword dao geniuses, and left behind a three-tiered inheritance.

One tier countered demonic arts, one was a half-style Martial Saint sword, and the third was a Divine Sword Manor disciple token!

If one could continue the latter half of the Martial Saint sword style on their own, it would indicate extraordinary talent.

Besides this, you also left behind a true Martial Saint inheritance.

A Martial Saint sword formation, seven sword techniques, which combined could form a Martial Saint method, could be practiced by seven people to form a sword formation, or by one person practicing all seven to become a Martial Saint!

You named it the seven heroes Sword Technique! You infused its sword intent into seven swords, naming them Rainbow Cat, Blue Rabbit, Sally, Doudou, Daben, Tiaotiao, and Dada, respectively!

Rumors spread throughout the jianghu that when the seven swords unite, they are invincible!

When the seven swords unite, they can slay a Martial Saint!

The legends of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit began to spread across the world...

You swaggered through the streets with a beauty, keeping your cultivation hidden very low, finally experiencing playing the pig to eat the tiger, competing for affection with some arrogant young masters, and making a grand display.

You comprehended the sword dao by a small stream, feeling as if the river water came from the heavens, and you comprehended the River Suppressing Sword Technique... You 'leapfrogged' to fight an Innate expert, feeling the first sword of defying tyranny, and comprehended the Heaven Slaying Sword... You played chess with an old man, comprehending the Chess Sword, the Zhenbo Sword!

Waving your sword at the sky, the Heaven Suppressing Sword; waving your sword at the earth, the Earth Suppressing Sword; suppressing everything, the Suppressing Forbidden Sword!

Breaking through the Yellow Court, opening the Heaven and Earth bridges, condensing the Martial God body, the second step of a Martial Saint, greatly increasing your strength.

At twenty-seven, you discovered the whereabouts of the Heavenly Demon Ancestor, but you were still missing one Demon Suppressing Sword style!