Chapter 1112: The Future of the Great Sun Sword Dao

The pressure emanating from Zou Zou Xiyuan gradually receded.

"Kid, you're slick and cunning."

"I really don't like you. You're far more detestable than Chong Chong Guang Zi, enough to stir up killing intent."

Zou Zou Xiyuan said calmly.

He glanced around, his gaze falling on the battlefield wreckage nearby and the lingering auras, piecing together through these traces everything that had happened moments before.

"Still, your strength is passable."

"That alone is enough."

"I cannot compare to the Sword Lord, not even close."

Jiang Ding said humbly.

"Ha!"

"Your manner reminds me of when I slaughtered billions on the home star of the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect."

Zou Zou Xiyuan smiled: "Many Eastern Extreme Demon Sect cultivators, though weak in strength, possessed strong fighting will. Even after defeat, they still dared to launch attacks against me."

"In the end, I mercifully granted them death."

"One such person, thousands, billions... all the same."

"Among them, were any of your ancestors?"

"Oh?"

Jiang Ding's smile faded little by little, his face expressionless.

"Not bad, not bad."

"This is good. Maintain this state. This is the bearing a Great Sun Sword Son of the sect should have."

Zou Zou Xiyuan said admiringly: "Hatred is good. It's motivation."

"In fact, even if you had been born in the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, I would still be the same."

"I would wait for you to ascend to Void Refinement, and when I deemed the timing right, I would cut you down, advancing my own Dao and sharpening the edge of my sword further."

"It's just a pity... in the end, I still lost."

He sighed.

Jiang Ding's face remained expressionless. He bowed slightly, maintaining a respectful posture.

"Stop pretending."

"I can sense that you and I are the same kind of person."

Zou Zou Xiyuan said calmly: "If you were the Sword Lord and I the Sword Son, you would do the same, then drape it in the grand righteousness the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect is so fond of. That's all. There's no essential difference between the two."

"Sword Dao cultivators are born in sword combat, die in sword combat. There's nothing more to say."

"Still, your way is fine too. When facing a superior you cannot defeat, maintaining respect and awe is necessary."

"Don't let the desire for sword combat cloud your mind."

His towering, magnificent figure was wreathed in mist, the radiance around him steadily fading at a rapid pace.

"I don't have much time. There are some things I need to tell you."

"Walk as far as you can."

"In the end, walk the great Dao of True Immortal, and prove to the myriad races and myriad experts in the starry universe that the Great

Sun Sword Dao is correct, and make them acknowledge it."

"If they refuse to acknowledge it, beat them all to death."

Zou Zou Xiyuan sighed and changed the subject: "You know something of the Upper Realm's Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm, yes? It's a powerful force that cultivates both Sun and Moon, and may harbor some prejudice toward the founding Great Sun Sword Lord's methods."

"Yes, I have some understanding."

Jiang Ding said.

"There are some things you would only learn after ascending to Void Refinement and becoming Sword Lord. I'll tell you now; you should need them."

"It concerns the sect's history."

Zou Zou Xiyuan nodded slightly: "A little over five hundred thousand years ago, the sect arrived at the Nine Spirit Domain. At that time, the Upper Realm was enduring an unimaginable catastrophe. The Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm employed a great divine technique, using the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion as a seed and scattering it randomly into the distant starry universe even the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm itself could not reach."

"At that time, the Green Emperor Yun Conghai of Qingmuxian Sect had already perished, the Heavenly Fall Emperor Junting of Brother Brother Xuanwu Palace had already perished, and the sect of the Upper Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect was the same. The remaining sects, including the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm, all appeared to be on the brink of collapse."

"Now, the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm may well have long since perished."

"If the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm has not perished, you'd best be careful not to fall into the hands of the Grand Yin experts. From what I know, these women are very obsessive and very cruel, especially toward heartless men... ah, the heartless men they speak of are merely women, and have never had anything to do with us."

"If the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm has already perished, you can consider drawing down the Grand Yin-Yang Sword Realm's inheritance from the void. This requires the Dao Merging realm, defeating numerous Dao enemies, slaying all competitors, and only then will the inheritance fall into your hands."

Zou Zou Xiyuan narrated at length.

He spoke of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's various matters, occasionally interweaving sword techniques and Sword Dao concepts in a haphazard manner, never considering the audience's ability to absorb them. His teaching ability was extremely poor.

Still, this did not diminish the cutting-edge Sword Dao insights contained in his words—truly worth a fortune per syllable.

Jiang Ding listened attentively.

"And the sect's Great Sun Sword Dao."

"This is our foundation."

Zou Zou Xiyuan looked at the blue-clothed youth before him, ignoring his severely wounded severed arm, and asked: "Have you comprehended the 'Great Sun Sword Scripture' and the 'Pure Yang Sword Scripture' I created?"

"The former was jointly revised and created by successive Sword Lords; the latter was completed by me alone, representing my Sword Dao attainment at the time."

"I have comprehended them, but not deeply. My current strength is still too weak; much of it I cannot understand."

Jiang Ding said honestly.

"No matter. Tell me your instinctive impressions."

"Impressions..."

Jiang Ding recalled the two scriptures, silently comparing them. He paid no attention to specific details, only

Memory impression: "The Pure Yang Sword Sutra is sharp, brilliant, and carries a strong style of self-destruction; in this aspect, it seems even stronger than the Great Sun Sword Sutra."

"However, the Great Sun Sword Sutra also gives a feeling of boundless vastness..."

He said, somewhat uncertain.

"Haha!"

"Yes, that is exactly the feeling."

Zou Zou Xiyuan agreed: "The Great Sun Sword Sutra was created by the First Great Sun Sword Master. At the very beginning, it was actually not that impressive. I am confident I could have slain three First Great Sun Sword Masters single-handedly back then; his path was still very imperfect..."

"However, this does not diminish the slightest brilliance of the First Sword Master for pioneering this path!"

Zou Zou Xiyuan showed a look of reverence: "This path is undoubtedly correct. I have comprehended it for tens of thousands of years, slain countless powerful enemies, and pushed the Great Sun Sword Sutra to the Dao-Integration realm, yet I still have not seen the limit of its potential; it seems infinitely vast."

"The First Great Sun Sword Master was truly an unimaginable genius. I truly wish I could dream back to that era, to exchange insights on the Great Sun Sword Dao with him, to mutually promote and support each other."

"And then beat him to death and slay him."

"..."

Jiang Ding was somewhat speechless.

"I have repeatedly compared the Sun and Moon Sword Sutra and the path pioneered by the First Great Sun Sword Master countless times. I am very certain that this is a superior path, one approaching the True Immortal Great Dao."

"It is even closer than the Gen Ben Gong Fa of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm!"

Zou Zou Xiyuan said seriously: "The Gong Fa of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm seems to have reached the edge of Jiang Jiang Jinxian, but it is a dead end, a bottleneck. Our Great Sun Sword Dao, however, is endlessly bright, like the morning sun just rising, full of vitality. There are no major bottlenecks ahead on our path."

"This is the reason why the Great Sun Sword Dao is closer to the True Immortal than the Great Yin-Yang Sword Dao."

"In this regard, you may form your own views when you cultivate to the Void Refinement stage in the future; perhaps you will hold the same opinion as me."

"However, the Great Sun Sword Dao does have a huge flaw..."

Zou Zou Xiyuan sighed.

"It only has a Dao-Integration inheritance."

Jiang Ding picked up the thread.

"Yes, that is exactly so."

"The Great Sun Sword Dao may not allow one to ascend in a single leap. I have pushed the Great Sun Sword Sutra to the Dao-Integration realm in my generation. I hope you, in your generation, can push the Great Sun Sword Sutra, or perhaps call it the Great Sun Yuan-Magnetism Sword Sutra or something similar, it matters not, anything is fine, push it beyond Dao-Integration."

"That would be good enough."

Zou Zou Xiyuan said with expectation.