Chapter 1122: The Path of the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm Is the Path of Weakness!

Within the world's immortal Dao ecosystem, at a certain moment, a hazy, indistinct will emerged.

This will was not foreign; it was born of mountains and rivers, born of rivers and sky, born within the great sun, born within all things between heaven and earth.

Born within sword intent!

The moment this hazy will came into being, it clearly knew the mission it was born to fulfill.

To sort the world's yin and yang!

To drive and maintain the world's operation, reducing to the greatest extent the loss of spiritual Qi during the world's cycles!

"The world…"

It took over mountains and rivers, wind and rain and thunder and lightning, spring and summer and autumn and winter, and began to attempt fine adjustments, to change.

The world began to undergo changes.

At first, the world became extremely chaotic—some places suddenly shifted from spring to bitter winter, countless grasses and trees died, and the world's power was consumed on a vast scale;

Sometimes some places suddenly shifted from winter to summer, water vapor steamed, the land went arid, countless plants died of thirst, and the earth turned a withered yellow;

Sometimes it entered an endless night, the darkness lasting for months or even years on end, and nine-tenths of the plants perished;

Sometimes it was an endless day, and the remaining ninety-nine percent of plants died.

The plants of this world had truly suffered a great calamity!

This chaos lasted for more than fifty years before it gradually subsided; the world once again entered the correct cycle of the four seasons, with vegetation flourishing, growing ever more luxuriant.

The spiritual Qi consumed by the world's immortal Dao ecosystem's cycles dropped by a quarter—a great, striding advance.

Then, the limit was reached.

No matter how it pushed or adjusted, it could no longer reduce the spiritual Qi loss of the world's immortal Dao ecosystem's cycles; it had reached a certain limit.

"The great sun…"

"The great sun."

A low murmur spread through the world—a sigh, understanding where the problem lay.

"Solitary yin gives no birth; lone yang does not grow."

"Therefore heaven and earth are paired with yin and yang; man takes woman for his chamber, woman takes man for her home—thus human life is matched to form husband and wife; yin and yang unite, and then rain descends; husband and wife are in harmony, and then the household's way is made!"

"The upper realm's near-immortal-level terrifying faction, the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm, took the path of the Lie Yang Jianzi Son and the Lunar Sword Son—was this a coincidence?"

"It was not."

"This is the path jointly explored by generations of ancestors of the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm, by countless prodigies and heroes throughout history, who paid with their lives and a lifetime of effort to test and err."

"However,"

"Is this truly correct?"

The voice within the world echoed, gradually turning ringing and resonant, its killing intent boundless.

"The First Great Sun Sword Lord said this path is a wrong one!"

"Dual cultivation of yin and yang, the coexistence of the Lie Yang Jianzi Son and the Lunar Sword Son—this is an erroneous path!"

"Why?"

"The harmony of yin and yang, steady and balanced on all sides, unmoving in the eight directions, yin and yang giving rise to creation—this is the path of the Law Cultivator!"

"Is this where you, a Sword Cultivator, should walk?"

"Is this where you should stay?"

"Law Cultivators need not fight, need not slaughter; they need only comprehend heaven and earth, investigate the mysteries and awaken to the Dao, understand the rules of heaven and earth, understand the affairs and feelings of the world, and firm their Dao heart—resources sufficient, talent and brilliance sufficient, and they can advance."

"Do you, Sword Cultivators, deserve such a thing?"

"Speaking of yin and yang, of steadiness and balance, of equilibrium, Law Cultivators stand at the apex by nature, able to look down upon many Sword Cultivators; their path is naturally suited to such a road."

"This is using one's own weakness to attack the Law Cultivator's strength!"

"How, then, could one fail to lose?"

"Hah!"

A cold laugh arose within the Heavenly Dao—mocking: "According to history, when the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion arrived in the Nine Spirit Domain, the Great Lie Yang Jianzi and the Lunar Sword Son coexisted; yet even so, among the Jiudaxian Sect it was a bottom-tier existence."

"Two against one, and still a bottom-tier existence."

"Simply throwing away all face of the Great Lie Yang Jianzi!"

"The Great Lie Yang Jianzi of the Sun Moon Sword Pavilion does not deserve the title of Great Lie Yang Jianzi; these are two entirely different beings and should not share the same title."

"This is the limitation of the Yin Yang Sword Dao!"

"A Sword Cultivator, facing an obstruction on the great Dao ahead, thinks not of one person, one sword, drawing the blade to shatter all obstacles ahead, but instead of finding another woman, uniting yin and yang to make up for his own deficiency, and then passing this great Dao checkpoint."

"Shameful."

"Shameful!"

The voice within the Heavenly Dao sighed.

"Another woman has her own interests, her own likes, her own values—even if raised from childhood, even if the Gong Fa is compatible and she is naturally well-disposed, how could everything be as one wishes?"

"Setting aside betrayal and the like, even if this woman loves you always, does that mean all her cultivation ideals can forever align with yours?"

"Hahaha, this is a beautiful wish."

"Weak."

"Understand? This is weakness!!!"

"The path of the First Great Sun Sword Lord was not wrong!"

The voice transmitted through all things in the world gradually turned ringing and resonant, growling low: "An obstruction on the great Dao ahead? This is nourishment for the Sword Dao, a supreme opportunity!"

"This will surely add another layer of foundation for me, raising my Immortal Ascension Steps one more level."

"Those who take shortcuts, who circumvent obstacles, who entrust themselves to another person, will inevitably pay the price in the future!"

"My expectation for the Great Yin Yang Sword Realm's inheritance achieving Immortal Ascension drops once more—

layer."

"Since that is the case,"

"then let it be destroyed."

A voice filled with killing intent rang out between heaven and earth: "All things under heaven, the hundreds of thousands of living beings — since yin and yang are needed, since the Moon of Supreme Yin is needed, then let it be destroyed. Such weak things should not exist in my world!"

"Only the beings that survive beneath the Great Sun should exist here!"

Clang!

Draw sword!

A single sword-howl of destruction resounded through heaven and earth!

The radiance of the sun bloomed — like light, like a sword — illuminating the earth, filling every space, present everywhere, existing in everything.

Sizzle…

Sizzle sizzle…

The living beings on the earth, the grass and trees, every plant unable to endure this terrible high temperature, in an instant turned withered-yellow and brittle; the earth lost all its green.

Then, the first spark of fire blossomed and swiftly spread.

Fire.

A great blaze!

The entire world was plunged into flames; every plant was burning, Xiong Xiong raging fire, black smoke like clouds, shrouding the sky of the whole world.

Between heaven and earth, there was nothing but wails of lamentation.

The vitality of the entire world, the entire immortal-path ecosystem, was collapsing, was being destroyed.

The world-ending great blaze burned on for seven days and seven nights, then slowly died out; the world was shrouded in thick smoke, and nothing more could be seen.

At this moment, looking out, the earth was a scorched-black expanse, countless white ashes covering the land without end — these were the remains of living beings.

This world had already been destroyed; only a framework remained.

A few more days, and even the framework of the world would crumble; the Sword Realm was on the verge of collapsing into nothingness, and rules and order were naturally out of the question.

Clang!

At this moment, a soft sword-howl rang out.

A heap of ashes trembled faintly; a moment later, from within the ashes a tiny, pointed tender sprout poked out — a golden-yellow leaf, shaped like the blade of a common weed.

Upon this golden-yellow leaf, there was a terrifying aura of indestructibility; around the leaf all was hazy and indistinct, as if a world of the Sword Dao had come into being along with its appearance, an omen born into the world.

The aura of the Fifth Realm of the Sword Dao, the Sword Realm!