Chapter 40: The Peerless Divine Weapon: Chengying Sword!

"Do you know? The Qins and Suns suffered the same fate as the Tangs—every last one of them was slaughtered, whole families wiped out! Jiang Daoxuan has a murderous nature; never provoke him!"

"If the Jiang family acts this way, don't they fear provoking heaven's wrath and the people's hatred? Why doesn't Lord Ding intervene?"

"Tsk tsk, you still don't know? Before the Suns and Qins were destroyed, Lord Ding had already set out for the Jiang family."

"If Lord Ding had already gone to the Jiang family, then why did such a horrific tragedy occur afterward?"

"I'm not sure, but I heard Lord Ding left the Jiang family with a dark expression and in disarray—and right after, Jiang Daoxuan immediately led his clan to the Suns' and Qins' strongholds."

"So does that mean even Lord Ding couldn't get the upper hand against Jiang Daoxuan—he was outmatched?"

"That's impossible! Lord Ding broke through the Purple Mansion realm years ago—he's the strongest in Wu Dan City! Even the old ancestor of the former Tang family never dared to act presumptuously before Lord Ding. What virtue or ability does Jiang Daoxuan have to make Lord Ding suffer defeat?"

Countless people murmured among themselves, offering all kinds of speculations.

Though they couldn't fathom how events had unfolded, they understood one thing.

That the sky of Wu Dan City was about to change!

The once-equal dominance of the four great families, now that three had been destroyed, had become the sole supremacy of one!

The Jiang family would become the only great family in Wu Dan City!

Not long after.

The Jiang family.

After completing the rewards and promotions for clan members.

Jiang Daoxuan returned to his room and began inventorying his system rewards.

He withdrew the Chengying Sword from the system warehouse.

In an instant, a sword with a black scabbard appeared before him out of thin air.

Jiang Daoxuan gripped the scabbard with his left hand and the hilt with his right.

He slowly drew it.

Zzzz—

A clear, ringing sword hum echoed as light rippled along its blade!

When the blade was fully unsheathed, Jiang Daoxuan held it before his chest, nodded slightly, narrowed his eyes, and studied the Chengying Sword before him.

The sword measured three chi four cun in length and one and a half cun in width; its edge was transparent, invisible.

Feeling the razor-sharpness radiating from the blade, Jiang Daoxuan's eyes brightened and he murmured, "What a sword—visible in shadow, invisible in form!"

Such a divine weapon was truly unprecedented in his life.

After all, the strongest magic treasure his former self had ever seen was merely of Xuan-grade.

So in the past, let alone a Tian-grade magic treasure—even a Di-grade one was beyond his former self's wildest dreams!

Indeed, its rarity was such that even across the entire Da Qin Empire, a second one might not exist—it was utterly unique!

And the Chengying Sword's power was terrifying: once activated with Yang Essence, it unleashed unparalleled sharpness, capable of severing anything—shattering the spiritual defenses of Zi Lun, Yue Lun, or even Ri Lun cultivators was no challenge!

After a sigh of awe, Jiang Daoxuan casually sheathed the Chengying Sword.

The instant the blade vanished fully into the scabbard, all light faded, the sharpness retreated, and not a trace of its Tian-grade divine weapon nature remained visible!

Even from appearance alone, it looked like an utterly unremarkable, ordinary Xuan-grade longsword.

Before the Chengying Sword was drawn, no one could have imagined what earth-shattering divine weapon lay hidden within its scabbard!

Watching this, Jiang Daoxuan relaxed his brow and exhaled softly.

Fortunately, the system-provided scabbard suppressed the Chengying Sword's power—if its might had been exposed, it would have drawn unwanted attention.

Then, Jiang Daoxuan stored the sword within his Purple Mansion space.

He nurtured the sword's spirit with his inner dimensional space.

Gradually, imperceptibly, he attuned with it, achieving the state of Human-Sword Unity, unlocking even greater power!

Having done this, he immediately clicked on "Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage" in the system warehouse.

The next moment.

Vast streams of information flooded his mind, as if a grand master of sword Dao demonstrated his techniques over and over—each profound subtlety drew him in, and he closed his eyes, deeply absorbing it.

Not long after, when Jiang Daoxuan opened his eyes, a brilliant, peerless swordlight flickered deep within his pupils!

At this moment, he had fully mastered the Tian-grade supreme sword art: Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage!

Thanks to the terrifying comprehension of his Primordial Sacred Body Dao Womb, within this short time, he had already refined the technique to perfection—reaching the Great Completion realm—and in just a few more days, he could push it to Full Completion!

Normally, a cultivator would need at least decades to master a common Tian-grade sword art to Full Completion!

That Jiang Daoxuan could comprehend it to Full Completion in mere days revealed the terrifying nature of his Primordial Sacred Body Dao Womb!

Now, whenever he activated the Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage technique, he could condense Yang Essence into thousands upon thousands of sword qi threads finer than silk!

Each imbued with devastating sharpness, capable of piercing through all things!

However, because this technique consumed enormous amounts of essence,

ordinary cultivators could only use it twice per battle at most—even then, they'd consider it a rare talent and treat it as a last-resort trump card.

But for Jiang Daoxuan, who possessed the Primordial Sacred Body Dao Womb,

his unmatched endurance rendered this consumption negligible—he could use it as freely as a basic attack!