Chapter 69: The Jiang Clan

Several days later.

Wu Dan City, Jiang Clan.

During these days, Jiang Daoxuan specially bestowed upon the two chosen ones bottle after bottle of Zengyuan Pills to eat like candy.

In addition, he granted each of them a top-grade Earth-class magic treasure longsword, and specifically gave Jiang Chen one catty of divine nectar.

With the vast cultivation resources bestowed by Jiang Daoxuan, Jiang Yan and Jiang Chen lived up to expectations, making successive breakthroughs!

First, Jiang Chen shattered the limit of Postnatal Stage Nine and successfully broke through to the Preternatural Stage, becoming the seventh Preternatural expert in the clan!

Then, on the third day, Jiang Yan advanced with astonishing speed and also broke through to the Preternatural Stage, becoming the eighth Preternatural expert in the clan!

These two teenage Preternatural experts, both under twenty, caused a sensation not only within the Jiang Clan but throughout the entire Wu Dan City!

Moreover, their combat power far exceeded what their cultivation base suggested.

Each wielding a three-foot green blade, they swept aside all prodigies and veteran Preternatural experts, as if transforming into two towering, insurmountable mountains, crushing all Preternatural experts in the city under their weight!

In contrast, their reputations gradually spread to surrounding cities.

Under this fame, prodigies from distant lands arrived one after another, seeking to challenge them.

But without exception, every challenger was defeated within a few moves, ultimately failing!

For a time, the title "Jiang Clan's Twin Stars" spread thoroughly across several surrounding cities, becoming the idol of countless young warriors—and the object of admiration for many Young Ladies of noble families, some even declaring they would marry none but Jiang Chen and Jiang Yan for the rest of their lives!

Meanwhile, Jiang Daoxuan, as the dominant lord of Wu Dan City, saw his name gradually spread through merchant caravan chatter, radiating across several surrounding cities!

Especially when the city governor Ding Xuan revealed that Jiang Daoxuan had mastered Sword Intent, it triggered a massive uproar!

To master Sword Intent while holding only a Purple Mansion cultivation base—such a sword prodigy had not appeared in this region for over a thousand years!

Thus, as soon as this news emerged, Jiang Daoxuan's name was immediately recorded in the local city annals of several surrounding cities!

For once one masters Sword Intent, one may be called a Sword Master, bearing the title of Sword Sect Master!

Therefore, amid the discussions of countless warriors in surrounding cities, fewer and fewer dared to speak Jiang Daoxuan's name directly; instead, they bestowed upon him a reverent title, calling him simply: Jiang Jianzong!

Sunset twilight.

Behind the Jiang Clan's estate, within a bamboo grove.

A handsome man clad in white martial attire sat cross-legged on the ground.

Spiritual energy surged around him, sweeping through the surroundings, causing emerald bamboos to sway and scatter countless leaves!

The power he radiated was so immense that all beasts attempting to approach fled in terror, startling birds into flight!

Jiang Daoxuan nodded slightly, gazing at his palm.

A faint red glow flickered across his palm, radiating a powerful sense of vitality!

An endless stream of power fortified his body, as if granting him the strength to tear apart demonic beasts and battle young dragons!

This was the extraordinary power of the Heaven-class top-grade magic treasure, the Martial Blood Robe!

Since he donned the Martial Blood Robe, it had fused into his entire skin, showing no outward sign.

Yet secretly, it granted him an extraordinary passive effect!

One of these effects was the continuous, twenty-four-hour automatic absorption of spiritual energy to aid his cultivation.

Although its cultivation effect was far inferior to his own active cultivation, it compensated by being stackable, producing a passive buff similar to an experience bonus!

Coupled with his Preternatural Sacred Body and Divine Embryo, divine nectar, Pure Yang Art, and the combined support of the entire clan…

Jiang Daoxuan now stood on the very threshold of the Nascent Ocean Stage, ready to step across it at any moment.