Chapter 1091: Thirty Thousand Years

Half of their Sword Sect disciples are considered sword cultivators.

After all, the combat power of sword cultivators, from top to bottom, is the strongest. The former Supreme Elder taught the Three Realms a lesson. Don't look at the fact that their Supreme Elder hadn't been enlightened for long.

The time he spent cultivating was no more than one hundred thousand years, but his combat power was stronger than many veteran Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Without any good spiritual treasures to protect the Dao, he relied on a sword that had followed him for tens of thousands of years to go on a killing spree.

During the war between Heaven and Man, this peerless Sword Immortal fought three Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Court alone, one of whom was a Demon God who had existed since the Demon Court period.

If it weren't for the Heavenly Court's sneak attack, I'm afraid their Supreme Elder would not have died.

But regardless, their Supreme Elder also displayed a peerless style, making the Sword Dao flourish from then on. Since that great war, I don't know how many people in the cultivation world began to switch to the Sword Dao.

Sword Dao certainly has requirements for a cultivator's talent, but it still couldn't stop the eagerness of countless cultivators.

And the Sword Sect was a gathering of sword cultivators from the beginning. The inheritance of the Sword Dao, not to mention how much, mostly originated from the Supreme Elder, but some were also Sword Dao inheritances brought back by other sword cultivators.

Although not very powerful, it couldn't stop the eagerness of the disciples. However, the Sword Sect's other Dao technique inheritances were actually better, especially the Quasi-Sage inherited Dao techniques, which also led many disciples without Sword Dao talent to cultivate these Dao techniques.

The Sword Sect's ability to rise to become a first-class major force in the Southern Continent over tens of thousands of years is inseparable from these inheritances.

Of course, more of it is due to those sword cultivators who grew up in the war.

Sword cultivators are all a group of battle lunatics. The more they fight, the faster their cultivation improves. Of course, the casualties are also very serious.

In that great war back then, the number of Sword Sect participants was no less than three thousand, but fewer than half returned.

In that battle, the Sword Sect, not to mention being severely damaged, suffered heavy losses.

Fortunately, the Sword Sect's capital was thick enough. After just a few thousand years, it recovered, and the disciples who returned from that battle improved their cultivation extremely quickly in a short period of time.

One of them promoted from True Immortal to Taiyi Golden Immortal in just a few thousand years, which is quite terrifying.

Of course, the person himself was a Sword Dao seed in the Sword Sect, and also a named disciple of the Supreme Elder. Now he has become the pillar of the Sword Sect and one of the Sword Sect's three Taiyi Golden Immortals.

The fierceness of the Sword Sect was also built by these seniors.

If it weren't for the fact that Sword Dao cultivation requires talent, I'm afraid the Sword Sect disciples would all be cultivating Sword Dao, but other Dao techniques are not bad either.

Especially the Earth Deity Path, which is second only to Sword Dao in the Sword Sect.

Sword Dao cultivation strengthens oneself, while cultivating the Earth Deity Path, for those who have advantages in this area, is actually more popular because it can optimize earth veins, not only gaining the luck and merit of heaven and earth.

But it is also more welcomed by the cultivation world.

Although the Earth Deity Path is widely spread, it doesn't mean everyone can cultivate it; it also requires talent and willpower.

And combing through earth veins is often very dangerous; not every cultivator can persist.

So at this time, a new profession appeared in the cultivation world: Earth Vein Master, a professional who specializes in helping other cultivators comb through earth veins and optimize the earth veins of their caves.

This also made them honored guests of many sects.

Some sects' mountain gates are built on the core of spirit veins. Even top-tier spirit veins will eventually be consumed one day.

And combing through and optimizing earth veins can alleviate this, and even increase the concentration of spiritual energy. After all, many sect spirit veins have been consumed for hundreds of thousands of years. If it weren't for strong people in the past plundering spirit veins from other places to add to them, those spirit veins would have long since dried up.

And the appearance of the Earth Deity Path and Earth Vein Masters changed this situation.

In the Earth Deity Path, once one can graduate, one will inevitably be valued by all parties. Even the few sects that have always been hostile to the Sword Sect are very eager in their pursuit of the Earth Deity Path.

However, the Sword Sect is the strongest in the Earth Deity Path.

After all, this Earth Deity Path was passed down from the Sword Sect, and many disciples cultivated it from the beginning.

When outsiders began to contemplate the Earth Deity Path, many disciples of the Sword Sect were already constantly trying to comb through earth veins and continuously improving their ability to do so.

The Earth Deity Path also has Earth Origin Dao techniques, which are Quasi-Sage Dao techniques.

More than half of the Sword Sect's Golden Immortals cultivate this Earth Origin Dao technique. After all, the Earth Origin Dao technique has a detailed path of cultivation, full of dry goods.

It is still relatively easy to cultivate.

Although Sword Dao also has the cultivation experience passed back by Gai Nie, Sword Dao cultivation requires strong Sword Dao talent.

Sword Dao pursues self-breakthrough. Gai Nie's Sword Dao only belongs to him. You can learn from it, but it is impossible to break through to Golden Immortal by following it.

Therefore, in terms of Golden Immortal, on the contrary, Earth Origin Dao techniques, because of more detailed cultivation insights, lead to more breakthroughs to Golden Immortal in this area.

However, among the three Taiyi Golden Immortals, two are sword cultivators, which shows that the Sword Sect is still more powerful with sword cultivators.

The further you go in Sword Dao, the stronger the combat power. Coupled with the Nine-Refinement Golden Body Art, the combat power is explosive.

Gai Nie, who could fight three against one back then and deal with veteran Great Luo Golden Immortals, was precisely because he practiced the Nine-Refinement Golden Body Art and used it as a foundation to create a Sword Dao physical body tempering method suitable for himself, making his physical body almost sanctified.

Sanctification of the physical body is Great Luo Golden Immortal. The most famous person in the Three Realms for physical sanctification is the True Monarch Erlang Xiansheng of Guanjiangkou.

Because of the Nine-Refinement Golden Body Art, many Sword Sect disciples also practice it.

And there are even quite a few who practice martial arts. The Sword Sect's philosophy is to let a hundred flowers bloom, and they don't care which Dao technique the disciples in the sect practice.

Because the Sword Sect practices many types of Dao techniques, disciples can practice whatever they want, and no one forces you to practice several types.

Of course, most elders and deacons will suggest switching to one, because geniuses who can truly practice other Dao techniques at the same time are still very rare.

Most disciples are not mediocre, but they are not very powerful either.

The Sword Sect chooses disciples by looking at character first, then willpower, and finally talent. Therefore, there are very few peerless ones among the recorded disciples.

But strong willpower has great advantages in both Sword Dao and the Earth Deity Path.

This is also the reason why the Sword Sect can rise quickly.

And the Sword Sect rarely has those kinds of petty, crooked things. Most of those who practice Sword Dao have very straightforward personalities, with a clear sword heart. If you have too many thoughts in your heart, you won't be able to get through in Sword Dao.

So the atmosphere of the Sword Sect is also very good, coupled with the Confucian philosophy brought back by the first Sect Leader, Zhang Liang, the Sword Sect did not have much internal strife while improving at high speed.