Star Sky Professional

Since achieving the position of Dharma Master at the Thirteen Realms, time has almost become inconsequential for Fang Xing.

Although all the heavens and myriad worlds have their 'lifespans,' it's an infinitely large number.

When the Time-Space River dries up, only the Transcenders can survive.

But that's as ridiculous as an ordinary person worrying about the lifespan of a Constant Star reaching its limit!

If, during Earth's era, an ordinary person could live to the Sun's lifespan's limit, it would be virtually 'eternal life.'

Thus, while contemplating the True Martial Dao, Fang Xing would occasionally relax and enjoy himself for decades to hundreds of years.

As for those who came later? Even Xun Heihu himself, he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to.

This is the apathy of the Immortal!

Summer insects cannot discuss ice.

Unknowingly, tens of thousands of years had passed in the outside world.

Rumble!

On this day, Fang Xing felt the tremors of the world's Origin!

"Finally... has the world ascended?"

He was somewhat surprised.

The upgrading of the world should not be achieved in just tens of thousands of years; this is unique to this era!

The myriad heavens and ordinary major, minor worlds are fundamentally different, like the difference between the human race and animal beast races.

This world's essence is 'level of the All Heavens,' even if still infantile, it's a human baby, incomparable to animal cubs.

And now, it's entering another growth phase!

"Hmm? Has it already been 238,600-plus years?"

With a thought, Fang Xing merged with the external monitoring of the True Martial Talisman.

Then, scenes from the past appeared before his eyes:

"Xun Heihu was quite decent, or genuinely reciprocated; Jiang Yu Yan and their two children reached the Void Realm, extending their lives by a thousand years, and they grew old together as a family..."

"But after a few generations, Zhenwu Mountain was divided into two factions, the Disciple faction and the Xun Family faction, secretly clashing, competing for control of the True Martial Talisman... Within the Xun Family faction, there were even splits between the main family and branches, direct lineage and collateral lineage..."

"Approximately ten thousand years passed, the 'Panwu Residual Poison' erupted, plunging Zhenwu Mountain into chaos... the whereabouts of the True Martial Talisman became unknown..."

Being the True Martial Talisman itself, Fang Xing naturally knew that an insider from the Xun family took advantage of external invaders to steal the True Martial Talisman.

Thus Zhenwu Mountain was destroyed, but the heritage of True Martial Dao was at least passed down.

"The traitor, tracing back to the origin, was from the Xun Biao line? Haha... I knew there was going to be a problem, though Xun Heihu probably didn't care... after all, who knows how many generations have passed..."

Fang Xing continued watching.

The traitor later went incognito, using the True Martial Talisman to cultivate to the peak of the Void Realm, almost breaking the limit...

Lived in seclusion for over five to six hundred years, but seeing the difficulty of breaking past the Super Grade level, finally emerged to wander the martial arts world, sweeping across the land at a half-grade higher than Super Grade, establishing the 'Great Wu Dynasty'!

The Great Wu Dynasty unified the world and lasted for 39,000-plus years...

"Hmm... limited technological progress over the years?"

When Fang Xing witnessed this, his eyes were about to pop out: "Did the existence of Extraordinary Martial Arts suppress the development and advancement of technology?"

After all, practicing Martial Arts could lead to a thousand years of life!

Who would engage in basic research? Certainly, the best talents went into Martial Arts...

However, there were significant advancements in the technology of forging divine weapons and advanced steel materials.

Moreover, there were developments in blood-rich exotic beast breeding projects and spirit grain cultivation techniques...

In summary, everything served Martial Arts.

Even under the governance of the unified dynasty of the Great Wu Dynasty, the common people's lives were worse than during the Jiuzhou period, a significant regression...

"By the dynasty's end, the Great Wu Dynasty had rotted to the core, like a decomposed corpse..."

"The limit of heaven and earth slightly loosened... allowing Void Realm Martial Artists the possibility of advancement while the royal family had too many unambitious individuals, thus being surpassed?"

Despite this, that battle was perilously fought, with all Void Realm experts participating, nearly destroying the Great Wu Imperial City...

"After the Great Wu, it was the era of sect division until a Martial Arts peerless genius appeared, unifying the world, repeatedly cycling back... naturally, the struggle for the True Martial Talisman was the bloodiest and most brutal during this process..."

"The True Martial Talisman circulated among various Martial Artists, including Righteous Path heroes, Demon Path powerhouses, beggars, prostitutes, wealthy merchants, bodyguards, chefs..."

"Now, it is held by the 'Turtle Snake Sect,' hidden in the Turtle Snake Ancestral Hall... The Turtle Snake Sect Grandmaster experienced the once-glorious True Martial Dao heritage, having emerged from a dark era, leaving a testament that the True Martial Talisman cannot be revealed and should only be passed to the next Sect Leader..."

...

Fang Xing's consciousness flowed out from the True Martial Talisman, revealing a stone chamber.

The walls of the chamber exuded a stone gold hue, a mysterious extraterrestrial ore capable of isolating all Auras and preventing the mental detection of Martial Arts Grandmasters.

In the center of the chamber, there was a large red offering table lined with the tablets of Turtle Snake Sect Grandmasters.

The True Martial Talisman, where he resided, was prominently placed in a hidden compartment at the highest position.

"Not only that... I can sense... that the True Martial Visualization Method and Xuanwu True Art have circulated externally... although there are many branches and variants... they have indeed been passed down."

Fang Xing murmured, quite moved: "The tide of the era is arriving..."

This time, his sensing of the world's leap was not just the long years merely elevating the limit of Martial Arts by one or two levels!

Rather, it was an exponential explosion, a fundamental transformation!

"The door to longevity has been slightly opened... in other words, this era may produce Eleventh Realm, or even Twelfth Realm masters?"

Such experts are not far from the lowest requirement of Thirteen Realms for the revival of Panwu.

Even... can vaguely sense the terrifying Panwu!

"In such an era, perhaps it will be quite exciting?"

"What a pity... it's not truly a golden era yet; the more talented, the more sorrowful..."

Fang Xing sighed.

Time passed by little by little.

The chamber door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man with a turtle shell back walked into the chamber.

He wore a dark blue mandarin jacket, with an ancient and square face... yet his gaze was incredibly sharp.

He was precisely the current sect leader of the Turtle-Serpent Sect—Gui Yannian!

His gaze first swept over the altar in the ancestor hall, spiritually scanning, seeing the True Martial Talisman safe and sound atop it, he then let out a long breath and picked up three sticks of incense.

Without seeing him light a fire, the incense sticks directly ignited, and wisps of blue smoke rose up.

Gui Yannian held the incense with both hands, raised it high above his head, and bowed three times to the altar before inserting it into the incense burner.

After completing this series of 'rituals,' he then respectfully took out the True Martial Talisman and sat cross-legged.

...

True Martial Space.

It was still a small room, with the stone tablet showing no change after hundreds of thousands of years.

For Fang Xing, this was just a very short period.

Gui Yannian wasted no words and directly began training.

The Turtle-Serpent Sect obtained part of the True Martial Dao lineage, not acquiring the core Xuanwu True Skill, but they did have a copy of the True Martial Visualization Method.

In addition, various sect leaders poured their hearts and souls into creating 'Turtle-Serpent Stance,' 'Coiling Serpent Eighteen Hands,' 'Turtle Form Qigong,' and other strange skills, making the sect a prestigious one in the current 'Daluo Dynasty.'

Moreover, the Turtle-Serpent Sect remained very low-key, with no one knowing that Sect Leader Gui Yannian was already a peerless expert.

After finishing daily cultivation, Gui Yannian began to practice martial arts again.

However, the martial arts he displayed this time were quite rudimentary, with many flaws, probably treating the True Martial Space as a place for law creation.

Boom!

His palm technique was extremely slow, akin to grinding, implicitly carrying the flavor of Tai Chi's dual interplay.

But every palm strike slightly moved the void.

In the end, it even carried a trace of void power, striking the gray mist covering the walls.

The gray mist absorbed this force that could obliterate ninety percent of the world's martial artists without even a ripple.

"Every time I come here, I feel my own insignificance."

Gui Yannian sighed: "This True Martial Space is perfect in every way, except it's too small... movement technique martial arts can't be fully displayed."

Boom!

Just then, in the True Martial Space, the stone tablet suddenly sank into the ground.

"Hmm?"

Gui Yannian's eyes widened immediately.

If this scene were seen by Turtle-Serpent Sect disciples, they would certainly find it unbelievable.

This guy, whose mouth could hold an egg, was he still the same calm-in-the-face-of-a-collapsing-mountain, ancient and upright sect leader they've known since childhood?

Crash!

The gray mist dispersed, revealing an expanded True Martial Space a hundred times larger.

Stone steps extended upward level by level, all the way to the top throne,

and on the throne, a being whose face was shrouded in gray mist was observing him.

That gaze seemed heavier than a mountain, compelling Gui Yannian to kneel instinctively.

'Who is that... a Divine being?'

'No! How can I kneel?'

Gui Yannian roared in his heart, his joints crackling, but he was ultimately forced to bend inch by inch into a ludicrous posture.

Fortunately.

Just as he was about to collapse, kneeling with his body completely prostrated on the ground, that gaze withdrew: "Hmm, Void Realm peak... not bad, what year is it?"

"Daluo Baoyuan Year Eight, who are you?"

Gui Yannian looked around incredulously, everything that happened today seemed not to be recorded in the sect's annals, nor did his master tell him there were others inside the True Martial Talisman?

"It seems Xun Heihu is already dead..."

Fang Xing sighed.

Humans always harbor a trace of caution towards the unknown, to comfort the host's heart, he should not appear omniscient.

"Xun Heihu? Could it be... the first person in the Void Realm? The True Martial Ancestor?!"

Gui Yannian's eyes widened: "Who exactly are you?"

"Me? I am the artifact spirit here, a Sleeper... occasionally seen a few who possess the True Martial Talisman, one of them named Xia Mang, the other, Xun Heihu..."

"The Martial Ancestor and True Martial Ancestor..."

Gui Yannian couldn't help but feel dazed...