Chapter 3

Recalling events from tens of thousands of years ago, Lin Fei quickly walked to the first floor of the Sword Concealment Pavilion. However, he did not leave immediately but turned down a familiar corridor and entered a small room filled with bookshelves.

Sure enough, it was still the same as it was back then, not filled with various sword manuals but with all sorts of miscellaneous notes.

Lin Fei looked around but did not see the familiar ones. It seemed that after the calamity tens of thousands of years ago, the Ask Sword Sect's heritage was indeed left with very little. Just like on the third floor, a basic sword technique like Ghost and God Slaying could be hyped up to the level of Three Cuts and Five Ultimates...

This situation could only mean that the truly profound sword manuals of the Ask Sword Sect had all been lost after the calamity. What remained were only the superficial parts.

Thinking about this, Lin Fei became even more curious about what had happened to the Luo Fu World after he and the Abyss Emperor perished together. How did the calamity end, and who left the heritage of the Ask Sword Sect? Countless questions, perhaps, could find some answers here...

Lin Fei started from the first bookshelf, looking through one after another, and soon picked out a few books. They included history, travelogues, strange tales, and fictional stories, all very obscure books. From their pristine covers, it was clear that they had been here for so long and might not have been read by anyone.

Two hours later, Lin Fei closed the last travelogue, his expression somewhat grim. The situation was worse than he had imagined. Tens of thousands of years had seemingly erased many things and changed many others...

Firstly, the Luo Fu World seemed to have shrunk significantly. The travelogue mentioned the Floating Ice Sea as the "farthest north," but Lin Fei knew very well that the Floating Ice Sea was far from the northernmost part of the Luo Fu World. Beyond the Floating Ice Sea lay the vast Eternal Night Grassland, the world of the Night Clan.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Night Clan would send their most outstanding young member to the Ask Sword Sect every hundred years for training, returning to the Eternal Night Grassland after ten years. When Lin Fei was in the Sword Concealment Pavilion, he had had a few unpleasant encounters with a young member of the Night Clan. It was said that this person returned and inherited the throne, becoming the new Night King.

Further north of the Eternal Night Grassland was the famous Eternal Winter City. Before the Ask Sword Sect delved into the Black Abyss, Eternal Winter City had news that the Green Lotus Sword Immortal had slain the Dark Lord with one sword. It was unknown what happened to the Green Lotus Sword Immortal afterward...

In short, Lin Fei clearly remembered that beyond the Floating Ice Sea, there was an incredibly vast world. How could the Floating Ice Sea be described as the farthest north in this travelogue?

Moreover, it wasn't just the Floating Ice Sea. In this travelogue, the entire Luo Fu World seemed to have shrunk. Lin Fei roughly estimated that about two-thirds of the Luo Fu World had disappeared...

What was going on?

With these questions in mind, Lin Fei continued to flip through the books on the shelves. Finally, in a book of supernatural tales, he found a very interesting passage...

The content of this book of supernatural tales was not worth mentioning, just a collection of hearsay and conjecture. However, it mentioned an interesting event: an endless war that lasted for thousands of years, with rivers of blood and countless lives lost. Even the immortals and demons of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths fell in great numbers. In the end, the entire Luo Fu World was shattered into pieces, and the part we are in now is just one of them...

After putting down the book of supernatural tales, Lin Fei was silent for a long time.

"What is the Luo Fu World like after tens of thousands of years..."

When Lin Fei walked out of the Sword Concealment Pavilion, it was already evening. He followed the familiar cobblestone path and soon returned to Jade Balance Peak. According to the memories left by his predecessor, Lin Fei easily found his small courtyard. After closing the door, he sat down and made himself a pot of tea, lost in thought...

Even now, Lin Fei still felt a sense of unreality. The events that had happened to him seemed to be filled with a strange aura. Crossing time and space, dying and coming back to life, and becoming a disciple of the Ask Sword Sect again after tens of thousands of years, it seemed that there was a predestined fate.

"Alright, since I have another chance at life, I will complete what I didn't finish in my previous life..." Lin Fei was not the type to dwell on things. If he couldn't understand, he wouldn't think about it anymore. Putting aside his various questions, he began to familiarize himself with his new body...

Being able to live again was always a good thing...

Moreover, the predecessor with the same name had left him a body, though it was just an ordinary mortal body with only average talent, but at least the meridians were not a problem. With no issues with the meridians, he could cultivate, and if he could cultivate, everything would be fine.

As for the problem of a mortal body not being able to achieve a Dharmic Body, it was not difficult to solve.

Back then, before the old man entered the depths of the Black Abyss, he left the seven secret treasuries of the Ask Sword Sect to Lin Fei. Unfortunately, in the following thirty years, he had to tread carefully and plan every step, ultimately dying with the Abyss Emperor. The effort he put in was unimaginable to others, and he never had the chance to open the seven secret treasuries.

Lin Fei remembered clearly that in the third secret treasury, there was a jade bottle containing the Water of the River of Forgetfulness. The old man had obtained it from the Netherworld, paying a significant price for it.

The old man didn't say anything at the time, but Lin Fei knew that the old man was likely trying to use the Water of the River of Forgetfulness to change his meridians and see if it could solve the problem of blocked meridians. Unfortunately, it turned out that the problem of blocked meridians was unsolvable, even with the Water of the River of Forgetfulness. Later, the old man personally placed the bottle in the third secret treasury.

The Water of the River of Forgetfulness could not solve the problem of blocked meridians, but its ability to change the meridians was extraordinary. A bottle of the Water of the River of Forgetfulness was enough for Lin Fei to choose any of the eighteen innate body types, and with a bit of luck, he might even evolve into one of the nine primordial body types!

"However, choosing the Ten Thousand Sword Technique for the foundation stage, aren't you just making things difficult for me..." The Ask Sword Sect's cultivation methods were different from other sects, emphasizing the power of a single sword to break all techniques. Therefore, apart from the fundamental sword technique, they rarely cultivated other spells. In combat, no matter how many spells the opponent used, they would only use one sword to cut through.

But Lin Fei's predecessor was a bit unconventional, choosing the Ten Thousand Sword Technique for the foundation stage.

This was a bit problematic. The Ten Thousand Sword Technique emphasized the power of a single sword to generate myriad techniques, containing countless sword techniques within one sword. This was a completely different path from the single-minded and pure approach of one sword breaking all techniques.

Cultivators who chose the Ten Thousand Sword Technique for the foundation stage had to cultivate various sword techniques. The more sword techniques they cultivated, the higher the achievement of the Ten Thousand Sword Technique. In the end, they would use their body as a furnace to forge myriad swords into one, achieving the Pure Yang Sword Body, where one sword could unleash myriad techniques.