Skyrend and Purple Sun Palace were originally of the same origin. As Skyrend's most accomplished swordsman for over ten thousand years, Xiao Baiyu was naturally no stranger to Purple Sun Palace's swordsmanship heritage.
In fact, back then, Skyrend's founder, Laozu, was the Pure Yang Sword Immortal with the highest achievements in swordsmanship in Purple Sun Palace. At the same time, he was also the most popular pure Yang cultivator to enter the Minor Chiliocosm, Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven.
Entering the Purple Yang Grotto-Heaven meant that the Heaven-Splitting Patriarch would be able to receive the True Spirit's inheritance and control the Purple Yang Palace's True Spirit's inheritance that would never be broken in the cultivation world. He would become one of the true controllers of this world.
However, when Purple Sun Palace's previous True Spirit, Laozu, reached the end of his lifespan and had to leave this world, the person who ultimately chose to inherit the position of Pure Yang was another pure Yang cultivator who was far inferior to Sky-Splitter Laozu in terms of cultivation, strength, and popularity.
From Sky-Splitter Laozu's point of view, the only reason he was not chosen was that this pure Yang cultivator was the previous True Spirit, Laozu's direct disciple and was somewhat related to the previous True Spirit, Laozu.
Sky-Splitter Laozu was ambitious and was naturally unwilling to accept such a failure. However, Purple Sun Palace could only send one True Spirit, Laozu, to enter Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven. This meant that unless the cultivator who had just inherited the position of True Spirit died tragically, Sky-Splitter Laozu would have no chance of advancing to the Pure Yang stage.
This was not just because Sky-Splitter Laozu's cultivation was insufficient and he was unable to advance to the True Spirit stage. Instead, Purple Sun Palace would deliberately suppress the appearance of a second True Spirit, especially the Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven's master who had just become a True Spirit.
With no other choice, Patriarch Heavensplitter could only leave the Purple Sun Palace and establish the Heavensplitter Sword Faction. He attempted to rely on his own power to become a Primary Spirit cultivator, but in the end, he was no match for the heavens. This Patriarch Heavensplitter's hopes of becoming a Primary Spirit cultivator fell short at the final step. He could only put all his effort into the legacy of the Heavensplitter Sword Faction, hoping that the cultivators of the Heavensplitter Sword Faction would eventually replace the Purple Sun Palace as the number one sword faction in the world of cultivation, or even the seventh holy land in the world of cultivation.
Over the past ten thousand years, Skyrend had its ups and downs. There had been two or three geniuses who had become True Spirits, but there had also been the awkward situation of a lack of successors. However, Skyrend had always maintained its status as a large sect of the cultivation world, inheriting Sky-Splitter Laozu's legacy of surpassing Purple Sun Palace and becoming the seventh sacred land.
However, even though Sky-Splitter Laozu was the number one Pure Yang Sword Immortal in Purple Sun Palace, he was limited by Purple Sun Palace's inheritance system. He did not fully control the sword technique inheritance of Purple Sun Palace. Among the three sets of Heaven Splitting Sword Techniques that Purple Sun Palace had passed down to Jiao Daoren, he had only learned two and a half sets.
In fact, the three sets of Splitting the Heavens Sword Techniques passed down by Purple Sun Palace were three sets of combined attack sword techniques, and the three sets of combined attack sword techniques could actually form a Splitting the Heavens Sword Array. This Splitting the Heavens Sword Array required six sword cultivators to completely operate, and each of these six sword cultivators could only inherit half a set of Splitting the Heavens Sword Technique.
In Purple Sun Palace's inheritance system, six people would inherit half a set of the three sets of Heaven Splitting Sword Techniques in every generation, and they were not allowed to teach each other. Otherwise, they would be imprisoned for life, or their cultivation would be crippled.
When needed, these six cultivators could form a complete Heaven Splitting Sword Array. It was one of the most important trump cards of Purple Sun Palace apart from True Spirit Laozu's legacy.
However, ever since Purple Sun Palace had been established, as one of the six sacred grounds of the cultivation world, there had always been an endless stream of high-level cultivators, and there were always talented people with great power in every generation. Their position in the cultivation world was increasingly stable, and they did not need the Heaven Splitting Sword Array to settle everything in the cultivation world.
In addition, the Heaven Splitting Sword Array had very strict requirements for the cultivators who formed it. As the six cultivators who inherited the sword array grew and encountered their own opportunities, their cultivation gradually became uneven, causing the power of the sword array to be greatly reduced. Therefore, although the Heaven Splitting Sword Array had been passed down in Purple Sun Palace's history, it was rarely used.
Back then, Sky-Splitter Laozu was already a Pure Yang cultivator, and the cultivator of the same generation who inherited the other half of the Heaven Splitting Sword Array was only a mid Dharma cultivator, and he had also lost the possibility of surviving the second Thunder Trial.
If Purple Sun Palace really encountered a problem, just a Pure Yang Sword Immortal would be enough to solve everything, so why would they need to activate the Heaven Splitting Sword Array?
Sky-Splitter Laozu was also one of the six inheritors of the three sets of sword techniques, and the half of the Heaven Splitting Sword Array that he had inherited was the supreme sword technique that Fan Mingjie used today, the Full Moon Sword Technique.
When Sky-Splitter Laozu left Purple Sun Palace, one of the mid Dharma cultivators who had inherited half of the Heaven Splitting Sword Array with Sky-Splitter Laozu had followed him. Therefore, Skyrend had inherited two and a half sets of the Heaven Splitting Sword Array, and the other half of the Heaven Splitting Sword Array that Skyrend had inherited was the Lunar Light Sword Technique that Tian Boliang was using today.
When Ziyang Palace proposed that the six heirs of the third generation should join hands to fight against him in the second sword fight, Xiao Baiyu had already guessed that he would face this set of Heaven-opening Sword Formation, which had never been lost in Ziyang Palace but was rarely used in front of others.
The six heirs of the Purple Sun Palace worked in pairs, trapping Xiao Baiyu in the center of the sword array. Among them, Yan Nanfei and Fan Mingjie, who had the highest level of cultivation and strength, respectively displayed the Golden Crow Sword Technique and the Full Moon Sword Technique, using a combined secret technique to form the "Twin Swords of Sun and Moon", acting as the main force in the battle against Xiao Baiyu.
On the other hand, Tian Boliang's Lunar Moonlight Sword Technique and Xie Tianyang's Blazing Sky Sun Sword Technique formed the "Twin Swords of Yin and Yang", whose strength was second only to the "Twin Swords of Sun and Moon", standing on one side to restrain Xiao Baiyu.
Among the six, the weakest were Su Jin, who had just advanced to the late Dharma stage, and Guo Luanxing, who was still at the mid Dharma stage. Of these two, one used the Soft Ice Sword, while the other used the Dominating Sword of the Sun, forming the "Twin Swords of Ice and Fire". They barely managed to form the Heaven Splitting Sword Array with the other four according to the three positions of heaven, earth, and man, helping the other four to fight against Xiao Baiyu.
The Heaven Splitting Sword Array formed by the six of them also had a name, which was "Changing the Sun and Moon". It originated from Jiao Daoren's act of splitting the heavens and the earth.
Benefiting from the inheritance of Sky-Splitting Laozu, Xiao Baiyu naturally knew the power of the Heaven Splitting Sword Array, which was one of the foundations of the Purple Sun Palace. Of course, he did not dare to let his guard down.
However, during the previous sword battle, he had also confirmed the biggest weakness of this supreme sword array!
If all six people in front of me were at the late Dharma stage, then it would not be too much for me to admit defeat in this battle. However, there are still two adepts in front of me who have not reached the late Dharma stage, so that's a different story!
Furthermore, my "One Sword to Break All Techniques" may not necessarily lose to the "Changing the Sun and Moon" of the Purple Sun Palace!
At this moment, the situation in the battle space changed. Xiao Baiyu, who was originally surrounded by the six heirs using the Heaven Splitting Sword Array, was the first to attack. The Sky Splitter in his hands stabbed out twice in four different directions. The sword aura that could tear everything apart caused the expressions of the six heirs to change, and it also caused the surrounding adepts to become alert. The time for the real battle had come!
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