On this day, a mother and son arrived at the Underworld Headquarters at the central sea region.
On the day of her arrival, the woman submitted an application to the Underworld Merchant Guild to join them.
The Underworld Merchant Guild did not immediately agree to the woman's application even though she was already at the peak of Godly State.
As a superpower, the Underworld Merchant Guild had its own vetting system for accepting members. They would not easily accept outsiders who wanted to join them.
Under normal circumstances, other than the members trained by the Underworld Headquarters at the central sea region, most of the members who joined the headquarters were selected from the War Merchant Guild of the Underworld branches.
It could be said that they knew everything about her and it was impossible for her to be a spy sent by a hostile organization.
Even when Ao Jian entered the central sea region in the name of the War Merchant Guild, he was also vetted.
When Ao Jian submitted an application to enter the central sea region, the emissary sent it to the central sea region along with all the information about Ao Jian that the Underworld had investigated.
Where did he start, how did he establish his organization, how did he develop and rise … The Underworld Headquarters knew all of this information like the back of their hand.
The vetting process could be said to be very strict.
Therefore, even if the woman was at the peak of Godly State, she still needed to be vetted.
According to the information provided by the woman, the Underworld Headquarters immediately sent emissaries to collect information and conduct an investigation. At the same time, they collected information about the woman through various channels to ensure that there was no problem with the woman.
The investigation lasted for half a year. When the emissary confirmed that the woman's identity was reliable and began to rush to the headquarters, an unexpected scene happened in the headquarters.
For the past half a year, the woman had been staying in the Underworld Headquarters. All of her actions were closely monitored. If she made any strange movements, she might be killed by the internal experts.
Fortunately, the woman seemed to be aware of this. She stayed in the Underworld Headquarters for most of her days and did not go out.
However, the woman's body was deteriorating day by day.
The member of the Underworld Headquarters who was responsible for monitoring the woman did not notice this at first. However, as the vitality of the island where the woman lived slowly faded and the plants withered, the member of the surveillance team immediately noticed that something was wrong and decisively reported the information to the headquarters.
Soon, the investigation team in the headquarters received the information and came to investigate.
The woman did not hide it anymore and chose to tell them about her body's condition.
At that moment, the higher-ups of the Underworld Headquarters finally knew about the woman's condition. It turned out that the woman's body had already dried up and was no longer of any value.
She hid in the Yellow Springs headquarters because she wanted to obtain the status of a member of the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild while she still had her strength.
That way, even if he died, his future child would be nurtured by the Huang Quan headquarters and wouldn't have to wander outside and die at any moment.
However, half a year had passed and the messenger had yet to return. She could no longer hold on!
Knowing this, the Underworld Merchant Guild's "investigation team" in charge of investigating the woman's identity immediately decided to expel the woman from the Underworld Headquarters!
After all, the Yellow Springs headquarters still had their own rules. They would not keep any idlers around.
Except for Ao Jian!
To be more precise, he would not raise worthless idlers.
The woman who was on the brink of death had been categorized as a worthless idler by the investigation team.
It was perfectly normal for him to be driven out.
At this time, the emissary who had gone out to investigate returned and conveyed the woman's information to the investigation team.
However, this information was now completely worthless. After looking through it for a while, the investigation team decided to banish the woman from the Yellow Springs headquarters.
Right at this moment, the woman took the initiative to make a request.
Before he died, he would help the Underworld Merchant Guild do one thing while he still had strength, even if it meant throwing his life away!
Her request was simple. She wanted her child to stay in the Yellow Springs headquarters and be nurtured!
Regarding such a request, the investigation team neither agreed nor rejected it. Instead, they chose to ask their superior.
Soon, their superior replied to the woman's request.
They could agree to it!
However, the condition was to be in the north of the central sea region where divinity was about to be born as an offering to the Underworld Merchant Guild in battle.
This request was equivalent to sending the woman to her death and squeezing out her last bit of value.
Regarding this request, the woman chose to agree to it without hesitation.
However, before fulfilling this request, the woman hoped that her child's future could be guaranteed. He wanted to be apprenticed to someone in the Underworld Merchant Guild!
Regarding this request, the higher-ups of the Underworld Merchant Guild chose to agree to it after some consideration.
As for who to be apprenticed to, the higher-ups of the Underworld Merchant Guild would be very distressed.
The Three Venerables, the Three Demon Stars, the Six Earthly Spirits, and so on …
Although there were many powerhouses in the headquarters, it was not easy for these powerhouses to accept disciples.
Either the disciple they accepted was similar to their own cultivation method, or the disciple was extremely talented. However, no matter how talented the disciple was, the lowest threshold was the Ghost Emperor Realm.
However, this woman's child was only an ordinary Ghost Soldier Realm. He could not reach the threshold for these powerhouses to accept disciples at all.
At this moment, someone thought of Ao Jian who was only in the Divine Realm but relied on his adopted children to climb up the ranks.
Due to Ao Jian's current special status, the investigation team naturally did not dare to force Ao Jian to accept disciples. With the mentality of giving it a try, they found Ao Jian and made this request.
When Ao Jian heard this news, he naturally wanted to reject it.
After all, his plot had not developed to the end yet. There were still two most important thresholds. The first was to break through to the Ancient God Realm, and the second was to integrate all the Water Sword Essences to forge the sword essence of the law.
Therefore, Ao Jian had no intention of accepting disciples at all.
Regarding this, the investigation team felt helpless, but they still chose to tell the woman the news.
As a result, the next day, Ao Jian, who was in closed-door cultivation, met the woman who brought Sui Ye. She knelt down and begged him to accept the child.
Ao Jian's heart did not waver because at this time, he did not want to train anyone except for cultivation.
However, after seeing Sui Ye, Ao Jian inexplicably felt that he looked very familiar.
That shiny bald head was too f * cking eye-catching.
Isn't this that …
After thinking for a while, Ao Jian still could not remember the specific name. He only vaguely remembered that it seemed to be called 'bald mentor'.
This could be said to be fate, or it could also be said to be an inevitable event in the development of the plot.
Faced with the woman who was begging, Ao Jian sighed in his heart. He turned his head to look at Sui Ye who was pulling the corner of his mother's clothes and said,
"Are you willing to be my son?"
Before the confused Sui Ye could agree, the woman spoke first. She repeatedly said 'yes' and then pressed Sui Ye to kneel on the ground, making him kowtow to Ao Jian to acknowledge him as his father.
After confirming the relationship between Sui Ye and Ao Jian, the woman left. However, she did not take Sui Ye with her when she left, but left him by Ao Jian's side.
Although she was reluctant when she left, she knew that it was time for her to fulfill her promise.
We will never see each other again. May your future be like a dragon, may your future be immortal, may your future be … peaceful and without regrets!
That day, Sui Ye cried loudly.
Although he was young, Sui Ye knew very well that his mother was seriously ill.
What his mother said before she left was more like a farewell. He had already realized that he was about to lose his mother.
He was so sad about it that he even wanted to follow his mother's footsteps.
However, Ao Jian stopped him and told him something.
"Without strength, you're just a burden. Remember to hate, and take revenge when you're strong enough. That's what you should do!"
Ao Jian did not ask what Sui Ye had experienced, nor did he know the reason why his mother was seriously injured.
He only told Sui Ye the importance of strength.
With strength, one could do anything one wanted to do. One could use strength to save his mother, and one could use strength to take revenge. Strength was the foundation of everything.
At that moment, the young Sui Ye had a vague concept of strength.
After that, Sui Ye never saw his mother again.
Ao Jian had also secretly asked someone to investigate this matter. When he learned that Sui Ye's mother was sacrificed as a sacrifice for the Acheron Chamber of Commerce, he chose to hide this matter and began to teach Sui Ye the sword.
Sui Ye's talent in sword will was extremely strong. There was an unyielding and free strength in his heart.
His Heart of the Sword was more like a free sword.
Compared to Ao Jian, Sui Ye's talent was much better. In a short period of time, he forged a Heart of the Sword that matched his attributes. In half a year, he broke through the Ghost Soldier Realm and reached the Ghost Commander Realm.
During the contact, Ao Jian gradually developed feelings for Sui Ye who was extremely talented in the cultivation of sword will. He even raised Sui Ye as his own child.
Occasionally, he would give some resources to Sui Ye, allowing his strength to improve by leaps and bounds.
However, Ao Jian also noticed all the flaws in Sui Ye's cultivation. That was, the hostility in his heart was still too strong. This would more or less affect the cultivation speed of his Free Sword Will.
After all, the disappearance of his mother had caused this child to suffer too much.
Ao Jian could not change this. He could only hope that time could erase this memory.
In the following cultivation, Ao Jian only had a little bald pendant by his side.
Sui Ye also called Ao Jian "father" like Ao Jian's adopted children. He regarded Ao Jian as his only family.
In fact, Ao Jian would be lying if he said he was not envious of Sui Ye's cultivation progress.
The time taken by Sui Ye to condense a sword will was more than ten times faster than Ao Jian. There were no bottlenecks in the early stage.
In comparison, Ao Jian's cultivation speed could be described as the speed of a tortoise.
This was not to say that Ao Jian's talent was extremely poor. The main reason was that the sword will that he cultivated did not match his attributes. There was even a state of conflicting attributes.
Therefore, whenever Sui Ye asked to learn Ao Jian's Sea Sword Will, Ao Jian would choose to refuse.
This was because learning these sword wills with attributes would only limit Sui Ye's future development, which was disadvantageous to him.
Ao Jian had already deeply understood this. Naturally, he did not want Sui Ye to experience the hardships and repeat the same mistakes.
However, Sui Ye never gave up on this point. From time to time, he requested to learn the Water Sword Will.
From Sui Ye's point of view, the Water Sword Will was Ao Jian's strongest unique skill. The other sword wills were only Ao Jian's side skills. They were not comparable to the main sword will.
However, despite Sui Ye's repeated pleas, Ao Jian still did not choose to agree.
Since you have become my son, then you should walk your own path and not copy my own path!
It was the same for Ao Jian's other adopted sons. Although they were all taught by Ao Jian, they walked their own path and never copied his.
Only Sui Ye, who had a strong desire for power, was an exception.
Time passed in the process of cultivation and growth.
The cultivation resources that Ao Jian received were increasing day by day. Gradually, there was the addition of Divine Spiritual Materials.
Divine Spiritual Materials were extremely precious spiritual materials even in the Central Sea Area. Ordinary members of the Chamber of Commerce were not qualified to use them.
However, Ao Jian was different.
As the Sword Master, he would regularly receive a batch of Divine Spiritual Materials to assist in his cultivation.
At the same time, as the status of the adopted sons in the headquarters rose day by day, they were gradually qualified to receive Divine Spiritual Materials.
Apart from using these precious Divine Spiritual Materials for their own cultivation, the adopted sons would often send some to Ao Jian when they visited him.
Ao Jian could be said to be the most enviable existence in the Acheron Chamber of Commerce.
Others had to fight desperately for Divine Spiritual Materials. They put in a lot of effort and even lost their lives in the battle.
Only Ao Jian was different. His current mission was to break through to the Ancient God Realm.
In terms of Divine Spiritual Materials, he had the support of both the headquarters and the adopted sons. This was the treatment that everyone longed for.
However, Ao Jian's heart was not calm.
Although he did not fight for these Divine Spiritual Materials, the adopted sons were in the most competitive areas in the Central Sea Area. They often encountered life and death crises.
It could be said that these Divine Spiritual Materials were stained with the blood of the adopted sons. It was not easy to obtain them.
At this moment, Ao Jian was no longer as relaxed as he was when he adopted the adopted sons. Instead, he felt a heavy sense of guilt.
At this moment, he only hoped to complete the plot challenge as soon as possible and leave this place …
The days of cultivation were boring. Fortunately, he had Sui Ye to accompany him this time.
Just like that, countless thoughts passed by.
On this day, Ao Jian felt the arrival of a bottleneck.
Long prepared, Ao Jian took out all the Divine Spiritual Materials he had accumulated and began to work hard to break through to the Ancient God Realm.
The news that Ao Jian was about to break through shocked the entire Acheron Chamber of Commerce.
The Ancient God Realm was different from the God Realm. It was the core combat power in the Central Sea Area. The number of Ancient God Realm experts was the key factor to determine the strength of a force.
Therefore, on the day of Ao Jian's breakthrough, many senior members of the Acheron Chamber of Commerce came to support Ao Jian.
The Heavenly Sword Formation was activated. Thousands of sword rays pierced through the clouds and sprinkled specks of starlight.
As the formation operated, the Divine Spiritual Materials inside were crushed and turned into a thick spiritual mist. The mist floated in the formation and wrapped around Ao Jian.
It took him half a year to break through to the next realm.
During this half a year, the senior members of the Acheron Chamber of Commerce did not leave the headquarters. They kept staring at the formation and looked forward to the birth of another expert in the headquarters.
Ao Jian did not disappoint them.
Although his cultivation speed was very slow and he spent more cultivation resources than others, his foundation was very solid. In the end, he broke through the extremely difficult threshold and stepped into the Ancient God Realm.
At that moment, the chanting of the sea sounded in the Central Sea Area. The shadow of the Acheron Sea God descended and gave Ao Jian blessings for his advancement to the Ancient God Realm.
His name also flashed with colorful light on the Underworld God List and moved up.
That day, Ao Jian spent the day in the congratulations of the members of the Acheron Chamber of Commerce.
However, the next day, Ao Jian set foot on the road to the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
Although he had reached the Ancient God Realm, he did not have the powerful sword will that matched the Ancient God Realm, which was the sword will of the law.
The place near the Six Paths of Reincarnation was also the area with the densest law aura. He wanted to condense his strongest sword will of the law there.
After bidding farewell to his adopted children, Ao Jian set foot on the end of his plot.
Beside the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the Praying Soul Flower bloomed. The air was filled with an intoxicating scent that made one's soul tremble and could not help but want to fall asleep. The further in he went, the more it was so.
In such an environment, Ao Jian forgot about the time and devoted himself to cultivation.
All the sword will of the water was crushed and recombined during the cultivation. Little by little, it merged with the sword will law in the Heart of the Sword and combined into his strongest sword will of the law.
The moment the sword was formed, a stronger power of law floated out of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and wrapped around Ao Jian.
At that moment, Ao Jian comprehended the Acheron Sword Venerable's strongest sword, the Sea God Sword.
At that moment, the illusion became blurred.
The final battle that he imagined did not happen.
Ao Jian originally thought that the illusion of the battle between sword wills was a battle between sword wills. The end of the plot would be the final battle between him and the Acheron Sword Venerable to determine who was the stronger one.
However, the fact was that when he comprehended the Acheron Sword Venerable's strongest sword, he had already obtained the approval of the Sea God Sword Will.
The illusion became blurred at that moment.
Everything was like the moon in the mirror. The moment it touched, it was about to turn into ripples and disperse.
At that moment, Ao Jian's figure flickered constantly. He controlled the Sea God Sword Will to bring him back to the Acheron Headquarters in a flash.
He wanted to see his adopted children one more time before he left.
The scene around him became blurred. It was too late.
His adopted children who were out on expeditions were not at the headquarters. When Ao Jian returned, he could only see Sui Ye who had broken through the Demigod Realm.
At that moment, Sui Ye's face was no longer childish. There was a sharpness in his eyes. It was familiar yet strange.
Before leaving, Ao Jian took a deep look at Sui Ye who was full of surprise. He sighed in his heart. Everything around him turned into nothingness at that moment.
…
The illusion ended. At that moment, Ao Jian woke up from the illusion.
At that moment, a teasing voice came from the side.
"You've come back to your senses? You're going to die again! "
In Sui Ye's opinion, Ao Jian who had come back to his senses would be killed by the Sea God Sword Will.
Upon hearing that, Ao Jian immediately turned to look at Sui Ye.
The memory in his mind slowly faded at that moment, but it had not completely disappeared.
Looking at Sui Ye's familiar face and his annoying expression, Ao Jian subconsciously frowned and put on a stern face.
"How can you talk to your father like that? I'll punish you to kneel in the Sword Mound for 30 days!"
Sui Ye, "???"
Upon hearing that, Sui Ye was dumbfounded.
"What did you just call me?" Sui Ye widened his eyes and raised the giant sword in his hand.
Although he was extremely angry, Sui Ye did not know why but he suddenly felt that Ao Jian was very similar to the Acheron Sword Venerable.
This was because when the Sword Venerable was angry, he would often adopt this posture and the punishment was to kneel in the Sword Mound.
This made Sui Ye feel as if he had seen a ghost. However, he could not lose in terms of momentum!
At that moment, Ao Jian's memory in the illusion had become extremely blurred and disappeared completely in the blink of an eye.
At that moment, Ao Jian was also dumbfounded.
Since he did not have the memory of the illusion, Ao Jian did not know why he would say such arrogant words.
How dare he call himself "father" to Sui Ye, the peerless swordsman. Who gave him the courage?
However, no matter how hard Ao Jian tried to recall, he could not think of the reason why he would say such words.
Although it was indeed very smooth, as if he had always called it that way …
Looking at Sui Ye, Ao Jian felt very sad. He could only say awkwardly,
"It's said that the memory of a fish only lasts for seven seconds. I suspect that I'm in this state now, believe it or not!"
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