Many, many years ago, Chaotian was still in the barbaric era.
Volcanoes often erupted, seas often roared, rivers often overflowed, and spiritual energy was dispersed in the abyss, but it was still slowly rising.
The fog covered the sky, and the earth was dark. The cracked earth was exactly the same as the back of a certain divine beast.
Suddenly, a shooting star streaked across the night sky and landed somewhere in the southern continent.
After an unknown number of years, the place where the meteor entered gradually bulged and became a lonely peak.
There weren't any creatures on the mountain peak, not even a single plant. It was because the entire place was filled with a sharp cutting intent.
With the passage of time, the continent gradually calmed down. The airflow became stable, the rain became regular, the earth became moist, and all living things grew.
A young woodcutter with the surname Shen stumbled into the deep mountains and picked up a demon sword. He comprehended the laws of heaven and earth and attained the Dao in a single day.
He was inspired by the lush greenery of the mountains and used this as his title, calling himself the Zhenren of Aoyama.
Behind him, the sword gradually gained a true spirit and was about to leave.
The True Master of Aoyama had created a scabbard to restrain his soul, depriving him of freedom.
The scabbard was named Sky Bearing, and the sword was named All in One.
The Enlightened Master of Aoyama wielded the All in One Sword, sweeping across the world and creating the number one sword sect in the world.
This was the origin of the Aoyama Sect.
He was the founder of Aoyama.
The Founder of Aoyama was the first human to ascend. For some reason, he didn't bring the All in One Sword with him when he left Chaotian; in other words, he couldn't bring the All in One Sword with him.
After that, every Faction Leader of Aoyama would wield the sheath of the Inherited Heaven Sword to control the All in One Sword. Only by doing so would they be qualified to be the Faction Leader.
Many years ago, with the sudden deaths of the Immortal Daoyuan and the Immortal Chenzhou, All in One Sword suddenly disappeared from the mountains of Aoyama.
Taiping Zhenren and the Dead Dog had searched for him secretly for many years, but they didn't find him.
No one knew that the young Taoist priest named Jingyang had a new playmate.
That playmate was sometimes a mushroom, sometimes a stone, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a sword.
However, no matter what, the Grandmaster of Aoyama was definitely the one who was most qualified to say that.
All in One, you are my sword.
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When the Grandmasters of Aoyama ascended to the outside universe, the Federation of the Milky Way was still in its initial stage, and the human civilization hadn't recovered completely.
He might have known all the secrets from the very beginning, or he learned the truth after he came to this world. All in all, he knew that his sword was the only weapon capable of igniting the permanent star and wiping out the Sea of Dark Matter.
He guarded the humans in Silence, waiting for the sword to arrive.
Many, many years had passed, and the human civilization had developed at a high speed again. That sword had finally ascended and left Chaotian; but it was no longer the same sword.
More importantly, the sword had successfully destroyed the Sky Mandate Sword during a civil war in Aoyama Sect.
Hence, the Grandmaster of Aoyama forged a new version of the Inherited Heaven Sword.
Both the departure of Shen Yunmai and the torrential river in Jian Xilai's awareness were intended to exert pressure on Jing Jiu and push him to the side of the female priest.
When Jing Jiu intended to control this world, this world would control him in turn. Even though he was strong enough to resist this world for a while, he still couldn't stop the program from entering his awareness with an unimaginably large amount of information, wiping out his independent awareness and regaining control of his body.
So how did it all start?
The hexagonal ice block refracted the light of the distant permanent star. There were more stars in the universe. The spiritual awareness of the Grandmaster of Aoyama was projected among them, looking at Jing Jiu in Silence.
Tens of thousands of battleships had gotten rid of the control and were heading toward him along with the ascendants, looking like countless burning flying swords.
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Many days ago.
Jing Jiu killed the Mother of the highest state, but he was wounded severely because he underestimated her callous will and her desire to die.
Considering the distance between him and the sun at the time, it would take him many years to recover from his wounds.
Taiping Zhenren turned into a band of green smoke and pushed Jing Jiu closer to the sun, shortening the time for Jing Jiu to recover to a few hundred seconds, and then he himself had only a few seconds left.
At the last moment, they saw tens of thousands of burning flying swords.
Those burning flying swords turned into battleships as soon as they stopped.
As the ubiquitous surveillance network discovered the abnormal energy movement in this part of the universe, the Starpoint Fleet arrived as quickly as possible, and saw Jing Jiu sleeping soundly.
There were ascendants in the Starpoint Fleet, and more than one of them. Those regular officers and soldiers didn't know what was going on, but they did.
A newcomer had come to their hometown.
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Jing Jiu was brought into the battleship. After a preliminary check, he was frozen at a very low temperature and sent to General Li as quickly as possible.
From the residual sword will between his fingers, General Li could easily tell that he was a disciple of the Aoyama Sect. In other words, he was his direct descendant.
Just as he was about to treat Jing Jiu's wounds and wake him up, the preliminary check report was sent to his desk.
All the data in the report pointed to one fact, and that was that this unbelievably good-looking junior didn't seem to be an ordinary Daoist cultivator.
Following that, the military laboratory conducted a series of more thorough checks on Jing Jiu. General Li looked at the results and remained silent for a long time.
Jing Jiu's body was so strong that it was far stronger than the celestial bodies of ordinary ascendants. Even the mythical beasts and giants in the sea were not far from his level.
Human civilization had already entered the interstellar era, but they couldn't find any way to break his skin.
This news was sent to the Ancestral Star, to the small island in the Jade Sea, and was placed in front of the Patriarch of Aoyama.
That night, the Patriarch drank two cups of wine, which was rare for him. He sighed and said, "It's finally here."
What followed was still endless experiments.
That perfect body was still perfect and unbreakable.
When he was asleep, there was no way to enter his consciousness. Naturally, there was no way to control him.
In the end, the military handed the perfect body to the Science Academy of the Federation.
It was not because they expected the Science Academy to produce more results, but because the Patriarch of Aoyama and General Li had their own ideas.
At a certain moment, Jing Jiu opened his eyes and woke up. Hearing the discussion of the golden-haired scholar, he uttered "hmm" for the first time in this world, and then he entered the known story.
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It was true.
Everything had been arranged beforehand.
Everything had been arranged from the moment he woke up in the laboratory in the earth core to the moment Hua Xi accepted his request.
General Li was in control of the military, so how could he not know that he was an ascendant from Chaotian? The Patriarch was still alive; how could he not recognize that Jing Jiu was that sword?
They were faced with a problem.
If the humans wished to survive, they had to wipe out the Sea of Dark Matter and ignite those permanent stars.
Anyone who carried out the plan of igniting the stars with the All in One Sword would die.
That god couldn't escape from this fate.
Would he be willing to make such a sacrifice, regardless of whether the All in One Sword had developed a spiritual awareness or was occupied by a spiritual soul?
"We asked you to leave because we hoped that you would realize the situation of the humans on your own and develop sympathy, or at least empathy. It would be better if you could develop a sense of responsibility."
"In fact, we have prepared a great deal of information for you, but you didn't need us. It took you only a short time to learn everything. Your learning speed is amazing."
"The Patriarch thought that you wouldn't be willing to become someone else's sword, even if it was the sword of destiny for the humans. But I had a glimmer of hope, until I read the book you wrote."
"We have learned who you are and roughly understood your thoughts. As such, we have set up a test to test you and let the praying hall get in touch with you, waiting for you to make the final choice."
This was a very long investigation. This was a very big game, and it was also a multiple-choice question.
If Jing Jiu chose to become a member of the Butterfly Organization, he would be asked to let go of his spiritual world and leave his spiritual imprint to devote himself to the humans.
If he chose to become a new god, he would be asked to connect with the whole starry sky, and then he would be attacked by the starry sky like what he was doing now, and all of his independent awareness would be washed away.
He didn't like this organization, the Butterfly Organization, because of the assassination tests.
Jian Xilai's encounter and Cao Yuan's choice made him wary.
It wasn't until Shen Yunmai suddenly disappeared and Jian Xilai suddenly appeared a few days ago that he decided to cooperate with the female priest. As such, he poured a cup of tea for Hua Xi.
It was a meaningless choice. He had lost the moment he made the choice, and the sword fell into the sheath.
In other words, it was a choice made by the Great Grandmaster for him.
To put it more precisely, the Great Grandmaster had only provided two answers to this question. No matter which one Jing Jiu chose, it would be the one the humans wanted.
It could be understood that the Great Grandmaster had provided two paths for Jing Jiu. No matter which path he chose, he would be where he was now.
The path toward heaven and each taking a different path?
It was merely different paths leading to the same destination.
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When Jing Jiu saw the large river and the young Daoist priest by the river in the spiritual world of Jian Xilai, he said:
Everything was fake.
It was true that everything was arranged by the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama.
After the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama hid in the sea of stars, he pushed Jing Jiu to the side of Hua Xi and asked him to open up his spiritual world.
The old man was intermittently visible among the stars in the sky, looking huge or great.
Yet, he looked as ordinary as a retired old man who fished by the river every day.
Looking at the starry sky, Jing Jiu suddenly said, "I've seen the portrait of you."
All the disciples of Aoyama had seen the portrait.
The portrait was placed in the first place in the small building. It was the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama.
Countless gazes fell on him, as they wanted to know what he wanted to say at the last moment before his life, or in other words, his independent awareness disappeared.
"I thought the painter was terrible, and that's why you looked so ugly in the portrait."
Jing Jiu went on, "I didn't know until today that you are even uglier than in the portrait."
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