Chapter 2: Ten Thousand Years Later

After a long time, Chu Fengmian’s consciousness gradually awakened.

“What is going on? Could it be that I didn’t die?”

Chu Fengmian opened his eyes abruptly and sat up, but the pain in his body still made him frown.

“Where is this? Didn’t I jump off Tianjue Peak? How could I still be alive?”

Chu Fengmian’s eyes were filled with extreme bewilderment. As he looked at his surroundings, everything felt completely unfamiliar to him.

“Chu Fengmian? The banks of the Weishui River? The Lin Mansion?”

Suddenly, Chu Fengmian was stunned, and then the look in his eyes as he surveyed his surroundings began to change.

“So, I, Chu Jianbai, have already been dead for ten thousand years?”

Chu Fengmian raised his head and looked around, his eyes filled with desolation.

Chu Jianbai.

If this name were mentioned ten thousand years ago, it would have been a name known to everyone throughout the entire Wusheng Kingdom.

The Way of the Sword was the greatest martial path in the Wusheng Kingdom, and perhaps even the entire continent.

If one were to ask who was the number one in the Way of the Sword, even a child would blurt out the answer: the Master of the Sword.

The Supreme Realm, the number one in the Way of the Sword.

But if one were to ask who was the number one in Sword Intent, ten thousand years ago, there was another name.

Chu Jianbai.

The Chu Jianbai of the past was the number one in Sword Intent ten thousand years ago, the youngest disciple of the Master of the Sword. At the time, even the Master of the Sword had sighed to him.

When it came to Sword Intent and the comprehension of the Way of the Sword, Chu Jianbai had already surpassed his master, the Master of the Sword.

However, those words were not praise, but merely a sigh.

Because although Chu Jianbai possessed peerless Sword Intent, he had a fatal flaw: he was unable to cultivate spiritual power his entire life.

Spiritual power is the energy generated, condensed, and accumulated within the spiritual meridians of a human body.

Without spiritual meridians, one cannot cultivate spiritual power, let alone accumulate it.

To possess such profound Sword Intent but no spiritual power was almost no different from being a cripple.

Later, the Master of the Sword fell after being besieged by the experts of the seven great sects. In order to obtain the countless sword techniques possessed by the Master of the Sword, the experts of the seven great sects began to hunt down his disciples.

Countless of Chu Jianbai’s fellow disciples fell at the hands of the experts from the seven great sects.

In the end, Chu Jianbai was discovered by the experts of the seven great sects on Tianjue Peak.

To prevent his sword techniques from falling into their hands, Chu Jianbai chose to destroy himself, leaping off Tianjue Peak.

“Heavenly Sword Sect! Desolate Ancient Gate! Holy King Sect! Heavenly Pivot Hall! Nine Demon City! Ancient Moon Valley! Medicine King Valley! The seven great sects! I, Chu Jianbai, will definitely slaughter my way up to each and every one of you! I will avenge my fallen master and fellow disciples!”

Chu Fengmian, who was also Chu Jianbai, let out a roar.

Since heaven had given him another life, he would take revenge on the seven great sects for the blood feud of the past.

However, it was already ten thousand years later. The name Chu Jianbai had long since vanished, and the body he now inhabited was named Chu Fengmian.

“Sigh, this Chu Fengmian is truly miserable, to have been beaten to death by two servants.”

After waking up, the memories of this body flooded into Chu Jianbai’s mind. He naturally understood everything that had just happened.

“From now on, Chu Jianbai is dead; there is only Chu Fengmian.”

A look of determination appeared in Chu Fengmian’s eyes.

Chu Jianbai had died at the foot of Tianjue Peak ten thousand years ago, and now, there was only a Chu Fengmian who sought revenge against the seven great sects.

“This body…”

Chu Fengmian’s expression quickly turned grave. As he examined the body, a slight anomaly from his left hand suddenly made him overjoyed.

“This is… spiritual power!”

On Chu Fengmian’s left hand, there was an inconspicuous cyan particle.

The spiritual power within this cyan particle was extremely thin, but for Chu Fengmian, this was the first time he had ever felt spiritual power.

The Chu Jianbai of the past possessed the Nine-Absolute Body, meaning not a single spiritual meridian could be found in his entire body. Even the countless spiritual medicines his master, the Master of the Sword, had sought out were of no use to him.

But now, although the spiritual power in this body was extremely thin, for Chu Fengmian, it was hope.

As long as it was not the Nine-Absolute Body, he was confident he could transform this body into the most perfect vessel in the world.

Chu Fengmian sat cross-legged and began to slowly circulate the meager amount of thin spiritual power within his body.

Slowly, a golden ancient tome appeared in Chu Fengmian’s mind. On the cover of this golden tome, five golden characters emerged.

Bone-Breaking Rebirth Technique!

The number one cultivation technique of the Wusheng Kingdom ten thousand years ago.

For all martial artists, spiritual meridians are of the utmost importance. A person’s meridians represent their talent and their future achievements.

Spiritual meridians are innate. Someone like Chu Fengmian was a martial artist with only one and a half meridians; he hadn’t even cleared a single meridian in his body, so his cultivation speed was several times, even dozens of times, slower than an ordinary martial artist.

Being born with one spiritual meridian was enough to practice martial arts, but the achievements would be limited.

In the Lin Mansion, true inner disciples had at least three spiritual meridians, and the outstanding ones were born with five. The number one person in the Lin Mansion, the Young Mansion Master, was born with all seven meridians cleared—the first in a century, a genius famous throughout the entire Wusheng Kingdom.

Although spiritual meridians are innate, there are other ways to clear them. Some rare treasures and the assistance of experts can help clear them.

And this Bone-Breaking Rebirth Technique, known as the number one technique of its time, was precisely because it had the effect of clearing spiritual meridians.

The Chu Jianbai of the past had also desperately sought this Bone-Breaking Rebirth Technique to clear his meridians, but even this technique could not clear the Nine-Absolute Body.

But this time, this body was not the Nine-Absolute Body. Even if the meridians were currently blocked, Chu Fengmian was confident he could clear them.

“Condense!”

Chu Fengmian sat on the ground, eyes tightly shut, and began to circulate the Bone-Breaking Rebirth Technique.

Before long, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down Chu Fengmian’s forehead.

This Bone-Breaking Rebirth Technique was not a perfect technique. To practice it, one had to endure immense pain. In particular, this technique required one to first shatter the spiritual meridians in the body before condensing them again.

The pain of shattering one’s meridians was far greater than the pain of breaking bones.

But for Chu Fengmian, this was his first opportunity to cultivate. He was too happy to be afraid of this minor pain. In his previous life, he had tried everything he could but never had the chance to cultivate. This time, no matter how great the pain, Chu Fengmian would endure it.

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