In a grassy field, a pack of wolves met a single boy with a sword. This should have been prologue to a tragic conclusion, yet…

Slash, Slash, Slash! Heifeng Jiansui’s top-grade sword easily cleaved through flesh and blood to behead the wolves and end their lives. The pack had been decimated in no time at all. After killing off the alpha first and putting the pack into disarray, Heifeng Jiansui casually slaughtered all the beasts.

“…It’s been only a day and all my spatial rings are filled up already. I did get around 10,000 beastcores, but the rings are filled with the flesh and blood from the beasts. That amount is enough to refine a gallon of essence blood, but I am still a bit disappointed… The Tri-Essence Swallowing Sword’s foundation was completely mastered by me, but I still can’t leave husks of dried skin like a true heaven-swallowing demon!” That’s right, even a top-grade law couldn’t unleash such destruction at the foundation stage. Quintessence Sword was an exception because it was Heifeng Jiansui’s own Sword Codex.

“I swept through the entirety of the island and uniformly reduced the population of the beasts. After exploring the island, its shape of a phoenix claw and the placement of spirit veins, it truly is in the shape of a phoenix. If I use that formation, I can cover the entirety of the island and turn it into my true domain.” A domain. This was controlling a part of the world and its laws, binding it to oneself. If Heifeng Jiansui bound the island into his domain, he would have unsurpassed killing power as long as he didn’t face Immortal Lords.

Of course, Heifeng Jiansui had a chaosworld microcosm within his heart, but he was planning to remove it before embarking on the path of cultivation. Something that should only being created at the apex of cultivation being present in the body of a new cultivator… that was a recipe for chaos.

“Of the nine layers, I have reached the apex in Physique, Dantian and Battle Spirit. I have opened the Three Sea, but not reached the limit of them. And as for Law Intent and Bone Inscription, my understanding of the Sword Dao that I carried over from my previous life has transformed them as well. As for the Daoheart…”

The Daoheart wasn’t as simple as willpower or a desire to pursue the peak of martial arts. As the final step of the Body Transformation boundary, it was a barrier that could not be crossed by many geniuses. It was something that brought together all the previous layers of Body Transformation to truly transform the body. It was the first true step on the boundless path of the Martial Dao.

It would be the heart of the Dao Heifeng Jiansui would pursue. Thus, if he simply took the Sword Dao he had risen to the apex as his Daoheart, he would have his cultivation speed rise to an enormous level. He could also rise to a Chaos Sovereign, the apex he reached in his previous life. But…

Wouldn’t it be simply rehashing the path he walked on earlier? Something like that would be meaningless. If one reached the 9th Heaven in his previous life, he must become an existence above the Heavens!

In his previous life, the Sword Dao was his Daoheart, with the Nine Elemental Dao as the supporting pillars. In this life, the Sword Dao had to become a supporting pillar of the True Dao he chose as his Daoheart!

But a Dao which encompassed the Sword Dao within it was too rare. To begin with, the only such Dao Heifeng Jiansui knew of was the Dao of the Battle Emperor, a Dao focused on converging the myriad killing techniques into one.

It was the Dao which the eldest, yet the weakest Perpetual Emperor completed. An ordinary mortal received a part of its legacy and soared to become the youngest, yet the strongest Perpetual Emperor. Heifeng Jiansui was suddenly reminded of his master.

That person died battling the Black Dragon along with all the other Perpetual Emperors, all to buy time for him to grow to a realm where he could kill it. That person was the only one who Sword Immortal Jiansui acknowledged as his master, but who refused to acknowledge him as a disciple. That reminded him, he had to pass that legacy down in this era.

The Dao of the Battle Emperor was not one which he could embark on.

The Nine Elemental Dao, the Samsara Dao encompassing Life, Death and Reincarnation, the eternal cycle of Chaos, Creation and Desolation… None of them truly suited him. As Heifeng Jiansui thought long and hard about his future path, hours passed by and day turned into night.

This shook Heifeng Jiansui from his daze. In the shadow of the night, the moon was shining bright. A gentle gale was blowing, but all it spread was the smell of blood. A river flowed in a stream and some small beasts drank from it.

A myriad wonders stemming from one. A Dao that was complex yet simple. A path that all cultivators at the apex had to embark on.

Heifeng Jiansui decided that the Dao that would be the Heart of his cultivation! The Dao that encompassed all, the Dao of the World!

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After only a single day, Heifeng Jiansui returned to his estate. As the master of his house, he could enter without alerting the inhabitants. He immediately entered the most important place within, the Auxiliary Refinement Corridors.

This mobile estate had Earth Rank tools for Alchemy, Blacksmithing and Formations. These facilities that weren’t allowed to him as a Prince were all here! In truth, he was allowed a higher grade mobile estate due to not taking a posse of Imperial Guards around.

Entering the Alchemy Room, he immediately made himself familiar with the Earth Rank Cauldron. Connecting himself to the Formations running through the Palace, he immediately used the qi he had access to and expanded the size of the Cauldron. After this, he immediately poured a spatial ring’s contents into it.

The ring had the flesh and blood of all the tigers that he slaughtered today. The cauldron closed and he began refining. Finally, a single drop of pure essence blood of a tiger was formed. This would be a good reward for Xuehu Ying, who had a Kirin bloodline.

After this, drops of blood containing the essence of dragons, tortoises and phoenix were formed as well. The remaining blood and flesh was condensed into Bloodheart Crystals. This was something that could improve almost any bloodline and something that could be formed only after a battlefield of slaughter.

Heifeng Jiansui then remembered something that he had forgotten. With the Sword Talisman of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, he registered this mansion as his abode. Now, the messenger sword carrying materials and taking finished products would arrive here instead of the Black Phoenix Imperial Palace.

After picking up some A-Rank and S-Rank missions, he began refining. There were many tasks he had to do, so might as well begin with the easiest first.