When Shi Xiang experiences his rebirth thank to the teaching of the Heavenly Sword Sect Sect Master and the Devil Path Ancestor, it is not just his body and physique that was changed.

Something more fundamental was changed.

His way of thinking, his thoughts, his personality.

He is Shi Xiang in that he has experienced all that Shi Xiang has experienced and that he has the memories of Shi Xiang.

But Shi Xiang has fundamentally changed from his ordeal. That was why when the sect master "enlightened" Shi Xiang, the sect master was banned. The ban was not undeserving, not undeserving at all.

However, that experience also causes some strange changes in Shi Xiang's body.

People cultivates to attain purity. Shi Xiang's body itself purifies the very water that he bathes in to the point that it causes the flowers in his garden to achieve unnatural vitality. The air he breathes out are purified by his breath, the existence that was Shi Xiang was extremely strange.

Perhaps in this entire world, there is only one person that attain enlightenment from both a peak Heaven Path cultivator and a Devil Ancestor.

No one, not even the System can see where Shi Xiang may go next.

However, that also means the path that he walks is a lonely one, unexplored by anybody. It is akin to walking on the edge of a blade, the Heaven Path cultivators who do not know him will shun him if they know what half of his being comes from. The Devil cultivation is an unthinkable path for him ever since he knows someone like Zheng Jie.

Shi Xiang could only walks his own path.

Not accepting the heaven, not denying the heaven either.

He is just simply a transcendental being that exists beyond that boundary.

The only one who could walk that path is Shi Xiang, he is the gamble the system has made in the face of the reality of the world.

However, that path is going to be lonely, extremely lonely.

The only one who could walk that path is Shi Xiang.

Like the son of heaven itself, being blessed, at the very last moment when his assailant was considered taking his life, Shi Xiang wakes up.

Calmly, without a sound, he rises from his positions.

Usually, all the first time practitioners of the Inner Steel Heart technique are going to face a horrible surprise before giving up on the technique immediately.

It actually damages their cultivation.

However, after his rebirth, Shi Xiang has become increasingly strange that concept like feedback damage does not exist. The concept of inner energy probably doesn't exist either.

Shi Xiang practices his own Dao. He is an experiment that no one knows what would happen.

"Ah. I forgot how to breathe for a moment."

Shi Xiang says. The existence of Shi Xiang is incredibly strange, it is so strange that it does not fit any system at all. It was a kind of mixture. Currently despite appearing weak and vulnerable, with a low cultivation, Shi Xiang is unconsciously utilizing a technique that comes straight from the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sect himself.

Even the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect did not know that Shi Xiang copies it himself, but it is expected that while Zheng Jie comes from Yan Yu, Shi Xiang himself comes from Zheng Jie and Yan Yu after all. Shi Xiang takes after them after all.

While appearing weak with almost no inner energy at all like a starting practicioner, in fact, if a higher level master witness it, it would be like Shi Xiang is leaking energy out of his inner self. An even higher master would realize that Shi Xiang is in fact not leaking any energy at all, but they will not know just what is happening. Someone one step below the heaven like Zheng Jie or Yan Yu will realize that somehow, Shi Xiang has copied a peak master like Zheng Jie without Zheng Jie even demonstrating that technique at all.

Even moreso, it is not like that technique could be demonstrated.

It is something innate to every Heaven Path cultivator on a certain level.

One could say that it may even be end of the Heaven path level.

The cultivator becomes infinitely wise, his eyes regard all of heaven and earth, his ears listen to all the woes and happiness of the people of the world.

While it is not exactly that, it is infinitely close to that.

The Sect Master's divine sense allows him to scan all of heaven and earth and wipe out all undesirables.

The important thing is that it is an extremely high level technique automatically gained after you reach the Sky Sea stage, being compared to the heaven above, knowing everything. Shi Xiang on the other hand isn't even on the level of the much weaker Fang Yijun, let alone someone being compared favorably to the like of Zheng Jie. In fact, his cultivation was not even on that level, to the eyes of everyone, it was stuck at a low Foundation Formation stage level.

Shi Xiang has the Divine Sense nonetheless. With every breath, he expands his soul to the world. The air was filled with what some would call Heaven Qi.

It is an extremely beneficial energy, capable of healing and boosting the cultivation of everyone below Sky Sea level. Even at Sky Sea level, this energy was rarely seen. Even the elusive master of Shi Xiang, Shao Jingyi has rarely seen this kind of energy.

However, to the Heavenly Sword Sect, it was as easy as entering the Sword Saint manor inside their sect ground, as easy as entering the Sword Saint manor could be.

At the very end of the road, shaking the foundation of the heaven itself, a master beyond the keen of everyone else breathes out Heaven Qi. Towering everyone, the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect breathes out Heaven Qi, nearing the end of his journey.

Heaven Qi, the Qi coming from the heaven itself. In this case it comes from a human, infinitely close to the heaven that he may as well be the heaven itself.

It is shaking the foundation of the Heaven, a resource that could be described as heaven sent is a common commodity that is as common as breathing out air.

Of course, the previous generation of the Heavenly Sword Sect also achieves this level, and that is why the Heavenly Sword Sect is the best under the heaven, with disciples so strong, they tower even other sect's sect masters.

However, the point is that, currently Shi Xiang is breathing out that rare commodity, his soul purifying the energy of the continent itself, elevating it to a new level.

The people of the continent of course didn't know about the profoundness of what is being done.

Shi Xiang on the other hand stays as he is.

His breathing itself is compared to the number one master of the world itself, and yet his cultivation stay the same.

Shi Xiang does not benefit from the Heaven Qi at all despite it benefiting the people around him. For him it was as simple as the act of breathing.

When he says "I almost forget how to breathe for a moment" it was, for a moment, unconsciously he stops purifying the air inside his lungs and stops creating that mysterious energy.

And yet his cultivation remains the same.

Shi Xiang is extremely strange. Perhaps, he, only he cultivates a different Dao from everybody else.

He starts with a technique coming from the strongest master under the heaven that was as easy as breathing to him despite his low cultivation.

He stays at the weakest continent, a participle continent below the Nine Cloud Kingdom.

All this time, while unconsciously performing such heaven defying feat, Shi Xiang did not ascend.

All of it is contradictory, however Shi Xiang himself is a contradictory existence.

"ARG-"

Suddenly, a scream.

There was a scream in Shi Xiang's house at night.

"I wonder what comes over me."

A head was knocked flying straight out of the torso, instantly killing the assailant.

If Yating was here watching this, she would be even more traumatized.

Shi Xiang brutally murders another cultivator without a second thought.

And of course the violence tendency comes from the other side of the coin that is Shi Xiang, it comes from the Devil Path Ancestor Yan Yu.

Shi Xiang just kills people that threaten him without knowing despite his cultivation supposedly being weaker than them.

Shi Xiang walks a different path then any other.

Perhaps at this moment, there was no one from this continent that could threaten Shi Xiang.

At that moment, a man in the shadow was looking at Shi Xiang unimpressed.

"Hmm." With a dismissing voice the man continues to watch Shi Xiang's act of violence.

Someone that could threaten Shi Xiang within that continent appears.

Every Free Travel sect's disciples present was on the ground, kneeling and giving greeting to a big figure that has come to visit them.

The disciples was showing respect to the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect who has come to visit them.

Normally showing weakness like this is absolutely forbidden in the world of cultivation, especially showing weakness to the sect master of another sect. It was like admitting that their sect is nothing compared to the other.

But in this case, it is absolutely necessary. The other party deserves that level of respect, and...

"We deeply apologize for inconveniencing your excellency who has traveled all the way here to greet our master, but..."

The lead disciple of the Free Travel sect glances up at the unchanging visage of the Heavenly Saint. What is going to come next is going to be very disrespectful.

"Our master is currently away, taking care of business."

The Heavenly Saint who has gone out of his way to greet someone from another weaker sect was stood up for the first time in his life.