Chapter 109: Witnesses of the Times (Part Six)

Su Chen left the Heavenly Sword Holy Land.
The Holy Son of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land did not make a move.
He let Su Chen leave.
He was not a figure from Su Chen's era.
He was a figure from the same era as Wang Yunfei.
Like Cao Tianming back then, the Holy Son of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land was pure in his swordsmanship and extremely arrogant.
Su Chen shook his head. He didn't believe the Holy Son of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land would be a match for Wang Yunfei. However, as long as this Holy Son lived, the Heavenly Sword Holy Land would continue to prosper for thousands of years. With his death, the Heavenly Sword Holy Land... was finished!
The current Heavenly Sword Holy Land was too focused on external things and had long lost its pure swordsmanship philosophy... Su Chen smiled bitterly. What Cao Tianming had said—"Sincerity to the swordsmanship"—was the Heavenly Sword Holy Land's philosophy. Who could have foreseen that the Heavenly Sword Holy Land had already lost its former philosophy?
Su Chen stroked the Guichen Sword in his hand, a complex mix of emotions welling up inside him. Forged from his sixth incarnation, and nurtured by Shen Daoyuan's sword energy, the Guichen Sword had transformed into a divine weapon of the sword path, possessing traces of holy energy. It was just one step away from becoming a true holy weapon, but alas, that one step was all it took. The rise of the Imperial Sword Dynasty had offended too many forces. They wouldn't stand idly by and allow Shen Daoyuan to advance further, so they joined forces to ambush and kill him.
The Guichen Sword hummed and trembled, emitting a mournful cry.
Thousands of years had passed, and too many things had turned to dust, buried in an unknown, withered land.
Su Chen continued on his journey.
Not long after, news spread throughout the Southern Region.
A mysterious man in green robes riding a white horse had single-handedly suppressed the once-proud genius of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, leaving him unable to raise his head.
Furthermore, he had stolen the legendary divine weapon that ruled the world—the Guichen Sword!
The entire Southern Region's sword cultivators were captivated. The Returning Dust Sword—this was the very sword that had once dominated the Southern Region, nearly becoming the divine weapon of the Holy Dynasty's Imperial Sword Clan. Whoever wielded the Returning Dust Sword would undoubtedly become the Sword Master of the World!
The Heavenly Sword Holy Land had concealed far too much information. Su Chen had suppressed a generation of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, crushing their swordsmanship. Naturally, the leaders of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land wouldn't swallow this insult. They concealed the information about Mu Wunian, who wielded the Returning Dust Sword, and Su Chen's identity as a member of the Central Continent's royal family. They were using a proxy to kill, determined to humiliate Su Chen, even if it failed.
Sword cultivators from all over the world gathered, and there was no shortage of those willing to take the risk, wanting to kill Su Chen and seize the Returning Dust Sword!
Su Chen stretched helplessly. His white horse crushed the head of a still-breathing black-clad man with a single hoof. This was already the thirtieth wave of attacks they had encountered on their journey.
Ahead lay the Southern Region's giant, the Feathered Ascension Holy Land.
It's currently the strongest force in the Southern Region, ranking among the top in the entire Tianxuan Five Regions.
However... when Su Chen arrived at the Feathered Ascension Holy Land, he found that the people here...
"Young Master Wang, I'm sorry, we know why you've come."
"But... you've arrived a step too late. Most of the true disciples of my Feathered Ascension Holy Land are not in the sect. The sect has missions, and the Holy Land's true disciples have all gone to compete for opportunities. It's not appropriate for Young Master Wang to challenge them... What do you think? Should we wait for the true disciples of my Feathered Ascension Holy Land to return, or should Young Master Wang visit us another day?"
Su Chen looked at the smiling, amiable elder of the Feathered Ascension Holy Land and was speechless.
What a coincidence!
Are they playing with children?
The Feathered Ascension Holy Land sent its disciples out for training without informing them of Su Chen's impending visit... There was nothing wrong with that, but Su Chen knew that as long as he remained in the Feathered Ascension Holy Land, those true disciples would never return.
Now, Su Chen wouldn't stoop to bullying the ordinary inner disciples or the lower-ranked true disciples on the Prodigy Ranking. He had no interest in doing so. Going to the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, concealing his identity, was simply because he couldn't swallow the grudge. He had once served the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, and when the Imperial Sword Dynasty collapsed, the Heavenly Sword Holy Land not only stood by but even took advantage of his misfortune.
Although he was no longer Shen Chen, Su Chen naturally still wanted to settle the scores with the Imperial Sword Dynasty.
He had no grudge against the Feathered Ascension Holy Land, so naturally he wouldn't provoke this enemy without reason. The Feathered Ascension Holy Land's meaning was clear: if they couldn't win, they could avoid it... After all, Su Chen had been too ruthless in his treatment of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land; no force wanted its disciple to follow in his footsteps, especially one who had fought his way directly from the Heavenly Sword Holy Land to the Feathered Ascension Holy Land, earning a truly fearsome reputation.
Su Chen understood the Feathered Ascension Holy Land's actions... but he still sighed inwardly. The once domineering Gu Yan seemed to have changed a lot since becoming the Holy Lord of the Feathered Ascension Holy Land. The entire Feathered Ascension Holy Land no longer acted arrogantly. Perhaps it was because they had witnessed too many acquaintances die; the peerless geniuses of their era had been wiped out in the battles between the Southwest Regions, and they had begun to value their lives.
"However... the Holy Son returned to the sect some time ago. If Young Master Wang has any thoughts, I can inform the Holy Son."
Su Chen raised an eyelid, then turned and left.
Was he being asked to challenge a Transcendent Realm cultivator like himself to a peak Void Realm cultivator from the same era as Wang Yunfei, or even a cultivator with a divine body that had broken through to the Nirvana Realm?
That wasn't testing martial arts; that was courting humiliation!
Su Chen didn't consider himself a masochist. Given the situation with the Feathered Ascension Holy Land, he knew without a doubt that the remaining forces would follow suit. When he visited, they would likely find various excuses to leave without a trace.
As for the Southern Region, Su Chen had no further interest. While Wang Yunfei's era had produced geniuses, only the Feathered Ascension Holy Land possessed a Divine Body-level genius. Unfortunately, the Holy Land didn't want him to fight Su Chen, keeping him hidden away, leaving Su Chen helpless.
Having spent two years traveling from the Central Continent to the Southern Region, Su Chen set off for the Eastern Region. Why the Eastern Region? Because the Northern Region was too far away, and the Western Region… his sister Zhou Hanchan from his previous life was definitely still alive. Zhou Hanchan possessed a Devouring Divine Body even more terrifying than the Primordial Gluttonous Body, and her cultivation technique seemed more complete than the Devouring Heaven and Earth Divine Art. There was also an old monster there who made him extremely wary, causing him to cause a stir and die mysteriously in the Western Region, a situation even the Wang family couldn't control.
It took Su Chen half a year to arrive in the Eastern Region.
Upon arriving in the Eastern Region, Su Chen's first action was, as always, to gather information. Five hundred years had passed since his previous life, and the Eastern Region's political landscape hadn't changed much. The only regrettable thing was that five hundred years ago, the renowned alchemist Wuji Danzun, hailed as the most likely candidate to become a Pill Saint, went to the outer starry sky to seize a breakthrough opportunity and never returned to the Zhenyu Sacred Land... This left many powerful figures in the Eastern Region deeply saddened.
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