Returning to Heaven’s Gate Peak, Lu Yang sat cross-legged on the sword qi boulder and opened his mouth to devour spirit qi as he calmed his mind to cultivate. An endless stream of spirit qi gushed into his body, converting into pure spirit energy under the effects of the Clear Heart True Nature Mantra and surging through him.

Slowly extending two fingers, a one-zhang-long cyan sword qi condensed at his fingertips.

“Go!” With a sudden thrust of his fingers, the cyan sword qi shot forth, piercing clean through three trees and embedding half an inch into the fourth before dissipating.

These were no ordinary trees from the outside world but Qiu-Dragon Trees specially planted by the Taciturn Daoist Priest on Heaven’s Gate Peak. Their roots were as thick as qiu dragons[1], and their barks were layered...