The teacher opened his mouth, intending to refute, but the words seemed to get stuck on his tongue.

It seems that Lu Yang has a point.

“Then how do you explain the Heaven-Splitting Axe? It can’t be that the Heaven Mandate Immortal used the axe to split a path through the sky, shout ‘this sky was split open by me,’ and charged a toll, thus naming the axe the Heaven-Splitting Axe, right?!’

The teacher recalled the origin of the Heaven-Splitting Axe. No ancient text recorded why the Heaven Mandate Immortal named his immortal axe thus. It was a mystery that plagued historians, with various theories abounding.

Some speculated that the Heaven Mandate Immortal once split the heavens open, separating hundun primal chaos and dividing yin and yang. Others theorized that when the immortal axe was forged, an unusual phenomenon occurred, where the sky was split open, and all living...