"Don’t resent your master. The path of the strong is fraught with helplessness. If the master hadn’t acted, your fate would have been even more tragic, with no room for mediation."
"This drop of blood contains the ancient bloodline in your body, possessing incredibly terrifying factors. Your descendants will inherit this bloodline power. Once faced with a desperate situation, it could erupt unimaginably."
"Besides, those dear to you may not have all perished. Don’t worry too much; their fates are more complicated than yours."
"All your natural tendencies, your heart of invincibility, were actually sealed twice. You’ve become sensitive not because your soul has mutated, but because your master extracted your desires and domineering personality, making you prone to melancholy and sensitivity. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have survived this situation."
"During the Soul Cleansing with lotus seeds in the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm, these were stripped away. Now... they can be returned to you."
"The method of condensing the Sword Soul is innovative, but severing one’s soul is a dreadful path. As long as you are indestructible, you will surely pioneer an era."
"Tao itself has no right or wrong. It’s the life that cultivates the Tao that bears right and wrong."
"You lack ambition. Without ambition, no matter how talented, one is useless. But this isn’t your fault. This drop of your innate essence blood is a safeguard left by your master, which is why you subconsciously refuse Hou Wanxiao’s escape route."
"He is also a path your master left for you. The Primordial Magnetic Pole Light is also one of master’s contingencies. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be worthy to know this secret. His soul has been marked and will not betray you. Of course, the premise is that you must be on the verge of death. He would not act otherwise."
"Now that you have survived this ordeal, you are qualified to know these things. If you can restore your ’True Self,’ then experience the real you."
"When that time comes, you may no longer like alcohol, as that is the expression of a weakling’s depravity."
"Also, I know you are concerned about Yanyan’s situation. Yanyan’s world is far more complex and dangerous than you imagine. She is the most ill-fated among your daughters. If you want to break this curse of ill-fate, then become strong. Of course, in your eyes, Yanyan seems to have killed your parents... but she had to act because your life was at stake with the mirror."
"But her madness, triggered by your bloodline, didn’t really aim to kill Yunjin and others.
Where they are, you do not have the power to know.
You are still an ant.
Only after reaching Great Perfection in the Three Realms of Sword Spirit, and through the Nine Changes of Sword Void, will you glimpse the Heavenly Dao Tribulation and understand a few things.
Sending you to Earth was for your own good.
Of course, the master also had his reasons. I owe ’them’ too much. Even if I had to die, by any means necessary, I had to send you to Earth to resolve a situation."
"So, don’t die in the future. You actually have many trump cards; it’s all about how you use them. The Fist Intent I left for you is to strengthen yourself, not for killing enemies.
Once used to kill, with each act, you will bear endless suffering and the consequences of immense hardship."
"Don’t blame your master, for in the future, you will thank him. Even yourself, if given the chance to break free from the shackles, will be harsher on yourself than your master was on you."
"This drop of blood contains your nature and the mark of your inheritance. If you take it, you are entitled to advance further, to recognize yourself, and take on the true way of the Emperor Qi Sword Body. If you don’t want it, one stroke of Purple Flame can destroy it.
Then your personality will not change much from now, and you might achieve something, but once you reach the realm of the Heavenly Dao Tribulation, you will have no way back."
The information left by the master was extensive, as if there was a strong person scolding and chiding oneself.
But Zhou Yan was touched, his eyes slightly stinging.
Seeing through the world’s sentiments, how could he not know that everything was for his own good from the master? If it weren’t for this, what right did Zhou Yan have to receive such help from the master? If it were about body seizing, it would have happened long ago.
"Master... I know, I understand it all.
But, master, I am confused or perhaps, I, Zhou Yan, am merely a Void Body, a Ding Furnace?"
"I had already anticipated your question. Sigh, to tell you the truth, you are not a Void Body, nor are you a Ding Furnace. But you now are not yourself either; you haven’t awakened."
"Your True Self has already died. The current you is just another ’self.’ It’s like a Sword Soul strong person has died, but there is still a soul existing.
This drop of blood is the essence blood of your True Self, the ’will of your True Self’ within you, and also the real reason why your bloodline is so pure! Take this blood and you will regain yourself and ’awaken,’ like Jiang Yuning.
And by merging with this drop of blood, you can evolve your Spiritual Sense to ’Soul Consciousness,’ truly stepping into the ranks of high order strong people.
If not, you are Zhou Yan, independent of everyone else. To condense Soul Consciousness, you also need the Twelve Sword Souls to complete their Transformation, then gradually complete the soul’s Transformation."
"It turns out... I am also a ’Split Body.’"
Zhou Yan gave a sorrowful, wry smile.
He had never known who he was.
Somehow, he felt that he should be strong.
But such memories were contradictory.
Because he was actually a nameless nobody.
His initial pride and arrogance proved just that.
His refusal to accept, his diligent cultivation, his desperate sword training in the Cold Pond, were all to prove that he was not worthless, and that he mysteriously had pride.