System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

"Brother Kaixuan, let's go." Chen Xuan said, ignoring Haoyue's livid face, and directly pulled the furious Wang Kaixuan away. Their figures were light and graceful, their clothes fluttering, and in an instant they disappeared into the horizon.

"Fine, fine!" Haoyue watched Chen Xuan and the other man's departing figures, trembling with anger. "Just wait, I, Haoyue, will earn back the face I lost last time at the Dao Proving Hall in a month!"

When Haoyue was guarding the valley and testing the new disciples, he could only use one sword or one method due to the rules.

"If it weren't for the constraints of the rules, I could have defeated you with a single sword strike in that valley!"

"What happened between you two before?" Wang Kaixuan asked curiously when he saw Chen Xuan remain silent high in the sky.

"How could I, a mere rogue cultivator, easily encounter a formal disciple of Xuanqing Palace?" Chen Xuan shook his head slightly, then briefly recounted the past conflict between the two.

Upon hearing that Chen Xuan had actually defeated Haoyue head-on in the valley, Wang Kaixuan was first taken aback, then laughed heartily, as if he understood why Haoyue was so furious.

"Well done! What kind of bullshit senior brother is he?" Wang Kaixuan said loudly. "He's just a few years older than us, and we're just being polite by calling him senior brother. Does he really think he's someone important?"

Seeing Wang Kaixuan's shared hatred of the enemy, Chen Xuan couldn't help but smile. "With such a narrow mind and limited vision, he'll hardly amount to anything in the future. There's no need to pay attention to this kind of person."

"Yes, they are unlikely to achieve great things."

As the two were talking, after traversing a mountain range that stretched for thousands of meters like a winding dragon, a huge stone tablet suddenly appeared before them. It stood in the valley below, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura.

"Brother Chen Xuan, we have arrived. This is the legendary Dao Sword Mark Stele, where ancestors of all ages left their Dao traces."

Wang Kaixuan stared at the stone tablet in awe. It was covered with a dense, crisscrossing pattern of sword marks, knife marks, palm marks, finger marks, and so on. He couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion. "Legend has it that those who can leave marks on this stone tablet are all remarkable figures who have made great achievements on a certain road in the past."

Chen Xuan possessed a "flawless sword heart" as a reward from the system. At this moment, when he saw the stone tablet bearing the traces of the Great Dao that carried the legacy of countless sect predecessors, the deep-seated feeling of the Great Dao of the Sword was instantly aroused.

Before the two even landed in the valley, they were almost in a state of enlightenment simply by sensing the various traces of the Great Dao on the stone tablet from a distance.

"Let's go down and take a good look!" Wang Kaixuan shouted excitedly and swooped down first. Clearly, the stone tablet had not only touched Chen Xuan but also deeply moved him.

"Mm," Chen Xuan responded, following closely behind.

wow——

As the two landed in the valley where the stone tablet was located, they were deeply shocked when they got a close look at the blue stone tablet, which was as tall as a ten-story building.

When the two were thousands of miles apart, they could clearly see the traces of the Great Road with just a cursory glance. But now, after landing and looking at it up close, they felt a throbbing pain in their heads.

At close range, even more traces of the Great Road appeared on the stone tablet, densely packed like fine rain threads intertwined.

The complex and intertwined aura of the Great Dao rushed towards him, making Chen Xuan feel dizzy and lightheaded.

"Don't just glance at it."

After realizing what was happening, Wang Kaixuan quickly closed his eyes and reminded Chen Xuan, "There are probably countless marks on this stone tablet. Each mark contains the insights of a senior disciple into the Great Dao. Over the years, their auras have become intertwined. It's best to focus on one point when viewing it."

In reality, Wang Kaixuan was unaware that Chen Xuan was a powerful expert at the Pifu Realm who had awakened his divine sense, and that his divine sense could cover a radius of a thousand miles with a single thought.

From Wang Kaixuan's words, it is clear that he must have known about the Great Dao Sword Mark Stele beforehand, which is why he did not rashly glance at it upon arriving here.

After Chen Xuan landed, he glanced at a third of the stone tablet's marks and only felt a slight swelling and pain in his soul, which showed that the strength of their souls was not at the same level.

"Thank you for your guidance." Chen Xuan did as instructed, narrowing his field of vision and focusing his gaze on the size of the millstone. This way, he would not feel pressured and could observe the various marks more carefully, thus gaining an understanding of their mysteries.

Having learned from the previous experience, the two remained silent. Chen Xuan followed the path of the sword and quickly found traces left by various sword cultivator predecessors. He then sat cross-legged and began to observe them carefully with complete concentration.

Wang Kaixuan, who seemed to be practicing both palm and fist techniques, had closed his eyes and was concentrating on his understanding.

Time slipped by unnoticed, and in the blink of an eye, the bright moon rose in the east, and countless stars shone brilliantly. The pure moonlight shone on the stone tablets bearing the marks of the road, and Chen Xuan felt as if he were hallucinating for a moment.

He observed the traces of the Great Dao before him with his divine sense and saw that they resembled agile fish swimming and merging together.

"Such a sharp sword mark, I wonder which senior left it."

"This sword mark is like ink stain. Could it be the trace left by a senior who integrated the way of ink painting into the way of swordsmanship?"

"This raging fire is mixed with the chilling wind and the blazing sun. This senior sword immortal has actually integrated the fire and the chilling wind into the sword technique and presented it."

……

Chen Xuan was now in a deep state of comprehension, and his understanding of the Dao of Sword was rapidly improving with each instance of deep comprehension.

In less than two hours, Chen Xuan had finished comprehending all the traces related to the sword path on the Great Dao Sword Mark Stone Tablet.

He slowly opened his eyes with a smile on his face. "This time, I have gained insights into many sword marks. For me, it is no less than the progress I have made in the way of the sword after a hundred years of hard training. It is truly mysterious."

Turning his head, Chen Xuan found that Wang Kaixuan was still unconscious, and frowned slightly.

Logically speaking, Xuanqing Palace is an orthodox sword cultivation sect, so the Great Dao Sword Mark Stele has the most traces of various sword dao integrations. In comparison, there are relatively few fist marks, palm marks, and finger marks.

"Why isn't it over yet?"

Chen Xuan was unaware that not every disciple at the Foundation Establishment Realm possessed the powerful divine sense that could cover a radius of a thousand miles with a single thought.

The stronger one's spiritual awareness, the stronger one's soul, and the more information one can absorb and digest. In contrast, Wang Kaixuan naturally found it difficult to digest these traces in a short period of time.

"Never mind, since that's the case, I'll take another look at the traces of magic left by the predecessors of Xuanqing Palace."

Cultivating immortality and seeking enlightenment is like a poison; once you encounter something that touches you, you can easily become addicted to it.

Having come together, and having already completed his comprehension, he naturally could not leave alone.

So, Chen Xuan randomly found an area with traces of magic and began to calmly comprehend it.

However, shortly after gaining this insight, Chen Xuan was startled. He sensed within a trace of magic a lotus flower, formed by the intertwining of the Great Dao.

"The lotus-shaped magical traces presented by the Xuanbing Dao and Xuanhuo Dao?" Chen Xuan immediately sensed it carefully. "As expected, it has accumulated a foundation of hundreds of thousands of years. If this stone tablet were placed in a second- or third-tier sect, it would probably become a sect's most treasured artifact."

While sighing with admiration, Chen Xuan also immersed himself in carefully comprehending the traces of the Great Dao Lotus magic on the stone tablet.

Unbeknownst to him, Chen Xuan seemed to have gained some insight, and a water-fire lotus flower naturally bloomed around his body, formed by the fusion of Taiyin True Water and Taiyang True Fire.

The lotus flower was brightly colored and had a restrained aura. Its three layers of water lotus leaves and three layers of fire lotus leaves complemented each other, supporting Chen Xuan as he slowly rotated and strangled him.

As Chen Xuan continued to comprehend it, the water-fire lotus became increasingly perfect, and its flowing aura gave people the illusion that it was indestructible and unbreakable.