In the spring of year 6823 of the New Calendar, Lu Xuan, an unregistered resident of the Federation, hid outside a high school classroom and secretly learned a Cultivation Skill, embarking on the path of Cultivation.

On the same day, he returned home and had a dream, just as he always did. In the dream, he was in the Guardian Storage Room during the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history（770-481 BCE）, and the current Keeper of the Records was named Li Er, also known as Laozi.

Later, Lu Xuan dreamed that he became the succeeding Keeper of the Records, became Confucius's second teacher, became the senior brother of Zhang Daoling, the Ancestral Celestial Master, and became the honorary father of the First Emperor...

Even later, someone unearthed a roll of bamboo slips from the ground, on which an event was recorded.

[The eighteenth Keeper of the Records, Lu Xuan, his Sword Qi like a waterfall, assassinated Duke Huan of Qi in his bedchamber]

The Confucian Great Virtue chuckled. The Demon Sect Saintess stifled a laugh. And the man who sold candied hawthorns—once the greatest Swordsman in the world—slowly began to speak:


"How extraordinary??" The young man grew even more puzzled.


The man who was once the world's greatest Swordsman, and now its second, slowly recounted:


"Twenty-four years ago, the Celestial Vault shattered. The phantom of a Cyan Lamp appeared, illuminating infinite worlds with boundless light.


Then, a colossal, Heaven-Reaching hand stretched across All Realms… and cast your soul down!"


He was silent for a long moment, then his voice grew heavy as he asked:


"So, everything about my life, from the very beginning… was all just because of… that hand?"


But the Demon Sect Saintess stepped forward, straightened the young man's clothes, and shook her head, saying:


"Maybe it started that way, but later… it wasn't!"


Chapter 585 - Chapter 37: Becoming the World's Will, Haotian's Advent, An Old Friend's Ascension