Shi Feixian! The image of a pure and ethereal young swordswoman instantly appeared in his mind.

This girl was always quiet. Quietly practicing her sword, quietly improving her strength.

It had been a long time since he had any contact with this silent and fairy-like girl, yet now they were connected again. Since Shi Feixian had sent out a distress signal, he naturally had to go and save her.

This was the duty among fellow disciples, and moreover, Shi Feixian was one of the few geniuses in the Way of the Sword—a rare commodity. If he was to revive the Sword Dao, he had to save every genius he could, with exceptions like the Son of the Sword, who was beyond saving.

Besides, he already had some prior acquaintance with Shi Feixian. To save Shi Feixian, he first needed to confirm her location.

Lu Yuan flashed forward, arriving before the few individuals who were discussing the matter. “Which Heavenly Ranking Titan’s subordinate was it that made the move?” Lu Yuan asked casually, yet the aura approaching the Civilization level emanated from him.

This pressure almost forced the World Realm experts discussing the matter to their knees. Lu Yuan’s current tier was far below the Civilization realm, but defeating an ordinary World Realm expert was essentially a matter of a mere flick of his finger.

These World Realm experts immediately replied, “It was, it was under the command of Lord Butcher Gao Jin, ranked forty-eighth among the fifty Heavenly Ranking Titans.” “Butcher Gao Jin, ranked forty-eighth?” Lu Yuan couldn't help but be surprised: “A mere Butcher Gao Jin dares to be so arrogant?” His words almost brought the World Realm experts below to tears. What did he mean by 'a mere Butcher Gao Jin'?

Butcher Gao Jin was a towering figure in the cosmos. To be precise, any of the fifty Heavenly Ranking Titans was an earth-shattering existence, each capable of instantly killing countless World Realm experts.

Who exactly was this blue-robed young man? Lu Yuan said this for a reason.

He had already tested Zhu Tianren, ranked forty-sixth, and Wang Xueze, ranked forty-seventh, and found them to be nothing more than that. In the final battle against the Confucian Civilization, Lu Yuan had resolved Zhu Tianren and Wang Xueze with relative ease, and after killing them and absorbing two-tenths of their Civilization Fragments, his strength had improved further.

Thus, he naturally did not hold Butcher Gao Jin, ranked below Wang Xueze and Zhu Tianren, in high regard. “Then do you know the whereabouts of Butcher Gao Jin and his subordinates?” Lu Yuan inquired.

One of the World Realm experts replied, “Butcher Gao Jin has always favored slaughter, and his subordinates mimic his style. We dared not even glimpse them from afar for fear of having our eyes gouged out, so we certainly don't know his location.” Lu Yuan acknowledged the logic; it was indeed true.

It seemed he would have to search himself. Lu Yuan instantly moved, his speed like lightning, simultaneously releasing his Divine Sense to scan the surroundings.

As soon as Lu Yuan departed, the remaining World Realm experts began to murmur amongst themselves. Who could this great deity be who dared to look down upon the Heavenly Ranking Titan Butcher Gao Jin?

But for a while, they could not pinpoint his exact identity, unable to gauge Lu Yuan’s stature. Lu Yuan swept his Divine Sense across the void, searching for Butcher Gao Jin's subordinates.

Lu Yuan’s Divine Sense could currently cover tens of thousands of miles—a strength close to the Civilization realm. If he reached the Civilization realm, sweeping hundreds of thousands of miles would be commonplace.

Reaching the Civilization Lord tier would be exaggerated, where sweeping millions or even tens of millions of miles would bring everything happening within that range under his Divine Sense, with nothing escaping. As he flew, Lu Yuan also wondered why these people wanted to capture Shi Feixian?

Shi Feixian shouldn't possess any distinguishing feature worthy of a Heavenly Ranking Titan making a move. Lu Yuan continued to fly and sweep, finally detecting a group of suspicious individuals.

He immediately retracted his Divine Sense and flew straight toward them. It was a group clad in scarlet robes, numbering over ten.

Each carried a blade on their back, but these were not ordinary long swords; they were formidable, massive, and sharp executioner’s blades. The lowest among these scarlet-robed figures was at the seventh heaven of the World Realm, and the strongest had reached the tenth heaven of the World Realm.

Judging by their appearance, these people closely resembled the Blood Blade Followers, subordinates of Butcher Gao Jin. Legend held that Butcher Gao Jin commanded a legion of Blood Blade Followers who were notorious for every kind of evil and endless slaughter.

Backed by a Heavenly Ranking Titan, they were utterly lawless. They dared not confront Civilizations, as a Civilization was far more terrifying than a Heavenly Ranking Titan.

Instead, they specialized in extorting and murdering members of various sects. Even the Ten Strongest Sects could not escape their clutches, and the history of the Sword Gate included several instances of being extorted by the Blood Blade Followers.

Lu Yuan was not polite; he subdued all of them with his magical power in one swift motion—that was Lu Yuan’s current strength. Ten figures at the Celestial Venerable level were instantly captured by Lu Yuan with a single move.

In the history of the Sword Gate, Demon King-level figures infamous for their terror meant nothing before the current Lu Yuan. His present power surpassed every individual in the Sword Gate’s entire history.

After capturing these ten Celestial Venerable-level figures, Lu Yuan stepped out leisurely. These Blood Blade Followers remained arrogant: “Who dares to bind us?

We are subordinates of Butcher Gao Jin.” Lu Yuan stood with his hands clasped behind his back: “My name is Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan of the Sword Gate.” Upon hearing the name Lu Yuan, the Blood Blade Followers quieted considerably. Lu Yuan was indeed a famous figure in the cosmos, but several of the Blood Blade Followers were still quite audacious: “Release us at once!

We are subordinates of Lord Butcher Gao Jin! Even if you, Lu Yuan, are famous, you are not qualified to challenge a Heavenly Ranking Titan!” Lu Yuan smiled faintly, flicked out a finger, and casually executed several of the most defiant Blood Blade Followers.

The remaining ones grew much quieter: “Very well, now you can explain why you were pursuing Shi Feixian?” Initially, the Blood Blade Followers naturally refused to speak. Lu Yuan casually killed another one, after which they started babbling out the reasons for pursuing Shi Feixian.

After listening for a while, Lu Yuan finally understood the entire situation. It turned out that Shi Feixian was truly extraordinary; she possessed the Body of Civilization.

What exactly was the Body of Civilization? The Body of Civilization was a favored child of Heaven.

For everyone else, regardless of who they were, breaking through to the Civilization realm was incredibly difficult. Even the Son of the Barrens, or a great fortune-wielder like Lu Yuan, encountered numerous obstacles and challenges while attempting to reach the Civilization realm—battles and trials that could easily result in death before succeeding.

The Civilization realm was known as the first heavenly barrier. However, there were always exceptions to every rule.

For example, the Body of Civilization was a significant exception. The Body of Civilization was a constitution that made breaking through to the Civilization realm far less difficult.

For Lu Yuan, who had fought everywhere, filling the Civilization Disk gave him a one-in-ten chance of impact; the Civilization Book offered a one-in-fifty chance; and the Hundred Defeats True Scripture, after being refined by two Civilization Lords, became the Thirty-Three Defeats, applicable only to those practicing the Way of the Sword, yet still yielded only a one-in-ten chance. This highlighted the difficulty of breaking through to the Civilization realm.

In this era, merely possessing something that increased the probability of reaching the Civilization realm, even a one-in-ten-thousand chance, would lead to a bloodbath. But this Body of Civilization inherently carried a forty percent chance of successfully breaking through to the Civilization realm!

Forty percent! Damn, this was forty percent!

This would make anyone curse out loud. A person possessing the Body of Civilization, with just a little more effort, truly had an extremely high chance of reaching the Civilization realm, simpler than anyone else.

However, this Body of Civilization was exceedingly rare, often not seen even once in an entire epoch. Furthermore, it was peculiar: when this Body of Civilization appeared, it was never just one; it was destined to appear in pairs, always so, without exception.

Logically, individuals with the Body of Civilization should find it much easier to break through the first heavenly barrier and cultivate to the Civilization realm. Yet, throughout the countless epochs of history, the Body of Civilization rarely succeeded in reaching the Civilization realm.

This was not due to the Body of Civilization itself, but rather the actions of others—or, to be precise, one could blame the Body of Civilization. The Body of Civilization was a profoundly strange constitution.

This body could be refined using a special technique to extract its essential Civilization Nectar (Civilization Shenhua). Once the Nectar was extracted, the person with the Body of Civilization would automatically die.

However, consuming the extracted Nectar could increase the chance of breaking through to the Civilization realm by two-tenths (twenty percent). As previously mentioned, people would fight tooth and nail for even a one-in-ten-thousand chance, let alone a twenty percent chance.

Therefore, historically, whenever this Body of Civilization appeared, its possessors were often drained of their Civilization Nectar, leading to death. Those who truly broke through to the Civilization realm were scarce.

Additionally, it was rumored that if the possessor of the Body of Civilization wished, they could voluntarily give half of their Civilization Nectar to another. This would reduce the Body of Civilization possessor's own breakthrough chance by half, while the recipient would gain a one-in-ten chance of reaching the Civilization realm.

However, this method of voluntary gifting was virtually never practiced. First, the possessor of the Body of Civilization would never willingly give it away; second, a one-in-ten chance was significantly smaller than a two-tenths chance.

Thus, anyone who captured a Body of Civilization would invariably drain the Civilization Nectar, disregarding the possessor's life. Lu Yuan truly hadn't expected Shi Feixian to be a Body of Civilization; it was a massive surprise.

No wonder even Butcher Gao Jin, the forty-eighth ranked Heavenly Ranking Titan, was pursuing Shi Feixian.