The Primordial Path of Kong Xuanming

Yan Nanfei is the chief elder of the Chinese Dragon Group. He is a top-tier martial arts master at the peak of the Emperor rank (equivalent to a master at the Great Completion stage of cultivation). He has mastered countless profound secret manuals collected by the Dragon Group, such as Shaolin's Nine Yang Divine Skill, Yi Jin Jing, Xi Sui Jing, Seventy-Two Arts, Wudang's Yin Yang Yang Divine Skill, Tai Chi Yin Yang Sword Technique, palm techniques, and so on. There are countless other manuals from various schools and sects, both righteous and evil. Of course, he doesn't practice everything; he only absorbs the essence of each and integrates it into his own martial arts. Yan Nanfei has been exceptionally intelligent since childhood, possessing a photographic memory. Even before joining the Dragon Group, he was already extremely knowledgeable, with profound expertise in various disciplines of modern society. The martial art he practices is the family's Indestructible Sword Body Technique, a sword body that is invisible and intangible, making it impossible to defend against. At a high level, it can easily kill opponents within a radius of a hundred miles.

Yan Nanfei is a descendant of Yan Fei, the great hero who shattered the void tens of thousands of years ago. His family is a hidden super clan, living in seclusion in a space opened up by a master of the shattered void level. Family members rarely appear directly in front of the world. Each generation of direct descendants sends one or more of their most talented members to venture into society at the age of ten under the guise of training, whether to study, do business, travel, or obtain a position in the government.

Tens of millions of years ago, a great war threatening the entire cultivation world occurred, causing the massive primordial continent, spanning hundreds of millions of kilometers, to split into countless planets of varying sizes. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to deplete, and many precious herbs and spiritual objects perished. Therefore, all Qi cultivators evacuated the primordial continent through passages opened by powerful cultivators, migrating to other smaller worlds to continue their cultivation. The existing Earth is merely a fragment with minor spiritual veins, shaped by powerful cultivators. Humans also inhabit countless other fragments, but some planets far from the Milky Way, lacking cultivators, began evolving in a different direction in ancient times, embarking on a path of developing and utilizing interplanetary technology.

The continuous weakening of spiritual energy has led to the near extinction of true Qi cultivators on Earth. When Qi cultivators left the primitive continent, they left behind countless cultivation manuals and abandoned caves. Later generations discovered numerous cultivation methods, but Qi cultivators mainly cultivate the primordial spirit. The cultivation of the primordial spirit requires pure spiritual energy from heaven and earth. Due to the purity of the spiritual energy, the primordial spirit cannot comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, and naturally cannot reach a high level. Through countless years of modifications, martial arts predecessors finally formed the current martial arts cultivation system.

The "shattered void" on Earth refers to the process by which supreme martial artists, after entering a meditative state, explore the mysteries of the void with their consciousness to comprehend its rules. They may find a connection point (i.e., a cosmic coordinate) leading to one of countless small or medium-sized worlds, and then forcibly break open this coordinate passage using their own strength. Martial arts practitioners choose to break through space to other universes not only to experience different cultivation systems, but more importantly, because after reaching a certain level, they need to undergo tribulation to enter a higher-level space to continue their cultivation. Sufficient energy and elixirs can increase their chances of successfully passing the tribulation. Earth's space is a medium-sized universe; although the space is vast, the spiritual herbs needed for cultivation and the spirit stones needed for setting up formations are extremely scarce.

Martial arts cultivation levels are divided into Beginner, Qi Refining, Third-rate, Second-rate, First-rate, Supreme, Five Qi, Three Flowers, Innate, Earth-level, Heaven-level, King-level, Emperor-level, Celestial-level, Immortal-level, Void-level, and Starry Sky-level. Each level is further divided into twelve stages. The vast majority of people are stuck before the Innate stage their entire lives, unable to make any progress. Therefore, while many people in China practice ancient martial arts, those above the Innate stage are few and far between. Masters above the Innate stage can release their true qi to injure others and quickly replenish their own energy. Emperor-level masters possess a domain that can easily trap and suppress opponents. Celestial-level masters cultivate their own small world; entering an Emperor-level master's world means losing control of one's own life and death. Of course, among Emperor-level masters, it's a clash of world laws. Cultivators above the Emperor level cultivate their own world, constantly adding their own comprehended laws to it. The ultimate goal is to build a perfect Three Thousand Great Worlds, completely merging themselves into the world's origin. At that point, the world is themselves, and themselves are the world; the world's laws are their own laws. This is equivalent to the pursuit of Qi practitioners to attain the Dao and become a sage.